• Kohan Ahriman's Gift

    From daniel92saputra@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 27 06:01:25 2015
    i want to ashow you deal with mission 7. even if i have ally with rakhsasa, i still get raped by TWO enemy, not one. just one is hard already. the rakhsasa is useless since they rarely send reinforcement. they are just like an addition. there's no way to
    fght TO opponent. i am losing at number here. please help mission 7

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  • From cesar0304279@hotmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 15 11:23:37 2016
    Hello everyone i don't know if it's the right place but im looking for kohan players.

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 16 09:44:18 2016
    On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 11:23:37 -0700 (PDT), cesar0304279@hotmail.com
    wrote:

    Hello everyone i don't know if it's the right place but im looking for kohan players.

    This newsgroup is - sadly - pretty dead. You might be better off
    asking in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action. While technically dedicated to
    action games, the low traffic means any PC games questions are
    welcome, and it has the highest traffic of all the c.s.i.p.g.* groups.

    Though honestly, you might be better off asking in Steam's Kohan
    discussion group. I can't remember the last time anyone discussed
    Kohan on Usenet...

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  • From pepemustard@gmail.com@21:1/5 to daniel9...@gmail.com on Thu Jun 23 02:06:40 2016
    On Sunday, December 27, 2015 at 9:01:33 AM UTC-5, daniel9...@gmail.com wrote:
    i want to ashow you deal with mission 7. even if i have ally with rakhsasa, i still get raped by TWO enemy, not one. just one is hard already. the rakhsasa is useless since they rarely send reinforcement. they are just like an addition. there's no way
    to fght TO opponent. i am losing at number here. please help mission 7

    I'm still working on this one. Just picked up the game again a few days ago. Getting your gold income up is key. The first thing I do is build a quarry, and settlers. I then build a town beside the fort to the east. I upgrade the quarry again for extra
    stone and build a sawmill. Then I create a unit with engineers at the front, and archers for support. They go even further east past that. There's an independent town in the top right corner of the map. I take that, and start building the improvements
    necessary to get crossbows. There's also a gold mine right beside it too. I usually build a marketplace in my 2nd Ceyah town, then upgrade to bank for the boost in gold.

    I take another town to the south, and try to snag another one even further south of that. Having a force of 2 infantry and two crossbow units is what I'm aiming for to take over towns. At this point my gold production is pretty good, so I'm going to try
    spamming zombies for defense. I still haven't beaten it, but I'm working on my plan. This mission definitely is hard, but it's beatable. Creating a blob of 7 zombie squads helped me out in previous missions, so I'm going to try that with this one too.

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  • From Ross Ridge@21:1/5 to daniel9...@gmail.com on Thu Jun 23 18:41:34 2016
    daniel9...@gmail.com wrote:
    i want to ashow you deal with mission 7. even if i have ally with rakhsas=
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    e. please help mission 7

    <pepemustard@gmail.com> wrote:
    I'm still working on this one.

    Here's what I did to beat the mission.

    1st Town: Build Quarry
    1st Town: Recruit 4xSettlers + Kohan
    Send to build village next to the fort to the southeast
    immediately. Let them supply in while building next to the fort.
    1st Town: Recruit 6xShadelings + Vashti
    Explore the edges while supplying.
    1st Town: Recruit 6xEngineers + Melee Kohan
    Explore the edges while supplying.
    1st Town: Build Lumber Mill
    1st Town: Build Blacksmith
    1st Town: Upgrade to Ceyah City
    Send Engineers and Shadelings to supply near the neutral Council
    Town in east corner. Set to Combat Mode while waiting
    2nd Village: Build Quarry 2nd Town: Recruit 4xSettlers + Kohan
    Send to supply in south of town
    1st Town: Recruit 6xSkeleton Warriors + Kohan
    Send to supply near neutral town in east corner
    Attack neutral Council Town in east corner
    Only wait for your Engineers and Shadelings to fully form.
    Send in the Skeleton Warriors behind them
    Build Gold Mine with Engineers
    3rd Town (Council): Build Quarry
    Destroy Wasp Hive to south of Settlers with Shadelings and Skeleton Warriors
    Don't wait for them to fully heal. 4 units + Kohan for both
    companies should be enough.
    3rd Town (Council): Build Wood Mill
    Build 4th village south of fort near lake
    Explore west with regiments as they become fully healed.
    1st City: Upgrade Carpentry Guild
    Attack Druga Enclave to the west of the 4th village.
    1st City: Build Library
    Repair Druga Enclave with Engineers

    After that you soon meet the enemy and things will get chaotic, so there
    isn't much point describing exactly what I did. I recommend heading
    south from the Druga Enclave to try to capture Guari Stronghold to the
    west of the mountains. Start enlisting archer companies. At some point,
    build a village on the north side of the small lake that Druga Enclave
    is on the south side of. You'll have to clear the Slaan there first.
    This will be an important defensive point, so you might want to build
    a barracks and a wall.

    You should concentrate your offense in the isolated southern corner.
    There's four cities there including the Gauri Stronghold I mentioned previously. Once you've captured them and then gone on to secure the Druga Enclave directly to the west "defensive point" village you've pretty much
    won the game. You just then need to mop up the settlements to north and
    all the settlements on the western side of the map. With your "homeland"
    now secure this should be pretty easy.

    Be sure to use your Kohan from the start. Putting one in charge of a
    settler company may sound pointless, but it saves you from having to
    pay for the captain unit instead. Having a Kohan in charge of the other
    units makes them much stronger. While the Shadelings company with Vashti
    in charge are still pretty fragile, her summoning more shadelings makes
    them much more effective in battle.

    Be sure to pay close attention to battles, and retreat any units before
    the leader dies, especially if it's a Kohan. Effective use the retreat
    order is very important in Kohan. If your archers are engaged before
    your melee units, pull them out and let melee units engage them first.
    There's going to be some battles, and managing them so your units come out mauled but still alive, while you're wiping as many of their units as
    you can, is key to winning the war. On the defensive side of things
    try let your militia enage first, and then stiffen their defence with
    your companies.

    I didn't build any zombie companies, but since you end up with a lot of
    extra company slots, building a couple of them for defensive purposes
    may not be a bad idea. However they're way to slow to use effectively on offense, and the enemy will have a number of units that do bonus damage
    to Ceyah units, meaning they'll die pretty quickly. They should be OK
    for stiffening militia defence however. I wouldn't recruit any mixed engineer/archer companies, as they work at cross purposes. Engineers have
    a bonus for attacking settlements, while archers get a penalty.

    Finally don't worry about upgrading quarries, or your stone production generally. One gold for one stone is a fair price to pay. It's more
    important to use your slots for other things. After building the three quarries that I mentioned in my little walkthrough above I didn't bother building any more. In fact I ended up selling the quarry in the starting
    town to make room for something else.

    Finally, a couple of caveats. First, I was replaying the mission so I
    had all the Kohan and technologies that I had at the end of the campaign.
    That why I avoided naming specifc Kohan, because other than Vashti,
    I'm not sure which ones you'd have at this point. I only used about
    half my available Kohan, in order to put the game more on par where
    you'd be. Second, someone who's much better at Kohan would probably give significantly better advice than me. I'm a mediocre player at best,
    but I've been able to complete the campaign three times now, so I've
    been in your shoes three times now and managed to beat this mission.

    Here's my saved film from that mission:

    http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca:11068/dist/Mortal%20Troubles%20Thursday,%20June%2023,%202016%202,39,55%20PM.TGF

    Download it and put in the "Films" subdirectory of the directory where
    you've installed Kohan: Arhiman's Gift. For example if you have the
    Steam version and you installed Steam in the default directory then
    you'd put it in:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\kohan ahrimans gift\Films

    This is a tough mission, but it's not that hard to beat once you got a
    hang of playing Kohan.

    Ross Ridge

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