Mods....

[Lord Lothar]

Originally posted by teardropmina: as I still find some standard battles to be quite difficult (yet, some of them just too easy now), I'm hesitated to install the tactics (I have it but...); here's the question to old hands, when playing tactics, do you guys play from the scratch, I mean from SoA with a new character, starting from level 7 or import a character in a higher level from saved games?

It's more enjoyable with a character from scratch rather than a high level guy.

[Xen]

Originally posted by teardropmina: as I still find some standard battles to be quite difficult (yet, some of them just too easy now), I'm hesitated to install the tactics (I have it but...); here's the question to old hands, when playing tactics, do you guys play from the scratch, I mean from SoA with a new character, starting from level 7 or import a character in a higher level from saved games?

I always start from scratch. And I always play on Insane. It`s the only way to fly. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 08-14-2003, 04:11 PM: Message edited by: Xen ]

[Borg]

EoD, my recommendation for a first-timer is only to install (in this order):
Patch
Balderdash fixpack
Ease of Use

You should have found all of those in the links others provided on this topic. If you go on to ToB, you might also install Ascension and (maybe) Redemption, but only after completing ToB fully without those mods. The mods themselves will tell you where is best to pick up a saved game in order to then finish with them. I would tell you here, but don't want to spoil and think it's appropriate on the ToB board, not this one. Needless to say, I don't think you should worry about that until you are into ToB.

Then, for future rounds through the game, play with other mods.

[teardropmina]

ok...failed to resist the temptation, I set aside my current standard SoA compaing and installed the Tactics mod, though I still just play it on core rules (ehh...Xen, I don't think I can fly just yet ^_*)

{spoilers}

anyway, now I'm not out of the Irenicus dungeon yet, but I did get pass Ilyich and his band, using the divide and isolate tactic. Actually I didn't fight the Fallen Deva for I was able to lure the cleric (though he already summoned the Fallen Deva) out along; after taking him out, waited for a while, the Fallen Deva was unsummoned.

Those shadow theives are really, really annoying, but killing them to collect those wands is fun (well, if we didn't get killed first of course) ^_^

somehow I feel that Imone has lots to do with our surviving thus far...she cannot be dead in the dungeon right? she's almost immune to any serious spells and wand effects.