Completed Let's Play: Rage of Mages 2 (The End)

[Darth Roxor]

5:3 for dragon trouble.

And since you're hungry for sweaty buttseckz as reward for helping the damsel in distress, we will liberate the tower!

Spoiler

But first, we hire the amazon.

Off we go! Soundtrack for this episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKcuPnkG-mM

Uh... 'normally'?

She trusts in our abilities. How lovely.

Igles will investigate what's beyond the bridge.

We can't stay here. This is bat country...

... HOLY SHIT

Well folks, here's a foretaste of what we'll be facing at the very end of the game. These were max-level bats, and they needed barely three hits to take Igles down.

timewarp. Let's try going around the bridge.

Green wolves. These we can fight.

But wait, what is this? Our party of heroes attacks the wolves, but the other mage is healing them!

There is only one punishment for treason.

Death.

So it was a trap after all!!!

Who didn't see that coming?

Apart from a ring giving a token defence bonus, the mage didn't drop anything worthwhile.

After we killed the chambermaid, the uberbats magically disappeared *shrug*

Level 2 giant bees.

While exploring the countryside, I got a little careless and Kingcomrad was torn apart by squirrels.

Level 2 turtles. Igles can barely hit them due to their high defence, but fortunately, Kingcomrad has a magical staff with a knob on the end.

Some more squirrels.

And a pack of wolves.

And after these not particularly interesting encounters with wild animals, we finally get close to the dragon's lair.

We are even warmly greeted by our host!

THAR SHE BLOWS.

Same tactics as before. Kingcomrad stays behind and heals, Igles and the amazon shoop for great justice.

And since we have the amazon, we actually do some damage this time.

almost there...

And after like 10 minutes of shooting and healing, the dragon is finally down.

Damn right.

Apart from 5000 gold and another 4000 from the dragon's corpse, most of the stuff here is junk.

We can head back to town.

We sell all the crap and buy Igles some new boots and bracers.

Since the amazon doesn't want to join us for the next mission...

We'll have to postpone the second dragon-related quest.

Next stop: Negrodancer base!

 

[Malakal]

No buttsecks?

 

[Darth Roxor]

Now that I think about it, this update was so short and barely anything happened in it, that I should have played through this mission and the Negrodancer base in one update.

 

[Brother None]

Worst. Pickup line. Ever.

 

[ghostdog]

Worst. Pickup line. Ever.

Almost, but no. This surely must be the worst :

...a charismatic leader.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Well, this update will only have the rebel negrodancer base, as both this and the second dragon missions are pretty hueg, when compared to the besieged tower.

Spoiler

My gut instinct tells me we should get the warrior hireling.

Establishing battlefield control. Standby...

If I remember right, taking any of these routes will somehow bite us in the arse, but we'll take the northern one.

Battle control online. The moment we land here, we're greeted by a level 2 skeleton.

So we go north. And we're confronted by an undead mob.

Igles tanks the minions, while the mercenary rushes to hack up the necro. Kingcomrad stays back and heals.

You have absolutely no idea, how easier everything is when you take a mage hero at the start. With a warrior hero, we'd have to pretty much postpone all missions until we got the third party member.

But wait, what is this? While pwning these undead, another group comes in from behind to raep us!

Same story. Igles tanks, merc chops the necro.

Another group of undead is closing in from behind! The bastards!

But soon, they're nothing but useless bones.

These two groups of undead that attacked us after the initial mob were the troops guading the central and southern paths. Yup, all three mobs were connected for our convenience.

Going through the desert, we find talking trees.

A SPY.

We get a good view of the northern defences up here. These green thingies are spiders. Nasty bunch, they attack and run superfast, hit rather hard, but at least die quickly. At later levels, I think they can also poison you.

And some skeletons.

Central defences.

Some spiders in the east.

And the eastern defences.

Some zombies and a zombie crossbowman.

Well, I can't really say these are particularly easier than the other approaches. They're mostly on par, but whatev.

Some more sucky zombies.

HOLY SHI...

Uh... rrrrrrrrright. Let's secure the area before advancing.

FFFFUUUUUU...

RUN, RUN, RUN

But while running, we lose the merc (while they are expendable and don't provoke a MISSION FAILED message, we don't want to lose them) so we reload.

These two zombies are not connected and need to go.

Right. Now all that is left here is the supermob. There are three negrodancers and like... 6 skeletons, I think.

We'll try hit'n'run tactics. Lure them in, kill one skelly, run away.

The combined barrage of the necromancers and their skeletal minions is too much for Kingcomrad to outheal. But we slay one skeleton.

RRRRRRUUUUUUUUUN.

FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU... Well, the undead horde never really loses interest, so hit'n'run is out of the question.

We'll try to tank with Igles, while the merc flanks them and chops up the negrodancers.

Okay, they're distracted. GO GO GO.

But as he approaches, the wizards change their targets from Igles to the merc.

He manages to take one down, but then falls to the ground, yet he's still alive (since Rage of Mages 2 is a True RPG (TM), characters with 0 hp are uncouncious and lose hp over time, and eventually die at like -10, I think).

Maybe if we hurry, we'll manage to heal him.

Nope, he died.



But this gave me another idea.

We place the merc in his previous position, and we'll have him lure out the skeletons. After that, Igles (healed by Kingcomrad) will rush in and chop up the wizards.

THAR SHE BLOWS.

Igles moves in.

Kills one. So far so good.

But then, some skeletons stop chasing the mercenary and target Kingcomrad who is forced to run away.

Which means no healing for Igles...

Another attempt.

But out of no particular reason, the necroes and skellies charge Igles's position instead of the merc.

Even though the hireling managed to lure some out

Three spellcasters are too much to handle.

Timewarp again...

This looks promising.

RUSH!!!!!

And the mages target KC who dies in a few seconds.


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

reload again...

Run, hireling, run!

Igles descends with the fury of his raging previous incarnations.

yes...

Yes...

YES!!!! HAHAHA, ALL NECROES DOWN.

But there are skeletons hitting Kingcomrad.

I AM NOT DOING ANOTHER RELOAD, YOU ASSHOLES.

Igles intercepts KC's attacker.

And hacking down the remaining undead is a piece of cake.

Damn fucking right.

But before we head back to town, there's loot to be had.

In the centre of the negrodancer base, we find a bag with this mithril scale mail.

Significantly better than Igles's previous one.

We also murder this necromancer spy.

Why?

Because he drops a lot of cash

NOW we can go back.

Having sold all the junk

Igles buys himself a new pair of gauntlets.

While Kingcomrad gets a bitchin' new staff.


This mission was tough. Next stop: Dragon Trouble 2

 

[spekkio]

Me s. If I was in your place, I would probably perform a raqequit long time ago...

 

[laclongquan]

The whole point of this game is battle. Where else would you use your brain? Story? NPC quest?

 

[Malakal]

The whole point of this game is battle. Where else would you use your brain? Story? NPC quest?

Use brain? On what? He has two spells and three party members top. How many strategies are there?

I am disappointed. I remember playing this game (or the first part) with friends on LAN and it was great fun. But it looks very dumbed down with unbalanced difficulty.

 

[laclongquan]

You see the problem between us and the game. It's not very challenging in the brain department.

Playing it brainless is worse.

 

[l3sy]

The whole point of this game is battle. Where else would you use your brain? Story? NPC quest?

Use brain? On what? He has two spells and three party members top. How many strategies are there?

Well, technically WW2 generals had 0 spells...

He used different approaches to win the last big encounter -> brain. Maybe he could have thought about the attack beforehand. But its game. Trial and error are faster.

Some people here believe that TB is more tactical than RT, dont be one of them.

 

[Darth Roxor]

The whole point of this game is battle. Where else would you use your brain? Story? NPC quest?

Was there some other post before this one? Because it seems a little out of the blue.

Use brain? On what? He has two spells and three party members top. How many strategies are there?

I am disappointed. I remember playing this game (or the first part) with friends on LAN and it was great fun. But it looks very dumbed down with unbalanced difficulty.

Keep in mind that this is barely the beginning. More azzraep will come in the future, especially in various missions with orcs.

 

[Zdzisiu]

Oh yes, Orcs are well-know rapists.

Your LP forced me to think about buying used copy of RoM2. I used to have one but I lost it years ago.

So, if you will not supply me with steady updates I will be forced to buy the game, which will be a major decline of myself

 

[Brother None]

laclongquan, your rahrah in the tactical LP threads is a bit annoying. Tone it down, will ya?

Also, did the hireling die in the final attempt or not?

 

[Darth Roxor]

Also, did the hireling die in the final attempt or not?

Nope, you can see him on the final screens. He just had to take a long detour through the starting area, because he was chased by skeletons.

 

[Black_Willow]

Le bump

 

[eklektyk]

bumpity bump

 

[Brother None]

Bumblerooskie

 

[Zdzisiu]

Buuuump, I need my fix.

 

[Gondolin]

Buuuump, I need my fix.

 

[Fafnir]

Buuuump, I need my fix.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Herpenderpen, compiling update has we speak.

 

[Wulfstand]

BUMP!

 

[Darth Roxor]

BTW, Photobucket is sending me spam mail that I'm exceeding bandwidth, so if you can't see the screens, return on the 1st of May, when the bandwidth limit will get reset.

[Message from the future, November 2018: Lol 2010 Roxorowski, you silly goose]

Spoiler

Since we're after dragons again, we need the services of the amazon.

Sup, headman

Splendid. As always, let's take a stroll around the lovely countryside.

Oh noes, a troll. Pff, they were no challenge in the first mission, so why should they be here.

A quick barrage of firebolts to the face takes it down.

To the east, we find signs of foul negromancy. But they're just random wild undead, without any negrodancers around.

And to the south, an ogre + level 2 bats.

Running away a bit, the ogre loses interest and we're free to engage the vermin.

Afterwards, we return to the ogre.

BUT THE BITCH IS NOT ALONE.

AND THE OTHER BITCH IS NOT ALONE EITHER.

God, prismatic spray (sorta like chain lightning) would be lovely now.

After these silly encounters, we get back on the road and find another village.

Considering the burnt down buildings, I guess this is the village harrassed by the dragon.

What the hell. So they need to call mercenaries from the capital instead of asking the mages for advice themselves?

Sum more undead.

Aaaaaand a succubus, with bat support.

The amazon nearly dies from a volley of fireballs, but the enemy forces are defeated.

This is probably the island the headman mentioned.

Notice the dialogue avatar's different robe from the one in-game.

So we head off to the mountains.

Oh-oh. This green ogre, is a level 2 ogre.

They hit really fucking hard, and have a rather high defence. Kingcomrad can't outheal the damage, and Igles soon needs to run, or he'll be beaten into the ground.

So, thus begin the supertactical manuevers...

Igles will run around the ogre house with the ogre chasing him, while Kingcomrad and the amazon shoop.

Lame?

Yes.

Silly?

Yes.

Damn effective?

Ayup.

FFFFFUUUUUU, this is like a giant FedEx quest.

On the other side of the river we're greeted by a succubus and friends.

They're no match for our combined forces.

After that we find some... outpost? full of mages.

sigh...

So... The village is surrounded by a gazillion mages.

And apparently, the only thing it takes to defeat the dragon is throw some magic potion at him...

...

AND FOR THIS THEY NEED TO HIRE MERCENARIES? WAT?

No matter. This bridge will lead us to the dragon's lair.

Our wunderwaffe.

And our wicked adversary. Note the colour: black dragons are level 4, which means we'd be fucked without any wunderwaffe.

Fortunately, he's non-aggressive unless we attack him first.

Or if we approach him with the potion.

And thus, the dragon gets de-leveled back to level 1.

Haha. Sucker

Again, amazon and Igles shoop, while KC heals. Standard procedure.

Soon, the dragon dies.

And we win. BUT we don't leave the map yet, oh no.

Because both villages are willing to show their appreciation o/

Afterwards, there's nothing left to do, so we return to town, and buy Kingcomrad a new spell. Who knows, maybe it'll come in handy.

Next stop: The Astrologer

 

[Malakal]

No reloads? You are getting better OR this game is meant to be played with hirelings.

BTW what stops You fro buying more powerful spells? I think something more than firebolt and heal would be nice.