I have guinevere and a ring of dark already, and two items of power. I will farm for two or three adittional of power items adr all rings with +HP.

Btw, is there a limit on how far I can pump a skill?

In mm7 it is 60. No higher.

I will also pump learnig - already got Master10 + Instructor so 3 - 4 dragons = 1 lvl

I will see how it goes with levels later and maybe pump Learning hgher. I always go high on solo toons that can have high mastery of learingn.

but this is my first solo play in mm6 and iirc i did run in some troubles with my 4-member magic parties end game.
so i might adopt a more strategic (read: cowardly) approach tis time.

Secondly, the only kind of robot that will flee from combat is the lowliest Patrol-Unit (flees when cut to 40 HP from 400). So if you manage to lock on a Terminator, it should just go down (unless the other bots doing a „Brown motion“ accidentally get closer to you than the locked-on Terminator).

I don't know whether you would call it resistance or what, but I seem to remember that something degrades energy attacks. It's been many years since I experimented with blasters in turn-based mode, but I'm pretty sure that they were doing less damage in some rounds than the minimum that they should — again with the IIRC caveat.

Regarding the "retreat" of the Terminators, there is knock-back from blaster impact, and as soon as the Terminator gets knocked back into the pack, another one gets in front of it, and there is what resembles Brownian Motion as the robots get in each others' ways. I agree it's not retreat as such, but that's how it works out.

Again from very old memory, if you take them on in real-time combat with blasters, dodging from side to side to avoid the robots' attacks, what happens is that a swirling tide of robots gradually gets closer and closer to your party, until you can no longer move far enough to get out of the path of the blasts. Shortly after that, the remaining members (because you'll have almost certainly lost one or two by now) of your party are toast.

No fighting, just killed a few goblins back in NS and a few low level scam aroung lord newton palace with RoF in TBC and flying up and down

Basically, I delay direct killing monsters until I get max learning - this is what I always do.

And I will skip all skills and get Master Water first of all. Other staff later on as, as u pointed out, only master water can really save my back in tight situations.

Then maybe 2nd wizard promo, master air, expert fire and hire Spell MAster and Mystic for a +7total to all magic. Or maybe Instructor + spell master for additional exp. But I am moreinclined toward fire power!

Already got some skill points from horseshoes so training to clvl migh be enough to get master water - I will see after dinner

I agree on water, but there are so many things you need early on, that I hit expert in a few before I went for master in that. Specifically: Merchant, Disarm, Fire, Air (for fly) and also Water. Unless you're planning to hit the NWC dungeon repeatedly, gold will be a problem for a while, especially without merchant. I didn't bother with either Identify or Learning early on.

Some possible tips. You can do Prince of Thieves without killing much of anything except for some rats. Just run past everything else. Twillen's statuettes is doable with fly early on. Lord Kilburn's shield can be done with fly and some combination of enough skill in disarm, an item of thievery and a locksmith. Don't forget End Winter.

Once you do get master water for LLoyd's beacon, you can do the archer promotion with Ring of Fire and an item to regen spell points. It's a little tedious but with opening and closing doors you can pretty much just sit there and kill almost everything without them being able to touch you. Then of course the second archer promotion is simple. After that you should be at a level to get most of what you need early on. Then I would do learning and start clearing critters.

I also hired Spellmasterand Mystic. +7 to all skills in magic is to awesome to pass.

I also bought day of protection and at Master Dark and +7 to all magic it is very good resistance - wise but thecost

otoh maybe spellmaster and instructor will be better for a nice combo of additional exp and firepower.

Of course it sounds easier then it was as all this strategic placement took me about 30 minutes

Of course LB in front of 30 lvl well in kriegspire it was easier to fight dragon at clvl 55 than 25

None the less, it was an epic fight

He netted me Guinevere

Now i will try to kill temaining to and try to get Hera and Odin

So a Ring of Dark Magic and Guinevere affect a Dark Magic skill of 13 to convert it first into 19 (19.5 rounded down), and then convert the 19 into 28 (28.5 rounded down). An initial skill level of 12 would give you exactly the same result, whereas if you had an initial Dark Magic skill of 14, you would end up with an effective skill level of 31.

It is an immense amount of experience and will get you a bunch of levels, plus a ton of loot. I usually find that that's the turning point in my games.

There was a well in Kriegsire that granted+30 levels temporarily and I used that at the beginning of thegame but this well no longer functions.

also there was a +5k exp for 5k gold well- also stopped working. there must be limits on those wells.

5k exp well is indeed unpredictable but works. good.

with all those drakes its gonna b some levels!

The in-game descriptions look like you need Expert or Master for identifying/repairing rarer items, but who knows if it is a separate condition or just a generic talk.

Anyway, I have already hoarded 4 items "of power", that is: crosbow, leather, shoes and gloves. Cool

I also have: Odin crown, Hera and Morgan necklaces (although later Morgan will become obsolete as I will use Dark exclusively), guinevere and dark magic ring, and pendragon cloak for disarming but maybe later I will also ditch this for of power or of HP cloak if I find one. And Merlin staff for 40 sp bonus but maybe I will get of power as with my previous party I had staff of power.

Now trying to get 2 x Dagger of power but now i daubt they exist i happened to get a staff of power with previous 4 x S Partty.

Killing energy drakes , dragons and hydrss for exp. and mephistoing for "of power" items.

closed spaces when no fly available are hard