Tanking Party ??

[Washac]

Being a person who is not so good at party building and does not particularly like the twitching dance around enemies what would be a descent
stand and fight tanking party with only the odd now and then twitching about ?

Thanks.

[Dr.Disaster]

Just stand and fight tanking is a bad strategy. Even with 300 Health, 100 Protection and 20 Evasion you will be torn to pieces. You might get away with standing/tanking the weaker monsters and potion use but once you get in the tougher areas or go against bosses this strategy means Game Over.

[Orthocone]

What about switching difficulty level to "easy" at the beginning? As I read, the puzzles are unchanged but the monsters are less aggressive and easier to hit. So maybe a tank party has more chances to survive?

[Washac]

Thanks, seems I will have to hone my twitching skills

[Hermundure]

Yes, just holding your ground and fighting wont work very well in this genre but the easy mode might help a little bit, altough I doubt you could be able to beat the game like this.
(I remember the EOB games I played as a chiled and failed miserably in fights because I didnt recognize to move around while fighting, hehe. Nostalgic feelings ^^)

If I remembered correctly, some people are going to make some kind of film about Grimrock, I hope they implement this fighting mechanic too, it will be hilarious to watch as 4 people (2 of them in heavy armor and one of them a 90 year old mage) are running circles as fast as they can around one enemy while sticking together as a group and hitting it occassionally with their weapons :-p

Albert Pope could be the coach for their actors if they need to (minute 0.40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOmJ9sfYYIU

[Washac]

Yes, just holding your ground and fighting wont work very well in this genre but the easy mode might help a little bit, altough I doubt you could be able to beat the game like this.
(I remember the EOB games I played as a chiled and failed miserably in fights because I didnt recognize to move around while fighting, hehe. Nostalgic feelings ^^)

If I remembered correctly, some people are going to make some kind of film about Grimrock, I hope they implement this fighting mechanic too, it will be hilarious to watch as 4 people (2 of them in heavy armor and one of them a 90 year old mage) are running circles as fast as they can around one enemy while sticking together as a group and hitting it occassionally with their weapons :-p

Albert Pope could be the coach for their actors if they need to (minute 0.40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOmJ9sfYYIU

Yup, that would be good to see indeed

Good old Dungeon Master when I played that in the day I tanked it from start to finish, but then you could kill things under doors