Cheesy/easy way to destroy the foundry in act 3 (SPOILERS)

[Gob]

I found the fight to destroy the steel watch foundry too hard the first time through and just a pain in the butt in later play-throughs. So I worked out what I think is the easiest way to do it...

Stuff it's handy to have:
- A couple of invis potions (or a character than can cast invis, or is good at sneaking
)
- A character with Knock spell
- A character with the speak with the dead necklace, or a scroll, or the ability
- Fly ability (not strictly needed but saves some time)

How to:
- Fly your party in via the foundry roof to avoid the first fight and sneak into the security office
- Kill Zanner, then loot and read his book
- Use speak with dead on him to get the code/name of god (use a different character to who killed him)
- Using just one character with Knock spell, use invis potion to go below (down steps)
- Go to control room entrance, use Knock on door and quickly enter
- Use invis potion again (or sneak) to get past the steel watch and boss
- Input the code at neurocitor and Robert is your mother's brother

[Metallicus]

I didn't realize this was cheesy. I just thought this was smart.

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Originally posted by Metallicus:

I didn't realize this was cheesy. I just thought this was smart.

I mean apparently nowadays smart play like using disguise self to avoid conflict and things like these are cheesy...
If you don't wanna cheese the game nowadays you have to play like a 6 int barbarian and blindly run into fights at max disadvantage you can give yourself, otherwise you are cheesing it...

[Gob]

Originally posted by Metallicus:

I didn't realize this was cheesy. I just thought this was smart.

A fine line sometimes :)

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Oh, also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM8mH0RNHRY