Is Zero Losses on Normal Mage possible in KB:AP?

[DGDobrev]

Progress report.

I seem to have completed about 2/3 of the game. 200 no-loss battles completed. 3 of the bosses are down - The Driller, the Spider and the Dersu Frog. There are only 4 places to clean out yet - Shatterra, Elon, Nameless and Reha. So far, so good.

The Mage is lvl 44, 19.7k leadership. I'm keeping up pretty much the same party, I only switched the Choshas with Demonologists. The Choshas did their work awhile ago - got me that battle alchemy lvl 3 medal, which affects burning from spells as well, so I needed it badly.

In any case, for a mage, the Gorguanas are indispensable. Seal of Blood + A strong spell may well push up the damage into a couple of tens of thousands.

However, I'm also displeased with a lack of spells. No Ice Snake, no Geyser... I mainly rely on Flaming Arrow, Fireball, Fire rain and Lightning (got the Axe of Lightning and it boosts the spell well). I also keep on wishing on a decent item that will improve the humans morale - I have a nice Amulet of Death (+5 int, -2 human morale), and I don't want to miss out on it.

[Elwin]

Which moment do you recommed to atack first 3 bosses? For me i have cleared Dersu and i am on Uzala, i find them pretty easy. still have left arnold,demenion and marquise on verona and irnfist and dragon lair on montero .. they are too powerful more powerfull then any uzala or dersu stack. MAybe nwo when i found phantoom i have a chance.
fortunetly i have decent spells geyser do great job unless enemy has single big stacks of creatures. I have kiilled Fangol with just geyser like 90% damage and mylosses were jsut 2 rooyal snakes :p

[Zechnophobe]

Do driller once you can do 10k damage in a round (I think that's the magic number). Every time he advances to the next 'stage' of his combat, he loses his turn, meaning you can just hit him over and over again until he moves back, and then repeat. Beat him (Hard) with no losses, and I wasn't even really trying.

[Elwin]

10K damage .. my geyser/fire rain hit for 3K so not yet i tihnk ;p

[cicobuff]

Update, I followed Elwin's advise and used a Warrior and concentrated on Rage with my Pet Dragon. Having a MUCH easier time now. Currently at lvl21 and did most of Verona. Moving onto Montana or Dersu.

A Order Level 3 Shackles (dang expensive at 35! crystals) should be able to get me through Dersu easy with those shaman heavy stacks.

My concern now is how do I do that giant spider boss with no loss. Without resurrection (have yet to find it), I'll have to hold that off for quite a while. And not sure if I'm able to resurrect 1-2k worth of losses as a warrior. Will probably need to hold this off until I get defence way up. Any suggestion?

[DGDobrev]

The Bosses require some unusual cunning I did the spider on lvl 30, the driller on 38 and he frog on lvl 40.

In order to do the properly, you need a lot of firepower, which as a mage, is very scarce, and using spells on the bosses is simply a waste of mana, which should be used for phantoms to resurrect the fallen troops.So in essence, you need to rely on your attacking units. In my case those were the Knights and the Paladins. Since bosses mainly inflict physical damage, make sure you stock up on +phys resist stuff and put stone skin on both troops that will tank the boss.

Spider: Knights on the left, Paladins on the right, T-rex, Archmagi and Demonologists deal with the spiders he summons, and the knights help occasionally. The boss itself doesn't do that much damage, so the standard tactic: Knights with Stone skin and Magic Shield and Paladins + Stone Skin works perfectly. If you have any physical resistance boosting items, use them.
Driller: now that boss required some thinking. His gun is awful, hits everything in a straight line. This is why I did it only with 4 (!!!) troops: Knights, Paladins, Archmagi, Inquisitors. Knights and paladins hack away while the archmagi and imquisitors (both with magic damage for the droids he summons, as they are vulnerable) attacks the boss or the droids he summons. When he summons mechanics, dwindle them down to a like 5-10 units and leave them be. Finish off the boss and get resurrecting.
Dersu frog: Now that frog's awful. Her spit is poisonous, and it hits very hard. If you have healer's jacket, put it on. Forget about other bonuses. Having healer's jacket or anything that bossts poison resistance is very important. The frog itself isn't that hard, as it doesn't hit for much, especially if you do the dual tanking tactic with stone skin.

I got carried away and forgot to do a frog screen, but in any case, here's my stats after the battle if it can help.

[cicobuff]

After reading that, can't wait to get powerful enough to get those bosses =).