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In my opinion royal snakes are one of the best, if not the best, units in the game relative to level. Even without any artifacts they are awesome, but the boots are an excellent investment on your part, as it very often happens that the snakes need just that extra 1 point of speed to attack the enemy in their first turn.
Forest fairies -- and any other fairies for that matter -- are also very good units, but you won't be able to replenish them until you get to Elon, the elven continent, unless you use a trick wherein you leave your army behind and attack an enemy stack, in which case you'll lose the battle automatically (of course), but you'll get a new batch of your starting troops (bowmen, swordsmen and fairies, IIRC). |
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My experiences on Scarlet Winds is indeed much better; managed to finish some weak stacks without loss. I still need to stay away from some wandering troops and ships though. In this game there is a stack of vampires roaming around - not gonna touch them for a while.
I went back and finished all heroes without loss, now the haunted castle is the only thing left on Debir. Quote:
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I always used to use polar bears or ancient bears instead of wolfs, fairies, etc but the point is i never used em on battle on Debir xD. In fact, i did the glory medal and the no losses medal only with inquisitors and a 1 royal thorn lol. U dont need a hugh army on Debir. The exploit u mention on the start of the game is not such a exploit, it is the initial army given to you at the start, when u finish the tutorial, the game gives u again the same troops (on case u lost almost all of em). So, if u dont waste any troops , u will have 2x.
Royal Snakes are the best units on early game, but if u want to minimize loses u will change em to another stronger unit on mid-later islands. If u find a big stack of level 5 units, use em, they rule normal mode (and on impossible, but impossible is a bit hard for u right now). And bowman are too fragile unit, u should change em too. They are good on high number stacks, but they die too fast. If u can get cyclops on bola, use em. Only a few units will attack em, like beholders or shamans, and cyclops are a very useful units. As u noticed, there are some units / races that the AI will not attack eventually. Elfs and Demons are one of em. I am playing now with a mod that gives me , for example, cerberus or scoffer imps at the beginning, and the AI never attacks em. But this is on impossible.... |
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I switched from the very weak wolves to polar bear - never found any ancient bears, so I kept using the guardsmen until their number became too small.
Luckily I found Demonologists! I never found any in my Paladin game, but now I found over 30 on Rusty Anchor (in the inn at the pier). With them I managed to beat the roaming armies on Bolo with no to minimal loss, and killed the roaming driods (ranked strong to me) in the mines. Then I kite the boss driod away (turns out I need to talk to it once first before it will chase me). Then I managed to kite Zag Zag away too, so now my army consists of 1 EGD, 9/10 Paladin (that's all I can find), 22 or so Inquisitors, 10 or so Polar Bears, and 10/10 Demonologists. I have my Royal Snakes and Repair Driods stashed away for the time being. I think I'll be fine from this point forward! ![]() Thank you all for the tips. The Inquisitor rage skill tip is a life-saver. |
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Also, is there a reason why you're using the bears over the snakes? No retaliation, high initiative, poisoning,... (As you can see, I'm a huge proponent of royal snakes ![]() |
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I prefer royal snakes too, but polar bears are a "support" melee unit, specially on the first 3/4 islands, after that, u can change polar bears to better units, and keep royal snakes as a high number stack melee troop. But as i said, i only played with ancient/polar bears / royal snakes on my first games, long time ago i decided to play only with all level 4/5 units (of course once i can get em). And if u like royal snakes xD, u will love my royal snake level 4 mod (celestial snake) xD.
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I mean, i cant imagine someone using polar bears on Reha, Nameless island, Seterra, etc, but royal snakes, are more useful for using on later islands. Besides, polar bears die more often than royal snakes, royal snakes are faster and more resourceful.
Celestial Snake is a Royal Snake mod i made, for using on impossible mode. As i said, i like royal snakes, but on my last games never use em, only level 4-5 units (but no rsnakes) , so i did a mod for using some kind of snake, but MY OWN snake xD. I removed the poison long attack and did the same long attack, but pushing back the target and applying a slow and defenseless effect. Besides, Celestial snakes is a holy figher level 4 unit with regeneration (280 hp). |
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Polar bears are decent tanks early game, especially for a paladin. Good HP and defense is nice.
Royal Snakes are THE support unit until you can get dragons. They can do tactical damage during combat and can often keep distance from threats to themselves. Their shelf-life is considerably longer. |
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