The route discussion might be easier to follow while looking at this map.

This is finally the walkthrough, and "exact" probability of winning the first five books of the Lone Wolf series. It has taken a while, there are probably still some sort of bugs in it, but it is here!

The starting conditions are:

• skill 10, endurance 20 (hard mode)

• between 0 to 9 gold crowns

• one of the following:

  • a sword
  • a helmet
  • two meals
  • a body armor
  • a 4hp potion
  • more gold

Walkthrough

Recommended starting conditions:

• start with the Healing, Mindblast, Camouflage, Sword specialty disciplines, and pick either Hunting, Animal Kinship, Tracking, Mind over Matter or Mind Shield

  • Sixth sense is bad here, even though this is one of the books where discipline-only chapter choices can be avoided

• the best starting item is the armor

• starting money doesn't matter, you get to pick enough money to guarantee a smooth ride for the next book

• I won't discuss routes, there are no real variations between solutions based on starting conditions, you can just look at any of the solutions linked below.

Discussion

I will have to compile a full walkthrough for all five books, but in the meantime I am looking at two things, when not playing at Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. The first is to have some form of formal proof that the heuristics I chose are indeed correct. The second comes with the new compact format for storing solutions. It is indeed much more compact, so much that it might be possible to play all books with the wasm code! But that will be for another time.

Best raw rates

Recap