 Um... did... Orange... Orange knows all this, right? They've scouted it. However, I have cover of darkness. Ooh! I have cover of darkness. So here's my theory, right? I don't have enough movement on the other side. But what if I stand here, under cover of darkness, Orange has no reason to suspect anything. If for some reason, Brissa comes back down here, I could change my mind if I want to. Or I could maybe try to do both. I'll look, I'll think about that. But the idea is I stand here, under the cover of darkness, where no one can see me. And then, bang, surprise. That's assuming cover of darkness works, the AI isn't cheating, or anything like that. But I think that might work. I think that just might work. It's just crazy enough to work. So we've got some dead heroes here that just, well, they're obviously dead, but... Yeah, they're just gonna, so randomly, that whole thing of him going there was really pointless. What role can you play? I'm just trying to think how I'm gonna set this all up. Just in case it doesn't. I'll be extra tricky here. Extra tricky moves. By Sceptia now, she's sneaking in. She's been a sneak. That would be so sweet if I just popped out of here tomorrow. Surprise, I'm here. Gallops down, murders China, murders Isra behind the walls. It's been a tough fight against Isra, actually, behind the walls, but still, I can teleport over. I think I can do it. It's not gonna be easy there. Right, I'm digging. Tomorrow, Randallu is... I don't actually know what he's doing. Steggles. Nagash was gonna give you this stuff. Perhaps I can be of assistance. I might be able to save her some moves. I think I can save her some moves here. Leave all of this with me. That's Nagash's voice, by the way, and then Randallu does the talking. Okay, take these with my blessing. Furation of your spells doesn't matter when you power level 8, I don't think. That could be of use to you. Take this rib cage. Take this. I have two rib cages. You can have that. If you have to find yourself in need of surrendering. I'm thinking we could give... Oh, that goes there. Okay. We could give this some of this stuff to... Rissa? No, let's keep Randallu. So we've got equipment for a third hero. To matter. Take that bow string because she does like casting. I'll keep that. Increase the duration of my spells by one. It's not very important. Yeah, I'll take that. I'll take this string and give it to Thingy because that's just from a flavor point of view. It doesn't actually do anything. This is knowledge by two and knowledge by three. Happy enough? Okay, so she's looking a lot better now. So I saved her one movement point there. That's pathetic. Yeah, go get them. Oh, I hope this little sneaky move works. Okay, so we can run away now. We want to run away from blue, which is blue is basically here and we want to... Yeah, we need more heroes down here. So this is fine. Come back down here now. Yeah, this is good. Aiden's heading in this direction. Can we do it? Can we get the surprise hit on Isra? Man, this is exciting. Great. Go up there. Go to no man's land. Brissa, brissa, brissa. They stayed still. Yes, yes, yes. Let's just quickly check that blue hero. Where were you? Kids are fighting and I'm gonna need to go, but... Yes, so you're fine there. You just wanted and got that by luck. And those creatures don't synergize with these creatures. Three different town types. You're gonna come galloping down along here. Yeah, we can be able to deal with that. That's not a problem. Right, the big news is... She's still there. Cover of darkness. Now, that's all well and good. Now she's actually got to win the fight. Is there any way to get you an extra bone dragon today? Could give her two extra bone dragons if I could get someone up there and round. I need to hire someone or mess about. Hmm. I have to pause this and sort the kids out. I'll be back. I'll be back. All right. Wish me luck in game and wish me luck in real life as the girls are sorting themselves out for a bar time in bedtime. Let's bring the trap. Come on. Hello, here I am. Yoo-hoo. Okay, people. I'm so excited. How do we feel about swapping these over? Because I feel, I feel okay about it. I'm acting first. Am I acting first? Well, I think she actually will fight me because Isra is in there. Yeah, I'm acting second. Isra could do something nasty. So I want my weakest stack to be in that brick. Oh, look, it's okay. It's all right. I don't think it matters too much. And again, if I want the zombies to come up, I'll do that. I'll do that. All right, put it back. Here we go. Okay. Chana just flees straight away, like right at the very beginning. I might just apply this result, right? I mean, I can't really stop her from fleeing. Yeah, I might just apply this result. I think this is okay. So she got to flee, which means the fight never happened in front of the cart. Yeah. So that's what happens. If you've got two heroes in the castle, you do fight the first hero out the front of the castle with whatever they're holding. But this, my friends, is the big kahuna. This is what we came here for. So all the stronghold troops just died. Okay, the auto resolver is saying we lose. So let's see if we can do better. Okay. How many skellies are there? 700? Expert stone skin. She's an expert earthmate. That's okay. That happens. And that happens. Well, how do we lose so badly? I wonder. She must be imploding or... So she's cast expert stone skin right off the bat. 21 and 26, and I am 24 and 19. Yeah, it's all pretty high-stakes stuff. So okay, we have to assume she's animating dead. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what's going on here. We have to burn up all her animate deads. Okay, so what I'm actually thinking is we have such a big advantage, and she's an expert earthmage. We might make the assumption that she has a level 19 implosion or meteor shower. And so protection from earth here is actually a spell I want to cast early. In Horn of the Abyss, all the protection spells are way better. And yeah, so everybody takes a quarter of the damage. And we just set that scene right from the beginning because we have a massive advantage, right? Like, none of these stacks matter except the skellies. So if we can exhaust her on spell points. Yeah, I think protection from earth is what I want to do up front because she's shown she's an expert earthmage. She's got 19 spell down. This is not a drill. This is not like I've played this. This is, this is not a drill. This is, this is right. You're not imploding me. It just ain't happening. Any downside to this? There is isn't there because I could kite. So let's stay, let's wait with you. Dreadies are gonna absolutely slaughter them, surely. Goodbye. Alright, you have your go. You don't get a death cloud. You just do that and that's fine. I'll be raising them back at some point. And I guess I just go for these. Oh, that's right, I have the bow. Dear, well the vampire's one of feed off her actually. So let's get cracking on the enemy liches. Okay, that might end up mattering. It really might just come, just get out of this meteor shower. That's actually quite annoying. How long's the weakness? Last three turns. It's really good actually. Happy to move out? Yes. Oh, so they're gonna venture forth. That's excellent. That's really good for us. If that's what they do. One, two, three, four. And we can confuse and confound them a little bit. I just wait again? Let's, we have to just let him do what he's gonna do. Her. Yeah, we just have to wait. Yeah, okay, it's obvious right. Oh, but I'm acting next. Oh, he's still not fast enough. He's only plus three. Okay, that's good. So now I can do expert slow and be pretty happy. Yeah, that's a nice gotcha. You're actually able to make a progress there. Yeah, let's get stuck into them. Okay, she's down to 156 spell points. That's better than before. We have to accept this. It stinks, but oh man, that's good. I over, yeah, I should have prioritized maybe a bit higher. All right, you're the slowest unit in the game. What are you gonna do? That's what I thought. That's great. The option here is we can pretty much sacrifice the zombies to begin the beats. And we'll get the first turn next time where we can clone the Tread Knights. It seems good. What's wrong with it? What's wrong with it is there's only one square to stand on. So we have to count on them killing the zombies, 1200. Yeah, they won't actually kill the zombies. They'll just give them a really bad hangover. So you hang out, you just walk out of meteor shower for me. You commit suicide. That was the time. Okay, you do this. That's excellent. And then this happens. If we get double damage on this, this would be lovely. No, okay. Do you want to do that? I'll be here, and then that way she can't cast weakness again. That's fine. Okay, so the hasten to slow thing has worked quite nicely. Now I can smash you and do pretty good damage. Can't bless you all, 80 perish. Yeah, so this will hurt on the crack back, but even then, I'm gonna deal massive damage. I'm just raising the liches back. How did the auto resolver manage to, okay, how many did I lose? Five? Okay, well that's really bad actually. Her off. Let's get the liches back. Man, chewing through that pile is a chore. Wait, that's it! Lightning bolt! Is it right? Are you serious? Oh man. Okay, dude. What was that? Oh you guys stink. 11 died. Yeah, okay. 9 more died yet. So there's an awful lot of animate dead I want to cast, but yeah. I'm so disappointed. Is there a lightning bolt on the skellies? That's pathetic. That's completely pathetic. These are all dead to these. So let's just get animating again. I guess I'll go for these. Gotta try and keep that stack as nice and high as we can. Now we're just gonna be animating the heck fire out of ourselves. Every stack needs animated now, except for the liches. And I guess the vamps. Hit them here. The only problem is just retaliation. We don't want them to die die. What? How have you fled? How have you fled? What are you talking about? What do you mean you fled? Oh there's an escape tunnel. I've forgotten about this stupid escape tunnel. All those artifacts and everything. Now I'm losing my voice. Oh man. I'd forgotten there's an escape tunnel in a stupid stronghold. Damn. Six dreads. Hurts man. I can't believe it. Okay, we have to accept that that happened. Got some experience. Let's get that logistics going. She raises back 103. Oh because she lost tons. Oh man. Oh man. Well we certainly made Orange unhappy. We won the town back. Yeah that means cool. Oh there's a behemoth crag here now. Oh that's cool. Okay. Resource silo gives us wood and ore. Yeah so we've got, you know, we've got a town on our hand here. We called them by surprise. They're creatures they hadn't bought yet but, ah, disappointed. I'm disappointed for everyone. I'd completely forgotten about that. Escape tunnel feature. So we're gonna want to re-consolidate, spend our money on some more necropolis stuff. You know we're gonna want to get this, get it upgraded. Do the production chain thing again. We'll do that tomorrow. All these heroes are up for that ready to rock. Stig's mission is still a good one I think to still proceed with. Tell you what, just before we sign off, one thing that we're ready to do is dig. Ready 123? Do I really want it? All right see you guys tomorrow. And we're back the next day. I've had 24 hours to reflect on, ah, Isra's escape and get over it and deal with it. Looking around at what we want to do next, we know Cepchen is coming back this way. Ah, we resolved there's no point in her popping her head in here. Right, we aren't gonna be buying the ammo card or any other stuff that's in here. Is there a, well, is there a thing of Valhalla? Has she been there? I can't remember if she's been to the Hall of Valhalla. It was her that did this job. Ah, she's already been there. Not exactly. Of course she has. I remember her going there. This was ages ago. All right, wasted 200 movement points there through lack of memory. Let's try to get back on an even keel, shall we? Am I bringing anyone? Hey, I could bring some dudes to slaughter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why don't I take these guys and we'll sacrifice them. Yeah, I'm actually using my brain. There we go. Yeah, I've got, I think I went into this nowhere near evil enough, you know, as opposed to with Fiona and stuff. When I played that game, I had a much more evil mindset. I needed to be more evil in the way I thought about things. So she's going to come back to here and try to get something done, get a fight with someone in this, in this region. If blue comes down to harass us, we can always maybe pivot back over this way. We do have a lot of key person risk here though. It's pretty much the Sceptiana show. You know, so I'm eager to build Stig into something a little bit more important than she currently appears. I think I'd like to have Aiden here ready to shift everything that's in this town down into here and get everything upgraded. We have halflings there. I think what we could do is with Stig, if she wants to head off today to join Rissa, I like the idea of her having the satyrs and then that way it's a nice clean break. And the satyrs are currently sitting with, yeah, Tamika has the satyrs. Okay. So what I'm thinking is that she gallops all the way down here, swaps places with this guy. The halflings, I might bring the halflings with me and there's another bunch of dudes there. I can grab the halflings and we'll transform them somewhere. You've just got to, that's what it's all about. It's just pure evil. You've just got to think in terms of the purest, most diabolical evil in order to be a successful necropolis boss. Okay, I want to give Stig this stuff. Randle, Randle was going to run around there. Let me just see. So Tamika comes down, brings, because we want Stig to leave. So Randle, do this little job for me, will you? Swaperoo. And we like Tamika much better as a hero, I think, don't we? Than Randle. Randle really is strictly a fairy man. So we'll notionally have Tamika as a kind of additional hero. So we don't really have an obvious third hero. Now, Gash, we lost G, didn't we? Did we ever lose G? Let me just check if she's still, she's still round. We can still hire her back. She's got wisdom. If we hire her here, she'll learn animate dead if she didn't know it already. There's no way to check that, is there? I can only right click there, I can't look at her spellbook. Okay. Randle, give me the satyrs. We'll do a complete swap of armies. I've got the bowstring that's on purpose. That's fine, right? Stig makes her way, and as she's going she can actually do this on the way. Yeah, and see it builds up. There's eight more for hire. So that's big money, but we're getting a nice little pile together there. That's a decent sized army, right? That's not nothing. And there's also these bad boys. Bad Boars, I mean. But Boars kind of suck. Who cares? Does it matter if I don't flag the Boars and get them and use them? I'll just use elementals instead. Like who cares, right? Let's get cracking. Like you say. There's also this. I might use Randle to tidy something up here. He could get the Boars maybe. She's a decent hero. I mean, she's very much a secondary hero, but she's something. She's a somebody. All right, so Randle, how am I going to do this? So you're stuck here. You're here. I want Aiden to set up the supply chain, which we could start here maybe. How much further can you come for me today, just to there? I might just let them build up, right? It's just a few, just a few walking dead. Yeah, so I have, I can't afford to start today. Anyway, if I wanted to. All right, Randle. So yeah, that army will be here with Tamika by this time tomorrow. Randle can either grab 25 more soon to be skeletons, the guilt, or he can set us up here. I care enough about the sulfur, I think. And who's left? Nimbus. Mr. Nimbus. Mr. Nimbus has to be careful not to be murdered by this blue hero that's connected through to here. This is maybe the strongest hero on the map, this blue guy. We don't know for sure. But this seems very lucrative. Six sulfur. Fantastic. He can maybe go, oh, hello, Algar. We don't want to die to Algar. And if you run into here, it's a trap. You can't get out. Learn ballistics. Who wouldn't want to learn ballistics? Yeah, stick around near the, stick around near the trading post for me with your man. He doesn't have wisdom. Eagle eye. Well, I would like that necromancy necklace. Two and a half percent still something. Okay, in the stronghold, there's a question around what investments, if any, we want to make. I'd love to set you under to go there if she has time. Maybe she does have time. So my thoughts are all over the place a little bit. Story of my entire gaming persona trying to think about a hundred things at once. And then I get this befuddled conclusion of what to do next based on a basket of things that I haven't thought through properly. Do any of you guys have that problem when you're playing games like this? Let me know in the comments. I will read them. I might even reply to them. Yeah, she's already seen all this. This was a mistake of coming back in here. I don't think I want to pay any money here. I'm just happy to let this sit. Right? Yeah, the problem is only being allowed to have eight heroes is a real restriction. All right, let's see. Can we see Brissa? She's the one I kind of want to keep an eye on. So let's have a look at her. Man, this is bad. This is bad, folks. Is Nimbus just a dead man? Magikara doesn't? Well, no, he's all right. Okay. So we get this chance to sort of look at the guy. He's got sea serbents with very good luck. Well, okay, so he's a luck hero. That's good for us because we have double minus four luck. The sea dogs. Now, yeah, so I keep forgetting. Quite a few of you might be new to Horn of the Abyss. So we're literally able to peruse the Cove in a lot of detail on the screen. So I'm going to take a couple of minutes to just talk about all these guys, my perception of them. For those of you who already know the Cove, maybe you want to skip forward because I'm clearly just going to flee here, right? Spoiler alert, swiftly. I might cast a Magikara first, but whatever. So let's work our way backwards from the top. This is the Haspid. It is the upgraded tier seven creature. Speed 12 across the ground, 300 HP. Pretty good damage, but highly variable and has this okay attack in defense. I mean defense, as you can see, there's a general theme of all the creatures that attack is good and defense is bad in the Cove, in my kind of estimation. They also have this poisonous feature, which is the same as the Wyvern Monarchs, which reduces your HP over time. The Revenge mechanic, I don't remember exactly, but when they die, as the stack gets smaller, the remaining stack gets more deadly. Not more deadly than it used to be, but let's say you go from seven down to four, the remaining stack won't be four sevenths as dangerous. It'll be like five sevenths as dangerous, or maybe six sevenths as dangerous as the original stack. So it's an interesting feature, kind of hard to figure out whether you're supposed to play around it or how to play around it. The idea being that by the time you get down to one Haspid, he's really, really angry and he's more deadly in combat. I like to think of these guys as like a fast, ancient behemoth, but yeah, the poor defense is a pretty big drawback. The C-Serpent is the basic version, so it just comes with poisonous but without the revenge feature. The main thing it's missing though is HP. So very kind of the same thing again, kind of like a behemoth compared to an ancient behemoth. Speed nine is pretty good though, obviously much better than a behemoth. Attack and defense 22 and 16 is obviously pretty poor. So that's a level seven. Level six is actually this dude here, the Nyx Warrior. So you can either have Nyx or Nyx Warriors. I'm kind of thinking of these guys, I haven't fought against them much, but they feel a lot like a unicorn. You know, damage 18 to 22 I think almost is exactly what the unicorns do. Speed seven, health 90, it's very unicorny. The extra dimension to these guys though is that they ignore 60% of the opposition's attack. So when they're getting attacked in melee, if you've got attack 30, make it 10. So they're hard to kill using swords and spears. Would I rather have that or blind the blinding attack of the unicorns? I don't know, actually. I haven't played with them much, but fairly fearsome and a very nice target for implosion, things like that. You're gonna get more value because the 60% thing doesn't matter when you're casting direct damage on them. So they're level six. Level five is not shown. So we'll talk about them another time. That's the sorceress. This is level four. The acids. Acids I'm gonna say is the pronunciation. Pronunciation. Pronunciation is pronunciation. Speed 11, fantastic. This is the upgraded version. The unupgraded tier four is the stormbird. Special ability flies, okay. Ferocity is the really interesting one. The way the ferocity works is they get to attack a whole second time, just like crusaders do. The only exception is that they need to kill something on their first attack in order for that to trigger. So if you're attacking with a couple of stormbirds into a big body like an angel or something, unless something dies, the second attack doesn't trigger. But you can see here they're kind of like a flying demon. Speed 11, the ferocity feature, kind of scary really. A bit thunderbird-y. A bit thunderbird-y I suppose, with the second attack triggering. Kind of like light, feels a bit like lightning bolt. The health is 30 though whereas the thunderbird has gigantic HP, like more than double that. So yeah. Yeah, there's a squishiness feature here that isn't there in the thunderbirds. Yeah, it feels maybe more like a flying demon that does more damage and it's probably more expensive to buy. Level three are these dudes. Sea dogs. Now, the way these work is this is actually not just the upgrade, this is an additional super upgrade. There are three levels to the level three creature. They start off as a pirate, then they become a corsair and then they become a sea dog. By the time that they're a sea dog, they're properly scary. They're really, really scary. Kind of like a Grand Elf. Basically like a Grand Elf. Just get them dead, get next to them, melee them. These guys have no melee penalty. They also have no enemy retaliation if they are in melee. So very, very flexible and dangerous, deal a lot of damage in close range and at long range as well. 15 HP though, right, so they're same as a Grand Elf and similar damage range. There's an extra feature with the sea dog called the accurate shot, which is just like the Mighty Gorgon ability, where after they've finished attacking, depending on how many sea dogs there are, you'll get just free extra deaths in the target stack on top of that. It's not as terrifying as the death stare from Mighty Gorgons, but it still isn't enough to make you really hate these and you're gonna want to kill them very quickly. So it'd be interesting to see when Sepgenna goes up against whoever this guy is, how that plays out. Anyway, that's a synopsis of what we're up against. And my initial reaction actually looking at it again, if we can kill these guys quickly and stop them from getting too much value, we might, we might be okay here if we can fight this guy soon. Depending on what spells he knows, how much of a jerky is it. Expert haste is kind of the thing I'm worried about with the army we've got. So we're not going to get a chance to see if he has any of that. We're going to cast one lightning bolt, probably, yeah, there's just no question we're going to do it to them. Right, yeah. You can actually see from this as well that he has the plus one health, so he has a ring of life or something. Little clues you can pick up as to what he's up, what he's about. He might have a whole pile of luck tokens as well. You know, four leaf clover, he might have just a basket of not very good artifacts, and he just happens to have triple luck as a result. Anyway, let's get Nimbus out of here. You're not a coward in my eyes, son. All right, so where's he coming? He's coming to kill all of us. Okay, Briss is out of the picture. I don't know if Sceptiana can help if she's too far from home, but we are under attack. I can't get there. Sceptiana can't get there. Let's set off, see what we can do with her. Get to there. So I'm tempted to do what we did last time, which is hire the stuff that's here, run it to safety if he wants to take the town he can, and then he has to deal with me, basically. That's kind of the same thing that we've done before. I can't get her behind the walls that they can do for me, right? Yeah, I could even upgrade, I could pay to upgrade a second time here. I could actually upgrade the dragons here, but 15 grand is all my money unless I do this. Here we go. You see what I mean? It's these little attentions to detail, like they've gone and even the Eovacius himself, the way he's rendered, he looks like he was drawn by the same person who drew Aiden, who drew Stig. Do you see what I mean by that? That's really hard to get just right. The level of care that the guys have put in to just get it to feel natural, to feel right is just so nice. Look at Randall in that lineup on the right-hand side. You would never know he was created by the community, completely created by the community, not by 3DO or New World Computing or anything like that. He looks, the pose he's pulling, the way he's looking in the picture, the expression he's got, the color palette, I'm just, I'm in awe of it really. It's a great, great job, The Horn of the Abyss. I'm just, I'm just, yeah, I'm increasingly becoming a convert, really. And sorry I didn't give it more of a chance, you know, earlier in my Hero's 3 journey. Right, enough about that, enough about me. Cepgenar runs to here. I mean, that's just gonna, that's just happening, right? She's getting as far along as she can. She can stop there. I could have maybe got the trogues on the way. That was a bad mistake. I think I could have just about managed that. I would have landed here. I'd rather be close as I possibly can get to him. I have a funny feeling there might be a hundred bodies in there that we haven't tapped into. There's no way to get them, is there? No, surely. Surely not, no. So Nagash could run to here. How am I gonna use my Hero's to best effect here? I feel like it's Nagash rides to here. We waste Cepchenar's time talking to him. She manages to teach him a few things. Yeah, we don't want him to die, right? Give him the creatures that are doomed. Guilt is real. I feel like the Ballista, you know how the Ballista let us down so badly when we when we're blinded? I kind of want to get rid of it. Is that wrong? In case we find ourselves in that situation again, right? Where we can blind the last stack and start animating, deading our entire army. We don't want the Ballista waking everybody up. So I'm gonna play around that actually. Do without the damage. Now she has a full spell point allocation. Okay, so we've wasted Cepchenar's moves. That's fine. He can come to, if he comes here, it's 200 remaining. So come to here. Yeah, I can run back out that way afterwards. And then I'm hoping Aiden will have enough moves to do like this ping pong thing. Where he goes one. Give me that. Give me, give me, give me. Pong. Okay, boys. Straight to the transformer. Yes, we joined this army, you know, we had a desire for greater glory from our simple homestead. Making pies in the cottages under the ground there nestled quietly. And we came from our stronghold homeland for the hope of adventure. Right this way, gentlemen. Think of it as an initiation ceremony. I just feel so bad for them. Wait, hang on, Paul. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Yeah, no, this is right. I don't have these. Zomboys are worthwhile because I've got a pile of them. And might as well get these. And I'm not going to waste money upgrading these, right? Yeah. Okay. He comes back to here and he'll have just about enough to run for it himself. Who are these guys? Are they the halflings? Oh, that's annoying. Don't give them to Nagash. You fool. Now that's hardly seemed worth all the hassle, no? Okay, he's not going to have enough moves to kill all of us. You come to here. Nagash, come to here. Where am I putting Sceptiana? Did she have? No, I'm putting her there. All right, so you're going to have to do it. Gimme. Gimme. Gimme. I mean, I don't think it's going to be an absolute walk in the park against this fellow, but we should be in decent shape, right? See what kind of spellcaster he is? The vampire lords are totally switched on, like in this 87 of them. You know, implosion isn't really an answer because I've got Animate Dead to help them feed their way back up again. It's kind of a bit of a one-man combo. None of the other stacks are particularly bamboozlingly incredible. No, I want, yeah, something like, maybe he's the one as the, yeah, I don't know. Right, Nagash, you're not dying. Go get the troggs, will you? Have you done that yet? No. It'd be annoying if we miss out on that if he comes through and gets it. Although if he does that, he's a dead man, right? So it's fine. Like, the problem is when he runs down galloping through here or comes flying down here and I have to chase after him. But then we might be able to, I don't really want to fight. I could fight him with Stig, actually. Stig could take everything off, Sceptiana, but you'd only have 108 spell points to work with. Yeah, I'm happy for Sceptiana to just chase him around, actually. He might just give up. You can do all this preparation and then the hero just turns around and gallops back up here again, comes back upstairs and just goes off this way. So we'll see what happens. Right. Stig the Stiggles, Tamika, Randlew. No, okay, so let's do Randlew first. I don't have them. I'm not gonna have the money to buy the boars and I know what's around here, so I don't care. Do this and come do that on the way up. Is that worth doing at some point, maybe? Randlew, mate, just come back so that you're available for general duties, depending on where Sceptiana lands. Yeah, general duties, man. General duties. Now she dug there yesterday. She dug there yesterday and found nothing. So we have to decide right now where our next spot is that we're digging. I have to say the halfway point does feel like it's in line with that. I should get my ruler out and measure it, but it really, really feels like it's in line with that, right? Which is the line she's standing on, so I'm gonna go for this square next. Who is that green interloper who just landed Ignisa? Okay, so here I come. Now I could grab this army, which is certainly enough to kill that her. It's enough to do most of these jobs. I'm a very good spellcaster. None of this is going to be a problem for me. Yeah, we just want to invest in this woman and make her... Are there any more ellies here? Yeah, let's go in here. Let's send her in there. And we'll invest in her power a bit more. She knows hypnotize. You want the runes, you want the badge. I didn't see who that is. Hang on. Who's this? Oh, Gernison, Gernison, Gernison. You idiot. What have we got here? 90 with intelligence. I could just buy and run. Is that enough money? Oh yes, I do. I'm gonna leave Rissa with nothing. Energy, ice, and storm. If I want to leave with all three of them, I need to wait till tomorrow. So let's just wait till tomorrow. Rissa has moved, okay. Now down in the stronghold, I could hire a hero. That hero could get these windmills, all three of them, and flag the gem mine. And kill a throng of orc chieftains. Lots of cavaliers. Oh, there's a gold. Yeah, the gold's awesome. Do I have the luxury? I'm risking 2,500 bucks in order to... What does that give? It gives 2k, I think. Yeah, let's see what we've got. Let's see who we can get. Oh, Nimbus. I'll miss you, man. I'll miss you. It's a chance to get her back. Right. And you've got someone there who's not a complete moron. She's in the wrong part of town, though. She's not really who I want for this job. I'd like someone with logistics or whatever. The other option is I could hire she somewhere else and then come back here. Like I could just hire her back here or here. If she's here today, what you gonna do right up to the trading post for me? No. No, don't do that. No, you could. No, you could be there. Like she'd need to be just here to be safe. And then tomorrow... Yeah, she could get the trading post tomorrow from there. In case I find myself in need. It's just an arrow here, I think. Oh, well, is that something? Just do it like this. There's also this to collect. I haven't been to these. It's this I want, though. I want you to go do that. So go do that for me. This task is beneath me. I'm 11,000 years old. Don't you know who I am? Sorry. All right. What's gonna happen here? What do you want to do, Ophysius? I don't care. That's fine. Go. What? What? What? What are we doing? Yeah, that's what I thought. Oh, he's a flying. He's a flying cat. Orange? Hello. Okay, Brissa. Brissa wants a piece of the action. Okay, well, I'm in the neighborhood. So let's have a look. So Iovisius wisely ran for it. Whether he saw me or just now, who's this? Oh, Straker is here with a brag tag crew. Look at this. Terrible army composition. What is this? He's got Cove, Castle and Undead. Well, that is shocking, mate. That's really, really... That's a zombie. That's a zombified army composition in the first place, if you ask me. So I'm not too worried about him. Brissa, where is my girl? My girl's here. Isra... Isra is here. Ingham is there. Man, everyone's got Cove stuff. What's going on? Where's Brissa? What happened to Brissa? I thought one of these was Brissa. So he made it back to the portal. Right, I'm going to have to think about this. Let's do something easy first, which is reveal the Grail. Yes! All right. Oh, fantastic. Carry the Grail to the city of your choice, and the populace there will build a fantastic structure, which will provide a tremendous advantage to the city's owner. I think we want to build it back at our home town. Oh, Brissa, you legend. Fantastic. She's exhausted, look. There it is, people. Carry the Grail. I'm not going to look it all up and figure out if the Conflux is maybe a better home for it under these circumstances. I'm almost certain it won't be. I'm almost certain we want it in Dark Eternal or Cold Soul. I think it gives you extra creature production. So it's going to produce more creatures. That's one of the key features, as well as extra gold. You want that in Dark Eternal. It's not even close, right? It's not even a conversation we're having. Stop asking me. I'm not having this debate. I have to kill this guy first. Yeah, we probably should kill him, right? And then she can just do the job herself on her own. On her way, she'll give, yeah, let's rendezvous. Let's go, I'll come this way. I'll come this way. I'll come that way. And do it that way. He has to die. This will not stand. This aggression will not stand, man. Oh, no, hang on, hang on, hang on. Don't think you're fleeing. No, you're not fleeing, man. You're dying forever. Advanced Wisdom or Basic Armourer. He could see her being a Advanced Wisdom with her air magic, chain lightning, that kind of thing. Basic Armour is okay, but you guys love Armourer. Feedback on the Tealist videos. Everybody thinks Armourer is just the special tier. Everyone seems to love it more. I love it less than the community as an average, as a whole. Loves it. Right, Septiana. Could chase after that guy. He's got flying, but does flying really get you out of jail? The thing is, he can't leverage. If he's stuck here, what's he gonna do? He can't buy Hydras and stuff like he can. And they're building up. Yeah, they were awful to fight against those 17 chaos Hydras and one Blob. Okay, so we're back. Let's do G's jobs first because she wasn't being threatened by anybody, but oh, she wasn't being threatened by somebody. Straker. I could come back. He's gonna get all the windmills and stuff and waste money. I'm gonna have to defend the stronghold against that anyway, but that wouldn't be hard to do. I want the money, right? I'm gonna go get the money. Kaching. Learned Firewall. I don't think I'm gonna bother growing up here. She might do that. Okay. To beat Straker, if he was stupid enough to attack me, I think he's a complete throwaway hero. I don't think he's a serious about what he's saying. Let's hide these boys. These guys are good value. Be annoying if you went and got all these behemoths up here. Oh, maybe she can get back in time. Now, did you get the peasants? Do that to me. 25 more hapless souls. Yeah, you've got time because Randle can trust them to me. I shall take good care of them. Have you just run around like a moron? Do this. Get ready. I liked having him with the stables. Three crystal. Excellent as always. Yeah, cool. So Septiana weirdly is not actually going to try to kill anybody. I'm not going to try. I can't get here, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's too far away. Even if he got out of the road, she couldn't do it. One thing she could do is come in here and get these trogs, kind of stand here like a bully, you know, just control, just stay in control of the area is probably the key thing. Step off the road for me, will you? She left 349 left. One to get back to about there. He goes boom, boom. Yeah, let's do that. Just have to reabsorb that skelly. Let's hope there's a few here. I don't think they've been back 14. They have been back. So disappointed. Where'd they go? Where'd all your trogs go that you bought? Or do they already become skeletons? Maybe that's what's been happening this whole time under my nose. All right. Do I want to do this with Nagash? I guess. Give them to me. I'll take it from here. Get your butt back there. Aiden. Are there any jobs up here Aiden can do? No, we did all that already with Nimbus. What do you want to get? A ladybird. Okay. Come here. Let's grab these bad boys. Wait a second. Sorry. Yes. No other purchases. No, I bought the behemoths here. I'm happy with that. These guys I can purchase tomorrow. Stig will pay her a visit there. Grab what she needs. Rissa comes around, gives her the army. Takes pixies with her. So I'll take some sprites with me just to remind me. Just enough to keep her alive. Well, we really want to keep her alive, don't we? So yeah. Okay. Just a little reminder for myself then. Back here, we could wait until the next day one to do the big maneuver. Yeah, we're all a bit out of position. So I think that's a good idea. Wait until the next day one and then do a great big maneuver. Build the grail. Start accumulating massive wealth. Invest. Kill them all. Happy with this? What are we missing? We're probably missing something. There's almost always something. You could have done different. Yeah, so he's got the hydras. He's figured out that hydras are good. He's mucking around in there. Here comes green. Up from the depth. Straker goes the wrong way. Christmas. Who is that? Pink is gone. Okay. Pink's heroes have abandoned him and he is banished from this land. That is because he lost the tower to Alagar, who's switching. He's got everything. He's been all over, hasn't he? Trying to find a home. So I don't think Teal is a really serious faction either. This guy's just going to get weaker and weaker as time goes on. He flagged the hydrogen, but didn't buy any. I don't think blue. I think we're in the ascendancy here, right? Let's have a little look. By the time we've built the grail, blue has four towns. So that's not right to make that assumption that we're, see, it says best creature is a gold dragon. So there's somewhere else doing something impressive. We know that orange has been humbled army wise. Yeah, no, blue has the strongest army at this stage. Orange has a second strongest. So yeah, yeah, yeah. There's still plenty going on out there that we can't see. It's day five. We got Solnir of all people. Very, very nice hero. Kind of the, some people might say the very best hero in the game. At this stage of the game though, month three, week three, with what I'm doing, is he as good? Probably still very good. All right, let's have a look. What did we get? Justingham? Has Adalia given me? Right, which way did those other guys go? I'm going to have a quick look here. Let's just watch orange again. Blue's shown us some more heroes. We need to check them. We need to check who this green person is. Yeah, where did this other hero go? He's ridden off that way. So Sceptiana absolutely ran for it. Could we? I think we could probably kill Ingham and just ride this way anyway and that's our plan and that's fine. Let's just do that. I kind of feel like we need to do that before we decide what everything else that's happening. Ingham's just completely dead. Did I make a boo-boo again with the hmmm? No, look, I mean there's 35 spell points missing. So just don't worry about it. Yeah, so do this Gallop West. Before we do, let's have a look at those blue heroes who showed themselves. Do you have the dragons? No, Astra, you have, right, you have the rest of the army that wants to hook up with Thingo. Okay, and then there's this guy here. Ooh, Taza is nasty. 100. So he's got a throng. What are they, golems? Special golems? I don't know what those blue fellows are, three from the left or on the right-hand side as you can see. I think they're golems. I think they kind of mean he should be able to have a good time down here but see what he wants to do. Straker didn't bother he came down this way. Okay. Right, sorry. Back to the, back to the plan. Killing him. Yep, that's what I want to do. I lose 79 Skellies. Not if I can help it. 40 of 40, defense 10. These things have nine moves. Terrible morale, look at the morale on them. Because you've got one, I hate how the AI does this. I wish if anyone can mod the AI to not do this. Instead of having minus three morale, let only have minus one. If it wasn't for that stupid one stack of skeletons, such a waste man. So let's say he does haste if I give him the next turn. So instead of that, can I just kill them? How much HP are they? But it's not guaranteed. I can afford this. Your witness. He's just gonna run. Oh, he had a cheap implosion. Damn. He had a cheap implosion. I lost 79 boys. Oh, that's frustrating. That's a, that's a nice bloody nose I got given there. Nagash, could you come up here and explore this area for me? I need some help. I can't do this all by myself. And he didn't do this. Get, just get rid of all the slow garbage. Take all of the juicy stuff back. Give me the things that need to be protected. At this stage, give that to me as well. I'll do that job. You're needed elsewhere. My Conceptioner doesn't have scouting. We really do need help. I think I want, I want this. Right. I want that knowledge. Nag, you'll have nothing left. I need to get this scout off. Where is Brisse? Is she still up here? I don't know. Don't want to fight her piecemeal? No. Wrong way around. Hang on. Sorry, everyone. Just really make sure of it, will you? Yeah. I'm just gonna go and stick my head up there. Gonna be brave. I'll do that on the way. Yeah. It feels like we're back in month one again. Right, Septi. Does a thousand experience matter to you? Not in the slightest. Okay. Grail time. Stiggy. Stiggy's gonna set off with, it matters to me that we get there first and we don't allow that kind of thing. So the army is big enough to stand up for itself. She's a formidable hero. But she's not, she's not like a top click tier hero. But by the time we're done here, she'll be, yeah, she'll be all right. Brisse. Love you so much. Brisse keeps the Grail, obviously. Godspeed, my child. And we might with Stig put her on tight formation. I don't know how well this army will work. Now ride to Radlu. Okay, so where am I gonna get? Gonna get to there? Where is Radlu anyway? What's he up to? He was gonna do some extermination. Yeah, so to make you could come up and get ready to receive the army next week. You could do some of this on the way. Some of the stuff she hasn't got around to yet. Yeah, let's do that. She's gonna get ready for that. Rissa is going to get upstairs tomorrow. Radlu. Just be ready, man. I've got some precious cargo on its way. Gee, go on. Expert learning, kicking in there. Now we are worried about this guy. All right, just come back to here then. No more buildings. Surely not at this point, right? Eventually we're gonna go Ghost Dragons here, but I don't need to do that until I'm ready to do it. All right, what can we learn? What can we see? Yes, I want to see these Gold Dragons and all these horrible other scary dudes that are, like, where are they? Okay, he's getting some great things done with Fly there. Okay, these guys are linking up as though they have some sort of strake here or useless. Okay, yeah, it's a bit of a worry, right? He's in here doing all kinds of funky things. Maybe sometimes it's better to not know what they're all up to. You don't feel as disheartened and depressed. The Grail, bring me the Grail. Get there! Radlu, what is this thing? Trust it to my care. Rissa, I don't know what you're gonna do after this. Like, Randlu? Oops, he clicked off him. Bring it on. Home. How do I apply the Grail? If you go in, it gives you a dialogue and then woohoo, or if you have to spend the night. I'm assuming you have to spend the night. Let's just get this let's just get this deed done. Cruelty. Yeah, so I'll spend the night, I guess. That's okay, I can afford to. I hope I'm right about that. Rissa, you may as well go and educate yourself, darling. Do that. G, we think strake has already done this, but you can come down here and get this for me. Yeah, come down here. Let's just see what happens. This whole thing with G was maybe a waste of money and time and effort, but right, you're learning something. Do that. Hit the well. All will be well if you just come here. Do this. Go for maybe power. All right, aid and hit this. Nice. Nagash. Sure. Before I move him, I might do Sceptrena first. The problem is, this could all be under cover of darkness as well. I'm gonna do these. Yeah, there's a good chance we're just getting cover of darkness here. Let's see. I mean, once it goes off, we'll know. And when you know, you know, you know, like to go and get that. That would be nice to have. Is that a better use of him? This seems quiet. This area seems quiet. I'm not sure if Briss is here, but if she is, she's quiet. All things I don't have. That might have been stupid. I should have maybe just walked past him. These guys are getting ready. Get these guys back and let's get them transformed. I feel less guilty with troglodytes. I don't know why. They're not as cuddly. Aiden's out of moves anyway, so we don't have to worry too much. All right, I'm ready to begin my adventure. Forward. Two of that a day. I really want to challenge these guys and get them away from the stuff that's up there. All right, let's check this cover of darkness situation. Who is that? Red is dead. Red dead redemption. I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I understand that it probably gets old, but that's my stuff. Stig is not pleased. Alomar, you're a joke. I'm not, I'm not going to be scared of you. Gelar, however, for taking my crystal, you will pay the ultimate price. Not today. Not today, but you can't have this. Can I do this? Yeah, that's my treasure chest at least. All right, so I'll do this. I'll wait for Gelar to come back and kill them. I'm not going to run the thingy on this, right? We absolutely overwhelm them, so I'm just going to accept the freebie. I'll gladly take some XP. Very nice navigation, even though it's very islanding, won't matter because of the portals and the fact that the areas are clumped together. It's nice that the water did feature though. Yeah, it's just an easy advanced air magic here. Okay, Sceptiana is surrounded by darkness, which means I think Brisser is behind the walls here with an army that I don't really want to fight. I'm the third necropolis. It's day seven, like now's the time kind of thing. Where did Nagash go? Let's do Nagash first. What's here? Okay, we found it. That's what I wanted. At least you've told me what's there. Don't want to waste time getting this. Just take it back off me again. Yeah, if they hire a hero gal about flying down here to kill Nagash, then so be it. That's okay with me. What are we going to do? Where is the town? The town is probably literally here. It's probably sitting right there as in the path goes up to it and in. It always enters from the south, right from the bottom. That's the only way it can work unless it goes down and under here maybe. So okay, on the basis that it's not many moves to check. Yeah, right. It's Vitamina with golems. We can make that work. I've got one, two, three, four stacks there, all of which are garbage. So three of the stacks are dead. So that's the peasants, the troggs. She hasn't gotten around to transforming them, which is really, really bad habits. They should have all been transformed and upgraded. So she's going to lose all that. It's just the zombies plus this. So I will absolutely take that fight. Thank you very much. And it's just before the start of the working week. No escape tunnel here, son. We're doing this? Yeah, no reason not to. What are we thinking about here? We're thinking about making sure we spam through all our spell points to animate absolutely every living, unliving thing we have. I don't want a single creature to die except the one stack of Skellies. That's my mission. No, I think we can do better. 138. Oh no, sorry. I thought there were golems. They're actually, wow lightning bolt is your opening play. Bad luck. Yeah, that'll be the quadruple bad luck I'm giving everyone. Okay, it looks like they've got double bad luck. All right. Here's the net result. So they must have started on plus two and now they're on minus two. I know zero is something, right? So they must have started on plus one luck. Now if they start on plus two luck it goes one, zero, two. Yeah. So she must have been lucky to start with. Anyway, these aren't Sphinxes. They aren't gold, gold golems. They're just oceanids with terrible morale. That's all they are. And the Vampire Lords will have a good time feeding off them as needed. Yeah. So let's just let them, so that means we want to kill the Liches actually. Well then again, who are they going to go for? They're going to just go for the Skellypile, right? Is this just a kill? That's a pretty nice attack. I'm not going to find a better attack than that. I think I'll just take this. Yeah. Let them, let them. 12 perish. Okay, fine. And we don't want to waste our hit on them. Let me just kill these. That's the Lombo there, the Golden Archery bow. Sorry to hear that. These boys, just defend yourselves I guess because we don't want the stack to die and then for the AI, the arrow towers to turn its attention to somebody else. How many of these, are they venturing forth? That's good. How many do I get now? Yeah, so let's kill the zombies actually because the, how many do I kill? One to two? Yeah, I animate dead now, sorry. Nearly missed it. Okay, they hit them again and hopefully no other troops get to attack anything. So these units are dead. The Liches kill these skeletons I guess. Health six. Health four, yes. I'll kill these. Leave that to me with pleasure. I'll kill these. Yeah, I just don't know if the Liches kill all 59. They probably do that. I do this. You don't exist anymore and then on the Liches turn I resurrect. Yeah. Splendid. Yeah, supply battle result. Crown of the Supreme. Keep of Conjuring. Nice. I'm taking the logistics. 47 Skellies. Thankfully I'm in a perfect place to upgrade them. Yeah, I'm almost certainly walking in here to do that. They have the Transformer. Right, we've got everything. People, Ghost Dragons, a level five mage guild. Now if I'm not mistaken, if I'm not mistaken, Ingham implosioned my skeleton stack before. By that logic could this mage guild contain implosion at the top of the tree? Let's have a look, shall we? That is what this game is all about, people. Man, oh man. Fantastic. She also learned chain lightning, which if she didn't know it already is a thing. Oh yeah, let's check this bad boy out. 1600 damage to a single stack. Thank you very much. We won't be using chain lightning. I think it just isn't going to be as good as... Well, it might actually trump meteor shower. That's how good chain lightning is. Look at that, 745. Yeah, sometimes it's going to be better, but it'll usually be meteor shower. Man, oh man. How good does that feel? Now she is a scholar, an expert scholar, so she'll be able to teach chain lightning to Stig if she can ever meet up with her again. Which is nice and handy. I still have my first day tent. I have the Cape of Conjuring, these other things which I don't really need or want. I feel like the Cape is... I had a combo artifact in the Conflux campaign with the Conjuring, but I do have the Collar of Conjuring from the very beginning of the game. I think I had the Collar of Conjuring. I don't know if I have the ring. I think I do have all three, right? If I click through, yeah hang on, I can check. I've got the Collar of Conjuring. It's here. And I also have the Ring of Conjuring. So Tamika is the one who we can do a combo with. No one else has anything? Oh yeah! Oh what's happened? Do I have the Grail? Did it get built? Okay what am I missing people? So it looks like I'm supposed to click on my capital to build it. Do you wish for this to be the permanent home of the Grail? I do. Sacred Monolith? Soul Prison. The presence of the Soul Prison increases the weekly creature generation by 50% provides your empire with an extra five grand each day. Sorry I said grand so weirdly there. I'm just so excited. And boost the necromancy skill of everybody by 20%. That is insane. Maybe it was 40%? I wonder if they nerfed that. I'm not going to bother looking that up. Phew. Check that out. Look at it people. Oh yeah look at the souls captured at the top of it. Soul is mine. It's got this whole Shang Tsung thing happening. I've got three necros now. Three. That's right. This place generates nine grand a day. Plus Sepgenna just pinched this. Oh I'm buzzing here. This is amazing. We're in a commanding position now. We still don't have the best army so we need to consolidate our forces. And really start to build towards a big showdown against those big armies that are still out there. I think what we want to do is hire a hero from here to just do the scouting that's necessary and get started probably today with that job. We raised 47 Skellies. We want to upgrade them. And I suggest something like this. I don't want to waste any more of her time. She's going to come galloping back out along here. I want someone else to run around and do all these jobs. Okay so step back out again. One thing I might do here is just give her the wishing well. Sorry. Okay so that means she recovers all her spell points every day until we're ready to fight again. And who can we hire in here to just start looking around? I think we have to go for Nimbus right? We have to go for Nimbus but we don't have enough slots so I'm thinking maybe Ranlou could take the week off and I'll use the Alchemist to do the things. Rissa. She has 3800 experience whereas Ranlou actually doesn't have any. He's never fought anybody in his life. Even though he feels like he's played quite a big part and I think to be fair he has played a big part. So yeah if Rissa goes here we aren't as worried about you know getting all the creatures out of here on day one anymore. It's not really our main supply line and we may have so much money that it doesn't matter that we still want to buy everything from all three necropolises. I don't know. G over here in the stronghold I think where's that guy? Straker? So he's going to be mucking around. I think we can definitely get this. He I think went there. That does mean it'll be available tomorrow. If he comes galloping up here I can... I don't even need to, yeah. So I think I can be a bit more greedy than this. Come right here. Sepp Jenner comes up this way. She comes back. We know we're going to want to use her. Gonna follow with the cannon yard am I? I should at some point check out what cannons actually how good cannons are. I haven't used them before. All right Aiden yeah so right so Aiden you could come help me with this and then this guy is there. You're both going to come this way and help with this project right? No I'm waiting till tomorrow. I'm going to gallop out with all of the army. Gonna take it west. Yeah so Aiden stays where he is. Right so who can I guess at Nimbus? Yeah let's get Nimbus back. Upgrade your skeleton. Get the rest of them. Let's just check out what's here. Please try again next week okay? Yeah so on that same bit of logic we want to do this. We want to get her helping you know with that. Get to the trading post. Come back here anyway for now. Okay Aiden stays where he is. These are the sources they are. Don't need to buy any more soldiers in Wormwater. Just in case there's another. Well I can't actually. I'm just thinking if there's another annoying orange here that comes around and pips me here. I probably should have left some some meat back here. That might be a mistake. Let's see if we live to regret it. Blue's upstairs. Separate blue hero up there at the fortress. Tans run out of road. Green is probably going to run out of road too. Stray can muck around. Sure. Okay so let's have a quick look back upstairs there. How much do I need to worry? Not very much. Okay we're gonna want to have some ability to beat him if he comes down through here. Ception is on her way though. So she can cover quite a lot of ground. Yeah let's use Nimbus first to just find out what's what down through here. Crystal's great. Yes this is all just a pocket. There's more down here. I just need to make sure I just need to be satisfied that there's not. I'm not going to get a nasty surprise. Don't think I am. I don't think there's anyone down here right. There's obviously more on down through here. Could be connected to that. I don't know. Stig might be able to fight her way down into here if it's connected. Yeah Ception comes back and then we do these other things. Yeah yeah yeah that's right that's right. She comes back. Now we know she's coming east to that point anyway. Keep going that way. Most opponents that we've come up against? Gee what are you up to? Why don't you do that for me? That's something you can do. Strike her. I'm still close. I'm still close to town. She, we know what she's doing. She's doing that. Yeah so I could rotate these around. To me she could stand here. Aiden could stand here. Between them they're both ready to get the army to about here tomorrow. It is a bit of a gallop isn't it? Over to Wormwood. Yeah I think it's okay though. I can. I can just do that. Is that a lot of fuss? So watch this. If I go out there with two Bone Dragons and I stand here. Well go ahead and do this on your way. It's actually quite costly alright. I regret that. That could have been done afterwards never mind. She waits here. We're going to try to both set off tomorrow okay. Nagash. Still I'm torn with this. Town appears open. He'll have 49 he can get the army back down to about here. This is a good chance of just bringing the army back to safety. I don't want to get stung by Gold Dragons. What have they got again? Let's just check the feed skill. What does orange got? Titans. Whatever you are Isra you're there with Titans and your kingdom army strength is better than mine. So Isra versus Nagash with a Gold Dragon army that beats mine. A Titan army I mean that beats mine. No thank you. Just not a risk worth taking right. So he's here. Tomorrow I can gallop to let me tell you exactly there. So Nagash could come stand there. Where was it? Sorry folks. Right there at that bump. Just there. No time. Maybe could have gone there. That's probably a mistake. Alright so it's kind of like the everything's happening in parallel like it's as though they're operating as if Sceptgen is just out of the loop. So if we can think of her as a free agent what do we want to do with her? I don't want to send her back to the stronghold. There's no point. I don't really want to gallop all the way over to here just to kind of scare Allagar away. Like that doesn't do anything. I don't really want to gallop all the way through here to take this because I just don't think this is generating enough value for blue. I want to kind of go find the cove and kill the people of the cove. So after all my back and forth I think the best way to do that is actually to come up through here on my own. Here I go again on my own. Oh look at the little snow covered monolith. She could go here to the Tree of Knowledge. Take this town easily. Right come back up through here and get to this portal and start really just being a nuisance. I can certainly be in this area waiting for reinforcements. Right yeah she went there okay let's do that. Snow is so bad that I'm actually not even gonna waste that those moves there. All right Stiggy Spell Power that's my crystal I'll take that thank you. Gillar oh I forgot okay sorry I forgot that she was probably supposed to run down under here and kill Gillar. Oh well do I care about Gillar? You can't do anything up here to me nothing really there's nothing really here you can have these mines who cares I don't care do any of you care no so I'm hoping that tomorrow we can buy everything well it's not even necessary to buy everything from here tomorrow we're getting the upgraded troops over to there so yeah we're gonna buy Rissa's stuff tomorrow as a priority okay blue doing some blue things this fellow Gillar don't he just don't bother who's that okay that's annoying that they got the sulfur who's this other person gem what are you doing that's not gonna be good enough gem right uh can I get back here might be nice to kill him I don't have enough moves does Orange have any agency down here anymore at all apart from Straker I don't think so like this is baron this is just there's nothing happening in this area the portal is covered by Septiana so if she comes to there she does die to him that's the problem just stay there for the night yeah I think that's okay she got one spell one one movement point there so she just stayed there it's fine Jack the nimble nimbus let's just see so let's do our plan what we were gonna do we're gonna buy all these creatures that's a big that's our first big priority now maybe we want to buy these creatures actually first right yeah yeah get these moving get these bad boys moving oh sorry oh I've got these junky piles of guys around uh get this get this moving do we want 50 whites for 10 grand I'll say yes to the zombies I'll say yes to the skelies okay 10 grand for 50 whites over in wormwood there's 14 more to add to what I think so right let's just leave whites alone save that 10k in dark eternal there are 39 wraiths available she's probably not leaving today though now right realistically let's see can stick get us some more money he's I think he's just running for it he's running from stick that's that's really what he's about in just in case he can fly over what we agree we thought these were the best value defenders is that enough you'd need to have a very good day at the office to um to beat that I think like we have to be all lightning bolts and things like that and stone golems are a pain yeah I think it's all right I think I need to over invest um so with that being said warehouse of gems I could do the imp cache yeah I I act before these horde of marksmen and I know advanced lightning bolt 564 points of chain lightning she already knows chain lightning that's great yeah let's get this it might be that the impies have something for us 73 of these bad boys hey oh it's not expert though it's gonna say forgetfulness I can't hypnotize I can never hypnotize it never works so I can teleport does pretty much the same thing as most of these other spells I can deal with one stack but not both what's the cheapest way of dealing with them just teleports the cheapest way of dealing with the right three spell points hang on I'm an idiot I've been saying three spell points I've been misreading it it's a third level spell the actual cost is 15 spell points oh sorry yeah so just lightning bolt let's just kill this pile here and shoot them and you're just gonna have to suck this up do you have positive morale no cast mirth on yourself no I'm just gonna have to suck this up sadism action this is certainly more annoying than I have wanted it to be oh look at these guys lost two guys basic mysticism is interesting to me um mysticism in horn of the abyss has been buffed so you get five spell points per turn instead of one so it's way better than it used to be like way way better she is a long way from any wishing well she's gonna be an adventurer I actually like it I think I'm gonna take it tons of nasty little dudes I took no damage I think this is just right it's gonna be so easy for me to abuse this um yeah I'm just gonna accept that battle result didn't get much money for it anyway okay so she's doing things it's all a bit small ball but um right back to this question I'm not buying the whites but I could buy them in a pinch if things get nasty if allegar comes comes our way right give the stuff to Aiden right okay he's got all of the stuff I was supposed to have boy oh boy take that with you actually give that to nimbus uh and take all of these but give me back that how's that look I'll keep these for next time take that give it to Aiden not Aiden nimbus nagash yeah what a waste that was okay Aiden do it and then you can start some of these jobs up here nagash come on down old son in the pavement look at that and it's 27k to buy all these creatures can't really leave today anyway though right old nimbus only gets to here by the time he's gone there nimbus will get about there today so there's really no point the only point would be if I got stung in town by a enemy hero that I don't know about nimbus you may as well do a bit more scouting down here man wasted moves I could have revealed that without going all the way down there yeah old nimbus a bit out of position I think we should make the investment now do the upgrades first just do some of the most important purchases here now just so that we're not caught short and they're pricing but worth it that will tidy the rest of this up tomorrow maybe ghost dragons and stuff okay all right Rissy you do have to wait I'm afraid even the almighty grail cannot can't support all of these purchases yeah we made we made peace with this idea that Ception is kind of on our own she's not getting any younger no she's not getting this army like we could say maybe even she should give the her bone dragons up so that we can make more ghost dragons for somebody else to run around with if anything there's no one here to talk to her though but maybe that'll work so she does this and then she wants to come galloping back around again right because that's a dead end and she has no other exploit she can't dimension door or anything so she can just do this and drop back down again when making a long journey do it and do it in chunks like this just in case you realize something as you're doing it it's like oh wait no I meant to do something and then it might not be too late to fix you the mistake you made and especially if you're revealing map as you go that's it's an absolute no brainer yeah so this is just a gimme that's unacceptable who's in here is there someone in here there's no one here oh because of the um hideous mask what am I trying to do here I could offer them the vampires so that they fly out attack me die in retaliation seems like pretty limited downside doesn't look like she's got morale or she has negative yeah she has minus one morale right we'll just stand here then man okay now I get to do this cool move totally fine with killing both stacks if that's what happens yeah I think I made the mistake of hitting the defend button and giving them back and then the towers changed their minds and started shooting my important stacks bone dragon still have a turn so we'll wait here so I think I'm supposed to start animating dead because I might not get another chance spell points are meaningless to me so it's not very good but who cares so they're dead yeah they go for the skellies again and now it's just getting over so that's fine kills six to eight so don't be a stranger absolutely no reason why if it's well managed we should take losses at all and we've got anime dead he seems to be able to walk through I can walk through there but there's going to be land mines so let's do it like this instead and you tip don't walk over land mines oh the lookout tower I always forget has yes it's so nice to get the lookout tower and then she's like ah the fog is lifted you feel that you feel that breath of fresh air coming she's like this town is mine let's have a look what's in here titans are here the mage guild is here with stuff she doesn't care about or she already knows no point coming in here is there wall of knowledge it hasn't been built it is wall of knowledge lovely and a whole pile of cool creatures as well very nice so this is quite good in the late game sometimes you take towns off people who are struggling and there are um unhired monsters and you can just leave the town on its own kind of like we've done the stronghold and if someone walks near it you just buy the stuff that's in it and until then you don't worry about it so um that's what she's going to be doing we can get all the way to the tree of knowledge but what I really want to do is touch base with everybody do a bit of a swapsies deal here I feel like Aiden can pop around I'll take your bone dragons but I'll give you I'll give I'll give you other things to make up for that like if I had two stacks of 50 I wouldn't need the bone the bone dragons I'd do anything and I can give you the bone dragons turn them in the ghost into ghosties and then someone else can run around the map with ghost dragons okay and then I'm coming back up this way so I'll hit the tree on my way back up that was what worked out and then if I do say so myself so then we're gonna yeah we're not we're gonna be bringing the other bone dragons back here so just buy the things that we know she wants which isn't very much more money it's got my moves anyway there so it doesn't matter so could to me could be the ghost dragon queen she's gonna come back up here with ghost dragons you know be a total jerk to allegah yeah so she could be the ghost dragon queen and I'll give her well her black knights well I can't really help you there love I'm gonna want the black knights for myself I think let's just check here remind me how much money this is yeah I'm going near it right okay this is started okay one last look here at the stronghold are we sure three behemoths is enough or no see there's no need for us to take that risk we could just do this make it five blue consolidating its power hydras collecting hydras it's green guy serious is he galah yeah do this yes but I'm just gonna take the freebie yep 65 yeah yeah give me that money give me this come around here see what that is first lots of manticores now there's an interesting challenge and they're necklace of ocean guidance doesn't matter now right this is probably better and again whoa whoa whoa no no no no I don't think so you have positive morale which is really annoying what can I do to you does that work on these well it looks like it does uh just lightning bolt right good old lightning bolt in fact I don't even need that look at that I only need like 200 damage magic arrow oh man that's embarrassing look at this I feel sorry for you say yes I'm just at this point I'm just programmed to say yes it's probably gonna be some rewards in there worth getting okay now this plan of mine to send septiana back up here with a different composition to the one she's got now we start in wormwood we buy the stuff we know she wants that we haven't already got could buy the ghosties I could buy these now and then that way well then I can't get uh can't get uh riser going if I spend that money let me just check so I spend all this money but not on these I can just about buy everything that's in here and set off today hold that thought let's look at the uh situation down here striker went over here okay that's not interesting this isn't interesting this so I'm saying don't buy the ghosties we don't need them yet okay nagash sets off give the stuff to aidan aidan ron rendez vows is with septiana but first nimbus speaks to him and says look pal how about you give me them septiana someone else might want that i've been carrying around for years give me this though he's got the bone dragons with him that's okay that's all right and then nimbus is going to finish scouting the area it's good that's good scouts we're coming this way it's nice that we've got this lovely big road here we're doing the old army swap give me that just in case she wants it what is she wearing around her neck at the moment don't remember my queen aidan my faithful servant you need to learn how to shoot have i ever told you that you shoot like my grandma immune to destroy undead i think is usually going to be inferior to having a bit more necromancy so that's that 277 out of 315 so we may as well do our swap out i don't need two crowns of the magi duration isn't really interesting to me anymore i know dispel just clear out some of the clutter you might as well wear that aidan now okay let's do a parley here what are we what are we doing what i'm saying is let's go back and make these ghosties finally we like a big blob of zombies septiana likes teleporting them around we know we want all the skellies how many is that 300 now when you when you take the whole army together right it's just a death ball right it's she's just going to be unbeatable 36 of these bad boys 114 vamp lords no one is getting past that right not with animate dead i mean maybe the recanters cloak although i have a funny feeling in horn of the abyss the recanters cloak is banned it switched off so i can animate dead i can implode i can vampire lord my way through life happily what does it look like when we split them into it still looks really nasty like really powerfully nasty i'm thinking maybe we could let someone else have the zombies and skellies or let's say the skellies you know i keep it nominal you know if i actually hang on let me actually do it the way it was meant to be done in the middle again there you go um like let's i just keep a handful taking up two of the slots here like 67 liches with no range penalty is bonkersly good right who needs bone dragons when i've got these guys ghost dragons i don't need the first turn because i'm going to be animating i'm going to be teleporting expert spell expert cure like what i'm saying is is she good enough in this configuration to do you know the gold dragons the titans all those other things i'm saying yes she's got it all she's got it made now with implosion the wishing well she's just got her own portable well that she carries around with the maximum spell points every day come on if i can remember to do the swap out that is i think that's enough and she can raise her own skellies let someone else have a crack you know these could find their way to uh rissa for example yeah that seems right that seems very good yep all right we're doing it this way thank you adan now i must not flee i must uh i must away your break of day to the tree of knowledge that's where she's going next plus one level for free allow me to teach you a little of what i have learned over the ages it's very lord of the ringsy as well isn't it time for expert necromancy it's probably far later than um uh a lot of you guys would advocate or expect i'm sure can you tell that i haven't played necro for a while hopefully it's not too too obvious so she's ready to just go up here and fight absolutely anyone who gets in her way the only slight asterisk i have is that her good artifacts aren't switched on because i want to top her up to um her maximum of 315 how sad am i about that yeah let's just do a swap out of that so i've got a luck and a morale debuff i just missed out on the litters being amazing i think that's all right it's fine it's only if she gets ward just not taking any time off at all in terms of movement okay rissa are you ready to depart before we do that i have to defend the conflux properly okay let's just defend this properly i don't want any nonsense i really don't want to lose it would be a complete pain in the back side that's it i want to set off with rissa today oh that's another whole day she's gonna have to wait okay new plan what if i go make some trades no i can't get there can't get there no one who can get there no trading quest i'm gonna be careful i just really don't want to have to reconquer the conflux that's just gonna be completely annoying now what if you set off without the bone dragons yeah could do it that way how much do i miss out on them 45 and 22 so i need 2k i think about five grand about five grand short just do it once a day sorry what's money when it saves me a whole day so i'm gonna i'm getting there i'm getting there turn these off turn them on make the purchase can't do it because randle is in the way randly randly don't be a moron your whole life right i'm gonna do this this stupid way one at a time bump bump bump bump bump bump could be an argument actually for uh not now i'm out of money i'm still out of money splashing the cash around all right let's use some of that movement let's get out there there's a windmill that we're missing but oh well i don't need to come this way and fight killer i'm not gonna do that get up to where the action is gee strake is not coming back she isn't doing anything i may as well just i may as well just take some gobos with me leave them behind take some gobos with me for the sacrificial chamber you know what i mean because putting gobos in there i don't feel as uh guilty like you're not doing anything here gee you may as well just go that's annoying but whatever doesn't matter that much stone skin earth magic i never found out what that is maybe i should let's go find out what the witch is offering we never actually bothered no thank you why would a witch know in a witch's hut know anything about artillery all those days i spent as an artillery woman in the national service in my youth so adan is the one okay he's gonna come back down he's gonna give nagash these guys nagash rides back they all line themselves up to make it gets ready to rumble you know what everyone should be going and doing this go do it yes and she had a day off there so that's perfect all right the tower isn't under any threat the stronghold has behemoth guarding it now if straker wants to try to negotiate spread around annoying spread around annoyingly conflux is defended everyone's out of moves and exhausted i've got no money in the bank what more do you want from me who is that oh it's quite a lot happening with blue and green here comes teal all right we need to check all three alligator isn't much of a threat we've got plenty of notice anyway we can always buy the white so that it's slowing down if he conquered that off me i wouldn't be terribly upset right because it's of no use to him rissa is handy rissa could pop up here all that would do is scare him off it wouldn't really do much um hmm let's just dig first oh there's that fortress right oh yeah so if she was hiding behind the walls i could still chain lightning my way through to victory there i have time to do this first though right no there's no need no need to lose anyone hope you guys are having a good day out there enjoying the hero's action sade is doing good stuff here i'm glad we actually got to use them for something i think it's okay oh okay i'm not archery i'm not the girl archery girl no okay yeah okay we got some stuff yeah we just come back along here now and uh we know where the fortress is i should have spotted that before it didn't occur to me all right except janet swap everything back out again bow mask dummy and yeah let's have a look what's behind door number one okay an abandoned hovel surely there isn't another necropolis i'm just i'm just galloping i don't know where i'm going it's kind of cool she feels like a yeah it's it's okay she can be out there on her own now because we have established really powerful secondary forces um right g nimbus i want to do here here's the guy aiden's the guy uh let's keep the fighting artifact with the army so that way whichever of the three these three heroes ends up doing things these are these can just stay on aiden yeah can i gosh take the ghost the bone dragon's back right so this is the thing now there ghost dragons now and here's two more now i got nine seems good okay and then we'll do all that in reverse give the go give the dragons to tamika and tamika can take them somewhere maybe up here and that'll be a massive headache for teal well either she can do it or she can give everything to rissa is rissa ready now come up through here no i don't think she's quite ready i think i'd like her to have the benefit of those extra soldiers right so rissa i want you to join this rag tag crew so where do you get to tomorrow aiden i'll look at aiden legend get to there i don't know why the red dark red and burgundy and red arrows may be giving me a different tooltip that took the little horses but the little horses telling me i'm not sure too messy let's just leave the 14 sitting there for now and i'll trade my three bone dragons for the nine ghost dragons it's on that basis she can stand here okay gee we don't care about streaker did i ever check what was happening with blue i wanted to just make sure we'd stayed on top of what they were doing yeah astra has an okay ish army you have there's the gold dragons it's all spread around you've got different heroes all sort of half strong and then you've got your main guy who's saving up hyzer's somewhere wherever he is how about i do this job it's poor unfortunate souls don't want there could be quite a few in there let's find out 12 all right it's quite a big area here around the neck row