 I want all these things. Okay, because this is so lucrative because there's so much going on here, and I want to stay I think it's actually time to Bring on our second hero With that second hero we can free this up or we get this stuff Could get water elementals. Although there's no rush for them now. They're not going to be amazing against the pikeman We did lit miss out on brisa, but we've got galare galar And Okay, we know about the carnivorous plant 350 gold for free each turn Fantastic this guy's got no hope although I like resurrection Alomar I do like resurrection Tempted by both of these guys 24 and four his army is useless. I think I might end up buying both It's hard to Hard to justify that they both come with a spell book. He's a warlock. Yeah Yeah, I think I like hiring galar to Buy the 30 sprites and go and get the rest of this work done The sad part though is that the sprites will die. We are going to lose some sprites in the process of unlocking these areas But I just can't this is just way too lucrative I just can't afford To not be in here Getting this gold So we should by the way while we're here. Let's have a look at what the spells are we have slow So libitha is going to need to come back and learn this Um, she already knows bless, but she would also pick up haste and magic arrow Both of us pretty important. So we could make a case actually that libitha's got to come back Uh to learn that before she goes too far Um Let's make our purchases this I can't believe how cheap that is to do so whatever These guys are incredible value. They're just so so good Um At this point i'm thinking if our army is big enough and our spellcasters are powerful enough Like look at what he can do. He's got 30 spell points and he can do all of this for Is he a water mage? Is he he's a water mage as well? So he can does he can bless for four That's fantastic like right right off the bat blessing these guys every time I just wish I had like 15 air elementals But we don't um if we think this Scared army can win these fights Then basically what we're saying is we're beelining towards city hall rather than desperately trying to get More troops on board So i'm tempted to Leave libitha where she is Start building towards our city hall. I mean marketplaces are very low low to the ground Sort of town to take anyway Or building to take anyway We haven't visited there yet Uh I'd like to get that And then I'd like to get This Which one do I want more? So against a horde I get a magic arrow that I can I can take them. I can't take them, but I'm going to take them on It's my decision 25 and 25 is barely a horde Wait, uh with both Oh the familiars are faster than me That makes me want to Try to protect these guys I'm faster than them though That would be a disaster. Oh my god No, you can't make it all right um I feel like i'm going to deal How much damage do I deal about a hundred? And they have health of about a hundred, but they're attacking defense skills superior to mine. So The girls are going to need some help To get this done Do I hold down control? Right here Four spell points purchase the flight sprites are fantastic I actually hadn't it hadn't occurred to me how good they are with bless. They're really good with bless So let's do the no brainer things first Before we take on lots of helmet ears with him I feel like I want to explore This coliseum is really good this arena, but lots of basilisks We have a prisoner guarded by lots of crusaders Summon boat Summon boat Will be useful. I don't know if That's actually a square you're allowed to stand on or not But that could end up mattering a lot depending on what is on the other side of that You start summoning boats down here if we get a someone who likes navigation Seems okay. I could go get the money See if I can get to that six. Oh, look, I can just go there I'm gonna see if the flail is guarded by something. That's too hard I'd rather come back and face the horde with A bigger army campfire and windmills just okay compared to these other things that we do down here Our free resources everywhere. You look just fantastic Uh, here's just the urge to The main thing I'm really hedging against here is some random hero galloping down along this road here and taking The chest off me while I'm here mucking around doing something that I could do any turn on any turn Um So are we doing this fight lots of helmet is probably about 40 Uh pound for pound. They're about twice as powerful as a familiar We are going to take casualties I can maybe do kiting though. I've got magic arrow Slow could be relevant Happy to spend as many spell points as we have because we can always replenish up here Even though it's not very efficient. Yeah Um, I think I prefer the tight formation as well. Okay. Thank god absolute doddle absolute doddle won't be a problem Uh, he says confidently Especially if we get one coming down here, that's just fantastic for us Uh one two three four five six Position the uh air elementals to do the cleanup job a three attack versus six defense So we'll do our classic move these guys can't come around here to help Not that it's gonna matter Unless morale happens. So if morale happens, I'm gonna be really sad Um But I think I get to win with no losses again for four spell points by clicking this weight button And then unless morale happens I'm just completely No need to do anything these girls are going to do all the work for us Yeah, these things are just so good Sprites man. They are just unbelievable Okay, give me some money The naga bank Okay, so in the early game a naga bank has like 10 nagas Which has like a thousand hit points Surely not, right? Yeah. No, so that would be suicidal Definitely not doing that do I need crystal I have three crystal What am I doing that might want crystal or nothing? Don't know what the upgrades are on these Important crystal is to me Just yet Again, that's just gonna be sitting there. No one else is gonna get it. I can pick up any time so Trying to just figure out the best place to go Love to know what that spell is. Do I have time to go up there? I think I've got time to go do this Kill goblins I don't I'm not too worried about goblins. He should be a dongle damage one to two Terrible terrible terrible, you know, like that's their level one and this is our level one It's like night and day I just don't see these things Doing anything interesting kite move Wait, I'm going to attack with the air elementals actually five perish How much damn did you deal back 17? Well, that's more than I was expecting They've uh overestimated the ability of the air elementals to Do good so they're gonna kill five and then they're gonna take one in return Uh, these things have a HP of 60 in total. That means I can kill them with magic arrow I think that's the way to go We definitely do not want to lose soldiers 6,000 bucks saved up Let's keep building towards our city hall City hall doesn't cost any resources. It's just cash That's really really nice actually that we're gonna have that online sooner than average It's all because of lamita And uh this excellent work she's doing A smooth stone on the face of this pillar begins to swirl as you approach looking into it You're amazed to see answers to questions you've pondered for years The stone suddenly goes still but you realize You have learned much That's a level up if i'm not mistaken. Ooh And you see this is the beauty of this game It just gives you these little rewards and you just feel like yes That's awesome. I've never had much luck with basic luck. I I've I've never loved luck as a Mechanic in or as a skill a secondary skill In the game I'm minded to say no to it now. I'd like to give it a try but I am gonna say no the reason is That it doesn't work well with bless if you're gonna be blessing everyone under the sun Okay, this girl doesn't have basic water magic. She's earth magic So how often am I actually going to cast bless? I still think I'm going to cast it a lot Right. I'm going to be blessing My trips a lot And as a result of that luck Luck isn't great. I suppose eventually luck lets you do double damage if you have all three levels of luck you can When you roll Successfully on luck it will let you do double damage um Yeah So anyway, maybe when luck comes up on somebody who isn't going to be doing a lot of blessing. I will we'll try um, but Happy to stick with advanced intelligence and get the extra spell points Let's have a look at our spell our building for today before I forget Oh, yeah And look at it It's way bigger and more powerful and I'll be earning two grand a day. Thank you very much instead of one Absolutely fantastic It's pretty rare actually that we get left alone and we get this much opportunity to just pick up free stuff and um I kind of print well for ourselves I'm a bit concerned about the wood situation. We've got excellent stone and there's more stone here I think it's worth worth it to get that wood now Let's come down here to see if I can open up this mercury mine feeling pretty confident Oh Dragon wing tabard, I can't remember what that does Uh, it might be knowledge plus one or something Lots of marksman Lots of marksmen are going to be Difficult for us to beat and yes, perfect. Lots of familiars. That's exactly what we're looking for Jell-er that is a spell. Hello Oh Yes town portal Town portal is maybe the most important spell in the whole game. Um, you toss it in your backpack. Yeah, you do town Portal I've got to click this button. There it is 16 I can even start using it now. He could in theory I can do this right? I could actually just cast it and go start town portaling right now Oh, no wait, could I surely I need the right wisdom? Could I? What happens? It says fourth level But I don't have I don't have enough wisdom I'm not going to try because I don't want town portal. I don't actually want I don't want to go back to town. I want to go and kill these But uh, what happens with scrolls? Is it that you don't need the wisdom? You can just I'm surprised that that hasn't come up before anyway Just let me quickly check something stone skin is not in here. So I will send galarean to there to learn stone skin while he's at it Okay, uh, yeah, let's just do this fight That's gonna be a costless fight again It's massive advantage that conflux hero has in the early game when he's got sprites and magic arrow and less like Awesome um These guys really underperformed last time We just won't risk it I'm assuming these girls will kill that Someone's immune to that Uh, and I think we're all immune to ever casting it at all. You come across a small shrine Attended by a group of novice acolytes in exchange for your protection. They agree to teach you stone skin I can walk through there. Look at that That's kind of handy. I could go pay labela a visit give her some more sprites Or she could give me her army I'm gonna want to get galare galare to the seeing stone as well Uh, and we really want to keep exploring. So that's what I said before. I think there's a case for hiring Alamar as well I don't have enough money to hire him. Although a very quick Visit to the marketplace would have I'd have enough money for 25 gold. I have to give you One stone. So yeah two stone for 50 gold would allow me to hire him now Yeah, that's a tough decision He could start doing the rounds like learning the spells or that kind of thing Or I could use that money to Get an altar of air built Can't do that yet um 5 and 1500 yeah Uh, oh and you can skip this and go straight to water elementals Can't skip Okay, yeah, you can skip one So if you want to skip Water you can Okay, yeah, so you can skip fire or water but not both and then this one. Oh, no, you can't you need all of them before you get there Alter of thought. Okay, right So the sad thing about this is that Water fire and earth elementals Aren't very good like you know tier five earth elemental Other towns get like minotaurs and Thunderbirds Earth elemental But I suppose tier one is fantastic. So You can't be too upset about it. So here's a critical decision point in the game Do we hire a third hero we don't really need To Do what to run around and learn things He's going to learn things while the other two are exploring and he's going to be able to move troops around Like to ferry troops back and forward Uh, he could jump in the water actually as well We could go see if there's some free stuff out of the water which can be quite lucrative The other thing is that he's not a complex hero. So we'd be Which one's the toughest one? We definitely don't want her Oh, meteor shower Pretty good. Uh, but I find necromance Necropolis heroes, uh, just I don't like hiring them if I'm not the necropolis Uh, it's almost like a flavor thing or something. I don't know. Uh, they're perfectly fine, of course And you can just dismiss the skeletons that she raises But it doesn't feel like great Alomar, should we go for you or not? You're a basic scholar. So you can yeah be teaching people Spells back and forward Resurrection really tempts me that's all Uh, in fact if you become an expert scholar, can you teach resurrection to everybody else? On that basis, let's do this. Let's do this. Let's do it this way. This could be wrong Now I've got the money I need Alomar, here's your money. Welcome to the team These things are going to be fairly useless to us Um Learned forgetfulness, uh waste of time. I can learn. I think I learned stone skin naturally off anyone I visit Uh, or speak to So I think I'd rather use this guy as a fairy man Between, uh, my two soldiers so that it's not gonna matter. Lots of pikemen. He's gonna be able to kill lots of pikemen anyway um So what's the fight where I need a hundred sprites? Uh, right. What else is LeBear trying to get done? Lots of crusaders probably too hard These things Lots of basilisks Kind of similar to lots of crusaders Uh, that's too tough. I don't think combining my army will be big enough to fight either Then the only unit of interest is this We're flying in with tons and tons of sprites all spread out across the battlefield And our reward is this which I think is plus one knowledge Uh, it's not that good. Whatever this thing is is it? I don't like to look up. I try to use my memory. I could just look it up, of course Uh, so the troglodytes are slow, um, and I'm not planning to use them in combat for anything at all Uh, leaving them behind allows him to be a little bit faster. I think I like intelligence for everyone. It seems okay Alomar's going to go here with no help and he's going to do this. I'm going to do this. Yep It's crucible is the word The other thing Alomar can do this week is hire the water elementals Okay, so I'm not doing anything that fancy here. We're just Yeah, so this guy can do his job. He already knows that So this is the same fight over again. It's actually you guys might be even getting boring at this point watching my sprites kill things Yeah, this was a little bit These guys actually feel quite vulnerable like you're going to protect them and carrying them around and they're slowing my army down Almost equal all else equal to 44 kill that many before Attack skill two defense skill four Don't want to take any chances Just kill Yeah, they're gonna hurt aren't they? We're gonna attack they're gonna kill at least a couple She doesn't know magic arrow though So what if I just keep her alive Do this That was maybe a mistake Oh, no, no, no, no. I had a logic thing. Yeah, because that stops the arrow. How many did did I lose six? Oh Oh That hurts What could I have done different there? I kind of in the back of my head thought that I had magic arrow arrow up my sleeve like what I did before with the um Uh, whoever Alomar was following the other guy. What's his name? Elaron? Ah, look, I don't know But I mourn this the death of those six sprites and it does materially change the what's his name? Okay It does actually change the dynamic now like um, I'm gonna need to Play a little bit more carefully. Um She's coming to there. There's no question mark about that So I can start hiring my free water elementals. I think that's probably something I should do Um, Goliath's gonna go boom boom. He's gonna land about there And I Alomar Alomar when you've got a ferrying hero you do have to accept that sometimes Um He's gonna have wasted moves wasted resources Uh, these cost the same anyway, so Let's build it Piffley little thing, isn't it? What do they cost each three? See that's my problem with these 300 That's like all my money So he's gonna have to spend 1800 he's gonna spend all of our income tomorrow at that altar That's at the top there He might have time actually to go there grab the ones that are there run back Goliath does this Yeah, that could work that could work. Let's do that All right, so we buy them Feels like a ripoff, but all right Yeah, easy. Look at that. He easily had time This thing here is plus one spell power or plus one knowledge for 1000 gold Similar to this thing here. You don't want to do that at all for the first month, I would say The 1000 gold is just way too valuable Uh In catching you up to where the opposition will be and this is a thing it Sometimes the game can feel like tickety-boo like you're doing a great job. Everything's just awesome And then you run into your first enemy and they've got tier six creatures and you're just like The game can be a bit cruel that way All right, gala. What can you get done against? pikemen lots of pikemen Okay, it looks like that was nothing actually. All right, so waiting waiting on faster than them to bless and kill This stack I don't know Why don't you do nothing? Bless you. No retaliation It might be that we need to spend two turns on this stack Yep Okay This might be wasteful. I don't know it's been three. So that's pretty good These guys are just not good enough in in small numbers They're elementals Okay Now I get two attacks in a row with no retaliation. I assume they're an overall flashes for the pikemen So bless ran out. So Cloak of conjuring here we come eventually our two heroes will meet each other and we can even things out of it Um, sadly scouting is just not good Different modifications available for the game make scouting a more interesting skill and unlock different things with scouting I'm not it's not 100% clear to me that the AI benefits from that maybe it does I'm not sure But anyway, this is the vanilla game in basic scouting Sometimes it's actually okay on a really big map if you've got the right type of hero in the right place and it can really pay off for you, but He's not even our main guy, you know, so I'm just not that sad about missing out on the on scouting This is the first time I'm really sort of half considering taking experience, but Okay, we guessed Nearly right Okay, so Alomar starts learning things Okay Let's give the town portal to um Yeah, we'll keep the harpies with Alomar just From a flavor point of view Alomar goes up. He doesn't need spell points Yeah, I think this is right. I've got enough money to do this Yeah, so it's literally the same as the town Interestingly in the town Five mercury. I've got tons of mercury So I think this would be worth doing Um Now all the fights that she's going to face Ice elementals don't matter really for this. It's all about the sprites Uh They'll be good here though. They'd be very good Against Basilisk crusader Oh now I'm thinking about maybe Sending him back. Look how far I can ride in one day. Holy. Is he on logistics or something? Is he? He seems to be able to ride a long way But it takes an extra day for me to deliver troops to libita So the question is what's libita doing? I don't think she's got plenty to do actually she can wait right Go here Haste, I think she already knows Well, she hasn't been to the mage guild actually so she didn't know haste do this. Why not? Come to here. Let's have a look Go here Bloodlust now she's getting quite the collection. Alomar will be good at learning all of that and teaching it to everyone else Ransacking. Okay now things get interesting. Uh horde of imps Uh, I just feel like ice elementals are good here for here and here And the prison is often often worth it So, yeah, we'll go with that plan. We'll go with our new plan of upgrading to ice elementals Probably could have made that decision more efficiently The upgrade doesn't do anything graphically. It looks always the same Uh, all right. Let's just go through with plan a now that we've done it We have to get the utility 900 not too much actually Um And we have Why doesn't that upgrade on the map out there? It doesn't until okay We have an army right? We have an army that we can take the marksman on and By the time LeBeath has done that And finished exploring there's some imps. She's gonna kill We'll have fresh Week three troops To come and attack the crusaders with so These are cheap. I one thing I will say these are cheap these altars 1500 bucks. Where's the altar of air? It's up here So I want to use Alamo because he's a scholar Rather than passing normally I pass the everything over to Gelada to go up and do the job But I want to teach LeBeath all of the stuff in the mage guild Which if I had the sulfur together it would have been a really good business case too. There is some sulfur too I could have maybe gone for it um as a plan Could buy the air element tools In fact, I'm gonna do that And then we might actually have a stack of creatures that we can Do something with uh, he could just keep these harpies all day long like he doesn't really How do I is it shift? Yeah, it's shift Shift key give me back that town portal Can't believe that it looks like I can cast town portal because normally it would be grayed out if you do this Oh, no, it is because I don't have enough spell points I don't like I have to see if that works. I almost want to save the game in experiment try casting it to see what happens um Okay, so a bit of faffing around there, but look with your transfer hero It doesn't matter if he gallops around and wastes his moves a little bit like if it's not perfectly optimal It's okay. It's not great, but it's okay um Starting to get to the stage of the game where I might be interested in investing the thousand gold in these sorts of things But I don't actually have it at the moment. So it's a good point There's the sulfur Do I have everything I need now? I need one more crystal You could just clear this now before we meet up Attempted to do that like we don't want these guys leveling up and causing more uh Drama, okay, so the ice elementals are slow Um, but geez they packed them all up there didn't they kill 10 familiars from longer age 25 to 100 damage Still not great Let's see how hard this hits. I shouldn't need to cast any spells this yeah I can even do this No strikes back Glorious victory a glorious victory for valor in combat. He receives 148 experience Let's go here Getting some good spells I don't actually end up using fireball all that often in the game 45 points of damage for 15 Or you can hit a single hex for four eight for four spell points Okay, now that's an advanced version. Okay, if you had advanced fireball surely it would be Higher but um, yeah fireball is not one that I end up actually casting all that often Um Now alomar we've already done that I don't need you to learn forgetfulness. I don't think Could come down here in my spare time. I've got a couple of days Now what if I got to do I've got to get these and bring them back down I've got to be standing here at the end of tomorrow Which doesn't give me a lot of time for sightseeing He seems to be able to move so far in one day though. I think we can do this and I need crystal So let's just get that done quickly Oh, there's sulfur there too though. I need both of those things. Um, yeah go on It's going to take me an extra day to get the army together, but I think that was worth it So before we take on the horn, let's Stick our noses up gala. Where are you going to get to you're going to get to here and with this army I'm confident enough to take on the marksman that needs to happen tomorrow actually so gala Actually galar could do No, he can't get there. Look at that. He's only going to get to there tomorrow. So this is a really important technique as well Probably a lot of you people who are watching this if you are still watching know this game so well, but You need to plan tomorrow using the um path in here. So for example, I was thinking to myself oh galar can kill the Galari can he can kill the marksman But actually when you hold the thingy down here the theoretical moves would take him Only as far as here. So he can't do it This girl clearly can she can get here today. Uh, so she obviously is the one who we'll be using to do that job Um, that has to happen I think tomorrow because these guys will level up lots of marksmen will become a horde of marksmen in two days from now These guys might get more beefy as well, but we're not as worried about that This girl has enough time to visit this bloodlust I think we're gonna risk it because I'm not coming back here anytime soon. This is the very very corner of the map It's like I'm never coming back here She makes it to here. Oh wait, but it's still a sword. There's still a sword there Ah I was either the biggest idiot in the world or the well, I won't say the biggest genius in the world But how good is that like if that works out? She's gonna exactly Have enough movement to engage the marksman tomorrow by with nothing to spare Please please please. Yeah This is why I love this game