Yeah ancient amulet is very important for a mage and whould help a lot but i am not gonna restart the game unless i will be stuck completly and so far i always find the way to overcome problems. at the tower i got only that stupid 88k ring but i see its bad morale so i do not bother to take such thing

Yea I know that. What I meant was that items are pre-generated at game creation. So saving before I go debnir (where you talked to your father) and reload produced same items. In that case, I'll rather save at just before training.

Yea that ring was indeed silly. I think I got it as a reward in the chest under the cuttlefish cave after a battle with the zombie army in my first play through.

well this cuttlefish cave provides pretty decent items as i see. i got vampric sword there and drum increasing morale. And on nameless i got nice items for UD .. if i hav chosen undead to play i have really good items .. but i cant imagine no losses with undead army ... grate bonuss but decreases morale of humans and i use paladins and inquis ..

To return to the topic. I'll see where the game will take me. Right now I'm lvl 22, 80 no-loss battles on impossible. I did the stealth tactic all the way to reha and it paid off. So far the best enemies I see are "strong" on verona. Things will change, but with any luck, I think I can get a pretty decent amount of battles without losses.

Wow, that is really amazing. I am finding it difficult to bypass all the dang patrolling troops, never mind snatching the maps. =)

yeah .. i have gave up sneaking on rusty anchor and i regret it now. I see i can get to shettera like that and maybe there i will find next map. Next time i will play will definetly do full sneaking first.

Is it possible to sneak past the map guard in scarlet wind? The one where there is a cul-de-sac in a circular open area? The one guarding the map is an assasin stack. I can get their attention by they stop moving after only a very short distance and stands there before turning back.

I have never sneaked there myself, i got rusty anchor on bolo, and after that the guardian for verona map on scarlet islands was easy to defeat but i guess it is possible since stealing maps from rusty anchor is really hard ...

Well, it takes some skill to do it, as well as a few attempts. I must tell you that my map stealing quest took my over 6 hours real time, because of all that saving and loading.

As for the no-loss thingy, I wouldn't be very presumptuous right now. So far the game is easy thanks to the extra levels, but I haven't found even 1 leadership-boosting item, which I imagine will cause a serious problem later on. My previous playthroughs with the warrior and the paladin on impossible have clearly shown that especially during the castle sieges, boss fights and such, it is very hard to survive without casualties.

Nevertheless, I'll try it and see how for I can go.