Winning via main quest, do you do it??

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Does anybody do it? I have won via total conquest and the spell of making. On my latest game just for grins I thought I would check out this path to winning.

All of my competitors were beat to submission and if I wanted to I could have rolled over the remaining cities (i.e. I was the most powerful player by far).

I got to the last stage of the main quest and got rolled by the creature (trying not to spoil anything).

My question is this: How can winning via the quest be a viable option? If you are strong enough to beat the main quest aren't you by default uber-powerful and no AI player can touch you anyway? Or is this sometimes the best course of action to win the game?

I am reminded of reading how Brad (if I remember correctly) totally revamped the culture win in GalCiv just before the game was finalized after reading a post from a beta tester saying how ludicrously difficult it was to win that way. Therefore I imagine all paths to victory in FE have been thoroughly fleshed-out.

How often do you win via this method?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top



My question is this: How can winning via the quest be a viable option? If you are strong enough to beat the main quest aren't you by default uber-powerful and no AI player can touch you anyway? Or is this sometimes the best course of action to win the game?
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That's the problem. But still, I like to develop a party able for that hard fight, and it's a nice option for winning. Sure, it's not the fastest or more efficient way to win.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Sometimes, but I actually never play to "win".  I play to build and play and quest.  I would want the game to continue forever and ever and am often bothered by having to "win".  

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

It used to be a cakewalk.  So when you've clearly won and just couldn't be bothered to clean everything up - it was a good way to finish the game and get to the totally pointless score screen - that gives very little/terrible details, isn't stored anywhere and provides not one bit of continuation from one game to another... anyway.

I haven't tried it since its been revamped to be a lot harder, took a hiatus after the first couple hundred hours.    Now that I'm back to try LH I've only played a couple games and haven't got any to late game yet.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

i think it's mostly a shortcut to victory when you get carried away by building up and find yourself in a position where you could easily steamroll the whole map, but can't be  bothered to actually do it. i've finished a few games with it. i could have won each of them easily by just making allies of everyone on the map and razing those that would refuse. marching across the whole map razing a few dozen cities takes a lot of time and is fairly boring when your troops outclass them, so it's probably faster to just build a stack of impulsive, bloodthirsty horsemen with pikes and kill the quest boss in the first combat turn before he can even react properly ;)

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

I have never figured out how to kill the mean ol dragon past the second gate....

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting ElanaAhova, reply 6

I have never figured out how to kill the mean ol dragon past the second gate....
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He has overpower, do no big stacks of troups. Only heroes or strong single units (like storm dragons).

You need a lot of melee damage to compensate for his constant drain health. Since he has high magic resistance he's difficult to damage with spells or even to counterspell the healing. If you're Empire I think you can bring a couple of shadow bolt spammers to lower the resistance.

Remember he's also vulnerable to cutting damage. Again if you're Empire, Curse is much beneficial too, he has really high armor.

At that point of the game the fire breath shouldn't be a problem, everyone should easily have 100% fire resistance, via Nature's Cloak and/or the cheap fire cloaks from shops.

With good armor on your melee, a single life mage spamming wellspring is enough to keep them up.

 

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top
thanks Lo...
Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

I have a different means of this, i research refined training, and defense and build some grocers until I have units on par.