Hello all,

This creature is notoriously hard to beat, and I think I know why.

Shamans that he is summoning are able to cast "Orc's ritual", which removes enchantment but sacrifices ether channel.
This ability makes my rats useless as I cannot reinforce them.

What is interesting however, that despite the number of ether channels reducing (up to 0), he still gets his ether points replenished fully every turn as if he had ether channels intact (though his stats say otherwise)

Hopefully this makes sense. Did anyone noticed the same? Is it a bug?

PS: Ok, I found what's happening - his shamans provide him with 1 ether each, probably that's where he gets his ether despite having 0 ether channels.
Still, he is pretty unbalanced.

I'm not very encouraged about finding out anything about this Orc Shaman. Simply UNBEATABLE. there's no place else to go ... is that the Sum total of this game?

The post I saw About this same problem I'm a actually looking at it from 2017 - and no one answered that person then.

Anywho - what's the deal with this Orc Shaman fight (in the beginning of the campaign) and Konnar?
Is it not suposed to be winnable? Ummm... just frustrated and frankly baffled.

Thanks

It is definitely one of the hardest fights in the game, because your options are limited and are completely at the mercy of RNG. But beatable, even on the hardest difficulty.

Basically, you have to get lucky with the draws. Get one rat out and start buffing it immediately. Keep pumping all the buffs on that one rat so it always poses a risk of killing the normal Shamans when attacking. Always attack with everything. Sacrificing a rat to make a shaman block instead of dispelling your uber rat is worth it. Initially, he will keep letting your uber rat through because he'd lose a shaman if he blocked. But if you get enough damage in before his Shaman number reaches critical mass, the AI will start sacrificing shamans to prevent the damage from your uber rat and that is when the fight is won. This has to happen within a couple of turns. If the Shamans start dispelling your buffs and weakening the rat enough so that it's unable to kill a shaman, you've lost.

If your initial hand does not contain one rat and several buffs, don't bother and just reload.

The difficulty of this fight is only surpassed at the start of the final 5th campaign, where there is a similarly obnoxious fight (against a Steel Pteros while you are like level 2). Similar problem as with the Shaman, the enemy has units with double your stats and keeps dispelling everything you do. To get through on the hardest difficulty, I had to redo all the previous fights and get the exact cards from the random rewards for them to be able to get past. Unless you get the necessary cards from the 3 or 4 fights preceeding that, it's unbeatable.