Liche in South Guard

[zookeeper]

About TSG, I have only two words: BAD CAMPAIGN. Sorry, but IMO you'd be better off playing something else.

I'm curious as to whether the bad campaign thought applies to just Into the Depths (which I'd agree with and am trying to fix) or the whole campaign? If the whole campaign, I'm curious as to what specifically you dislike.

Ok, I overreacted a bit, sorry. But still, if there's even one scenario that completely sucks and/or is buggy enough, I'll be inclined to label the campaign as a bad one.

Most of my problems were with Into the Depths, but they were pretty numerous: the ice thing was very bad, not paying the trolls seemed like an impossible path that no one should ever take (so why include the option?), when allied with the trolls one troll and one ghost fighting blocked the northeast path to the lich entirely (a troll and a ghost can fight pretty much for the whole scenario without either one of them dying), killing the lich thus required to attack just from the blown-up hole and was very luck-dependant (the lich's attack is just too powerful to be fun). Also, heroes were apparently stored/unstored in a too careless and simple way, causing them to occasionally start scenarios with less than maximum hitpoints (the amount they had at the end of some previous scenario, I suppose). Tidings Good and Ill seemed rather luck-dependent: you can have very few units, so a single stretch of bad luck could ruin the scenario. There were apparently some scripted enemies spawning from nowhere, which could ruin the scenario for you if they for example happened to ambush your leader without warning (I don't know/remember in what scenario(s) that was, though). No mention that Deoran can gain useful AMLA's, so there's no reason for the player to try to AMLA him since he doesn't know.

The beginning scenarios, I suppose, were pretty decent, so no, not everything in the campaign is bad.

[torangan]

Would be nice to get some solution to those problems along with the fact that units may appear with less then max HP in a new level. That one hurt me pretty bad in the level where I've got only the Elf warrior and a couple of friends. Most units were damaged making the level pretty hard.

[Thrawn]

Would be nice to get some solution to those problems along with the fact that units may appear with less then max HP in a new level. That one hurt me pretty bad in the level where I've got only the Elf warrior and a couple of friends. Most units were damaged making the level pretty hard.

I found that fun, actually: it seemed to convey the immediatness of the next scenarios-->no time to heal/lick wounds.

[zookeeper]

Would be nice to get some solution to those problems along with the fact that units may appear with less then max HP in a new level. That one hurt me pretty bad in the level where I've got only the Elf warrior and a couple of friends. Most units were damaged making the level pretty hard.

I found that fun, actually: it seemed to convey the immediatness of the next scenarios-->no time to heal/lick wounds.

Let me guess: it was fun because you didn't have to start with really low hitpoints?

[unsung]

uhhh..... I don't understand all this talk about it being impossible without the elves- I sisded with the bandits, just because I don't like any elves, at all. and for impact attacks. I had no problem beating the rest of the campaign.

[turin]

In any case, the difficulty of a campaign shouldn't, IMHO, be the basis for judging it's worth... if one of the branches is easier than the other, so what? It's only a big deal if there is a truly impossible scenario. And before you say its impossible - look at what difficulty level you're on.


I suspect the problem is more that the level is boring. This can be a problem. Unfortunately, boredom of some sort is IMHO inevitable in any campaign you play.