Impossible, Mage - No unit loss.

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Originally Posted by Quelthos

At least up through level 20 or so damage spells are very much viable, but only if you use them in the right situations. If an army is bundled up in five stacks of large troops, geyser becomes a lot less effective than manipulative spells (for me these are slow, trap). But if an an army is in 8+ smaller stacks, it's great.

I have only faced a few stacks of black dragons to this point, none higher than 10, but my strategy against them has been to space out all but two of my units, so that the dragon will be enticed for double damage, and lay a trap in front of those units. Then during the turn I rearrange my troops again and lay down a second trap spell. Meanwhile my range/no retaliation non magic users lay into them.

Just as it is important to reshuffle your army in impossible modes, it's important to change up your spell tactics.

I maxed int and got close to 40 while having 200 mana (hi low def, att and leadership) and it let me use the geysir spam until level 24-25.


Update: Im not clearing out demonis with the help of my new wife Xiona and the poison dagger + the whip. I thought this would be a downgrade, but my lake fairies hit for 11000 now. So even tho I lost alot of int and mana, I now basically only use slow and mass magic shackels to win. Its highly viable vs anything except black dragons. And it seems like the strategy Ill use until the end.

(There is a red dragon army walking around here with no less then 52 red dragons in it. It hurts me and wants to say hi to everyone on the forum)