Single black dragon - how far can you get?

[Metathron]

Just a quick question off the top of my head: In the battle against Samman, for example, how do you protect the dragon from being destroyed by the archdemons when they act right after your dragons? I can imagine moving the dragon to a hex that has only two adjoining hexes and casting demon portal on both, but is there such a spot in this battle? If there are three, what would you do to occupy the third hex? The dragon's wall is the only thing that comes to mind.

Anyhow, muy impressivo!

[Hento]

Alchemy is not a waste, get it maxed as soon as possible.

10) Companion. Elenhel, suprise. I actually did not pick her until i was level 46, to make sure i beat her. Scarlet island fella was ok untill then.

Elenhel is male, Princess Amelie is not a lesbian.

[TemjinGold]

Originally Posted by Hento

Alchemy is not a waste, get it maxed as soon as possible.



Elenhel is male, Princess Amelie is not a lesbian.

And you know this how?

[Metathron]

@Hento: Elenhel & co. are companions/armor bearers, not partners, so the point about Amelie's sexuality is moot.

As for Alchemy, I do find it rather useless. I wouldn't pick it with a mage, still less with the other two classes. You simply don't need (to upgrade) that many different spells that would justify taking this skill. I did take it in TL once or twice, but Neatness in AP eliminates the need for Alchemy completely in my opinion.

@DGD: Wasn't aware armageddon required a target, as I've never used it myself. Come to think of it, it doesn't really make sense, but anyway I'll remember that the next I fight the peasant hero in Verona.

[rickah88]

I think the biggest challange of them all is to get this game released on DVD-ROM in the United States. That would be impressive!

[DGDobrev]

rickah88, do you ever stop?

Metathron:
Well, I never even had any hero cast armageddon on me with a single BD or a BD stack. This was the basis of my assumtion. If I am in error, someone should correct me. Still, the BD's are immune to spells, so logically, casting armageddon should not harm them, as it's a spell.

[TemjinGold]

Originally Posted by DGDobrev

rickah88, do you ever stop?

Metathron:
Well, I never even had any hero cast armageddon on me with a single BD or a BD stack. This was the basis of my assumtion. If I am in error, someone should correct me. Still, the BD's are immune to spells, so logically, casting armageddon should not harm them, as it's a spell.

Actually I think that's because you never outnumbered your enemy leadership-wise...

[Metathron]

Originally Posted by rickah88

I think the biggest challange of them all is to get this game released on DVD-ROM in the United States. That would be impressive!

I thought that your post in the review thread was in place and not spamming/trolling like it was rather unjustly called. But this...I'm seriously thinking of putting you on my ignore list and then you can spam every thread to your heart's content as your posts will be invisible to me.

If anyone is wondering how to do that:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/profile.php?do=ignorelist

I hope you reconsider, though, and stop this because all you're doing is grating the members' nerves. I'm sure you have something of value to say, or something that's pertinent to the topic at hand at the least.

[impy]

arena of death completed. boy, was it tough, i went through some cigarettes
First fight against great many hayterants was everything but easy. if you come close, they do critical attack. If you leave them, they lay eggs. I hid dragon behind traps, kept casting fear, few demon portals + death star.
Second fight was ok. Since Harrum only casts divine armor, i turned brontors into sheep, avoided tyrexes, and mystic egg did the job.
It now leaves gremlion, since i do not think k'tahu can be defeated.
Pretty charming still, if everything but last two bosses can be beaten with single creature
That brings the question - would it be teoretically possible to defeat k'tahu with red dragon instead, so you can heal him?

[DGDobrev]

@Metathron

Well, this is what I did in that battle:

Turn 1. Move the Black Dragons to a hex that have only 2 advacent hexes near his starting position. Put traps on both hexes. Both archdemons land on the traps and get damaged and poisoned (since by now you should have trap lvl 3). If you have rage, use mana accelerator to compensate for the lost mana for the traps.
Turn 2. If there are still archdemons, move the Black dragon to the opposite cell that has 2 adjacent cells and put 2 more traps. By now most of the enemies have moved towards the center and the southern part (your part) of the battlefield, but still, they shouldn't pose a threat.
Turn 3. Now analyze. If there's an enemy that can reach you, put a trap on this path and wait with the black dragons. You still have 1 cast left and the enemies have all moved. Use the final cast to deal a hard blow to the enemy stacks by death star or geyser. Use mana accelerator to recover some of the mana and use BD's ability to damage as many enemies as possible to generate some more rage.
Turn 4. Use mana accelerator and hide the BD's on one of the "towers" (the spots that have only 1 adjacent cell to the in the eastern and western part of the battlefield. Use poison skull on the most dangerous enemy stacks and analyze again - either wait or use deathstar/geyser again.

Now the enemy stacks have been greatly reduced, Archdemons are no more (unless one of the portals spawn them, but they are usually in a small quantity) and you can fly from side to side and cast spells to destroy them. Don't worry about armageddon - as long as there is no unit samman can target to cast armageddon (and the BD's can't be targeted) you can easily win the battle.

@Hento

Alchemy IS a waste if you use neatness lvl 3. There is no point in losing so many runes to learn alchemy when by breaking the items you buy for runes and crystals you will get all the extra runes/crystals you need. I made the mistake of taking both once - no more. Having 500+ crystals left and all your spells built up to the max is inefficient.