Beating the game with no losses (Paladin)

[Ryder]

I finally completed my own no loss Paladin on impossible game. I have a screenshot there of my longest battle (except the final battle), which went for 209 rounds. The only way I could get spell points was to use chargers, so I was getting 4 spell points every 5 rounds. Then on some occassions I had to summon the ice ball to put in front of the 2 Alchemists that were left. The worst thing was is that I had to do the battle twice as the game crashed before I got to save it after the first time. The final battle went for about 350 turns, I forgot to take a screenshot in my haste to save it incase it crashed. It took about 4 hours to finish that fight.

The battle arena goes a bit crazy after 100 odd rounds, you'll see that some hexagons are missing for one. The biggest pain of all is that when Lina summons the chargers and you cant see where they are, so you have to go to every hexagon on the arena to hope you run into it.

Finding out that you can use Time Back on killed units after as many rounds as you wanted was a lifesaver. I lost my Elves in about round 3 of the final battle and didnt resurrect them until about round 100. The same with my Inquisitors, they were down to about 12 left at the end of round two so I cast time back on them and then I lost them the very next round, I then got them all back about 10 rounds later.

I love pain mirror. That is all.

[Hento]

It is not possible to have no losses because of initial dragon quest.

[YENKO]

Originally Posted by Hento

It is not possible to have no losses because of initial dragon quest.

Bah, ignore the quest/test and go straight to the King's castle!
Never argue with the pro's, absorb their knowledge instead

[Gatts]

Originally Posted by Hento

It is not possible to have no losses because of initial dragon quest.

You are right - but that is not reason enough not to have 0-loses

Guys who finished the game on impossible all said that they either captured the doll avoiding the dragon fight - or as Yenko said - went out without the training... (what is not advised as in the training you can get some exp, money ...not much but on impossible everyting counts)

[Keneth]

Yup, there's no need to fight the dragon but it is true that you can't fight the dragon and have 0 losses.

[Gatts]

Sadly it is really impossible to beat the dragon wo loses, and here is why I believe why:

Difficulty: Impossible
Race: Paladin
You may have HEALING spell - but it heals 55 HP only
Ressurection can't be placed in spellbok, but you can't use the scroll anyway - as it does not work on knight / horseman
You can't really buff your hero - as you have only 2/4/2 runes (might/mind/magic)
even if you play "hit me first" strategy -> you could with max luck win wo loses, but you would lose ressurection scroll -> so all ohter battles would not work for ya

"hit me first strategy" -> keep only one weak stack -> i.e. 5 peasants - dragon will wait if your army is far away enough - move only peasant one step forward and dragon will use his "drag and hit" skill on peasant -> try to finish the dragon using heal spell and horsemen and knights (still it is only question of luck luck luck each hit and there is huge probability that either horseman or knight will die, but reload can do it) - befor you land last hit, you don't need heal - use only ressurection on peasants...

but even with many many reloads - you will lose the scroll... so where is the win?

[taltamir]

Originally Posted by Gatts

Sadly it is really impossible to beat the dragon wo loses, and here is why I believe why:

Difficulty: Impossible
Race: Paladin
You may have HEALING spell - but it heals 55 HP only
Ressurection can't be placed in spellbok, but you can't use the scroll anyway - as it does not work on knight / horseman
You can't really buff your hero - as you have only 2/4/2 runes (might/mind/magic)
even if you play "hit me first" strategy -> you could with max luck win wo loses, but you would lose ressurection scroll -> so all ohter battles would not work for ya

"hit me first strategy" -> keep only one weak stack -> i.e. 5 peasants - dragon will wait if your army is far away enough - move only peasant one step forward and dragon will use his "drag and hit" skill on peasant -> try to finish the dragon using heal spell and horsemen and knights (still it is only question of luck luck luck each hit and there is huge probability that either horseman or knight will die, but reload can do it) - befor you land last hit, you don't need heal - use only ressurection on peasants...

but even with many many reloads - you will lose the scroll... so where is the win?

maybe with extreme luck and some reloads you would find one available for sale early on, early enough for you to fight and kill and earn the needed money to buy it. But that would be a truly insane challenge just to kill the dragon.
Question then, this is about finishing the game, not killing all enemy stacks.
So, tell me sector24. did you kill all roaming stacks and finish / fail all quests? or did you choose not to do some of them?