how you beat the octocupus?

[YENKO]

Question: i have to give certain pirate mark to Jim the pirate. But he is nowhere to be seen, and Mirabella is only interested in me dispatching the Kraken. Now, i must get something wrong, since i read about people who 'sneaked'(snuck? agh) their way all the..way to Jim and the Mines without fighting?
Advice needed, thanks.

[Lari]

Do you remember Red beard who give you that black mark? he will also tell you a secret word to get into the mines, that are located just behind his house(very short walk). I didn't saw them too the first time

[YENKO]

Originally Posted by Lari

Do you remember Red beard who give you that black mark? he will also tell you a secret word to get into the mines, that are located just behind his house(very short walk). I didn't saw them too the first time

Thanks! Aw, i DID see the entrance behind the house, but there is some badass 'overpowering' enemy hero parked at the entrance!
I'm a lvl 10 mage and i obviously suck

Forget it, i'm blind as an old bat

The guard won't let me in I have 3 options: tell tghe password, which i have no idea what it is, bribe him with 5000 gold which is no fun, or bash his head in, which is fun and i can gain some loot and exp.

[Lari]

By now, you'll already solved this with a bloodshed however you could have just gently asked red beard for the password

[YENKO]

Originally Posted by Lari

By now, you'll already solved this with a bloodshed however you could have just gently asked red beard for the password

Oh I did, but I wanted to explore all the possibilities
First I killed the guards, then i killed Lucky James, then all his troops in the mines..and realized that Redbeard won't talk to me anymore. And, what is most important: quest failed! Noo goodies Boo.. then I reloaded, and finished the quest the right way

[Keneth]

The way I did it was: get quest from redbeard, go inside, give the mark, take the quest from lucky, go outside, finish the quest, kill redbeard for lucky's quest, go back inside, finish the quest to get the map, kill lucky. Two dead pirate scum and lots of goodies for me.

[Handel]

Talking about dead pirate scum reminds me - what is the deal with the Mad Onix pirate (who begs you everytime for 5000 golds to tell you the secret). Is there something more besides killing him?

[YENKO]

Originally Posted by Keneth

The way I did it was: get quest from redbeard, go inside, give the mark, take the quest from lucky, go outside, finish the quest, kill redbeard for lucky's quest, go back inside, finish the quest to get the map, kill lucky. Two dead pirate scum and lots of goodies for me.

..and the 100.000 gold still in your pocket! Yeah, i did it the same way, after some experimenting Thanks for the tips!

[YENKO]

Solved the Redbeard/Jim tasks, went to king Darion for my reward and my new orders. So i met the guy in the forest, returned to the castle and king Darion gave me my next task, to kill some Duke in the Mines. I entered the dwarven mines, killed 2 or 3 manageable enemy armies and hightailed out of Dodge City, mobs too strong
Now I am buzzing around in the Islands and trying to kill the Kraken. I am lvl 11 now, and it seems, I cannot level further here. The friggin Kraken, I cannot beat him. I have no Resurrection spell and none of the spells for summoning..something/someone. AT start I am doing OK, but round after round, the Kraken is spawning larger and larger stacks of Devilfish: I quitted when the stacks reached 450 devilfish each. No way in hell I can beat that monster, he has like total 44000 hit points
Need advice, some cofee and..a drink methinks! Kraken with zero losses? How in heaven is that possible? I am missing something HUGE here grrr..

[GeneralGonzo]

Originally Posted by YENKO

Solved the Redbeard/Jim tasks, went to king Darion for my reward and my new orders. So i met the guy in the forest, returned to the castle and king Darion gave me my next task, to kill some Duke in the Mines. I entered the dwarven mines, killed 2 or 3 manageable enemy armies and hightailed out of Dodge City, mobs too strong
Now I am buzzing around in the Islands and trying to kill the Kraken. I am lvl 11 now, and it seems, I cannot level further here. The friggin Kraken, I cannot beat him. I have no Resurrection spell and none of the spells for summoning..something/someone. AT start I am doing OK, but round after round, the Kraken is spawning larger and larger stacks of Devilfish: I quitted when the stacks reached 450 devilfish each. No way in hell I can beat that monster, he has like total 44000 hit points
Need advice, some cofee and..a drink methinks! Kraken with zero losses? How in heaven is that possible? I am missing something HUGE here grrr..

Hmm, i have beaten the kraken with lvl12. My army consisted of about 120 Archer (i had the scope (+100% attack) plus the elven bow), 30 shamans, 70 griffins, 30 knights and 85 royal snakes. My values of attack and defense around 20.
To beat the kraken you need at least 1 archer type and 1 with "no retaliate" ability. Good morale helps also making doble damage (my knights did the job well, doing about 1500 damage).
The spawned devilfishs concentrated on the shamans totems and my griffins finished off the mobs! Try to not let your melee troops stand behind one another as the kraken arm damages troops standing in a row. Instead place one melee troop in front of an arm and the other one besides it, so you take minimal damage for only one troop when the kraken retaliates.