yeah it was only the very last bit of the castle that had me killed time after time. ah, the wonders of quickload. i eventually managed to do it because when you enter the last big room, it seems that its kind of randomised which enemies are in there. sometimes is was just all those skinny glowing guys, others it was scamp heavy. i managed to get through a scamp heavy one because they are a) easier to kill and

arrows seemed to bounce off the firey things (the one surviving npc guard i had with me was an archer). and then i just waited and hour to heal and went to find the count.
oh, actually i have a tip for killing fireball shooting things. if youre a heavy warrior, try to get as close to them as possible. run up to them dodging, then get right in their face. they wont fireball you from that range they just use melee attacks. so then its simply a matter of block-whackwhackwhackwhackwhack-block.
This post has been edited by MarkII: Mar 29 2006, 08:52 PM