Surviving on Impossible

[Eldritch]

Freedom Isles was actually the easiest part of the game for me this time because I was ahead of the difficulty curve (even on Impossible) at level 9. This was due to finding Ice Snake, having prioritised Chaos 3, and having 15 Intellect.

Well good for you then I guess if you had got in a similar situation in your impossible game like me;

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...6450#post56450

Then your impossible game should have got REAL impossible... like, "unable to progress" impossible. Srsly, this is my first playthrough on hard difficulty and I'm level 15 now and searched every nook n' crevice on the isles and most parts of kordar AND I'm still stuck with the fireball. All the "randomized" scrolls, ALL of them turned out to be either the book of fail or the sacrifice which is useful but not so useful on its own. Or the incredibly lame "kamikaze" which is just flat out a product of bad game design. Who'd even use that s**t?

So, as you can see... My "hard" game just became "almost impossible" either because of bad game design (extremely imbalanced randomization) or just really s**t luck. *jinxed*

Oh well.. at least I got a ridiculous 27 intellect now which makes even the fireball utterly devastating..

[Eldritch]

A good idea for surviving on impossible could be the extensive usage of sacrifice to get back all your heavy losses instead of actually buying them back which makes you lose money and precious limited stacks of valuable creatures (e.g. royal snakes). All you have to do is to leave some weak mob alive as a controlled environment to do your thing and either hypno-sacrifice the enemy or buy cheap ass infinite "horde" critters and regularly sacrifice the crap out of them to either replenish losses or actually create full stacks of otherwise unavailable creatures. Like creating a full stack of horsemen early in the game as soon as you get sacrifice by luring out the huge mob guarding them through the pathfinding bug and making a full stack out of the mere 6 horsemen in the tent later. Also through sacrifice it is almost impossible to actually "dry out" a certain valuable creature's stacks again like the royal snakes. As long as you got at least one remaining specimen alive and kicking, they're saved from extinction!

Maybe one could more easily tolerate the aftermath of critical battles with extreme casualties on impossible with the miracle of sacrifice!!! Sacrifice... don't leave home without it! Especially if leaving the home under an impossible difficulty setting.

[BobbRobb]

Originally Posted by Eldritch

A good idea for surviving on impossible could be the extensive usage of sacrifice to get back all your heavy losses instead of actually buying them back which makes you lose money and precious limited stacks of valuable creatures (e.g. royal snakes). All you have to do is to leave some weak mob alive as a controlled environment to do your thing and either hypno-sacrifice the enemy or buy cheap ass infinite "horde" critters and regularly sacrifice the crap out of them to either replenish losses or actually create full stacks of otherwise unavailable creatures. Like creating a full stack of horsemen early in the game as soon as you get sacrifice by luring out the huge mob guarding them through the pathfinding bug and making a full stack out of the mere 6 horsemen in the tent later. Also through sacrifice it is almost impossible to actually "dry out" a certain valuable creature's stacks again like the royal snakes. As long as you got at least one remaining specimen alive and kicking, they're saved from extinction!

Maybe one could more easily tolerate the aftermath of critical battles with extreme casualties on impossible with the miracle of sacrifice!!! Sacrifice... don't leave home without it! Especially if leaving the home under an impossible difficulty setting.

The only problem there is actually getting the sacrifice spell. If you get lucky you can find it early in the game but so far on my mage I'm already lvl 17 (impossible) and haven't found it anywhere. It was hard for me to keep down losses because I also never found Resurrect and the only place selling inquisitors had just about 60 of them.

[Desperx]

Just finished impossible as mage. From begining i used fear, fireball, royal snakes and other snakes with frog wife and at lvl 9 arrived on freedom islands and clear all there.

I was really unlucky with ice snake or fire rain so i decided to rush for elven islands. I did not kill anything in Kordar. So at lvl 14 terrible battle vs castle in taron mines.

Finaly elven lands so i found ice snake scroll somewhere in the middle while sneaking even lands of death. I found fire rain in guarded castle thx dryads and sprites mostly. All enemies were overpower or impossible after then fight match or strong party was pretty easy. At 22 lvl battle vs karador castle was really hard. Then i went to clear Kordar, mines and Demonis and everything else

Good spells: fear, slow, sheep, blind, magic spring, phantom, stone skin, doom, magic shackles, ice snake, fire rain and flaming arrow.

Good units: royal snakes, marauders, priests vs undeads, shamans, unicorns, sprites, dryads, elven archers, green red black dragons and all demons. Most time 3 dragons and archers or unicorns.

Wife feanora all the time with one 10 mana child just triyed one for my luck and still better then scrolls

Tactic:
Toughest main quest battles defending in corner and nuking by spells.
Other challanges i prefered cc meele such as sheep and doom then focused by 3 dragons slowing rest and nuking if possible.
Phantomed dryads can makes 12 turns all 1-3 lvl crazy stacks sleeping. Also easy way using higher lvls units and fear all lower still good at the end vs 1800 goblins in one stack etc.

Nice challange at all. Id like to see yours records and story