Cruel Haas once again

[Boozie]

Beat Haas last night and then it crashed when I ported off the turtle. Will finish it up again tonight probably. I think I went overkill with how prepared I was when I came back, it just felt like my units were getting outdamaged flat out so I went with almost a complete counter-comp:

Archdemon - Fire immune
Demon - Reduced fire damage
Knight - Dragon Slayer (holy crap these guys tore it up, no circle attack needed)

Emerald Green Dragon - I like them due to no retaliation and the mana back, but they weren't necessary by any means as my mana was spent dispelling almost the whole time.

Royal Snake - I milked these guys all game long so I just kept them along for the ride. Very potent with the wife, gotta love no retaliation.

I also made sure to get Rahha's Shield and the Dragon Slayer sword.

I went from losing the fight to a joke of a fight. Could have done no losses pretty easily if I wanted to spend the time, but I didn't do it the rest of the game so no point bothering.

I was only level 25 with about 19000 leadership as a pally. (normal mode is probably why)

Off to try AP once I figure out which class I want to roll.

[Vomaxx]

I finished the game today with a warrior; my first time at Impossible level. The odd thing about the end was that the fight with Bagud, the orc, was very difficult, but against Haas things went well. Bagud made very good use of teleportation which (owing to a teensy positioning error on my part) nullfied all my skelton archers--in fact all 2000+ were destroyed without ever firing a shot, as he teleported in more units as I teleported the archers elsewhere. (However, by moving his main units like that he put them in the midst of my army, and so he did lose.) I did not take any archers to meet Haas: I had knights, horsemen, shamans, ancient vampires, and swamp snakes (yes, swamp snakes: there weren't enough royal snakes left in the game and I had Feanora, the snake boots, and the snake ring.) Haas had 145 dragons (28 black (14/14), 47 red (15/15/17), 21 green, 49 bone (26/23) and 38 Archdemons (19/19). But Haas did not cast spells cleverly--he used things like pygmy and hypnosis (easily cancelled by dispel); he was annihilated in about six turns with moderate losses for my troops. Knights, the dragon sword, the dragon slayer spell, and fighting at night with the Miner's Helmet, the cloak of shadows, and the vampire ring really helped--I deliberately waited for night

It is interesting how different players find different battles the hardest. I think mine, in this game, was at Castle Nexy. I hate demonesses.

[Vulture]

Originally Posted by Vomaxx

I hate demonesses.

I like Mass Magic Shackles. What do demonesses do then ? :>

[Vomaxx]

I like mass M.S. too. Unfortunately I never got enough crystals to get to the 3rd level with this spell.

[badsector]

Any tips for a mage character with the following setup :
Level - 30; Attack - 13; Defense - 15; Intellect - 25; Leadership - 21162; Tolerance 1/2, Mana - 155, wife Feanora. Haas has 1 stack with 9 black dragons, 1 stack with 10 red dragons, two stacks with 13 and 10 green dragons, two stacks each with 16 bone dragons, two stacks each with 18 ogres, one stack with 10 giants, and one stack with 10 archdemons. One of the big problems is that I don't have ressurection spell generated in my game. That's why I must keep inquisitors in the army. So far I tried with demons, lake fairies, sprites, skeleton archers and inquisitors. Funny skelies do less damage to black dragons with dragon arrow than with a normal one, against other units there is no such problem. I can't figure what I'm doing wrong. There were some difficult battles in the game but I managed to win all of them with no losses. This time my army gets totally wiped in several rounds. What's worse Haas army doesn't go after a specific unit but attacks all of my troops. What should I do, besides cursing and breaking stuff

[MCMihu]

I just think you have way too low intelect for that level as a mage.Just a thought.