Rack - the racial % I ended up might be a combination of casual and options I made throughout the game. I started off by angering the dwarves, undead & imp's a lot and making the lizards and elves love me. However as the game went on, I started getting more council decisions which let me push up the undead and imp's rating, and I even got dwarf rep as well... all the while loosing some elf and lizard rep, but I kept the lizards happy due to my queen, and she also helped with the dwarves. Decisions I made regarding commander's also helped balance things out. I was not actually intentionally trying for this result.

Regarding the fights - I tended to use the RTS for most of my fights in chapter 1 and 2, simply because I was always getting terrible success rates. I found fights which would not win with auto-resolve I could fairly easily win in the rts - so I used the rts rather than loose. Oh, and never had gold to pay for generals anyways... too busy churning out units. I only did the auto-resolve if it was 80+% for me.. otherwise off to the rts I went.

I didn't find chapter 1 or 2 too difficult, but it's what I expected on casual. However, chapter 3.... really made my eye's pop at that first fight and how ridiculously hard/impossible it was. auto-complete gave me a 10% chance to win, and the rts was impossible for me to win - but as I said, I'm not that good at rts side... or using the dragon, so maybe it is winnable... but I didn't feel that way.

RTS was fine for me most times, since there was usually 1-2 easy to reach expansion points where I'd move my initial units to, while they moving started building 1sdt building, then cranked some units out waypointed to expansion, grabbed 2nd/3rd pop building, got 2nd unit building going.. blobbed and then just attacked enemy base(s) - I'd waypoint buildings where I was fighting and just keep a constant stream of units building. This never failed me on casual (yeah, I realize this kind of play would not work vs harder/better ai or against other players)... till I hit chapter 3 and that 1 fight where this strat was not possible at all.

I only used the daemon once, and regretted it. I also suspected something was going to happen - deals with daemon's usually do not work out well in the long run, so suspected something would bit me badly if I freed him to go do his feasting. I do wonder how much effect his power level does have, as well as what you'd actually gain from it. I also wonder what happens if you do the 4 ultimate sacrifices.... if that is even possible.

Regarding the bug - maybe there is a bug, and maybe that would explain why things are so hard for me in chapter 3 ;/

Last edited by Elof Valantor; 08/08/13 07:37 AM.