 Hello friends and welcome to the next exciting season of Heroes of Might and Magic 3. This time we are venturing back to the Horn of the Abyss. There's been a new version 1.70 that has dropped just in the last few weeks and man is it cool. It introduces a new town, the factory. You can see the tier 7 creature here up on the rocks fighting the Haspid from the Cove town which was the previous release, the previous major release of Horn of the Abyss. And I'm really excited to try this out to check this town out, see what it's got to offer, check out the creatures, the heroes, all of the bespoke music and other artwork that's been made for the game. Really so impressed with Horn of the Abyss and a massive convert I feel having been playing the game for 25 years at this point. It takes a lot to impress and these guys really have impressed. I mean it's just an amazing piece of work. So we're going to be playing a random map which is the same style that we have done on the channel in the past. I have cooked up a new template for this one called PB Trice Harder, a 6 player template. And I'm optimistic that this one will generate some really interesting water on the surface and configuration of the islands and land masses without having to actually use the islands button. So I might talk a bit about that in more depth as we play. As always we're going for the highest difficulty to see if we can tie one hand behind the back in the first month and make a really interesting decision set for ourselves. Now I want to play as the factory and try to figure out what kind of color we want to be, given that the palette of the town is very much based on the American desert, Midwest, Nevada, Arizona area. A lot of browns, oranges in the color palette. So I think maybe 10 or orange would fit. But I actually think it might be better to put a contrasting color around the outside. So I think green might look good around the outside to just give it some contrast. So we're going to be the factory. We're going to let it randomize our hero and our starting resource and randomize everything else that's going on in the game. And what happens by right click? You can see all the cool creatures. We'll be learning about all these as we go. I've had a bit of a play around with the factory. I got up to about sandworms and died in the couple of test games I've been playing, which I don't mind admitting were games I was recording but I just got killed in like week three. So hopefully I've learned a little bit more about how the factory works and what I should be doing and not doing. But we'll see how we go. So let's see how this one goes and who knows, maybe I'll actually make it past week three. And it'll see the light of day on YouTube. All right, where are we? Look at this. Okay, we're in the desert. This is the desert terrain. I think this terrain was part of the previous version of Horn of the Abyss, but in addition to that now we have a dedicated town that goes with it. You can see here the town as it's laid out, New Dolair, the factory town. We have Sam, the hero. Sam the mercenary, I think she is, that means 3111 meets a hero of might. So where should we go first? We'll check out the factory first. We'll check out New Dolair and look at this incredible vista that we had before us. Inspired by the Grand Canyon, really looks like Utah or Arizona, anyone who's had the privilege to travel that part of the world. I can highly recommend it. It's absolutely fantastic, breathtaking sort of stuff. We've got a familiar sort of layout here. We've got the village hall to the left. Kind of feels a little bit like the castle, the layout. We've got the castle on the hill. Town Hall is here. Residences in the foreground. We have a tavern over this side of the castle. Up on the hill we can recruit halflings and these guys are the tier 1 unit of the factory. Now a halfling is very good. I mean I took great pleasure in sacrificing them to the skeleton transformer in the last campaign, but in this campaign these guys are going to be amazing for us. They're at least as good as a master gremlin if not better and they're not even upgraded. So amazing. Attack skill 4 shoots 24 shots at 1-3 damage with the always positive luck feature and then they only get better when you upgrade them. The upgrade is expensive however as I learned in the last campaign. Expensive but worth it. We're very happy to see that. We also have engineer, no these are mechanics. Really cool creature and they come from the dwelling up here which I don't know what that's called. We'll find out here. Maybe go in here. It's called a foundry. There you go. And these are all the buildings we can get. Now the cool thing about the factory is it's kind of a town of two halves. You've got the biological zoological side which is after you've got halflings you've got armadillos at the ranch. And then go straight to catacombs for sand worms and then on to the serpentarium for coattals. Or you can go the mechanical route which is engineers into automatons into these guys are gunslingers. Which is just a very, very cool idea. Into the gantry where the juggernauts and dreadnauts can be purchased from the gantry. Interestingly actually I thought this was a misspelling at first. It's a halfling abode and they misspelled it. Turns out an adobe is a clay dwelling made from clay. That's the definition of what an adobe is. I've been using adobe acrobat reader for 25 years never knowing that that's what that actually means. So very, very cool. Lots and lots of themes going on and I'm even learning something as I go. Now as for Sam. Sam the mercenary she's very good with mechanics and she knows tactics and offence which just work beautifully together. Very overlordy and kind of plains walkery is what I'm thinking of the mercenary at this stage. As for Sam herself since ancient times earth oil had wreaked havoc on the farmers of Jadame erupting in fountains and laying waste to their crops and pastures. For Sam the daughter and apprentice of a skilled blacksmith was the first to tame this black beast by forcing it into a pipe and making it a Heto forge. Her inventions made earth oil into burdens, blood, food and arms. Burton must be the region where factories crop up like eofol and you know these sorts of parts of erathia and all this kind of stuff. I'm not as good on the lore as I probably should be. Okay. Cool. Welcome Sam. She's an oil, she's like reminding me of the character in There Will Be Blood. You know Daniel Day Lewis' character? I'm a goo man. I'm an oil man. I'm an oil man. And she's like I'm an oil girl. I don't know if I like her name. Sam. It just seems a bit, it's not fantasy-y enough. It's a bit sort of Sam. Like that's the name of my bloke who lives a couple of doors down from me. You know what I mean or it's the name of the receptionist girl at work or something. Sam the receptionist or Sam the accountant? Sam the baker? I don't know. Other names in the like you know like Solmere or Septiana you know it's a bit more fantasy-y. That's my only complaint but I don't want to hold that against her. We're hoping to achieve some amazing things here with Sam. Now while I've been rambling you may have been not getting a chance to have a listen to the amazing theme of the factory. Dramatic and atmospheric and feels and sounds like it was built using the same technology. And recording software and digital audio equipment that would have been used back in 99. I even think the original composer Paul Romero had a hand in some of the music. I thought maybe for the Cove. I don't know if maybe he's also had a hand in this. I'd love to find out actually if you guys have knowledge of what was going on behind the scenes is that guys have been developing this. But everything here is so great. Look at her face and the rendering of that. You know these mechanics they just look so characterful in that shot there in that picture. Everything's just excellent. Really really good. Anyway Sam's speciality is going to give these mechanics plus one movement. Increases speed and gives them a boost then to attack and defense. So given that we've already got the dwelling here at the Foundry we're probably going to go into this actually. I was excited about the halflings but feels like we're kind of in mechanic territory to begin with. We have 700 bucks in the bank. We don't want to spend a penny of it just yet on any extra mechanics or anything like that. We're going to be wandering around seeing what we can get away with. She doesn't have a spell book so we won't go there just yet. There's a scholar there. I'm trying to see there's wood there so we'll go and flag that. Prisoner. Guarded by lots of armadillos. Okay so that's the third tier creature of the factory. I'd love them to join us actually but I have diplomacy disabled on this template. Because even though it has been changed in this modification it's still a skill that I feel breaks the game in a way that I don't like. I don't enjoy so it's banned for me and the AI. There's a windmill here. We can try to see what they've got going. I can't beat lots of armadillos just yet with this army and it's not worth it to me to try to do so just yet. Here scouting would be nice but we don't have that so let's end the day there. Should we keep going this way? I don't think I can get past there. So there's more wood there. There might be stone up this way. I feel like this is a valuable scout though. This crystal might matter sooner than I realize. Okay I'm not going to go get that one. Lots of walking dead guarding and now I can't attack yet anyway. We've whiffed a little bit actually coming down through here. I can't afford to go there yet. Sea is hot. We have to backtrack I think. I don't want to take them on yet. Just to unlock a windmill doesn't seem worth it. It's not a big army she starts with honestly. You'd almost rather have some halflings to take some of this on. Come here, go to the scholar, see what's on this side. Or we can hook around that way. Yeah but that's probably just an underground or something there. Any other options to come down this way? But then we risk having to go all the way back around the armadillos which is not good. So I will be conservative and it feels like a backtrack. Ooh, charm of the eclipse that's a interference artifact. Introduced with the one of the Abyss, the interference skill. Yeah we're saving our money. We either want a hero or we want a town hall. Added by some mortar elementals. Okay this has happened. I noticed on the failed run that I did where I died on week three. It's not always clear on this terrain where you can run and where you can't. As a rule of thumb you can get through places you wouldn't otherwise think. So like for example there I can't believe that I can stand on that hex. You know what I mean? I would have thought that that's the hex I'd have to stand on. I don't have to go here and around. But you can actually stand there. Ah behind the mountain. I'm going all the way out to see the scholar. There's some stone so there's some reward. As you run into the clearing you notice a university scholar resting his horse. He offers to teach you some of what he knows before setting off. Well that's nice of him. And I'm up to two defense to go with my three attack. So once I get some of these engineers on the online. I'm gonna be pretty strong. Okay master gremlins are guarding a treasure chest there. I want that. So what can I do to try and get that treasure? What hero is available here in the tavern? We have a gar. The grail may be found in the central regions. I'll guard the artificer. He is good with sand worms which we'll learn about eventually and he has a big army. He has a big ol' army. Slight beef I have. Heroes of magic as the artificer is heroes of magic. This starting army is better than Sam's starting army. In the vanilla game in Shadow of Death a hero of magic came with a spell book and a disastrous looking starting army. Now it feels a bit too much like heroes of magic are a bit too good on day one compared to what they used to be for me in single player mode. I think it's a multiplayer driven thing where heroes of magic can take too long to come online. You know in a PvP context but for me this is just a bit too good. I can hire for 2500 I get all this. 23 halflings. I get 6 engineers. I get a right one day mechanics. Some armadillos. And I can gal about. Actually don't have enough money for this anyway today. Right on gal. There it is. That's what I want. Alright it has to be tomorrow. I don't want to try and do anything crazy. We walk into the tavern and after a generous tip we hear the same tip we found out yesterday. There are two heroes at the bar having a drink together. Agar the Artificer. Having a word with one of our most historic heroes on the channel. The great, the noble, the magnificent Levita. Who has reverted back to level 1 having previously been on level 25 or something. Teleporting around the map and annihilating everyone in her wake. And resurrecting any grand elves that died in her army. About a year or so ago. Very fond memories of Levita. She's teaching Agar a thing or two of what she knows. When our emissary approaches. Agar may I speak with you. Your services are required and particularly your army is required. Will you join our cause for 2500 gold? Agar accepts. Bidding farewell to Levita he joins you outside. To discuss operations. Many thought that the warlock Agar was a mad man. And then a dead man. While the latter has been proven incorrect. There is still no unanimity in Enroth's scientific community on the former. Okay. Indeed his creations are undeniably viable and functional. But could a scientist in his right mind think of instilling such nasty inclinations and proclivities in a living being? What the heck does this mean? Does this mean that sandworms have, you know, sandworms have some kind of mechanical enhancements to them? Or Agar is at least researching that very idea. Can they be mechanically optimized in some way? I don't know. He increases their speed and attack and defense. Might be a while before we have them online. Interesting though that we have a creature based speciality and a hero of magic. That's a nice crossover. The spell he knows is drum roll. Just for you Earth. Is that even that bad to cast that from here where I'm standing? I'm going to get this and this in a second. Yeah, I'm going to cast that actually. Cool noise. I've always loved that noise. Okay. Okay, so this map has generated water in the bottom left. Tons of land mass all through here. Tons of land mass up through the north. There might be some water here though. That's quite cool if there is. The top left is very busy. Some water hanging off the back end of it. Okay, underground. Yeah, we have a big presence of underground stuff to do. Bottom left is empty as, okay. So there's an ocean with nothing under it and the bottom left more or less. So there's plenty to do up and around this region. Right. With the 400 gold, do we want to just top up one or more? We could buy two of these. Ten of those seem like good investment. Make that stack a little bit more viable. A little bit more meaningful with these soldiers. Agar meets Sam for the first time. Hello Sam. Hello Agar. Well met. How fast can you whip an armadillo to run over and kill? Tactics maybe helps a little bit. I'm just wondering if I should give him the halflings as well. They're all going to die basically to the Master Gremlins. They're all going to die. How fast are these again? Very fast, right? Speed seven. And we might get to speed eight on this terrain. Sam is hemmed in here by the looks. I will use her moves to just renegotiate this. I think it's correct to try and spare them. And crack these. I'll lose four. I might not be able to do better than that. I don't know. Could get a morale flash I suppose. Well, I can only get morale if I actually move. And if I move in short range that's just not worth the risk. Just have to accept this. If you like, they might go for the armies. Lost one. How many did I lose in the autocom at full? How good are they? Are they going to kill in melee? Are they going to kill? Watch this fire breathing. Yeah. See that? How wicked cool is that? So they can. I think she'll live. So these guys have dragon breath. Tier two creature walking eight hexes across the thing unupgraded with dragon breath. How cool. And that's not even everything. On top of that, these guys can repair automatons and rendorts that are in your army. Once per combat. That was a good kill by them to be fair. So you gotta be careful here. You can breathe fire on your own girls if you're not careful. So we'll do it this way. Flamethrower like how wicked cool is that? Very, very fun. Now I actually can't get through there. Not as I would like to. I want to find out what the Derek is. Two grand is fantastic for us. I want to do this. I have to get to here today anyway. So that's a waste of his time otherwise. Come here. Take that five crystals very nice. Cool. But I can't get there. Find out what that is. So I'm going to find out what that is. I don't like heroes hanging out together for too long like this. Come across a small shrine attended by a group of novices. In exchange for your protection they agree to teach me slow. Which is a very, very good pick up. Very, very nice indeed. Right, 2,500 gold. We all know what that's getting spent on don't we? Town hall. Absolutely behind in the town hall. Not a bad start. Day four, it's alright. It's not too bad. It's not the best. It's not the worst. Sam, you're the one I want to tell me what this is. I'm going to go and look at the wiki. The drilling foreman rolls out a cart of valuables. We managed to sell our yield at a healthy profit. Hope we'll take in at least as much the next time. Come for your share in a week. So we have a new order wheel in the desert. Except it's a oil well. Which is just so nice. Isn't that amazing? I just think that's cool. I just think that's really, really cool. Now to kill lots of armadillos we're going to want... We'd like to buy these creatures I think. We don't want to invest in this. We don't know what that is yet. It almost has a western-y theme to it. The music. It's like something out of a great western movie thing. It's just making me smile. Isn't that music amazing? I'm still packing the halflings here. I'm actually going to buy these soldiers. 200 bucks as a bargain. Right. Am I buying these soldiers? What else could I do? I could invest in my town for next week. It's nothing I really desperately want. I mean I want more of these girls. And you can actually go straight to the manufacturing. We should probably do that. We should probably plan to have lots of engineers. Which one is it? Engineers. Which one's the upgrade and which one's the... So the mechanic is the basic one and the engineer is the upgrade. You can go from them straight to manufacturing for automatons. I feel like that's probably what we're going to do. Having said that, this is very cheap to get the arm-dillos started. We'll also go to Marketplace today. I don't think it's wrong to buy these. We have a specialist. A mechanic specialist. Down here. So old agar, he's getting run around a little bit here. He's playing second fiddle. But by the time we free this prisoner who could be level... Maybe level 5. Might be level 10, but it might be just level 5. We'll have all the heroes we need. And... Should be in good shape. So I'm doing this fight. Lots of arm-dillos up against all this stuff. Yes. Should we do it like this? How many of these should he have? Can I just do that? And I get that wrong every time. Lose formation though, pal, yeah. Get back together. Lots of arm-dillos. If they are well spread out, we'll be able to use the fire breathing on them. Sam will be able to do the fire breathing. So let's stick together. Yeah, I was trying to think about whether I wanted to split things up. There's 20 of them, okay. Tactics is quite nice here too. Now can we... So it would be nice to try to convince the arm-dillos to split up. Have one go this way and one go that way. We can try to give them the run around. So they're not convinced, but maybe these guys will we? That's what I just don't do anything. And not convinced. Okay, well in that case I'll just come to here. You can see in my spot of this in the last play. He's doing this. He's poking his tongue here, gering at the opposition. So cool. So there's new artwork for the halflings. It's a whole new... These halflings have no bearing or no similarity to the ones that I was sacrificing. So brutally on the skeleton transformer. If I'm honest with such a delight, you know, I probably should confess that. Like it's not something I found difficult to do. I didn't have a heavy conscience or anything. I just murdered them, you know. It felt bad, but it also felt just so good. One, two, three, four... Oh hang on, it's five. What can you do? Yeah, you can get to there. Yeah, but you can't get to there. Three, four, five. You can't get me if I go there. So do I attack here? Let these guys walk up and attack me? Or do I just kill these ones? And then you walk to here. I actually walk down to there and body block. That's better. Why wouldn't you morale be nice and high? Are you idiots? Oh no, they can reach me. Okay fine. That's not... Gee, seven couldn't kill one. So this is a demonstration of how defensive these creatures are. Attacking each other. Seven of them couldn't kill one of the other. So look here, attack five, defense ten. Damage is only three to five, which is quite poor. For a melee tier three unit. It's not insanely bad, but it's not great. But attack five is quite bad. But the whole point of these guys is they have the health 25, but they have that stodgy defense. So anyway, not doing a lot of damage to each other. This guy only has one health left though. So I'm not going to attack because that will invite retaliation. Instead, I'm going to defend. And then on my turn here, I'm going to blast a hole. And flamethrower man, it's so cool. I did lose one. Losing one isn't too bad. And we free the hero. Let's find out what happens. In a dazzling display of daring, you break into the local jail and free the hero who in return pledges loyalty to the death. Well actually that's not true, is that they just abandon your cause. But anyway, pledges loyalty of sorts to your cause. Who do we get? Oh, who's this guy? Clancy the Ranger? Unicorns. Okay. All right. Wow. Okay. So he's level five. That's the person we've got to look for. Level five is really, really handy. Pathfinding is great. Logistics is great. As I explained in the last campaign, it's half as good in all of the abyss as it is in the vanilla game. But that still makes it great. And pathfinding is great. It's solid, especially because he's running around the desert with these creatures for very long. The pathfinding will come in quite useful. Unicorns probably won't matter. Clancy, welcome to the team. Weird looking guy though, isn't he? It was by pure accident that he discovered he could communicate with unicorns. But this unique ability has served him well as he worked his way through the ranks of the military elite. Usually the background tells you a little bit about where he comes from, but he does look like a dwarf, doesn't he? In terms of his background. So I think a dwarf would do well in the mechanical world of the factory, even though he's very airy fairy and he loves unicorns, much like my daughters. He finds himself now in the Wild West. Drilling for oil. Find out what this is on your way. Another small shrine of novices teach you bloodlust. Could be quite good actually with engineers. We have some crystal. The stone could be around here, but I'm just going to do this. We find a cure spell. The millias are up here. Very beatable. And piles of gold. Not quite. No, I think, okay. No, it's a common sense. You don't have enough. You don't have enough. Sam, what's Clancy going to do if you don't do that? Well, someone's going to go up and kill these. I'm actually going to let Clancy do that. This is what I want to do. Take the girls. Take the armadillo. I actually think we could swap armies just about. Elves are going to be good, even three of them. I'll still have some use against what he's doing. Centaurs won't do much unless Clancy can get there today because they're already penalising him. Can he get there today? He can. No, that might as well happen for this fight. Alright, so that's a done deal. I know everyone's thinking, oh no, wait, Cent was our main hero. What are you doing? You've got to play the game that's in front of you and Clancy has the XP we're looking for. There's an observatory here we definitely want to get to. Yeah, I can do this first. I think that monolith is new. That colour of monolith. Oh, check it out! Look at the gunslinger guy. Cool, there's enough sleeping armadillo. A halfling who's getting annoyed with them. Is this kind of underwater? Is that a dreadnought maybe? That's a dreadnought? And then an automaton here. You've got the pub, you've got the airship, that's the fort up there. I love the gunslinger though. How cool is he, man? I cannot wait to build them. Even though I'm not sure about them in terms of stats, I've got 45 HP tier 6 unit. So we'll see if I live that long for it to matter. Agar is here, do you have Spellboppell? No, you don't. Good ducking and trying to teach you something, but this is too important to unlock. Keep the momentum going. Clancy smashes into the familiars and there's tonnes of them. I'll wait on here. Movement 6 and speed 7 so I have to shoot. Okay, I do want to protect both of you. If you run up this way, how can I do that? I can't do that. To officer in the completely wrong place to do that job. I think for now, no one will do anything maybe for now. You should definitely centralise. I've got the best speed in the game though, surely. I've got speed 7. No? Okay, well this fight's going worse than I had anticipated. Can you tell I'm new to this factory game? Well, you could attack me. I could just leave you for dead up here. You hit the halflings, you waste your turn, and then you act after me next turn. Yeah, do that. I don't care if you kill the dwarves, right? That's obvious. How many? It felt like a lot. Yeah, that's fine. How many did you kill? Eight. That's pretty, pretty bad. That was also maybe a bit foolish. I can do this. Oh, I love that. Oh, no, okay. It was just him having his turn. I don't know if you guys saw the shiv. He just pulled out and stabbed with the gun. I mean, cop that. Oh, that's good. Love that flamethrower, man. How cool is that? I lose one. I lost another one. All right, not having a guy. I'm not happy about that 10-hour flamethrower. You want to hold onto them and protect them like Master Gremlins, you know? Oh, legs of Legion. Great. Very glorious sounding music. For what was not a very glorious victory. And how are we getting ready for the end of the week here? What do we want to do? Let's play towards it. And if it doesn't work out, I mean, we need the blacksmith eventually. Look at how cool the blacksmith is, by the way. Steam coming out of the three chimneys. Awesome. Why don't you start us off? Hopefully you get some good work done. What is that? Look at the new sea is hot. That's new. Gorgeous. Just brilliant. All right, day seven is a great day to get that. We have an easy fight here to get down underground, so we should do that. I really want this, though. I want that gold. There's the gold we needed. Can still get it, though. For the purposes of... No, I can't. Maybe I do need to do that. Let's just see how this guy goes first before I decide that. Can I get that money? I can get this money. Oh, a chain. I wish I'd come this way a little bit on day one. It's so important to get these scouts off. So these are all killable, but I do need the army. Clancy picks up the legs, searching a ruin. You're amazed to find a piece of the statue of Legion. Carefully dust it off, or at least see it in your back. Heck. Second level units. Great. Need to get that back here for tomorrow, actually. So is that me done? 588, so I can just get a bit of scouting. 388. 153, I can't get them. Can't get the greaves. Dragon bone greaves. Yeah, let's get the legs online. And can I get this? Yes. Should I get it? Sweet man. Look at these guys. Look at the icon for mechanical spider. Now once again, speed eight. Everything in this town is super fast, except the armadillo. 1210, damage seven, health 30. Feels pretty solid, right? Kind of like a good pegasus. But then, in addition, you get the detonation at death feature and the repair me feature. Right, from these guys, from the mechanics. Repairs, mechanical creatures. 10 hit points per mechanic, but it goes to 20 hit points per mechanic. Yeah, or per engineer, once you upgrade them to engineers. All very, very good. So we'll let those automatons build up. He has to stay put. I've run out of moves, I can't do anything else. I can however run up here to do this errand while your stockpiling creatures do maybe take on some of these fights. There's another derrick there, that's good. And we want to be able to kill all these creatures with cool automatons. I don't need this money, you can do this. Yep. Ooh, we have the rocky terrain to the west. Yeah, that's what I want to do. Oops, don't do that with him, Jesus. Hang on. Do I want to check out these sea assaults before coming back up here? I don't think I need to, right? It's a shame about these, but I just don't have time. I've come to here, glad that you're not doing that, man. You're staying where you are. We're ending the day. Legion is online. Happiness? All dwellings increase. Okay, well, grab me some cell phone. Milord, I've been working very hard to provide you these resources. Thank you very kindly, good sir. As for the legs of Legion, they did their thing. There are now 13 here. Would have been eight, but there's an extra five, which is so nice. What I want to do is hire the halflings and with them and six armadillos kill this. And if I'm wrong then all my stuff dies. I'm not that sad. Don't get to do all this, though. Okay, our guard wastes his time coming down, but then I get this instead. I think it's fine. Let's get this instead. It's okay. Our grand. Worth popping in here and having a look at our opponents. Let's have a look. Who are we up against? Okay, everyone's still on one down. That's relief. We have three heroes, so we're tied for first. What else is going on here? Gold? Where in the doldrums? That's normal. Obelisk's found. Great. Kingdom Army strength is actually he. Weirdly, we are the leader on Kingdom Army. That's very unusual for this stage of the game on the hardest difficulty. Very, very unusual. It actually makes me think that that's a bug. Because look at the creatures they've got. Wyverns, rocks, black knights. That's very strange. How's it measuring army strength? Okay, I'd love to know if anyone's watching and can explain this. How am I winning? How am I winning? Unless it's the hero. Unless it's the quality of the hero. He's baked in there. But he's 3, 5, 1, 1. That's the same as Corbac. I can't explain that. Okay, we're up against Fortress. Stronghold. Looks like that's probably Stronghold as well. And then that's probably Rampart. And good old Septiana. Heroin of the Last Campaign. We're up against her this time though. So, a middable adversary. And Sam. Do it. We've committed to it now. Come galloping through to here. Agar Needs to be ready to come back. Okay, lots of nymphs. B to 8. We're just going to use these guys to block them. I'm happy if the elves just die. I'm not going to be able to defend them. They're not a long-term viable. This is an easy fight. I mean, very, very easy fight. I'm going to say yes. Okay, none. I am going to fight the battle though. Now, you guys can't see behind my camera. There's a new button above the weight button. With the detonation effect. So, you click that button and it turns on detonation. Which means if the stack dies, it slows up and causes tons of damage to everyone in base contact. Which is just nasty. Just really, really nasty. These guys, meanwhile, have a repair button that uses the same slot for anyone who's damaged. So, I'm going to actually make that work and use it. Here these girls come. Okay, well, that's why I massively overestimated how bad this would be. But there are the there are the milliers coming up. Okay, I might get a morale here. I'll try. I'm not turning detonation on. That's just going to kill them all, maybe. That's just it. Look at it walking. Yeah, now can I repair? Look at that. The little wrench shows up. There's a little wrench logo. A little wrench. These girls can't kill me. I'm going to repair them. Let's look at the repair animation. Fantastic. She waves her wrench around and there's a little resurrection looking animation as well. Can you tell I'm impressed? Can you tell I like this? I'm going to want to kill them too. Let's see if we can beat this. Ooh, that's not good. Yeah, we have to shoot first. That's fine. Go ahead. Protect them. Anyway, you don't need to do this. I'm telling you all this stuff, but it's not really relevant because I'm... Okay, who goes first next time? Oh no, they got in the way. Well, the automatons can walk around here and kill you, actually. So let's go with that. I'll just move out of the way. Let's do this. Nice fast unit. Runs all the way around. Kills 14. Survives the crack back surely. Back 4 versus defense 16. Yeah. Survives the crack back. How much damage? 21 damage. Well, these elves saved an automaton. And now we just come down and... Although I could have resurrected with my wrench. It's pretty good. You know what we could do? You could come galloping past and you could do this job. Who are these? Yeah, so we could finally do this. Yeah, it's all starting to click. Okay, this is good. Do you know what else I might do is build a bank. That's something we could do tomorrow. Show you guys how that works. Yeah, that's okay. Let's try it. Well, Sam has 500 quid for us. So that's good. Now, watch this. For 500 bucks and some stone. Here we have a little bank in the bottom left corner. Now what that allows us to do is go in here. We get a free 2500 bucks in the pocket right now. However, we have to pay it back after the course of the next five days. I don't know if we can do this... I don't know if we can do this every week. I want that. Boom. There it is in our bank account. You can't see that. 3800. What happens if we go here again? A banker sees you and says you already have got your loan. Pay it back before taking a new one. You just take a new one once it's paid back. It's good. Day one of every week. Boom. It's 2500 to work with and then you pay it back when you're ready. Give me all this. So we know what she's doing. I'm not spending this money still. Obama. Okay, come out. See, she's got centaurs galloping around the desert with centaurs. They're probably going to need to get dismissed. I might just give Agar a little head start here. Yes, he's very tired. Talk to me. You're going to need these before me. I can't cut spells anyway. Give me. Give me. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Order of water elementals. You're getting smashed. 397. What is it in there? 356 to there. Come to here. So we're going to want to clear that as well. Clear that underground. The prisoner is the prize. That's potentially very good. Okay, need to hold here without losing crazy. Yeah, we need to do much better than this. These guys come wriggling forward. That's actually quite nice for us. We'd rather that than them come around up this way. So I think we are waiting. Yeah, that's just a nature of reality. Now, if these two block this, the autonomous captains can't get through. I still shoot this, right? Okay, that's actually useful. Oh, that's great. That's good. So if he's standing there, you go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, he can get there by going around the long way. So I'll stand here. I hope I've counted this correctly. I am an automaton. Here I come. Yes, I easily get there. Oh, look at that. He can slip through the gap. I did not see the gap there. Oh, look at that nasty attack. Can you get back to me? No, you can't. You're slow. You're too slow. This is safe in terms of fire breathing. Here it comes. Still haven't lost one. Big, big damage. That's amazing. Meanwhile, the armadillos are in big trouble. Well, find this off. You can't get me. What a waste. Just getting away, boys. Now you're walking here, killing these three. Two automatons perished, but no, we're coming back. You can stand there and die. That was a bit silly. Okay, I did lose one. Lose the elf. How many do I repair? 10 hit points per mechanic. 400 hit points worth coming back. Lost nowhere near that many, so that's not to it yet. Useful. Let's finally go down. Defense. Okay, come on out. We just have to waste a turn here, getting back into the game. I don't know how good that is. Let's get working on that stack. Okay, he goes down. Cannot protect them anymore. Can't protect them. And he died. Whoa! That's not a halfling game, this one I'm playing. Just be careful. They can't flee. So let's do this. Get on my next turn. I need to be a bit careful. Attack. And now I'm going to attack you like this. You're still alive. She has her turn. She swings at the halflings. How dead will she be though? 3 to 6. She's not going to kill all of them. Kills exactly 2. So they deal a robotic amount of damage. 7. They always deal 7. So it tells you exactly how much damage they'll deal. Not enough for a kill. So I'll kill 2. Then I will repair. Okay, so it's not a halfling game. Okay. And then can the hero move on the turn I free him? Or her? That's my doubt. In another dazzling display of daring you break into the local jail and free yet another hero. Using the other prisoner. So it's a rag tag bunch of oh boy. Okay we have an undead hero, Isra. Level Hello Dolly. Specialty necromancy. But look at their capabilities. Isra, level 10. She's ready to go to the library. She has logistics, expert offense, basic ballistics, expert wisdom. Isra, welcome. You are most welcome. Now who's going to kill this? Half of white's dead meat too. So I don't need help. I'm just going to do it. Okay I mean the 17. This layout is terrible. So really have to fix this next time. Yeah. I would have done if I... Come up here. Centralized boys. Waiting of course. Oh that was once. Yeah so if I go here he can just fly there. Be careful of dragon breath. Oh nice. What about this? How about I lose nothing? I love the dead. Love that. I love that audio that's always gone with that. Right can you kill whatever's down here as well? Lots of stone gargoyles. So that's the end of the half links. What did we say we wanted to do? Make it a tight formation maybe? Actually can't. I'm exhausted. Right but guys start mopping up. Getting it like it's messy. Look at all this stuff that's everywhere here. Could you do this? A horde of pixies with magic arrow? You actually could. No I'm not. He's got like four magic arrows. A bunch of dudes here. Keep it tight. We'll win this. Top that. Maybe that was a mistake I should have run. I can defend you. Alright love what are you going to do? Okay well I'm not. It just feels like the last campaign. Um... What's going to happen? Should I come this way? Yeah. Free stuff flying around. Israel can vacuum all that up. Now we are... Really sorry Sam. I know how you're feeling. It's like you're supposed to be the star of the show. You're my starting hero. Here I am messing around with these other people I've freed from prison. This is the way the game works. Lots of stone gargoyles. Five of my best. Perish apparently. Stone gargoyles are good. They are quality. Can we share? Can I defend the halflings in this configuration? Is it worth trying? Yes. Can you even get around there? Nope. Oh you kind of can. Yeah I'm still going to do this because this deletes the second unit from the game. For a while. Although I could do this. Kill six. You come and help them afterwards. But if you come and help them. Depending on where you stand. Oh check this out. Here's this for some thinking. He can only get to the same level vertically. Right as his friend. So if I stand here. He will have to land either there or there. Which gives me a breath attack. Now we're getting the hang of this. I love the animations. Love the way they are tackled. If I stand here that's no good actually. I can wait. No that's the idea. I wait. I could probably use him for something but anyway. This is good right? Look at this dragon breath. Lame throw up. Now I need to be careful. I want to regenerate. He was exactly five. So stay handy. Stay close. I want to repair. Not regenerate. He won't die from the halflings. My poor halflings. Just wasn't a bee. It was supposed to be a thing. Sorry. Couldn't defend them. Advanced logistics on basic luck. Well luck's no good with automatons. Although double damages a thing. So I think I'm going to stay away from luck. Engineers don't Engineering soldiers don't don't operate on luck and guessing. Maths. It's a mathematical discipline. Let's upgrade the mechanics. Why don't we do that? We're going to do that. To start with I'm going to come upstairs. Gallop down here. Give the army to you. And come back and tidy up some of this stuff. So I know this looks a bit strange. Going the wrong way here. But it's all with a purpose in mind. Do that man. Get it. Get it good. Here is the idea of using the undead tail. You trip over what seemed to be the bones of a large dragon. Well it's Isra so that wouldn't bother her in the slightest. Upon further examination you discover the bones to be a pair of greaves. Plus one to power and knowledge suits Isra just fine. Thank you very much. Money is massive. The free stuff. Look at all the free stuff. I've got magic arrows for some of these fights too if they're in the way. Greating the engineers then. Because I can get you to hear. You're going to have to gallop to hear and back to hear. So you might as well come here first. That's what we'll do. We're going to use the troops to do the oceanids and the skeletons. So we have something to spend some money on. Look at that. See what I mean. Once you've gone mechanical boundary manufacturing watch towers next you can skip the catacombs. You can skip the ranch. You don't even need the ranch. Gun slingers man. These guys are wicked cool. Cannot wait to get these guys going. If I need to buy it, I'm obviously not doing it today. Yeah, let's stick to the plan. We upgrade the dwelling. The mechanics become engineers and look at this. I made a mess of fuss about this in my failed run through. She's wearing a welding mask held up like that. She's dyed her blonde and she's got a new white outfit. New upgraded flamethrower. Just so much fun. I love it. I love the flavor. Really, really cool. Right. Where are you going to get to? You're going to get me all the way there. Well, in that case, I can afford to learn something. I'm going to attack my hero. Gallop to there. Okay. I'm feeling like my tail is up here. This is... I feel good feeling fun. I have engineers. I have automatons. These two fights are easy. I'll just do the other stuff first. Go get this. Ransacking an enemy camp. You find a hidden case of treasure. That's fun. What is that? A grave. It's a cool feature. Look at that. Right. All of the free things around here. Piles of gold just left around. I can magic arrow my way through that. Do I want to do that as a priority? I don't want to check out what's up here first. Quick scout. Lots of drugs. Don't like magic arrow. Oh yeah, nice one. Nice one. Now, do you want to build? There is this. There's actually this. For grand though. Are you serious? How good would gunslingers be? Can I keep them alive against the water element? That's a problem. Here's the thing with these gunslingers. I've got no idea if they're good or bad. 45 HP. They are very powerful. In terms of the damage they do. The range damage they do. They have this preemptive shot rule. Which means that the upgraded version anyway every time someone else shoots at them it's like the Wild West, you know? They're pulling out your gun and... Anyway. Which is all very fun and cool. But is it what I want when I'm trying to clear naga banks and just get ahead in the game? It's not really what I want, is it? Um... Maybe sandworms are what I want. A bit more flexible, a bit tougher. Gunslingers. I can't keep them well defended with these particular troops that I'm building here. Okay, yeah, so we won't do gunslingers. But before we gallop off I could upgrade the 10 automatons we do have to Sentinel automatons. Do you feel like that's worthwhile yet? So I'm not going to do it. I'd rather invest my way to Wood City Hall actually. I just don't need to go crazy with the creatures just yet. I think that's the issue. So let's do a low regret marketplace. And yeah, it appears just in the foreground along with the other dwellings. The standard dwellings. Very nice. The guard comes galloping across the desert. Sam, finally I'm able to reconvene with you. Here, take your automatons and these engineers see what you can do with them. Take this guy too. Go, child! Do your best for the faction. Introduce to her new engineers and automatons Grimly makes her way towards the oceanids. I'm just going to take it. Hang on, I meant to click yes and then auto. Sorry, I got confused there. I was supposed to click yes, pursue and engage them but I was thinking about whether or not to auto combat. Anyway, I can't do any of that now because I'm stupid to click the tick button. As you're right into a clearing you can learn water magic. Water magic is what I want. I want to teleport automatons and dreadnoughts around. Right. Plus, there's Bless as well. So I know she's not a hero of magic at all but this is for free. So I'm using one of my eight slots but I'm taking it. Then there's the Derek which someone needs to get around. It's just like a water wheel. I need to get around and visit it pretty regularly. Next on my hit list are the Skellies and from tomorrow I could do this actually. How good's the Narga Bank going to be? Is this worth checking out? Maybe on the way? Let's stop in at the Sea of Tide on the way though. Agar now is actually a free agent. Lucy Goosey, he's been here. He hasn't been there. Okay, decent turn. How much fun is this? I've spent my life doing things but I can't turn a profit. I think I might be able to start mass producing artifacts but I have to get one first. Even though I've spent my life on this very task. Anyway, long story short with the spirit of oppression I'll confusingly reward you. See what I can do pal, no promises. You're a bit all over the place. I don't know what you're about. We just go down and do this, right? Don't worry about these because I'm in too much of a hurry. Get the Derek? Do I do that now? Let's go do this first with Dudemeister Plancy Archery. Maybe I could have Gunslingers I was going to be the Halflings guy so yeah. I'll take Archery. Maybe I'll learn how to keep my Halflings alive. Eventually. Interesting underground area that might be very lucrative. All right, let's magic arrow these troglodytes to death. Don't apply the battle result. They're all sprang out. Let's just get started. Sound effects are bad. Opening three creatures for the Necropolis are just really not good. Skeletons are fine of course because of Necromancy but... talk about unexciting. That's right though. How many do I kill? Three to six seems all right, right? Then he acts next and then the Skellies act. Kill the three to six, do it. My wounds are going to heal. Yeah, then I kill these. Don't even need to use all my magic arrows, look at that. Three Skellies of which eight come back. Isra is an expert at Necromancy and that means you can get some cool things done with her with no starting position. It does help that she's got 50 spell, 0.7, strong magic arrow up her sleeve of course. Okay, that's a dead end but we got the Mercury online, that's amazing. Feeling good. These centaurs are slow but whatever. Do need to get Isra back and get her a spell but I haven't even built the Mage Guild yet so probably not building now though, right? I'm preparing for next week I'm trying to decide before day seven. Cool, look at that resource side though, the pressurized pump. Crystal it produces. Let's go sit it down, we know we're building it. Alright, look at that. Look at the four columns that went up there. That's formidable. Just love this. Just love it. Alright, let's do some exploring first. Durand, Clancy I mean is on the fringes of the world. Trying to get a handle on what's where. Go for this. A Dragon Vault. Is this turning into a Necro campaign? I have an amazing Necropolis hero and I can start pouring all my money into a nearby Necropolis. What do I do? What does my conscience want me to do? Free Curse Temple? Oh. Isra's going to be very happy. Get a bit more of a scout of her. We just want to find this Necropolis wherever it is down here and we want it. Make a big deal out of Sam and her engineers even though I have Isra's 10 levels ahead of her. Expert Necromancy and there's a Dragon Vault downstairs. Which I could gallop over to and just begin trying to push through and dominate and conquer that. However there's too much upside here right now so we've got to do this. At first, fighting in the desert you can't win at this difficulty level unless you take the opportunities that the game coughs up. Um and that's a big opportunity. Have a look at it to me. This could hurt. Not really. Do you want to throw another one? Waiting's useless. I might save my mana. I feel like he goes with the Skellies and that's fine. Or die and for come back I do have a spellbook because I'm a death knight. Learn hypnotize which I can never use. Those pixies will die to magic arrow. So we don't have to decide yet. We don't have to decide these things just yet. Ezra's quite busy and quite happy out there. Getting these jobs done is worthwhile. 1000 bucks. And I'm awkwardly on day 6 should I just hang around here for another wee bit? That's what I'm gonna do. Oh look at the Mage Guild. Look at how cool that is. Mage Guild can get to level 5 in the factory. People on Reddit are pining about the factory and it's filled up all the way up to level 5. That's awfully good. Given that it's got 2 level 7 creatures it's got a lot going for it in the town. Best first level creature in the game. But I don't know. I don't get a huge sense. Looking through the list of all the creatures in between Armadillos this mechanical dynamic between these two units is really fun. I don't know if it's overpowered. And I don't know how Uber overpowered these 2 level 7 creatures really are either. Gunsling is not so much fun but 45 HP. So it doesn't have it all its own way. Right. Agar That's a tough choice. What am I gonna do with you? You can get to here tomorrow which is pointless. But you have the legs and therefore that's made the decision. Very easy. Sam you want to be able to do this job with someone else to figure it out at some point. I need you to be able to do this job without a lot of us. Or your tactics that's right. Yes pursue them and don't apply the result. Get it right. Yeah so this it should be possible for us to abuse the repair. Let's start combat. Okay how the fuck can you walk to there? Where's my weight? You're out of the fight. But now I'll just walk here. You're gonna come and do this. I'm gonna try to get the damage you're concentrated on me. Tomaton out of range to actually attack. Skellies because I moved the guy there. 88 Skellies has hurt. Did you not know that? Okay I still have tons of HP renewal. Stand here for me. Give me the option. What happens if they die completely? Let's do the repair. I think this completely heals and I've got tons of engineers. Yeah they all come back. Then I act first. I can kill many. Flamethrower baby. Oh I did lose one. Okay it worked out in the end. Oof man it's a volatile thing that like so let's say we're up against enemy hero who could kill the engineers. It's a real interesting minigame that develops. It's like how do I optimize this because if the engineers all die the automatons are gone forever. But 42 of them can easily bring 10 back. 800 HP worth. Which is enough to bring back probably 20 or something. It's like a 2 to 3 ratio. You need 3 engineers for every 2 automatons. Okay I don't think I'm going to have archery with Sam. And advanced tactics gets my melee units over to the enemy faster so that's cool. Lots of orcs. Case in point. Do we do it as one lot of stack? Lots of orcs? We can do that. We can take them. We can take them. 7, 8, 1, 2, 3, 4. Nearly. No she can't. Okay there's new graphics for the orcs. Tons. We want to give them the automatons. Right because they're the thing that can be repaired. So if possible. Yeah it is possible. I'm going to move them into short range on purpose. I might be worth moving this guy up actually. Wow look at how pathetic the damage is. Maybe it was still long range. I don't think alright I'm just doing this. Kills 8. Got that. Flame. Yoga Flame. Kills 4. So my engineers. I have a bigger stack of engineers than I need for what I'm doing. Num died? Have the orcs been made even worse than they were in the middle again? I have to say I don't. I don't love the new orc graphics. This has been redone. I don't love the new axes. I like the old axes. I don't know if I like the new orc. That's one thing. They've changed everything. You can see the little square picture of them up there. As well. That's a new graphic. I think it was because there was something where the old graphic didn't have a high enough resolution. It was bugged or something. But that's because I spent 25 years looking at the old one I think. Just a grumpy. Grumpy sort of guy. Do this. Fix them up. Do this. Having great fun with these two units. Oh that's the second one there. Damn it. I will apply battle resolve. Not super happy about that. Can I do this? Can I explore? Do I need to get back? I need to get back because we are going to take on the horde of elementals on day one. I've got it to help my sleeve. I can do a bit of exploring. A horde of masters. Ooh a horde of grandowns. They'll be fun to fight with tactics. Once I have expert tactics. And a pandora's box. That's a very high priority target for us. But we do want to have that expert tactics or teleport or something. Don't need to fight them yet. If they're not really offering any information. Having them shoot the engineers to death before turn two is going to be really bad. Portal. I think okay so I'll be there. Turn seven. Day seven I'll get to about here. No I can just keep exploring. Guarded by not much. That shield looks like it might be good. And I can probably beat these guys. Alright guys come on team. Clancy tell me more about what's down there man. Smooth stone. On the face of the pillar begins to swirl. Looking into it you're amazed to see answers. As you've pondered for years. Stones don't really go still and you realise you've learned. Excellent Clancy. Find the necropolis for me. Look at all the stuff that's here. Why didn't I do this? I just couldn't. That's a good reason. Let's have a look at this. Smooth stone. Above ground there's water there obviously. Centre of the world somewhere right? The mansion is full of vampire lords. You gotta beat them and you get a prize. Legs of Legion are returning to New Dolan. And we will prepare for tomorrow by building a castle. Gonna go for my city hall. Golden dome. It's like the Taj Mahal mixed with the Temple Mount or something. It's like it's just got everything going on. Inspired artwork man. Look at that. That's a city hall right there. Now tomorrow you need to be ready. So that means I need you back up through here. Ready to fight these. With extra engineers and automatons I'm gonna bring you. So my gallop off today I would not quite get there. I've still got time to just have a quick look around. Oh that's actually really useful. Okay that finds that out. Come around. We're exhausted but that's fine. Okay we're back the next day and I was thinking overnight about our conundrum. We've got this amazing hero Isra. Isra the Death Knight. Level 10 she's way ahead of where our factory heroes are up to here in week two end of week two to have a level 10 hero. We also have this guy who's level 7 now level 7 Ranger Clancy. I do feel like we need to lean on these heroes and pivot into them. I don't want to abandon the factory exactly but we did notice that underground we have a necropolis nearby. So really Isra being amazing at Necromancy there's skeletons here oh we're gonna want to do that right. I think we might have seen her biography before but she's not the greatest spellcaster in danger but the army she leads always seem to have a disproportionate number of skeletons compared to the others for obvious reasons. Okay now in horn of the Abyss Necromancy is half as good so it's 15% but then Isra gets a 5% level perp so she gets a 50% bonus to that so I think what that means is 22.5% come back from the dead I'm gonna want to leverage that okay so don't be too upset though I know the last campaign was a Necro campaign as well but we didn't really do Necromancy in the last campaign also we are still going to have plenty of relevant activity happening with the factory I do feel though that Clancy is probably the guy who's going to be end up leading the factory troops but we'll see okay so I think the plan was we're waiting here with the legs of Legion on day 7 Isra is just tidying up this area for us before we make that bigger tactical decision we've got magic arrows up our sleeves so this result will be far less bad than it appears definitely want to use one of them very very good target for magic arrow we should get these out of the way defend defend and if these guys just keep going for the skellies that suits us fine we're not even going to waste another magic arrow because we're going to be raising these guys back so we lose 5 and 4 come back so we lose a magic arrow and one skeleton so such is the power of Isra I think we're still in money mode for now a thousand XP doesn't hit the dial very much when you're level 10 anyway so she needs 2,000 before she can go up yeah so let's end the turn there that's it for the week week of the eagle, Tan doing some stuff over here interesting to see if they show their face yeah so before we do what we were going to do so what we were going to do, Sam is down here she was going to gallop up and fight these and we were going to use the automatons and stuff and upgrade them or get fresh automatons from New Dolair but let's just get some money in the bank first I'm going to stick on the theme of money I think money is right still for now and we can take these guys on but so our prize is a campfire which is actually pretty good but then the conservatory we can't really win against the griffins I don't think so I'm minded to just sort of keep exploring so this is a dead end anyway so we can decide maybe on the crack back I think we can take on the troggs and do that prize isn't very good but it'll be an easy fight okay now as for Clancy you're exploring the underground for us we've been there he spent his life doing stuff and he thinks he wants to mass produce and he needs one to copy he has the same old story okay see what we can do no promises and see if we can cheaply get the net grow and defend it I think that's probably the strategy if in doubt go for money okay can I go there how much movement do I have down there 206 will remain 241 and then I need I think I don't have enough moves to do both so I'll leave the crystal go get this first okay it's a smaller chest just take the money come upon a caravan of gypsies who are feasting and fortifying their bodies with meat they call you forward and say if you prove that you can dance the Rama Bhutto we will reward you you don't know it but try anyway they laugh hysterically but admire your bravery giving you a strange charm oh good on you Clancy for busting out the dance moves mate one extra spell point per day well well that's okay I mean it's not exactly the greatest prize in the history of in the history of in the history of dance offs but Clancy hitting the dance floor getting down busting the moves out on the on the floor impressing the gypsies enough to get something out of the exchange so you can't say that he's not putting in a shift or putting in an effort for the for the faction okay so that's our explorers sorted out Sam are you serious about this this fight didn't go that well last time you have to think about what we're going to do how tired would you be so she's going to be exhausted anyway so we could we could maybe rendezvous today and then Agar runs back what could we do we could maybe upgrade the automatons yeah that seems good right so she rides north maybe get this on the way back down right because she's she's coming back down she's going to be unlocking the familiars she might take this fight on Pandora's box it might be good but it's going to hurt like anything I did do it okay all right come on come on up here you I don't I don't think do the fight today I think we we're going to upgrade the automatons right upgrade the manufacturing and look at that look at the upgrade how wicked is that it's like something out of the early days of the American Railroad that's just sweet that's just so nice it just makes me happy all right and look at the image of what the changes to like they change into these gold plated guys but I love the mini image it looks like something absolutely wicked so it's a Sentinel automaton we're going to be buying and we're going to pick up the engineers to go with it I think Centaurs can stay with me come on down and have a chat to her Sam and you with an urgent missive from head command take these they are Sentinel automatons that take no enemy retaliation give me your old ones I will return tomorrow and give me this slow idiot because he's just going to slow you down I'll return tomorrow with if only I could bring her a spell book that would be good with these guys upgraded that's what we're going to do Agar has his way back to New Dolay to upgrade these bad boys for a grand but now that we know there's a necropolis downstairs I'm having these evil thoughts I don't even want to verbalize what they are as to what maybe we could I know it's not the spirit of what we set out to do which is to really showcase the factory but part of me does wonder if it might be better serving there I said it I think leave the armadillo at home actually man and I'm going to run around with well then again yeah I'm going to run around with some basic centaurs or something to do these errands I'm going to do the Derek and all this kind of thing alright so let's get this done let's get this fight done and we want we want this fight to be do that and then I'm saying something like this we flood the board with all these idiots sort of fuscating tactic for Sam to deploy are we serious about this do we think we can do this the first strike and the repair it's all about the timing of the repair I feel 82 oh man ok well we might have bitten off too much here so how can we confuse and distract ok so my plan was to come over here and smash with first strike I only kill 7 actually the engineers then walk over do that let's do it come on girls ok how bad was that 3 engineers perish in the crack back any distraction you boys can give me is going to be welcome you're out of the game when do you act you act last come this way and try and drag her down if you walk to here and slap the center well I'm putting in there let's just see what happens right as for this guy we don't really want her coming up into here like let's say she walks up and kills him we don't want this girl coming this way one two three four five so if he's there and then we want to stay out of range of both with this one and then you come to here ok come on do your worst ok that's good ok well that's good ai oh that's very bad oh no it didn't do it she didn't turn around and breathe she breathed down that way that's quite bad that's a bad thing so I want to allow her the flexibility to walk onto there we need to keep them together kind of thing you know there's absolutely no point now using these they're just going to get in the way of what I want to do spacing themselves beautifully wait probably now's the time to repair I guess there's no point taking retaliations though right because he's not going to get retaliated against all we can do is offer them offer them up please attack me I'm here I'm here yeah they're too smart ok well kill six we just got a chunk into them here don't we it's all we can do take the hits yeah again pointless centaurs provided oh yes finally oh thank you boys thank you yes ok um that actually was good um just be careful here we don't do an accidental fire breathing that's fine oh man ok it wasn't crazy hasn't retaliated yet so yeah just come on up here hey why don't you kill me instead yes oh well centaurs you actually did do something so well done but I'm 3 and 14 that's that hurts right so this ogre club better be bloody good can't justify navigation tactics is good scholar could be quite good actually no I'm just I'm I'm a my hero and scholar just doesn't feel right gonna do that can you pick these up for me I'm gonna go get the spell book it's ridiculous I'm trying to fight here I could visit here as well I can learn slow and bloodlust before I return pause here let's go and see what's going on with Isra and the others so we get past this fight let's do this I guess I'll magic arrow the pig stack ok and come on this way we'll just stratify things out a little bit wanna do another one I'm not gonna waste another magic arrow I don't know how good that was lost 11 raised 8 maybe I could have magic arrow there and done a bit better um we just aren't doing this I think we're just when we're not there's not enough reward for that so Isra's gonna try to be line his way her way sorry down here Clancy tell me more about what's going on down here man I'm intrigued ok I see an observatory infernal what's it called lots of harpy hags too good for us this is gonna help a lot where is the necropolis nowhere ooh I see a tower there's a tower town down here another prison there's a full-on tower town down here alright well where's the necro there is no necro so the game's not gonna generate if that's a tower the game's not gonna just generate random like it's not gonna generate randomly another town like a necropolis next door to this right there the zone of the map generator is not gonna do that there's another prison here bloody hell so this is a good this is a bum steer there's no necropolis here where's this down here couldn't be there couldn't be right next door this is baffling I have to say I'm confused yeah at this moment where I just don't know who the hell is this and it's like oh it's glancing okay sorceresses up here guarding things oh man what are we gonna do there just wouldn't be right there's too much going on here for glancing to curse is useful okay get his head around so he's just gonna gallop to there so agar step off for a moment get out of my way I want to learn things so I pick up shield stone skin I wonder if I should try for blind while we're here I'm never coming back what else could I learn I could learn lightning bolt Isra's gonna come here so I think this is okay I think this is an okay investment second floor goes up what did we get we need something lightning bolt indeed okay causes a bolt of lightning to strike the enemy unit it's okay blind would have been better remove obstacle could be relevant with my alpha striking tactics that I'll be I'll be deploying but now Sam has a spell book she's learned a few things and her lightning bolt does 35 yeah so there's no spell power behind it yet this actually is the way to go though we get two magic arrows um well we'll get five magic arrows actually once she um regenerates her spell points okay it's okay right do we want to make this investment and then learn slow and bloodlust I think yes right we want to be sure that she's coming down stairs with some power and more doing more stuff I didn't get a good I should have taken a bit more time to really look at what tens doing so not a lot right their armies barely better than ours and Guern's just running around to help okay cool that's fine um well you better come learn all the lightning bolty stuff well so we're kind of bringing everyone home it's like we're coming home for Christmas while you're there you could stay the night to gain all your spell points as well so we could just clear these away um while we're at it Clancy mate I think with you you should just get all this good stuff the free stuff and then come back or 20 how do I find out where's my little kingdom button there used to be a picture of a car how much stone am I earning yeah and I still just won okay get this and get that can't go to the imp cage but get this money and let's just go money money money money money now I wonder what that is for me Agar go ahead and um well let's just do this girl first I'm an attack minded person it's worth galloping out here for slow I think someone else will get that maybe Agar and then come back over here and learn uh bloodlust the Naga Bank here so Isra could maybe do the Naga Bank with the army we could just do a quick quick meet and greet yeah I think we should do that right grab the club but before we get the club while messing around with the curious trinket that you managed to trade something really equally unneeded for at a peddler you find that although it's made of metal it doesn't reflect the sun's rays but rather absorbs the red really charm of the eclipses going to ruin our enemy spell casting reduces the power skill of any enemy hero by 10% I with interference I don't know like I think it probably is a bit better than resistance like in terms of replacing what one of the abyss does replacing resistance with interference I think it's a bit better but yeah giving your enemy bad power bad luck is another one and bad morale those are the major kind of introduction new artifacts the themes of the new artifacts from horn of the abyss I don't know how I feel about them it felt like I was giving my opponent minus 2 luck and it really hurt a lot in the last campaign and I just wonder if are we sure that minus luck and minus morale are balanced against positive morale and positive I don't know I feel like freezing in combat with negative morale is way way worse than getting an extra attack is good so it's not even Steven what I'm saying is minus 2 morale having negative 2 morale in a fight is on the scale it's like minus 100 in terms of how unhappy you are whereas plus 2 morale makes you feel like you're at plus 40 in terms of happiness you know I don't know I'm just saying is it lopsided that's what I'm asking is it lopsided should the negative debuffing artifacts be rarer at a roadside tavern a drunken ogre challenges you to a fight not wanting to hurt him you subdue him instead and take his massive club from him to prevent him getting into any more trouble so that's a bit patronizing to the fellow but ogre's club of havoc agar manages to plus 5 a fight the attack that's going to make a big difference against the nagers if we're serious about that so Sam go ahead and grab this club I'll keep the legs you might find a use for cure and you'll be fighting heroes before I will so take that centaurs for a distraction one reason is they'll slow you down exactly is there that's going to do this fight they'll slow you down but not today oh yes they will I'm out of moves anyway so I can't change my mind that's good building towards capital still I don't really need to start unlocking tons of sandwebs and stuff just yet I'm happy you know let's go with the economy I didn't have a good look there I let it happen without checking oh check it out all the cogs and wheels and stuff that have been added rotating around oh man let's see anyone try and get in getting past that looking forward to see what it looks like in a siege actually as well right let's end the turn new 10 heroes just been released oh good so they may have there's so many prisons on this map it's ridiculous iron might be level 10 okay it's going to be quite good for them you can learn slow on your way back is there it doesn't have a lot of moves actually I can just about get the job done gal about to about here Sam you're going to need to use all your moves anyway to even have a hope of making it happen and that's because of the centaurs so I may have messed up a little bit here so I'm going to have to talk to you waste all this time and effort getting the army keep the undead out of it I think yes and I'll lose a centaur that's fine I'll just take that I forgot about that that's minus two morale but just to these girls I am going to dismiss them I think I'll keep these ones is that too many am I doing this do you know what I might do I might try that idea we talked about right these girls will act before the naga but not the naga queens YOLO is this reckless okay so it is sadly alright okay thank god the engineers do act first maybe I could hypnotize this woman let's do this I better decide what we're going to do here so I could literally burn burn this girl so she's down to she's on a hundred and 49 HP now I have to do it though before this turn is over I'm going to do quite a lot of damage to her though so is it better to just magic arrow and kill the queens 60 points of damage puts her down to 80 something then I've got a good chance of killing her out alright I think that's better and then I'm just going to pile magic arrows in to what's left 89 I need to deal so this could go either way I'll stand on this side okay good we max rolled we rolled high that's nice okay so we still have two repairs up our sleeve we evacuate she's going to come south I think we're happy for her to come south we want to fight her we want to keep these pretty occupied come here waste your life over here this could be very very good and if you want to walk out to here something like that I don't really care what your girls are doing come here you can only attack one at a time this is fantastic just waste their move yes you're the one I want to kill great okay okay this is a conversation between you and me just another arrow do the same thing again basically okay this time we want one of them to come over to us so let's go up here okay we do have two arriving alright let's try it that way who acts next then it's you I should have attacked this one magic arrow is not going to hurt it enough now that was a mistake could have gone for this one you back off still cast it well I've only got one magic arrow I really like this my last one anyway alright let's just see how good this is there's 14 enough of a snowball I don't know if it is yeah that's alright okay little move symbol there you guys can't see what I'm looking at do this kill that hopefully you come down here to do this job now you guys come back out of range if I wait here you're going to walk up and hit me yeah this is hard to do we're trying to get multiple repairs off like if I repair now yeah I repair with a small stack right but she's still going to come around and hit them though well that was always brisk that's shocking that's not good the problem is these girls have first strike as well I wait with this one and I you do this but you don't get them yeah this is fine maybe the 13 can finish that group off it's not good the way I fought this just doesn't feel good at all how much is left 19 so maybe the 13 can do that okay well we maybe I'm being a bit hard on myself I don't know but the morale is like 4 of those girls died because of morale yeah archery for Israel is not going to be a thing I don't think 6 grand well that's actually pretty tight isn't it a decent payday alright gal upon out let's see what else I can get done here before I have to go pick up the kids is there a campfire there or a mist? look at that can you see the flames the flames do emerging just behind those rocks there bloodlusters here okay good to know get this money get this let's try and catch up to the AI economically and then decide what we're going to do yeah go visit Derek grand solid money cash money let's continue can I get the capital I can we're doing this right? that was our hydroline alright are we ready to see what the capital looks like let's do that ooh nice little additional dome on top and we go to four grand a day so that's going to really help a lot we're going to be able to unlock the factory and build it up nice and high which is what we kind of wanted to do I started off this session thinking oh I'm going to find myself putting all my money into this necropolis that exists down here apparently it doesn't but look at that the tomb of souls up here well why? why is there a tomb of souls there and why is that there the answer must be that there's a necro here that you can access around this way oh hang on maybe hope is not lost I've never seen a random map where it just gives you a dwelling there isn't a town nearby of that town type so it must just be that these are actually way way out and the necro is up here so that's actually quite important to realise that that's there this looks like interesting as well might be a warehouse of gold so smashing through here is my new top priority I'm even willing to say Isra you could take the army do that and Sam expert tactics it's a shame once we've got the necro safe I can give you these soldiers back these ones I'm not going to do anything else today I'm just going to end the turn so let's just do that get a good look at Tan it's useful Tan has the okay Tan has arrived in the south and taken the tower no not yet but it's likely to take the tower okay Sorong probably won't get past don't really care if she flags this we'll take them take them back later but it kind of makes me want to say well look I'm going to leave these horde of archers here I'm not going to fight my way down here you can have this area it's quite possible that this isn't connected at all and that this is a it's own dead end there's no way the tomb of souls up here though goes with a necro that's down here that's not the case it's much more likely that these two and the tomb of souls actually relate to a necro that's nestled just here so it looks like Tan is the first major foreign power we're going to be going up against I don't have anything better for you to do mate so just go for your life on this it's not a problem go over the crystal on the way back through Agar before the end of the week we want to hit all three of these yeah all right Isra your time is not very precious now right you're not you can just be an undead hero that's wandering around need to get rid of these walking dead between the two of us we're going to solve that problem I think that's what we want to do a lot of the time it's about saying okay I have an army fully fully led by me but there's no limit to how far these creatures can move on the map or how many fights they can engage in each day unlike in other games so you're really trying to leverage that and use them have your army sort of exist in multiple locations around the map at once be down here and she'd be happy to take the legs off you which you can do tomorrow while learning these things so I don't get compromised well she goes legs thingy she has to go and learn slow as well day five what's my day six look like then no I don't like that let's compromise we'll go half and half now am I preparing by the way for next week I only have three creatures unlocked this is a pretty low regret investment just for today so there we have the pen up on the hill there's where the armadillos roam free problem with these guys is they have movement four yeah movement four but if you upgrade then they go to movement six so maybe do that upgrade on day one okay happy with that blue is in the area sarong might be getting something done down there you can check if sarong has captured the tower by going in here they have okay ten and blue both have two towns right clancy money while you're here you have to do this you just have to alright it's got to either be sam or level four expert tactics tactics with five four or we have three eight with no tactics but we have the path finding that will get us around there quickly archery won't matter basic offense I think it's actually close I think we can use Sam and maybe Clancy just gets to sit this one out I won't bother with the well we're in an awful hurry not even going to get this okay alright well then the mystery remains what the heck is going on where is the necropolis where I ask you how can it be can there be a tomb of souls there and these two things here is it on the surface well that's the surface heck is going on how can that be there so what that makes me want to do is kill these obviously give Clancy the army he's going to come over here and he's going to come down and look through here what else can I do I can't ride through here it's ridiculous what do you want the bird of perception alright meanwhile upstairs look at the 9 grand we have the snowball has minced in terms of cashola give me the legs or do I just do this or do this all the dumb way and not worry about it day 6 day 7 so chance I won't get slow day 6 I go here I don't want to risk losing the Derek I'd rather do that instead yeah fine get the Derek okay so we have the armadillos we think we're upgrading them yeah it's a cheap upgrade now catacombs I think might be the way to go in terms of investment over watchtower it's going to do better with the tactics stuff we're doing than the gunslingers as awesomely cool as the gunslingers are I think it's catacombs and here they are they open up a whole chasm in the side of the mountain and worms will come talk about maybe upgrading this and worms do because it won't be day one that I'm galloping out with this big fresh army right alright we're galloping through the turns here is my only concern and tan is consolidating its power demon's horseshoe right while you're up here you have to do this job it's just too good could probably kill the dwarfs too back on for me love kill the dwarfs do I wish to pursue and engage them I'm going to say yes because of the tactics here I'm actually because there's only 36 of them I'm just going to take the freebie it's a bit of a waste of time but the money is going to be good I think I can take these dwarfies right one big repair how many too many okay I'm not going to be back here so that's why I'm picking up these resources okay mate get ready get in position get here can I get it I can beautiful I'm saving so much crystal who needs crystal mine you're here Isra 1224 and that takes 1334 so we have to choose do we want the extra engineers or do we want Isra to learn slow I think it's more important that she learn slow so someone else has to get the derrick so that's a shame okay never mind now end of day 7 preparing for tomorrow um we already have about three grand's worth yeah okay we want to upgrade the ranch tomorrow we could invest in the serpentarium we've got so much don't get too greedy right now the upgraded sand worms are really really good they have extra moves and they can devour corpses I'm keen to try that out we also have the pen though to just turn on extra armadillos I think it's probably the pen right because day 1 isn't going to be that important for us but it is very important for the pen obviously it's very important for this if we're doing that but we're not quite ready for that let's go with pen I think that's low regret there they are a little pen at the back of the enclosure there end the turn end the week tan is pushing the issue orange has arrived that's scary and dangerous who is this terrible hero fantastic there's actually nothing there damage for her to do anyway so I'm not too worried about her she comes galloping up here do this first maybe come back and hit the dwarfs with the fresh troops when we get a chance do the swaperoo leave me the greaves you don't know how to curse anything you don't have a spellbook alright clancy break us through here no way okay how did I lose 2 in the auto that makes no sense 1 to 4 obviously they're going to smack the engineers I think it's a yes there's 3 of them they go first next turn there's no way out of this I just have to lose the engineers I die there's no way out of that what are you thinking what is down here nothing doing so frustrating where is the necro has to be here but I can't get to it I've never seen that it's just so strange I have to pause here I don't want today to try and solve this conundrum