Trying to play allowing losses is horrible

[Zechnophobe]

Originally Posted by Bhruic

I'd have to disagree. When I first got to Greenwort, the fights were generally fairly difficult. The same was true when I moved to Arlania and Verlon Wasteland. I didn't have any losses, thanks to resurrection exploits, but I often had a few rounds of resurrecting at the end of each fight indicating I'd lost quite a few units. Certainly, I wouldn't say I was in danger of actually losing any of those fights, but I wasn't simply steamrolling the enemy.

Sure, because at that point they were level appropriate. If you just do Darion, and then go to Demonis, it is a generally difficult progressions.

The fights in Demonis were substantially harder, but I hadn't figured out how to get to the Freedom Isles, so hadn't got all the XP from the fights there. When I finally got there, yes, all the fights were quite easy, but I'd over-leveled them by doing the Demonis/Hades stuff. Had I done those in the reverse direction, I suspect the former would have been easier, and the latter harder. I suppose I should include Merlassar in there, as it was mixed in with the Greenwort/Arlania/Verlon stuff.

This is the point. All the fights in Freedom Isles and Merlessar are 'before' Demonis in difficulty. And if you do them in order of difficulty, you end up doing a huge amount of really easy fights. By skipping the easy ones, you just artificially make the rest of the game harder.

I suppose part of the issue is the very mobility that implies. You have a lot more areas to work with at that point in the game, so you aren't forced into fights you might not win. This, of course, is especially compounded by the ability to fly - giving you the ability to skip any fight you don't want to fight. So you end up in a situation where you've got superior resurrecting troops, with large amounts of fights to choose from, in a situation where you aren't roadblocked for quite some time. That definitely is going to give the impression of being significantly easier.

I stopped using Runemages after doing a chunk of Darion, because they completely sucked the fun out of anything. Didn't use any resurrectors until Demonis, when I picked up some Demonologists. So, yeah. At the end of all things, the game is still very easy and ress or not makes no difference. It's just one way of arriving at ease.