What do you guys mean by "no losses"?

[Shield]

With 2 kids, wife, full time job there's no way I could do a "zero" loss game, as it'd take me hours just to replay certain battles over and over. I'd go nuts!
But if I had the time I'd try!

What I want to know is - has anyone beaten KB:AP with 0 losses on IMPOSSIBLE difficulty?

[Kathos]

I believe there have been a couple people to pull it off, somebody with a warrior was one of the threads a few days ago. Currently I'm working on a paladin, island 4 =)

[elkston]

There is no way I'd have the patience to attempt a "no loss" game. I am happy playing on Normal and being mildly frustrated SOMETIMES.

I prefer to simply find battles I can win within certian loss parameters. If that can't be met, I walk away and come back when I have a larger army.

[Shield]

Originally Posted by elkston

There is no way I'd have the patience to attempt a "no loss" game. I am happy playing on Normal and being mildly frustrated SOMETIMES.

I prefer to simply find battles I can win within certian loss parameters. If that can't be met, I walk away and come back when I have a larger army.

I'm like you - if I lose a few and get through it, I'm happy.

A 0 loss game is impressive on any difficulty. What I'd like to hear is anyone beating the game without reloading a battle or using the save/reload function other that to stop playing the game for work/school/food/sleep. In other words, you can't ever lose a battle. Imagine how hard that'd be!

[travelingoz]

Do you mean a straight through play with no reloads and without any losses on impossible? That would be a feat indeed!
However if you weren't worried about actual battlefield casualties, it would be a snap with a Paladin.

[Kathos]

Originally Posted by Shield

I'm like you - if I lose a few and get through it, I'm happy.

A 0 loss game is impressive on any difficulty. What I'd like to hear is anyone beating the game without reloading a battle or using the save/reload function other that to stop playing the game for work/school/food/sleep. In other words, you can't ever lose a battle. Imagine how hard that'd be!

Honestly I don't think it would be possible without ever reloading a battle. Randomness puts a huge kink in that idea as you won't always get the same starting units, artifacts, treasure digs, and dragon upgrades. As well as in battles, sometimes the enemy just gets lucky and crits/dodges constantly and burns/poisons the right unit with a really high roll.

[Zechnophobe]

No load would only really be hard your first time through. I think I've loaded, on my first game, like 5 or 6 times, maybe 7 or 8 times, and most of them are due to me not knowing I was going to fight something, or not knowing what an opponent did. My first battle with driller for instance, or the spider, or before making the elemental axe to know what each does. I've never actually LOST a fight that I intended to start, so not saving/loading doesn't seem that scary.

[Urbz]

Originally Posted by Zechnophobe

No load would only really be hard your first time through. I think I've loaded, on my first game, like 5 or 6 times, maybe 7 or 8 times, and most of them are due to me not knowing I was going to fight something, or not knowing what an opponent did. My first battle with driller for instance, or the spider, or before making the elemental axe to know what each does. I've never actually LOST a fight that I intended to start, so not saving/loading doesn't seem that scary.

Heh, Hardcore mode for the win!
People who play(ed) Diablo2 for example will know what this means, makes games alot more challenging for sure.

[Zhuangzi]

Yep, an Ironman mode would be cool - no reloads for the whole game. It'd be a different kind of challenge to the no losses challenge.

And to those who say that no losses is impossible, I used to think the same until I kept reading about all these guys achieving no losses playing KB:TL, so I thought I'd better try it to. It's surprisingly not as hard as you think - you just get into a different mindset where each fight is a challenge of its own, instead of trying to rip through the game quickly.