Trying to play allowing losses is horrible

[blacklegionary]

Originally Posted by Bhruic

I'd have to disagree. When I first got to Greenwort, the fights were generally fairly difficult. The same was true when I moved to Arlania and Verlon Wasteland. I didn't have any losses, thanks to resurrection exploits, but I often had a few rounds of resurrecting at the end of each fight indicating I'd lost quite a few units. Certainly, I wouldn't say I was in danger of actually losing any of those fights, but I wasn't simply steamrolling the enemy.

The fights in Demonis were substantially harder, but I hadn't figured out how to get to the Freedom Isles, so hadn't got all the XP from the fights there. When I finally got there, yes, all the fights were quite easy, but I'd over-leveled them by doing the Demonis/Hades stuff. Had I done those in the reverse direction, I suspect the former would have been easier, and the latter harder. I suppose I should include Merlassar in there, as it was mixed in with the Greenwort/Arlania/Verlon stuff.

I suppose part of the issue is the very mobility that implies. You have a lot more areas to work with at that point in the game, so you aren't forced into fights you might not win. This, of course, is especially compounded by the ability to fly - giving you the ability to skip any fight you don't want to fight. So you end up in a situation where you've got superior resurrecting troops, with large amounts of fights to choose from, in a situation where you aren't roadblocked for quite some time. That definitely is going to give the impression of being significantly easier.

Well now I understand why you say the Ghoul in Greenwort is a threat to no-loss. In my second playthrough, I moved around Darion, Merlessar and the Isle of Freedom and I see that Greenwort, Verlon Wasteland and Western Isle have roughly the same enemy strength. Merlessar, Eastern Isle and Arlania is the same, too and stronger than these previous areas but not much. So if you do them before Demonis but after finish all Darion stuff, it's not much different.

You were right about mobility, there are many easy fights to pick and you aren't forced to fight "Impossible" fight.