No loss without kiting - advice plz

[mare911]

I started impossible warrior game and I am trying to achieve no loss without kiting (because with kiting i felt like cheater in my previous no loss game).
As you know in 1st 30% of game you dont have access to useful spells (i dont even have a trap spell, KBscanner says that 1st is in some shop in Verona), and i am pretty much restricted to low lvl units.
Currently I have few archmages (just for utility spells), griffins, inquisitors, royal snakes and bowmans/bears. 2300 leadership, almost no items (just few +1's) and money.
At this point i am in tight situation - often my inquisitors dont have enough ress power for all lost units or 2 or 3 stacks are damaged so i cant restore them all.

Is anyone tried no loss/no kiting before? Any advice will be appreciated

[loreangelicus]

2,300 leadership, so you must be at your 3rd-4th island. Get Droids (3 stacks, 2 repair droids, 1 guard droids) and Cyclops from Bolo; Archmages or Royal Thorns (from Debir or Verona) at the 5th slot. In short, stick to the highest hit point units that you can lay your hands on. At that early stage, your units should either self-resurrect (droids) or be tough enough to take on damage without casualties (Cyclop, Royal Thorns, Archmage with magic shield).

No Call Colossus from digging chests? 2,000 leadership gives you a red dragon, 2,500 a black dragon, which would make the early islands a LOT easier for a warrior on impossible.

[mare911]

You are right, i have taken all powerups on 1st 4 islands (except maps ofc).

I tried your advice and bought 2 stacks of repair droids so far (i dont have money for guard droids and cyclops yet) replacing bears and griffins.
I won 2 fights using droids as self repairing tanks, we will see how its going when i manage to save up for cyclops

[karabaja]

Originally Posted by loreangelicus

2,300 leadership, so you must be at your 3rd-4th island. Get Droids (3 stacks, 2 repair droids, 1 guard droids) and Cyclops from Bolo; Archmages or Royal Thorns (from Debir or Verona) at the 5th slot. In short, stick to the highest hit point units that you can lay your hands on. At that early stage, your units should either self-resurrect (droids) or be tough enough to take on damage without casualties (Cyclop, Royal Thorns, Archmage with magic shield).

i would just add that in early game, when fighting against enemy heroes he removes royal thorns out of equation, because they intend to cast flame arrow on your thorns repeatedly, so no loss is very hard to achieve. against armies with no heroes they are great choice.

[Heroe]

why you guys always emphasize the no loss gameplay? Does the game becomes not interesting if you loose a couple of units in each battle? Whats the big deal???

[loreangelicus]

Originally Posted by Heroe

why you guys always emphasize the no loss gameplay? Does the game becomes not interesting if you loose a couple of units in each battle? Whats the big deal???

To each his own I guess. But you have to admit that it is quite beneficial not to lose any units since:

1) you get to save money to spend on other units and items

2) you get to achieve the no-loss medal quicker

On impossible the advantage of no-loss is even more evident, especially if you are going for a quick game as well (around 7 days) since you really don't have time to be running around replenishing your troop stacks even if you did have money to spend.

[Zechnophobe]

So, assuming 'kiting' means to actually pull immobile troops away from maps, and not like, running around an island grabbing loot willy - nilly:

Royal thorns are great, as are Inquisitors and paladins. This probably isn't news to you. Most of my early game will be something like:

Bowmen,
Royal Snakes
Paladins
Inquisitors
Royal Thorns

Depending on how things go. Your best friend is, as usual, the EGD on Rusty Anchor. A lot of the strategy you will employ is based, however, on the spells and items you have early on. Target? Super helpful. Blind or PHantom? Also quite powerful.

Also, be very careful with how you level up your dragon. You may be able to use Mystic Egg + Ball lightning to win some pretty stupid battles against all melee forces. (Egg summons troops, troops that die and deal damage to generate rage, rage you use to summon more eggs).