Tactics and strategies discussion thread

[blueshrike]

Originally Posted by DGDobrev

EDIT: Well, that was interesting I spent the last 6 hours on a new mage hero, doing thieving sprees for maps and quests, and no battles whatsoever. I wasted over 4 days (now it's day 5, 8AM), but here's what I got:
All maps opened up but umkas, nameless and montero

It is extremely irritating to get some of the maps, but in the end, it pays off.
Drawback: it takes quite a while to kite away the map guards. It also takes a ton of nerves to evade the enemy armies.

Map Kiting - Could you maybe post in the Info Thread your strategies for this? On Scarlet Wind I was able to kite away one map guard (a pack of wolves) just off the main path near the castle. Other than that I've tried several times with a few enemies and they move just a smidge then go back up to the map. Occasionally I'll get them to follow me for more than that, but this happens infrequently and ends up with me getting caught or running away too quickly, then they turn back.

Have tried the inch up, inch down technique which causes them to spastically follow for a brief instant then turn around, then spin around again... but don't seem to be making progress.

Therefore I've just opened up Dersu from Verona the hard way (lost most of my troops in a pretty epic battle with lots of Royal Thorns + others, but survived.

But I'm level 17 I believe and am doing things (with the Mage) the hard way... unlucky with finding enough paladins now to fill up my leadership which is about 4.2k.

Thanks!