Managing stacks without Resurrect, Sacrifice, Gift, Hypnotize

[DGDobrev]

Well, with those more than enough money you get from the raiding, with any luck you will get at least one of the spells. You have a lot of areas to look for them. Greenwort has 3 (castle, temple, mage tower), velarion has 3 (2 castles, mage tower), and there are many other buildings where spells are sold. In my eyes, healing is a great spell in the beginning. That's what's been keeping my horsemen alive even with 1 ressurrection from the inquisitors. Shield from archmages and heal. Unless the enemy stack is way too powerful (like those 678 peasants eghirra had in a stack) you will never lose even 1 tank.

[Vilk]

Totally agree with you about healing and horsemen. But now at level 6 healing is starting not be a good choice most often and I haven't enough horsemen to fill the stack.

Yes I should try use again the Archmage for the Shield and eventually continue use a little Horsemen.

About spells, with fake try, between 15/20, I got 3 times Gift and 3 times Sacrifice but never both at same time. I got Hypnotize once, never Resurrection. Too few attempts to be sure of anything but I found the 3 Gift in the Cemetery, 2 times on ground and once in the temple. I found the 3 Sacrifice in one of the 2 witch shops in swamp. I found the Hypnotize in the Magic Academy but I'm not fully sure for this one. I didn't explored any crypts and not often undergrounds.

In my current game I haven't explored fully the cemetery so I could have a good chance to still get Gift. I already fully explored the swamp so no luck for sacrifice that soon.

[Vilk]

Weird I forgot do the will test in the magic school, with a mage you can do it very soon and even with any character. After the test the magic school provides quite more spells to buy, and in my game there was Gift!

I regret the sacrifice that could allow increase my horsemen stack but Gift is clearly much more useful.

[Inso]

I have the same sort of problem, where I am starting to feel stupid.... When I read the no losses games on the board, and quick games. And I have issues beating the opponents without too many losses(of units I can't replace like Inqi's or archmages).

The first 8 lvl's aren't much of a problem, but now I went to the islands, and I have serious troubles beating the opponents(usually too many losses). I don't have gift/sacrifice/phantom/resurrect, my leadership allows me about 50 inqi's (@ lvl 10)but only got to buy 25(lost one, so now at 24, which becomes a burden because resurrect is not doing too much anymore). No really good tanks to take some beating and allowing for heals(had 3 knights, but they are slow, and 3/25 max stack is not really helpful, nor is 8/25 horsemen. Must say I have plenty of royal snakes though! 4 shops with large stacks of them(can literally buy 1000's of them....)

Also the best item I could buy so far is +1 to haste and slow spells, but no really nice offensive items(using the starting +1 weapon still). Am I being very unfortunate or just playing crap(at impossible mode btw).

Think I am going to give it a bit more try...(where can I buy the first cyclop btw? would give me sacrifice(questreward)).

[DGDobrev]

well, generally the first place that cyclops can appear as a recruitable unit is in the mines, which is a long way away from your current position in the game...

I can tell you this though. Never start a game where you are underpowered, with bad artifacts and spells unless you are willingly seeking a challenge, especially on impossible. You can get all you need in a game, but you need to be downright lucky. You may be hard pressed to compromise. I did reroll my paladin on impossible, but this time I did it right. I replayed the academy test a few times till I got off to a good start. By that I mean 2 good artifacts (+4 atk and +4 int for 50k each, giving 10 might/magic runes after 50 victories), a shield for 300 leadership, a belt for 150 leadership, +100 leadership regalia and a helm with +4 def, along with a nice big stack of knights (17, I found 4 more in the tavern in the swamps) in the horsemen camp. Although I'm lacking sacrifice, gift and magic spring spells, I'm positive they'll turn out somewhere. I also have only 26 inquisitors and only 8 horsemen, but let's hope I'll get more somewhere, or the sacrifice spell will come up sooner.

That I consider a good start of the game

[Vilk]

Originally Posted by Inso

I have the same sort of problem, where I am starting to feel stupid.... When I read the no losses games on the board, and quick games. And I have issues beating the opponents without too many losses(of units I can't replace like Inqi's or archmages).

The first 8 lvl's aren't much of a problem, but now I went to the islands, and I have serious troubles beating the opponents(usually too many losses). I don't have gift/sacrifice/phantom/resurrect, my leadership allows me about 50 inqi's (@ lvl 10)but only got to buy 25(lost one, so now at 24, which becomes a burden because resurrect is not doing too much anymore). No really good tanks to take some beating and allowing for heals(had 3 knights, but they are slow, and 3/25 max stack is not really helpful, nor is 8/25 horsemen. Must say I have plenty of royal snakes though! 4 shops with large stacks of them(can literally buy 1000's of them....)

Also the best item I could buy so far is +1 to haste and slow spells, but no really nice offensive items(using the starting +1 weapon still). Am I being very unfortunate or just playing crap(at impossible mode btw).

Think I am going to give it a bit more try...(where can I buy the first cyclop btw? would give me sacrifice(questreward)).

Well I didn't named well this thread, the original question was when trying to do a record. For first plays I don't advise to do it. The no losses game is an extreme approach, not for first plays. And well why try impossible mode for your first plays? The normal difficulty is quite interesting too.

I don't think the sacrifice spell is non random reward of any quest. But really you don't need it, try first the normal mode.

[Razorflame]

i never did try on normal always on impossible

and you can easily finish darion and islands WITHOUT gift/resussurection/HYPNOTIZE/sacrifice

make proper use of your UNITS
steamroll mode should be on easy :>

read my thread about last hero on how to do :>

[Vilk]

I never wrote it's not possible it's just a time problem. In fact time care changes more the game than the difficulty level. I would not advise start this game at impossible, the game is quite fun at normal setup anyway.