mage - impossible - necromancer island1 strategies?

[ckdamascus]

Originally Posted by namad

maybe i should try hard, i like playing how I feel like, I like sometimes have non-optimal armies, trying out new units... but normal is just too easy... impossible is a bit of a "puzzle" wherein you have to find like quite narrow solutions? eh?

You can sort of say that. A lot of "Impossible No-Loss" players have a lot of experience with a lot of tricks and optimizations.

I also usually save a LOT of games including before I spend ANY runes at all since your early choices there can make or break you. Since the save game pregenerates all the items, it pays to have at least your original starting game in case you want to replay it for optimal speed/fun.

Anyway, I'm more pragmatic about the No-Loss thing. Originally, no-loss in Impossible was necessary to have the moneys to buy all the items (to destroy into crystals to get a good set of spells or for certain Hireling/Companions), and because units were limited and gold was sparse.

You were extremely limited.

Now, there is a bit more flexibility since gold is much easier to find and some recruits are more readily available.