My attempt at getting the highest score

[McSwan]

Also, I'm guessing it easier to to the reloading like that playing as a warrior.

I'm at Verona, I skipped bolo, and have found 2 wanderer scrolls with reloading most battles.

[loreangelicus]

Hmmm... you mentioned that you didn't get Call Colossus or Call of Death at Debir or Scarlet. At impossible difficulty, any class would be hard pressed at Bolo or Rusty without it. I myself had to stop playing my initial impossible warrior game simply because I was stuck at Bolo; I stopped that game even though I had 3 AKs in shops via KBScanner and already had an additional 3 AKs via duplicate navi maps and chest digs, and that was just Debir-Scarlet-Bolo! Granted, going back to Bolo via Debir-Bolo-Verona is only 1 hour more than Debir-Verona, but that only counts the travel time. Then you have to run around Bolo to clear up what you failed to do on the first run, and that would definitely add more time.

Don't worry, according to other players it gets easier for mages by early mid game due to higher magic and the use of solo unit tactics, notably black dragons. So you could go back to some serious AK digging then.

[DGDobrev]

Loreangelicus, that is a good question. I think it is possible to hit 61, if you have enough AK scrolls. I made the mistake of using them on the tougher islands against regular armies and for a while, I wasn't sure I'm going to cut it. The biggest bonus AK scroll provides is vs. heroes and vs. bosses. Even on Reha, with full +xp items (that amounted to +62% XP per battle), the regular armies provided up to 6-9k at most XP.

So the bottom line is, leave stacks of heroes available (if necessary, don't kill them in the first run through a territory, but do check in advance how much XP are they worth and reload if the result is not satisfactory) and when you do the second run, slap an AK scroll on and beat them up one by one. That may provide the experience you need to get to 61. You should, of course, check the XP the heroes will give you after the fight. If it's over 9k, you're on the right path. If not, the extra AK scrolls will serve you better against regular armies on Reha.

Oh, an of course, stock up on items that quickly lose morale for extra XP through suppressions. Steam Armor and Paladin shield are a good example.

[loreangelicus]

Thanks for the reply DGDobrev, I'll keep those things in mind. If I get more AKs in my game (currently 3 in shops, 2 dug up, 1 dupli map of Montero when I took a quick peek) I'll see if I could try for level 61. My game is slow going though, with the reloading games tactic and somewhat limited time to play.

I keep screenshots of all hero battle results for posterity, and I'll probably upload them once I finish the game to hopefully help others who try the feat afterward. But like I said, it would take me some time before I finish the game...

[DGDobrev]

I know how it feels... I'm doing something similar and in 3 real time days I'm barely haflway through scarlet. I'm sorry to say that it will take at least 8 scrolls to get to 60, but looking at your success with those, you should be just fine. I guess this is the reason for the developers to refrain from setting a max level

[McSwan]

It's pretty sad, but I'm killing them with the 1 free green dragon from Rusty. Just took down the bridge guardian to Montaro with him and level 3 order magic (level 10). Took about 60 rounds. I like the red because the burning it does kills them faster. Don't have Chaos magic yet, so only 110 damage with fire arrow. Also, some battles are impossible with 1 green dragon, and possible with the red dragon.

Had a funny battle with a bees nest taking down 170 bears, doing about 270 damage a turn. Just flew back and forth, the bears stuck in a cycle. They deserved it for stealing honey all the time.

One of the things I'd like to try it getting 4 inquisitors and 1 dragon, getting the inq to rage up, and just before the end using resurrection + there res ability to bring them all back to life. You could do it easily if you just let them die, but then you wouldn't have a zero loss game. Apparently resurrection is in dersu for me.

[loreangelicus]

McSwan/DGDobrev, I just made an additional discovery.While attempting to get better results and reloading a battle, Elenhel finally completed his first wanderer scroll for me. On my first try he gave me Flaming Eyes. When I tried a different battle sequence he gave me Magic Flow. Nice... so the reload tactic also changes what wanderer scroll Elenhel makes.

I know Elenhel didn't give you AKs on your previous run DGDobrev, but I'll check if I could make him cough up an AK.

EDIT: It only took me 5 tries to get Elenhel to produce Ancient Knowledge instead; see attached screenshot. I dug up nothing useful in the battle though, just gold. And I had to give up a battle wherein I dug up a Call Colossus and Elenhel gave me a Titan Sword, but I'm at the point in my game where these two scrolls are just more gold to me.

But AK from Elenhel! Since Elenhel is guaranteed to give you a wanderer scroll every 30 battles, and there are only 11 wanderer scroll types... I think its time to do up to 11 battle tries every time Elenhel is about to write another scroll.