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I've been wanting to do an honour mode (tactician+permadeath) playthrough for a while now. I've set some pretty tough rules for myself.

- No followers. Use Scarlet & Roderick only.
- No Lone Wolf on either character.
- No Summon Spider. Must find/make scrolls for summons.

Has anyone else attempted a playthrough with similar rules? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts either way. Anyone have any ideas to improve this?

Would anyone be interested in joining me on multiplayer to tackle this palythrough?

Been going at it all day. Honour mode (tactician+permadeath) I decided to get rid of rule #2. It was just too difficult. So I'm using Summon Spider. I'm doing fairly well with the other two rules though. Scarlet & Roderick only, and no lone wolf. I'm about to do the Sparkmaster 5000 fight but I'm nearly lvl 6 and trying to find a way to get some more xp to level up before I attempt it.

Defeated at sparkmaster, fml haha. I'll try again tomorrow probably

This advice is a little late, but it is possible to sneak by that fight (invisibility, etc), and come back for it later.

Oh thanks for the advice. I'm nearly back at the Sparkmaster on my next playthrough

Almost died to Raddagoth twice. Had to flee. Hmm, I'm going to have to come up with a better strategy for this one.

EDIT: Hah! Figured out a cool trick. I sneeked up and used Drain Willpower (Witchcraft Adept spell) and it applied to him but didn't get me in combat. Then I was able to cast Blitz Bolt on the other character to CC him. Worked like a charm!

Just hit level 9. I've just got Baron of Bones, Pontius Pirate, Source Nightmare, The-Twins-By-Fire, and all of the Church left to complete. Not really sure what to tackle next because all of those fights seem intimidating when Permadeth is on the line!

This thread doesn't seem to have attracted much attention, but if anyone has any suggestions or good strategies for any of the above fights I'd appreciate it!

It's really been fun / scary doing this Honour Mode playthrough! Highly recommended for veteran players. I'm constantly out of gold because I'm buying upgrades, buying special arrows & grenades from vendors, etc. Also I've got Jahan skilled in to Crafting / Blacksmithing / Loremaster so it's been helpful to craft new weapons for myself each time I level up (still not using any followers for combat, just Jahan for crafting)

For Pontius Pirate, you can approach with one character, trigger the conversation/fight, use the teleporter pyramids to teleport back to the other character, and lay down oil, fire and smoke that opponents have to run through to get to you, with your characters behind a choke point. Summon(s) could also help spread them out by slowing some down and doing damage.
There are also explosive or poison barrels around, and a character can sneak in and add more, or grenades, to shoot once combat starts. With one character in conversation with Pontius, the other can target the other skeletons there and take them all out. Someone can sneak onto the boat and use the ballista there, but don't have your characters together, because it targets randomly.

I don't recall any particularly effective strategies for the other fights.
Grenades dropped, or drag and dropped, to the ground before a fight can be targeted after it starts, and an exploding grenade (firestome, nail, etc) can cause a chain reaction.

Awesome idea about dropping the grenades! I got Pontius, Baron, and Source Nightmare killed. I'm on The Twins now. Was really struggling with this one.

Finally went all out DPS on the Totem in the back and got it killed and then Flee'd the fight. Going back now to try it again without the totem, it should be manageable.

MAN!!! Twins-By-Fire almost killed me, even with the Totem gone. Luckily I had some fire protection scrolls. I came within 50hp of dying on both of characters and that would have been THE END.

I'm inside the Church now. More to come tomorrow...

In silverglen!

Fucking male prostitude guy almost wiped my entire game. Killed Scarlett in the bedroom after he stripped her gear, and then Roderick got bugged and couldn't do anything in the ensuring fight outside the tavern. Luckly there were enough townpeople to quickly take him down. I mean Scarlett dead and Roderick at 20% life, I was getting furious, haha!