Honorable good bye to KBAP- single green dragon challenge

[axelle]

it's all very impressive and everything, just one thing, i suggest that you convert those 2~3mb bmp screenshots into 100~150kb jpg files.

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[impy]

Thanks for the feedback
It may look impressive, but it is down to breaking down all the components of the battle. Look at the battlefield - the centre is blocked for melee units, so they will very hard time to get to you. So you can leave them for later, and concentrate on ranged units.Shooters - magic dealers and physical dealers. Since dragon has higher magis res., you have to deal with bowmen first. So fear them for 3-4 rounds, repeat if neccessary. You have Concentration 3 = 8 mana/round + occassional pet dragon mana ball, so you can easily afford 2 x fire arrows or even fire rains per round to anihilate the shooters. Use fire arrow to ignite bowmen and bring their numbers down while under fear. Once shooters are down, poison skull cerberi, fire arrow others. Just fly around in the meantime. As you can see from 2nd screen shot it is all doable at level 23 or so while having only cca 60 mana starting pool.

[clinek]

yea it could work up until the final bosses but you cant kill them with just one dragon. What do you plan on doing once you get to k'tahuu or baal? you will be killed the first round. IF you get the right items to allow for enough physical damage resitance and you have your medals maxed out then you could possibly survive an attack from k'tahuu but there is no possible way you could survive a sword attack from baal. How do you plan on killing the bosses? Also, how do you plan on surviving an attack from 20 archdemons when fighting demonion or baal? since you cant cast invisibility, you will have too many problems. If you could explain how you plan on beating the bosses with one green dragon, i would be amazed.

[axelle]

Originally Posted by impy

Thanks for the feedback
It may look impressive, but it is down to breaking down all the components of the battle. Look at the battlefield - the centre is blocked for melee units, so they will very hard time to get to you. So you can leave them for later, and concentrate on ranged units.Shooters - magic dealers and physical dealers. Since dragon has higher magis res., you have to deal with bowmen first. So fear them for 3-4 rounds, repeat if neccessary. You have Concentration 3 = 8 mana/round + occassional pet dragon mana ball, so you can easily afford 2 x fire arrows or even fire rains per round to anihilate the shooters. Use fire arrow to ignite bowmen and bring their numbers down while under fear. Once shooters are down, poison skull cerberi, fire arrow others. Just fly around in the meantime. As you can see from 2nd screen shot it is all doable at level 23 or so while having only cca 60 mana starting pool.

have you tried one team of ancient vampire or vampire (almost equally good where ancient vampire is faster but vampire has a better damage/health ratio thus more blood-sucking power), here is a SS from KBTL...impossible, level 15 mage, 91 regular vampires...



even if the opponent has only 1~2 living troops, you can usually leave them till the last and suck all the casualties back...the only downside to this strategy is against ALL-UNDEAD or ALL-PLANT teams, but that's why you always carry a big stack of repair droids with you, 1, you can sacrifice them to make new vampires when your leadership increases, 2, you can demolish those tough cookie anti-vampire teams easily with 2 droids as most of them do physical damage.

[clinek]

does that really say "turn 481"?

[axelle]

Originally Posted by clinek

does that really say "turn 481"?

yes...

simply because in KBTL, spells and burns/poisons do a fixed amount of damage...so it took me quite a while to kill those large stacks. it's really all because i was only level 15 yet wondering around in an area that shouldn't be reached around level 25...i let 2 teams of imps hit on mana-spring'd vampire to generate mana while killing the big stacks that couldn't reach me with magic-pole axe...

however in KBAP, burns/poisons do a PERCENTAGE-based damage, so any stack shouldn't take more than 10 fire arrow/poison skull to kill.

[Zechnophobe]

That battle has more turns in it than some of my entire games I think .

All melee army, basically, or I'm sure that would have simply not worked. Though if you have rage for timeback perhaps. Hmm. Been a while since I played TL.

[Metroplex]

impy, once you've finished with this latest challenge of yours and while you wait for KB: Crossworlds, give Disciples 3 a try, it's really good!