Boss turtle

[lauvhk]

Level is a bit irrelevant if you ask me. You just need to make sure that you place an army in front of the turtle head and help that army surviving through its attack.

You can even finish the turtle with freelance only armies depending on your class, spell availability and difficulty.

[lamarak]

Well, just got game a few days ago and and its very apparent that i have alot to learn to what you mean freelance armies and such. But thanks for the advice that was offered.

[lauvhk]

I call them freelance because they are all picked up along the road, obtained through gravedigging or consumable items that grant you units.

[travelingoz]

Another way is to use the phantom spell if you can find it around Darion. You'll probably have to do a lot of sneaking and dodging around to find the spell and gather enough runes to get distortion magic level 1, then the rest is easy.

I found it easiest to cast on my royal snakes.

[YENKO]

In the old HOMM saga, those 'freelance' armies have a proper name: Wandering Armies. Funny thing is, those WANDERING armies did NOT wander at all, they just stayed put on the map. But they do wander indeed in KB:L (to a degree, of course). Gogogo Katauri

[Gatts]

Originally Posted by YENKO

In the old HOMM saga, those 'freelance' armies have a proper name: Wandering Armies. Funny thing is, those WANDERING armies did NOT wander at all, they just stayed put on the map. But they do wander indeed in KB:L (to a degree, of course). Gogogo Katauri

Homm 3 WOG 3.8f had the option of letting such armies to wander (even an option of spawning them and make the new-spawns to wander)

In Homm 4 they could wander by default - and the "stationary" could also attack you if it was not your turn, but you was near enough ...

[lauvhk]

Enemies in the original KB always chases you to death you know.

Back to the topic.

I recently try my hands on taking the turtle on impossible with "picked-up" armies only. Most of the time my armies consist of Vampires, Skeleton Archers, Snakes and sometimes Griffins.

1. If you ever find a piece of armor called "Steel Cuirass", buy it. It costs a mere 8000 gold and provides 10% physical resistance. Even better if you find the boots (Flickering boots?) that gives 15%.

2. Since you are a mage, I suggest you get distortion magic 2 and upgrade stone skin to level 2 (I hope you have the spell). That gives your tanker another 30% physical resistance, not to mention a even higher defense value.