Necromancers Castle

[kennec]

Originally Posted by chriscampo99

I'm a Paladin.


You only have +4 defense?? That seems really low. Are you equipping items with defensive bonuses??? Choosing +1 Defense on lvl ups?? Finding the fountains/statues/training dummies that give you +1 defense???

think its random whut items and lvl up options u get. i have picked +1 defence in 21 levels. mostly i choose between rage +5 or mana +10 or something stupid. have got +1 atack 2-3 times to.

my items is + intelect always and i got fire damage +30% neckledge. think my boots are the only ones that give + defence and thats +2.

[Fate]

I would agree that the battle is quite tough. Usually i would only fight battle that would incur only minimal or no casualty. However, i have exhausted most the these sort of battle by then and i just want to get on with the story. So i did this battle with a "At all cost" determination.

For that battle, i played defensive. My troops are Elves, Hunters, Druids, Horsemen, Emerald Green Dragon. With my tactics skill i box up my archers with my horsemen and dragons and cast phantom on the 6th empty space. Therefore, effectively protecting from melee. Most of the enemy army are melee except for the necromancer and skeleton archers which there isn't many anyway. Now, my elves have morale +3 so they crit about 50% of the time so while my melee tanked the back ranks of the enemy are getting decimated. With black hole, light of life, phantom and ressurection i managed to win the battle. There are still casualties though because i don't have enough mana and i don't want to waste time but it is acceptable i guess.

[Zhuangzi]

Haven't quite gotten around to the Necromancer's castle, but I'm not looking forward to it as I'm playing on Hard.

I am level 24 now - probably 22 Attack, 22 Defence, and 7 Intellect. (Paladin).

I've still got to finish the Gremlin castle before cleaning out the last of the Land of the Dead. I've been to Demonis but not fought anything yet. Leadership is just below 20,000.

I'm pretty sure Demonis is harder. That will be next....

[kennec]

as a mage gremlin castle is very important. gives an black dragon egg. at lvl 24 it was medium diffulty all the way down to bottum flor.

its good couse dragon have super inisiative so u will be able to nuke first in the round when enemy units are packed togheter. perfect for aoe nukes.

Zhuangzi

i got with items attack 11 defence 10 intelect 28 and leadership about 14k and we are about same lvl.

necro castle will be fun for u

[megakill]

Actually I used the following tactics - once I killed an enemy stack, I immediately put my own troops on top of it, so that it couldn't be ressurected.

Actually same tactics is helpful in Demon lands in some cases

[Palinius]

Originally Posted by megakill

Actually I used the following tactics - once I killed an enemy stack, I immediately put my own troops on top of it, so that it couldn't be ressurected.

Actually same tactics is helpful in Demon lands in some cases

Thats a good idea whn it comes to necro castle.

Spoiler, Tips, Tricks, Hints included. Most of the inteligent players prolly know about it anyway.

I did it a bit differently.
When i came to Elven lands the first NPC said something about Book of Dead so it got me curious, i found it really close and i entered it. Cleared all dead lands, in beggining it wasnt easy but i found there Fire Rain= OWNAGE(im a mage) ,and got myself Necromancers, Ancient Vampires(Hunters on main battles, Vampires for Sacrifice and Replenishing other lost units + Vampire after Sacrifice can Ress himself by biting enemies) , Black Knights, Red Dragons and Black Dragons in the lands od dead. Then it became a walk in the park. When i entered Elven Lands it turned out i should do Elven first as all the Monsters were Weak and Slightly weak. Killed all with a 1 round of 2x spells, no group could outlive 2 rounds of Fire Rain.

I was lvl 26 when i Attacked Necro castle and i did it really easy , fast in first attempt and the general didnt even manage to use half of his mana.

Black Dragons, Necromancers with + initiative. I Fire Rained their necromancers with surrounding units, after 2 spells necromancers were dead and i used my necromancers to ress them. Had 2x Necro Ressing. Whenever i killed a pack after 2-3 rounds i made sure my necromancer is next, as 1 round before i noticed that dead dragons wake up to bite me again. Noticed that the Boss and the crystal ress so i didnt make the mistake in next rounds.
I did even a screen shot and after the battle survived:
3/5 Black Dragons
6/7 Red Dragons
91/112 Hunters
85/85 Necromancers
lost 1 Black Knight
When i realised that they ressing all the killed grps i sent all my dragons to attack not caring about looses as i could buy the black one close and every other unit in the game probably can be replenished with Sacrifice spell.

Sacrifice FTW. Buy 500 lvl 4 units that you use and keep them in reserve and sacrifice them when ou use other important units.

[Mox]

Playing a mage, i used giants, green dragons, black dragons, shaman, and royal thorns. Nuked the main army especially the enemy necros, moved dragons to their spots. The royal thorns were used to spawn more thorns which ate up the corpses. And the archers took out the obelisk in the end of the battle when there were no more enemy troops Hardly took any losses at all. The royal thorns were the key for me.