My 1st Tactics game, a continuation. (Spoilers everywhere)

[Ilyich]

Yaga-Shura and his improved fire giants are dead. The garrison at the entrance to the cave were dealt with by casting Mass Invisibility and Improved Haste on Korgan and Amschat before entering the cave and moving into one of the side rooms. I then summoned Kitthix, 3 Mordy's Swords and a Fallen Deva. After about 5 minutes of frantic fighting including 4 Timestops and 3 Energy Blades castings, they finally fell.

The rest of the fire giants were dealt with by Korgan alone, after accidentally discovering that Sancchudoku completely breaks the fire giants down if it hits a giant before the giant hits you. I only equipped the thing because I wanted to give Korgan his HP back as Viconia had run out of healing spells. Korgan has 110% Fire Resistance and a save vs spell of -2, so he was very capable of beating 6 improved fire giants on his own provided he stood on some of the damaging lava and of course wielding Sancchudoku.

As for Yaga-Shura, the giants in his army are improved, as is Yaga-Shura himself. (Well, he has the Fireshield and the Lower Fire Resistances) Berenn however, remains unimproved, this is a disappointment, as he gives more exp than the regular giants in the cave although conversely, improving him would just lead to Sancchudoku cheese.

Edit. As for actual progress, I have reached Amkethran. The Improved Oasis fight was very well made and surprisingly challenging. The loot came to about 200,000 gold as well. Once I reached Amkethran, I ran into 2 copies of Rayic Gethras, who both demanded their signet ring back. They then both attacked, so I had a 2 for 1 deal of angry mages to kill. (This is an unfinished quest line from SOA, possibly from Unfinished Business.) After a longish fight, I managed to take out the 2 Rayic's and their 4 Cowled Enforcers. (2 each) All that I did after that was abuse the Smugglers to get 1.5million GP and a mass Item Upgrade binge, which cost 500,000 GP.

[ 12-05-2006, 06:48 AM: Message edited by: Ilyich ]

[Ilyich]

Before I forget, I have now finished TOB. I will start a second Tactics game with a fresh install using the Gnome Cleric/Illusionist I am currently taking through TuTu. I will use this thread for updates once I reach SoA.

[Ilyich]

I am now ready to start my BGII game with the Cleric/Illusionist, using the following mods.

G3 BG2 Fixpack
Ascension
Kelsey (SoA and ToB)
Underrepresented Items
Item Upgrades
G3 NPC Kit Pack
Unfinished Business
Ding0 Tweak Pack
Ding0 Quest Pack
Avenger's Rogue Rebalancing
Ease of Use
Oversight
Tactics
G3 BG2 Tweaks

Edit: - 3rd edit to show mod install order.

[ 12-23-2006, 08:12 PM: Message edited by: Ilyich ]

[Ilyich]

http://tinyurl.com/yfo9ns

This is Samuel Vimes, my Gnome Cleric/Illusionist. I am roleplaying him as a drunkard who needs to be bladdered to get to sleep, so I will try to avoid resting outside of taverns.

The end party will be Sam, Keldorn, ToB NPC, Nalia, Aerie and Kelsey. The party is currently in the sewers between the Slaver Ship and the Copper Coronet, and have just got Lilarcor.

[Ilyich]

Samuel is now at Cleric 9 / Illusionist 11. The Jaheira romance is complete and she is replaced by Keldorn. Mae'var is dead and I have the Thieves Guild, due to Multiple Strongholds. This of course means I have to fight Improved Faldorn.

I also believe that 2 Tactics components, Improved Small Teeth Pass and Improved North Forest, require the Improved Abazigal component of Ascension to work. Therefore this perhaps should be pointed out in the installation of Tactics, if possible.

[Ilyich]

I have now completed the Planar Sphere, the De'Arnise Keep, and the Temple Ruins, aside from the Dragon, and am also roughly half way through the Planar Prison quest. I have also accepted the 3 appropriate strongholds. I will upload Party Inventory screenshots sometime within the next week.

Random musings.

The Yuan-Ti mage that guards the master key in the Keep attacked me in melee without casting a spell, this is very odd and should be looked at.

Also the Infernal Thievery component of Quest Pack. It is an interesting component, but I had 1 problem with it. Killing the Marilith gets you 23,000 exp, and the Cowled Wizards using Imprisonment on it gets you 5,000 exp. However, if you kill the Marilith after the mages show up but before Imprisonment is cast, you get both exp rewards. This works if you kill the Marilith even before the wizards have even finished teleporting in to the area. Therefore the 5,000 exp reward is given not for the Imprisonment working, but is awarded if you survive long enough for the wizards to arrive, regardless of what happens next.

I managed to beat it by taking advantage of its 0 resistance to Acid, a lot of luck and the accidentally dicovered but horribly cheesy fact that Hallowed Redeemer does its counter effect even when the hit comes from an after effect, such as Poison.

[ 01-08-2007, 06:29 PM: Message edited by: Ilyich ]

[Ilyich]

As promised, the Inventory screens for my party.

Samuel Vimes.
http://tinyurl.com/3y6bqy

Keldorn
http://tinyurl.com/349fsl

Minsc
http://tinyurl.com/2v37ne

Nalia
http://tinyurl.com/378vjc

Aerie
http://tinyurl.com/2ve5q2

Kelsey
http://tinyurl.com/3df6oj

If anyone has any questions regarding what the items my party have equipped do, feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer them.