Delfador’s Memoirs • Re: Scenario 10: The Gate Between Worlds

(1) What difficulty levels have you played the scenario on?

Version 1.18.4, Biased RNG (experimental), difficulty Great Mage (Difficult) ( = hard)

(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)

8

I'm aware that other commenters above give it only a 5, nevertheless I found it surprisingly hard. Perhaps because I don't accept losses of my own units. With a flood of kamikaze Ghouls it's probably much easier.

(3) How clear did you find the scenario objectives?

Very clear.

(4) How clear and interesting did you find the dialog and storyline of the scenario?

Very clear.

(5) What were your major challenges in meeting the objectives of the scenario?

First of all, having trained two Wraiths and two Shadows in the previous scenario, Houses of the Dead, helped a lot. Spending extra turns there to get that XP was worth it.

But here this flood of Dark Adepts in combination with a number of Vampire Bats turned out to be quite deadly.

My learnings:

• Avoid that headland into the swamp at 17,15. There enemies can surround you from 5 sides, which not even Delfador survives.

• Moving own troops into the swamp to flank a unit on that headland is just as deadly, very low defense.

Positioning own units at the edge of the swamp more north-eastern, between 22,14 and 26,11, works much better. Delfador as the strongest unit southernmost in that row, that position is most likely to be surrounded. This allows an almost tight row and keeps Dark Adepts in the swamp with its weak defense. It also catches enemies a bit off their preferred direction, so most can't even reach you on the first turns of fighting. This way the battle is decided three turns after first enemy contact.

Later, when approaching Iliah-Malal's castle, there's an oddity: put Delfador just within his reach and he'll come out of his keep and kill him on the spot. Attack Iliah-Malal with a Spectre or a Ghoul and he wouldn't even try to counterattack.

(6) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)

9

(7) What, if any, are changes you would have made to the scenario to make it more fun?

It's fine as it is.

(8) Was there any event that caused you to lose the game and forced you to reload or restart the scenario?

Quite a number of retries until I got the general strategy right. A forced reload when Delfador came too close to Iliah-Malal.


If you see behavior in this replay which doesn't use obvious opportunities to put more damage to the enemy: that's most likely intentional. To gain more XP and to let the right unit collect that XP. It works out, in the end there are two Spectres.

Statistics: Posted by Traumflug — Today, 8:00 pm

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