 And we're back the next day. A lot of this is still fresh in my mind. I hope I haven't forgotten anything. I think where we left things we'd resolve that Thane does want a first aid tent, which we can buy him from here. We're gonna do that. Looking around again at what's going on. We have Isra holding the fort literally here at Solium against Malcolm. We spotted Septiana on a run, and she's not too far from our home. That's effectively our home there. Which is down here. So I think what we want to do, Planae is still to send Sam upstairs into the snow. I think with Thane, we can now give Thane the Factory army. He can go and challenge Septiana. So I think that works. I'm just wondering if there's more that we could give him, and I think maybe he's gonna end up, those gonna be gone, but I think maybe we could go for obsidian gargoyles against Septiana just because should have built those sculptors wings when I had the chance. Okay, there's the there's the upgraded. The obsidian gargoyles against her are gonna be quite good if we end up fighting her with Thane because of Cyclops liches. Okay, well, that's the main reason. Those are the main reasons. Okay. So We were ready to end the turn. Let's do that. No, hang on. I know that I think about it. Shouldn't she move? He's gonna go... She should be able to come a little bit further south, I think. Should be safe. Is Riste's here? Yep, that's fine. Okay, red goes back home. Malcolm runs away, unsurprisingly. Septiana is interested. Whoa, she's very interested. Okay. Just turn my audio up here. So that's very, very juicy. Okay, here's the portal. Here is... where is she? She is literally five hexes from here. Now if I want to, I can actually go and fight her right now with the Giants and Sam, I can use Sam to immediately kill her. So this is exploding the fact that Purple's never been through that portal. We get the jump on her. We get to use our best units. Why wouldn't I do this? Why wouldn't I? Of course, I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna use Sam to do it. Okay, it means we are delayed. I could use Thane and then Sam doesn't waste her movement. I need to think about this. So she may as well get moving. Start making those moves. Thane, what army is she going to use to do that? The Giants are here waiting to be upgraded. I've got 46 grand in the bank. I can use the automaton army, which is going to get buffed up here. I'm going to have engineers, armadillos, automatons. But I'm going to have Giants. Sorry, not Giants Titans as well if I get my way. Let's do the upgrade. Let's do what we said we were going to do. Upgraded Cloud Temple, are we ready to drop 20 grand and 30 gems? And a little bit of stone and wood. There it is. Now, how many can I actually upgrade? Come to here. Thane, come to here. Talk to Thane. Teach him chain lightning and teleport. That's amazing. Actually, I can use Thane to teach chain lightning now around. To everybody else. Have a centaur's axe. Thane and give me the gargoyles. Give me these as well. Actually, give me Thane Thane. I have that just for now and then give me these as well. That's a bit risky, but we're coming back. Coming back to you. Come into the town. Now, I have 16 Giants, which are too expensive to upgrade. It costs 48 grand to upgrade them. Okay, I didn't actually account for that properly. So what do I want to do? Do I want to upgrade half of them with all my money? I don't think I do actually. I'm coming back past here later anyway. So why don't we just beef out the other creature stacks that we know we want? Be wise. We know we're doing this. We're going to be using engineers. We're going to be using armadillo. We're going to do all this with that anyway. She's riding up here to go and do the fight. I'll come to here. Do I have news for you? Take everything. Take all this. When you hook up with Serena, you're going to get extra troops here. It's going to be an absolute crushing victory against Septiana, I hope. We are still using Giants for it then. Okay, this is just too good, right? So it's way too good. Am I missing anything here? I know I've got to get the first ATT and do all that stuff. I know that that's coming, but yeah, no, this is just good. That's 16 Giants. It's going to be amazing once we upgrade them. Would have been good to get Thane talking to everyone. I need to make sure that that does happen because he knows chain lightning and he knows how to teach it. Take these troops. My blessing. Sam jumps through the portal. Tons of moves and Septiana is toast. Septiana is absolutely toast. There's nothing you can do. Death ripple. Not going to bother me too much, I don't think. Yep, we'll just do this fight. Let's do it. Okay, so we're predicted to win. Yeah, let's have a look. 16 liches, 12 Cyclops. It's not too bad at all. I think we are going to handily win this one. Let's see if I've got what it takes. Now this combat music up here. I think it's something like this. So my plan would be the first turn she has with the Ghostrages depends what she does. If she flies up to block here, I can still fly over, land next to the liches and hit something with the Masters. She then has her turn. Dreadnights come up. Probably do hit the Masters, but then they leave themselves exposed. I don't think the giants are going to get any attention. So I'm kind of happy for them to just be in the middle of the park here. And if you in any way move your troops up into this area to defend the Cyclops and liches, you're in trouble. I think we're probably losing the Obsidians, the Armadillos, probably losing some genies, but see what she does. Starts off with a slow. She does go for the giant? Wow. Okay, so she's very much priced into attacking the giant now with everything else. I think that's a shame. Could go for a cast actually. See what I get. Like it would be nice to just destroy the Dreadnights and undo what she did. I think this keeps happening. I'm an expert water major, but I keep finding myself priced into good old haste on my doom stack. It's just too good. So now he's going to act next. He's going to walk up here, kill the Dreadnights. The vampires could stand here, but they can't actually stop the automatons unless they stand here. That would work actually. If the vampires stand here, they won't get to, my automatons don't get to block the lich attack. I'm actually just going to kill the liches. I could just kill the liches right now. And then none of that matters. Yeah, let's just do this. Look at the attack damage. Two and a half thousand damage with attack skill 29. Okay, I did lose two. Now it's this. I killed 13 of these with the automatons and there's a repair coming up. Happy with that. Save the vampire lords to last. It's only a small stack. Kill two to three. Let's just stay alive. I don't really want to offer this guy an attack. Let's just move to here. Wait on. And you can wait. Yeah, we do lose a giant. We lost two giants. Not a happy time. What? Why? I could lose more yet. She does run away. Losing two giants is actually quite bad. I worry that maybe I did waste them. Inviting that attack up front from the ghost dragons. I really didn't think the AI would go for them. I really thought the ghost dragons could pick any target they want. They'd go and pick on someone else. So that's a bit disappointing, actually. Anyway, I'm not taking... I don't want either of these for obvious reasons. And that's a... what a waste. That's a shame. Learning is beyond useless now, so take the artillery. That is disappointing. I don't have time for this, but I'm not too... I don't have a huge agenda on Cold Shadow. Tan is severely humbled and they're just going to get tidied up by someone else at some point. Dungeon doesn't synergize with anything else I'm doing. So just go back. That's disappointing, isn't it? It leaves a little bit of a sour taste in the mouth. Sebchana did get defeated, but I lost. Now if you stand there, can this girl go there? She can. All right, let's do the thing. Let's not forget this. We needed it and wanted to do this. And now I need you to get not only a... I need a ballista and a first aid tent. Okay, got both because all of a sudden against her will my main character is now a expert at artillery, apparently. Illustration. Sam is continuing her campaign south. We want to make sure that she speaks with Thane. Solmyr, you're kind of in the way. We're kind of both in the way, aren't we? Thane, I don't think has been in here, so let's do that. Gets the plus one knowledge. And why can't I afford that? Oh, it's because I already built something here today. Okay. Yeah, everyone's coming south. Do a bit of a meet and greet in the middle between our two runner heroes. Take the codles. Take these. Take the obsidian. And we're going to rebase Solmyr's troops, figure out what he's going to be doing. Yeah, let's figure out what the codle guy's doing. We'll come back in tidy this mess up. We can Solmyr and Serena, very, very inefficient all up together. We're going to pickle here because we want Thane to teach Sam chain lightning, which might not be as important as I'm saying. Are we ready to do this with Isra? We're looking to save our money. Wrong of dragonflies. We're going to lose quite a lot of sprites to this fight. Let's not do that. Just make that stack a bit more viable. Wrong of dragonflies. Should be okay. Shouldn't need too much more than this. Don't really want to buy these guys. Yeah, I'll lose a lot of sprites to this. So do it this way. Have this fight. Let's try to lose one. Not even close. Okay. I do have spell points to spend. I am a earth mage. Get 37 earth elementals now and I do that summon. Just do that. I'm not really interested in anything else. There they are, down here, the other stack. 37 elementals. That's pretty powerful. I think I'll go for this stack with the bone dragons. I'll wait with you. Come here with you. Water ellies. It's a reasonable stack to hit. Yep, go with that. 10 go down. Let's come here. That's good damage. Okay, that's hopefully going to do nasty damage to you. Finish them off. Just defend yourself I guess because I never quite got around to... Hey, cool that stack. There's no resurrection happening here. Nothing else I can do. There's no animate dead. Oops. Hang on. I must have selected hypnotize there. Yeah, no, no, no. There's nothing else I can really do. Yeah, so we did lose some stuff. Good experience. Interference. I think it's just okay. I'm going to take the logistics. Come across a conjurer who begs to accompany you and your army a while for safety. You agree. And he offers as payment a strange orb of the elements. Just going to take money. I think it's fine. What can Isra do? If I go through this portal, do I have the luxury of being able to do this with Isra? And that frees up the factory town. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I've already done that. You know, I'm kind of in the area anyway, right? Is this army good enough to deal with a throng of ogres? I think it is because I'm basically, I'm basically going to use Earth Elemental, right? For a lot of this stuff. Like these guys can get you, you know, you can just chew on some Earth elementals. Get all this stuff done. Actually, that's quite a valuable thing there. So I don't need an amazing army for that to work. The only problem with that is I leave no one at home. Who do I leave at home? Is that enough to stop Malcolm? Might be. Might be enough to dissuade him, yeah. Okay, I'm moving slow though with these 10. I should have left these at home. I'm not going to dismiss them. I'm not going to run back to get rid of them. Let's run to here for today and then we'll decide again tomorrow how important that is. Who else is there? Tamika is exploring. Just open this box with her. Well, let's say it's experience and stuff. No, I'm actually not going to. I'm going to leave it just in case all of one demons, kind of like her to come down and do that. She could drop the Earth elementals back here, bring all the sprites down with her and they can fly around and avoid a lot of the enemy when we do take on those other fights. The dragon flies are a special case. You've come to here. We saw Korbat go through that portal. Kind of feel like I want to find out more willing to waste Tamika on that mission of just finding out what's down here. Coming back to this problem. Come back there in a second. Out of runes of imminency, lots of ogres. But I know spells. To assist my five kottles. Get the job done. Blessing them. The stack is going to be nice. I can blind. I've got tons of spell points. Great. Amazing. You do have wisdom. No, you don't have wisdom. Learns practically nothing. Yeah, this should be fine. What? No. Really? Okay, so what are we likely to want to do here? Probably if that's the case, if it's as lopsided as that, we're going to want to blind and bless our way through this. Clancy has good spell power. So let's start by blinding something. Or wait here. I don't even need to attack this turn, actually. But I want to. How many do I kill with my alpha strike? Or what, eight? That's not very good, is it? Should I wait and just do nothing? I'm attacking. I'm not clear why the AI was so pessimistic. Look how much damage I did. I'm an absolute menace. You're out of the game. If I fly over there, you're out of the game. I mean, unless they get morale, how much damage are they doing on 13 against defense skill 29? How is the AI made this calculation? You're out of the game. How far can they move? Movement five on this terrain. Okay, I could blind him and kill that. I have spell points. Let's just use them. Well, look at them go. How hurt am I? Moderately not really. And bless is great on her, right? Yeah, bless is amazing. Why wouldn't she have high morale? Auto resolve. What are you thinking? Try the opposite, son. My boy, Clancy. Close by on a mountain edge, you see a mage trying to cast a spell. Fiery symbols are already flashing in the sky when he, while blinded by the light, trips and falls down. The mage perishes and you gather the chain of mysterious stones in your backpack. Poor guy. You know, that's a tragedy. You don't want to see or hear that. Like, guys up there practicing his art. Goes pear shaped. Need to beware. Magic is a fickle thing. This is a rescue take trying to, you know, follow the life of a spellcaster. She's coming down here. She's coming through here. So as long as you're in the area, you're staying the night. That's what's happening. I don't really know what I'm doing with her, to be honest. Both her and Solmira out of position. Solmira can just come to here. All right, happy with all this. No more buildings, maybe conflicts. Anything in the conflicts we want to build. Day two. We don't really, we want to kind of save our money up for Titans to try to get that bankroll up again. Yes. Okay, Sception is dead. Cost us two giants. I'm not happy. It wasn't a win in inverted commas. It doesn't feel like a win to me. Now I can give Serena the machines. Seems all right. Take the machines. Pass them on. Oh, potato. Sam comes flying through this region. She doesn't need to go to the mage guild again. But I am tempted to build another level on here, because that'll be level four. We might get, does she have wisdom though? Does she have enough wisdom, Sam? She does. Absolutely. Okay. So let's see what we get, because we're going to be able to teach it to, teach whatever's in here to her with Thane. We get clone. Okay, so cloning Titans is spot on. That's exactly what we were hoping for. This thing's still getting researched, yes. She doesn't want gremlins. So you now know clone, right? Good if you knew summon boat as well. But she doesn't. So, right. And have a word. There it is. Clone and chain lightning. Big Kahunas. Sam now knows them both. Okay. Now the plan was that these soldiers are going with Thane to explore and do things. And Sam was going to take these soldiers up into the snow to unlock everything that's up there, unlock the library, and then the other good heroes will follow in her footsteps when there's time. We want to upgrade these to Titans before she goes and does that. Oh, by the way, you love First Aid. That would have annoyed me if I'd messed that up. Happy with this load out. Take a couple of gargoyles for people to run around with. And the giants as well need to be upgraded. So I'm going to continue my run, and someone's going to bring me Titans tomorrow. Thane comes back. And with this army, can I smash through and do something fun and interesting elsewhere? Like this? I can. I can. He's a decent hero now. 44 and 77. That's back to being a decent stack. So it's a killable stack. This is just my utility gargoyles. It's a killable stack, but I have the surplus resources I need to be able to do this and do well. Now he can chain lightning, which deals nice damage. He has good spells. He isn't an expert in any school, but yeah, I think this will be a fun adventure. He can also come down and check all this region out, which has been left alone, I think. So let's come to here and then we'll decide what he's going to do. A little bit of lag in the galloping animation that's creeping in. Okay. Isra, your decision was about going and clearing this region out. And yeah, I think I like the idea of, I don't want to spend any more money there. Tamika, you, let's do Tamika. Free resources. Okay. I actually wanted to see what's through here, but that's fine. What about you, man? You've got some free resources. There we go. Find out what this is, I guess. Two slots left. You know, find out what it is. Now, time and again, I've asked, has this guy got wisdom? And I've been told no. So based on that, I'm going to say yes to this, actually. Now I'm going to go find out what that is. That's useful. That's actually good for him. That's good. All right. Are we still trying to bring factory soldiers down into the world? Are we really doing that anymore? Well, Thane is going through this portal. And to get him troops, I'll have to gallop up to here, down under here. Maybe, right? I don't want to have no one. I don't want to have no one back at the factory. So go ahead and do that, man. Do this. Yeah, this is good. This is all right. I feel like actually we could get the, we could get more war machines for other people as we're going, coming through here. Right, who's next? Isra. So I'm not sure whether I should invest further. I'm going back. Let's get the sprites. I think the sprite pile, that's a reasonable investment because it's 1500 bucks. It's practically nothing. Earth stays at home. We'll be summoning our own. The only other question then is these fire elementals, which I think I will also leave at home. I think this stack with summon earth elemental being spammed will be enough to do the jobs that are on the other side of here. There is some other stuff I need to get her to do, actually, all down around here. I don't have enough. I don't have enough for all that. I don't need wyverns. I'm not going to bother with that one. I'd rather get the scout off. Let's go do that. All right, our runner heroes, kind of struggling to figure out where I want them to position. She's in this area here. Serena, Solmyo's here. We have to decide what Clancy's doing with his life. What can I do with these five codles while we're waiting? The only problem with that is the codles. But if I come down, I'll grab the codles back off here. Yeah, let's do that. Let's stay in the area. Give me those and give me these, actually. You take that. Okay, so what I'm going to do is send Solmyo just down here to do things, do stuff and things. A3. Come on down. That's okay. I'm not spending money because I really want the Titans working. Hang on, have I messed up? I have, haven't I? So from the time I started the turn to the time I finished the turn, I forgot what I was doing. So what she's supposed to be doing is I need a hero here to get the Titans down to Sam. So Sam's going to have to backtrack to pick them up now. I'm not going to be able to afford them all though, so there's a trade coming. Hello. Isra! Come back! Isra! I was back here. Allagar fancies his luck now that he's got some dragons to back himself up. There's no Titan upgrading because we've moved out of position because we're greedy. Can I get back? I might as well try. Pretty low regret. I can't get back. Gee, look at that. Nearly. There's also Astral. This is a good opportunity. If the AI miscalculates and thinks either of these heroes think they can take me, I'm going to be earth elementally and all that stuff from behind the walls. It's pretty nice. So I think I just have to turtle here now. This was always the frontier. Both factions are watching. Both factions have seen that it's weak. So yeah, that was actually good intuition that Isra is needed in the area. We don't have the luxury of going down doing these jobs. Lucky that the AI revealed itself though, when it did. So I'd love to go and kill Astral, but it's very difficult. I'd love to chew up some of those mighty Gorgons. We do need to just turtle and invest in the complex, but that's absolutely fine. Happy to make these investments. These guys are actually going to be really good now, and we don't need... I don't know what happens to the Firebird. We might lose it if they attack us. I'm not going to do anything with it right now. Skelly stacks too big to say no to. We should stay like this. Okay, dragons fly over. Dragons are in the middle of the park. They fly over and smash. Don't really want them to smash these. I'll keep these on the edge. I think I'd rather they smashed one of the dopey elemental stacks. What else can I do to help the defense of the town? Hmm. Not a lot. Six of these isn't better than any of these stacks, but I don't think either hero is going to want to take this on. I think we win that fight. And unless he can teleport the Gorgons over, yeah, we're pretty strong against both of them, even in an open contest now. So I think that's all right. Well done, Isra. Hold the line, man. Hold the line. Now, I apologize, Sam. I've messed up, but at the same time, I can't afford this. I just can't afford to do it. This mission that she was supposed to go and do with all the Titans. I don't need tons of Titans to get past this. So it's with reluctance that I think. Okay. Well, let's do it then. There they are. Seven Titans join the team. Seven giants. Do I want to go one more if I can afford it? I guess so. All right. It's all a bit lopsided. Get these runner stacks upgraded. I mean, unless I... How much more money do I need? Right? 18 grand. I need to find 18 grand. Can just about get there. Is that reckless? Where's the trading post? There was a trading post around here somewhere, wasn't it? It's up here. Is that worthwhile? A bit of a waste of his time? I don't think that's a waste of his time. I think that's useful. He's got so many moves. I know it looks like it's ages away, but let's try to make this happen. I don't want half and half, you know? I've got to find another 10 grand here. Come on, what can we do? Which is the one I'm really going to miss the most? I don't need the gems as much now. Mercury is needed by the factory for the good stuff that's there. 18 and a half, that's about what we needed. Boom. Actually, in the end, Sam just has to turn around. Serena, I'm surprised you made it this far, but thank you for the gridded teeth. Serena acknowledges Sam and goes on a merry way. Don't do that, Sam. Whatever you do, don't do that. Later bird of luck. Do I have time to do this fight quickly? Just for that shield? Or am I in too much of a hurry? I need someone running behind me. So Serena could do that job. Come with. We both jump through the portal together. Because in the snow upstairs, I don't know if I get a movement bonus because Sam isn't a tower hero. I don't know actually how that works. I think she does enjoy movement through the snow with no penalty. Yep, let's do that. And now, yeah, I can get back down. At least, that's worth doing. Yes, and take the freebie. Don't need to lose anything. Oh, if you don't want to do that, let me just switch to manual combat mode and I'll walk over and kill them. Why shoot at long range when I can just actually walk over? And I would like to see the battle log. I should have checked how much damage was that actually. You come upon a bridge spanning a dry gully. As you begin to cross a gigantic mad and ogre appears from the other side in charges, forcing you to raise one eyebrow towards your titans, slaying it dead. You decide to take its shield as a trophy. Sam's becoming a little bit arrogant. I think she's just starting to get a little bit big for her boots. Defense plus five, not quite as good as this, but pretty good nonetheless. Was this a waste of my time? I'm so important, I'm not even gonna get that all. That's how arrogant I am now. One cool thing that could happen here is we can start getting these artifacts back to the team. So even if Solmere was to do that now, I could quickly grab the shield I could be ready to, after she's got these boots and maybe whatever comes out of here if we can do this fight and start faring it back. I'm not, we're not really needed anymore as I don't have to do this job. You get this and then he comes down here. It's okay, right? I know it's a bit sacrilegious to use Solmere as a runner, but that's what's needed. Isra's here doing this, you're here, you've done that, you can leave now. Thank you very much for that clan. See that was actually really, really good. Day four, yeah, we're gonna do the Derek regular weekly visit to see how Derek's getting on. Tamika useful, should have diagonalized my run there, that was a mistake. Okay, let's do this. Sure. Map's so big. Okay, we're safe for now. Thane's adventure. I think I want Thane to poke his head through here. I like him to have the Wayfarer's boots actually. Why don't we see what this is? Yeah. Okay, I can't right-click and see his thing. I think he has one slot left. I think I want a School of Magic for this guy. Hideous Mask is useful, there could be a School of Magic up through here. I think while the getting's good, it's worth getting. There's a hovel there that'll slow me down. Peasants, Narga Bank. Lots of Dendroid soldiers. I'm pretty optimistic about that fight. We'll try it. Thane's first adventure. Only 30. Got a good chance here. Everyone waits. I want to protect that first aid tent. It's a shame we can't carry back up first aid tents in the Horn of the Abyss, they have less HP. 75 HP, they're very, very easy to kill. Which isn't great for the first aid enthusiast. Come on up here. I kill nine. I just want to make sure I'm stacking my repair properly. I've got lots of interesting spells, but they're all big, powerful spells and I'll be tired quite quickly if I use them. So this is just a kill. This is just a straight kill. I don't get why the auto-resolver kill you, you walk. I could also do this. Let's do that. Well, maybe I can finish things off if I come to here. How appropriate is this? Flamethrower, is she standing next to the searing hot lava? Tomatons come round from the flank. The engineers come to follow up with... A kill? No, it's not definitely a kill and their crack back deals 10 to 14 damage per model. I have defense 13 against your attack nine. It's not a no brainer and I've positioned myself stupidly so that if I wait you'll come and kill me. Okay, I've actually missed this art. You can't help. Okay. Well, and for a penny, we could just make sure of things with a few spell points here. I keep hitting this button to go back a page, but what I actually want to do is this. Who just bless them, right? Bless will get the job done easily. And he'll recover those five spell points very quickly. Why take a chance five spell points in exchange for maybe two engineers? Excellent. 1950 valuable experience. Let's continue your own thing. Go, mate. Useful. We're run out of money. Is Israel going to have to defend? I'm very confident anyway. I'd quite like the AI to attack me. No, I think it's twice. There's two different red heroes out here. Unfortunately, they get the box. So that was push. Wow. Welcome to the team. Alligator. Welcome to your death. Oh, yeah. I love these fights. I love it when it does this. It's just such a bad misjudgment. Yeah, yeah. All right. How many did I lose nearly all of them? All right. I've got bad news for you, mate. I think it's Earth Elemental. Earth Elemental just helps me get all this stuff dead quickly. It's the best thing. Where did it appear in the wrong place? Okay, that stinks. Can I just come down here for this to start with? I can't see a big downside to that. One thing I would vote to go back to the way it used to be. I don't like the flashing storm elementals. I think it's a bit of a distraction when there's a really bright green highland kind of environment and then on top of that it's quite a bright experience and a bit distracting as they're constantly flashing and I'm trying to sit here and concentrate. Don't want to sound like I'm criticizing the Horn of the Abyss in any way because I am an absolute awe of it. I love it. That would be one thing I would change. What happened there? Did they get shot? I feel like they did. Now, who wants to take the retaliation from the dragon? It's not going to be me. I don't really want to be me. I think it's the skeletons, right? I think we centralize with these fellows. Very little downside to that move. And yeah, we want to take a retaliation here. Skeleton stack goes down. First aid does some things. I'm now ready to attack with these. I'll just make sure we don't offer him any dragon breath. That's a safe square. How do you feel about a slap in the face? Because that's what's coming. One Goldie perishes. Baby hit me one more time. Like a boom. Pathetic. Oh, okay. Most of the sprites died. There's only three left now. Do we go for that or do we wait for the wyverns? Alligar's cast his spell. I have more earth elementals I can summon. What else do I want to do? I can maybe blind the wyverns. Weaken them somehow. I wish I was expert at earth. That would be good. Lining the wyverns, I think that's pretty good because I'm running out of bodies to throw it at this anyway and it's nearly dead. That's a nuisance for him having wasted his. The Cape of Silence prevents Isra from casting first and second level spells. Okay, I think... I was reading the documentation. The recantor's cloak is banned. I thought this thing was banned as well by default so I'll need to check my template. Obviously it isn't. So neither of us can do first or second level. Okay, so we're constrained to just third level. Well, landmine's not much use. Hypnotize will affect no one. That's actually kind of hilarious. Actually that's not bad. On the fire elementals turn I could hypnotize these guys just for fun. So I'll do that on my turn. I think I'm just a head staying put doing this with no retaliation. Bone dragon. Just wait. This guy should just wait. We have to figure out which stack's taking the hit. It's probably the 42 stack that's taking the retaliation. These guys waste their time. Yeah, so on the fire elementals turn let's do this. Whoever casts hypnotize, I'll tell you. All goes. You are under my command. Oh, look at this. Who do you want to kill? The Wyverns. Yeah. Okay, that's actually quite bad. All right, so this is probably the end of my time as a undead. Lord of the Undead. We're really running out of undead now. That's okay. You're doing your job though. So this is the stack that doesn't come back to life afterwards. So that's why I want you to take the retaliation. Solid, man. Hardly any bodies. There's a dog pile on this thing now. There's only one left. Is this a good attack? Not really, actually. How fast am I? I'm speed nine. I'm gonna shoot first anyway. So let's just kill it. Just defend. Get that shot away. Lovely. I mean, I thought this was an absolute gimme. I didn't actually think it would be this close. Do I want more earth elementals? I'm gonna just attack them with everyone beforehand. Let's just do that. I mean, the sprites aren't really a viable stack, particularly another earthquake. Isn't good enough. Am I throwing bony drone away? I think I am. It's not a viable stack anymore. Use that for the retaliation. Will we summon now? I can't think of a reason not to. It's pretty good. Let's smack them up. Stand there to do it. I still have my grand elves. So that's, I have to say, that's an AI. I don't know if that would have been true in the vanilla game as well, but how have you not run over here? How have you not run over here and killed the hypnotized unit? Maybe you're not allowed to? Is that a thing? So if the AI hypnotizes my unit, am I allowed to attack it? I wonder if it's not allowed to, because if that's the case, it's a more powerful spell than I realized. Ah, that was silly of me. Centralize here. I mean, the Y event is nearly dead anyway. Doesn't matter too much. Now these guys can't get to them. Can they? One, two, three, four, five. They can. Cool. Come here. Kill them. Goodbye. Waving your hoofs around at it won't solve the problem. Wait. Yeah, just Earthquake. I'm useless. I'm not leaving. My fortress item. In the meantime, I'm just gonna kill you. Your stuff. I'm cool. I don't think I need to do anything. Maybe that's arrogant of me, but what else can I do? Just keep summoning. So it's gonna get a bit boring now, guys, and I'm sorry. You're gonna have to watch me just arrow tower this army down. Try to go as fast as I reasonably can. No, that'll help accelerate things. Oh, I missed that. That was stupid of me. Sorry, folks. That was a waste. There's an absolute waste of soldiers there. That square is supposed to be filled by, and then we need another one here. So the walls are in tatters, to be fair. Okay, the unicorns are actually acting next, which is really annoying, so I'll throw these guys away. Oh, okay. Yeah. How many of you are left? 35. I'll do with you. Well, just come here in case, because the two hex body, they're not gonna be able to move off that. I don't know what they're doing. Does this mean Orange is in desperation mode? Shouldn't he have fled by now? Yeah, see, those guys aren't coming back anyway. These grand elves have been amazing for me. Defend, just defend. Terrible morale means that he doesn't... Does the bad morale mean he also doesn't take damage from the mode? I wonder if that happens. If he frees in combat while standing on a moat, do you take damage? So my biggest regret is I lazily let the fire elementals die. Yeah, he's committing suicide. Let's make sure of things here. Just wait. Wait with all this. Can you run around here and attack him? Because this stack is useless anyway to me. They're gonna die. Yeah, that doesn't matter though. They're just summoned. Oh, okay. Now, so the arrow tower attacks them, and I can attack them. So what happens if I run out into the middle here? The satisfaction of that hypnosis. Using them to murder all of their own army and then marching them to their own death was extremely satisfying. That was great. That was really good fun. I love that. I think these 14 are fake losses. These are all real low. So the undead army is history and so are the sprites, but I mean, we completely annihilated Alagar and we get all of his stuff. Here's the Cape of Silence. Okay. Armor of the Dread. There's another dragon thing. We should keep a track of that. Wayfarer's boots are good. Implosion is something that Isra is going to enjoy casting an awful lot. That's fantastic. I mean, that's amazing. Boots are good. These things don't matter. Oh, Implosion plus orb. Alagar. Why didn't you cast Implosion? You only have power six? Ladybird. Like somebody wants that. This is good. Isra isra happy. I don't think archery matters. But this girl and what she's doing, I can't move things around in this view. I'm currently looking at orb of silt to go with the orb of the firmament. I'm trying to work this out. Does she want archery? Let's take the ballistics. I think it's ballistics. Okay. Purple challenge is 10. That's what we like to see. Not a serious challenge. Okay. There's the one to four black dragons we saw in the Den's Den earlier. Great hold, Isra. You start to feel like you're turning the screw on them when that kind of thing happens. That's really, really good. Now there are two red heroes here. There's girl wolf the loser and astral the okay guy. So I could now gallop forth safely, try to challenge astral down here, unlock this. Now that I'm a fully blown complex hero, obviously leave these at home. Six psychic elementals to help defend as things stand. And how good is this? How actually good is this? Not very, right? I've taken a pretty big haircut. There's chaos hydras in there. I just don't need to do that. Should bear in mind, we should make use of this as well. We should be using this to get back. You know, when we're visiting, if we want to go back to the tower or something, remember that that's there. Don't really want to leave the skeletons behind. Yeah. Yeah, I think this is fine. You just go get this and then we can kind of straddle like we can stay in range of the town and maybe do this and this. It's not the most glamorous thing in the world for how to do it. Let's do it. Can I beat a horde of vampire lords with this army? Do I want to do that? Should have brought the other firebird with me if I was going to do that, right? I mean, I'm going to be summoning. We know she can get to there and get back tomorrow, right? So we know that that's safe. Let's do that instead. Agar has jobs to do as usual. Derek Smith. Derek Smith asks, how's Derek Jones getting on? And Agar's like, she hasn't been out to him. I don't know. He's been out there next to the waterhole on his own for the last few weeks. So someone needs to do a welfare check on Derek Jones at some point. Only question. Do we, not visit, do we want any stronghold for our journey south, east? What are here actually? Is this, we don't know what this is. Let's find out what that is. Yeah. Do we want any stronghold? I think the answer's no, but then again, it's only 15 grand to get all this plus I could get the kings and I could leave the rest of the town unhired. Isn't that a good composition? Tons of kings. So 21 kings, six ancient behemoths and seven totals. It's a bit of a ragtag bunch. Decrease enemy like by one. The types of things I'm good at are archery and offense. So I love dealing damage. The only problem is the behemoths. Maybe you're tied on the slow side and I do have teleport, but I'm not very good. I think it's actually worthwhile. We don't need all these creatures here to defend this grail town. You know, you could bring these down while you're at it actually. Stockpile those because it's just there's no risk to this. There's no movement of any hero in this region. If there's a portal here and someone comes galloping through your core back or something to kill me, I'll still have notice though. Look how far away it is to the stronghold. Clancy, Sam, let's talk about you. What are you up to? You're going to do this. Oh, hey, one thing I do want to do is this, meaning to do that. Keep forgetting. Now, lots of okays. Lots of okays are going to die to me easily and I'm going to stand here because I want to stand on the utopia. Oh, another glitch there. That makes me worry. It makes me worry that I'm going to see a crash at some point. The okays, awed by the power, I'm going to say yes and that's not happening. Well, maybe it will actually. All right, I might have messed up here. I might actually be losing some genies after all. It might actually be worse than what the thing says. Let's find out. So, I want to start piling this with beneficial spells. Precision kills most of them. Do we just do this? I could walk over and make sure of it, but then I do get a crack back. And that damage, well, how much damage is that? 15 times, depends if they do the devour corpses thing though as well, which could be a bit of an issue. All right, let's just do this. Okay, I only killed five. Make these guys good. Yeah, let's go now because I have to just hit the defend button here. Blister shoots. I didn't cast a spell. I don't think that's wrong though. Look at all the stuff I'm going to be doing now. Keep seeing if you can haste these girls, I think, because the Titan is going to walk down and kill that. I'm looking for haste. What do you have now? Is that frenzy? She still can't get there though. Come on. Do this. I can do this just from here. Okay, do it. I'm still trying to get haste off on this, although can I get there? I can't. So what if I haste it you instead? It's much of a muchness. Doesn't matter now. Shield. Would you please give her haste? Haste. Oh man, so I haven't done this in, I feel like years actually, made a proper pile of annoying little spellcasters and really abused that. It's so much fun. Let's get the Wayfarer's boots. You meet a wanderer and rugs on a shallow path. He offers to exchange your cape for his old boots. You agree without much enthusiasm. As he disappears over the horizon, you realise the advantage. I feel like that's happened already. In either this campaign, was it in the failed campaign when I died on week three? It might have been. Anyway, that has happened to me recently. Now with the Utopia, the dragons are all around us. They're going to act before us and we're going to take a bit of a hit. So what do we want to do here? Do that? Okay, several green, several red, not much of anything really. Okay, so let's cancel. I don't really want them individually killing the genies. I feel like the genies aren't going to have as much time and discretion to do that thing they were just doing before. We're going to want to use each of these stacks to just go and kill things as soon as they get a turn to do so. But we are going to be losing some, probably gargoyles at least if not. Is there any way out of that? What else can I do? Speed 11 is faster than a green dragon. We are going to just have to take the hits. Yeah, there's gargoyles. Let's see, let's see if we can do better. I don't know if we can. Yeah, they're all just going to pile in here. We might get a turn though. That's the end of view. And this kills five. Should we bless everyone maybe? Just to make sure of things. Yeah, bless everybody. That kills three of you. It kills both of you or one of you. Damage 591. I'll just kill that. Does the black dragon get to attack again? That's quite bad. I probably should have split these into two stacks once I saw that load out because I deal, I massively overkill the the greenies. Is this better? Do this, take retaliation. How bad's the retaliation? Two times 45. I will lose. I will lose a genie if I do that. 151. No, just defend yourself, man. I don't think there's much I can do about this now. We have to take one more dragon breath, sadly. Well, I suppose they hate each other. So last one. I just don't think interference is good enough. Dampening implosion. My titans might be quite nice. That's okay. I'm trying to think of the other things I could get instead. I think it's a school of magic I'd like to hold out for. Okay, cool. I get all these things. 20 grand. Cape of conjuring. And now I can actually summon and destroy boats. That's good, because I cannot find summon boat to save myself. Eagle eye skill. See, that's really good. So if I stand here quickly, this is just nothing, right? But someone else could come and do that job quickly with the army while I'm preparing to run back up that way. Yeah, do that. Soulme gets a chance to actually do something fun and interesting. Yeah, just give them 14 titans. That should be enough. Now, the whole idea is though, give me these other things as well, right? So attack and defense by three or defense on its own by five. The sea captain's hat. Someone else will be able to summon a boat now. That's quite good. Duration of my spells go up by three. That might matter. I might keep that on me. Okay, now pal, you're coming back to me in a, like literally a heartbeat. So don't get too comfy. Well, now I feel a bit stupid, because I could have done this with 220 form. I actually want to keep going here. I'm going to beat a horde of griffins just with this. I feel stupid now. Are you helping? Not really. I have coattails though as well. So I'm not really supposed to be doing that. I'm supposed to be helping these guys. How can I help? What could I do? I can't really do anything. A sloppy, a horde of royals. I'm not a damage dealing person. So I've, idiotically, I need the titans for this to be, to be safe. So I am going to have to just waste this movement point. 300 odd movement points. It's actually really, really bad. I'm too busy. I'm too busy helping the team with this other stuff. I could still come to here though. Somiya does this. I'm not going to free that prisoner. Somiya comes. I don't need both of you. Do you need the lady bird of luck? Who has that? Isra has the lady bird. That's, that's a quest item. I like casting first and second level spells. So I have to decide what we're doing with that. The boots are very good for Isra as well. I probably should have put them on. She's going to move over that rough terrain better. The implosion or all the stuff. So nice. So nice. So yeah, I don't know what to do with this girl. Yeah, just centralize. I think for now, just centralize. I'm not really sure what Serena's doing. Tameka is just continuing her run. There's a skeleton transformer there. Well, look at the art on that thing. One more look. Some kind of workshop or whatever. I want you to tell me, well, I know what's up here, there are people I can't beat. Okay, well then, you might as well just keep going down this way. Two-way monoling. Happy for her to do what Jabarkas did earlier. Just gallop around looking at things, stealing things until you get killed. You meet a traveling circus on your way. One of the artists had such a deaf disguise that you have drawn, one of the artists had such a deaf disguise that you have drawn a sword ready to defend yourself. It appears that a pretty actress was hiding behind the mask, laughing, she gifts you the mask. The hideous mask decreases enemy morale by one. Quicksand, it's quickly thrown in the bin, and I only have one left with this guy. Yeah, oh, let's just see what it is. Yeah, I think so. Let's be air magic. We know chain lightning, right? He's a genie. It works. It's what we wanted. It's probably exactly what we wanted. What else can you do for me down here in this interesting little area? So sometimes it can be the case you see enemy heroes running around in here without revealing it, but they were just wicklings like Tamika, and they didn't do anything. So yeah, this black tower might be untaken as well. That's dragons. I don't remember what the prize is though. I think it's quite a good prize. Okay, great. Well, do we need to spend any money anywhere? The only thing I'm thinking is maybe the pyre to start saving up. Firebirds, now that we do need to kind of defend against red properly. I've got time to decide that. Tons of time. They're miles from home at the moment. Only other thing I could think to do is put Serena behind the walls, and that would allow Drury to come out, but I've already moved Clancy there now. So the value of that goes away. You can come down there and get this. I think that's worthwhile. I just don't have much for her to do as things stand. She needs to go down and get ready for day one, but Clancy can actually do that on his way just about. You can stand at the cloud temple. So I think this is all fine. That's something we need to do. We'll start investing in this tomorrow. So 6600. It's 11k for them, and it's only 18k for them. How good value. I should have enough money for all that tomorrow. Drury, Drury, Drury, come do this. I mean, this isn't a very important play. It just doesn't matter all that much, right? He's coming in to get that tomorrow anyway, having made that decision. So I don't know. Let's just invest in some Drury. I mean, whatever. A bit of time that we've got out in the land. We may as well use it, learn something. Okay, that's fine. Shame about Sam's Bottlement. Shame about that. What happened there? Dimension Door on that hero? Astral has Dimension Door? Okay, that just got a whole lot scarier. Okay, as long as he's in this area though, he can't really do us too much harm, but he's going to be hard to tag that means later in the game. Day 6. Agar makes his weary way across the desert once more. This guy, his whole idea is going to pop in here, and he was going to buy up all the stuff. He's going to ferry them back with his amazing archery he was going to get Kings and Behemoths. And we're going to leave the town with just this army here to build up over time. Is it worth doing that? No, probably not. I have 24 shots. It's just so difficult for that to matter. Do I want to take another stack with me? Who would it be? I don't think I do. No, I want to leave these guys behind. Don't need to speak to Drury again. I can pop here. That's actually worthwhile even though it's out of my way. I never got done, but I don't think I can. I've got time actually. The forces surged the graveyard reluctantly without any luck. Morale degrades, that's quite... actually got the glyph of gallantry balancing it out. Three different troop types as things stand, so... all right, now Isra, you've got plenty of moves because of the boots of the Wayfarer? Yes, and don't be ridiculous. I can't be bothered. That's probably a bit lazy to move it. Can't get back now, but I think the town is safe for now. So we'll use the time to do this. Vile of lifeblood. I don't think that matters too much. Horde of Empire Lords. The swiftness is good, but can I beat this? Without getting pummeled? I can because I know inflation, and I have the orb of silt not equipped. That's right, I'm amazing now having beaten Alagar. I think we can do that. I'd like to not have this firebird, but... no, no. Yeah, but inflation's happening. Ah! Well, all right. A bit of a shame, actually. Can't blind them. Yeah, yeah, does plenty of damage to them. I just wish they were plumbed up a bit better. What else can I do? 410? Is that even enough? Okay. Well, expert shield would be nice, but I think it's just this, right? Wait on. Misses no morale. And, well, I can actually form a ring around these guys. Yeah, let's do that. Only the firebird gives them life. So he's the one we kind of want to keep safe. We can't keep him safe from that stack. So I just don't know if this is any good. Like the crackback. Does the crackback just neutralize? So on my turn, I'm going to implode that stack. So the firebird could hide up here. Yeah, this is all we can do. Yeah, that's actually fine, right? That's not too bad. I'm not too upset about that. If we weaken that stack, we might be able to get in. Skeletons are worth trying to preserve. But I might use the water elementals. 9 perish. That's pretty good. Can the firebird get to him? You can, actually. Yeah, this is alright. I don't really want to do another info. Do I lose one? No. Can I do this safely? Yes, I can. Oh, does the firebird not breathe over two hexes? Is that hex vulnerable to a firebird or not? Has that been changed? He's down to five. Will that just be cheeky? Magic arrow finishes it. Thank you. Tactics is nice, though. Tactics is very nice for her. Still have a slot left over. Why is tactics nice, you ask? Well, if I'm conflux, I can arrange my skeletons and earth elementals and stuff around defending these guys, which are going to be the archers. Firebirds don't need it, though. Oh, it's close. I'd love to have the tactics, but I just feel like that's going to take too many dividends too quickly to say no to. It's a box there. Do we have time? I'm going to risk it. Don't be ridiculous. Well, expert earth magic now. So at least I get to do expert slow. That's a good start, right? So I get to shoot them to Kingdom Cum for a while. Yeah, do this. Oh no, it does blast over two hexes there, as you can see. Oh no. Oh, bad morale is very bad. How do I keep them alive? It's really bad. Oh dear. Just shield them. It's either that or implode one of them. It's probably better to implode and hit that stack as hard as you can. I think we're losing the Firebird. Good offer up. Try and suggest you guys come this way. Hey, come over this way. Look at me. No luck. No. Here it comes. Do we lose her? No. Oh, HP remaining. Wow. Talk about lucky. So that is all because we visited the graveyard and this thing's got negative morale now. But the avoidance of doubt I am getting out of here. How lucky was that? I'll take that though. Some good luck. Always goes a long way. Keep shooting people. These guys have no morale anyway. And the spell lasts forever. So just wait in the area. We're going to use the lightning elementals to do all the heavy lifting. This is good though because it does mean as well that the prize we're fighting for might be quite good. He doesn't actually have flying that fellow. So let's just make sure there's plenty of room to escape. And your wins can close all you like. That's not going to help you. Happy with this? Kill them. Kill these ones. Do nothing. Shoot. Shoot here actually. Damage output on these is great, but I am attack 14. We get too excited. Just get out of the way here. Wait on. How good is slow, man? Expert slow. Water spell. Missed that. Okay. They can fly. What did I lose? Did I lose one? I lost one, didn't I? One water le perishes. That's on me. That was not necessary to lose that one water elemental. You're back here in safety. These are dead. Yeah. Managing things okay now. She comes to there. Do I want to do that? Don't need to. Yeah, I don't need to because the shot comes first. That's one key thing about storm elementals. The high speed combos with the fact that they are high attacking arches. Because they get to do their thing. Soften up the enemy before your melee units go in. It was too often it's the case with slower shooters like orcs and stuff. You've got to wait with all of your melee guys so that the enemy is soft. So the orcs then shoot and then at the end of the turn you get to move your melee guys. Because it's lovely to have that option. It's like having speed on your ranged units. Makes a pretty big difference. Right. Get more skeletons. This is going to be a good box or will it be a lopsided one? Let's see. 15 grand. Very worth it. But I hang out in position so let's see if we get punished. I don't think orange has anything for us. Find out though. Yeah, to me, yeah. Find out. Oh right. Oh hey, Thane. Check it out. She's waving to him from the other side of the portal. Where is this here? Do you want to bring Thane here? Not really. Bring control of this area. Frontier with red. What was he going to do though? He was going to go through this portal actually. So to make it maybe you could continue the exploration down here. It's going to consider the black tower actually. That might be curse. No. Oh you're kidding. There was a downstairs all along. Clancy, there is a downstairs over here you moron. You didn't look properly. Clancy has made so many boneheaded decisions over the course of this campaign. Check this out. What is it? Can I beat that? Yeah, I'm faster than the Nagas. This doesn't bother me. There are no queens. Okay, let's kill this one. Going to come out of the way. It's great the armadillos do get a move for them as well. Over here. All really big, big spells and I don't particularly want to cast. I don't have to. No morale, no morale. Yeah, let's throw these guys in. Let them get damage. We're going to repair them. We're going to control the repair at the end. I think that's fine. I think we've blessed these girls before for higher profit. Right, damage two to five. They love being blessed. Keep your arms away. Get them dead. Loving it, loving it. I'm doing much, offering much. Totally fine with this. It's not a problem. Do that. Wait on, wait on. Do nothing. Repair. Just love that and then finish. Great. Beautiful, beautiful. Well, 14. Very, very nicely done then. I think it's dragons and we aren't very well suited to that. We are going to lose engineers. It's going to hurt. Oh, what's that pyramid? Tomb of curses. Is that mummies? I have to beat mummies or something. Let's do this. Let's just see what this is. Okay, yeah, it's one black dragon. That's right. Observatory down here. Did I get the pillar of? I think that observatory is going to be quite good. Let's get that. Thane, you're doing good work. Your adventure is going well, man. Congratulations. Learn wisdom. A wise man once said, always check the edge of the region in case there's an underground area. Jury's hanging out here just in case she's needed. Titans are busy doing stuff. Sorry about that, Sam. Are you looking for these? 14 premier troops? Yes, I was. You fool. Show some respect, Sam. He's the greatest spellcaster in the history of all magic. Let's, yeah, let's clump around up here every pretty quickly. It's pretty good. Actually, I think that's probably the priority. That's probably the priority is to keep smashing the Nagas until I get haste, because look what that does. That just unlocks two. I've got two dooms daks, effectively. I'll throw away the lightning. Right. I'll get it. You meet an old admiral at the tavern after a couple of hours full of tales about glorious battle and days long past, he gifts you his parade shield. Defense by seven, that's the pairing of the Trident. Pairs with the Trident. I think it would be cool if there was a combo artifact for these, but I don't think there is one. I think, actually, Isra has the armor. Yeah. They kind of all go together, but there isn't a combo artifact. I did look it up. Dorm plus seven to defense, or plus three to the other two things. You know, let's take this. Let's take that. Okay. Somme is tired, so you're going to need to continue on your own. There's the artifact, the cape again. I think I would rather that I like the recantus cloak being banned because it's nothing worse when you've got a really good hero of magic with emplosion and stuff. And it's like, the recantus cloak prevents you actually doing anything, like it really stinks. Wrong with storm birds. It goes down. Okay, so they've got the acids. Didn't think they'd be quite split up this way, but it's okay. Speed nine. Hmm. Okay, I'm not sure about this one. I don't quite like the way they're spread out. I'm worried that might have messed up. Is it better to try to improve the morale or they're already on triple, triple morale anyway? Trying to get haste. What's that frenzy? Okay, so they're well and truly. So is that a kill? It's not actually a kill. All right. It's not, but it's something. Keep trying for haste. Counter strike. Why don't you wait? They hurt. They're good. All right, no morale. I get to wait now with her, do I? She's speed eight against their speed nine, surely. Yeah, she can wait, but there's no pointless. All right, just defend. Shoot something. Whoa, gobalista. That feels like it's almost been buffed, dare I say. He'll 22 of these with my genies. I don't really want to. I can move him out of the way again next turn. So how about we cast a spell instead? There's haste. Okay, so she acts first. Titans are going to kill that stack. I'm worried that this stack gets a hit on the Nagas, which is bad. There might have been a better way to do that. So now you can't help. You won't be alive to help. Oh, they just crumple. Sorry, there's one. Yeah, you can't get me. Wait on here. Shoot. That ballista's great. I feel like I wait. I had to cast bless and slow, so that wasn't great. Yeah, down to 54 spell points is all right. A glint of golden light catches your eye upon further investigation. You find a golden helm under a bush. Not just any helm though. This looks pretty. Wow. Okay, so you kind of want to take this off in combat, right? Let's leave it on for now, but when we go into combat, we probably want to take it off. Sort of try to get the spell points building up, but then, yeah, let's go up here. We can easily do this, and I suggest we do. We didn't come here to mess around, did we? Yeah, let's keep going. Great. Jumping in here, I think, we're surrounded by vampire lords. Let's do this. No, that's fine. That 40 is just going to be terrible against this. Die immediately now. I think I was interested in basic earth. Yeah, let's take earth magic. Even though that's quite good for us too, but let's do that. Ooh, having defeated them, I get the angel feather arrows. I don't know, Archery, but someone else might want that. Come to here and Solmia will get the stuff that's there. Seems okay. Another thing there. Yes, pursue. Should be easy though, right? No, I just start combat now. Start fleeing there. This is silly. I don't know why it was telling me I lose gargoyles to this. It's just, it must just do a raw power calculation and just say, oh yeah, it's not a gimme, you know? Now I've got a queen. It's so good. I love artillery now. It's been buffed. It must have been buffed. Killing 12 ogres with advanced artillery. That's fantastic. It's so good. It just seems so much stronger than it used to be. I could be wrong, but anyway, it's getting on for lunchtime here. I need to, I need to restock. I might see you guys later on. Hey, folks, welcome back. Later the same day. I think we're ready to hit the end turn button, weren't we? I think everything's in place. Everything's in order. I don't know who that is, that purple guy. All right, just do a reverse order here. Who is the purple fellow? Fant. Okay, Fant's getting close to my base. He's very, very weak. The biggest story is Red think they own this territory. Here he is, Corbac, the man of the moment. Okay, well that army, Stig's army doesn't mix with Corbac's army, but Astralz does. So we are going to lose the conflicts, I think. It's a lot of wyverns, hydras getting teleported. There's Cyclops in there. There's a bunch of different things in the mix. I can't get back in time. Let's hire who's here and do what we can. So there's no teleporting that can be done. Ah, wait, where's that town portal? Could I do this? Oh, 182. Nothing I can do to speed her up. What's this do again? Nothing. All right, Solmia, why don't you come speak to me before while I'm trying to do this? Boasting of the unicorn. Experimental shop would have been nice. Desperation mode. That's it. 41 points from main. I think it's not going to be enough. I think I need 140 to get onto there. But then again, sometimes entering a dwelling does give you a discount. Finest of margins, but I just think we're going to fall short. There's one hex in it. Finest of margins, but we do have to let it go, I think. Right, Jury. There's no way I can hold. Morton has some army and a ballista. This girl is good with fire elementals. We have some of them. Basic offense. The artillery gives me control of the arrow towers. She has artillery as well though, so let's take her. Okay, what a mess up. At least to hear Isra. Now, Ignisa will die behind the walls and I've got to decide what I'm willing to let her die with. You know, obviously all these amazing spells I don't get to cast because I have to use Ignisa. One more please, Isra. Okay, so I've done that math right, yep. Okay, now we're doing this. It's going to matter too much. You can have these artifacts. It'll help a bit. Kind of a throwaway thing. Yep, we need to make it as painful as possible. Am I up against? I'm up against. Well, if they don't link up, it's got a chance. It depends how strong Coreback is as well. You can't. Okay, what can you do? Air ellies get upgraded. I think the white stack goes or does the sprites go? Probably both go. I think you go here. I do this. We just sit back there. The stuff that flies over we attack. You know, it might not be a lost cause. We need to buy her a spell book. Dispel? Haste could be useful. Dispel? It could be very good. 38 by 30. That's the biggest stack there. I can upgrade them to ice. And against ice elementals, I'm not really sure what to do. Should I go for magma? Well, we'll try magma. We get these to magic. I don't know. I think it's probably slightly better to get the ice elementals. Only just. All right, let's do that. All right, ice elementals. Do it. All right, well, Ignisa, do your best. If we lose everything, we lose Ignisa. We lose all that stuff. I'll be sad, but oh well. Just come and wait for that tomorrow. I think we're probably safe. How infuriating. All right, so we have to plan to lose. Flying stuff, shooting stuff at the top. Oh, I think we're okay. We're late at okay. Sorry, folks. Very, very irritating outcome. We're all concerned. Agar still never got that campfire, man. So I'm getting this campfire. Damn it. Yes. I'm getting this. This wood. Crushed. I think this is right. This is what he was going to do. Unless we're going to do this. Job. No, where is she? There's a woman behind here. What are you doing? Can I bury anyone else? Just, Thane is here. What can Thane do? What's through here? That's on the other side of there. No, here. Come out of here. You're in the right ballpark, but you're not really strong enough to do this. No, let's get the observatory. Aale House. Who do you get at the Aale House? Oval and the Aale House. What does the Aale House have? Look at the art on that. Or just tomb of curses. I don't remember what that does either. It's kind of just not much happening in this region, really. Getting plus two to a tag or defense. Like meh, yeah, whatever. There's a windmill. It's all pretty low ball stuff. So why don't you come back up here? Kind of sad, yeah. No, we've got other things to be doing with Tamika, so let's go do that. Things to be cracking on with. Earth is that? A harpy loft, owned by Thane. See how far the harpy loft is from the dungeon? Is that what's going on? So there is a Necro somewhere. It's just miles away from... Great. Oh, there's a pillar of fire there. Can't get to it yet. Okay, so that means you are doing this job. Okay. Is that Dirdly? Is that a waste of his time? Not really. It's okay. Right, Solmia. She's going up to do all this, and then she's going to come back down along here. I am carrying some things that maybe have used to some people. I think it's more important you be the errand boy that you... Obviously, you'd be a Clumsy Knoll who's killed himself with his own flail. Knowing you're superior skill with the weapon, you confidently remove it. It's four, okay. That really was his job, was to be the runner. Okay, I think we're ready to face the music. So bummed out, man. Just by one hex from two different heroes. Like, come on. Do you want those resources, or am I in too much of a hurry? Too important? I'm just far too important. Actually, wait a second if you're in there. Okay. What was this guy doing? Air magic again. Yeah, let's go for power, I suppose. Bummer. Okay, here we go. Are you smart enough to link your armies together and smash me? We live! Oh, you know what? I shouldn't be celebrating. That's bad. That's really bad, but also good. So I'm just saying, I shouldn't be celebrating the AI not getting its act together. Which really, it should have smashed Ignis into pieces there. But I'm very grateful to still be alive. I'm just lamenting I've lost all those stronghold troops. I've lost halflings. There's un-purchased armadillos. Who else have I kind of left? It's mainly the stronghold, actually, I think. It's kind of been abandoned. We give the plague sweeps through. Why did I end up hurting my opponents more than me, though, you know? Let's have a look at the upshot of that. These are all halved. That's rough. It's a good job I bought these, I suppose, the big stack. Everywhere else didn't really have much going on. Yeah, this didn't have much. This was flat. Okay, sandworms. Sandworms is the other stack. We've lost six sandworms. Could be worse, actually. And on top of that, we still have the conflicts. In fact, Astral is still in the area. Now, I can get to him, and I can kill him. But do I die on the crack back? Where did Cawback go? I don't know if he's still in the area. This is a one-way street. Let's just check. Has Red completely messed up? So that looks like Cawback there. No, is that Cawback? They have five heroes in the area. It's ridiculous. I'm going to watch this replay a few more times, so you guys don't have to. I'm trying to just track and trace. Is Cawback under this black cloud or not? Okay, I watched it back. I can't tell what's going on here. I actually have a feeling there might be a portal here, because there was a hero that magically appeared out of nowhere, ran and ran back. So now my question is, do I even want Isra in this area fighting these fights? I think the answer could be yes, because I can't hire the next week. I was going to say I can hire the next week's troops, but I can't. I actually can't do that. I can, however, get Isra behind the walls with her unstoppable repeated Earth elemental summoning. No one's getting past. No one's getting in here if she's behind the walls. I mean, Recantus Cloak, Stopped Implosion, that kind of thing, but not really, right? I cannot believe we got away with that, man. That's awesome. Oh man, what a relief. But in a fair world, in a world of more intelligent AI, we'd be toast. Do this. Another harpy loft over here in the middle of nowhere. Everything's kind of connected. It's a massive underground that this template's generated. What am I to do now? A warehouse of wood? And an overground here that I may as well go and explore. I can't go through there. You've got to go the long way, man. Thane, your adventure. I don't have any more creatures for you, man. Anyway, even if I wanted to give you some, I don't have them. That never happened. Could I do that fight? A horde of vampire lords. They're the same speed as me. How am I going to keep the engineers alive? I don't get the first turn. Chainlining won't work. Teleport won't work. Blind won't work. Actually, I'm going to mousse out of that. Planet A just to come smack through here. He's enjoyed his excursion there. It's a bit of a shame to be chickening out of something. By the giant, he's not available. You, my friend, how many moves will you have left? Should be enough to get you behind the walls. I think that's what I need to do now. As fun as the factory has been, it's just not where the action is at the moment. Come back and enjoy this another time. We might still be able to build the boundary and gantry. And the gunslingers before the end of the game. But just not feeling that at the moment. I think what I'm feeling instead is hiring this woman or bringing her back out, giving him the thingies. She takes the golems and he goes and it's the library. I think that's what needs to happen now. Unless he's going back up to the stables, which probably will pay me back pretty quickly actually. Let's find out. Serena. Storm. Southwest. Clancy. Clancy. Let me teach you a few things that probably neither of us will end up wanting. Have these. Give me them. And you need to keep all these things. Do you know Cure? He already knows it. It's probably just a piece of junk. I don't want to run around with these golems, do I? I'm going to need the Cyclops. I think it's alright. It's okay. I'm going to experiment. I think the stables are this good. But that's worthwhile for the rest of the week. Day one. I think that's right. And I think I've been underplaying stables. I think I underplayed them in the last campaign too. Okay. Central for now. I mean, we play is an interesting one. I want to be doing up here. Let's do this old stuff first. So I was thinking of running back up, getting the library and then coming back down to these things. Is there any reason that that's a silly idea? Monarch's going to act before me? Yeah, maybe. And kill my gargoyles. So it's another useful role for Solmia to just be someone I can... He's like a muse, you know? And she gallops through the snow. Have a chat with someone who's done it all before. Now, these guys are going to die too quickly and easily. Faster, those things. Will they? These little stacks here. Try it like this. Do I wish to pursue and engage? Yeah, I'm not backing down. I was one stack. Okay. We do get the first turn, which is excellent. Is it just slow? Expert automation, but I keep finding myself wanting to slow. Yeah, what does slow do? I don't know if slow is doing enough. Basically burning my spell points? Or should I just take the risk? I think I'm just going to take the risk. Prayer. Isn't that prayers? Pretty good. Now, unfair is the one stack, Master Genie Man. I'm sorry to all those people in the comments section of the tier list video where I bagged on Master Genies. I've forgotten how cheeseable and good they are. Right, with these ones I'm going to... Wait, do not morale. Thank God. Just do this. Ballista value. So the monarchs aren't dead. It may have been reckless, you know. Maybe I'm supposed to spend the spell points to make sure of it. Anyway, we go to another library. Caretaker admits to be here and I'm able to even learn any more. I'm able to learn even more. Come to here. Solmira greets Sam in the snow. What did it go? It went well. I slaughtered them. You would do well to remember. But I had come. What do you know, Solmira? I know that those monarchs could have triggered a morale flash and destroyed your entire stack of genies. Get out of my way, old man. Arrogance. Helpable. Sam gallops away. Solmira shakes his head, follows grimly behind. All right, let's get back to our favorite heroes who didn't have to fight. I don't want to plonk Isra in the middle of Red's entire forces. Instead, I want her to be sat at the walls here with... ...Benixes? No. I mean, if I build the pyre, I get one more firebird. That's an awfully big investment. It is, but at the same time, I'm not losing the town now. So who cares? Can I send Pyre on a mission to maybe reveal stuff up here? So, Isra, come to me. You can waste your moves, actually. You know what we should do? Do I get gold as well? As wyverns? It's just wyverns, right? Because I could get the wyverns out of here. And then... I would have to give up one of these stacks, and that's no good. So I don't want to do that. You speak to her. Swap on these, basically. Would she look good in that? Well, she's not a very good spellcaster herself, right? So it basically just switches everything off. Might be nice to have the option. Someone needs to take the ladybird, and I want Ayn to have that orb. I have some sprites. Look at this. And I'm gonna go... ...up here. That's what I'm gonna do. I think that's gonna be the most use. I'm gonna keep these artifacts, because it's pretty low... ...regret. The mansions are there, man. Gonna look at the frequencies in the template. There's a lot of mansions, there's a lot of prisons. Another thing I'm gonna do for the next campaign... ...apparently, Keymaster's tents are disabled by default. So I remember the fun and coolness of the Keymaster's tent quite fondly. And I would like to switch that back on. Right, Isra doesn't want the wyverns. Comes back to town. Now we could unlock level 4 mage guild. What could that do for us? Resurrection doesn't work on anything. You can't resurrect elementals. If I recall from Lobita's... ...campaign... ...media or shower, that's alright. Again, pretty low regret. Or I could upgrade the altar of... ...Earth. I cannot believe I'm doing this. Right, so I said in the tier list video, this is my most hated unit. But here I am. What do I get for my money? Still health 40? How are you still health 40 after everything I've just done for you? I just hate these guys. Maybe it's irrational at this point. But I feel... Okay, and if something I call back is able to kill Isra and take all their stuff then... ...alright. But I don't think... ...maybe they are getting ready to... ...I think callbacks in here. Should I actually be running for it? This is a key moment in the game. Isra was read simply consolidating its power, preparing to strike the conflux. And didn't quite have the logic it needed to do the daisy chain. And if I stay here, I'm losing Isra. And I'm losing all the stuff she's got. I don't want to lose the orb, the earth, the elemental, the implosion. That's an interesting point. Can 68 spell points worth of earth elementals? Which is what I'll be casting. Get me through. And to find that out, we need only have a look. I get 48 of them per go and I can do it three times. So there's an additional... When we're comparing callbacks on me to ours, there's an additional 150 earth elementals. For him to chew through. If I'm allowed to stay the night and replenish my mana, that's unbeatable. That's just, he's not gonna beat that. You know, so I'm ready to rock. Year of the plague, we give the plague actually did me more harm than him. Because I'm the one who wants to... I've been the one with the defensive advantage. He's miles from his home. So yeah, plague hurt us, but we should by rights have lost the conflict. Ignis, I should have lost it. All right, end the turn. What are you guys doing? Where are you going? What? What? What? Okay, the fight is just off. The fight's not happening. Okay, so another thing. Tan is down here doing this with this idiot. Nagash. That's harmless. It's just the fact I can see it. It's like... Ooh, Herbal is still dirtling around here. That's my hero. No, okay. So girl wolves come all the way to there to make you can't beat him. But that's interesting that they're actually meeting up now. Red's just given up the whole plan. He's just like, no, no. It's just wood, mercury, and the box. That's what we came here to do, though. Do it. Am I exploiting the game here by saying yes to this? I think in the interest of fairness, I'm gonna say I'm gonna fight them. 109. We have done this before. I actually thought it'd be worse than that. 109's a very small throng. So that spot next to the tree is safe, if you want to stand here, boys. You guys come here. Haste it. All right, let's just do our standard thing. So everyone acts before... Right, so let's start trying to haste these and then we'll make a decision. Again, we have to decide whether to wait. Kill quite a lot just from range. So what I'm thinking here is I blind, walk over and kill them manually. Yeah, so her composition with the Titans is not one that wants to do blessing and teleporting. It wants to do slow and blind. This is just better. Walk over and manually slaughter them. Pretty powerful stack of do not fire with this stuff. Anyway, yeah, let's continue building up our advanced earth magic. That sounds good. Open the box. I think it's easier for me to just get this wood than to let the thingy do it. We use the same configuration. Yes, we do. That Sentinel shield is very nice. Do we just do the same thing? I can't actually get there with them this time because these birds move a bit further. So I try to haste the Titans. Yeah, um, I'm just going to do the same thing again. Well, wait a minute. Yeah, I'm going to take one morale risk. That's what I'm going to do. I could shoot, actually. That hedges against morale. And then the Nagas are going to... Yeah, I'm going to hedge. Let's hedge. I will, uh, I will wait. I will do nothing. I will do nothing. I will shoot this. Love that Ballista. Okay, it didn't matter. I need to do anything. She's, she's a good hero. It's just the composition doesn't quite go with what she's doing. So she's doing junior level blind instead of, um, okay. That's fine. Okay, both good. I'll take the X-Bat Earth. This is a really good shield. You find a large box seems to be made from some unknown metal. When you touch it, the box opens with a loud hiss, revealing a gleaming shield within. It's the Sentinel shield. Now this thing gives you, yeah, plus 12. It's this thing. You get plus 12 to defense. Minus three attacks at 26 and 32 or 29 and 27. It's actually close because this thing's so good. Yeah, that's a net plus nine and that's a net plus seven. I think with these guys, uh, it's a tack. It's a, it's a question of attack. So my journey through here has been very much about finding amazing shields. That's what I've been doing the whole time. Against the monks, I'm going to use the tactics and we're going to walk over and slaughter them in cold blood. I want two stacks of titans for that. It's going to be easy. Yes, and I'll take it no problem. Vampire Lords surround us. I don't get fazed by that though. Soul Mirror would be good if I didn't have to deal with gargoyles. Did not lose its former splendor yet. Looks like nobody's here here. Oh, well then. I'll just walk in 60 Vampire Lords. Should we fight this? I think I'm going to fight it. I'll take it for granted. So we have three kill, kill, kill. So you can all reach the Queens. Yeah, let's kill what we can kill. And then we'll see what the Master Genies are capable of. A kill, okay. What should we do here? I don't think these guys are going to be able to kill anything except a genie. There's not enough of them. None of these stacks, none of these stacks will take a casualty. No, that's no good. Ah, boys. That doesn't do anything. Boutique soldiers of the tower. Top of the curve. Carving through the countryside. Having defeated the Lords, you discover a bunch of stuff. Including the Ring of Infinite Gent. Okay. Soul Mirror's here. Soul Mirror could do this. Just to keep the momentum moving. Might get a chance to cast Chain Lightning. That might be fun. Ah. Oh, I got lucky here. Can I... Surely I'm a... Yeah, I can slow. I can blind. A little bit decadent. So if I slow this... Soul Mirror doesn't matter. So why don't I blind them, then slow them, then wake them up when I wake? Let's just do that. Like, Soul Mirror's spell points don't matter. This is just a... He's just doing a mission for me. I can't cast a bad spell on you. That'd be fun. Let's... Hedge. She's got so many buffs now. I think that's Frenzy as well, though. So Frenzy only lasts one turn. Okay, right. Okay, what else can I do? So she's still got Frenzy switched on. Yeah, let's try to make her insane. Red Bloodlust. Come down here. And it kills 33. It's not enough. All right, his spell points don't matter. So, to heck with it. I'm speed 9. I'm speed 12. So I'm gonna do this. No, I'm not, because you're gonna wake up and attack something. You're gonna have a turn. I can make this the most buff bunch of Nagas in the history of the game. So when they wake up, they've got speed 9, but I'm yet to act with my speed 12. I am the ultimate Naga Queen! Keep going. What else can I do? Uh, whatever. I mean, he's not... He's not... We're not trying to level him. Whatever, Wisdom Sorcery's obvious. Didn't cast Chain Lightning there. Okay, it just helps with the movement points. That's secondary hero. And I'll allow myself a little detour. Could grab some halfies to try to beat him. You're a plague though. It's a weak of the plague. Okay, done, done, done. You're exploring. I think that's still right. I don't... I mean, Red has just run off like a chicken. Leaving no one but Goebbels behind. It's kind of pathetic. All right, stand there. Be bold. Serena, who else have I got? Thane is gonna go do these things. I don't need this observation point at this point. So we'll just go through the portal. Against lots of halfie hags. Should be fine. Point at ten. What am I good at? I do have some fairly nice spells. How do you feel about that? Oh my god. I'm gonna take the Marial risk, kid. I'll look over that Marial, I think. Then I smack them. That sounds right. Yeah, you're not first anymore, are you? Love. I'm only down to seven. I'm speed seven, and I go second to you. Okay, um... Oh wow. Yeah, let's come to here. I don't really want you attacking me. Do I want this attack to happen? No, I kill them all. I didn't do the math right. It's because of the attack ten. So it's fine. Okay, it's right. Come on through. Wow. Ooh, look where I landed. How interesting. Yeah, no. I think not. Maybe I should be going tight formation. I just remembered that maybe. They have no Marial. Centralize. I can also just teleport. So just a more efficient way to make the game over quickly. And mucking around. How about an Angel? Yeah, I think I will do the Gryffins and get an Angel. And I usually don't end up doing the Gryffin Conservatories. I just never quite seen worthwhile. I went and got the stables. And I want to go and level up for that not to be a problem. I think Serena agrees. And she's like, no, no, you don't understand. I need these soldiers. Serena's like, no, you don't. You really don't. You're on a mission of knowledge and discovery. And then you're going to town portal back to some... Oh, hang on. That's why I hang on. Wait a minute. He was going to town portal back to somewhere useful. And that could be anywhere, including the complex. It could be the factory. He could go back to the factory. Let's take the more risky move that we were going to do in the first place. That's a long-winded way of saying that. Wasted some of Serena's time. Lance is like, yeah, is this worth bothering? A throng of... That's just good XP, I suppose, isn't it? Don't need the medal. Wrong level. Let's just see how our army fights, shall we? There's a lot of them. How good is our army? I'm not much of a spellcaster, as you can see. I know. No schools of magic. Don't know many good spells either. Okay, not much morale risk here. The bellwether armadillos do 100 damage. 100? 48 of them. No, hang on. 70. No, that was a stack of 70. That's after retaliation. There's only 48. That's how poor they are at attacking. A stack of 70 tier 3 creatures wanders over against the morale flash, which we had coming. Because we've been flying by the seat of our pants with that a while now. And can't even kill one. I'm amazed. I'm shocked. 33 to 42. Do you want to use some magic? Reduce defense strength by 3? What else is there? Curse would be lovely. Okay. Let's deal the damage. Um, finish them off. You. Yeah, I can't believe that. Well, if he gets morale again, I am going to lose one. So let's do nothing. And this turn, I want to do invulnerable. Do I? Or is that just silly? No, that's probably silly. I'll wait because I don't want them. On their turn they walk. Well, actually that again. So let's say I, invulnerable, he walks over, gets morale. Yeah, actually I'm going to do that. Skip the turn. Yeah, yeah, if morale happens, it happens. It's not going to happen. It didn't. That'd be ridiculous. Brushing, crushing. I bet I finished things off for us. Okay, it's a fun army. Kind of felt the bad spell casting. Yeah, he needs a school of magic. I'm going to say no to that even though it's good. Serena, will you get that for me? I'm in a hurry. Oh, what did you last slave die of? Have you paused to help a doodle out in the broken axle? Fix this problem in gratitude. He gives you a medal with magical properties, which he says will help people see things your way. It's the statesman's medal. Practically nothing of use. But oh well. Do you want this? Surrendering? Yes, actually I do want it. All right. Ladybird of luck, who has that? Isra has it, right? There it is. Try and remember that. So the ladybird of luck is here. No, kind of a property. It's the tree guy here. Gem the seeker, the seer. How am I ever going to get you that? It's going to take me forever to figure out how to do that. Continue on your quest for knowledge. Clancy, you look great with plus two to everything there. That's going to look really, really good on you. Isra needs to go there too, but she's a little busy. Am I doing anything else here to shore up? Could I actually just get this scout done? I could and find out what's here. Because if there's no portal here, it's not a problem. This might still be open, you know, as well as mansion. Let's ride out. There it's a, it's a subterranean. Can you believe it? It's a subterranean gate. I've just spotted it now. There was one little black square removed and just my, all right, how much moves do I have left? 805. I can't get back. Not going to risk that. That's fine. I could have scouted just the rest of that blackness there, but it was just perfectly concealed by the fog. But I suspected something because of the way callback was acting underneath it during their turn. All right. How can we make this stronger? Do another upgrade? Okay, for magic ellies. We missed out on the head. Pie is quite expensive. How expensive is that? 3k. I've got money. I'm just doing everything we can to try to keep this town. Because if red gets stuck here, looking at it, that's great for us because we just get to run around getting the best of everything. Go Wolf, you're an idiot. Okay, tan. Keep it to itself. Orange, purple. Ignisa feels the odds are overwhelming. No, I don't. I want to see who I'm up against. Do not apply the battle result. Who is this? Sandro? Just something red? Ignisa, sorry to lose you. Although you've got some artifacts I want to bring back probably. 30 points and 50 points. Let's do this quickly. Oh, wow. I just got done by Death Ripple. That's my move. That's what I was always doing. Death Ripple, except you had a last campaign. You're not supposed to do that to me. I lose Ignisa permanently and all of her artifacts. Well, that's a bloody nose right there, isn't it? Which one is it? It's this here. All right, okay. So purple is upstairs. But they don't have much to show for themselves, do they? So that loss actually hurts. That's annoying. It would have been nice to have her. But it would have been nice to have her with some soldiers. All right, let's do all this other stuff first. So that's been visited. Soulmere, can you tell me what else is even down here? Oh, Sharmin' stands in the road before you're screaming something in a language you can't understand. He suddenly vanishes in the ground of smoke, but when the smoke clears, there's a long string of dragon tea in the spot where he was standing. Knowledge and power by plus three. I haven't even got, I'm not wearing anything. All right, trading post here, not useless. Naga Bank, garnered by quite a lot of griffins. Should we do these jobs? Oh, that's actually a dead end. Soulmere, tell me if I should come south or not. Well, you should definitely come south this far. So that I can give you the dragon teeth. Oh, there is this more matter of giving you back the army like weed. Yes. You don't know your place, Soulmere. Disrespect. More Naga's. Break out through the Horde of Banticores and get another giant. There's angels here, what desperate am I for all this? The problem is, if she comes down and does this, we are out of position. This stuff's quite good. Prizes are quite good. Getting further and further away from, see what I like is that right now, if I was in trouble, I'm ready to rock. I can get 14 Titans to any town in the Empire. I can just do that. And my best hero, my best hero who has the best artifacts. I come down here, that ain't the case no more, unless Soulmere positions himself. There's also this fellow. Let's do this guy. I actually thought it had to be the other way around. This feels like the right way around to help us decide. He can do some of these fights himself. Because I'm gonna get tired here in the snow with these soldiers who hate the snow. Okay. All right, so Clancy is just planning. Clancy is going to the library and then he's getting the hell out of here. I like the idea of being able to get back, if we're in trouble. He's got amazing moves. She can come down to here. I'm thinking we use Soulmere to, yeah, let's use Soulmere as a temporary solution to this, right? So Soulmere is going to be able to get the army back to any town we want, but we don't get Sam. We could bring the artifacts though. Come down this way to do the job. Yes, no. Okay, you know what I'd like? I'd like to cast Sorrow. So there's just no morale risk. And I just pile in, yeah, you know what? Expert Sorrow. I mean, expert slow. What does slow do? You go to speed four. It doesn't help now. Oh, he's down to neutral morale for 13 turns. It's like, yeah, I'm going to know. The game reduces to a game of morale. I can wait with full confidence because you cannot get a morale flash. I know you can't. Sorrow, folks. If you want to be sure. Best spell in the game. Yes, he saw me. It was my little runner boy, but I have to do it myself now. An old witch who seems to have been expecting you. Hands you a small tonsment and putts. I never said a word. Oh, goodie. Why don't we do some trading? Got tons of wood. Sell some wood. Sell some stone. Mercury. I mean, I don't need to go crazy. Like 70 odd is good. Crystal's getting a bit low, actually. Gems, we won't need tons more gems. I don't feel. It's okay. I guess that's the kept wood. She's like, you're using me to pick up wood? No, I can bank. Just get the genies back together for me. It's fine. That way. Larius. Larius. And no. Kill this one. What happens here? Do I kill? Yes, of course. I do have attack 29. Two I kill. Queens murdering their own kind. Good prize. Am I looking down here as a scout? You're using me as a scout? Don't you know who I am? This doesn't look that good. A mansion, a treasure chest. Can I just skip this? How much do I care about an angel? Is there another conservatory somewhere? Are you looking for a good year? There's no castles on the map. I haven't seen a single castle creature. So I don't care. I don't want this artifact. These resources don't matter that much. Just break out. Just come up through here and not worry about this now. Lots of dreadnights. I will kill them. Pandora's box. I just can't say no to me. Are you going to get a fantastic scout in here? Let's just do that. Fortress. Yeah, it's a fortressy sort of world. This world we're living in. That's a fight that's ready to happen. That's a fight. Isra is here. Interesting. That's good to know that I can't do that if I want to do the skeletons. Being an expert necromancer does mean you're wandering around with these all game. Got 109,000 bucks now. Probably Firebird, Fire, and Alter of Ashes time. Alter of Ashes? Yeah, let's start building things. There's the pyre. Go, Alter of Ashes tomorrow. Why am I bringing the golems here? Why am I doing that? What's the point? There's not much to have much to do. Just come back for now. I went in doubt. Centralizing is never terrible. A good stack. Really good stack to have. Big pile of these makes life very difficult for any would-be invaders. Last guys. Thant, do we try to get an angel? We do. I'm a bit worried that the engineers are going to get slaughtered here. I do get the first turn, though, against royal griffons. Let's find out. Oh, I do get the first turn. Royals act, and then the engineers act. So the engineers can run away. That's great. So what should we do? We can blind. Good old blind. Chain lightning isn't really a great option. I kill almost every one of these. That's certainly what I'll be doing. I can do that and then decide after. Should we just do that? I'll use an engineer. Probably won't. Yeah, kill 26 of these. Seems like a good thing to do. That's fine. That's great, actually. Expert sorrow. And an expert. Okay. We could haste. Kill 8 to 22. It's not really enough to get me interested. Let's run to here. Hope that we don't get a here. That looks like a safe square. Let's go here. I didn't cast a spell at all. So that was a mistake. Chain lightning here. What does that do? It's a little bit cut anyway. Chain lightning strikes poor targets. Let's see how much damage. 425. By the time it hits me it'll be dealing about 100. So I'll probably lose four of these. Can't be sure it'll arc in the right direction either. Yeah, I don't think lightning's on unless they've all kind of gathered round. Yeah, let's try that. See if it works. The four are going to die anyway. So we're not gonna work. I was hoping the four would stay alive but I just realized they're gonna fly over. Take retaliation. It's just not gonna work. Another hasted armadillo rolls up in a ball. So, so nice. Love to see it. Yeah, so chain lightning now. Crack, crack. Boring old blind. You take their retaliation. Yeah, that's a bit disappointing but whatever. Oh, what? Oh, that's right. Two retaliations. Yes, yes, yes. That's 77. Down to 73 now. Pretty serious. They wake up but they're slower than my stuff. It's just that you're on a tomaton show then. Okay, well, okay, yeah. Now, many three angels. Well, it's actually pretty good. I'm coming up on red. Coming up on the red zone. Yep, another underground. So there's one here, one here and then a town ball here. I don't really want to stick my head up and get beaten by red with a thane. So I think you've answered the question. I asked you, what's here? You kind of told me now. Don't do these two things there. Okay, going okay. Doing all right. We lost Ignisa. Kind of feel like firing back somebody to be down in this area, redoing these jobs, sticking their head up here. Would be really, really useful. I don't want Isra to not have enough moves to get back in. She can still get back in. Let's see who's here. Winona, the mercenary. Scouting, perfect. Look at the artwork on Winona. On your 350 gold. And you're a scholar. You're going to learn everything. One of those ones where it's like, what that money? You're going to take the scouting though, right? Yeah, yeah. I'm not going to be casting spells. I'm not a proper hero, right? So Winona, look at this. Who are you, Winona? Dark Elf. Dark Elves are renowned as travelers and explorers. Since she was a girl, Winona loved exploring the wilderness outside Alvara and the murmurs, tracking animals and taking notes of their habits. She eventually became the foremost expert in Jadamian Fauna. Having learned a great deal from her flying, crawling and hopping friends. I love that. I love this artwork. I love Winona's story. Welcome to the team. Who are your fastest people? Death Ripple. Yeah, I know, but I'm not actually going to... Speed five, speed six. Is Death Ripple just killing them anyway? Take that with you. He's too slow. You're a scout. You need to move fast. Not buying you a spellbook. Ah, look at her. Winona. Winona the scout rides forth. No, Coreback is on the other side. Let's have a look at Coreback's army. I've paid good money for this. Oh, it's weak. It's beatable. Look at him. Eight of 19. Winona. This is useful. Don't let anyone turn to your failure. Okay, he's 23. 22, 7 and 9. Only 36 of them. I'm terrified of them. 11 of these. This... These are quite nasty, actually. But you know who hates implosion? Wyvern Monarchs. They hate it. None of these can actually cause any harm to any of the stacks that are here, so it's kind of a good look in. So we need to be ready for Wyverns. That's the main message I'm getting. 350 gold Corebacks asking. What does that mean, though? I still have to repay the 2500? Oh, no, no, you're not a coward. Don't let anyone tell you that. I'm the one who sent you down there. That's actually for 2500 bucks. That's kind of useful to know. But that's their strategy. He's just standing there, watching the conflicts, waiting for an opportunity to walk in and attack it. Guess what? I'm in here. Now, in a fair fight out in the open, this army is not strong enough. Um... Then again. He's sitting there with eight spell points. Eight? Could I surprise him?