Archdemons anyone?

[Gatts]

I have played with Demon army, liked archdemons a lot, just I had to watch them not to die... replenishing them is an issue - teleport is the megabonus... and their nearly fire imunity is handy when you fight enemies that like using armageddon.

Demons are fine as they give large variety of tactic combinations - it just take much more brain effort to use it only for good benefit - for me it was much easier to use shooters in first half of game and life steelers in the secon half of game.

When I first played with demon only army - I realized they have not few weaknesses - they fire resistance is not high enough to make usage of armagedon, but their lack of other resistances make them vulnarable in normal battles - They miss archers, they skills are used up in first few rounds and do not replenish - so longer fights are tricky.

If you are good enough to know the AI of your enemy - it looks much more easy for me to use regular army, where ressurection works.

I found Archdemons nearly always till now (not that always I looked for them - so I could missed them but I didn't realize that) But normally I found them even out of the demon lands... if nowhere else than in labyrinth... Still don't worry, if you have a weakness for the sado-maso girl from hell and you like the hell army -> you will do fine w/o archdemons - all what I really missed was "running" ability for cerberus - would love it

[travcm]

gatts: fire resistance does not come into play with Armageddon. It deals astral damage.

[Calinda]

You can replenish them using sacrifice. With 15 intellect, Sacrifice III and the dragon cloak you can get 2 with 1 cast even.

[Gatts]

Hmm - good to know... armageddon with astral damage (and I didn't use it when I fought demons or dragons as I thought is pure fire damage)
also sacrifice works on dragons... cool... I would bet I had INT above 15... but no matter now I will try harder, maybe I was just too easy discouraged and stopped trying it....

[Handel]

They are random as almost any other unit. I found them when just running and exploring the demon realm. Got even to the Baal's castle and he teleported me to the center of the realm.

BTW (kind of spoilerish)...







In one of the quests you can choose which kind of troops you will be fighting against in another quest later.
A demon "recruiter" asks for an advice - which kind of mercenaries to choose for battles in the iceland. Guess who you will be fighting later

[Lari]

The randomness of this game is kinda sick, it may happen that u don't find a troop at all, while sometimes u find it just everywhere. But i think it also make the game funnier to play, cause you have to play with what u got, so every game is different. I just wished that, if any item of any set was spawned, the entire set was spawned; Kinda frustrating that i had never completed the knight' set in any of my games...
btw, about the archdemon/demon ... i think it's a question of use/type-of-battle more that troop itself. IMO demons are just stronger, with more efficient dmg output, and better overall abilities, and for normal encounters they are just too good; but against a hero, especially one with dragons, i will use archdemons, cause they can tank so good with high def/att stats and resistances, and most of all, cause being a level 5 unit they are almost untargettable by spells, and also they will just get rid of any effect in one turn. i HATE too see my hundred fiery daemons become little defenseless sheep! it doesn't hurt to use them both anyway

[Metathron]

Originally Posted by Handel

In one of the quests you can choose which kind of troops you will be fighting against in another quest later.
A demon "recruiter" asks for an advice - which kind of mercenaries to choose for battles in the iceland. Guess who you will be fighting later

Wait, I was wondering about what the point was there...So where exactly do you get to fight the kind of units you chose?

[Gatts]

Originally Posted by Metathron

Wait, I was wondering about what the point was there...So where exactly do you get to fight the kind of units you chose?

After you return back to the Dwaren King Castle - it will be under siege and you will fight exactly the type of units you choosen in Demonis in this "quest" - I mostly select humans... but it is just question of strategy taste