I have SCS with tactics installed. With that mod enabled an army of 100-ish level 20+ drow show up in Ust Natha after the city turns hostile. I am wondering what other people do to defeat this army. I mean, I know you can just quickly run for the exit, but if you stay and try to actually win, what are some strategies that work?
In the past I have managed to beat them by defending a narrow choke-point with a small party where I only had to fight one of them at a time (while of course still taking ranged damage from the others).
I played this again yesterday with a party of six. This time, the choke-point I had used before didn't work since drow spawned on the stairs behind me and in between my characters. Once my characters were separated the weaker ones died almost instantly, and the others lasted until I ran out of healing potions.
I found a place inside the tavern where I could hold them off without them spawning behind me and where I could defend my party by having my stronger characters out in front while my weaker characters stayed behind them with ranged weapons. I would switch my characters out for uninjured ones once they needed to retreat to heal. This worked for a while, but eventually the drow broke through my line while I was switching my front-line defenders. They slaughtered my weaker characters and the stronger half of my party ended up pinned against the area where the drow tavern keeper stands for the next real time hour, surviving on healing potions, luck, and a buffer of summoned creatures. It took 2.5 hours real time, but I eventually won, barely. Only two characters survived and my PC only lived because I had him loot the corpses of my other party members for extra healing potions and more defensive items. I also had to have my two surviving characters run around the main area of the tavern for a while to regenerate their health and to avoid getting killed by the half dozen glabrezus and nabassaus the drow had summoned.
I would, ideally, like to win this battle without losing any party members, or at the very least without losing 2/3 of them. Does anyone have any suggestions?
In the past I have managed to beat them by defending a narrow choke-point with a small party where I only had to fight one of them at a time (while of course still taking ranged damage from the others).
I played this again yesterday with a party of six. This time, the choke-point I had used before didn't work since drow spawned on the stairs behind me and in between my characters. Once my characters were separated the weaker ones died almost instantly, and the others lasted until I ran out of healing potions.
I found a place inside the tavern where I could hold them off without them spawning behind me and where I could defend my party by having my stronger characters out in front while my weaker characters stayed behind them with ranged weapons. I would switch my characters out for uninjured ones once they needed to retreat to heal. This worked for a while, but eventually the drow broke through my line while I was switching my front-line defenders. They slaughtered my weaker characters and the stronger half of my party ended up pinned against the area where the drow tavern keeper stands for the next real time hour, surviving on healing potions, luck, and a buffer of summoned creatures. It took 2.5 hours real time, but I eventually won, barely. Only two characters survived and my PC only lived because I had him loot the corpses of my other party members for extra healing potions and more defensive items. I also had to have my two surviving characters run around the main area of the tavern for a while to regenerate their health and to avoid getting killed by the half dozen glabrezus and nabassaus the drow had summoned.
I would, ideally, like to win this battle without losing any party members, or at the very least without losing 2/3 of them. Does anyone have any suggestions?