A good army to beat Karador on impossible with a paladin?

[DGDobrev]

I gave you the tactic, iregev

The lineup I used is enough to beat him on impossible without losses, provided you ress (or use time back when their numbers dwindle too much) your scapegoat priests as soon as they die, so that Karador doesn't ress them as undead, in which case they will count as lost.

Also, in my eyes, priests are better than archers for that battle, because they do extra damage to undead, which dramatically improves their damage, which is very important on higher difficulties.

[iregev]

Yes you did DGDobrev and more but:
I want to finish impossible with no losses on all 3 classes but struggling with the paladin (this my 2nd rerun in paladin in that battle and no avail - either no artifacts no skills or just pure strategy)
Funny how the mage can finish this battle in 2 minutes with red dragons (tripple armagedon and Necro call is too easy)
I was wondering if you have a same game from your fight against him - would love to see what skills you took and what equipement you have

The thing is I don;t have a problem with any other fight in the game - this one is a tough pickle for me

[DGDobrev]

Hmm, sadly, I don't. I have the REALLY bad habbit of saving everything onto 1 or 2 save game slots (+ the extra quicksaves), which are pretty close to the finish of the game, maybe just after I used the tactics treatise exploit I was talking about in the other threads and hit lvl 31. If that will suffice, I can attach it.

EDIT: Or was it just before I did the treatise bug... I'm not sure

EDIT 2: Actually, I can save you the trouble of loading a save game. It was just before I used the treatise bug and finished the game. This is how my char looked like at that point:

[iregev]

Korador died last night after 8 turns of chaging blows and 31 turns of resurction to no losses.....
Priests, Inquistor, horseman and archmage - all with +2 morale from the item + sword of light (insane Vs undead) + sword that adds 30% to attack Vs undead
The 5th unit was sprites which was probably wrong match for the battle - knights would have been better.

DGDobrev - Priests are so great for this battle !!! especially with morale, even though he cast fear on them they just shot the skellies and spiders down. + 2 morale is huge.

Demonis - here I come....

[DGDobrev]

That was the basic idea for picking both Priests and Inquisitors. On impossible, karador's skel archer stack may go as far as 2000, and it's imperative to bring their numbers down before they start dropping your stacks like crazy.

You are lucky to have the sword of light. It is indeed a great item in this battle

[Vilk]

For a quote +2 morale brings:

• +20% of base attack/defense of unit, that's not that much for a low level unit like priest but it's still a good gain when effects are multiplied by 2 against undead.
• It increase the critical chance of unit of 50% (ie for a priest the base chance is 5% without rage bonus, it becomes 7.5% without rage bonus. But that base chance includes items improving critical chance).

Also another quote, even 2000 Skeleton archer will do ridiculous damages to Cursed Ghost with Stone Skin level 3 and Archmage shield. But this isn't useful in this battle because of that two Necormancers stacks that are hard to close contact both.

[Vilk]

Originally Posted by iregev

Korador died last night after 8 turns of chaging blows...

Rather impressive, is Karador don't cast any more spells if you killed all and none can be call from death?

[iregev]

I killed all his units by turn 8 and left the crystal for later - He actually had 26 mana with no units to spare so he couldn't cast anymore.

[Vilk]

It's a point I never quote in this battle.

So if I understand what you mean is if there is no more enemy then the crystal doesn't use Necro call and Karador anyway never use this spell but will also won't use any other like hypnotize because it has no more units?

EDIT: And I don't understand how you managed Necro call, could you explain a little?

EDIT2: The last time I played this battle, for some reason one Karador stack I had killed and Necro Call myself then killed by Karador unit didn't get Necro call by the crystal. Is there special rules about Necro call from the crystal?