Dev-mode

[Lord Ludwig]

Sorry guys but I must be getting dumber than what I suspected I could get. What does "add one space and -dev to your shortcut on the "target" section after the kb.exe" mean? If I add -dev to the destination in "properties" for my shortcut, I get a message telling me the destination is invalid. If I add it to the kb.exe file it obviously ceases working. If I open the .ini files I don't even see where I should start looking.

So OK, it may be "as simple as that" but at least for me definitely "something else needed", some more detailed info...

Many thanks in advance.

I tackled KBAP straight on impossible confiding in my experience with KBtL, and indeed the last battles had become a walkover, but K'Tahu was a nightmare and Baal is proving right out impossible, so I'll have to start over but first I wanted to see the final of the damn game, thus cheating seems my only option (I tried a lot of different strategies, but never even got him below 50,000 health...)

[Elwin]

Bah. Look fir max crit thread you wil see me doing 60-70k damage to baal with one hit :>

[Lord Ludwig]

Elwin, your reply is extremely quick but not very helpful. I am ready to believe you daily eat 10 Baals for breakfast, but probably you have other stats/items/spells/units than I have. I have 78 Int, 16 Att, 22 Def. Mage, obviously. Almost no money left, 12 black and 15 red dragons so I have to rely on the free human army. Leadership is just above 30,000 (with flaming eyes) and distortion magic is stuck at 2/3.

If I attack with units, max dmg I ever saw is 4,000 and they get slaughtered quickly. If I relay on spells, It would take about 30 ice snakes to take him down, but after 10-12 rounds my units are all dead. I tried 7 or 8 times, toying with resurrection, using the dragons, using demon portal, swapping items trading in some int for +morale of the humans, but never even got close. So please, instead of telling me how much damage you do, either tell me how to do it with my current resources, or tell me how to use this dev mode so I cheat (I am not interested in bragging about my scores anyway), see how it ends and restart with a different approach.

[Elwin]

I strongly recommend, getting paladins and knights and use stoneskin on them, they wont die so fast, phanotming paladins wil help also

[Lord Ludwig]

OK, sorry for the double-post but it seems I recovered from my attack of dumbness. So I had to add -dev OUT of the quotes...

Help about beating Baal WITHOUT cheating with my current resources is still welcome.

[Elwin]

U did not doublepost i wrote post meanwhile. Btw i cant imagine how you play impossible with level 2 distortion

[Lord Ludwig]

Thanks from saving me from double-posting...

How did I play impossible with 2/3 distortion? The same way I completed KBtL at impossible without almost using distortion or even order magic: I try to build up intelligence, mana and above all mana restoration as quick as possible, I pick some very resilient units (before lvl 5 becomes largely available I used droids, splitting the repair units in two separate stacks so that they could repair each other) to minimize losses, and then I nuke away with fire rain. Obviously an amulet of fire storm (or two, as I got in KBtL) is welcome. For the larger stacks of enemies I use the pet's lightning (reaper's soul draining in KBtL) and that's it. The battles on Elon and Nameless were brainless pushovers, those on Reha barely required an effort. Then, however, I had to dig quite deep to get K'Tahu down and finally, silly me not to imagine it, I find out Baal is resistant to fire...

I used the cheat to bring distortion to 3/3 but it didn't make a noticeable difference. True, with stone skin + divine armor my paladins take little damage, but that means I have nothing left to damage with. As a result, after 10 rounds I had still about 70 paladins standing, surrounded by executioners and archdemons, with Baal "down" to 140,000

I had to resort to doubling repeatedly my pals to win...

One of these days I am going to replay from the start, but honestly I don't see how a mage can win on impossible, let alone the no loss wins I read about on the forum. Mind you, I am not saying it can't be done without cheating, I am just saying I can't see HOW it can be done.

[Elwin]

Dobrev described it very in detail ... Well you ended with no gold because you didnt pay much atention to unit loses i bet. With distortion 3 you can minimilize loses realy through the game. I have completed hard no loss .. would do with impossible as well. But i wont do it, my next game on impossible is fun game so it will not be no loss :p