How do you play? (playstyle)

[joasoz]

Hi

When I read the forums here I would almost believe that most players play impossible/full kiting/no losses.

My playstyle is as follows:
1. I dont reload if I make a bad desicion ( I might reload if I ever misclick a button or if something goes wrong due to my laptop that gives me stuttering performace). I havnt reloaded yet.
2. I dont kite (no save and reload ensures that).
3. I will read about the tips and tricks of this forum, but try to avoid too many spoilers.
4. My reload rule will also prevent me from using a Call collossus until I get the desired result.

Any others who would like to share their rules/playstyle?

I am playing now as a mage on hard. This is my fourth try and I now feel that I am in control and could finish it. The problem might be the boss fights. There are some things happening in them that could break my army without me really doing any mistakes (there is a collapsing bridge I have read somewhere).

[TemjinGold]

1. I don't reload. I play pretty carefully though (I spend a decent amount of time analyzing a battle and calculating ahead before I make a move, similar to a game of chess.)

2. I don't kite.

3. Haven't used a Wanderer Scroll yet (I'm always too cheap to use temp booster items in games and usually end up finishing the game with them.)

4. Not going for any kind of time bonus. I like to take my time and enjoy the game.

5. I don't use the save game scanner. It feels like cheating. I won't condemn others for using it though.

6. I do try to get a favorable start.

I am playing a mage on impossible and this is my first full game of AP (Started a warrior first but stopped when I got bored because she just wasn't my playstyle.) Currently at Level 48 with no losses but my game has stalled for a while due to work getting much busier. There is no geyser and no deathstar in my game it seems...

[DGDobrev]

1. I reload a lot, trying to perfect my game all the time.
2. I quicksave before each battle. I rarely fall back to that quck save, but it is nice to know you have something to go back to without re-doing the last 10 battles. Saves a lot of real world time, and I have that in short supply...
3. I use the save game scanner thoroughly, as soon as it became available (which means in my last 2 play-throughs), because I need fun and keeping in mind I play KBAP since the launch of the Russian version, I need to know why I am making this new play-through, or I'll get bored and throw the game away as soon as it becomes way too easy.
4. I kite if I have a reason to do so - meaning: I want to start with a different army lineup, I want to get Moro right from the start, etc. If I have no reason to do it, I don't. Besides, I know I can do it without kiting - I only started using it after some guys on the forums posted how it's done.
5. I use wanderers' scrolls if I have a reason to do so. I usually leave the Ancient Knowledge scrolls for the last 20-30 battles in the game and if I have a surplus of Titan's Armor/Titan's Sword scrolls, I use them on castle sieges.
6. In each play-through, I like to know what I'm going for. Knowing what I'm going for helps me focus, get a good time out of the game and challenge myself. Doing one just to pass the time is unproductive for me.
7. I like to strive for perfection. I haven't attempted a 7-day playthrough yet, but I always try to win my battles cleanly and use the proper spells, abilities, and such each time, constantly improving my in-game tactics.
8. Depending on the challenge, I can do with a favorable or without a favorable start. The game ends the same way for those that got unlucky and for those who got lucky, so...

Most of the things I wrote above are a result of me, playing the game for over 8 months now. I need new challenges, I need new ways to amuse myself... When I started it, I was simply starting a game and going for it. Looking back at those days, it was all the same - with a favorable start I'm usually ending the game on day 12-14, without one - the same time. So it would appear to be all the same

[Meeporized]

1. Saving everytime i set foot on a new island (mainly because i want to see if i can get a better army with the new troops or if i should keep mine)

2. didnt knew theres a quicksave so never used it (or i just forgot)

3. no kiting

4. i dled the scanner started it but after reading a few lines i thought its a waste of time (also to restart the game always to ensure the best possible set's) still its something good cuz what use is a "set" ingame if theres no chance of obtaining it.

5. i always skill scout to see if it is even possible to win this fight or if i should come back later

6.I try to get no losses in very weak- slightly stronger till i get the 3rd medal for it after that i dont really care

7. Always trying to stick to my Troops, personally i dont like to change each new troop into something better (too bad theres no LvL 5 Human troop at least i dont know of any)

Well im playing simoultanesly Pal 12 and Mage 42 to "feel" the difference between the chars.

[joasoz]

They should put out another Kings Bounty game so that you dont have to go to extremes to get an interesting game

I would love a game where more things were randomized. Maps/Areas/Missions and such

JOA

[loreangelicus]

Given my KBTL experience, I play Impossible difficulty, no-loss, complete all quests, and target 7 days, similar to what I did using a Paladin in KBTL.

1. I save and reload a lot. The no-loss requirement in itself makes this a requirement. Sometimes I even reload from a save game 15 battles back if I found out I made a bad path decision that could adversely affect the 7 days target.
2. I don't map kite due to the 7 days target. I do item and quest kiting if this leads to a faster, more optimal route.
3. I use the KBScanner, specifically for these items: Ancient Knowledge and Hand of Necropolis. This is due to a 4th goal of mine, to reach level 60. I look for other items as well, just for kicks. Spells are not much of a concern since I dig for treasure chests a lot.
4. I use the following wanderer scrolls: Call Colossus (at the start, or for mid/late game Bone Dragons), Call of Death (Bone Dragons, Black Knights), Ancient Knowledge (for level 60 push), and Depth of Knowledge (just 1 needed, to get Elenhel as early as Debir-Scarlet-Bolo-Verona path, even with a warrior/paladin). All other scrolls I'm too frugal to use and just sell.

My laptop died on me last Tuesday... I'm just using my wife's netbook (ie. no games possible) to read forum posts. So no KBAP for me for around 2 weeks...

[Zechnophobe]

I don't map kite (maybe a few of the ones that just beg for it) and don't do any tactics that involve lots of reloading. Only thing I do that is risky is running around continents trying to pick up all the loot, and sometimes I'll save and load a few times when trying to get from place to place.

The only battles I reload are against bosses, since it is a lot harder to determine before hand if you have, say, enough physical resistance, or enough leadership, mana, etc, to beat them.

I play most games on impossible, and try to minimize losses, (Last game had less than 200) but I don't freak out about it. I am currently doing a no-loss run on Hard that hasn't necessitated more than a few extra reloads. Similarly I don't try for least possible time, but I do try to be a bit more efficient in the mid to late game, and in my last game finished in about 20 days. Not really fast, but better than some.

[Hento]

Originally Posted by Meeporized

t really care

7. Always trying to stick to my Troops, personally i dont like to change each new troop into something better (too bad theres no LvL 5 Human troop at least i dont know of any)

You will see here that humans are the only race of all 8 races that don't have level 5 unit-
http://www.celestialheavens.com/kingsbounty/hs-en.htm

I am very disappointed with this, at least they should have 1 more lvl 4 unit then.

[PineNeedles]

I've only done one complete playthrough (did a handful of partials that I had to restart on, I skipped KBTL so I had a lot to learn) and on that one I reloaded constantly and my time was atrocious. I didn't bother checking at the end, but I did so much backtracking and traveling that I'm sure it must have been several months.

My biggest annoyances were that I didn't the kind of troops I wanted to experiment with and I never got Geyser or Turn Back Time (though when I scanned my finished game it turned out Geyser was at Debir after the 6th stone, but I didn't realize it worked that way).

I absolutely cannot imagine doing another playthrough of this game without being certain I will get a chance to complete at least one of the new giftbag sets and getting Turn Back Time and Geyser, hence I will always scan from now on.

I also have zero qualms with kiting, though I find the process annoying so I tend to avoid it, and I don't understand people's obsession with time. I play a handful of 'competitive' multiplayer games so when I sit down to play a single player one and -and RPG at that- I don't push myself to match or beat anyone else's scores.

For me the fun of the game is the item collection and army building, so generally any choices I make are going to be focused on facilitating those.

[Zhuangzi]

In KB:TL I never tried to play without losses, although I could win on Impossible fairly easily with all classes. Eventually though I got annoyed that other people seemed to be achieving more in the game than I was, so I vowed to master no losses playing AP, which I ended up doing with the Warrior and Mage. This was a good choice for me, as it made me pay more attention to what I was doing in battles and provided a good challenge for me.

There was some need for reloading though - I don't see much of a way around that. The one thing I've never mastered at all is the time factor, but I absolutely refuse to pause the game and try to find optimal paths between places etc. That would kill the fun for me. All power to those who do this, but it's not for me.

If I play AP again (which I'm not sure if I will) it will be an Ironman game (i.e. no reloading at all) and probably on Hard rather than Impossible.