Battle against Karador on impossible

[bucazaurus]

I killed Karador last night with an level 16 warrior on impposible ,with no losses using inquisitors,horsemans,knights and emerald green dragons.I think i won simply because i got lucky with his army composition.Hes number of necromancers and skeleton archers was lower then usual. 40 necro and 800+ skeli. Also the items i found along the road had helped .Even so the battle last for over 145 turns.The longest battle i ever did ,since i start playing KB.

[iregev]

impressive

[Arilian]

Indeed. I guess you used Mana spring a lot but what else?

On the green dragons with Stoneskin and Divine armor I can do 97% Physical resistance (with the +15%boots), but ca'nt keep up target, manaspring this two spell and heal. Not because of mana issues but after i cannot cast 2 spell in a round it is impossible.

I think I will also use knights after all.

[bucazaurus]

Boxed up the Inquisitors. Crippled the biggest stacks.Kill them one by one and necro call them.When only the Crystal remained all my stacks was left with only few troops except the Inquisitors .They stayed almost intact .Then the long process of regaining Rage and resurrect ,using the Inquisitors ,started.That was the key. Protecting the Inquisitors at all cost.Without them there is no way to win this without losses.

[Arilian]

Unfortunately at lvl 21 i still do not have necro call

I took in the kignts to the battle with circle attack but unfortunately the 55% phisical resistance(unbuffed) is quite useless against the bone dragons/leeches

I am really stuck in this fight ATM, i will level to 22 for some more leadership and maybe try gigants too.

[loreangelicus]

Originally Posted by Arilian

...i will level to 22 for some more leadership...

Correct, nothing makes any fight easier than leveling up and gaining more leadership.

I took down Karador at a leadership of 19,000; that high leadership helped me more than any other factor like tactics, unit composition, and spells:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=10498

[Razorflame]

leadership hardly matters

the good unit composition is ESSENTIAL also the spells u use

and abuse karador himself

[BB Shockwave]

I tried killing Karador just to see whether he has Ancient Vampires for sale after the fight (I looked everywhere in Death Land, Demonis and none are avaliable... ) - if his death knights hadn"t completely killed my cursed ghosts (thus stopping me from resurrecting them), I could have done the fight without losses. Ah well. (and no ancient vampires too...)

Anyone knows a good place to get Ancient Vampires? Maybe Xeona or Bhaal sells them after you beat them? I even looked in crypts and graves...