tips on no casualty run on impossible difficulty

[newfan]

Originally Posted by bucazaurus

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Warrior on impossible.
Dwarf king's son castle

Tactic used : Invisibility lvl 1 on Ancient Vampire and Cloud of poison on enemy.
Combat ended in turn 31 with no losses.

Sometimes you get lucky with enemy's army composition,like in this case.

Wow, someone with the same idea! But do you mean Poisonous Cloud (the spell)? and how did you manage no casualties with that low numbers of bats, plus lost of mana from invisibility and poison spell? I was thinking of using ancient bats (for dark commander) too but isn't initiative a problem for this battle?

I've never beaten the game before-kept re-running to demonis and thinking of better tactics-but I find demoness are better for this tactic. I was just able to beat Dwarf King's son at lvl 10. This was only my 2nd battle and Spirits are quite weak but was able to do so. How are you doing later in the game? I've never been beyond this point and am worried there are few units to charm later in the game (i.e. dragons).

Regarding the resurrection spell, I've never found any resurrection spell in a chest - I've found them as scrolls laying around but only twice throughout maybe 5 play-throughs to Demonis (barbarian island on Freedom island as Mage and the other in the cemetery as Warrior). I noticed, if you are a Mage, in the tomb where you find the chronicle scrolls quest there a buried chest that gives strong spells. Maybe you can find resurrection in it. Though I think the spell is overrated for not casualties on impossible.

[bucazaurus]

Cloud of poison from Sleem .Ancient Vampire bat form has high enough initiative to go first in combat .With wife Rina has +1 bonus .Invisibility lvl 1 cost 10 mana and stays 2 rounds.
So you cast Invisibility then use Cloud of poison and go Defend mode in first round. In second round you Wait. At the end of second round you Attack.
Then repeat.By the time you run out of mana and rage there wont be any more troops left. Just try to get Cloud of poison as high as you can before attacking the castle.

[newfan]

Originally Posted by bucazaurus

Cloud of poison from Sleem .Ancient Vampire bat form has high enough initiative to go first in combat .With wife Rina has +1 bonus .Invisibility lvl 1 cost 10 mana and stays 2 rounds.
So you cast Invisibility then use Cloud of poison and go Defend mode in first round. In second round you Wait. At the end of second round you Attack.
Then repeat.By the time you run out of mana and rage there wont be any more troops left. Just try to get Cloud of poison as high as you can before attacking the castle.

Cloud of poison is a great idea since the enemies don't move around much. I noticed that I am depending heavily on rage to win battles against stacks twice the leadership of my demoness charm ability. I wonder how you manage to keep your rage so high without being attack. I'm thinking to switching to dryad stack for thorns (take damage and build up rage) + dryads have no retaliation but they are more of a defensive than offensive unit. Another dilemma that i need to solve are enemy thorn units who can detect invisible (very large stacks on elven islands).

I am very much in need of demon weapon Demetrius. I ran to all the shops available in demon world and elf and no luck... Does anyone know where I can find the weapon?

[Razorflame]

items are random so as the units u get each time u start a new game

[loreangelicus]

Originally Posted by newfan

I am very much in need of demon weapon Demetrius. I ran to all the shops available in demon world and elf and no luck... Does anyone know where I can find the weapon?

Items are random, but I guess you already know that. I got mine at Islands of Freedom, sold by a minor pirate shop, but you've swept that area already.

[newfan]

Thanks for the replies. Apparently the demon guy from Isshara's (spelling) quest sells the item after the mission... (and gives you her whip too!) He had the Demetrius weapon for sell - a little too late now that I've switch to dryads...

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but does anyone understand the nature of pain mirror spell? I've been utilizing it to take down high stack or lvl 5 (high defense) using my summon thorns. From my experience, it doesn't seem to return damage based on the original dealt but returns damage in terms of hp lost and even includes enemies' armor.

My situation (final round of tournament) - stack of 11 dragons (red, blacks are immune to pain mirror) did 10k damage on stack of 700 thorn warriors (8 hp). Pain mirror returns only ~6k in damage, still quite good since that killed around 8 dragons for 10mana, but 700 thorns at 8 hp that's 5600 damage + 180% should be 10k... so why only 6k? Anyways, just a suggestion.

[bucazaurus]

If the hit was critical damage the game will ignore the extra damage and only return the base damage instead. Also the extra damage made to glot armor will be ignored.
In your case since the dragons have fire damag and thorns are vulnerable to fire , the game ignored thorn's penalty to fire and returned the base damage.
10k halved is 5k and since the pain mirror returns more then 100% you end up with 6k