How to kill Baal; mage on impossible

[jake21]

Ok. I'm playing mage on impossible and Baal does not want to die. Current troops are paladin, blackknight, knights, royal, horseman. I attempt to move the blackknight to the front so they can attack baal as often as possible on the right side (sword is on left side). Once I get baal about 1/2 dead he begins to summon new troops every other round and i can barely touch him.I'm thinking I should keep the knights but change other troups into some sort of range attack but not sure what would work effective here. For spells I cast stoneskin on the black knight only and then attemp to use damage spells on baal (mostly poison skull or pole axe; but occasionally a death star.

[travelingoz]

I just used the Black Knights by themselves. Lots of buffs and phantom, etc.

[jake21]

Hum.. well not working for me; what sort of damage does baal sword do ?

So that last time I tried I got to turn 33 when baal summone stakcs for 30 arch demons. Ouch. I think the problem is that I'm taking too long to kill hiim

[fable]

I also couldn't kill it fast, my solution was to scale up with the increasing stacks of demons. With Frenzy 3 you get higher and higher attack. Only bring units you can keep at full stack: paladins, black knights, ghosts (!), vampires. A neat trick against big stack of archdemons, when they halve your stacks, is pain mirror, then turn back time.

[jake21]

I can't turn back time; the spell didn't pop for me

Originally Posted by fable

I also couldn't kill it fast, my solution was to scale up with the increasing stacks of demons. With Frenzy 3 you get higher and higher attack. Only bring units you can keep at full stack: paladins, black knights, ghosts (!), vampires. A neat trick against big stack of archdemons, when they halve your stacks, is pain mirror, then turn back time.

[KongMysen]

With frenzy 3 on a solo stack BK with the splinter cell, even a mage can kill most stacks with just one or two retaliation strikes on each stack. Once the attack stat reaches 100+ that is.

By waiting, you can usually get a chance to slip in and hit Baal even though there are lots of enemy summons. I never feared a loss in my mage game even though there where tons of summons at a time. Evlin, Stone Skin and Calm Rage can get the BK's at close to full strength always.
Only problem is the Arch Demons but Turn Back Time solved this issue for me. Without Turn Back Time, you have to rely on 2xEvlin but it should work almost as well.

I'm not sure why you can't kill fast enough? Maybe you're not wearing the undead leadership items or the Splinter? Or you didn't put points in Frenzy? Either way, try to search the forum for other posts regarding Baal. I think DGDobrev mentioned some way of provoking Baal to do his normal attack instead of the summon.

[ivra]

@jake21:
I had the same problem. With my standard lineup (paladins, inquisitors, archmages, trolls and emerald green dragons) I had no problem killing normal stacks or heroes. The only problem was Black Dragons and the fight against K'Tahu and Baal. I managed to kill Zilgadis using my standard lineup. The reason black dragons was a problem was that I never found Death Star in this game. So I had to kill them with Traps, my units, and a low level fiery phantoms.

I had a scroll of Call of Death when I was up agains K'Tahu. And that worked well. Black Knights even without any of the undead items made that fight easy. The contrast is huge. Using my standard lineup I lost 50% of the inquisitors, archmages and almost as much of my emerald green dragons in the first round, and I had to give up. But, by using Black Knights + Stone Skin (must always be on - the second it is without stone skin the battle is lost) + Eviln + Calm Rage + Mana Spring + Turn Back Time + Damaging spells, I manged to win relatively easy. It just took some time.

When fighting Baal, Black Knights were not an option since I could not gather enough of them, and since I did not have a Call of Death scroll. So I ended up using Cursed Ghosts, and it worked! See second paragraph of the third post here:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthr...204#post150204