09-04-2005, 03:15 AM
Try staying as far away as possible when first attacking. It is random who the monsters attack, but there are ways to get them more likely to attack certain monsters.
About aiming area effect spells, don't worry about perfect monster formations, sometimes you get them, sometimes you don't. Pretty much what I do is if there are 2 or 3 monsters in an area for an area effect spell, I drop in on the monsters, since it will kill the monsters faster than waiting for a perfectformation. Alesia can almost always keep other people alive even if a couple of monsters go for mages.
If ranged attackers start near each other, or if they patrol that way, let them attack and hit them with area effect spells. They will just stand there and get beaten.
About it being your tactics or not, it is your tactics, notin the sense of you being really bad, more in the sense of not having learned yet the hard to see tricks that make a big difference. First time against ettins, they would wipe out my henchman party,later on, Icould kill them without a sweat, I still am not sure what the difference was, but I somehow have picked up timing and such that makes it a lot easier.
with henchmen running and atrtracting monsters, let monster movement take care of that for you. Monsters will split themselves up, so when you attack, the henchmen will go for the monsters you want and not rush off. If two groups seem to be moving towards each other, stop your attack, and run back, the henchmen should back off too. Otherwise, can't really help you, I have only had henchmen rush off from one group to another twice.
About aiming area effect spells, don't worry about perfect monster formations, sometimes you get them, sometimes you don't. Pretty much what I do is if there are 2 or 3 monsters in an area for an area effect spell, I drop in on the monsters, since it will kill the monsters faster than waiting for a perfectformation. Alesia can almost always keep other people alive even if a couple of monsters go for mages.
If ranged attackers start near each other, or if they patrol that way, let them attack and hit them with area effect spells. They will just stand there and get beaten.
About it being your tactics or not, it is your tactics, notin the sense of you being really bad, more in the sense of not having learned yet the hard to see tricks that make a big difference. First time against ettins, they would wipe out my henchman party,later on, Icould kill them without a sweat, I still am not sure what the difference was, but I somehow have picked up timing and such that makes it a lot easier.
with henchmen running and atrtracting monsters, let monster movement take care of that for you. Monsters will split themselves up, so when you attack, the henchmen will go for the monsters you want and not rush off. If two groups seem to be moving towards each other, stop your attack, and run back, the henchmen should back off too. Otherwise, can't really help you, I have only had henchmen rush off from one group to another twice.
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The gloves come off, I'm playing hardball. It's fourth and 15 and you're looking at a full-court press. (Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun)
Some people in forums do the next best thing to listening to themselves talk, writing and reading what they write (source, my brother)