KBDS Normal/Hard/Impossible No-loss thread

[MattCaspermeyer]

Right, and see this post for what to search on and note that is DGDobrev pointed out here it is "dragondor.embyro_13" with a "." instead of an "_" as I had originally remembered.

That is also right about the 2 Vamps, although you can pop your Ghosts and Zombies in your reserve if you'd like instead of disbanding them.

I have a save with Ball of Lightning if anyone is interested in trying that out...

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[MattCaspermeyer]

I found another spell combination that will work - Kamikaze level 2. Coupled with Poison Skull level 2, this spell combination could actually possibly be the second easiest that will work (behind Phoenix).

When I did my original pass through the spells, I had neglected to notice that Kamikaze now works on enemy troops. So I did the "magicbook" cheat and it can work wonders on the Sprites and Werewolves. You may lose a Vampire as you run around the battlefield awaiting the 3-turn delay, but once it goes off - BOOM! It took out half of the 77 Sprites and halved a Werewolf stack - ouch! Then the next round the next bomb finished off the Sprites, Werewolves, and Satyrs. The third round (with the other damage) took the last Werewolf stack down to 4. That was very good use of 30 Mana.

On the Humans, it took out 11 Priests and half the Bowmen! And then the other bomb finished off the Bowmen. Two Level 2 Poison Skulls took out the Inquisitors and then I just had the Swordsmen and Guardsmen left.

This is fairly easy to do.

I didn't even get Diversion Level 1, but it may be possible when you reach level 5 to be able to get Diversion to Level 1, which will make it even easier or go with skills to give you more Mana.

I just got a savegame with Kamikaze, so if anyone wants me to post it let me know (I haven't even started playing it, yet).

So if you get a savegame with this spell, then give it a try!

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[Zhuangzi]

Thanks to both of you for the help. After MUCH stuffing around I finally have the scanner working on the five save files I created. Sadly, 3 seem to give gold, 1 Cold Grasp, and 1 spell_reaction, whatever that is? No Evil Book or Kamikaze. So if either of you wants to PM me a savefile with either or both of those spells in the Ore Cart, that would be much appreciated!

EDIT: did another 10 - 6 gave gold, 1 Fire Arrow, 1 Fireball, 1 Hunter Armor, 1 other spell which I've forgotten

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by Zhuangzi

Thanks to both of you for the help. After MUCH stuffing around I finally have the scanner working on the five save files I created. Sadly, 3 seem to give gold, 1 Cold Grasp, and 1 spell_reaction, whatever that is? No Evil Book or Kamikaze. So if either of you wants to PM me a savefile with either or both of those spells in the Ore Cart, that would be much appreciated!

EDIT: did another 10 - 6 gave gold, 1 Fire Arrow, 1 Fireball, 1 Hunter Armor, 1 other spell which I've forgotten

I gave up and just modified the starting troops to give me two ancient vampires and two necromancers.

Praying for the perfect saved game AND enemy spawning with less than normal troops (I always had 8 elves which would one shot my vampires before I could react) is not my idea of KB fun.

It also means you are completely forced to a single or tedious path.

Just go to the original ses.kfs file, back it up, rename ses.kfs to ses.kfs.zip, extract to ses.kfs folder.

Edit hero.txt

Refer to
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...4&postcount=84

[MattCaspermeyer]

Okay, here are all the ones I've been able to generate so far:

• Ball of Lightning (really, really hard!)
• Evil Book (hard, DGDobrev also has one here)
• 2 Kamikaze's (not as hard, the first gives 2 scrolls, the second gives 4) - I haven't played either of these, yet so give them a shot!

Good luck and enjoy!

See DGDobrev's instructions here.

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[Zhuangzi]

Thanks ck and Matt. ck - I can see why you got frustrated. We are forced to do something 'outside the box' just to make a start in 2 out of 3 races on Impossible. I love this game but I really hope we get a patch to address this severe balance issue (we probably won't).

Matt - thanks for the saves. I will have a try at Kamikaze 2 first. Cheers.

[DGDobrev]

Wowie! Matt, that sounds really awesome. Could be well, well, really well worth a try. I will give it a go sometime.

[Zhuangzi]

I've made a bit of a start on the Kamikaze save, haven't got far year, but I was delighted to find that I had a Frost Grasp scroll in my spellbook. I never used Frost Grasp at all on my first playthrough but I'm finding it to be superior to Poison Skull and it costs the same 5 mana.

[Zhuangzi]

Ugh, I'm stuck on this game at the same spot, having killed the Dwarven stack but not being able to get the Elven or Human. I am a few point short of Level 5 and I don't have even one point in Diversions, but I have Chaos 2 with Frost Grasp, Poison Skull and Kamikaze all at level 2.

The problem is that Kamikaze, while devastating, takes 3 turns to explode. Against the Elven stack, the Hunters (9!) one shot my Vampires, like ck said, and the Human stack isn't much better.

So I think Kamikaze is a bad spell for this fight. Back to the drawing board. I'll try Evil Book next.

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by Zhuangzi

Ugh, I'm stuck on this game at the same spot, having killed the Dwarven stack but not being able to get the Elven or Human. I am a few point short of Level 5 and I don't have even one point in Diversions, but I have Chaos 2 with Frost Grasp, Poison Skull and Kamikaze all at level 2.

The problem is that Kamikaze, while devastating, takes 3 turns to explode. Against the Elven stack, the Hunters (9!) one shot my Vampires, like ck said, and the Human stack isn't much better.

So I think Kamikaze is a bad spell for this fight. Back to the drawing board. I'll try Evil Book next.

Human stack was pretty evil even with the demoness army since they could "heal" you for bonus damage.

In my game, I just beat the elven army which had 8 elves but only 75 fairies vs the 110+.

You need some sort of tank or a lot of continuous crowd control. Even though I have ancient vampires and necromancers, it's still somewhat tricky to get a no loss. However, I didn't get any extra useful spells. Time Shift and Hex.