Impossible Warrior challenge

[MajorS]

I finished on Day 11 at 11:00 pm

And some Damage Scores for sector24 to beat

[Zhuangzi]

That is nuts. Congrats.

What level where you at the end? Don't say 28+ because I don't see how that's possible. You must have rushed through doing the main questline only, right?

EDIT: Okay, I saw in the high scores thread that you were level 30. I give up. I could perhaps do this in 20 days but 11? You win. :p

[MajorS]

I did 2 things. Plan your actions to minimize travel. For an example first visit to the Elven lands i had to leave most of the undead world unfinished, because my flight was leaving (i spend almost exactly 24h on that first visit) But make sure to get the obelisks. On the second and final visit i cleared that area + maze + Murok in 16h. And i also did 2 trips to Freedom Island. I dont think you can clean it on your first visit in 24h anyway, and coming back with huge leadership and better troops helps alot.

Day 1-2: Start clearing everything in Darion. I went for the quest first that gives the free ship and picked banners and treasure before even doing a single fight outside the Training Hall. On Day 3 before 7am with lev 5 i went to kill the turtle(the travel back should happen shortly before 7, or you waste alot of time).

Day 3: Kill Turtle, do more stuff in Darion

Day 4: (shortly before 7am) travel to Freedom Isles. Run around pick up all treasure, runes, banners.

Day 5-6: defeat Redbeard, get Maps and return to Darion (shortly before 7am ), rest of the day clean rest of Darion and pick up everything thats not nailed down in Kordar and Demonis. I was Lev 11 with 8k leadership at the end of Day 6, also got 5 Giants and max level target (i think if i had gotten the castle in the mines, ork embassy retake quest would have been available, made a mistake here) It may be better to try squeeze this into 1 day and do the rest later, but not sure. I wanted the whip

Day 7: Travel back to Freedom Islands (before 7 am). Spend the rest of the day killing everything including Kraken.

Day 8: Return from Freedom islands (before 7) Clean as much as possible in Kordar.

Day 9: Travel to Ellinia (before 7) and do as much as goes into 1 day. (make sure to get all obelisks, so on the last return to Kordar you can finish the Obelisk quest)

Day 10: Return to Kordar/Darion(before 7) finish everything including Demonis. (i made sure to have Sprites and Dryads in my Reserve slots, so i could carry more than my Leadership allowed, since i would get more soon)

Day 11: Return to Ellinia(before 7 of course). Finish undead area, Maze and Murok. I somewhat cheated in the Maze tho. On my way back to turn in the Incarnations quest i saved and if i made too many mistakes picking the path i reloaded. This wasnt really necessary, because i already had the final fight troops (Knights and Horseman in Reserveslot) with me anyway, but i wanted that Quest too. And it was very close in the end.


And my offer again, i can provide all savegames (83 this time). I also stuck with my 1 wife policy (Feanora had the perfect slots and bonus anyway) In addition to that i didnt purchase a single scroll in the game (thats why i ended up without resurrection but i wouldnt have used it anyway)

[Calinda]

It can be done faster than this. I just killed Redbeard at 1:15 AM on Day 4, and will be Lvl 12 before I go back to Darion in the morning. Probably 10 days is the fastest, dunno, we'll see. Or may be even 9.
BTW MajorS, I killed turtle on day 2.

[Zhuangzi]

Yep that's very impressive. I noticed something strange this time around - occasionally, NO time would pass when I travelled, as in it wouldn't go to 7am the next day. Anyone else seen this?

I can see from what you provided that it is possible in 11 days. What I'm still scratching my head about is how you managed to defeat things so easily in this timeframe. I found in my Warrior game that I was struggling a lot for the first half of the game, and to compensate I was travelling around to get a better team.

No matter though - I am going to delete the shortcut to King's Bounty now in the hope that it will stop me from playing the game through for a fifth time.

[sector24]

I am seriously impressed as well. I was definitely not that careful with my time. As for the criticals, I'll never be able to beat them with my game, it looks like you had the thorn crown + the whip which would produce insane damage output. I didn't have that option because of the self imposed no losses restriction. I'll be surprised if anyone beats yours though.

[MajorS]

Actually i had that poison dagger +1 too . But you can top that with sprites. I only had the +20% fire damage spell (no crystals too upgrade). Sprites would be 7-7(8-8 with dagger) then with bless from inquisitors. Thats what i had on the Thorns aswell. Then just use doom on an extremly low defense lev 1 stack and get a guaranteed crit .

@Calinda and yes i wasted some time in the beginning. Half way through i decided to try the 13 days tho.

@Zhuangzi one of the tricks was to not kill stuff in Freedom Isles the first time around but come back second time and with 8k Leadership its a cake. (target + Giants). Karador was tougher but Lev 3 Target gets you through alot of fights. And once you got Inquisitors + Gift + High charges you can spend half an hour resurrecting troops if necessary each fight.

[Calinda]

I wonder if it is possible to do the freedom islands and do not return there later, just in 1 day ... You will lose at least 2 quests (anga's ruby and the embassy recapture) but this probably will lower the fastest time to 9 days. In my game I have like 6 hours left and I still Need to kill Duke Sov, Kraken, the orcs in The Boot and either the Wild Duke or Manno. I'll try but don't have much time to play right now ...

Edit: It may be possible but I did some calculations with the score formula:
(100 + 91*4) * 3.62 = 1679,68 (9 days, 101 quests)
(100 + 90*4) * 3.66 = 1683,6 (10 days, 103 quests)
This proves that finishing the last 2 quests and losing 1 day for it, is worth it in terms of score. And probably this is the highest score you can get in the game with the current rules, and without cheating