Difficult game?

[Master.Jimmy]

I must admit that the game is really more diffult than the others that i played with hard level (kb, AR,CRoss and WotN).

i'm playing on hard with vampire. NO Loss it's very diffult! i haven't spell! a mage without spell is noob. All the shop of the first island sell the same spall. skull and slow.
Now i found sacrifice. With vampire and old vampire i can resurrect some units, but the game is too difficult.

My leadership at lev 19 is 3040 and all bosses lev 12 have the triple of my units at least.
Something wrong.

I have 4 island 1 of them is useless. All enemies are always very strong or deadly.
Bah
Some ideas? Anyone playing hard?

[Master.Jimmy]

I add that i don't like mixing races. I'm only playing with Undead units. Perhaps switching on traitors, but dunno. Humans are the race i almost used (expetion for elves and vikings)


For now i have skeleton archer, necromancer, ghost, vampire, ancient vampire.
For no loss game i use Sacrifice on vampires to heal necro and archer, but.... it's long procedure.
Now i switch ghost with dark archer. I use dark cloud and ice spikes to block enemy, leaving 2 separate tiles with vampire and anc. vampire. archers and necros from distance.
Very long procedure, but i'm in the forth island with only 17 noloss battles and leadership it's very low.
Perhaps i must start using blood princess to refill units.... i hate demons >_>

Any ideas?

[Fuero]

That's bad You hate demons :P I went to the Atrixus (You can go there from Portland undergrounds), bought demons and demonologists as units and demons portal as a spell -> I based my fights on evocationing units thanks to that spell and units I bought there :) I am also on the 4 island and have almost 50 noloss battles on hard lvl, so the strategy isn't so bad I think ;p. Until now I had skeleton archers, necromancers, ancient vampire and units I bought in Atrixius, and it was quite good :P Now I am trying new combination thanks to -30% leadership for traitors and I take them instead undead and it's nice :P Of course I stiil have demons and demonologists, cause evocation it's really good to distract attention from my units :P (the only problem is that computer reaaaally likes killing archers ;p)

[Shadowcran]

Originally posted by Master.Jimmy:

I must admit that the game is really more diffult than the others that i played with hard level (kb, AR,CRoss and WotN).

i'm playing on hard with vampire. NO Loss it's very diffult! i haven't spell! a mage without spell is noob. All the shop of the first island sell the same spall. skull and slow.
Now i found sacrifice. With vampire and old vampire i can resurrect some units, but the game is too difficult.

My leadership at lev 19 is 3040 and all bosses lev 12 have the triple of my units at least.
Something wrong.

I have 4 island 1 of them is useless. All enemies are always very strong or deadly.
Bah
Some ideas? Anyone playing hard?

Please read my Dark Side guide. I'm serious, I've a LOT of information on what units work and even what's best for Single Race tries.

I'm playing Impossible for the first time after 8 other playthroughs. My guide will help with ALL of that.

The Vampire has a very hard time early going. Yes, I agree the spells suck early. Also, going undead for no loss is, I've got to say, impossible. The best is a mix, of which one of the parts of my guide(it's divided into about 10 sections), explains the best ones. I've also added in the Impossible section a lot on what spells are worth getting and which ones aren't. I may make a more comprehensive guide on the spells, but basically there's only about 10 that work well with Orc and Demoness.

If Undead only, You'll want to replace the Skeleton Archers(too brittle) with Ghost Pirates. You can find them In Inselburg at a sunken ship, where you have to fight an enemy unit to obtain. They have evasion and can find treasure chests and are drawn to them. For Resurrection help with the Undead(Again, this is part of one of my sections in my guide), I'll do a quick overview for your Undead Only options:

1. Resurrection spell- Using Simon the Mage in your shelter, if you obtain 3 of these, he'll convert them into an Of the Dark Version. However, these are scattered...everywhere and hard to get 3.
2. Turn Back Time- 50,000 Gold Piece cost but worth it. This one can turn back your units(the ones you're using) to their status in their previous turn. This is the same as resurrection but removes status effects as well. Simon has it for sale. Level it up as soon as you can with the crystals.
3. The black Ziogyns can resurrect undead units. These are the little black things that appear on the field after units die.

There are 3 other ways to resurrect, but they're creatures and not undead ones.
1. Dark paladin
2. Blood Priestess sacrifice. Use on summoned or raised units(such as the ones the necromancer raises)instead of your own army units. You can even use these to fill your units up without buying.
3. Heresiarch-Basically dark inquisitor.

Later in the game, after you get the military guy in the shelter from Tristrem, once you have given about 2000 prisoners to him, you can buy Bone Dragons. this is the only way I've seen for them to appear. You'll want to give him more prisoners so he'll have more of these Bone Dragons in the inventory. They can "self resurrect" by devouring fallen enemy units. There are only about 100 you can buy there. You can use blood priestess to create more of them.

[Master.Jimmy]

bah. Look this image. I was trying to defeat the priest for lev3 Lucia. Lev 12 monks. Invincible!
I'm sure that i tried at lev 12 to check how powerfull he was. He had at least HALF of his actual army! Does enemy army change with your level?

[manystarredcloak]

Pro tip: Order magic III and Call of Nature III (a.k.a. I win) asap.

[Shadowcran]

As far as spells go, he's right. Call of Nature even at first level is pretty good, great at 2nd level and flat awesome at 3rd level. Even though it's based on leadership, even the Vampire gets a ton of powerful use from it as the creatures seem stronger than if you had an equal number in your regular army units. I mean, they will flat out wreck heavy hp gremlin towers by themselves. I also always see it available to buy in Portland at the Lighthouse.