dragons vs magic slingers, verry spoilerish, tactics only Options

[Kerkes]

Ok, this is how it goes. Down here are my battles with 3 mid-game dragons. I wanted to kill all of them using magic only. Riiiight or Anyway, this is a no-story, basicaly a round by round fight described. My party was riskbreaker prot, valygar, ber-cl, ber-mg (name: XX) , imoen (with vecna!) and cernd (inspired by Raven's auramaster strategy guide). All these dragons never saw my protagonist and cleric. Nizidamyt saw Valygar once. I only wrote final (killing damage) my spellcasters did. Feel free to post your comments/questions and/or even better, your strategies for killing the great reptilians of Baldurs Gate. I didn't write for Firkraag and Thax because I killed them in chapter 3 with melee. Ok, Cernd did kill Thax. But Valy and protagonist weakened him, so it doesn't count. Take that, mr.tree hugger!

Nizzidramyt (or whatever) - I call him Nizi

SPOILER!

Nizzi - spell turning, spell shield, pwmw. Wing buffet on Valygar
XX - spellstrike via scroll - Nizi -spell protections dispelled
Imoen - spell trigger - 3x lower resistance - Nizi - magic resistance lowered by 29, 29, 29%
Nizi - greater silence (by the way, what's the penalty for that?! XX never saves ) on XX - XX -silenced
Imoen - Chain Contingency - breach, lower resistance, ADHw - enemy sighted, nearest - fired
Cernd - aura cleansing (he wears imp.druid circlet)
Nizi - breach on XX, attacks phisicaly
Imoen - Chain con - 3x adhw
Cernd - flame arrow
XX-vocalize (scroll)
Cernd - flame arrow, flame arrow, flame arrow....7 total fired
Nizi - insects on Imoen
Cernd - Unleash energy
Cernd - Unleash energy
Cernd did 23 dmg to Nizi
Nizi - dead

This somehow became my favourite battle of IA5:
Green Wyrm

SPOILER!

Prebuffs : both Imoen and XX have the same - spell turning, SI:abj, prot energy
I tought Imoen had a trigger with 3x lower resistance, but I found out I forgot to memorize it. AAAhhhh!
anyway..:
cleric - summon bears
Valy - haste on bears
Cernd -aura cleansing
Imoen - improved alcatry
XX - rushes forward and fires spellstrike (scroll) as soon the bastard shows up (takes some time to cast it)
Wyrm - your lackeys will not save you (or something) - my 2 summoned bears (I want Wyrm to come close to me....Imoen has something for him) died, whatever
Imoen - Chain Con - 3x lower resistance - fired
Imoen - magic missile
RR - trigger - lower resistance, breach, flame arrow
Wyrm - ruby ray on XX
Wyrm - ruby ray on XX
Wyrm - greater silence on XX
Wyrm - cloud on XX
Cernd- flame arrow, flame arrow....6 total fired (do use autopause!!!!)
Cernd - unleash energy - spell failure (due to cloud)
Imoen - runs in fear
XX - vocalize (scroll)
Cleric - remove fear on Imoen
Wyrm - breach on XX
Cernd - zone of sweet air
Cernd- casting failure
Imoen - (remove fear has reached her) - Improved alcatry (she is not in the cloud), her last 9th level spell. That's why not loading trigger was so bad (waste of chain contingency)
Wyrm - attacks XX
Imoen - magic missile x6, flame arrowx6, ADHW
XX - spell sequencer - flame arrow, magic missile, magic missile
Wyrm - storm of vengeance, spell trigger: pfmw, stoneskin, spell turning
Imoen - adhw reached wyrm - did 17 dmg to Wyrm (Adhw was not aimed directly at him (her!?))
Wyrm - dead
Imoen - yipeeee!

Saladrex (or Drexalas:)

SPOILER!

Imoen and XX are buufed with turning, SI, prot enrgy
Saladrex - imp.haste, spell turning, globe of invul, prot magic enegy, spell shield
Imoen - improved alcatry
XX - spellstrike
Imoen - trigger 3x lower resistance
Drexalas - ruby ray 2x on XX
Cernd - aura cleansing
Drexalas - pwmw, greater silence on XX
XX- sequencer - magic missile, magic missile, knock (didnt have anything else to place in seq:) )
Cernd - chain lightning
Imoen - breach (Drexalas fired prot mag energ. Idiot me for wasting a sequencer with knock .), 7x magic missile, 7x melf's acid arrow
Drexalas - Pf magic weapons (Yeah, that will save you....)
XX - silence
Cernd - unleash energy
Imoen - Chain Contingency - 3x Adhw - fired
Drexalas - Breach on XX
Imoen - Chain Con - 2x Adhw, Chain lightning - fired
XX - vocalize
Cernd - Chain lightning
Imoen did 9, 9, 8 dmg to Saladrex
Drexalas - dead

This post has been edited by Kerkes: Aug 27 2008, 11:20 PM

[LZJ]

Nice going, Kerkes! I've slain dragons in much the same way as you have. Just note though that in v6, Chain Contingency would be much more limited. In fact, personally I do not cast Chain Contingency or Contingency in the midst of battle, as I view it as a non-combat (preparatory) spell.