250,
Hopefully your past this already..
You had my interest for a while. I've beaten the fight 3 times out of a total of 25 battles. Definitely ranks up there, considering the spells to work with.
Same tactics for pretty much the last fifteen battles. Use Horror first. Try to start casting just before Illyich begins to talk, and aim a little bit behind him. By the time the ability goes off, you
could hit 4 of the dwarfs. That'd be great, but usually it only effects Illyich and one of the other two in the front.
Each of the three battles that I won was when
at least two of the first three were scared. I immediately headed down on the screen until the mage came into view and fire off a magic missile. By the time you get the spell off, he is mirror imaged. I wasted a bunch of skull traps, only to do no damage to the mage. However, if you kill one of the bad guys near him, he freaks out usually. I happened to get lucky this way in the third battle. Otherwise, it's one flame arrow and I was toast.
Use the magic missile to get rid of his images and you will get one or two hits in also. Then cast a skull trap directly at him, wherever he is. You
will get at least two more in the radius. Stoneskin about now. Use your flame arrow on Illyich to finish him off. Magic missile the one with the least damage and attack everyone else with your sling. You still have one magic missile left. Keep it until you run out of stoneskins. Then unleash it on one of the dwarfs when a couple of them turn back to hostile. Once you kill another of them, more than likely the rest panic anyways. Then you can stand back and pelt them with stones.
The last battle I used every spell except the scroll of minor drain. I ended up with 20/32 hit points and threw 10 bullets.
(Oh yeah, feel free to grab the two potions of extra healing on the second table.
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Here's a link to the pictures.
Tough Battle