Time tips

[McSwan]

I meant before Freedom isles.. oops

Yep, I wanted to play the perfect game, fastest game smallest losses.

I needed mana spring to make that dream a reality, which I didn't get .

I like trying to play with 0 losses, in fact I started playing the game on impossible with 0 losses, so this is first time I've ever played it where I've accepted taking losses to attempt to get a high score.

It's a lot easier game when you can send your troops to there death willy-nilly. I think cursed ghosts make it easier to beat with 0 units lost, as with proper management you don't need to live in fear of them dying and not being able to res em.

Anyway, up to freedom isles and I headed straight for kraken quest doing all quests along the way.

In Darion I had shooting units and swapped horsemen/royal snakes.

[Vilk]

Lol, shooting units, can't you be more specific?

[McSwan]

Royal thorns, inquis, druids, arch mages mainly, sometimes I swapped in archers.

On a 0 loss game you can't get more royal thorns easily. So I swapped them out pretty soon until I could get more.

Tried using ghosts at start but didn't have enough of them for them to replicate.

[Vilk]

Woo there was druids in Darion, perhaps in druid shop? That is an original choice, eventually I have some in my current game but didn't notice because that's a troop I didn't found useful, but I can be wrong.

Yes Royal Thorn are a problem if you don't have sacrifice. I didn't used them often but in some special fights (kraken, giant spider, karador) because either I get them too late and their fire weakness and low initiative is then a pain, either not find them easy to use because of sacrifice.

Myself I'm using in Darion Ancient Bear, Archmage, Inq, Priest in almost all fights. And with that base, Cursed Ghost or Alchemist, and in last part of Darion I added Royal Snake 5th choice. But well in few fights like with Tiberus I regret not have a non magical long range, like to easily kill the evil books.

EDIT: I forget, at beginning I was also using Horsemen, until the pack was too low for my Leadership.

[McSwan]

Sorry, I meant priests not druids

Ancient bears would've been good if I had magic spring.

Lol, tried starting again, with mage, tried to get the perfect game. Kept restarting, and failing.

Do you have a starting save game with royal thorns, sac, gift, magic spring, (in Darion) with nice items at the start?

[Vilk]

Originally Posted by McSwan

Do you have a starting save game with royal thorns, sac, gift, magic spring, (in Darion) with nice items at the start?

That's second time you ask. I already answered, nope. Is this the warrior game you get?

[McSwan]

In my warrior game I miss out on magic spring. It isn't in freedom isles either.

My paladin had no sacrifice, and it wasn't in freedom isles.

Probably easiest to score that combo on a mage because they get magic spring from the turtle, where as warriors don't get it. Paladins could probably do it without gift.

With that combo I think I could beat the time, and have no losses, which I think would be the ultimate game.