 And we're back... ...after dinner. Ranlou's the only guy who hasn't moved yet? Yes, exactly! Ranlou, I already love you. I kind of feel like I could be down here being a pain in their backside, right? How have they not done these jobs yet? I still can't believe that. Get down here, come in. No, I can't get that. Yeah, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I wasn't serious. I kind of feel like actually, could Stig do that? Hang on. That's not... That's her there. So that's an army that I really could have used to do that sneaky underground set of jobs. It's still a thing, I don't know. Oh, I'm gonna do this. Something to do. Nothing back home to build. Just Dragon Vault and or Tomb of Souls. Tomb of Souls. Let's finally build it. Start saving them. It's probably at least 20 when missing. We should have saved up by now. I just go to show. That's how far down I think about them. And plus on top of that, I'm nearly sure in the vanilla game, you can't get to your Black Knights. I'm pretty sure you can't have those cool units until you've done Tomb of Souls. So they're just accumulating naturally in the background. So I'm surprised to see you can get all the way to Dragons without ever bothering with the Tomb of Souls. So, where's the action? What are we interested to see? Oh, okay. Yeah, we're looking down here. Aiden, our new guy. Can't believe we picked that up, that crystal. That's just amazing. Tan, what are you gonna do? You're not gonna do anything. You're useless. It's just woeful. Terrible. Orange. We're probably gonna have to accept that Orange does that. That's fine. Orange gallops through there. Blue and pink and pink is dancing around one another. Could eventually be a painter now. So Merist ran off that way. I think I do want to... That's actually not useless, that would get into trouble. I could maybe try to summon Boat here. The movement points are so bad. Okay, that's all right. Stiggy. So that's an alternative use of Stig, but it's a long way back. She's got to sail all the way back down here. And in that time, I could just give Ran Lu some troops. Okay, this is their home base. Pink. Pink is a tower hero, right? Fafner. The cat's away. Oh well, he'll surely do something about that before. I could just stand on the road here and see what happens. How far away is the cat? Let's have a quick look at the map. It helps a little bit. Although I've got a pretty good idea of what's going on anyway. I'm just gonna stand here like a jerk. What are you gonna do about it? Who do you have? I guess as long as there's at least... Yeah, if the troops are still here waiting to be purchased, but it's day six, so I'm guessing they're off doing something. Either Stig's getting absolutely annihilated tomorrow, or I might be getting a town sheep. That would be very annoying if I was them. Right, these heroes need to remind me. Aiden, I need intel. Get back there. Do it. Who's here? No one. Great, great. Good, good, good, good, good. Excellent. Okay, no more cover of darkness. Man, that hurt having a cover of darkness on us. Okay, so we're still very close to Fafner. He could ride up to here any time he wants. If he was to do that, we would die. Cepciani, you could have got there by riding through here, could you? Okay, that's still the fastest route for her to do that. She comes back to here. Is that a fight she wants to do? Yes, we will win that fight. In my opinion, is there anything better she could be doing instead? Like riding further out this way, getting this campfire, going upstairs. There's a subterranean gate that could come up here. Now, Gash, why don't you answer some questions for me? Find out what that does. What do I want to trade? So I get great rates here, right? I can sell some excess resources. We don't want to go overboard here. But this is just a really good opportunity, I think, to make some money. I don't want to go bananas. Just like to keep a nice sort of baseline. But that's pretty good, but up to 30K. And then, mate, can you tell me what a mineral spring does? Did you go here? Horses look less than thrilled to drink the salty water. But soon you notice them prancing around with new vigor. Rainbow forms in the droplets above the sparkling spring. And the sight brings everyone to a happy mood. And it even looks like, if you look closely, it even looks like he's grinning, doesn't it? Can I get a better picture of him? That's the biggest picture I can show you, unless I figure out a way to zoom. It does look like he's smiling, don't you think? Now, Gash, he's actually enjoying himself. He's like, you know what? Finally a campaign where I don't have to run around and do everything. You know? So refreshing. I don't need to be in charge. Take defence. There's a portal here. Happy for him to get interrupted and we'll just bank the scouting. Nimbus meanwhile. I really want to sail into the corner and back. I think I do. There's so much wood you can get. Ran Lu and then this fellow. Yeah, so I don't think I get to go up here because of the risk of Fafna. Having said that, if Fafna comes through and kills Aiden, he's a sitting duck. He's a dead man, right? What I really want to do is start linking up my logistics, right? So I want Aiden and Ran Lu ready to connect the towns together. We want to bring everything from Cold Soul over to Dark Eternal for upgrading. Okay, and surely we're going to want to start Bone Dragons now as well. Surely. We can pile into Bone Dragons and both go to Ghost Dragons in our home base, really get that production line going, maybe build up two armies. Reconquer the stronghold would be another option. Probably going to be a balance of all of that, right? You're good, you're good. Get back here. Right, hold tight for now. The Dragon Vault, I'm just going to build it guys. It's probably about a week late, probably two weeks late maybe. But it's just the right answer. Now how much does it cost me to get the next thing? 15 and 20 Mercury. I've forgotten that it was 20 Mercury. I probably would have been a little less gung-ho with trading away on my Mercury. But the gold really helps, you know. It gives you a cushion, you can invest. I'm not taking financial advice from a vampire, but when you're right, you're right. I don't think Fafnac can afford to come and challenge me. I think he's in a pickle. He's in a pickle and he knows that he can't use any of the stronghold troops that are there. Besides, I bought them all. So there aren't any. Even next week though, all he can do is hire a second hero to run around with one week's worth of troops while hoping to not die to Teal. But I think Teal is in really big trouble from Judging from the Thieves Guild. Let's do what we want to do. Sorry, that took way too long for me to decide. If he comes and kills Aiden, that's great. That just saved me movement points. What else do I want to invest in here then? Is it time to do a Dragon Vault here too? And then we'll just take our time next week buying all the creatures? Yeah, that could be right. Just take our sweet, sweet time. Getting the production line set up. I could also go Transformer into Unearthed Graves. Let's do it. Okay. Burn Dragon online. Right, Faf, what are you doing? You're going to Faf around, aren't you? What? The brief respite we had from Green is no more. Pink's defending itself? Okay. I see that. I see where I went wrong. I want to say I'm sorry. Okay. I didn't mean it. And I'll just be... But now I know where you live. And I can have a look in at you anytime I want. But you cannot say the same thing about me. Stiggy. How good is Stig, man? She's like, look at her. It looks like she's actually going to rejoin back up with the others now. Nag. Okay, Nimbus. I'll give you one more day, man. Yeah, I'll do one more map reveal with him before I decide what to do. Now... Sceptiana can probably do this today. She could grab a behemoth first. Aiden, I'm just going to go do all these things. Yeah, that's good. Ah, okay. Does she just go for it? I don't have time to mess around, do I? I'd like to mess around, go here first. Stay seven, so don't... She does have time. She has time. Take the power of his time. She has time, right? Maybe not. Well, but then again, let's say he buys all of the creatures. Like, then what? Then he's just doing what I did to him last time. He's just spending ten grand or five grand to give me a bloody nose. Like, it's not going to be a very good investment. I don't get to use the troops, but... Okay, so Marist... We didn't see Marist come back. So I kind of want to be cheeky. Get to the road. Oh, man. I'm walking right up to the... Okay. Well, again, it reveals... Certain truths. It reveals the town. Even if it's Kostas, the hero. I don't know that she'll be available, like, when we come back tomorrow, right? Because she's... Because it's the end of the week. So I don't know how that's going to work. Um... Right, let's get... So he's ready to rock, but he doesn't need to be there. Well, he does if he wants the vampire lords, so that's fine. He sits there, does the vampire lords. Um... Nagash is a long way out of the loop. But ideally, he would be... Usable. So it's that one there. Yeah, it's that there. So he comes out down here. He would be usable as the go-between hero. We don't want her... I don't think we want him, no. Um... She can either do that, but I think I just want to do this first, just to see where that is. Ah! That's how Tan took the necropolis. Hmm... Very interesting. Because it means that it means that it's not very far from our home. Right? That's about a day and a half, a day and a third. And then you've got to go to there. So call it two and a half days, and then on the other side, you've got another day. Three-day journey. It's a three-day journey from the Necro to the fortress. That is always go through portals if you can, you know? Because you can always push the spacebar. It gives you this nice blob of scouting. You get this huge reveal all for the cost of whatever moves it took you to step onto it. Never just leave them unlooked at, you know? Let's actually just reveal some of this, because it can't be unrevealed. And they can't kill us both. They can't kill both me and G. I'm happy with that. That's fine. Trading post there's really nice as well. That's really handy. Just come back, man. Just come back. So we've got plenty of notice if Tan wants to engage us again. Okay. Feeling good. Feeling all right. No more investments are needed in either location. Don't think. Just check cold soul. Isn't in need of anything specifically we can't do that in time. We don't, but I bet you'll forget next week to build it on day six and seven or whatever. I should have flagged that it would have given us plus one zombie growth. But, you know, she was in a hurry. Okay. Fafna. I hope I can get to you. I hope I haven't messed that up by going there. You don't know what you're about. You don't know what you're doing. Terrible. Just terrible. You don't know what you're doing with your life. Sprite population doubles. Okay, so pink has designs on this area which I'm totally fine with. No judgment. So Sipchenna may need to... Okay. Here's a question. Could one of these heroes beat Melodia if I gave them the army? Let's have a look at it by doing it this way. Here's the army. And here's Melodia. Nine Titans. No. That's too hard. Let's say she's a B hero and Fafna's their main hero. I don't like it, right? I really don't like it. So... Anyway, tell me where you are and whether you can get to the stronghold. I don't think she can. I think I've messed up. Now there's sprites everywhere in my way. Can't get through there? Oh! Your problem. They're everywhere. That's a nuisance. What about up here? No, okay. First... I don't think I can get there. What's my moves remaining? 448. I've got tons of moves. What are you worried about? Am I serious about doing this fight? Yes. Fafna's dead. He dies in this fight unless he's built an escape tunnel. This is too good. And it's day one, so I buy all the stronghold stuff that's here and gallop back up and deal with my other problems. Green is still threatening to try to break out. But their army is good. Fun old time. We're just doing this fight, right? We're just doing it. Oh god. 100 spell points. He's a decent hero. Okay, so he has expert haste. We've seen that before. Let's see what he has to offer. Okay, I love him to say that I think I'm going to clone something now. The only problem is it's very expensive. 20. He doesn't look at stack. The image is dispelled if it's damaged. Or if the prototype dies. Each unit may have only one clone to not affect more machines. The clone is alive for the number of rounds equal to the spell power. So it'll be alive for ages. Although he has some dampening thing going on. I only have power seven. I've just noticed the little bracket there. He's got this interference skill, which is... Yeah, that's why that's only 225. Okay, okay, okay. I'm starting to get a picture here. 410. This fight's really hard. I think I want to try cloning the Skellies. Or zombies. Just to see an experiment with that. I think I'm going to try and pile into the Naga Queens and work on them. That'll be my plan. Do a ground attack here. Just a leash. Do I prefer that to the genie? Yeah, let's try to do this. So that hurt. Like, hell, excellent. Okay, so take the retaliation for me. Alright, let's give this a try. I killed two. So I've got vamps. Black Knights. These and these. Still to go. So you walk to here. I've got five left. So I could take the... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't actually need to use the Black Knights on the Naga's now. But I also don't need to waste my retaliation, guys. So I think you're not acting. You're going to do this. So it's basically a damage spell, right? So how much damage did the clone do? 241 damage for 20. Spell points is just not a very good deal. So I think you need a bigger stack. 61 left. Try to kill that. Feed off him anyway, regardless. Four rows from the dead. Okay, that's not bad. I can kill five to nine. So the average is about 300 damage. Which is just about going on. Yeah, that's a pretty good stack for him to target, I think. I guess just come here then. That's nice. That's nice, that's nice. Shame there's still one there, but that's okay. Now we have to accept all of the Slings and Arrows. Clone is dead. Ten die. Three come back. Well, that seems like a waste. So he's down to 26 dudes. And another five, that's handy. How good is this? Is that better? Oh, look at that! Yeah, I forgot. The little blue outline is telling you who's vulnerable. Iron Golems aren't alive, so they don't suffer from their periphery. But they will suffer if you go for them directly. And as you can see, my Vampire Lords won't. So if I want to hit them both, I need to do this or that. Sorry, this. Or I could try to just finish off that last Naga. She only has 46 HP left. Let me try attacking the Golems without pushing G first. That should hit both. That was a terrible move by the Naga. As you can't get to them. Like I'm worried there's a bit of a Perik victory here. I might need to teleport him in as well to finish the job. It's not going to be very good. Boom. I guess the Naga gets to do... Oh! My Skelly's dead. Remember, the big pile was there. Haster's worn off. So here's his dude to do a first next round. I'm really in strife here though. So they've already fought. Okay, they've done their thing. So I'm actually going to do this first and then animate after. Is that stupid? That's probably stupid. Safe, right? Safe. They're not going to die. The thing is, with the Arrow Tower and Lightning Bolt it's going to just really hurt me anyway. See? Oh, that's good actually. That's ideal. Because I can feed off you. How many of these were there? At the beginning, 31. I guess I'll go for the Skelly's. What have I got left now? I can do one more after this. Kills 8 to 12. But if I do that, he will tally 8. Are we happy to just call it here? I'm not going to overthink it, right? He's got Arrow Towers, he's got Lightning Bolts. I'm just going to end the game. I think I had 41. Well, let's find out. Costly fight. Well, 241 I had. Good god. Oh no, hang on. It doesn't count the ones that came back. I think that's the total that... That's the net loss. 241 Skelly's. But we killed Fafna and hopefully 13 attack on a Wizard. Hopefully is a very nice artifact for us. We've got 5,000 experience. That's a huge win, Zepchenna. Oh, look at all the stuff. You've trapped him in base. Let's have a look at what we've got. Oh my god. One on the head. Knowledge plus two. Dragon Wing on the shoulders. Power plus two. Pendant of Negativity. Means you can't hit me with Lightning Bolt. Trident of Dominion is new to me. Yauza. Is that a combination artifact? Whoa, plus seven. Brilliant. Duration doesn't help me much. Yeah, this is okay. We know about this anymore. What is up? Go for it. Third level units. There's a morale banger for you. I've got the Spirit of Oppression. Archery, great. Pendant of Death. You can't use Destroy Undead on me. That's pretty good. Attack plus four. So we've got tons of artifacts. And this is the thing I was getting into before. Talking about you with luck. You can actually have negative luck caused by enemy artifacts. What a cool little artifact. If I click this tick, what happens? Okay, that's it. She finally figures out how to be a better scholar. I'll take that. Ooh. Give it to me. Okay, that was a good trade. So I have to say, trapping a premiere hero in a town, stealing all of his stuff. Look at her stats now. 14, 7, 14, 16. She doesn't even have enough room on her body for all of this stuff. Look at all this stuff I've got. What a ninja. Oh man, how good is this? So this is not a combo artifact, because it would be blanking out of the sectors of my outfit. So just a big fat plus seven to attack. That's huge. Imagine that on the vampires. It's going to be epic. Epic, epic, epic. What a fight. What a hold. What an effort. She's nearly out of moves. We're going to get her tonight. Get our spell points back. That's incredible. Now we have to go into planning. How do I disseminate these artifacts? How do I build a second superhero? Who is my second hero? How do I make them a superhero? Like, I'm going through the roster. I'm looking to promote someone here. Right? We've got 7,000 at level 14. Everyone else is a total noob. And we need to pick somebody into something special. Okay, level one, level one, level one. Level two, level three, one level three and two level fours. What a fight. So nice. I was quite worried for a second when I saw the hundred spell points and the expert haste was like, oh jeez. Plus the auto combat that said I was dead meat. This looks like a hard decision, so I'll come back to it. Mr. Nimbus. Oh, Nimbus. I take it all back. What's this moment? I'm actually tired. I'm exhausted from that. So she never got her comeuppance. What's that about? So I can just run through this way? You'll let me? If I can get past a horde of sprites, which I don't think I can. A horde of sprites. Very risky. But she might die anyway if I don't. Could go here. I'll just do this with G. Sorcery. Okay, I'll take it. Can I have these lizard men? Are you gonna let me have them? I'm just gonna go for a wander through your territory. Try to make it down to there. If she gets tagged, she gets tagged. That's okay. Nothing I can do about that. Really? I do this. Aiden goes and finds some mercaries hidden in the middle of nowhere. So that's fine. G. Ran Lu, it's day one. You did your job of... Right. So we also have all of these creatures. Oh man. A plan comes together. You know what I'm gonna do to people? Gonna have myself a milky way. Just so good. So good. Sceptiana, you are a absolute legend. Look at me. What stronger could she be if I put on some of the things? Rough terrain without penalty. Or I could have a bit more knowledge and power. Extra spell point per day. Oh man. Yeah, sorry. I didn't realize that was one of them. Got the loins. Your morale doesn't matter. So... No wait. Negate's positive morale. So it does actually count. Okay. Inexhaustible. Or... There's no luck. Okay. Didn't I get the stuffy doll thing? What is it? Shaman's puppet? Decreases your luck by two. Seems better than neutralizing all luck. What does that do? Duration plus one doesn't matter. Duration is totally fine now. So we'll wear that. Attack and defense plus one. Oh my guys are a bit more healthy. Duration plus two. Get that out. I want to get the orb. Yeah, okay. Well let's do that. Actually maybe it's the orb. I don't know why, so I still don't know why I spoke. So... It's just not doing enough. I think this does a bit more. I can always swap the card of orb out and give that to a B hero as soon as I meet one. Now I've got a second copy of the chest. So that needs to find its way to a hero that's waiting. This is excellent. So good. I'm just trying to think strategically though. How do I deal with green? And that means the army should be central. I feel like the army should be generally central. She's staying the night. Okay, so I don't make that mistake. But yeah, we want the army to be fairly central and accessible. I'm going to guess that there are sprites blocking that now but I can probably kill them because I know stuff and I'm a powerful mage. Yeah, I know tons of stuff. I know death ripple. Can I do that? What do we do for the team? A horde? What does death ripple do for me? 45 points of damage. They have about 3 HP each. No, it's too hard, isn't it? Let me just walk around them. Looks like there's one here too. Which is not good. Quite annoying for her. It's a bit of a scam. I think I'll step off. I'll step off just in the spirit of good sportsmanship. It comes out as a killstig. I mean I lose this army spawn here and I can buy all these things. Which will all die and we'll lose the town. But again, bloody nose. Well, hopefully. She's very strong. It depends if she's not a good spellcaster though. It might be more of a pain in the backside than it looks for her. I have to make a decision. Let's just see what she does. She might just gallop back up again. It's like, oh, good, I've chased away that interloper. Mission accomplished kind of thing. Nag. Come on down, man. Get into position here. We're going to need to start forming the supply chain. I'm actually thinking like that for him. So maybe it's a bone dragon for now. Our first bone dragon. Maybe I'll buy two actually. This seems really good. Getting this online. Should we hire Sortion now? Is there any reason to do so? Yeah. Save your money. Is that Tan Hero? Singy? Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're in massive trouble now. We're going to lose our hometown. Ran Lu should be able to get back. Alright, it's really bad news. I'm afraid the whole army is upon us. So while the cat's been away that's been happening. She's stuck with these but they're the same speed as the zombies. How heavily should I jump into this stuff that's here? Hide back there with Ran Lu. We can't link up. There's no hope. Yeah, and there's no hope of getting the army back. Sceptiana comes out through here. Nagash grabs the army. Comes galloping down. Is there any hope? Let's see. How far can you go? You'll be exhausted. I still have a few moves left. Sure, you get to about here. And then if you stand here then the next day he can get to about there. Now Ran Lu, you're on your own mate. What if I hide another hero out of here though? She came to here. This person galloped down to there. Came to there. Nagash could be about here with the army. But then I don't think Nagash can win. You can't win. She's got like tons of phoenixes. Ran Lu, you're going to have to do a job for this man. This is so sad. All these units are dead. Do this. It's really bad. Such a waste man. Such a waste. A whole week's worth of dudes. I've got no choice. He's caught me off guard. He's always been a thorn in my side that fella. Really has. Aiden. Can't do that. Honest dig can do that. Yeah all my heroes, they were all just a day away from recalibrating and getting together again. Look at that. Just had. While he's up there though, he's not going to find it easy. Let's say he takes the town, kills me. Then what does he do? He has to escape. He has to come build a boat and stuff. So I'll be right on his tail. I'd rather be on his tail with Stig than with Stig. I don't have a choice. Do I care about this graveyard? I even could get that, right? I'd rather get Stig into the action. Come on. Wait, go here. Where can Sceptre and I get to? You'll have to do this for me so I can see where she can get to. I can't even check. She can get to about there I guess. Maybe a bit further if Stig helps. Try to be optimistic. Go here. Not good. I spent all the money. Unless I can find you some. 63 of these bad boys available. That's awesome. You've never bought. You've never bought them. We've been here for two months and you haven't bought a single one. Well, I don't want to buy 63. I don't think I want to buy any. I'll just leave you to it, right? Just come down here and get out of the swamp. Alright, this is terrible. This is really going to hurt like hell. But it's the price we pay for smashing Fafner. Come on, this feels gross. Green. Green, please. You don't want to do this. You don't want to do this. Okay. Okay, that's a day. Let's see what's possible. I can get the army there. The problem is that that army doesn't join up. Okay, that's the army, but you've got to picture it. Sampjana can get him the artifacts, though. How good is this hero? Let's have another look. Who are up against? 6, 10, 11, 10. Number of towns? Oh, yeah. I don't think we're winning as such. I'm still terrified of Orange. Orange-Isra looks amazing. But we're up there competing, right, in terms of power level. So she's not good. She's a pretty good army, but she's not actually that good. And I feel like Blue and Red are just... Red's just in the background. Marist isn't getting any stronger. The only reason I care about Green is because they're trying to kill me. So... Crazy thought, what if I let Anarion take the town? Alright, let's just do this quickly. I'm gonna say yes. Do I have to lose any troops here? Yeah, I'm just gonna auto-accept this. Hope you guys are cool with that. Now, this girl here, Stig, could pop in here on her way down and grab certainly the Bone Dragons. The Zombies, the Warriors. Let's do that. Yeah, they're not cheap. Okay, great. I need to get this girl to the base. I just have to decide then what it looks like back home with Ran Lu So, Sepchan is going to start learning and teaching. Is there any chance you could learn Blind on her? She knows Blind. Yeah, great. Stig's... I'm hoping Stig will be my secondary hero. Oh, yes, and we can also give artifacts. Okay, this isn't how I plan to do this. I can be stuck with these because I'm going to insist on Zombies. Somehow I lost my tent, so give me that one. Take these. Yeah, so Stig, I want to turn you into something that matters. You can buy a new first aid tent for yourself back at the base there. So, take this. I don't want this. Take these pieces of junk. Scrolls that I can't get rid of. I don't know Archery. That's an easy one. Have that. Yeah, duration matters more to you than it does to me. Sure. And actually, there's the combo artifact I had a couple of runs ago with Conjuring. If you get the Cape of Conjuring. Now luck and luck don't go together, so someone else needs to have that instead of me. I want to move without penalty. I do. But at the same time, I'm on 14. Take these. I think you'll benefit from it more than I will. I'll keep the orb. I might keep this. Do I want someone else to have these? Definitely yes. Do I want the whites? Except she actually crashes through here. Same again, I say. Yep, it's fine. It's exactly as far as you can get. So Nagash can bring the army to about here. Randlu does have the moves. I think to go and get it. So how should we play this? I don't know. Like, it's so easy to mess up, right? I guess the first thing we have to ask ourselves is do we want either Randlu or Nagash? Kind of doesn't matter who. Because, I mean, if I knew to spell it would be okay. I guess I do. I can dispel till the cows come home. And that's nice. That's nice to be able to do that. But let's say it's Nagash. Do we want Nagash? And... Yeah, this army. Imagine these two armies glued together. Okay, there's 33 liches. There's 52 vampires. 14 Dreadnights. 6 Bone Dragons. I think this is the move. I think this is what we're supposed to do. Whereas this guy just gives you one round of Arrow Tower and happy enough. Yeah, I like this idea. Run to the hinterland. And if he wants to follow me that's okay. He'll be way out of position. If he gets me, if he catches me I'll be sad. Which he might. Now that I'm looking at it, but... At least he'll be out of position. And it'll be a very less comfortable fight. So... We could actually get ready to deliver the secondary troops. Here, right? We could do this. Can you scout this for me, man? Can't get through there. Well, maybe I could. A horde of sprites. What can I do? Can I kill them? He's a very bad hero. I just want to get that. What's that there? Town gate. Very cheap. Very, very, very poor man's town portal. Yeah, just get some useful scouting done here. Pen and a free world. Horde of pygmen. Too hard. Okay, that's something useful he did. Nimbus, you do something for me, will you? Oh, I missed this. What is that? School of magic. Plus one spare. No, no, no, no. No, Nimbus. Nothing can be found this time. Flotsam. That away. Get it. As Nimbus. The value printer. The closer. Things. Oh, come on. She's Death Ripple Queen, isn't she? No, that's Epigena. These are all the spells I know. I never learned Death Ripple. I can't do that fight. That's so depressing. Does she know someone's boat? She does. Try to get yourself your boat. Yay. All right, get it. I'm just thinking we can get ready to configure our secondary hero. Allagar better stay out of my way, or he's gonna regret it. Oh, actually, that's kind of annoying. I was gonna, I was wanting to put Stig here. Yeah, but then having said that, I'm trying to work this out. Sorry, sorry, sorry. We know she's coming to there. So I could put Stig just behind her and be happy with that. Because Allagar would be committing suicide by coming anywhere near me. And now I'm ready to buy stuff. That wants to gallop through here and kill Stig. That's absolutely just the music to my ears. She'll flee. No, that's just not gonna happen. As soon as he sets eyes on her, he will be sprinting in this direction. A monstrous hero. But she's some way away from rescuing the town. Okay, I don't know if this was a good play or not, running off into the abyss. But Randall could maybe try to summon a boat. He's got one shot at Glory. Summoning a boat here, but even then he gets caught on the boat. But I can bring the rest of these troops up in Cold Soul. I can bring them with me. I'll be a day behind with them. And if he's all the way up there, you know what she's doing? She's just gonna gallop down here. That's what I'm gonna do. That's what's gonna happen to you. Come into my doorstep, do you? All right, do it. She just dies immediately. That's not how this works, so I'm not gonna retreat. Okay, it's Marist getting vengeance. So her army used to be astonishingly good. And now I'm looking at it thinking... It's not actually that good. She's a good spellcaster, though. Look at that. What's something mean I can do to you before I run away? 42 points of damage. It said 42 points of damage. Kill 0? What, damage 10? Okay, there's obviously an artifact at play that's causing me to deal a quarter of the damage. Oh, she casts protection from air, did she? Protection from earth and magic arrows and earth spell? Okay. I can't think of anything else to do, though. You don't have a stack that's gonna take a single casualty. That's so depressing. I'll surrender. No, that's okay. I'll just run. Sweet vengeance. All right. Come on, Arian. Let's go. You... You coward. Oh, okay. Orange is here. So, Sausure. You know that thing I said I wanted you to do? Okay, let me just quickly check who these pink people are before I... Right, that's Melodia doing her thing out there in the world. That's Moandor. A weird-looking secondary hero. With morale that must be in the absolute gutter. I can only imagine how many troop types are there there. One, two, three, four, five troop types and undead. So, okay. Wow, to that. Now, who's this? Charna? Okay. Do we care if she's out there running around? Do I need to buy Sausure? I don't know if I care about her. Having said that, I could hire Sausure, go get the behemoth, but then she'll need to stick around for now. Right, who do I get? Let me just check again. Tavern. Oh no, Sausure's long gone. I could get G back here though. That could work. She's a decent hero. Better than Sandra, obviously. Yeah, okay. I think G has taken Sandra's place. Sausure. Sausure, I mean. Right, Charna's not our main focus. Our main focus is Anarian. Anarian the coward. We all know what he's going to do. As soon as I get near him, he's going to go back down through there. He's going to pretend none of this ever happened. Okay, I sat and stared at it here. I think Sceptiana is going to be strong enough to beat Anarian behind a wall. The reason is, she's now 15 and 8. Her Animate Dead does expert level 14 spell power. 860, that's twice as good as it was before. She can clone. She can teleport guys over the walls. And she has 240 spell points. So she's outgrown Anarian. Even though his army is still scary and it will still hurt, if I can conquer the Conflux and then hold the network of these four towns together. I'll win the game. I'll win the game. I then have to fight Orange. That's what has to happen after that. It's not clear if I'll win-win, but I'll certainly have a much better chance. Without Green constantly showing up, like my Cocker Spaniel down here constantly coming up to me like, hey, when are we going out? Can you come off the computer now? It's like, no, I'm in the middle of something really epic here. No, I can't. Can we get some more money? Let's just get some more money first before I start. Thank you. Sure. Death Ripple. What is this? Temple of the Sea. Looks like some guys are armed. As critical as the juncture that we're at right now, I have to go. It's bedtime for the kids. So don't go anywhere. I'll see you tomorrow. Do you guys ever have a thing where you're interrupted? You've got to finish for the day and come back the next day and you were right in the middle of this epic kind of momentum from turn to turn where you were really eager to click through the heroes and get the next day sorted out, but you couldn't. And now that you're back, you can't remember all the epicness. That's me right now. So looks like we've been sailing with Nimbus. That's good. If I recall correctly, however, we've done some amazing things. We've defeated Fafna and we're in the process of preparing Sceptiana to come down and bully the conflicts. Okay. So we had here Nagash, Nagash has 10 grand. He can give that unupgraded army to Stig. Two heroes can travel together down to here. She can pair off. Ranlou can upgrade. He can inject his army into the situation. Gallop back here, upgrade the other dudes. All kinds of nastiness, right? We can create a really good secondary hero in Stig. But once we're satisfied that Sceptiana has enough resources to kill the conflicts, it'd be great if Stig could then be made big enough to take on Melodia, I think. Do we have any easy decisions before that? Ranlou, what's Aiden up to? Can we afford for Aiden to run around like a moron up here? Maybe a little bit? See what's up here? That helm is not insane. Let's find out what he wants. Excuse me, I think that's multiple people who want the bird of perception. This is it. Ladybird of luck. Oh, it's the ladybird of luck. Okay, Aiden, come down here. We might as well grab that sulfur. Make a decision about whether he can punch back through there. Right, how are we doing this? Big turn, right? Aiden, we expect as soon as he sees Sceptiana standing here, he's going to gallop back home. His home is down here, where he has no one home. But he will be hiring another week's worth of dudes. I think with Sceptiana the way she is, with her amazing new artefacts that she's stolen from Fafner and Ranlou's army, that being added to what she has, I will kill him. Yeah, so the key thing is gluing these two armies together in time. Ranlou, when he comes to here, will have no movement points left, but that's okay. Because she's going to be able to speak to him on that square. Yeah, so in here, we have all the unupgraded stuff that needs to come with. So I don't need to do that until I've done this. So let's do this first. Sceptiana, come on down. Ranlou, you've done good work for us, Ranlou. I'm impressed with you. Okay, I will speak to you. Allow me to teach you blind. Oh yes, great stuff. Very handy education session for Ranlou there. That's what we like to see. Keep your torso of the legion with my blessing. But give me all the good stuff. Now... You have wraiths? I have these, I don't want. I might let Ranlou keep the wraiths, and maybe Stig will end up with them. Is this army and her awesome power? Yeah, I was looking at this yesterday. She can expert raise dead now. That's Aida, yeah. Expert clone. Expert teleport, expert meteor shower. I didn't even see sacrifices for living creatures only as well, just completely out of the game. I don't think elementals, air elementals, and ice elementals will care about forgetfulness. It won't work as it's a mind spell. So the main things we're going to be doing, animating dead, teleport, maybe clone, maybe earthquake. Teleports probably just better than earthquake though. We might blind, but what am I blinding? There's nothing I can blind. So a few of our spells are switched off. We've got expert shield is going to be great if we can cast that at some point. Expert stone skin, not terrible. Expert shield will be very, very good though. Depending on how good an arian is. It's still going to hurt like hell. It's still going to hurt, but happy with this. I don't think these are worthwhile. 27 of these just don't do anything. So how urgent is it to get this army moving? Okay, nomads and skellies, we just need some troops here. Okay, I think I need that many, do I? I could just do this. Might be good enough. Arrow tower does the rest? Yeah, surely. Surely that's good enough. Chana. I'm going to gamble, I think that's good enough. I'm not going to buy a sorcerer. So I've got 8,500 bucks. What does this cost? What's going on here? Yeah, 8,530. So I leave behind. Yeah, I can't actually afford everything. I don't think I need to do it today. So Lizzie, you have a day off love. Which you could use to go and do this. Or you could pop upstairs. I think I'll go for the free defense and save my money. Well, she's still not in a great position there, but maybe it's okay. Maybe that was stupid of me. Nagash, you stay still and we'll save our money. Right. Okay, an area, and what do you want to do? If you want to kill, come kill Nagash. That's fine with me. Randlu, I mean. If you want to kill Randlu, that's fine with me. If you want to come back and actually fight me, Manoi womano, that's also fine. I think what you'll do is run away like a little... So-and-so. Want to keep a PG. Red, breaking new ground. Interesting, interesting. That's not a great square for you, Marist. Are you serious? Okay, all right. Okay. He thinks he can win. So does the... I guess this is what this thing is saying. No. Okay, so the auto-resolve is hurting at least. Let's hope that Sceptiana's incredible spell-casting abilities can overcome. What was that? Protection from air shield, okay. So right off the bat, we lose many skellies and half our vamps to the phoenixes. So we're going to want to get vengeance. Air shield just protects them against that, which isn't very good and he's only got 21 spell points. Okay, cool. So I could just have a quick look at how many... I'm trying to get a sense of how many we lost. Restores 760, which is nearly... Yeah, that's a pretty good investment. However, I'm gonna get a free drain. I'm gonna get six are gonna rise from the dead just by hitting the phoenixes. I have my sacrificial unit here, which I'll use. So the vampire lords definitely aren't acting yet. The question is... These have morale. Looks like they've got... Have they got morale? That looks like neutral morale. This looks like negative morale. Why would that be negative? Oh, because I have an artifact that gives negative morale? Yeah. Okay, so there's no risk of morale. We want, I think, to completely pile into the phoenixes here, right? With everything we've got. Shield isn't the thing I want to use, although now could be a good turn to do it. I think I either want a clone or a meteor shower. 400 points. But that's immune, right? Oh, I didn't know that these deal minus 50% damage to other creatures that have spell immunity. Isn't that fascinating? Shield is going to be great if we can just get it in, get it done. Is that the best use of our mana? I have a perfectly good target right here. I'm happy to ignore everyone else and just really do everything we can in our power to whittle down these phoenixes. A meteor shower on the phoenixes? That just kills two? Nah. Cloning our most deadly troop deals a couple of hundred damage as well. I'm not that good. So I think what I want to do, I think the best way to pile into the phoenixes without wasting his heal is to clone the dread knights. The clone will stand up here. One of them might deal double damage kind of thing. Then on his turn one of his guys is going to have to waste their time or effort or energy killing the clone. So I think that's what I'm going to do. So I'm going to wait until the magic alleys have moved and as long as they don't make it awkward for me. I'm just going to clone this fellow now. She can't get a morale flash so there's no risk of anything going wrong. The only risk of going the wrong way if the dread knights block my path, if the cloned one blocks my path somehow but even that isn't really a risk I don't think. I think this is right. It's not showing their turn. Maybe I've messed up here. Hang on, I'm going to take retaliation aren't I? I need to wait. That was a mistake. That's the clone which will die to that. I'm going to lose my attack so that's no good. I've messed up there but I do still have this one skeleton. Only three? I really wanted better. I was hoping for better. I think I want to... They have air shield but they don't. I think I want to use these guys on this. No, magic alleys don't take it. Oh dear. Okay, well in terms of how we want to arrange ourselves to stop breath attacks from hurting us we could just stand there I guess. Put the knights here. Vamps go here, bone dragon goes there. No, actually I'll stand here. You boys are going to stand there, ghosties go. Five come back. I think that's alright. Then we do this. I'm going to stand there to do what I think. The magic alleys are going to have a great time walking in here. When it's their turn. One perishes. Okay, chain lightning came down there at the end of his turn. The phoenixes wasted their turn completely. Okay, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. So what can I do? I could shield everybody now. I don't have anyone to raise except this stack or that stack. Okay, let's do it. Shield the team. Come on down. That's a high value attack. That's a very high value attack. So I'm happy with that. Right, well that stinks. But at least we have kill six to thirteen of these. Seems alright. We go for these. Yeah, it's a conundrum. That's a conundrum alright. This is kind of suicidal. I think I'm waiting. I just don't have a good play. What happened there? Was that good luck? Ooh, bad luck, old son. Sorry to hear about that. You can wait as well. I have 125 zombies yet to act. They could walk up here and smack the phoenix. But I would need to sacrifice this unit to do so. Probably kill a couple to fence 28 against attack 20. I have shield in response. I like that, I think. Bad luck! You're not even going to kill a stack. How embarrassing for you. Stand here and kill one with my blessing. Oh, okay. That allows him to do this. And it does allow him to do that, except that gives you an amazing attack. I hate magic elementals, did I mention? How about this? I'm gonna attack the energy ones. Hey, actually, if I'm standing here, he doesn't have a square he can land on, because the sprites are in the way. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that works, and they've taken... Yeah. Okay, phoenixes waste their time trying to hurt that. Oh, that's good. That's very, very good for us. Okay. So, again, I don't want to feast upon the... Yeah, I don't want to do that. I think I need to start laying into these guys. Who gets resurrected here? He's out of spell points. I'm gonna get this. I'm gonna clinch it. I will clinch it. The other thing I can do is clone these bad boys, and then I'll severely dent the magic alleys. Only if I get the next turn, which I might not. They might act before my clone acts. I don't know how that works, exactly. Cloning the zombies, I'm not averse to. It's resurrecting these guys is what I really want to do, though, right? When it's their turn. So, let's just do this and be happy. I'm gonna play this no retaliation game. That is a fantastic result. And now I can resurrect. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do this. Animate dead. Six come back to me. I thought it was eight, but that's because she's being dampened. He's got the interference thing. Okay. I want to stand next to the water ones. Do I? Because they're gonna attack... Well, they're gonna attack them. So, he's free to move, actually. I thought storm elementals had no melee penalty. It doesn't look like they do now. I'm nearly sure in the vanilla game, they have no melee penalty. So, I might actually just... I'm gonna do an edit to check here, because I wanna go and find out... Is that a change? Yeah, there's nothing in the documentation about it, which means maybe I'm just misremembering it. But I'm nearly sure. So, I kill eight to sixteen of these, 11 to 22. I could get some double damage. I think I'm gonna go for this, right? Double... Curson. She's gonna kill one? I guess it's okay, because I need the stack to get low enough to, um, resurrect. Yeah... It's not too bad, actually. It's not too bad. The Firebird has not retaliated yet, but the Skellies can trigger that. She's not very lucky. Yeah, this is perfect. We do have to deal with rising from the ashes, but that's okay. Perfect. Now you can smack them. Three come back. That's pathetic. Artically pathetic. I could go and drain, but I really do need... these to die. Or he can block the liches, but if he goes for both of us instead, yeah, then he's got a pretty bad choice to make. I think I'm cool with this, even though there's more important things to be doing, but I've just got spell points, man. One. Wow, that makes no sense. Why didn't you try to get the zombies as well? That's strange. Alright, let's do this. 16 of these. 10 to 16 is the damage estimate. Let's see, 4, 9, 5, yeah, I think. I think that's pretty tempting. Let's just take them out of the equation. Yeah. Go away. This is okay. Nice retaliation. Not too bad. So I'm waiting. This seems fine to me. Should I stand back here? No, stand here. Okay, so the liches do get a shot away. That's nice. Sadly, they do act first. Oh. Bad luck is so bad. Man, when it triggers, it's really bad. I'll have to look up what the maths is, but wow. Okay, I really want to feed off these. I wish I'd written down how many of everything I had before we started. I think, actually, the tooltip will tell me, yeah, there's 16 available to come back. Okay, we need to be careful of an area in fleeing. If I eat these, I get six back. And there's no one else on the battlefield who can help me get back. So I think I just want to resurrect them. I think that's what I want to do, right? Yeah, the pixies won't be alive anymore. That's an okay square for them to stand. Yeah, let's do this. They won't be there. So I'm going to go ahead and do this. They won't be there. So six come back, five come back. There's another 11 in that stack. But I'll use this turn to bring back four of these bad boys. They hit these. And if we're lucky, well, it wasn't too bad. Happy for this fight with the energy alleys to continue. Yeah, I don't think he's going to flee yet. Just wait, you may as well. Okay, so that's a big, yeah, that's an easy resurrect if I assume I get another turn. You can't retaliate again. Goodbye. So there's 15 of these. That's more important than two bone dragons. I think you agree, do you all agree? I also have 13 of them missing. I don't want them to flee until I've got them both back. I think I have to go for these first, right? If the energy alleys fly over, I accept the attrition. Okay. I'm really worried that if I attack, he just flees. 10 to 18 of them. They could all die, in which case he'll definitely flee. I just wish the 18 was lower, but I'm just going to wait, see what he wants to do. Yeah, so again, let's wait, make sure we've actually got... Okay, that's good. So we actually have another turn coming where I can resurrect the vampires. Two bone dragons, but whatever. Lots of zombies as well. There's also a big pile of skeletons here. Ideally, if I had enough time, I'd bring them all back. Hang on, is that what I'm supposed to do? Should I even attack? Kill 7 to 11. I'll go for these ones. I want him to feel like he still has a reason to be here because I'd like to get a resurrect off on the skeleton pile, which is where the front hooves of the Dread Knights are. Whatever an absolutely annihilating them is just not in my interest now. He's got 168 spell points. I could bring the whole army back. Yeah, just don't do anything bone dragons. Okay, so before he flees, I'm going to do my next one, which I think that's the next most critical one. And then I'd love to hit that skeleton pile. And yeah, I'm just going to not do anything just playing into my hands. Don't you realize what this is doing for me? Yeah, because I'd like to go bone dragons and skellies. Right, so again, let's just chill. This is just abuse. Okay, I never got to do it. So what did we lose in the end? It's saying I lost 14 of these, but that's not right. Because they came back from the dead. I did lose the skelly pile and the two bone dragons. They didn't die. I don't get why why didn't it show all the vampires that died? There's something wrong with the maths there with anime dead. That feels a bit buggy. Estates or necromancy? Neither of them are doing much for me now. This is the trade. So let's be a necromancer. So huge hold. But I kind of expected to win. I'm surprised that it was so pessimistic. Tell me that I was going to get my bug kicked. Okay, pink and orange all very active up here. What's going on? Pink is here. Moandor. And then we've got Chana hanging out with Allagar. Would you like to kill her for me? That would help. Allagar is interested in taking out the stronghold. Don't blame him. But he can't take it. I don't think with that army. And I'll probably need to hedge against him trying to. So here we all are. That was it. That was the fight. I feel like we can kick on now to the Conflux and take it for our own. Now, do we want to be arrogant? I don't think we do because Allagar I don't know what was his name. Annarian. Will be back here waiting for us. I suspect there are creatures from this week you hadn't purchased yet as well. Well, there they are. You can see them already. So we'll want to just kick on with our best hero and our big army. I think. I can get to here. Randall you can get you whatever you want. What would you like? What would you like from the menu of what's available up here? Nothing? I don't really want any of these. I'd rather take them all to get upgraded. Right. So spend the money on the stronghold. No, sorry. Wait a second. Now, the hero I had in mind was Sandra, but she's been replaced with either Sandro, Sausher, was it? Or G, the Stoneskin woman. The problem I have is I kind of need someone to just defend it without a lot of fuss. Scape title could be interesting. So we just hire Sandro for that because he has people. Just do that. It's all too easy to overthink it. You just need some meat. It's okay. He's got a spell book. So he'll know a few things. Great. Whatever. Sandro, I'm not going to read your history because you're really just a leader of a bunch of ragtag people. I'm not including him in the roster here. He's just behind the walls. Right, SEP. What are we doing? Do you want to come down and grab that off me, Randall? Just these skellies? I could see taking the uh... See, I have no skeletons now. Which is a bit sad. It's going to be the Dread Knight show, right? I'm thinking I could take these, though, with me. That's it. I don't want them. Destiny awaits. Can't you do it? I can't believe he chose to fight me in the open. Randall's got a bunch of stuff to think about. Stig. Where will you get to when we finally set off there? Stiggy has to get to here. And again, if you've got time you can do this. Go on then, girl. Sure, do that maybe. And then to there. Great. Nimbus. What is this? Oh, check this guy out. Look at this old dude. King Triton. What is this? Temple of the Sea. We stand before the gates of the Temple of the Sea. Not a single mortal dared to enter it. Are you bold enough to be the first one? Guarded by hydras, sea serpents, chaos hydras, and haspins. Old Nimbus is there going, my role is really more reconnaissance. You know, diplomacy. You know, statesmanship, that kind of thing. I don't get my hands dirty. So this is a town gate for those new to Horn of the Abyss. It teleports Aden straight back to the nearest town. But I don't know how it works if there's a dude here. And I might just want to do that with Aden, I think. Seems okay. Yeah, what happens if I go here? Wow. I didn't think this did this. I thought it sent you to... I thought it sent you to whichever um... I thought it sent you to whichever town was closest. But it's an expert town portal anchored on the map. Wow. Okay, so yeah, if you've been watching the whole series, as I explained earlier, I've banned town portal from the game. But here we are nonetheless with fixed portals that anyone can use. So anyone can cast town portal from this square and go and do something. If I'd known that case, I wouldn't have hired Sandro. I would have sent Aden to do the job. So it's really, really interesting, isn't it? That they can work that way. What happens when I click Cold Soul? It just won't let me because thingy is in the middle. Okay. Wow. I think this is better than town portal. Like having these random town gates around that anyone can use. Um... Seems kind of nice and it's a one-way system, right? So if he was to go to the Slough um... where the paper merchants are if he was to do that, he wouldn't be able to get back again. You can't portal back to this town gate. This is a one-way destination. One-way system. Um... Yeah. Makes me wonder if I do want to send him anywhere else. I'm going to click Cancel because I don't... Well, I'm going to get this soul for anyway first. And he's going to go and upgrade it. He could get these actually while we're waiting. Why don't you go do that? Because we are collecting these. That's still alright. That's still fine. Again, let's find out. Go to Slough. He still has his movement points, so that's fantastic. So run away because I don't want you getting killed by him. And then you can hop around here to get the behemoths. You can probably unlock this. Have himself a whale of a time out here in Slough. Yeah. Escape Tunnel doesn't matter. I don't care about Sandro, so I'm not going to build that. Alright. Let's see what happens. Subgenre. Does she need to just think about it configuration a little bit? Is that sensible? That might be. Green, green, green. Greeny, greeny, green. What have you done? Marist is messing with pink. That suits me. Love, beautifully. Orange is dreaming of greater things, but here's a hero who can actually do something. Here comes Aligarh. Didn't quite have what it took. Took one. Look at me. It's thought twice. Who's that riding down towards the second Necro? Who came out here? You. Oh, dear. It's Melodia. Might need that escape tunnel after all. Okay, that's a headache. We're going to lose Slough, I think. But, in exchange for Slough, we're going to, hopefully, I didn't even try to reinforce. Incredible. Incredible. More map. Okay, that's clearly there. I'm nearly sure that the thing hasn't been found and that the the item is in the middle of the map. Right, because that's the last piece to be revealed. I'm nearly sure. Um... I don't get the Grail very often when I play the game. Like, I don't actually end up getting it. Just because, in the vanilla game, it's... easier to just kill everybody, rather than running around trying to waste your time digging and trying to piece it together before the AI gets to it. Right, are we ready for this? And where are your assets? You've got a man here. Erdemon, who can fly around. You've got Gernison. I assume we're up against an Aryan again, but I don't know. That's a very easy army you've left. Much more straightforward. And there's no one here. There's no hero. So... hmm. Assuming the arrow towers all keep going for these, should I just teleport now? Yeah. Yeah, that feels right. Yeah, and then raise these back up again. Alright. Um... You guys won't like this. Maybe someone would be stupid enough to attack them instead. I could teleport these actually. That might be more fun. And then just do a quick resurrect on the zombies and these. The vamp's coming in as well, so I don't have a lot of time to muck around, because the guys will tidy this up very quickly. But there's no fleeing. Right, so I do have a discretion to end the fight when I want to. Yeah. Are you idiot? Are you ready to take damage though? Get over there. So... Now I've got two stacks that need healed and the arrow towers keep hitting me each turn. That's very annoying. They're not alive, I should have saved them for the vampires to feed on. That was really stupid of me. Five of them are dead, five each. So my only hope is that they shoot the vampires again? Yes, alright. Okay, that worked out okay. That was lucky though, right? Lucky, lucky. I should be so lucky. I'm going to go for this and I'm going to pop my head into the conflux, which I have finally conquered. Ooh, that looks like a tall mage guild. Ho, ho, ho, ho. And indeed it is. Inferno and chain lightning. Sadly, I am water and earth. And this is not what I wanted. I bet you she finds some useful chain lightning though. Ice bolt, yay! I can use the orb of whatever. And slow. Now she finally knows slow. On day 100 and something. Day 70 and she learns slow. How good is that? I want to... You know what I want to do is I want to build that fifth level. Yeah! Might get implosion. Might get waterwalk or what's the other one? This is worth it. Doing it. YOLO? I'm only here once? Not bad! Not bad at all. Water elemental. Very, very good. 20 points and I get 64 water elementals. Great! What is the clause? No other one... Once cast no others. No other types may be summoned. Yeah. So my opponent and I can keep casting them and summoning tons of them. Not bad. I wanted implosion because I feel like direct damage is what she's missing. 64 water elementals is kind of like clone. It's just okay in terms of what it adds to the toolkit. But it's okay. What is this? Vault of Ashes. I've not seen this building before. It increases phoenix production by one per week. Oh yeah, they've changed all this, right? So it used to be that you would get just 50 phoenixes a week and it's absurd. Way worse than in vanilla. Like in the vanilla game they cost two grand each. And you get like four a week and now you get two a week. Plus Vault of Ashes. If you've got the money to invest in the vault gives you up to three a week. So the phoenixes are way, way worse in terms of value for money and harder to collect. Which is a... I support the idea of nerfing that I do support that idea. And then the fear is just, does that leave conflux with enough to look forward to to get happy about because the sprites are nerfed as well. Man, I'm tired. That was hard work. Like good hard work. We'd really like green to die and go away. We want these heroes away from you know, we don't want these guys loitering around.