 Hello folks and welcome back to another season of Heroes of Might and Magic 3. This time around we are going to be random mapping it again, but I've already rolled for our town and hero. So to tell you what that is we're going to be playing as the inferno this time and our starting hero is Fiona, there she is right up front and we'll have a bit more of a look at Fiona once we get started. I'm going to be red because red goes really well with the background inside the town of the inferno. Makes it all look really good. Now as for the settings we're going to be sticking to the highest difficulty. For the last campaign we had six players doing a free for all and it felt okay. I think though instead of large I'm going to try an extra large map and still keep six players. We're going to have underground on islands on normal monster strength and yeah I think we're ready to generate so let's go ahead. We go. Okay here we are welcome to the inferno and yeah I was going to say welcome to the fiery pits of hell but we are in the middle of a enchanted field of greenery. Yeah so we've got this big ash and tower of evil which we are hopefully going to use to corrupt the land around us. If only the ash were to spread progressively during the course of the game but it doesn't. So yeah immediately looking around here I can see we have a gold mine to the west which is really amazing. We're going to want to get that bad boy online as soon as possible. A throng of goblins is tough. I don't know if we can beat a throng of goblins exactly with certainly not without starting army but that's a pretty big priority. I can see we have stone to the south maybe we can get around to that this way come down here and yeah as for Fiona herself let's have a look. So Fiona is a demoniac is the word I'm going to use to pronounce that. Now what about you Fiona? Fiona was a trainer of circus animals in eastern erathia before the devils invaded. She quickly proved to them that her control over animals extended to the always temperamental hellhounds and she was immediately accepted into the ranks of earfolds armies as a result of that. So hellhounds are her special thing. She buffs their attack and defense once she levels up a bit and then the other thing that this does whenever there's a creature buff here for a hero of might is it gives them plus one movement. Now he's actually getting plus two movement you can see their speed seven to nine and that's because we have the necklace of swiftness as our starting artifact which is amazing starting artifact that's really really lucky. Yeah the imps are getting plus one so the dogs get plus two. All right finally with Fiona she has advanced scouting which scouting is not a great skill but in the extra large map um and at the beginning of the game it's actually probably pretty handy. So I think with no money to speak of at the bottom as you can see we've nothing to do but gallop forth and investigate the countryside and we can see a gem mine down here guarded by hobgoblins we have gremlins guarding the crystal gems and crystal aren't a big deal to us the real big payoff ones for us are going to be mercury and sulfur okay take this shortcut through here I see sulfur hello so it's going to windmill first lots of goblins guarding sulfur that's really good um the thing that I really care about though more than anything at the moment is getting around to the stone okay it looks like we can't get around to the stone I'm going to assume that that's blocked off there that's that's the coast if we ever want to get off this stinking rock uh we can jump in a boat here and sail away not that it's a stinking rock it's actually a pretty good looking rock we also revealed here lots of walking dead and past the lots of walking dead lots of harpy hags okay that's quite hard to get past so we won't be going this way anytime soon um so I think rather than get these resources now uh maybe try to fight lots of goblins but I might just play it safe and come back up here see what's up around this way um yeah it's not a bad day one day two come to here tell me what you see ooh okay a demon gate that's a demon gate like the that's a tier four creature for the inferno that's really good guarded by lots of zombies don't think I can beat lots of zombies with eight dogs we've got more hobgoblins and it looks like that's wood which is really nice tell me that that's our wood mine it is okay I can see the thingy there yeah I don't even think we need to get the helm yet we can just beeline our way up and get this mine online as quickly as possible and I see take one more step please lots of familiars guarding treasure that is going to be really important we're going to go could I beat lots of familiars with eight dogs I think I can give it a try we also have a hero imprisoned to the west guarded by a horde of nulmar orders I think that's too hard um so I want to go around and do this but I really wanted to get the wood production started so we'll do that grab one pile of wood on your way through eight wood is great that's really good um and I guess I'll get this one now as well those seven all right can I beat lots of familiars um we might do the classic move here of just uh creating a screening force imps and familiars are really really good uh to use in this way as um because they're so cheap and useless in as a single as a single entity I think we can win this fight it's only 28 of them oh I did all the waiting but on the slowest well I guess I'll just defend myself I might come up here and I will come to you I'll staple okay so this obstacle in the middle is a bit annoying um if he's standing here after killing them in he goes one two three four five six seven if this guy stands exactly here I'm in trouble but if this guy stands there I can get back one two three four five six seven eight nine yeah I maybe I can even get up there actually all right let's see so firstly is this a kill I don't actually know if this is a kill feels pretty good though eight versus 40 yeah yeah yeah you're useless mate all right now you can't hit my dogs but you can hit my main pack okay that's not very good um I can't stop that from happening I could go for a morale and I could let the familiars hit me let's just do this and see what happens I might be taking a hit on my 11 which is quite bad not what I intended yeah okay we have to accept that just don't worry about it you do this yeah I messed that up that should have been one or two um never mind okay uh money oh yes money money money money more money yes beautiful we definitely want to get this and do a lookout but the first thing we want to do once we've saved up enough is town hall absolutely essential that you get that early okay distant lands we have ocean to the north a shipwreck little treasure chest little sea chest that's really cool if you look closely you can see the little chest and bobbing up and down in the water and we have also got neighbors okay tan is here they've already flagged the shipyard I don't know if that means they've sent a hero off sailing yet but anything's possible they've already got ultra fire up as well and yeah so that's their wood sawmill and it's basically right next door to our base blocked only by these guys so these guys are kind of our allies for now we don't want these to die we don't want to open this up until um on our terms ideally but um okay so if this is a conflux ultra fire means that it's probably a conflux over here in the snow um conflux could be good if we can conquer them quickly just thinking about the late game maybe we have phoenixes alongside our e-freaks and devils and things could be quite good um right phoenix anyway getting ahead of ourselves a little bit uh now what are you gonna do are you coming back so i've got to kill these and to do that i feel like the best way to do that in fact the best way to attack a lot of these guys is going to be gogs right all these all these little piddly melee units t1 units hate gogs zombies hate gogs um walking dead hate gogs happy hags dwarfs hate gogs these guys despise gogs happy hags don't though gogs stinky gets happy hags um cyclops don't care about gogs either um but everything else kind of does so i'm minded to do that to try to get to gogs quickly i don't have a hall of sin sometimes your starting thing gives you a hall of sins and we can't build one because we need stone and we have zero stone and the stone's down here past where we've got to go so that's not gonna work um so plan b what else could we do we can actually get the kennels you can go straight to kennels without gogs that might be the way to go with fiona cages is just a grand after you built the kennel so we could build this up and then on day one come and get a big army of dogs and bring them to the goblins unlock this go around the map with the dog sell the story around like a traveling salesman once i've flagged the stone um yeah i know i'm gonna want these kennels at some point in the early game very very quickly with fiona they come with five already that'll cost me a grand to buy those five dogs so do i want to come down get whatever i can right now we should be like 13 against a throng of goblins see the throng could be like 150 or something or even 200 which is pretty scary so i don't think i can do it this week i think i need to wait till next week fiona then what could she do i didn't see this as well as a mercury which is really good for us we want mercury and that's lots of goblins so we beat lots of familiars pretty handily could we beat lots of goblins pretty handily get that mercury because i've got a few days before i'm gonna say yes i'm gonna say we can beat these guys and we have time to do it now these guys are movement five movement five or when movement six because of the necklace so that's really really good hopefully we can mess these guys around what can eight doggies do um you've walked into suicide range okay that was nice of you i'm just gonna stay put um just reposition these guys a little bit come up here leave one poor fellow down the bottom let's do this let's hope that this is a kill 14 familiars died so oh you tough little sods oh okay now i'm thinking i just do this problem is if both of these guys come back around this way to help i'll be a bit annoyed oh they're very good now morale's nice isn't it so if he waits now and these guys come around here i could hit them and then run away so i might try that and i'll just make these guys i'll just dangle them out here a bit more like hey you should come to me okay so let's see what they do this isn't too bad i don't think the top dog will die to these little hits it's under 15 already man so what if i do this what if i hit him oh why don't i get oh i thought i had the right to act last but if you if you get a morale flash and you wait that's not quite how the rules work apparently so all i can really do is this okay so we're back on serve these two guys being stuck together like a blob is quite annoying though so you wait wait here come here kind of want to split them up right ideally he comes after him and he goes after him but they're both well they're not going to both walk this way are they one of them is going to come kill this who acts first this guy acts last this guy acts first yes what if i sacrifice one if i put it in here he'll come up and kill it and leave this imp down here i think that's what i'm supposed to do you can have this imp i'm going to give him sim only your back guy can kill it this guy then comes this guy comes up this way maybe you just sack him as well if he if he walks up this way it's kind of annoying so if i left him in the corner we would have had them separated i want a nuisance okay a bit of mucking around here sorry everyone all right get in there i hope don't lose a dog i don't think we will so here's the thing with these see damage two to seven that so yeah the damage range you can see the bottom is 24 to 84 so they're highly variable and the weird thing is that bless is like the best spell you can cast on these because it causes maximum it replaces two to seven with just seven but from a flavor point of view i just don't want to be blessing my inferno troops so this happens to me usually when i play inferno it's like i'd love to bless the dogs but it just doesn't feel right you know i can't see how i'm not attacking here right i'm definitely attacking and yeah i just rolled high okay one imp is not too bad and we get the mercury up so that's actually really good um that's actually really really good all right let's end the turn tan is boating labita labita is the hero i used my main hero in the conflux campaign which had just finished about a couple of weeks ago um i look forward to besting you in combat this time labita hopefully things go according to plan that is i don't think we do zombies right lots of zombies is a completely different prospect so let's gallop back we know we're coming back to here what are we building in town we've got 1500 bucks to spend i can't believe we would never want the cages we're definitely not cages so just build them don't have to think too hard about it oh okay this is a problem can't beat labita so we're gonna have to run for it um okay that's annoying let's just see what she does though how can we do this so i have five dogs and 15 imps back at the base that won't be enough but next week's troops will be enough she could kill the zombies for me and open this up that would be quite nice and then while she's mucking around i can come back up and beat her in combat okay uh obviously i can't leave the helm out here she could free the prisoner and take that with her it's really annoying uh so she's coming kind of stealing my lunch here which is quite bad for us really what is the booth they're gonna do tomorrow i think she probably could take our town tomorrow if she wanted to so i think we do need to come down here and defend as best we can might just try and save my beans hide behind the fort what can she do she flies over with the i don't think she does right and then she comes out it's day six so i can wait for day one and then gallop out and face her with tons of dogs i think i have to stay at home though i do have to stay at home right because she could get me she just stopped there she just went boom and stopped yeah so if i can fight you you can definitely fight me um this would be a massive win if we beat the beat that it would be a huge a huge hit to tan and their development and they're our main rival plus we have a boat waiting for us we could just send a hero out to vacuum up all the good stuff that we can already see from the observatory so this is kind of this is kind of important i just don't think we can beat her though can we fight the boat we can't quite fight the boat if she gets on the boat tomorrow but if i dumped the imps maybe we could yeah okay i'm gonna waste a day cross my fingers oh my god did that just happen oh the beef and what did you do oh no that's hilarious i don't think i've ever seen that i don't think i've ever seen the ai attack into a wandering monster group and die have i ever seen that in all my playing years i don't know that i have that's incredible that's an amazing result for us because she's turned a hoard into a few and i just get to walk in free the hero put the hero in the boat go get the stuff it's too good to be true i don't even need to buy any troops i can just go around and do this right now free the hero that's incredible 21 dogs against what say you know let's say it's 150 gobos might be tough let's see who the prisoner is first i suppose should we buy these i don't think so right the throne of gobos it's that's just not gonna be good we should wait for the pile to build up a bit more problem with them is they're just not great value for money see if that was software would have been amazing i've got to go free the hero and see what this is surely i should do that my alternative is take be patient come down here definitely kill us lots of gov i do that job i could do this job as well get that cleared off could clear that off don't need to do this yet come back up do this job while we're at it a horde of gremlins could have some masters in it which would be i don't have to do i don't have to get the crystal yet come back get serbruses change my guys into serbruses come back up along here free the hero like this these assets aren't going anywhere so which is more lucrative getting a hero in the water quickly yeah it's definitely better to come do this first if i can beat the throne of goblins that's the key question without losing like if i have to lose 10 dogs no let's let's play it safe we're like libita has completely blundered uh for us there if this is sulfur that might change my mind no okay so that we're doing this we're just doing this oh man that was incredible do i have time to start investing in marketplaces things like that so upgraded kennels we need to allow at least a grand or so to upgrade our students into serbrus um can i afford to start shipping away at these other necessary investments i think i can i can even buy a sulfur here but i don't need it now okay all right this is a really good um i cannot believe libita that was hilarious i don't think i've ever seen that before 16 hobgoblins in one pile right and i'm faster than the normal gremlin the gobos yeah okay yeah so everyone waits yeah i have it in my head for for imps right i think it's a trap to buy lots of imps early because they they are pathetic and everything on the battle like they can actually when they attack in big numbers they're actually not too bad in terms of damage dealing um but per gold spent they're they're actually quite bad it's okay to be garbage on the battlefield but only if you cost nothing and that's just not the case are they coming down okay i think i can still reach you you're walking into range that's just death surely i'd be very very unlucky to not get a full kill here notwithstanding what we talked about before and um okay let's stand here then kill these ones uh yeah yeah yeah let's just stand don't get morale don't don't do that don't get morale oh nice now only Fiona can give the dogs that range and the necklace of swiftness oh man what a combo cool all right sulfur online i think we do this other stuff while we're here can i either do this first and do that there's stone or i mean i could get uh all these years i thought it was stone but it's actually all uh maybe we could build the gog place just right now in a second lots of hobgoblins this time a little more ambitious but we could take them right we have the movement yeah what now you guys all just yeah just defend yourselves yeah morale okay beautiful go hellhounds go fjorda do it wow oh how time she leveled up isn't it level up no i level up still level one okay all right well another 200 xp before that happens right now we're cooking all right can i be bothered doing this i think i can because gogs would be amazing if it's five or on the other hand do i have money you just quickly run around here and do this i'll take an extra day to get this online that's 1000 bucks i'll be missing if i don't do it i'll just let it go we're gonna upgrade the kennels as soon as we have enough money that's our next purchase all right okay all right well they're recovering after the defeat of libitha oh man okay here we go kennels now how much do they cost upgrade so it's 500 bucks to upgrade i have just barely not enough what if i sell you some mercury well i need 21 so i need 1100 bucks i have a mercury mercury mine so i'm okay with this all right now let's see what uh let's see who this who this prisoner is you can do this as well get some demons on board oh man the possibilities are endless once we get a second hero uh they can start throwing the army back and forth to one another okay blue's just exploring getting some things done that's tower tower hero by the looks of it just take this or by the power of our forces we do pursue because of the experience um they're gonna come down this stupid way we go to here and then we walk over and kill them worth doing it's gonna be like 20 experience but you gotta squeeze every drop 24 it wasn't far off okay here we go in a dazzling display of daring you break into the local jail and free the hero imprisoned there who in return pledges loyalty to your cause the hero is tiva oh look at tiva hello tiva tiva tiva you are level five very nice level five will do nicely expert first aid basic archery archery and an actually pretty good starting army as well she has a spell book and she knows stone skin basic archery not really massively relevant for the inferno and expert first aid is useless until i can find her a first aid tent so even though she's level five i still think fiona is the way to go scouting out on the water would be quite nice though i must say but i want to use fiona to take on the gobos yeah she's gonna go do that now hmm right so tiva give me your army um have an imp give me your guys um yeah these nulls are quite good 15 nulls that's actually pretty meaty and these dudes we probably want to try to keep them alive up here lizard men we'd like to body block with um nulls maybe these imps yeah maybe we'll do that have it configured that way i think a throng of gobos this is gonna be a good a good fight but not necessarily a one where we have it all our own way but it depends if that's wrong like what's a throng how big is a throng well let's find out oh what was i worried about this should be easy this should be easy okay then there aren't any even any hoggoblins okay this should be easy like 21 cerberi so we'll screen the lizard men off with these guys we'll see what this guy wants to do he wants to come with us oh these guys have walked i was gonna say i thought they'd walked into um that would have been very very good but never um stay where you are come up here get ready to screen right server i do your thing thing is i act first next round though so i still get to hit them both both piles redeploy this is just a great alpha strike here although i'm worried that if said there's 12 left and they all hit me they can deal one damage 12 less in this pile i mean they could deal 12 12 times two and i have health 25 i could lose a doggie here but i came into the fight expecting to lose some troops here what did i roll last time server i dealt 126 okay 126 is in the bottom of this range so i'm going to take a chance hit both hit both piles yeah i did much more damage that time instead of leaving 12 i don't have four behind so same thing damage two to seven you don't know what's going to happen you know you don't know whether you're going to um cream them or not the second fly is not really doing a hell of a lot for us okay so i still haven't taken a hit from them yet um yeah let's just let's just end the fight let's just get it done i think that was a min roll how much i can do here i can't help you don't lose a doggie how much did they deal i didn't see oh maybe you guys saw how much damage they dealt anyway we came close 110 dead but see that could have been a stack of 180 you know uh a throng can sometimes be like up towards 200 and we really would have been yeah trading uh soldiers anyway scouting and pathfinding well we've got grass and water there's a bit of snow around here pathfinding could be good but it just feels bad to have both of these skills okay so we don't want the dwarfs obviously we're going to do this mine before i do it though should i get tiva to come down grab the army and then she could take on the zombies get the demon gate open or should she get in the water go sawmill water problem is i didn't give her i only gave her one imp so if she runs into trouble out there on the waves she she might get sniped how worried am i about that i think i'm just gonna take a chance she's not yeah but she's never coming back let's do this she's gonna get in the boat i think but not until tomorrow fianna's gonna go boom boom back to here she's gonna go boom she can come out to here um tiva i tiva should be able to run from here to the boat don't you reckon it's one more thing that i knew before um yeah i think she can run from that point to the boat so i think that's okay back at home we want to be starting to build towards our city hall and our hall of sins um this doesn't cost or man such hilarity with labita they are just sometimes the game giveth believe me it take it away as well but sometimes it giveth oh this could be a problem he's getting a bit big for his boots isn't he over there not really he's got to get past a horde of happy hags a lot of happy hags a few nagers would do a good job of killing some happy hags over it he does look he does look um tougher than i would like him to look all right go with my blessing waste some of my movement but i think it's worth it the soldiers that i'm gonna give you for your travels i could give her the gnolls do it like this that gives her a lot more survivability um just an on the off chance that she gets sniped and she's gonna go out here her first thing i'm actually gonna get this treasure is the first thing i'm gonna do leveraging the value of that observatory get this money and we want to come down here and do this lots of hobgoblins could just do this for experience that's almost it's almost cruel oh you're not gonna make the same mistake your fallen comrades did are yeah you are you idiots just let them come and kill that one okay all right there's a bit of a waste probably could have engineered that a little bit differently can we taste of what for what do these guys do 33 to 49 pretty good not necessary though oh all right another impights the dust let's have a look at the map oh here we have the inferno is that water there's a huge amount into that 2650 in the bank what should i spend it on i'm trying to get the city hall going i need a mage guild so we'll just bank the money i think blue don't be a hero literally right it's this right surely oh oh thank god oh there's 10 in that pile we finally have ore so we're definitely building this before the week is out um is there any question of not doing that and going for this into that i think no because we're ages away from city hall and there's no heroes nearby to benefit from the mage guild so we just build this because we don't we're not gonna want it the hall of sense is finally up gogs are online i um i did a recent video of tier listing all of the creatures in the whole game where i talked about how crap magogs are which is the upgrade to the basic gog um and i got some feedback that i was wrong that magogs actually are usable they have this thing where they do a fireball attack but your own troops die to the fireball if they're standing in under it and i just had this rule i always have just this rule i do not play with magogs for that reason because too often they just can't shoot or if they do shoot they you have to accept massive collateral damage so i don't know i mean i kind of want to stick to that golden rule but i could also be persuaded to maybe change i think with the shipwreck you have to be ready to fight um which i'm not obviously i just want that treasure chest so the wood you get out here is amazing you get so like these piles all have 10 wood in them which is just so so good um now should we be thinking about a third hero too early i want to bring Fiona up here do this this some more stuff here we want to build up our forces our city hall build up some competency before we unlock through here and try and challenge tan and then we've got blue to our east he's out he's another neighbor that we need to be prepared for yeah i don't think it's quite time well well well we have a new contender the beat is back the beat is back um i think i can beat this army though get it after spending hours trying to fish the chest out of the sea open it only to find it empty that makes me sad oh that does make me sad man and if i had the expert scouting you can see how much better that would be we'd be looking all through this circumference here i think i have time to get these and gallop back get this this the beat there could be i could even combat her if she jumps in oh no she can't land tomorrow can she all she can do tomorrow is jump in the boat she should have jumped in the boat oh the ai does that it was weird seeing her stand just dumbly on the um wood earlier as well she had she just galloped to there and stood there why not use the rest of your movement points i don't quite get that anyway let's come here bring fiona back in we're up to six grand of savings which is really great uh day seven so for us comes to worse tomorrow labita gets in her boat and literally sits there on the coast fiona gallops all the way around to here then labita lands and then i go and reinforce labita mucks around i come back out and utterly destroy her which means i have time to build the mage kill today i am going to invest in the demon gate and then um that way i can be sure that if we have to fight a continental war here with labita galloping around here i have options i have meat you know that i can call on um she might sail off into the water here who knows um it's a whole turn she wasted getting in the boat but she could land anywhere along here right and you see the impact of this gold mine already back up to 6k delightful while i'm here this is expensive a thousand bucks a tingle of magic fills the air in the school of mystical arts and acolyte offers to sign you up for the next class for a grand you'll have your choice of increasing knowledge or better power um take the power because she's got one power at the moment she doesn't even own a spell book but it's worth it right she can't learn q for that same reason we aren't going to unlock the battle dwarfs um having said that it's tempting isn't it like we could actually if we're investing in an army we could come here unlock the battle dwarfs fairly easily with kiting serbrus attack and return kind of thing although they have movement five maybe they won't be too slow and they might be on yeah uh and then come in here and just what ask tan the question what do you want to do i'm gonna attack your i'm gonna attack your town um could hire another hero to stand here we could just have a supply line going this way that might be better than sending fiona home there's no major guild there for her to learn anything i think that's gonna be pretty powerful right a second hero yeah third hero anyway in charge of the town ferrying troops down kill the battle dwarfs open this up threaten tan with like existential threat she might land and say well if you take my town i'm gonna take yours but then i'm gonna have the supply line i'm gonna have the road i'm gonna control the road and i could use my secondary hero to come and fight labita that seems pretty good still haven't got this yet which is annoying but it's not as important as like i could really step on tans throat here before i make that decision let's go and let's go assailant the wood okay yeah let's see who we've got who's our hero on day one got all this big army to buy as well axis mysticism oh come on man mysticism your specialty is mysticism really how terrible is the hair look at the stats one one two one and an an an elementalist gets zero zero three three oh actually no well that's fair isn't it zero zero three three yeah okay is it just that i guess i'm used to seeing threes and not like all ones but maybe it's not too bad oh jeez axis axis axis what i'm gonna do with you mysticism seriously dude and i don't even have a mage guild for you to learn anything but having said that your army is good i would spend two and a half grand to buy them anyway wouldn't i the dogs would be 600 the gogs would be another 600 yeah some the axis is really only costing me say a grand and it's not like i have a better choice i'm not gonna take a non yeah prayer is just apart from anything it's a massive flavor fail for me to hire loinus right this holy cleric in the middle of the inferno languages yeah okay so here's the proposition we hire axis we spend whatever money we can afford to spend we quickly gallop around and give Fiona the soldiers Fiona clears the dwarfs flags this maybe even kills brisa threatens tan with extinction libitha comes either lands here in desperation or she lands down here threatening to come around and take take us out but then we just connect back up with axis axis comes up here brings the army up here and millies libitha what is wrong with that plan and the answer is that i don't have enough money to do all the stuff i just said right because these guys are gonna cost 2k so all i can afford to bring around to give um Fiona are the dogs and say what's a what's a gog cost eight gogs eight gogs and eight Cerberus the other soldiers will have to stay at home with eight gogs and eight Cerberus i've got 29 Cerberus and if i'm fighting a away campaign by waiting i get an extra two grand to spend on one another eight gogs and a demon i can have like four demons the thing with this game is you can't always get what you want and you have to kind of make do a lot of the time with what you have got it's day one so i could hire whatever these fire elementals as well but that would damage morale so it's a toughie i'm not sure what to do really eight gogs worthwhile i think eight gogs can do something in both fights right they probably die to the sprites although i can screen with familiars okay i think we're gonna do it just because the opportunity is too good to refuse axis welcome to the inferno axis showed a natural aptitude for magic at a young age which makes things even more strange than normal as demons rarely show a natural aptitude for anything that requires thought oh five percent better mysticism what the heck does that mean so two points per day gets five percent better so i earn two point i earn two point one spell points per day like how does that actually help godness i don't know right there's no sense in me buying these i need these and now i need these oh yes give me give me give me give me the gogs i think gogs are better than four demons give me the gogs i'm gonna give these forces to you and you're gonna have to take them off me can learn cure what spell actually do i know spell protection from air i'm sure i've never cast that one no time to learn cure i'm sorry access no time to go to the windmills either although that will be your job when you return the owner like that something like that now i have two ranged units lizard man and gogs one of the gend seems okay and a spare imp here seven flies are kind of annoying as you can see um right can that army beat her army thing is it's not gonna have to i can choose right if i bring if i bring my army here she has to re-land back here i don't have to fight it i can just gallop back this way so it really puts tan in a massive massive hole can i beat lots of battle dwarfs with this army if i can't so be it oh i thought we bugged out there i thought we might be crashing 29 is quite a lot if any dog can do it this dog can do it right all right they're coming south not much good just get our troops maneuvering around a little bit i think i'm happy to shoot this time and then maybe i'll walk with them next time you know just clear a bit of a path here we're probably gonna want to evacuate from this area he he moves to here the gogs go one two three four five to here and then he has one two three four five he still can't get them all my guys move so the gogs and the lizard men okay have the same movement but these guys move first so i'm just going to move him there for now it's annoying might get morale no and this would be quite a hilarious thing to do if they wanted to chase the serpent flies around would be quite good if he does get morale one two three four five he still can't reach the dogs how is that possible that i can reach him and he can't reach me i have movement 10 so he has movement 10 one two three four five oh hang on that's that's a square okay we can both stand there so i can he can't get to the dogs um so for that reason i will jump block here is we can't reach each other but i'm not too worried about that they wait i wait let's all wait he's going straight for the gogs okay that's cool all right i do not want to lose a single gog that will be an atrocious travesty get you out of the way well don't stand there doggies got to go that way so i'll stand here yeah to fight this properly you need you need to arrange yourself around the terrain solid okay you skip a go i can't really hedge against morale now i don't think oh hang on no he's moving he's moving under there that's right okay so i'll protect the gogs up on this side you protect them down under here and then we'll move the gnolls out of the way come here this is fine i just run around back here uh this way if i find myself needing to yeah just wait uh you can shoot you can wait you can shoot oh beautiful oh you poor you poor old sods happy to stand here i think right poor old graybeards never had a chance you can't get there so i'm just gonna go here and that you have another turn yeah if you get morale you get morale should be a pretty good shape now um uh they can but it doesn't matter no retaliation boom good game 580 experience not bad oh resistance or leadership resistance is actually pretty good um but so is leadership um guys up to 15 when you're an expert though i'm gonna take the resistance okay so 10 hello how's it going i'm here so she could come around and grab the new weeks worth of fire elementals from here but they are so disconnected what can they do libita has to land somewhere i could just go do this do i want i don't even want those fire elementals that much so i think i just make for their town lots of skelies you haven't even done this yet altar of thought oh man the altar of thought is awesome you can go there and think all right tan what are you doing the gauntlet has been slapped what are you doing bad idea make a huge make the biggest army you can and send libita out into the void miles from your home and totally vulnerable while rossock doesn't absolute job out on the ocean for us i make it that this conflux is available now it might not be the easiest thing in the world too i think i have to do this on the way or is that too decadent will i get punished no okay it looks like it's a fort with no citadel so we just take the town right now right i cannot believe how badly tan has played this you she you saw me coming through here you saw the size of my army why would you send libita off to into the ocean what am i missing here oh he does have a citadel okay that's annoying well it could be a while before we actually knock the walls down we could take quite a lot of casualties here um yeah 14 gogs are gonna take quite a long time oh nice fine with this that's absolutely acceptable i didn't think they'd do that i thought that all just sit back 10 damage would have been a very long day at the office okay are you more why did you do that now i can just yeah oh okay but now the dogs just stand here and kill them or i could stand there and kill these i think it's better to go for these then right she flies down and kills a bunch of gogs it's quite annoying which the dogs could just stand here get hit for seven by five thirty five lose a dog but then retaliate i think that might be better actually is to stand here on the ramp get them dead um wait with these have to lose a dog to yeah this is better should have shot the other thing doesn't matter no go for these no oh the poor old impice finally croak at the hands of the tower you're coming uh so i could shield the doggies lose a serpent fly instead or lose both probably i think that's a bit better than um having them hit the dogs dogs and gogs what happens when i walk out here will it close the gate if it does there's nothing i can do about it because i'm blocking anyway so i'll do this and who knows you might be tempted to go and attack the gnolls six perish yeah nice oh can we finish it oh a thousand experience losses incurred yes but i just do not see how you are coming back from this of course there's a mage guild in here and it has blind oh yes it has blind it has lightning bolt it even has ice bolt it even has disguise this is a great town great mage guild oh so happy that we're gonna learn blind the spells in the game are divided into two categories blind and everything else but uh not unless she has a spell which she now has oh that's juicy that's really really juicy labita i gotta say babe i love you but what are you doing out here with your army why did you do that now we aren't gonna have it all our own way although there's another whole gold mine around there that we want to go get uh we have to find out what's on the other side of there with some urgency there could be another hero on the other side of there like a tan hero gotta say it seems unlikely but it could be um now to defend this place we could do this um to defend against uh brisa coming back could do that send Fiona in here to just take a look through the portal make sure it's safe okay and so we are back having conquered the conflux here um later on in the same day in real life um i think we are just gonna leave the fortress guys here just to sort of hedge a little bit they don't provide much value anyway i don't think there's anything on the other side of this portal i'm guessing there's nothing there but it's essential that we check um and this little hero here brisa cannot do anything about it doesn't matter where she goes you could get in a boat and then we could just kill her like she's kind of dead um labita is a whole day away she has to spend a day getting back to the coast if she lands on the coast i can go and hide behind the walls of the conflux with the citadel that's just very very hard for them now to come back if labita lands here i'll give the army to access and bring everything back i suppose one interesting question is could she land here today or tomorrow sorry she'd have to absolutely fang it so i'm gonna gamble that she doesn't do that uh and bring axis in through here to start flagging the things we need we've got the mines here that we want to get flagged so we'll start here axis uh in terms of spending money there's really no reason to right um we do have the stuff we need for a mage guild into city hall but it's we just need to maybe hold fire until we see what labita's going to do which continent she's going to land on i think that makes a bit more sense than um the alternative yeah okay let's see what happens maybe we get punished here what can brisa do desperation oh my oh man i was gonna say could tan have played this worse having said that though i was about to say that and then i did say it but the reason i wanted to stop myself is what else could brisa do she could get in a boat and at least force me up to the coast okay labita is going to try to get revenge okay so that's really interesting she's coming down here to get revenge so maybe axis needs to go back to his previous position i can get here so let's say on my turn he gallops here she gallops there i then gallop around here fiona would need to be able to give me the army though how much movement does he have yeah he's only barely getting back home in two turns okay yeah because that's what his full his full movement across two days right uh so it might be a good idea to give axis the army have him stand here then if labita changes the mind and comes back here i give the army back to fiona again it does mean we're a little bit pinned so another alternative with our high income is to just grab a third hero um for ferrying uh trips around have issues with linus from a flavor point of view josephine not the most amazing alchemist she's not great really is she um i couldn't hire her here maybe what if she was hired here in the conflux instead and her job is to stand here axis stands there if he only gets to go and explore a bit more seems right i've got to go through the portal as a starting point anyway awesome scouting lots of gogs could die to me really quickly oranges here though or orange has been here but they haven't gotten past the horde of normal orders that are here okay that's interesting so orange have come up with a really tiny hero flag the sulfur and run away again we've got a horde of normal orders and lots of gogs we want to get through and get that done get the exploration done i can beat a horde of normal orders now with blind um lots of gogs will not be a problem either kind of feel like i need to press the advantage so that means we probably will do that plan let's do some other stuff up here we need to stay away from the beater obviously there's another little chest look at that oh come on oh man all right so fiona wants to do stuff out here with her advantage just remind me what josephine comes with one gremlin all right let's do this all right now it's a completely different proposition if things get pear shaped we have blind we can do it twice which is absolutely spectacular 60 i can kill 10 of them with a lightning bolt as well uh so yeah no we're in very good shape now yeah so now i feel like i just attack attack i feel like if i just attack attack that's very good it might be worth checking if these guys can come to the rescue oh they can't they can okay they are defending each other it's quite annoying when a null attacks it's gonna deal for you i think it's easy i can lose two dogs or i can run for it and hope that they don't get a morale flash so let's see i run they walk walk this guy morale won't help them this guy can morale his way into the gogs let's say they both fail then the gogs fire on him i just don't think that's very good so i think it is probably worth spending some spell points here 120 in that stack um obviously blind is way better than lightning bolt all these other things i have gogs coming up i'm gonna do one blind here that will allow me to um save one blind for the gogs i think this is okay this may be a little decadent oh i thought i'd lost a puppy there once you've blinded someone you can't shoot them that would be too good oh dear basic air magic makes lightning bolt better not sure about air magic i think i might get off of it again later so we'll just go with what we've got for now there's a lot of value in uh oh oh my goodness is this run just like it i can just but i can just take this town off orange how many towns does orange have can we figure that out that's their only town well no hang on i have two towns tan has zero so that's orange's only town oh man this this this this so when i said islands i didn't think it would be this islandy like this is insane right it's like we've got a tiny bit of landmass that six of us are fighting over we're all next door to each other blues next door to me over here on my as my other neighbor this could be over so quickly i mean for someone whether it's us or not but but how do i not just waltz in here it looks like it's a citadel too it's got the same symbol there just walking and take it no there was a hero down there taza yeah okay it's a citadel and she's she isn't out of moves if she if we wanted to if we check if we wanted to check in out we could check in out and run for it but taza will probably attack us i think behind the citadel walls taza needs a lot of help he could gallop past us and go and try and get the conflicts maybe that would be bad how developed is this town well pretty well developed as you can see here what have you got i can't believe i was allowed to just walk in there is this the power of scouting the drama i love that music she's like bloodlust and slow and haste there it is it's my favorite music in the whole game i think just listen to that drama it comes down again gorgeous i think this army i've got here maybe i could buy these dudes wins against this i don't need to build a castle here right if taza gallops up through here to try and take the conflicts which by the way he might not even know exists here right um i can just hedge that off by buying these idiots one of my most hated units but what if i just bought these ones i mean it's not enough is it it's not gonna it might be a no well several wyverns will chew through that pretty pretty quickly but let's say he conquers it he's gonna take losses and then right behind him is gonna be Fiona i cannot believe that that happened right let's um let's try and defend this we want the little units on this side right something like that dogs versus wyverns and the citadel tower i mean i'm very all in on this i do have a blind up my sleeve as well if i was to blind the i don't know maybe the serpent flies okay and we'll execute the rest of the plan now as well because we still have to worry about labita so tan and orange are basically being crushed underneath my foot at such an early stage like it's so rare i need to get a little bit of cash flow sorted so that i can get there speed four speed four speed four speed five how much does he cost 350 bucks how much to get 350 okay get rid of the gremlin josephine has a spell book if he hasn't i'm not buying a one because it's not out of money okay now so Fiona is ready to gallop back with the army josephine's ready to receive it um by definition i can definitely get back into the conflux to defend it i'm not going to need to though right for look from the beta and josephine if she's here can she get to access if she's there probably not so i think she needs to stand here ish i really want to flag these things but once tan and orange are dead if we managed to kill two this quickly in week three although it's a very unusual map you have to say so far with everyone being on top of each other everyone's like everyone's neighbor it's almost like playing on a small map uh the dynamic is is is so much different anyway i think i'm happy with this layout here right i got no money left taza what do you got pal okay there's labita taza runs off i'm blown away i'm absolutely blown away by this so i can get access to the army now do that today i have six grand so on her way back Fiona could pop in to the um conflux and pick up the nothing that's here so that's really irrelevant and now let's just let's do this eat first and there's so much more vacuuming it up okay um can't have my cake and eat it um if we kill labita we have to leave the fortress untended yeah you can't exterminate two at once on week three that was two i mean that's just way too optimistic right but here's a question what if access this grand round here just bought this army for five grand eight demons eight gogs and 45 imps versus all this stuff now labita can't cast teleporter with expert precision she's not going to be have expert ballistics is she so it's basically just sprites and pixies oh hang on i don't have a citadel though it's still just a fort i mean let's just do that and we could even sell we could do some really bad market trading it might not even be that bad do i have a market here there's a market here so what do i get i get a hundred bucks per thing if i just sell out of everything right and then in the inferno build a citadel buy all the stuff that's here brimstone storm clouds access will be here access doesn't know any good spells though but he has one one so i could keep access alive and just run away the problem with that then is that labita can start flagging things and be annoying but do i care that would be annoying and extra four demons if she had that but that gives if you got if she goes and does this she doesn't have time to come down and do this plus she might not have scouted this area yet yeah i'm definitely doing this could learn cure on my way past that was maybe a mistake no it wasn't okay so here's the plan citadel right we need to generate what was that number five and a half k so we're gonna sell sell sell everything must go start with mercury five three what do we what do we need that's enough buy the lot buy the lot just epic can't remember a time i've ever been this lucky this early i think Fiona just has to stay there right because i still don't really want to fight tazaar in the open and i have no other money to spend but that's funny like i'm sacrificing moving and exploring in exchange for a whole extra third town and that means Josephine does have time to do this oh look at a movement disappear that's terrible that maybe it was a mistake i don't need the gems but we'll see okay labita what do you want to do babe okay blue blue blue yeah yeah right off the cuff they take a hit okay they didn't kill that many wish i knew some spells but never mind um so i could defend so i've obviously got defense for the gogs is there a way i can defend the these idiots this is going to be an extremely cheeky victory if it ends up being a victory i must say bring him into range magic arrow okay that's good that's she is uh it's a waste four sprites okay i think that's an opening do these um there's eight is there well the demon's gonna kill him or i could do it so do this looks like it will hurt them when they walk on it right am i wrong okay so that there is a wall breach here but i'm minded to try to fill it with my useless guys like i'll start with this guy working on him man it's gonna be tight okay that did nothing it all depends on uh can you move and attack me here should we all work on this yes okay i'm gonna run out of shots and i got eight shots left the wall is still there is it no it's not okay i don't know what that means for some reason they haven't stepped onto there yet so i guess i'll stand there it might have been just a bit too ambitious they can't walk on it why aren't they walking on it i thought they could walk on it take damage and then attack and then they get to walk off i can't remember how it works if you walk onto the lava you take damage and lose your turn you can't attack is that right i should look that up anyway i'm just defending i'm not doing anything just keep working these over should i start on these now seems right to gang up on the one that the tower is going for come on what can you do okay that's now open there's a breach there too they're not going for it though are they they're just standing i can stand on here why would i want to do that i don't want to do that how many of you are there for we start working on this big pile see this this is a great thing the tower never runs out of juice ah okay they finally got the gate open and then we'll stand behind you guys with yeah the fire elementals can't get past you okay cool all right we'll stand behind you to make it take longer no i can't use you though yeah right you come to here you come to here you do this you come let's say he kills that the problem is the arrow tower kills this on turn one so you want fire melt to come here take his spot kill one of these idiots um speed six so he's gonna be staying there one two three four five six he actually can't get to the gogs but he can he can get to that square so another thing i could do is begin moving the ips down to this corner one two three four five six yeah he can't attack either corner so i think this is the right idea here this guy runs for it air elemental dies to the tower fire elemental kills one of those two morons crap i thought we were losing the tower then for a second the point is that once this is open and available well i could actually just get stuck in couldn't i like i could use this guy to take the retaliation this guy this guy here this one imp can take the retaliation for me now demon waits these guys both wait this guy then takes the retaliation these guys both stand there and swing at the fire elementals a demon is basically the same as a fire elemental thirty five four to six oh no thirty five seven to nine the demons way stronger okay yeah yeah yeah this this is right wait wait here take the retaliation definitely do this great go again you caught this from the imps come on my little imp boys oh two fire ellies i like to think this is a different libita than the one that was so amazing in the last campaign i like to think this is a long lost cousin who ah surely they've got me now okay so that's that five imps perish but it's too late so the fire ellies had their go right so if i wait around and let these two have their turn that's much much better than letting them wander up to me oh i still got ammo i've still got ammo no i'm out of ammo now okay now it's the imps turn on the next turn i get to move before these so i'm just gonna run away the other thing i could actually do is this feels weird to say with movement six being the fastest guy here i could walk up to here attack them and then run away and that seems pretty good that's just excellent i mean i'm just being a little bit a little bit cute now it doesn't really matter she can't catch me oh there she can one two three four one two three four five no she can't um oh man libita's yeah in desperation mode now she's not even fleeing which means tan is dead now that's basically what that means one two three four worst fifth level unit in the game by far the earth elemental utter rubbish he can't even get morale just gonna hurt i'm probably gonna lose another demon here but i can't think of a better way to do this i don't really want to lose tons of imps that's all hurt a bit one hp left did you see that ladies and gentlemen i don't really want to lose that last demon so i'm actually gonna run with them let's let him do that three more imps go down gog has 13 hp to spare this might not matter now right unbelievable okay so we got a little bit luckier i feel like they were supposed to walk on the lava and then infiltrate but they didn't so um that is a good victory oh the states is great free money yeah i'll take free money man week three i didn't expect this okay what can you do what can you do you i don't think i don't think that would be bizarre just sailing off into the sunset like labita did um okay man all right wow i can't believe where we're at like this is incredible we've basically vanquished two of them what is this here is that a hero is that the edge of an inferno hero it's not is it see how she's got her bridle there i'm gonna worry about what that is right going pretty well i have to say um pretty happy with this i thought a lot has fallen into our lap though you would have to say a lot has fallen straight into our lap yeah with all of this incredible good fortune in mind i think we'll pause here to reflect on what the heck we do next tazaar is in the water i can't be completely ignorant of him um but we've now got three towns unexpectedly instead of one and uh we have a blue neighbor that's ready to be conquered as well why not um so yeah fair bit to think about we'll leave there on fiona at the fortress um yeah it doesn't always go this well really it really honestly doesn't so um anyway we'll take the good luck when it's coming i think this is an enemy hero here that we need to sadly deal with we can't ignore um so the best way i think to do that is to leave a bunch of annoying defenders here and we're actually going to gallop fiona around here with her expert scouting scouting has been an absolute i should just say this before we move on scouting has been amazing she started with advanced scouting and there's just been so many days and turns where we've seen things that we wouldn't have seen and changed our decision making as a result uh of that what's happening right now is a classic example again of that i normally have no idea that there is a hero standing there um but because we have the expert scouting i have that information and yeah the the power of information here is um is really quite amazing it's a purple hero oh my goodness purple is here lots of royal griffons are quite scary and we may not be able to hold against that she has okay so fiona spent the night in the fortress and as a result she can cast blind three times pyre is a fellow infernal hero wow okay we're gonna need to make a decision about whether we attack i can't actually attack her so that's that idea out the window she is bringing castle troops over this terrain here so i don't think she can get round and assault the fortress next turn we also have the possibility of taza landing on the shores here i think i can win against either of these armies but i'd much prefer to be behind the walls of the fortress to do that so there's a couple of things going on we need to think about we need to be very concerned about one of them popping through this portal uh and going to the conflux we're really just trying to hold desperately uh now until day one both of our new towns remember the conflux is literally this it's like you can imagine the conflux is here that's how close we are it is to the to the portal on this side uh and it's currently being defended by you'd have to say a not very good army so we have some really tough decisions to make here with fiona it's possible to to blunder here accidentally allow pyre to walk in and take this okay so i feel like what we're gonna want to do is bring soldiers from the inferno where we have uh axis has at least some soldiers he can bring uh he can get moving right now we don't have time to do any of these other things get as many soldiers over here as we can get josephine ready to receive that army uh and then we'll try and consolidate and form a daisy chain of defense between the fortress and the conflux and hope that we can defend against these two interlopers okay so before axis sets off um would you like to build anything um the hellhole would give us like three pit fiends i think it might be to take with us which doesn't seem amazing we could upgrade our uh demons into horn demons that doesn't seem very good either maybe um tether out on the water we should explore her options first blue is here that's the same guy we saw earlier grinden he's been getting around okay that's interesting um yeah maybe just do a bit of recon along the coast here we need to make very sure wow another gold mine the place is whittled with gold mines sensing that blue might be our main uh rival stay off the coast okay useful intel josephine stuck down here we know uh she's coming back um let's see axis will get to there um what might be nice is to leave axis enough troops just to go around and sort out the things that need sorting like we need to sort this out i really want to get this dwelling up and we need to kill them so what if axis killed axis kills them i'm actually not sure i can if that's master gremlins i could take might take too many casualties doing that i think you can maybe beat lots of zombies do that do that he'll end up about here at the end of the day at the end of today and then he comes galloping up to here josephine are we standing here waiting for him well i guess let's do that first right before do we have time the problem is if we leave now the army is just sitting in the middle there's no threat to the inferno anymore um because if i kill these i could hire some demons and add them to the to the stack i think we do still have to leave this because if there are master gremlins here my troops are slow and i know i don't have any magic arrows or anything so it seems silly and kind of weak to not do this axis still hasn't done these jobs either at the windmill how do i feel about this lots of zombies against seven demons and gogs we are gonna have to be a bit creative even in this fight cure doesn't help me there's no point learning it i think this is okay i'd rather save our money and spend it on um something else just wait with everyone here 12 shots should be enough uh to make life interesting we can kind of abuse this lake that's in the middle here if we get the order of things right so if he waits this guy can move you know we don't have necklace of swiftness we don't have so many things it's so easy to just fall into the trap of thinking oh yeah so we put one guy here uh we put another guy behind him put them there yeah so let's i have to use you next okay i think we're gonna try and protect the imps we don't really want him be lining up there i think you can just do nothing make your way up here and we're gonna get ready to use these guys so we're kind of trying to maximize the um number of shots we get off um of course one great thing about fighting undead is you don't need to worry about morale flashes kill one thank you okay okay they are both heading up this way that's a tad disappointing right just go here making his way over there so i'm tempted to actually do a little conga line here okay who moves after you so you go in there then you then you yeah so they move in order i could do a little conga line and that just completely frustrates him um i'm gonna do that that's kind of cheeky uh i don't have to engage these i could wait another turn before engaging them uh they still can't reach the big pile of imps so we'll do that yeah obviously that will change come back to him a bit of mucking around here um probably seems like i'm being overly silly slash cautious slash whatever um defend yourself here impi boy i guess it's these guys we want to soften up now the zombies deice zombies are deice uh i can't get back the demons can't either uh so now i'm thinking we should pile him maybe we should bring a guy can you attack him yeah so let's use him to attack uh and take the retaliation oh okay i can't do that because we've all waited okay probably made a mistake there um i'm obviously not attacking so the demons could come here attack and then walk here and attack and then these guys could film that square what's what's a nuisance is the imps are fast at faster than the demons next turn these imps go first which i really don't want so i don't love this but i think we do have to attack a little bit earlier than we wanted to that's not great especially if they get diseased try to remember what the disease does yeah we are just gonna have to go for it i'm afraid kill a couple here yeah we're taking losses this isn't quite how we wanted it to go oh come on next turn that's actually not bad right um he walks up here kills but i can't get to him i can come down here and give make an escape route for the gogs though yeah that's pretty good you do this we all run maybe the sickness we can get the sickness to wear off maybe maybe come out this way and convince him to chase me no one two three four he can catch the gogs okay done yeah he acts before the gogs that's just an unlucky turn of events um don't know what to do i might have to waste a demon here like let one die one two where can i come i can come back to i could let him hit the gogs actually how crazy is that idea okay this is regrettable uh i wish the gogs were acting before him but they aren't so and we can't fight on that square or otherwise we'll be able to leverage the benefit of our numbers now the demons haven't acted yet and we don't want them getting retaliated against so if i go up here and commit suicide this burns up the retaliation the zombies then walk down have a go at my imp's sad face i don't think he bothers with the demon or maybe he does if he thinks he can kill one no yeah oh lost eight so i think it's fair to say i've lost at least eight more than i wanted to and i think fought properly if you would refight it properly um it should be possible to do this uh without such heinous losses this is one of the reasons why having high speed in your range unit matters if i was movement five i would have the zombies would be in much worse shape even lose two more on top of that it's just embarrassing 21 is a terrible that's terrible that is absolutely shocking um i feel really bad about that um right basic earth magic or wisdom for this fellow given that the conflux major doesn't have a lot of earth i mean they're slow right but there's haste lightning bolt ice bolt that kind of thing i'm gonna hold fire um that may be a bit precious of me let's do this yes i would give me give me give me might as well get this how far okay so here's the thing i wanted to find out how far can he go as it stands he can just get to that square barely if he doesn't get the crystal okay but i want the crystal so give me the crystal and i'm gonna get to there that's my destination still not learning cure i have no time for for this anyway what'd i say he's going to uh here okay so josephine come this way that's worked out pretty well now we have to make a decision about where to position fiona it all depends on whether we think pyre can get around here and do this gig if she has scouted and knows the root round um i can only just barely not get to pyre so i should probably plan for the possibility that she has basic logistics or something like that how sad would i be if she went here got a face full of arrow tower it might not even be that sad i don't really want to fight her in the open particularly though i'd rather wait till next week so i'm happy to just turtle i would normally say turtling is not what you want to do in this game at all but in our specific situation i think it's actually a really good idea um the conflux is not under threat i'm going to assume she can't get to the conflux today um so we can bank our money and then make an investment decision in terms of defense um these guys are waiting they're actually not bad for defending against a siege but i kind of feel like the right investment would be to build a castle 10 10 and 5k so we have enough money to build one castle um if we have to defend another siege like we did with the inferno before so i think this is okay let's see what purple and orange do cross our fingers right blue are getting ready to break through those harpies where we've been very lucky so far taza doesn't know what to do neither of them do incredible meanwhile look at our bank account we had six grand yesterday we've got 11 something oh and this is where if you've got this level of advantage you can just turtle six grand a day we are printing people six grand a day it's really good of course i desperately want to do this but do i have time she probably does have time now right so taza has gone away uh pyre has run to the corner here we're not sure how she got here um so if she comes back into the thing he comes and lands i just gallop back to the town after i've done this job it seems fine right okay so we'll do the easy stuff first good old rule of thumb okay so we could be a nuisance to blue here if we wanted to but it wouldn't take them long to oh that gives you morale i think that i think we want to hug the coast though right green is here challenging coronious so there's six factions at the beginning two of them are on their knees one of them's dead tan is dead orange is on its knees okay so we still have a good game ahead of us green blue in particular looks pretty strong um the value of this tiva being out on the water is just it's just great i'd like to get another hero actually out down here now so we should probably keep an eye out for anyone with navigation um first aid still prayer with loinus loinus is actually fantastic and prayer would be great with our army and our strategy but flavor flavor flavor flavor just doesn't doesn't gel i think we still want to do this right we don't want to rest on our laurels and assume that fiona can do all the work on her own um next week's troops 13 of these i'm getting 13 of these i'm getting 12 of these only three wyverns i actually thought wyvern growth was a bit stronger than that three oh we're on a citadel that's why okay okay so we're not getting a huge shot in the arm creatures wise here at hermit cove on day one uh i guess what i'm trying to say is i'm trying to rationalize getting her the demons and gogs just to kind of stamp our authority on that region and that that makes more sense than you know i don't want the harpy hags to die unless they already have oh they already have okay we've been living on borrowed time blue already has removed the harpy hags and can walk through here anytime they want so we might be in a situation where we do need to split our forces um and turtle we need to defend against blue we do not want to provoke blue until probably at least another week has passed after this next week like stay in the area access you know and just build up stop exploring and just turtle feels weird to do that we don't find ourselves wanting to do that very often um josephine i'd love more mercury and i'd love to get all this and there's no who are the heroes again gem terrible gems no good so given that the harpies are gone i i do want to head against this possibility here i feel like fiona does have enough resources to turtle and protect the new area okay so i actually think fiona is the easier question i think she has time to do this job um go back in here do that thing again right leave them there just in case go get this come around get this and then just go back and turtle as needed fancier blind i think i can spare a blind because it's almost overwhelmingly likely that i will be um going back to the mage guild and spending the night and stuff so yeah it's just easier than losing like i'll lose two dogs or something wipe off with these wake up all right so when they attack back they're going to deal three so i'm going to lose some dogs here am i just going to be a spam bot and blind again yeah no wait get the order right hang on you guys shoot first just burning my mana it's just really not necessary to lose any dogs i really want to avoid losing any dogs i think we will avoid it now you might as well do this yeah okay burning spell points but kind of who cares you're in a boat you're still if you'd be different if you'd landed i'd be in all kinds of different trouble um but while you're in the boat i'm safe as a house and if purple comes back around here well maybe purple could bash through here and come and take my town of me but you've got to survive that fight against citadel so i think that's good um in terms of investment yeah i think we've concluded access doesn't have the luxury of coming back um and we are splitting our forces um with that said we'd love to unlock this and that and a good way to do that is using the army i've got gives them something to do worry about crystal another time stay six i don't have the luxury of just waiting around who's going to come down under here and do this job um i'd like him to get the xp but i don't want to waste a lot of time so i think i'm going to let josephine do it i mean it's not amazing right sorry hang on that's not what i meant i want to do this he wrecks morale i'm really regretting buying him because i even spent mercury to buy him and now i feel kind of stupid um he does nothing right he's just he's useless um oh i miss this boots of speed i meant to react when i saw the boots of speed i saw them and but i was my mind was racing and these are really really good these boots of speed um they really help uh like a lot so can i have them too i think it's worth wasting another point of movement to get them lots of skellies will die yeah this this could work okay as a tag team she get gallops back up and gives him the army she knows even some spells that's actually quite nice look at that it's because we hired her in the conflux where they had done a bit of work for us so that's very nice um okay let's just uh let him start walking so might i need a um helping hand from a lightning bolt or two 63 52 kills 10 a lightning bolt i don't know for sure i have troglodytes after this which feels like they'll be easier you can get to the gogs now i guess i'll just pile in now whoa massive damage i didn't think that would be that powerful okay she can't do that all right uh last decision to make before we hang up the uh boots is investment i think we could justify now getting to a capital and we have to decide where our capital is all three towns feel a little bit vulnerable um so on that basis maybe we'll just build towards the city hall here as a starting point it feels kind of more thematic if we get our capital in the inferno given that we're supposed to be in inferno town but we'll build the mage guild it's all earth stuff okay that's interesting i don't want to spend megabucks though i've got a lot of creatures to buy next week potentially and we don't want to build a castle until well it's a big investment so happy to build one but i want to see which castle it needs to be out of which of our towns it needs to be in final thought is just on um the hiring of another hero um which we could do it's just that it's gem or loinus neither of whom i really want we're gonna need to get down into this gate and have a look down here to make sure the coast is clear down here as well so maybe just bank that money for another day whoa oh i thought we were losing our explorer but no oh good just not quite enough movement points to catch me green uh green has been defeated by blue i think and that means there's only three of us left if you don't count orange there's purple blue and green and that's it so week end of week three and three factions are already dead this is a very very strange map i think if i start my next campaign on an extra large i'm not gonna choose islands i'll go back to normal i don't know if maybe that's caused it to yeah i kind of need to run directly away and hope that good find something else to do with her life rather than chase me i might just land and see what happens um tiva if she gets defeated in combat that's an acceptable uh thing that's not something we want to see happen but not something that's terrible try to remember if they have any i'm gonna try okay so now you know things now you have knowledge could bring these don't want trips from three alignments yeah okay so i can go there josephine can give me the army only barely so we're gonna prayer wouldn't have it any other way of course no that's what i meant there put the gogs here between this and the spells i know can i do this can i take these guys out day seven's the best possible day to do that several psychic elementals is gonna be too hard so no is my answer i think i could beat lots of dwarfs and that we should be trying to do that next so these two are kind of working as a as a team to go around unlocking things um yeah josephine come around do this and this i guess do that one first right fiona we didn't see purple we didn't see pyre come back it is day seven and i'm low on spell points can i do this and get back in time probably just misses so i'm gonna play it safe i'd rather have the blind spell points and i don't want to spend a whole extra day so yeah we're up to 17 grand now i'm just printing money with these three three towns three city halls what have you is this too decadent i am gonna wait a day i'm not gonna do the maths but i'm gonna wait a day rather than building the city hall uh just to see how financially secure we are i know that's really i'm throwing a thousand bucks away by not doing that okay change my mind do it yeah i've just got to be careful here with fiona okay this is annoying i've got to keep doing this every time but that's that i might buy a first aid tent just while i remember because someone i know likes first aid pretty nice yeah a bit conservative but i'm glad we unlocked this this gold mine it's already it already feels like it's making us happy here blue is going to be knocking on our door soon we the game feels like it's been quite lucky and easy for us so far but i sense that there's some major yeah there's some major conflict brewing with purple and blue so we still have a real proper game on our hands blue's been doing good things too and getting killing killing their rivals and blah blah blah so uh i maybe like to imagine that blue saw the harpies and thought the same thing we did which is like let's just leave them there stay out of each other's way we'll go and kill green instead of picking on uh picking a fight with red so that's worked quite nicely purple we didn't see where she went maybe if i replay the turn uh we could do that view scenario if i don't do that is this one so we're looking at purple what did the purple ship do sailed away so tibia's not in any immediate danger we can be cheeky grinden's gonna take quite a long time to come back so let's get some scouting done i can't do that anyway i can get back in the boat right now i'm probably i should it's probably all my moves uh what spells does she know nothing okay i was gonna say i'd love to get the nulls flail greater nulls flail but i'd have to be casting lightning bolts at the dwarfs and i don't even know lightning bot anyway i think it's okay to just i don't want to throw her away by galloping in here desperate to reveal the map i'd rather just keep her alive i think she's more valuable alive than than dead it's this weird thing where you've got to sail out from the coast before you can begin sailing so even though it looks smooth diagonally it's actually a jutted kind of pattern in terms of uh where you can land your boat right what did we decide here the only thing i can think is it's day one several psychic elementals if i went and got the if i went and got these troops now we could try to kill them and i think yes right we can that's a horde now but it was only lots it was lots last turn so the hoarder's gonna be like 60 or something still 60s let's just see what's there can i get through can't without summon boat which we don't have okay okay so the dwarfs are gonna be out of our reach for a while um yeah i don't really want to pile money into this solving this problem like it's he goes give and then comes back this way or maybe it's better for josephine to do the hard running so he goes here and then continues back and i have another hero that's active again back in the back in the game so to speak taza is just nowhere to be found and yeah so i kind of feel like it's the fortress that we want to pile into because it's the most at risk that seems like a decent way to go uh so the investment i want to make i think is something like lizard men serpent flies basilisks maybe change them into lizard warriors because elizard warrior is quite a lot better than elizard man so i'd have 14 of them 14 gogs the dogs the flies the basilisks and then i'll leave these back at the base to be purchased as needed right that seems pretty good so let's do that let's get the den upgraded and so it's kind of this ebb and flow thing where you're trying to figure out do i actually have this town have i really got it uh or is it an illusion is it going to be taken off me again okay yeah let's use some of fiona's superior scouting abilities to tell us a bit more about what's going on uh i can always get back to hermit cove uh lots of vampire lords guarding that gate so taza never went that way i think taza might be out on the ocean sailing around staring at the stars wondering how on earth he landed himself in this situation look at that scout scouting is my new favorite skill uh yep i think we're in okay shape here we don't need to worry about blue crashing through here anytime soon um the soldiers are waiting for us but yeah we can make a decision about them later let's just earn ourselves another six grand shall we okay blue has spotted us oh okay oh god okay blue came a fair bit further in than i thought and the army is it's possible to defend against this army right with what we have um it's also possible to ride out a pack of grand elves and there is not no slouch but i i do think we can defend behind if we have a castle here and the entire week's worth of troops um our two heroes on standby are out of position that's our fault but um i think we can defend i was going to unlock this but do i have time do i need to worry eleven demons today tomorrow okay so it's gamble time once again do we think we can defend this against iona with just a castle a brand new hero and these troops might be tight right seven demons ten hellhounds and not much more but the castle towers are going to annihilate those grand elves i think it's i think it's doable right rashka castle and everybody and my lesson from last time is to put these guys a bit closer to the gogs and have the fast because these these these dudes can always redeploy on turn one yeah and if i get the opportunity to build another building tomorrow i could do something like that to increase my power that's not very interesting oh i've got to buy him a spell book as well this is an easy mistake to make so slow it could be relevant you could get to cast something summon boat is here i didn't realize as well and he's a scholar so i could go and teach everyone summon boat we could summon a boat here and go hello dwarfies so yeah i look again it's a bit of a gamble if it doesn't work iona will take serious losses and she'll have to you know be able to defend against a conflux army coming back this way so it would be bad but life could go on seven it looks like a poultry army there doesn't it now that i'm looking at it it's one week's worth of citadel troops but her army there's no pegacy there's no you know gargoyles or anything to fly over and um cheapen our gogs like our gogs the arrow towers shoot first cause massive casualties to the grand elves gogs are still going to be there shooting well into the mid game of that battle so i think we're okay so i'm gonna gamble on this idea that we are okay and still do this job anyway how much do i care about that is it better to just so i think we should use him to do this you've got the boots josey they were made for walking little troggs can i waste some mana do i need to i might need to just spare the lives of my guys i think the 11 demons will kill one stack speed four i'm speed five she's just gonna stand here with everybody mainly because i just don't want to use my brain better think about things now i can move her up there i really want to lose any of these dudes i didn't mess that up did i do i think 12 will kill a demon i do not what about in one of these maybe four eleven no now you can attack either of these stacks with my blessing well you just stand there wait wait wait wait wait wait wait okay so we take one hit but we don't lose uh anyone yep okay and you guys do nothing you guys can probably kill that do this for that bit of jiggery pokery bit of mucking around but we've got it done with no spell points or okay so i'll rendezvous with you back up here man several psychic elementals no it's too hard right but tiva what are we doing running from grinden is the order of the day better be careful not to run out of mp okay this is fascinating every every uh starting area has a gold mine that's so fair isn't that interesting all of our opponents every single one of us has got a gold mine you've got a gold mine here although this for poor old tan it's very hard to get to our gold mine was easy to get to this gold mine was a piece of cake as well orange just didn't get around to it in time blue probably unlocked theirs early and maybe there's a second one here that's really interesting it makes me wonder how the rng works um with map generation you know so there's still no sign of taza this town is mine i can even do this i've got time to do that okay the grail is somewhere do this this pie is still come to here how far can i go i can get easily back there so where is that purple hero did you just get in a boat and go away so even this isn't i thought that this would at least be connected see on the minimap here i thought this would be one big land mass but it's like we've rolled up a map that has no terra firma on it i mean we haven't been underground yet who knows whether there's a massive network of underground um that i don't know about um rashka has time i can't believe we never got that crystal i was very silly and lazy of us uh i think they're gonna get that now um i certainly don't want to fight in the open against your army so okay fingers crossed can i hold will blue bother i think what a human opponent would do here is just besiege me right yeah okay that's what i would okay taza dies out on the water so sad um i kind of feel like to this point the ai has the tan and orange ai have performed so badly i'm hoping that you guys get a good game out of blue and purple um because i almost feel like i'm scamming the game like how i just walked in and took this town off orange and then taza put up no fight he just said oh i see that you'd like to have this town now i suppose i'll be on my way i'll just get in a boat and you'll never hear from me again i'll just go and die quietly somewhere in the corner it's like it can't be good entertaining viewing you know for you guys watching me just walk it essentially so i i think though i'm hoping that um there will be some really uh epic action against blue and even if it comes down to a 1v1 against blue um i'm hoping that i'll still be make make for good watching anyway so she still fiona only has two skills she doesn't have any wisdom she can find out what that is i think it makes what makes most sense for her now lots of vampire lords if they're split you can't blind undead so yeah i don't think i want to fight them quite yet i'm tempted to get another hero here blue actually can run right the way through our entire um empire here but while she's doing it i can be investing um now it's something that i could invest in that i'd be happy to buy okay so i think something like a hellhole is fine you can't get devils without it and it doesn't chew up any resources i feel like the hp of the pit fiends are a better investment for the strategic situation that you find yourself since it's been pit gets opened up in the middle of the inferno and uh we'll buy these boys as they are it's more meat um they're basically just like a demon but uh they deal more damage and they have more hp not much difference really between the two 35 7 to 9 and these are 45 uh 13 to 17 so they deal tons more damage um and they offer a body to stand there and not die while the arrow towers are shooting so in a siege i think these are go these guys are okay raksha though still can't ride out i don't think and you can see that that fight is just it's the few nag they're naga queens those things and if she's got a few could be up to i think four she's got four naga queens i'm just gonna be so sad i've got to fight them with rashka who's like a brand new hero who knows has no experience on the battlefield he knows these spells like it's just not good right it'd be nice to have those troops for the siege uh if and when the siege happens but uh yeah so this is a tough decision so we'll come back to this we'll scout our way along the purple coast a little further i think mermaids are always good so let's just go get them yeah luck luck be with you okay um fiona so i don't need to come this way i can go this way with her it said horde of gremlins if they have masters i'll be a bit annoyed so i'm actually going to not pursue forgetfulness turns out that forgetfulness isn't one of the best spells ever whoa oh it's all a rich tapestry here we are so yeah teaver so all pyre did is run back into her home area it might be her home area i don't know if castle what did she actually had tons of royal griffons so there's a good chance that there's a castle here that purple is sitting on and it's just a matter of time before someone conquers it yeah okay so i like this and if fiona gets a day off she can do these two things rashka stays put he's under siege i could let her do that for me i don't need to worry about them axis is going to he could buy this and then come back down i'm not going to have them in enough numbers for it to matter so just not going to worry maybe josephine could give you the boots before you maybe i should get i'll keep the boots actually and i'll give them to um i'll keep the boots and i'll give them to fiona how's that sound yeah let's do it this way i'll keep the boots give me the inferno i'm safe from harm just with this one guy i'm heading up this way fiona can get to here but i don't really want to use fiona like i want josephine to do the running so if she stood here go up to there axis is going to be about here hiding from blue you'll be safe on that square i think yeah i think without the boots well with the boots see the boots dictate your movement at the start of the turn so let's say she offloads the boots to fiona does she lose the movement works the boots of speed increase your movement rate but then if you give them off i think you lose the the bonus so let's say she has to start from the gate gallop gallop gallop gallop without the boots down here that's doable so i won't move off the gate in that case all right so we're staying put i'm staying put to defend i've invested in the inferno so i've moved my mermaid witch who now is coming full circle and joining up with the team again um yeah so the question is what do you want to do iona oh there's only two iona what are you doing two spell points uh at the risk of well this could be me just sounding uber arrogant but i just think that ai's decision making has been poor right this army needs to crash through these walls urgently and blue was not in a desperate situation blue is just exploring like why throw your army away am i being arrogant maybe but you don't know you don't know me that's an extremely optimistic attack right shield and slow and dispel will dispel won't be relevant so it's shield and slow and we have to wait until we're in base contact before that matters so we've already killed six grand elves before the game even starts and there's only four left um so yeah let's just keep an eye on whether who knows i was gonna say expert ballistics but no i don't have expert ballistics there's no justification for this attack how good a grand elves man four of them still killed a gog uh we'll just do this out of discipline i suppose hide up this end i mean obviously if these troops could access us now the fight would be very very scary uh but they can't in fact you know the way i've configured this i think i want to put my screening units to the south actually the golems will take a while to chew through and the ants as well i mean it's not i'll just i've only got 12 shots so i'll make the most of them who knows maybe it's not a gimme but to me it looks like an absolute lost cause for them like how are you going to win this maybe it's not maybe maybe they're stronger than i realize just come here you've got huge moves yeah so if that had hit the gate actually i i probably would be going on to lose yeah i probably should have with the gogs i probably should have been shooting well i wouldn't have been doing much damage with them anyway so what i'm proposing is getting these guys out of here they're gonna be more valuable to me as as uh screening units gotta be really careful if you stand on that hex there it opens the gate um that would be bad yeah so just keep getting the biggest value shots off and yeah okay so now the tower works those boys over the tower never runs out of ammo either okay so there is now a way through but based on what happened last time i predict i did this last time i put an imp here and they didn't bother attacking it see what they do this time yeah no they're not moving on to it i think it with the sooner we try to kill that stack the better far they are okay so if they don't kill the imp the iron golem kills the imp and i just put another room there yes i think they're not gonna be there intelligent tower yeah wow look at this is incredible um centaurs don't want to step on the lava because they'll just die 90 damage kills the whole stack right so okay the ai just didn't want to commit suicide with its small stacks uh but watch this i just die on this square it's just excellent why is iona doing this i don't understand like it was never on standard deliver here or i could use the dogs this was my idea from before yeah go dogs dogs again okay go dogs then dogs run away yeah just do nothing we use the dogs because we get no retaliation they just killed them the nagers aren't moving well just incredible are you even gonna flee sit tight surely she flees let's get started on these three men guys you show up to my front door with a mediocre army no knowledge of siege warfare and no spell points and now you just now you're actually gonna die in front of the walls the end isn't going to get another turn is he or maybe just barely will i should have moved these guys into position i could have as things stand it's up to them she's just gonna flee now yeah look at look at the damage i took oh man iona this just feels like it's meant to be from a flavor perspective after what raksha just achieved rashka what rashka just achieved basic armor i think suits him just fine the purple sailor is back that's good okay excellent excellent each major conflict that we've been involved in we've come out uh the winner on each time on each occasion now is there an even angrier hero on their way down here quite possibly i really like taking this chance of this opportunity to rebalance our forces uh so i think we're going to be doing that i just want to see we'll do some exploring with her first hmm i think you get extra moves here confirming you're on course and increasing their morale okay all right let's keep exploring this area it's probably just a littering of different uninhabitable Galapagos style uh islands what are we doing now that we've held it's day four these haven't been summoned yet the demons we could visit the stock pile uh we could start thinking about that um what to do now