No loss. . . how ?

[RaulIgnat]

Im trying to do my first impossible run, with no losses but i do have some difficulties. Im still on the first island clearing undeads for whips but i cant do 2 of those without loosing troops. They use poison spell and ghost blade, 120 dmg is more then most of my troops can take or a soothsayer can heal.
Im playing a mage and dont have any spells that can help yet.
Are there any tricks to get past this ?

[Razorflame]

tips for soothsayer

is

order level 3(heal for damaing the undead and healing yourself
or rune magic level 3(using the winter circle to kill alot)


other than that to not let him cast damaging spells are this
using call of nature scrolls so he cast it on them instead of your real units
try using different unit combinations
LIke splitting soothsayers(the unit) with axethrowers and beserkers

or using slingers to he will cast sheep/fear/doom on them

IIRC a soothsayer can survive a ghost blade/poison skull from the black knight

but not from the necromancer

[RaulIgnat]

My problem is that i cant get past first island without loosing troops , and i got no spells to help me. no natures call and no units (except soothsayers) that can survive 120\125 dmg spells

[Razorflame]

Originally Posted by RaulIgnat

My problem is that i cant get past first island without loosing troops , and i got no spells to help me. no natures call and no units (except soothsayers) that can survive 120\125 dmg spells

try to restart the game

and just look at the difficulty of them

(troop strenght in Leadership)

sometimes the fights are indeed impossible cause of the high leadership

but sometimes they have low leadership and u can steamroll them

and as soothsayer make sure u get nature scroll ( i think winter's circle is fixed and so is healing IIRC)

[ckdamascus]

tiberiu is right. Losing some slingers isn't a big deal. Losing a core level 5 unit that is hard to find is another story.

Also, I'd personally restart until you can get Call of Nature. It helps minimize losses a bit.

[sethmage]

i restarted multiple times for my mage, when i got nature call i missed heal and vice verse, it depends on luck A LOT, my warrior first roll i had like +4 int in the shops (belt, staff, artifact) man why couldn't have that on my spell-caster. sometimes i think this game just teasing me, i need to open the pc and get rid off these unfriendly gremlins inside.

[tiberiu]

Originally Posted by RaulIgnat

Im trying to do my first impossible run, with no losses but i do have some difficulties. Im still on the first island clearing undeads for whips but i cant do 2 of those without loosing troops. They use poison spell and ghost blade, 120 dmg is more then most of my troops can take or a soothsayer can heal.
Im playing a mage and dont have any spells that can help yet.
Are there any tricks to get past this ?

There is a way to solve all of this.

Just play the game.

It's ok to have losses, sometimes you just can't stop them. If the enemy casts ghost blade and your units die, you just couldn't do anything.

Of course, reloading and replaying the same battle 1548 times would solve the problem of losing units eventually, but such a loss of time and energy is hardly recommendable.

[Loopy]

CP from other thread:

Originally Posted by Loopy

More important is to check that the two hard enemy heroes (ahriman and his necromancer boss) don't have uber huge forces. Their max size is 2x as large or more than their minimum size, if either of them spawns at max size then you can't no-loss the island, period. If both of them spawn small it isn't all that difficult at all. You'll need to use a scanner to see the second one though.

I was bashing my head against Ahriman for a while until I figured out I had a spawn that was just insane. Restarted and easily beat him in just a few tries since he was so much weaker the second time.