Posted May 24, 2013
Never save. WHAT? HOW? WHO? You're asking those questions (okay not who)... but yeah. Never save. Take each combat with whatever result you get.
Better make good decisions :)
Better make good decisions :)
SamKuker101
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SamKuker101
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Registered: Jun 2011
From United States
Posted June 04, 2013
I played this way in vanilla impossible. Recently upgraded to insecticide... oh my god. I cannot possibly see a way to play this way in that mode, hahaha
SamKuker101
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Posted June 20, 2013
Anyone been able to do this in insecticide patch?
taltamir
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Posted June 21, 2013
Never save scum is better than never save. So you don't lose the game if something happens (crash, etc)
SamKuker101
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Posted June 24, 2013
Well I finally did this on impossible insecticide... I think I got a little lucky on RNG early game, Sss'ra seemed to be doing very little for quite some time.
However, I got the short end of RNG a couple times. Attempted a Demon Lord camp, thinking it would be 1-3 demon lords + ghouls... NOPE! Demon Lord + 4 shadow fiends, wiped my entire army + my only hero + 3 items. The shadow fiends regenerated, so I didn't even do any damage! Those bastards...
Later on I attempted a Djinn Camp and it had 5 Air Elementals which I didn't anticipate. Lost 3 heroes and a heavily enchanted army, ouch.
Then the ultimate blunder was when I let my mana hit zero and the game auto-dispeled 20 or so unit enchantments. I was so angry at myself.
Was a pretty great game, with a EPIC finish. After I picked up altar of battle, I started cranking out hammerhands like a madman. After two sorcery nodes of 8 sky drakes and one chaos node of 8 chaos drakes, Myrror was MINE!
Decided to leave Arcanus alone, so I plugged the tower points with Angels, Hammerhands and Steam Cannons and started teching to the Spell of Mastery. About 5 turns into researching it, "SHAREE IS CASTING THE SPELL OF MASTERY" ---wtfomgbbq crapcrapcrap---
Equip Jaer (oh I luv u buddy) with all the movement items I have. Form up an arch angel / hammerhand army while casting awareness. Spot that capital and ZOOM JAER takes the army there at 5 moves a turn. A bug erupts during the battle, causing Sharee's Drain Life to one shot entire stacks of units. In addition, her Berserked Death Knights are CRAZY... she kills my army!! Oh shit oh shit...
Recall hero on Jaer... omgomg ocrapocrap... Summon another arch angel, get some hammerhands and some steam cannons together... ZOOM off to the capital again. Get there in two turns and I'm ready to kill-a-B when... oh no... all my units from the last battle were animated as undead. Sharee has a Hydra, the Death Knights, AN UNDEAD ARCH ANGEL and 4x 14atk / 10def / 18res / 5hits STACKS of hammerhands.
No turning back now... in I go! First turn got prayer up and started raining steam-cannon-hell down upon his two support units. Got em both, but that made Sharee start a death march of melee units out of her capital! Jaer and I started throwing dispel evil every round while raining more cannon hell down, but damn those units were resilient.
Right as they are bearing down on my 3 melee units, my cannons cut them down enough engage with infantry. Took some loses but ended up taking the W. Afterward... "In the ruins, you find a Spell of Mastery." O.O
10 turns later... VICTORY!! Had to banish Sharee again in the interim :P
However, I got the short end of RNG a couple times. Attempted a Demon Lord camp, thinking it would be 1-3 demon lords + ghouls... NOPE! Demon Lord + 4 shadow fiends, wiped my entire army + my only hero + 3 items. The shadow fiends regenerated, so I didn't even do any damage! Those bastards...
Later on I attempted a Djinn Camp and it had 5 Air Elementals which I didn't anticipate. Lost 3 heroes and a heavily enchanted army, ouch.
Then the ultimate blunder was when I let my mana hit zero and the game auto-dispeled 20 or so unit enchantments. I was so angry at myself.
Was a pretty great game, with a EPIC finish. After I picked up altar of battle, I started cranking out hammerhands like a madman. After two sorcery nodes of 8 sky drakes and one chaos node of 8 chaos drakes, Myrror was MINE!
Decided to leave Arcanus alone, so I plugged the tower points with Angels, Hammerhands and Steam Cannons and started teching to the Spell of Mastery. About 5 turns into researching it, "SHAREE IS CASTING THE SPELL OF MASTERY" ---wtfomgbbq crapcrapcrap---
Equip Jaer (oh I luv u buddy) with all the movement items I have. Form up an arch angel / hammerhand army while casting awareness. Spot that capital and ZOOM JAER takes the army there at 5 moves a turn. A bug erupts during the battle, causing Sharee's Drain Life to one shot entire stacks of units. In addition, her Berserked Death Knights are CRAZY... she kills my army!! Oh shit oh shit...
Recall hero on Jaer... omgomg ocrapocrap... Summon another arch angel, get some hammerhands and some steam cannons together... ZOOM off to the capital again. Get there in two turns and I'm ready to kill-a-B when... oh no... all my units from the last battle were animated as undead. Sharee has a Hydra, the Death Knights, AN UNDEAD ARCH ANGEL and 4x 14atk / 10def / 18res / 5hits STACKS of hammerhands.
No turning back now... in I go! First turn got prayer up and started raining steam-cannon-hell down upon his two support units. Got em both, but that made Sharee start a death march of melee units out of her capital! Jaer and I started throwing dispel evil every round while raining more cannon hell down, but damn those units were resilient.
Right as they are bearing down on my 3 melee units, my cannons cut them down enough engage with infantry. Took some loses but ended up taking the W. Afterward... "In the ruins, you find a Spell of Mastery." O.O
10 turns later... VICTORY!! Had to banish Sharee again in the interim :P
Post edited June 24, 2013 by SamKuker101
TwoHandedSword
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Posted June 25, 2013
Out of curiosity, how many enemy wizards did you face? You mention Sharee and Sss'ra; were there any others?
Post edited June 25, 2013 by TwoHandedSword
taltamir
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Posted June 25, 2013
I am assuming "the great unsummoning" is when your mana goes to 0 and you are a summoner so all your units poof?
SamKuker101
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Posted June 25, 2013
@THS: Was playing on 4 Opponents, Huge, 2.5x Magic. I kill Sss'ra, Kali killed Oberic. Sharee and Kali were left.
@tatamir: Death Wish is a Death spell that attempts to destroy all normal creatures and heroes on both Myrror and Arcanus. http://masterofmagic.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Wish
Great Unsummoning is a Sorcery spell that attempts to destroy all fantastic creatures on both Myrror and Arcanus. http://masterofmagic.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Unsummoning
@tatamir: Death Wish is a Death spell that attempts to destroy all normal creatures and heroes on both Myrror and Arcanus. http://masterofmagic.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Wish
Great Unsummoning is a Sorcery spell that attempts to destroy all fantastic creatures on both Myrror and Arcanus. http://masterofmagic.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Unsummoning
Post edited June 25, 2013 by SamKuker101