No Loss thoughts?

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by MattCaspermeyer

I defeated Ahriman no loss on Impossible with Mage.

I was level 4 and had 16 Vikings, 29 Slingers, 10 Berserkers, 5 Axe Throwers, and 2 Soothsayers. I only had Magic Missile as my spell, since I kind of messed up and didn't have enough magic runes to get rune magic. I had Order Magic, but I haven't found any Order spells except Dispel.

It was a big time optimization problem. I basically tried the battle about 20 times slightly tweaking my strategy such that Ahriman never cast a damage spell on me. I wish I would have saved a screenie, but didn't realize it was so hard. I don't have any Animal Call scrolls, or don't even have Healing for that matter, but was fortunate to find the solution.

But now I've got Uladar Maratarius - he's level 10 and I'm only level 5! Do I have to defeat him before I can leave the island? It seems like I'm out of stuff to fight - I think there are only 4 stacks left: the Ghost stack guarding the treasure (I might be able to beat these guys no loss, we'll see...), the big Skelly stack (I'm not going to bother with these guys until later) and then the other stack guarding Maratarius. I still can't get through the magic portal blocking the shipyard, so I guess I'm stuck with what I have...

I did get Rune Magic, but only level 1 (at least I got some more damage spells than Magic Missle now) - anyone have any ideas?

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Yeah, I think I am ready to flip tables. I should have gotten onslaught so I could beat the initiative advantage and/or the resist shield.

Uladar just opens with poison skull or ghost sword and none of my units can resist it.

[dudex]

if u find a heal scroll u can rape undead for almost no mana cost. u can prob go to level 3 if u save all ur crystals.

not sure if its a bug but heal's mana cost goes down when its upgraded making it spammable at level 3 even with low mana pool

[Zechnophobe]

Not a bug, or at least, it has always been that way. Level 3 Heal ends up being a very good and mana efficient spell for no-loss.

Honestly, I am really really surprised that there is basically no army choice until you finish the first island. That seems like a horrible idea.