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<blockquote data-quote="Nurgle84" data-source="post: 4774575" data-attributes="member: 67569"><p>I tried various solos now in my campaign (Level 1-almost 9 now). We had a giant troll, the skeleton of an orc king, a young black dragon and a solo reaper. The best fights were the skeleton king and the reaper.</p><p></p><p>The troll was bogged down by a flaming spehre negating its regeneration. But he had his moments, as he dropped houses on the party. He was supported by a bugbear strangler and a gnoll huntmaster.</p><p></p><p>The Skeleton was at the end of Level 1, so there were no ways of shuting him down completely. He dropped 4 of the 5 party members before being destroyed. He was alone, a true solo.</p><p></p><p>The young Black was obliterated by and archer ranger. He went down to bloodied after two rounds of combat. He was supported by 2 Human bandits.</p><p></p><p>The best fight was the reaper (Open Grave reaper + savage Berserker template + selfmade Invoker template. Then modified a bit to keep the feeling). He was able to teleport around, was supported by 3 Poltergeister, got an AP when he dropped a character for the first time, made retaliative attacks, could hover. He was just great.</p><p></p><p>I think stalker said, do not use monsters of a higher level and only soldiers and artillery of lower levels. There is much truth there. I am now only using monsters of the same level, and the combats move much faster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nurgle84, post: 4774575, member: 67569"] I tried various solos now in my campaign (Level 1-almost 9 now). We had a giant troll, the skeleton of an orc king, a young black dragon and a solo reaper. The best fights were the skeleton king and the reaper. The troll was bogged down by a flaming spehre negating its regeneration. But he had his moments, as he dropped houses on the party. He was supported by a bugbear strangler and a gnoll huntmaster. The Skeleton was at the end of Level 1, so there were no ways of shuting him down completely. He dropped 4 of the 5 party members before being destroyed. He was alone, a true solo. The young Black was obliterated by and archer ranger. He went down to bloodied after two rounds of combat. He was supported by 2 Human bandits. The best fight was the reaper (Open Grave reaper + savage Berserker template + selfmade Invoker template. Then modified a bit to keep the feeling). He was able to teleport around, was supported by 3 Poltergeister, got an AP when he dropped a character for the first time, made retaliative attacks, could hover. He was just great. I think stalker said, do not use monsters of a higher level and only soldiers and artillery of lower levels. There is much truth there. I am now only using monsters of the same level, and the combats move much faster. [/QUOTE]
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