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Impressive to do it in seven days though. To me that seems it must be like visiting every island only once.

No, unfortunately not.

The most important thing about 7 days game is the island loop.

Yeah i said loop, that means each island is visited more than once.

But there is also an exception like bolo, everything in bolo can be finished in one go, so no need to go back there, another is umkas.

I mean, no quest in bolo require you to go to another island than back to bolo, unlike debir for example.

Yeah, the 7 day builds almost require some element of luck (not to downplay it, just saying) to get the right distribution of items or to be lucky enough for Call Colossus.

This is both 100% wrong and 100% correct.

If you don't use scanner, you need some luck in the items, especially for very high lv run.

As for the 7 days run, if you know how to do it, even without scanner, there is no need for luck.

Remember, not all things in the game is randomized.

However, there is some sacrifice, that is you're very limited in your choice, i mean most of the time you use the non randomized element of the game, certain type of units and items are not randomized.

Example? Droids for units, inquisitor sword for item, there are others, but i don't remember them quite well.

Well, you can defeat all enemies in the game with just droids, though you probably need a -leadership item for dwarf race, probably two.


The most important thing in doing 7 days run is island loop, and don't forget to scout other island as soon as you get the map.

After you get other island map, save your game, scout that island, make plan on all things (units, items, skills, spells), you often forced to change units if you don't you scanner though, so prepare your gold.

And the hardest part in doing 7 days run is actually the first 4 island, though to me it's not that hard, just very very super boring.

And about call of colosus for early game, actually in CW, it is possible to not use that, remember, you can get rune mage early, in scarlet, just try to reach 2k leadership, the island there always sell rune mage (one of the non randomized element of the game). Yep, if you don't have call of colossus, that rune mage is the earliest lv 5 unit you can possibly have.

However, it is much easier and not boring using call of colossus.

And no, you don't need luck to get call of colossus, just have lv 2 treasure searcher and be prepared to replay many of your battles to successfuly acquire 1 of that scroll.

Though i suggest to not use it after you reach 2k, instead just use droids, 1 archmage, rune mage in bolo, reach 2500 leadership there, always reachable for paladin and warrior (i don't know about mage), then get black dragon, that zag zag and ship fortress orc will be very easy, and from them you get the easy start, so much exp for early game.

Not to mention a black dragon so early in the game is very very nice.

However, the fact is you have two choice, keep using your black dragon + other units, or use another lv 5 available to you + other units, i mean for example you can switch your black dragon with giant after you reach montero.

Yes, giants will outdamage your 1 black dragon (from call of colossus), but i always choose to keep using my black dragon, the burn effect is nice, like a mass helplesness, not to mention 1 black dragon is much harder to bring down than couple of giants.

Well, the choice is up to each individual though.