Castle Necrocom

[Keneth]

Probably only a valid strategy for mages, I couldn't keep my mana up and do enough damage with a warrior so I went to Demonis first, came back, kicked his ass with no losses, and moved on.

[Lestas]

It's 100% possible even for Warrior As well as the best party to beat the last boss is...a single stack of faeries (beatable by lvl 13 with only one stack of faeries. diff=impossible)

[Keneth]

Well it seemed pretty much impossible for me, between the stack's mana drain ability and mana spring/poison rain combo (which for some reason only triggered a few times for me), there just wasn't enough mana to keep invisibility up, much less use any other spells, especially once Concentration gain started falling. So I was either doing something wrong or I just couldn't double as a mage at that time.

[Ryastar]

I beat Karador easily with no losses as a warrior. My army was red dragons, black dragons, giants, cannoneers and inquisitors. I had to use up i think 3 or so of my gift scrolls (no time back upgrades at that point) to get back my losses, which included one red dragon. A few necro calls on bone dragons and vamps (which then sat on other dead stacks to prevent necro call and draw some fire) and he was only able to raise skeletons and zombies, which died to my dragons in droves.

Screenshot, just for fun:

[Keneth]

It's easy at lvl24 with necro call and inquisitors, a bit tougher when none of that is available.

As for the battle log, set a bigger resolution or enlarge it in photoshop. (just realized that's part of your signature, well might as well answer the question anyway )

[Ryastar]

Yeah, the weird thing is, i didn`t really delay on going and attacking Karador. I agree that lvl 24 sure helped , but i really don`t remember why i was that level at that time. I only had level 1 of the experience skill. Maybe i just was doing alot of running around and owning, i dunno.

As for necro call, it`s one of the garunteed spells in the game. When you get the chronicles of the lost town (for that quest early on), you can use them. Their use grants you one scroll of necro call. Agreed that inquisitors sure help, though. That and a sacrifice scroll in the freedom isles, and then giants in your army

As for the pic. I don`t have photoshop, and don`t know how to use it (it`s just not something i`ve ever needed to use) as for a bigger resolution, I`m not sure how the helps (i`m not really a very tech savvy person), so please explain.

[Metathron]

I'm having trouble defeating Karador as a level 23 mage on Hard. The trouble is used up all my mana early on on Geyser and Fire Rain and he used Fear and Hypnosis on my stacks a lot which I was pretty much powerless to stop. In the end, he won through sheer numbers and the crystal helped by raising undead stacks. My army consisted of cavalry, sprites, dryads, elves and green dragons. Perhaps not the best composition in this case?

I'm also intrigued by the going solo with green dragons strategy. I don't think I would know how to pull it off, though. Perhaps this strategy also calls for Lina to be high level, and I have hardly used her so far (or in any other playthrough), so my chargers are really weak.