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blueskirt
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posted September 24, 2012 01:58 AM |
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Campaigns difficulty in Armageddon's Blade
Quick question, I'm about to play Armageddon's Blade and I'd like to know just how hard each campaign is so I can play them in order from the easiest to the hardest. Can you guys and gals give me your opinions on this matter?
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Star_King
Known Hero
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posted September 24, 2012 06:01 AM |
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Um...
Dragon Slayer > Dragon's Blood > Playing with Fire > Festival of Life > Armageddon's Blade in difficulty? Maybe? I didn't find any of them particularly difficult so it's hard to say, though Playing with Fire had incredibly long-winded scenarios.
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JoonasTo
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posted September 24, 2012 12:04 PM |
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Armageddon's blade is by far the easiest since your Gelu can overpower almost anything with his sharpshooters.
Festival of life is really easy also.
Dragon's Blood was mediocre.
Playing with Fire and Dragon Slayer were the hardest I think.
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blueskirt
Adventuring Hero
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posted September 26, 2012 08:21 AM |
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So, as soon I'm done with Festival of Life, it's Armageddon's Blade, then I flip a coin to decide between Playing With Fire or Dragon Blood and I finish with Dragon Slayer. Thanks for the help, guys!
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Star_King
Known Hero
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posted September 27, 2012 08:58 PM |
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Most of Dragon Blood was pretty easy but I found that one scenario with Ordwald (second-to-last one) quite difficult (if you actually try to defeat all enemies instead of running for Vial of Dragon Blood), which is why I put it above Playing with Fire.
The only thing remotely difficult about Armageddon's Blade was the first Roland scenario, and it wasn't too bad.
Playing with Fire just had really long and tedious maps IMO. Was fairly challenging in some parts but most of the difficulty is not falling asleep. But some people adore that campaign for some reason.
Dragon Slayer was honestly not bad at all but I put it high because it might be hard for some noobs who don't know how to handle big fights against neutrals (like 3500 Naga Queens). People who mostly play maps that come with the game (campaigns).
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blueskirt
Adventuring Hero
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posted September 28, 2012 10:10 AM |
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Those are precious info. Although I have very little experience with the Dungeon faction, I loath long missions and have even less experience with large scale battles, so I will keep Playing With Fire and Dragon Slayer for last.
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kringled
Hired Hero
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posted September 28, 2012 01:05 PM |
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From my experience, I didn't have many problems with any of them. For Armageddon's Blade, I thought the toughest two maps were the first Roland map and the last map. The first Roland map I was able to quickly make a dent in the enemy's strength, but the AI then brought out a hero with a good sized army in an area where my good army wasn't, and used it to do a bit of damage. It took a while until I was able to pin that hero down with Roland. The last map, the AI has multiple heroes with very large armies on day 1. I was able to defeat a couple of them in week 1, and the last in week 2, but these were more difficult than average battles, the last especially so. It probably would be easier if I had been willing to wait and build up my army and avoided confrontation for a while, since you have a huge production edge.
Dragon's blood, if you move quickly enough, even that map with Ordwald becomes easy to defeat all enemies.
Playing with Fire - the first map I took my time with because I was building up multiple heroes, although it's not such a large map. The second map is quite large but I was able (second playthrough) to defeat all enemies by the end of week 3, but that's not the end of the map - you have to flag all external creature dwellings, and that can take a while and some careful searching of the map. The last map I was able to defeat at the start of week 4, despite it being an XL map.
Dragon Slayer - battles with large neutrals are one thing, the other main challenge is time limits, especially on the first map (to a lesser extent the 4th), given that the map is kind of a bunch of slow walks between different transporters and the layout is not clear from the start.
Keith
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Bones_xa
Known Hero
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posted October 03, 2012 12:49 AM |
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I didn't think dragon slayer campaign was very hard at all, but it was long. Sure there were large/tough neutral stacks and time limits, but I didn't have much of a problem with them. Maybe I'm good at using the spells or whatever. Although I don't know what AB campaign I'd say is the hardest, it was a while ago since I did them.
Some of the SOD campaigns were by far way harder than any others in my opinion.
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