[Edar Macilrille]

Many people here complain about the Tactics Mod, and it is difficult indeed (you have much worse ahead than the intro battle if you solo all through, if you get a party, the other battles will probably be about as difficult as intro battle is alone...).

I would say that the intro battle if you start ToB as first with no SoA is very hard to beat. Otherwise I think Abisigal and Sendai are percieved as worst- and The Eclipse Ritual as Insane, though my own two most challenging has been Pontifex and Abisigal. In SoA the Improved Illyich is really bad as you actually have no weapons that can harm those allies he has (at least that is my experience, I never beat that without cheese), as is Improved Faldorn (had to have my allies hand me my Katanas before my Kensai/Thief/Mage could beat her- multiple Strongholds makes it impossible to just have Cernd fight it for you) and Kaangax... let us not go there at all...

I like Tactics, but I have yet to actually beat *all* of it with no Cheese, with Illyich you need weapons you do not posses (Shadowkeeper FTW).

Some say that Weimer has used cheese in the Mod as well, I cannot comment on that as I do not know the Game Engine or AD & D rules well enough to comment on that, but that is the quibble many people have with it.


Speaking of which, I just had a Pit Fiend in the SOA Amunator Dungeon do 750 hits to Anomen in one action (dunno how, it did 13 the attack before), 750 hits at once is a bit over the top methinks as Anomen is Lvl 14...


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With The Eclipse Ritual my quibble is the same as with many other encounters in the game- only worse, the AI can react before you. Normally that is not really a problem, as you have the possibility to prepare, IE you *know* that the room you are about to enter is full of nefarious villains, so you can take your potions, cast protective spells, hang a few offensive ones, etc. Thus it evens out, but in The Eclipse Ritual that is simply not possible as you never know when it happens, and before you can react the AI has half yout party stunned by attacks while the Game Engine still refuses to acknowledge any keyboard and mouse input you try to give. Your input has second priority and is by necessity slower than the AI.

I think this is at the root of many complaints about the difficulty of Tactics, especially The Eclipse.