Re: AK: Adventurer Kings Monsters

From: chrisk@yogi.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Chris Kessel)

Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000

|>  This is my first AK  game and I have found it most enjoyable..
|>   A couple of question..taking on the monsters that guard the
|> towers, treasures etc is difficult to figure out for a
|> newcomer.. Unless one has visitors from Valhara..Question how
|> can you tell how many hiy points your charactors have? It seems
|> one should have at least a 3 skill in order to take on most of
|> these.. When do these monsters start their own raids..not ran
|> into amonster roaming around yet?

I never had too much trouble with it.  Most monsters you can
sort of figure relative toughness based on their names.  I don't
remember if the readouts give a hint or not on toughness before
you enter.

I had pretty good success with it using the following methods:

1) 2-3 skill in melee and/or archery.  Neutrals get a bonus here
against humanoid monsters.
2) 2-3 skill levels in 1 or 2 magic areas.  Elemental is a good
one, but so are several others.
3) Have your hero paired up with someone good in white magic, preferably
both heroes have 1-3 in white magic.  One hero goes in, the other
resurrects him if he dies.  I tended to assume the hero would die
and have my 2nd hero cast resurrect on phase 2 and then train, explore,
whatever, for phases 1,3,4,5 so he'd still be in the same square if
the hero both died and the resurrect failed.

Worked pretty well, guys would die every 3 or 4 turns, but after
about 7-8 turns you've got a pretty good set of skills and cross
training should leave everyone with white magic to resurrect with
some chance of success.

Don't overlook the value of inventions, many are as useful, if
not more useful, than some of the artifacts.

Chris

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References

AK: Adventurer Kings Monsters
baidins@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Juris Baidins)
Sat, 07 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: AK: Adventurer Kings Monsters
ccallaha@leo.vsla.edu (Carol Callahan)
Mon, 16 Oct 1995 00:00:00 +0000