No Loss thoughts?

[Razorflame]

Originally Posted by Loopy

Started my first game on impossible as a mage. Ahriman is a ridiculous stone wall to a no loss game. Soothsayers just plain suck at resurrection, undead are immune to too many things that could make it easier, and your ranged abilities are just too horrible.

I have level 2 order magic and level 2 rune magic. Rune magic is the only damage spells I've gotten, Winter Dance DOES tear them up well, but with skeletons able to bone gate behind me and skeleton archers just plain tearing things up it's nigh impossible not to suffer at least two losses, and Soothsayers can only heal one. And Ahriman himself has enough mana to cast Poison Skull any time throughout the whole battle to instantly end your attempt.

Berserkers do tear things to shreds though. Rune of Attack + Berserker + Shock Shield can easily turn into two critical hits at 50 attack. It's saved my butt more than once to be able to output 400 damage to a stack in a single round. Low health kills them if someone else gets the first hit in though, and they will charge right into it on the next round.

I'm going to try loading up on bears and doing it that way. Until now I've been ignoring the neutrals for the morale bonus, but maybe they will work better.

I wonder if Warrior Maidens could be available, or if Stone Skin could appear. Either of those could make this much more doable.

as mage u can at least cast spells

i'm playing impossible with a warrior

and ahriman is really one pain in the ass with his spells

i just can't kill his units quick enough meh :/

and SLINGER really are the worst sucky units ever produced lol their low hp is ridicoulous

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by Razorflame

as mage u can at least cast spells

i'm playing impossible with a warrior

and ahriman is really one pain in the ass with his spells

i just can't kill his units quick enough meh :/

and SLINGER really are the worst sucky units ever produced lol their low hp is ridicoulous

Just beat Ahriman no-loss with warrior/impossible.

I had to use my 3 Call of Nature scrolls though.

[Razorflame]

how the hell did u do that?

get to lvl 5 and then roflstomp him or what? what skills u used and what unit selection?

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by Razorflame

how the hell did u do that?

get to lvl 5 and then roflstomp him or what? what skills u used and what unit selection?

Nothing about that fight as a roflstomp. Nothing.

Hero Level 5, Level 1 Runic Rage (for extra rage damage) (might tree, the right column). 798 leadership.

Berserkers, Axe Throwers, Soothsayers, Bears, Ancient Bears.

I'd wait for them to come to me, and keep summoning monsters every round. I'd use the summons to "burn" a counter attack and then wail on the enemy.

Ahri would burn spells on the summons like blind, sheep, fear, and poison skull.

I'd time the berserkers to enrage, so they would one-shot the 20 skeletons from the necromancer summons.

I honestly don't think I could have won without the summon scrolls.

[dudex]

let us know if u manage to get by the next couple hero encounters with no losses with no scrolls left..

[Pilnystudent]

I have done first island with 1 loss on impossible. I have done it with mage and 4 units. Maxed rune magic on lvl 3. If you can find some items which give you intelect then its definitly possible to have 0 losses. I had only +1 intelect from one item.

I use Slingers. They do atleast something and what unit can survive single spell anyway... Destroy enemy archers in first turn and Sligers are safe. Also bosses cast fear on them sometimes instead of damaging spells which is very helpfull.

If you take +700 leadership as paladin it should be peace of cake even with 0 losses.

[Razorflame]

Originally Posted by Pilnystudent

I have done first island with 1 loss on impossible. I have done it with mage and 4 units. Maxed rune magic on lvl 3. If you can find some items which give you intelect then its definitly possible to have 0 losses. I had only +1 intelect from one item.

I use Slingers. They do atleast something and what unit can survive single spell anyway... Destroy enemy archers in first turn and Sligers are safe. Also bosses cast fear on them sometimes instead of damaging spells which is very helpfull.

If you take +700 leadership as paladin it should be peace of cake even with 0 losses.

u can try

i have a save with paladin only skill i invested is edda(the only thing i used) so u have spare runes



on note to that no summons scrolls were found alas

but i did rape everything on the island except for 300 skel archers and 200 skel or somthing

and ahriman ofcourse



goodluck with that