 But maybe I will in a moment. Ooh there's blue again. What happened there? Something happened in the surface world as well. Is there someone here do you think? Could be in for a comeuppance here, Galari? Gala? Galari? Pick a side, pick a freaking option. I don't need to waste this movement I can kind of see if it's safe. I can sail along here, land somewhere further down and then just gallop up the road to that. I kind of just want to see what's here. I don't want to end my turn next to the coast because you can be attacked. You can easily clear that. Might as well go there through the teleporter. Okay. What are these doing here? I don't have to fight these at all. I could just run past them. Pandora's Box is so good. She could get like 5 levels, character levels. Then again in the early game I don't know if maybe Pandora's Box is turned down intentionally to be less powerful. I do get these combat bonuses. Y'all know it's very good news. Lots can mean any number up to about 50. We're looking at 20. I can't do any of that. My brain's gone. 26. And we have the first turn. We have movement 9. I thought they were movement 9. They are okay. So they'll get the first turn next turn I think or something like that. No retaliation. They're health 40. I thought they were health 30. I guess we're obviously just waiting. There's never a morale flash risk here. They're all waiting for her to shoot before they act. Although weirdly all four of them paused. So I can pause but it's pointless. I don't know. I could sit here for ages. Wow. I think we're dead. A lot of interest. She went to 15. Maybe she'll go second actually. Maybe one of these goes first and then I go second. Acting first again. Oh I really thought it did alternate. Kill them all you can. That's dead surely. Yeah he's gone forever. Tell me when it's over. Oh 96 I've already lost. 20. The only thing here is 83. That means if I stone skin a second time that's really powerful. One of them on his own is going to cause the whole stack to come back to life. So let's do this. It doesn't stack. How can I play this game for 22 years and not know that it doesn't stack. This fight has not gone well. Lost half my girls Oh don't last for a minute. Why don't I magic arrow you get to shoot. How many did I kill? 3. That's pretty good. 155 damage. And after I've done it I'm going to attack with the ice elementals. And then you go next. So that means I can wait and see whether they can kill you. It's not run ending. 62 sprites. I'm just not used to losing troops in this run through. That's the first time I've actually lost anything. Ever? That might be my first loss of any troops. Sounds like I'm bragging. I feel simply terrible farming let them die. Obviously the stone skin stacking thing was deep in my mind I knew that it didn't stack. I don't know why I was foolish enough to think that it did stack. She got plus 1 knowledge as well though but that's excellent. That means she's got 80 spell points. Was it worth it? 60 sprites? Let me learn something. Vampire lords are good. Right. I don't know how many levels she's going to pick up here. Do we want fire magic? I don't know so if I don't know I'm just going to do the ooh yes. But she's already level 7. I'm just going to take this right. Expert slow. More knowledge. Haven't seen Thursday 10th anywhere nearby. Having scholars as the conflict seems good. It's better than first aid for her. 10,000 experience holy. Was it worth the 60 sprites? Heck yes. I said no to sorcery earlier. Yeah I'll say no again. Oh my god. There's water magic. That's all we've been waiting for. I think we're saying yes to that once it comes online. Pick this up at some point. So she's shaping up nicely. She's looking really really good now. This is what she looks like without the flail. Was it worth the exchange? Yes it was. Do I still want to buy the... was that the necklace of swiftness? Hello. And they say oh yes this is just what I was looking for. Pendant of holiness no. We're going to go for that. We're definitely going to go for that. I won't worry about the windmill waiting for her. Let's just get back to town. Yep. In fact I might be able to get the lines back home. Can I get the lines home? I can. Here's an annoying thing. I've got to be sitting here in the town for the lines to work. And then I've got to run up here, get these, bring them back, upgrade them. Which is annoying. Lots of halberds. Should be okay. Lots of skeleton warriors. These are all doable. Even with 56 they're still doable. Oh but she's tired. I've got to do it today. What is that? Dendroid arches. Oh okay. Dendroid arches being there. Means that there's a rampart nearby. I'm just going to do it. I'm just going to leave the trauma of having lost so many. I guess just do nothing. I need to wait. Oh it would be annoying here. I really don't want to waste. I don't have 13-12 points left. I really don't want to waste them. I need to kill about 12 of you. Oh yep. Alright that's the end of my turn. I am going to get the capital. Stick to the plan. Oh he finally came back and he got the Yawning Den Shield. And now he's coming to get the prisoner. What was that? There's an orange guy here. Can I see who he is? No he's just out of range. That's solid. That was their starting hero, Soulmere. If he catches us we are dead. We are so dead. He easily could catch us actually. He probably won't come galloping all the way down through here in one turn though. Obviously we're doing this. Visiting a local wise man, you explain the intent of your journey. He reaches into a sack and withdraws a strange necklace. Which he adds to it. You can't help but notice it is the necklace of swiftness. The very artifact you've been seeking all this time. This should be straight forward. Yes I do. And we're back to if it finds being easy again for a while. That arrogant of movement. Hard to mess up. Arches. Could be quite good to get some dendroids. I love those gems though. I think I have to get this for the gems actually. That's made, that's changed my mind. Yeah. Oh. And these fights are way easier than I've necessarily been to be from the adventure map. Just because of the vampires and little creeps. Look at that. One shoulder. Oh my, that's the only problem. Can lose like 12 girls. Yeah. I have nothing about this. I don't even think we're going to check in here. It looks like it does open up. It looks like it's curving slightly there. So it opens up and around here. That road probably runs all the way up that way. There's a homestead. I want whatever, wherever this rampart is I want it. I want it really badly now that I know that that's there. There's a rampart town here. Ish. And there's free extra elves. For the lucky sod who conquers the rampart. Now I have no spell points and no army. And I need Solmere to take a hike. You can't be too greedy and you cannot plant too far ahead. Okay, found some free resources. Why wouldn't I? It's going to be hard to move on this surface. Oh, I'll have to kill some sprites. It's a bit jarring. Still sticking to the plan I think here. Can't do it. Don't have a castle. Forgot completely that that was a thing. Having said that, I don't think it's a tragedy that we haven't been spending money. If I could have my time back I would probably have built something yesterday at least. This can wait until all people get here. An additional mercury. Not the thing we need. The Zors silo. I think it's either a citadel or one of these altars but these two units are so boring and not very interesting. I think it's a citadel. And to get the capital we need a castle first. So yeah, let's head towards a capital but we're going to buy troops and let this money plunge right down to a low value. Six, so that's a pretty big army I'll be pulling out tomorrow. Loins of Legion. Let's get them home. I know I've heard of this thing we've talked about before. And we'll just have to see. Can we afford all of the troops that want to come on the stream tomorrow? Yeah, so I do have to fight the orcs I can't just stand there. But somebody could just come and kill me and won't go. So, as much as I love that homestead, we'll have to wait. Yes. Oh, he's got backup. Well, he's going up towards the rampart. How good is the backup? So, I'm sort of half tempted to see if I could sting her, can I? Really? If I show myself here though, she'll just go boom and run away. And I certainly don't want to run after her. I must say this is a pickle. Let's all take this, although we've got plenty of sulfur. I could come down here. I don't have to fight them. Thank God. This will take me a whole day. Oh! I feel bad here, but aren't you just dead? If only you couldn't have joined me. Sorcery. This guy knows. He's a water major. Definitely knows ice bolt. Could be good. Can come this way, so that's good. Oh man, he used all his moves just doing that. So, that's tomorrow's movement there. That's as far as he's going. Okay, Alomar. What happened with the loins? Did it work? He does have them equipped, right? Yeah. So, there's 14 there now. It would have been 10, but there's four extra. Pretty good. If you click this button, spending money on what we get. Tier 3. Garbage. Garbage. Oh, and garbage. Alright, we whiffed on level 3, but it's about time because level 2 was fantastic and we've had very good luck, generally speaking, in the rest of the game. Alomar doesn't need to get these yet. This is awkward. Couple of ways to set this up. I could stay up here and let him gallop up and deliver the army to me tomorrow. Then I come around here, kill the orcs, walk through here, confront Solnir. The other way to do it is I could just gallop down here right now and throw her off and keep her away from the prisoner. Then come up through here, clear the prisoner and get whatever the dwarfs are guarding. It's probably a bit better. Solnir might come down to contest to come and sort of confront her with this army. And then surprise, I've got a bigger army. Obviously, she's not a problem the way she is. The question is, can Solnir get to her? I think he galloped up this way. I don't think he can get to her. It's a risk. I think it's the right way to go. Yes. Okay, please don't kill me. There she goes. Here he comes. Yeah, but he's miles away. Okay, he's got the elves. Son of a gun. We're going to have to go down in here and clean her clock. There's a couple of ways of doing that actually. We could use Alomar to do that. Basically pin her in here. We need to kind of get her to the wishing well anyway. I think we're both coming down this way actually. We both want to stay clear of Alomar. Ah, Solnir. There you go. Learn these useful spells. I will take the girls. You take these. And with Oh my god, 37 is not that good, is it? Can I really face Solnir with this army? Oh by the way, I don't know. I'll wear that actually. Keep 96 of them alive. I'm not really ready to kill Solnir. I don't think. I don't think. Can I do this without the sprites? I just don't. Typically what happens here is that Rissa will cast Ice Bolt and kill half of my sprites and then flee. So if she's going to be proverbial and rather she did it to the air elementals, I think this is a zero. So let's just fire first. I can waste spell points here. I think that's how that works. So I might be able to actually kill Rissa rather than other flea. You just don't get a turn. Speed 5. Protection from air. Speed 5. Which is slower than me. So wake up. Go ahead. And now die. You're going to take at least 18. Yeah, you're dead. After all, exceptionally low. Rissa is dead. That's really, really useful. So I actually didn't have any artifacts. I can't come in here. Maybe you can. And if you can, I'll just stand here just to be safe. An annoying part of the game is trying to guess how far your opponents can move. Oh man, I'm just getting bogged down here. Hey folks, sorry for the jump. I lost about an hour of recording time there. Problem with my OBS. Something to do with the camera. Wasn't picking up the audio properly. I came across all squeaky. So I don't want to show you an hour's worth of squeaky chipmunk commentary. Just to fill you in on what has happened in that time. The main thing that happened is we crossed our fingers actually that Solmia would not come down and challenge us. And thankfully he didn't. We freed the prisoner that was here. We beat the Crusaders. The prisoner is Velasca. Level 10 expert leadership archery and estates. That's 500 bucks a day. And artillery. We basically spent the rest of the week running away from Solmia. He never actually came down here, but we were scared. So I realized that there's just no way we can beat him. Because of chain lightning. Chain lightning would just murder half of our sprites on turn 1. His army is too good. We did that. The other thing we did is we got the necklace of swiftness. I think that was part of the last session. You guys saw us getting the necklace of swiftness. We gave that to the Tim. We gave it to Tim. And Tim gave us 25 grand elves as a reward. We reminded to even just say no and to keep the talisman of swiftness gives you extra movement. In the end we did do the swap. And we got the 25 elves. Part of the reason why the elves are so great of course is Velasca is an expert archer. And she comes with 11 archers. Sadly we aren't going to be able to leverage that really once they die. Her specialty goes away. The other thing I found out which is a little bummer is that these ranged units do trigger with archery but they don't care about leadership. You can't get positive morale events with elementals. Yet another thing to write home about with elementals. This is part of the problem with Conflux. The sprites are great but they have a shelf life. Chain lightning or let's say vampire lords they will eventually curve off and stop being effective. The ice elementals I found to be very expensive for what they do. Lighting elementals a little bit less. Obviously grand elves are exceptional but there's only 25 of them. So all the heroes came back to base. We taught Velasca how to cast spells. Didn't come with the spell books though to buy one. She ran around then all of the upgrade areas so that's all happened. And now we've sent her back out again. She's our main hero, our lead hero. We've sent her to here. We've got this army. Modest you would say. I want to capture the rampart and start getting the homestead. Doubling down on elves obviously works really well with Velasca. I'm willing to face Solmyr up here. I don't think I can attack him if he's behind the walls but he probably won't be. Anywhere near here by now. Anyway before we go up here though we've got a really interesting conundrum which is that because of the efforts of this guy Gela he found a redwood observatory. And I can actually see blue's hometown. It's over here. It's got nothing in it as you can see. As soon as Velasca moved into range of the fog of war blue did on its turn as it hired Isra and purchased the week's worth of creatures so literally I could in two turns bring a siege to their tower. To their tower town. Literally there's an underground subterranean gate here so I could just run down here, gallop up to here and engage. I'm working on the assumption I can't get there in one turn. If I could get there in one turn I would definitely do it like here for example. So yeah it's a bit of a last gasp. I don't know how well this is going to go to be honest whether Velasca really does have enough soldiers to capture the rampart because capturing cities archery is not the greatest skill for capturing cities. Having creatures with flying is you know dragons is better. So I could go for the bowstring but I think I'd rather try to get the drop on my opponent. I assume the town is at the end of the road. Might get lucky. I did get lucky. We can always come back and get the bowstring later if we're able to. Okay maybe Isra will get it but there's a good chance of us being able to get it. It might be worth having Lebelia, I'll get it right one day. Might be worth having her in the neighborhood. The problem is getting trapped by Isra which I'm a bit worried about. I resolved that Gela is going to fight these. Pack of power likes. The reason for that is that he has the ability to ice bolt and I wanted to experiment with forgetfulness. I've got tons of mana. With advanced forgetfulness the entire stack forgets to use its ranged attack. Just seems so funny this idea of you got this big fancy army of soldiers and then a spell gets cast on them and they just forget. Anyway I don't know if I have the first turn though let's find out. I do. No forgetfulness. This could go really badly now. That's the worst possible layout. It's more than their maximum greater than their normal maximum. Shouldn't matter though I'm killing two which won't put the other seven damage. I'm going to lose at least two here I think. This is bad. I'm sad. I'm sad watching them die. I'm turning down the combat music on my speakers. You guys are still here. It's just a bummer. Just a bummer. Sad really. Kill two more. Guess these guys. And I'll ice bolt so I assume blind doesn't work on undead at all. I'm surprised I forgot that but there it is. Guess I'll go for this after these guys. Kill you. What? 74 damage? Oh there's less off them. Because they're dying. Man this gun. Really? Losing all my dudes. Health left six. Health left 26. This is bad. These guys hit hard. Oh man these guys hit very hard. Oh I'm just going to have to stand here like an idiot. Keep ice bolting I guess. I'm just really annoyed. I'm really annoyed at how many tricks I'm losing. Six damage. Seven damage. He's still alive. And spell points by the way. Kill you. Please don't leave no one. This artifact better be incredible. An old Charmin stands in the road before you screaming something. In a language you can't understand. He suddenly vanishes in a cloud of smoke. When the smoke clears there's a long string of dragon teeth in the spot where he was standing. Necklace of dragon teeth. It gives a nice little noise. Worth it. Well worth it. Fantastic. Fantastic artifact. Came at great cost. Have I visited this today? Seems unlikely. I mean this this week. So I'll just play it safe. So stick together. Alomar you've got the loins right? At least got that right okay. I'm not really interested in investing in him just yet. Don't really have a job for him to do though. Just stay on station I suppose. Don't have enough money to build anything I don't think of interest. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed please don't kill me. Right. Oh yeah Tan. I forgot to mention there's this Tan guy. It's because he's camouflageed against the thing. Yeah this guy's here. Army actually isn't enormous but yeah he's here. So let's just hope he doesn't find his way over to our side of the water. Nothing from our friends. There it is. I'm about to right click. Takeable. I think you'll agree. Now that little symbol there which you can't see me pointing at. I can't point at it. But the little symbol of a castle is the gold coins there. Means that it's just a fort. It's not a citadel and it's not a castle. In other words there's no arrow towers. So we will walk into that town and take it. Which means if we see Solmere coming we can jump behind the walls and then he will have a hard time. Even with chain lightning he'll have a hard time dislodging us. Oh man that's really good advice. Where has he gone? I don't think there's any need for anyone to do anything here at all. Well this is interesting. I'd say it's actually not bad. Normally I think the blister is a bit weak. It's a bit poor. Thank you for coming on out here and making this so easy for me. Can I fight then? I can surprise up a good time here. Well against those guys my army felt pretty strong actually. I wish I had an observatory inside my town. A town hall? Oh no yeah a town hall. So they haven't invested. I was hoping they hadn't even built a homestead. I already know stone skin. I am the stone skin master. I didn't know cure. So that's something. Now I think I might have made the wrong decision. Normally I expected blue to have spent money here but they haven't really. They hadn't even built that. That's a no brainer. So my whole appeal of coming here was I get to be queen. Right. With access to the best archer in the game. And a free dwelling where I can keep buying them.