One weekend gone due to FE! ;)

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Started playing Saturday afternoon paused for 8 hours sleep at 2 a.m. Continued at 10 a.m. till 10 p.m.

Results (I always play medium maps with everything on random and normal difficulty)

1st heat:

Played Wraiths, focused on magic research. Took ages to find space for new settlement, recruited lots o heroes, advanced in magic a lot due to lots o shards. Everything went well until the Tarth(?) declared war on me due to to much trespassing. Suddenly, so did everyone else so I got my ass handed in a hand basket.

 

2nd heat:

Played Trogs and focussed on warfare. Built second settlement quite soon, third too but then a rogue Juggernaut destroyed my second settlement and Resoln which had me surrounded with settlements almost immediately built there. Lost interest.

 

3rd heat:

Play Altar and focus on civ tech and later warfare. Built second settlement soon, sov and shamp (both enchanted with regeneration and 25% faster levelling) got a quest that resulted in a group of archer girls dedicated to their cause. After that every encounter is a piece o cake! Third settlement blooms. Trained some Spearmen, Defenders and now Archers. Noone is my parties equal. I smell victory! :D

Oh, and on the tech side: Not a single crash, hang or what not. Good job, devs! :thumbsup:

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Sounds GREAT. I love to play and (mostly) fail too. The victory is all the much sweeter :d I think I have to go down from hard to challenging though, as the monsters have gotten a lot tougher on hard the last few patches.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

WHOA! Starting out with hard or challenging, I guess I would fail miserably...

I like to start on normal to get into the game mechanics and later crank up the difficulty.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Well, my merry band of sov, champ and two spearmen sacked the only city of Karavox, which was luckily for me a well built fortress. So  producing more units to supplement my army was easy. Magnar had surpassed me in terms of power rating and the Tarth too (THREE TIMES my rating!!! :o ). Only faction weaker than me is Porcupinee.

Payed Tarth roughly 400 gildars to go to war with Magnar since it is my only chance of expanding more. Once I have sacked as many Magnar cities as possible I hope to be able to ally with Tarth and aim for the Spell of Making.

 

Btw. Haunters in conjunction with lots of ?stalkers (forgot the name of those venomous pantherlike beasts with lots of movement points) are pretty much OUCHY even to an experienced party...