Touch of Death - Last achievement

[many.lots]

Just tried to get my last achievement 'Touch of Death' with the assistance of my friends, managed to take the last life of each one of them (with no respawn) so apparently covered what the instructions say, but did not get the achievement, anyone have any ideas why not?

[cheshirecatgirl]

If I remember correctly, it needs to be a 6 player game.
But it's a long time ago I got it myself, so not entirely sure.

[Jarosław Tusk]

Its bug. I have the same:(

[atogmuncher]

I don't know if this achievement works in multiplayer but even in single player it is a bit shall we say buggy.

First the setup requires a 6 player game where you control all players. turn on bloodbath. use the city expansion since it helps a lot along with the highlands characters to get the Alchemist.

Your character should be the alchemist with runestones to set the craft/strength to 5 and gold to 5. Now it depends on how much setup you want to do to make sure you can get this done. I used all alchemists for the the other 5 characters and give them all 5 gold on runestones, you can max out fate if you want and turn on something like not a toad, do not change strength. move all characters into the city to buy up all the good stuff so you can control movement and killing the other characters. Get a flail and all the pets until you get the one that lets you move one space or the two that let you set die roll and give you back fate. Pick up stuff to drop on the board so you don't have to encounter spaces(like potions or scrolls) on the main board so you don't draw something like pestilence that might kill a character before you get a chance.

use the teleport space in the city to move to various spaces to drop things so you don't have to draw cards on those spaces. Once you have the main board setup and your character is equipped with all it needs then you can start killing the other characters.

Once you start killing characters you cannot leave the game anymore. If you exit the game and come back in the game won't remember that you killed any characters up to that point, so you cannot reload to try to get a better die roll which is why I had the big explanation on the setup so you have a way to control movement. Then you have the characters you need to kill run into the sentinel and die until it is down to one life. Then you hop on them and do combat, another thing here is it has to be strength combat, you cannot take the last life with any other kind of death.

Then just keep doing it until you kill all other 5 characters.

[Simon]

This was one of the first achievements I managed to get (well, 37th out of 249) and I don't recall any issue with it. It's certainly nowhere near as difficult as the last 3 I'm trying to get.

[jonnin]

this might be a case for a runestone and +3 axe buffed web spinner character. Bonus if you can get the monkey pet while grabbing the axe. She normally stinks but you can control movement so easily. If you have it, use the forest looking for oberons bow, but you have to be careful if you dip in there. You could use the guys you want to kill to draw cards and lose a life or 2 and spin the forest entry tile... just try to avoid the instant death cards, maybe keep light fate on the marks and dark on spinner.

[StDrake]

Originally posted by atogmuncher:

Once you start killing characters you cannot leave the game anymore. If you exit the game and come back in the game won't remember that you killed any characters up to that point, so you cannot reload to try to get a better die roll which is why I had the big explanation on the setup so you have a way to control movement.

so after all these years and attempts THIS seems to be the definitive answer - doing that in one session without exits or reloads.
And that worked for me - alchemist + 5 ninjas, dungeon and city expansion. Got a warlock quest done, chose the owl to pick where I land, got some stats up, bought a horse. Meanwhile ninjas hopped around the sentinel not picking up items, friends, avoiding all enemies. Used sentinel to drop them to 1 life and then just picked them off with the alchemist