In Baldur’s Gate 3, you can control a troop of 90 characters – all without cheats or mods. One player demonstrates how it’s done.
In Baldur’s Gate 3, you have many options for how you want to play the game. While some challenge themselves with a “solo challenge” and try to complete the game alone without companions, others take the exact opposite approach. Gathering as many creatures as possible to overwhelm enemies with a massive army seems to be a worthwhile strategy for some.
The current record: Nearly 90 minions on the screen at the same time, ready to tear apart anyone who looks at the hero troop the wrong way.
What kind of record is this? In the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit, player Real-Business6593 shared some impressive screenshots. They show his hero troop on the way to Gortash. However, his heroes are accompanied by “a few” summoned creatures – precisely 86 of them, neatly lined up on the screen, ready to wreak havoc and destruction.
The record was set without mods. With appropriate modifications to the game, it would likely be possible to have an even larger army, but this troop seems to be the “conventional” maximum that can be achieved in one playthrough.
How is this possible? Real-Business6593 used nearly all available summoning spells and items to achieve this number of minions. To make this happen, he transformed the original class of his characters into druids and chose the “spore druid,” who can summon several creatures.
Overall, the massive army consists of 86 minions composed as follows (via pcgamer):
- 2 mummies
- 2 devas
- 1 cambion
- 4 myrmidons
- 13 undead
- 8 mephits
- 3 ghost weapons
- 4 flame spheres
- 2 quasits
- 1 us
- 1 connor zombie
- 5 ghouls
- 2 dryads
- 2 wood woads
- 5 spiders
- 1 shadow
- 1 space hamster (Boo)
- 1 scratch
- 28 spore zombies
Additionally, there are 4 heroes themselves, bringing the total army size to 90.
Maintaining this troop size permanently is not possible, by the way. Some companions, like the small spiders, come from unique items that can only be used once per playthrough.
Is such a large army useful? Whether such a large army is really useful is something everyone has to decide for themselves. With so many creatures, there is not only the risk that the game may lag and even crash, but there’s another critical factor: time.
Fights could take a very long time. Since many of the summoned creatures are relatively weak, they will be of little use in the later battles. Nevertheless, most minions have to be given commands manually, resulting in nearly 100 participants in a normal fight. By the time the player’s hero gets a second turn, a good thirty minutes could easily pass…
Nevertheless, it is impressive to see how large one’s army can be in Baldur’s Gate 3 when one really puts their mind to it. Whether that is practical – and what kind of face Gortash makes when the army marches into his room – we’ll let you ponder for a bit.
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