 Okay, we're back the next day. Welcome to day 6, week 4 of the first month in the Necropolis. Now, what should we do today? I think, we want to go around the heroes. I think Zai, as I'm going to try to remember to call her, wants to get back in the boat. There's firebirds here. Maybe one, maybe two, but that's enough to make me not want to fight the conflicts. So, I think maybe we could scout up this way and then use the second day to run through here and jump in the boat. If we are left alone, we might try to come down here and get this. You could flag these on day one maybe, that could be a thing. Before we decide that, just again, what a massive shout out to Stig, saving the campaign for us. We're going to want to come and learn something. I don't think we're going to be able to do that fight still. So, that's a problem. That's actually a real bottleneck in our development, not being able to come through and just develop all that area. With the two main heroes underground here, we've got Septiana and Nagash and they're a long way from home. They're a very long way from home. I drew these arrows just before I hit the record button. That's how far back it is, four plus turns. She's wet. That's still three. Yeah, so it's pretty much more than four turns to even get back above ground again for Nagash. Septiana's similar story, not quite as far. But I think on this map, there's too much to potentially gain by continuing to explore. I think with Septiana, we have a pretty good line and doing a bit more exploring, coming back and hitting the warehouse on day one. And then with Nagash, he can just gallop on forward or he could try to take one of these fights on with his spell points. I think lots of centaurs have HP six. So if there's say 40, that's 240 HP. And I think with his spell power, he does actually have enough death ripples and or magic arrows to get that job done. So similar to what Septiana did before, it's almost like some one-up midship going on. I think we should give that a try. Maybe do that first. And I think I prefer the centaurs to the troggs just because the Pandora's Box is probably very good. I might just grab these gems first and then we'll do this fight. He's going to be like, ooh, abandoning the cause. So just adjust some audio here for us. Okay, so death ripples just going to be excellent. Unless we lose both guys, oh, maybe we are going to lose both guys. Let me just check. No, we should be okay. All right, so death ripple one. Yeah. Okay. I suppose there is a risk here we've taken that another morale flash will go off. Let's see, I can get there. But if I come up to here, maybe I'll be all right. All right, so good luck to you fellas. A bit risky actually in hindsight, right? But then again, like let's say they'd been in three stacks, death ripple still would have been very good. So I don't feel that bad. I've never been able to leverage death ripple this way before. It's always seems to me to be a kind of a bad option to cast. Like it never, it doesn't stick around during the late game. You're finding yourself casting different things instead. We've been offered fire magic and we have curse and bloodlust curse would go down to five. Oops, hang on what happened there? Fire magic or necromancy. He's got no other skills yet. Spell power plus one. We know blind septiana know who someone don't know. So Zyno is blind. And with the scholar, maybe at some point Nagash could learn it. Don't know how relevant that really is. I know curse and I could work my way towards expert curse. So I think that's something I'm just going to say yes to. And let's just see what's in the box. Drum roll. Do you wish to open the box? We do 60 hobgoblins. It feels like I don't know I've played a bit of horn of the abyss. I don't know if the Pandora's boxes have been nerfed a little bit. I mean, even just a teensy bit. I mean, I shouldn't be too upset, right? Because it was guarded by an extremely easy group of dudes. But still a horde of troglodytes. What's the best way of dealing with a horde of troglodytes? And I have fast goblins. I think the best way is probably to do something like this and we'll come up with some kind of scam. Definitely want to take this fight now. There's stuff up here. Maybe I could get it. Ooh, anything's possible. 58 of these bad boys. Just messing with my volumes here again, guys. Hope that's okay. I'm going to try to do this without spell points. That's fine for us. No problem. You've got to act before me. You come to here. You go to there. What am I going to do here? These guys can come to here maybe. Then with the weight. So I could just do the kite move here. Yeah. Seems okay. Come back. I can't hear. Can you guys hear what's going on? Now you guys are going to come clopping over here. A morale flash on that stack would be annoying. I could hedge that, couldn't we, by just shuffling. Makes the hobgoblins' job a bit harder, but they've got movement seven. So they're going to go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I think it's fine. And maybe we'll do that. Just tighten up a little bit. Movement five. One, two, three, four, five. You can't do it. One, two, three, four, five. You can do it. And one, two, three, four, five. Okay. Well, that was a miserable failure on my part. It actually makes me want to try to offer a sacrificial lamb down this side. No morale. What? Start of the next round. I don't want to use any of my stuff. The hobgoblins are kind of more important than anything else now. I think they're going to be too tempted to kill skeletons. So I'm angling away, even though I can't escape anyway. Yeah, but this is just, this is fine. Okay. I think that's still just going to kill a skeleton. Seven of them come back, but that's just really not great. Weakening our big stack like that. I probably didn't fight that very well. It's awkward right when my good unit is really fast and my bad units are really slower than the enemy. There's a right way to fight that. I think I can do this fight now. So this has kind of worked out actually. A little bit of momentum for Nagash is nice. So we decided with Septiana we are going to keep exploring. People have been here. Smooth stones swirling around and I'm looking into it and I'm realizing that I can be an advanced water mage. Yeah, I definitely don't want to take Archery as my last skill. Plus one defense is fine by me as well. Now these mansions, this is new in Horn of the Abyss. Those who aren't familiar, they are mansions and I won't be going in there. They're guarded by vampire lords. So it can be the sort of thing where you're either going to comfortably beat them or they're going to absolutely destroy you. I just want to get a bit more of a scout on here. I don't want to go flag that because I don't think it'll bear fruit and she'll risk getting tagged. Now I can't get back to the boat this week so I kind of want to make a nuisance of myself. I can do this, come back, do that. I don't know what's down there. She might already be dead. There might be a green hero coming up from the underground to get vengeance. Now, as for Xi, not Xi, Stig. As for Stig, this is the obvious first destination. The question is, what have I got left here to buy, if anything? And I think the answer is nothing. The only thing is the first aid tent. Nope, she has the first aid tent. So I could leave these slow guys behind but that would include the zombies. I kind of want to build to my capital. Do we think we can tag a horde of fire elementals with this hero and magic arrow? No, it's definitely not happening, right? It's definitely, definitely not happening. The other thing we could do with her is come down, grab some halflings, which might be available. I think I had thought the other day that we could do this fight though, lots of bores against seven liches getting given the run around by the various other units. I think that's doable. And I think that's level five. We'd get a bonus to that. She can also hit this, monolith, grab peasants out of here. So I think we have a way forward. I don't need all the creature stacks. I need to make room for them, for those peasants and stuff. So I think the unit is to leave behind pretty much obviously these. That's movement four. Archery units are good, but not when there's only four of them. It's just not really something to worry about. I don't think the windmill was explored today this week, I mean. Big loss of moves. Let's just have a quick look at how she gallops. Let's gallop out for me, stick and see how, let's see your form. It's a big waste of my time. What's the downside? The downside is nothing because I can still get to the halflings this week. No one's threatening to take the boars off me. I get these satyr dudes. They seemed good those satyr guys. Casting mirth. The boar glen? Oh man. You could get that. You could kill these. I don't think I'm at risk of losing... Oh. Now this is because I've... I came back the next day. It would be fresh in my memory. No, I've completely cocked up. I'm sorry. I just realized I've completely messed up. I've galloped her down to this target, which was already taken by Green. By Deema. And in reality, of course, she wanted to go here. And she still has to do that. That's still a must. So that's a big... loss of momentum. I've lost at least half a day of her moves there. So that's terrible and sloppy. I have no excuse at all. And you're right to feel disappointed in me. A bit more knowledge. A monk sitting in the center of a garden just randomly out in the middle of nowhere in the underground invites you to meditate with him. I guess that's what monks do, right? They find a quiet space. I have to sit in there for a while. You feel absolutely enlightened. But still utterly exhausted from a... Is this a waste? Four gems is never a waste. Stay seven. Let's stick around. Okay, that's easy. Nagash. Can't do the basilisks. Let's try to do this fight again, but better, shall we? What is that? Let's stand here. That's the red tower. There's only 37 on, but I'm just going to death ripple, right? I'm going to take... I think that's worth it. Death ripple's crushing. Ah, see, again, that's twice. That is sloppy. I mean, that's unforgivable. I mean, okay, fool me once. Or make an idiotic mistake once. You know, shame on you, but fool me twice. Yeah, I'm sorry, everyone. What a waste of spell points and a waste of goblins. Okay, yeah. Hi guys, I'm sorry. Like, this is just... After scaring the area, we get a ring of vitality. And the ring of vitality gives the health of all of our units plus one. Very, very good. Ring of vitality, such... They've seen that to me. Yeah, yeah, they've seemed a lot more robust. All of you guys, all of you guys. And that includes the undead as well. All right, that's actually not bad. Take that, even though I'm an absolutely callous murderer of my living allies. I think the red tower is too hard. It has elementals in it, if I'm served correctly. Again, for those of you who are new to this, horn of the abyss caper. Black tower, same deal. I think it's dragons. Cannon yard lets you buy cannons. Cannons are a new thing in horn of the abyss. So there's three locations here, three objects. This thing is new. That's a wolf raider picket. Also new to horn of the abyss. Now, cannons are expensive. And I don't have money. So I'm just going to do that and come back just to see where we're at. And this is where we're at. We're at death. We're at the point of death. Our game is over. It's been lovely knowing you all. I think Nagash will survive. But we won't be able to hire him back for a while. There's no point running. So let's just have a look. Okay, so this is a neutral town. This is not actually Allagar's town. It's Allagar's rampart and he's conquered this town. Okay, cool. That's something to fight over. Cool. That's good to know that that's it. Except Jenna's doing that. Xi is going to do this job. Such a nuisance. Come in here, do this. Earth magic isn't actually great for us, surprisingly. I think I'll be offered it again later. An advanced learning method trying to leverage learning. So leveraged early since we've got no choice. All right, Stig, so embarrassing. But yep, come up and do your thing. I should have thought about this as well. I think spell powers the way to go. Yeah, so she'd be underground by now if I hadn't made that other mistake yesterday. So Allagar's going to kill Nagash. The odds are overwhelming. Do you wish to retreat? No, because I managed to kill a Pegasi in the auto resolve. Let's see what I can do in real life with no spell points. This? Yeah, it's probably just this, right? And then we run away. Yeah, two's better than one. Okay, so this army's okay, but not amazing. Allagar, nice to see you. I should take a look at him. He's a pretty poor hero, so that's good to know. All right, except Jenna, get us some stuff. Three crystals, great. Come down here, keep exploring. See what you can find. I need to fix her army. Wow, Colosseum just sitting there. I'll take that. Lots of genies, too tough for us. Okay, cool. Zai. Have no wisdom. The boat is some way off. Wait, stop. Sloppy clicking. Three crystals, okay. We've got time to come around and do this because they're... The five birds are gone, so someone's come and got them. Which makes me worried that they've gone underground with them and they're going to hook back up around here. So maybe we need to be ready for them with Stig. All right, Stig, let's get this torso. How should I get these first? I have time. How much do I care about 15 halflings? Not enough. I can get them some other time. The liches just completely overpower. 39 of them, it's not easy. Can't slow. I could curse, it'd be pretty good. 52, damn. Yeah, cursing's not bad. It's not great. Okay, so wait and bait them a little bit. Curse is going to last the four turns. I probably should have checked actually to make sure that that's... Oh, that's good. That's very nice. And the two hex body is going to be a big liability for them here. They're not going to be able to get through to me. Big hit. Come on, boys. Not bad. They're very expendable, those things. It's okay. I don't know if I wasted six spell points there. She does have a first aid tent. We get 50 points to the first unit. Basic first aid. I think it's normally about 10. Her specialty is sorcery. 5% per level. So I don't think it's 5% as in she becomes... Her spells deal 20. Well, hang on. It causes a bolt of magic. Spell power times 10 plus 10 would normally be 60 damage. Sorcery is giving her 63. Which is 5% more damage. And then on top of that, she gets a 5% per level. So it's clearly not 20% more damage. It's like 5% per level bonus to the bonus, I think is what it is. So instead of 5%, it's 5% times 1.2. So 6%. 5% goes to 6%. So in other words, who cares? First aid seems okay. It gives me some utility right now. I didn't take it. Searching a ruin, you're amazed to find a piece of the statue of Legion. You carefully dust it off and place it in your backpack. Oh yeah. Fourth level units, even better. That's vampires, that's fantastic. Really, really good. It's day one, so I'm not going to worry about getting back to use that torso just yet. I can't be bothered going to get the halflings when there's jobs to be done here. Even the satyrs can wait, right? That's doable. Okay, so green hasn't done these. So green has come up under here, but it hasn't got access to this. So this is a green area in here. Untouched by time. Nagash could reappear up here and come and get the chest of Legion. That's now not visited again, so that's something. The real thing I want to do here is build my capital. Now that I've got the money, 10k. Let's drop it. Oh man, now we really are cooking. Look at this awesome building. We have a new week's worth of castle produced troops. Okay. Okay, tell me more about that hero. Who was that? Who was this person? No, that's me. Is she up here? No, that also is me. Right, I'm going to need to see that again, folks. Apologies. What? Where in the world is that? So there's a cover of darkness. I have to watch it one more time, people, sorry. It's right near the... It's here. So she's just there. And there's a cover of darkness. And I don't know how good the hero is. I don't know if it's Alomar, for example. Yes, I do. It's not Alomar. So I'm going to bet that Alomar has the good army and that Stig's army ain't half bad. And we could come up and challenge this cyan hero who's never seen this area. So I think it's a bit of a change of plans. Stiggy's going to have to get a move on. Nagash could probably get to her today. Is there any reason to do that? I think the answer's no. So we know she's about there. Let's say she gallops out to here, gets the ore. She goes this way. It's not going to matter. She comes down here, gets that, comes to here. Yeah, so I'm going to spend a day down here and see what that cyan hero does. I'm going to learn a little bit more about how powerful they are as well. Horde of Gremlins will die to magic arrow if they have masters. Just do that quickly. Yes, they do have masters. Maybe I should be saving my spell points for something more deadly, but how many perished? One thing I've noticed with the horn of the Abyss, it's a little thing, is that when the creatures die, the number doesn't change immediately. The animation happens and then they die. The animation of getting hurt happens and then the number changes. It's a little niggly thing. It doesn't really matter, but I'm just very conditioned to... Who did you shoot? Did you shoot this? You shot them? I'd forgotten that First Aid gives you control of the First Aid tent. Fascinatingly. Yeah, so I'm just going to do this even though that's a bigger stack. It's just better, right? Why am I doing anything? You may ask. You may ask yourself. Why am I here defending this pile of rocks? A monk. Yet another one. They're all over the place here. Stig learned something, so that's a miracle. I'm being mean. I don't think I want to fight lots of energy elementals anyway to get to a wolf raider picket. And I don't need peasants. A quick scout of this. Does it keep going? It does keep going! Alright, but we need to get back and get ready. Didn't look at the map there. Let's have another quick look. Do we think that Thingo was maybe digging in the right place? So we've got trees, rocks, shrub here, cliffs to the side. I'm going to go ahead and say that that's the wrong place. Because this area here just doesn't match, does it? I don't think. Putting it in the center of my screen and then clicking the puzzle button. Where's these hills? Where's this cliff mountainous region right at the top? It's just not there, right? So I think this was just a pot shot. Like a hero with nothing to do was waiting around. Except Janna could have done that. Although it uses your whole turn. So I don't know. Anyway, I definitely want to do this. Going for attack this time. Lots of genies. We could stick our head up there. That's something to do. Okay, another one of these dragon towers. We're not going to be strong enough to do. I don't think. Well, if I had spell points, maybe. Angel feather arrows are good. A horde of swordsmen used to be lots. Which makes me feel like this place hasn't been explored yet by anybody else. Xy has things to do. These are good pickups. I could get in the boat today instead of coming down and doing this. The reason why I would do that is that it doesn't feel like these guys are going to get around to coming all the way around and I'm doing it. And then I could be down here and just hit summon boat. She gets two go's at summon boat, I think. Yeah, two go's. If that don't work, she just gallops up and does it the hard way. Spoon of oppression, is that what one of you guys want? What do you want? A pendant of dispassion. Spoon of oppression would be amazing for us. It negates morale. A horde of pirates. That's level three upgraded cove unit. Good archery unit. Very, very high damage. My rule of thumb is to think of them like a beholder or an evil eye, but with less HP and more damage. Kind of like has the HP of a lizard man but the damage output of a Medusa. Something like that. And then these guys have this cool thing as well where they can be upgraded a whole extra time which is a unique ability and they become a sea dog and the sea dog has another ability that's a bit like the mighty Gorgons where they kill an extra stack. Kind of the coolest unit in the cove I think. Not that I've played a lot of cove to be fair. The time that I had played it was sometime ago. So yeah, I can't get in the boat today actually. So why don't we learn this spell. It's a pretty low regret. If you air might be worth casting actually. Let's cast view air while we're here. Okay, it tells us that there is an artifact here. And what else can we see with no talent in the school of air. Nothing much more. It's just another very low regret. It tells us everything down here. Okay, so cool. So actually we have a sense of what's through here worth trying to kill these golems and get through here at some point. That's good because it's not too far from our it's good to know that that's all there not far from our base. I have a habit of not casting view air as often as I should. So we're going to gallop down here. I can't kill the pirates. It's just going to be too hard. But we'd love to come back over with an army and do that job maybe with Nagash. So where did Sting get to? She got to here. Tomorrow I could hire Nagash. Bring some people down with me. I'd love to see a cyan hero here with a decent army that I could kill. So that's why I'm crossing my fingers for tomorrow. Let's see. Tan is here. That's okay then. Alright, there she goes. She's gone the wrong way. Who is it? Who are you? Uland. Decent army, but one that Stiggy with this week's troops could maybe kill. I don't want to make a mistake. I think I made last time of chasing arbitrarily after heroes that just wander through my area. So I think Stig is going to continue this job. Right, she's going to keep prosecuting down here. Nagash could bring her troops but he doesn't need, he doesn't have to just yet. Some hard choices here. Let's do Sceptiana first. She might be the easiest. Okay, we're in Blue's territory. That's a Nomad tent and a portal down there. I don't know if I really want Nomads. I kind of just want to keep exploring. Can I kill the churchyard? Don't Nomads. The obvious problem of course being they're expensive. Level four units, but with really low damage. They're like a bad demon. Terrible damage output. 2,800 bucks. Died a death ripple. Meet his meat, they're all the way out here. I'm going to buy them. That could be wrong, but I just feel like having something with some beef could be really handy. What this girl really needs is a wishing well. Desperately. I'd love a wishing well. Can I go here and learn something? I might have to... That's a pretty low regret, right? If I get the morale... debuff. Okay, I'll go for that and see what's happened. The morale debuff doesn't... isn't going to matter too much. Still haven't seen anything from green. Tan is too... far out of the running. He's going to take that off me, but that's all right. Is this worth bothering with? I'm just not sure how long I'll have it for. Like, let's say he gallops over and steals my boat. I'll be really sad. Although I could come back and steal his. Not sure. Let's do this. And let's just do this for the scouts. A horde of familiars is still not actually a gimmie. Either for this little army. If they're in two stacks blind would be very good. I'm not sure this is right. 65 of them? Awkwardly spread out, too. What are you going to do with that? Just kill one? That actually worked in our favor. They should have gone for the whites. Actually, this is fine, too. Well, it doesn't help us, but it's not that bad. Okay, you are going to wait. What are we going to spend our mana on? Killing... seven. Not very good. At some point, someone has to actually swing their weapon at them. So... Blind is a waste, isn't it? That's just magic arrow. That's my only... That's my only interesting thing I can do. I want to attack these with the zombies. And then, one, two, three, four... I guess move to here. Well, I'm moving into range, which makes me stupid. Foolish. You're in the way. I can't defend them. I can't defend myself properly. Which is not a good trade to have as a... a warrior in a medieval's fantasy setting. Could kill all three of these right now. Give them a bloody nose. They come back with... Well, they might not kill the white. And then my wounds heal unless they come after me. I don't think they killed one. This is fine. That's perfect. That's fine. If these don't hit the whites, I'm happy. Hey! Hit the zombies. Oh, okay. That's actually fine as well. All right. Hey, it worked. My wounds heal, and I am home again. So I can just do this. I'll do this job. You can kill with ten. That's good. That was a good hit there. That's a very good hit. Fine with this. Okay. That's actually... That worked out all right. That worked out pretty well. All right. Four skellies. Okay. So we got out of that with one magic arrow down. Masters are here. Which means that... Okay, so that connects through to there. We know that there are artifacts there from the view air. The hard part is figuring out what we're going to do with Nagash, Sceptiana. She's just kind of exploring herself to death at this point. I'd quite like to take this town, but I'll need resources. Like I'm going to need Stig's troops and next week's troops to do that. I want to do this. That's just my mind. I'm going to do this fight quickly. One vampire is unacceptable. Just die. Why are you even bothering? I guess you can come here. Both got six. You need... How did you kill a vampire? I wonder in the auto resolve. Like that's... You even put yourself... No, that's very courteous of you. Nice one. Do it, Stiggy. MVP at the moment. Old Stig. She's awesome. We still won't have enough money to buy all the stuff and Nagash. So... Raith subsist on magic energies. Yeah. I mean, I've got the money. I could hire him and not... but not the soldiers. I am losing 350 bucks a day by not hiring him. So maybe it's right that I should... because I know I'm hiring him before the end of the week. So for every day I spend not doing that. I'm burning... I'm burning money. I'm burning 350 bucks a day. So that was a mistake. I should have bought him as soon as I could afford him a day two. Well, yesterday, I think, yeah. So we've lost 350. Finding all these mistakes, it's not good. It's not good. Do I need the army? Or can I wait? Cover of darkness could be a very good investment now. So could the second level mage guild upgrade at a state time? We have the crystal to do pretty much whatever we want now. You could just go do that job quickly. Okay, that doesn't mean done either. It's pretty pathetic errand, but safe enough because we are safe at the moment. I don't know about the mage guild. Oh, I just realized Nagash actually also needs to spend a night behind the walls. So it feels like we can bank everything right and save up for next week. So I think I will build the mage guild. We could do this. But I want to see what I've got. What have I got? I've got blind, right? It's going to be blind. It's lightning bolt. We already knew Death Ripple because of Scholar. Disrupting the ray is not useless. Yeah. Don't think anyone's heading towards air though, are they? Do I have any air people? Water. I'm air. Okay, so Stig is air and she's level four now. So she's actually ahead of... She's Stig's our second best hero in terms of knowledge. I mustn't forget about the torso. We want to get that up. Day three. Day four, yeah, this time. Just relax. Okay, my time is up. Do I wish to retreat? No. Stop asking me that. I want to check out who this is. Eovakis. Eovakis. Decent hero, about as good as Septiano. Maybe a little bit worse, but 85 spell points. Now, we've got... So we've got a good Cove hero. We can have a good look at all the Cove creatures. This is the perfect opportunity to have a good look. I think there might be one of everything. All seven tiers are represented here. Nymphs. Which is the basic unit. We've got... No, maybe we're missing crewmates. One, two, three. So tier two is missing. Pirates are here. That's the... You know what I was talking about before. Level four is these guys. The Acids. And they have the Ferocity feature. So this is the upgraded version where they kind of get to... They get to do a second attack, and they kill something in the first attack. So it's nearly the same as Wolf Raiders. Level five then is... These guys. Sorceresses. Sea Witches. They're basically the same as a Lich is how I think of them. And then... In terms of my shorthand shortcut. These are mysterious, these guys. I'm not sure how these work. So this is a Nyx. And it's kind of a unicorn, but a really bad unicorn. But it has this weird ignore damage ability. You can see there ignores 30% of the attack skill of whatever's attacking it. But it's gonna die to spells and stuff, right? And I don't know how well it synergizes with everything else that's here. I'm not sure if this is the worst tier six unit out of all of them now, or if... Maybe he's awesome, but I don't think he's good, right? Speed six. Tier six? Speed six? Health 80 is the same as a Manticore, just like the worst except for the Wyvern. I don't know. These just don't seem amazing, these Nyx things. And they have protection from fire, which I think this fellow sort of fit to cast. For some reason. Wow. And finally we have the sea serpent, which is the level seven. And these guys are quite good. They've got the poisonous attack, which is the same as the Wyvern Monarchs. And you can see they're pretty high, highly variable damage output. Good speed though. And the upgraded version I think is pretty tanky. I think the upgraded version might be 300 HP. So, yeah. Not terrible. What do I want to spend my spell points on? I guess I'll kill something. I have 15 HP. And I'm happy enough with going for the pirates I think. Yeah, it feels like a big stack of these is kind of nightmarish. I think that's the best. Bang for my buck. So it's big. Okay. Ooh. So that's the pistol shot. Pretty accurate. Here they come. The nicks. And she casts weakness as well. So she attacks you and then casts weakness. That's a really cool feature. I could just flee, but I wouldn't mind just seeing some of the other. That's the cannon he's got. The cannon as well. That's the same as the Ballista, except it's better I think. I think that's just suicide, right? These things. Yeah. I'll just not do anything. I'm not sure if I can actually do any damage now at all. Whoa. That's one heck of a clone. Has clone changed to being... You get two Go's of clone now? So is it Expert Water Magic gives you two copies? Was that always the rule? All right, so it was nice meeting you. I'm out of here. Okay, and we... Okay, so you got to do it instead of me. All right, okay. So we've got a bit big for our boots there, but I'm okay with it because we've revealed substantial information about the map, which is quite handy. I really want the Spirit of Oppression. I think the experimental shop, you've got to beat Golems and you get a prize. Do I want to just get back in the boat? There's no point fighting over this with him. I think we're just getting back in the boat, right? Yeah, so do that. Right, Stig, what are you up to? Let's finish this job. We already know shield, okay. Won't bother with peasants, I don't think. Okay, Nagash is here. We realize he needs to spend the night at some point. Yeah, this feels good to me. We can get a big snowball of nasty vampire lord-looking dudes to come and feast on these, grab the Spirit of Oppression. We could then use those vampire lords and liches to take Styrium. That seems good to me, right? That seems very good to me. Yeah, they both need to spend the night. That sounds dodgy, but that's where we're at. Because she is completely out of spell points as well. Now we can't risk her dying at the castle gates if another surprise visit comes down this way. Yeah, see how she's got two spell points? That's going to need to be fixed by staying. I was going to say she could maybe right up and hit this. And then attack back up through this way. Or she could come and annoy these guys. They don't look like they're really getting a lot done up there. They'll be able to do this. But a horde of sorceresses is pretty nasty. I don't think Cyan, if I can call him that light blue, I don't think they're that great. I don't think they're that strong. That Cove hero seemed pretty strong. Yeah, but I'm going to guess that we're in okay shape. That's been visited. We want to do that as well. We desperately want to get that done. So Stig, we need the army. Can you come back to us, love? So it's day four. She gets to here. Then to here. The next day. We need to save up our bankroll anyway. It's alright. So let's just make sure that she doesn't die. And then again, I'm not sure how this works. Can she flee if she gets attacked? She's probably not going to get attacked. But still. That's something for me to be paranoid about. Could I buy this week's troops, upgrade to vampire lords, and just do stuff this week? Maybe, but I can decide tomorrow? Okay guys, sorry for the weird cut. It's the next day. I was yelling at the kids and then closed the game down without saving. But I did have an autosave. So I kind of know what happens with the fire elementals. But it's not a massively spoiler alert kind of season. It's a less scary fight than I thought. But I won't spoil it too much. I don't think it's too immersion breaking to just reload the old autosave here and continue. I got about halfway through the next day having killed the fire elementals. I didn't actually gallop up here. I haven't seen any of this. So yeah, it was just simply autosave. So you just hit the and turn button is where we're up to. Apologies for that. Just life, man. Pesky kids. Okay, need to pay attention to all that. I was kind of, because I'm excited to get on with it. So that you're doing that. And then what are you doing? You're a garbage hero if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, the sad thing is that Helen's going to come down and get all this stuff. I haven't shown you yet and I haven't tried to implement it. But it's possible to guard your stuff. I could have left some guardians here that would have given him a headache. Who I would leave, I don't know. Maybe the zombies would be too damaging for him to deal with. But then again, he's a spellcaster. It's a thing you can do. Because I'm not used to doing it, I don't play a lot of horn of the abyss. I'm not constantly thinking about how I can... I probably should be leaving some meaningful troops at each location just to mess with them, you know? Like if I'd left a little bit of troops here and a little bit of troops here he's wasting spell points it's slowing him down. Probably here's the thing that I should learn how to do better. Now, what we're doing here the whole point of what I've been waxing on yesterday is we're going to come up and kill these guys. We need Stig's army to do that. There's all these other cool errands we can do as well with a nice good-sized necropolis army which I'm looking forward to doing. And the four heroes can sort of share... share the army around a little bit. We can form a bit of a daisy chain. I've got ambitions to come over here but I don't know if I can get there before day one the end of day one. I need to get a move on. What if I buy everything? Give it to... get the army to here G takes it lands back on the land mass he runs for it she comes galloping over and uses it to conquer Styrium is that better than this job? I'm going to do this job because this is the job I did last night I've already done it so I'm going to be... yeah, that would be... I think that would be an abuse of my position of clairvoyance. Right, so I did this I bought... this isn't controversial anyway, right? I made a decision last night that all narrated and recorded but not saved that I don't want to start wasting more money on skellies even that 1200 bucks I think it was, yeah save that money because we just don't have skeletons they're not really a thing so he gives the army he learns firewall in the process he gives the army and see I just don't have enough skellies for it to start mattering now with necromancy so yeah, so Septiana is the one she's the one I want to do this job she's the one who did it last night comes here Thingy gives her the army Septiana learns shield and teaches a bunch of stuff okay, oh take the first AT-10 I think we'll leave, yeah we're gonna leave the torso to hopefully find its way back to base and that's something I'm almost definitely gonna forget even though it's free vampires that I'm probably gonna forget about but hopefully I don't and then yeah, so Septiana has the army she goes up and deals with the horde some more skellies well, an extra stack of skellies would have been nice but I could use a zombie so let's just do that now I really wasn't sure about whether it made sense to have my vampires in this fight for fear of losing one because they have to get back to the town to be upgraded but I think I resolved that I'm cool with it I'm okay not losing one, but it's gonna be manageable I don't have to lose one so let's do this fight I hope I've fired it as well as I fought it last night yes, it doesn't look great 58 of them right so what I did last night was lightning bolt was my answer which just has a decent damage efficiency per mana points so I'll be doing that again but there's no reason to do anything until they've moved there's no morale risk you stay here for luring purposes come down here start getting ready to protect these and I think the best stack to hit is going to be this one and I'm going first next turn and I'll probably be doing another one another lightning bolt I mean he's gonna have to wait so they played that well you can just defend defend defend defend defend so the important thing is that the vampires have an escape route and that I get boxed in so they get to move first next turn if I hit you and then go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 I can't be hit by you or you so that seems okay the liches can attack this as well and I have the lightning bolt I do want to cast lightning bolt again and I guess I'll pick this stack I'm able to make my decisions much more quickly than I made them last night I sat staring at each node of the combat and then I just kept concluding that lightning bolt, lightning bolt just because by the time they've killed these guys they still have enough meat and the vampires only kill a few see that's lovely it's really nice this is just working out really well yeah first 8, 10 you idiot I think I do, you're out of the game so yeah I think I cast 3 lightning bolts last time I think that's what happened those yeah so we just have to wait with the vamps see what I mean they're okay but you've got to kind of manage them don't wreck my tent that didn't happen last time okay here's the thing, in horn of the abyss I think the war machines have all got worse health so this has health 75 I think it used to be 750 so I don't know maybe when you take the first aid skill it starts to give it more HP the first aid 10 I must look that up but there's definitely a difference it's squishier than they used to be and we are of course at risk of losing a tent if we're not careful wait you come here that's pretty good okay well you could just do this now do I need another lightning bolt I don't think I do they're going to deal about 10 more damage to that this is taking massive damage yeah I think I can save my mana now I think I fought it better last night that's your big plan yeah okay so I lost a zombie I think last night I had a couple of skellies more and I had a basic skelly stack that died instead of the zombie you didn't miss it wasn't manifestly different I don't think I said anything particularly clever or insightful during the fight now she's level 7 knowledge plus 1 and we don't want to take learning raises 5 skellies which is nice and I think this is the point at which I had to get up and go deal with the kids so with that in mind um I want the hourglass could just take it right now a surprise turn in the landscape finds you in the midst of a grizzly scene vultures picking at the aftermath of a terrible battle yeah probably the one I just did oh no there wouldn't be carcasses would there your curse research of the remains turns up an enchanted hourglass which I think is quite good oh it's luck negates luck I can't be lucky and you can't be lucky all right seemed okay I have this weird thing that cancels morale but there's a different thing that's the oh yeah yeah hang on that's right that's this thing spirit of oppression cancelling morale is going to be great if we can get our hands on that which I think we can he can't get it he's too dumb okay yeah so I'd like to go to the stables I can't get there today and I kind of want to figure out what I'm doing here so she's out of moves he's in an awkward spot he's got plenty of spell points so I really want to gallop all the way to there it feels a bit like if I could get the spirit of oppression I could give Xi the army tomorrow Xi could be landing here at the end of the day tomorrow gets the spirit and then it stays against the spirit on day seven gallops to about here by the end of day seven then on day one she might just have enough moves to get here and smash sterium before they get the next week's worth of troops that's my scam to play it safe we could skip the spirit fight and just just land her here so we make that decision tomorrow so yeah I'm pretty keen on that idea even though it means we aren't unlocking this stuff we aren't doing this for a bit longer so what's the priority here the priority is probably do some scouting I mean how many moves do I have left to here I will take the army now and all your stuff will I take all your stuff do I want Xi out there with all these things I guess I do disguise could be useful someone boat she already knows but I think we all know someone boat don't we yeah there used to be a way to destroy there was a mod of the gamer version it might be the wake of gods where you can destroy useless artifacts that are just taking up room that would be a feature I would say one of the abyss people put that in that's handy just quality of life thing um yeah so I get a couple of hexes of advantage out of that right it is a wishing well so I can actually visit the well do this come back and visit it again so as long as I have enough bodies to not get killed I should be able to death ripple death ripple is non undead it's not living right so it's all units except undead so unless they're undead they take the damage so that's going to be fantastic there and if it's not lightning ball will be so same thing we did earlier underground with the gremlins and what have you right so Nagash is going to be here at the end of the turn tomorrow Xi all you've got to do is wasted day traveling can certainly do at least a little bit of scouting hey a pack of Cyclops kings hate vampire lords don't they I can land there no I can't I can just sail and look at them I can sail up to them and look at them so I can land here hit the kings come down oh I really want that spirit of oppression though what am I going to do decide tomorrow I agree who knows maybe these guys do something right the green see that's a nuisance that he just gets to take it off me pink is challenging blue let's have a look at pink's hero okay astral is just a dead man walking yes yes let's do this job first give me stables do I need this or can I just do it I have a feeling it's a dead end up here it's looking pretty dead andy it's crypto wise place to go when death ripple won't work it is because each stack can just be bolted and I can run away I'll be okay they're not overwhelming dar they're not overwhelming you don't need to abandon my cause let me show you how okay I get where you're coming from but you're not right about that you need to have more confidence in yourself love the carnage oh you are just a murderer one flick of the fingers pure death archery she only has one slot left I think right archery no it's not archery it's not gonna be archery okay there's a path and another black tower there by the way these towers we have an army like this army is gonna be okay now for that kind of gig get this I still have 69 spell points just enough for 6 lightning bolts I gotta come that way can I come this way I think it'll be okay the thing is horn of the abyss tells you what's in the crypt and you can say oh actually nah change my mind in the vanilla game if you gallop in there and it says do you wish to attack the guards you don't know how many guards there are so it's a much more risky sort of thing to gallop into right now I nearly I realized actually I was about to make a mistake I've gotta go in here and upgrade them come on get these on line welcome to the necropolis this is what being in the necropolis is all about I have a first aid tent for her ready to go grab these and I think we're tooled up here I think we're tooled up ready to rock G take the stuff take the army I'll take these actually because I might I might end up building the wraiths at some point doing that I hope this is okay I hope this is enough the thing is the only problem with G is she's not she's not a great hero she can't curse or blind firebirds and they may act first fly over land next to the liches blast the skeletons I'm just saying yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but I've got these okay so that's why it's a still a bit like it's far from uber overpowered but it's hoping it'll be okay so I land here on day six on day seven I go bang grab the spirit check this out I'll gallop to about here and then I'll probably won't make it so I don't have time for any of this spirit pressure and other stuff I need to land here day seven just gallop like clappers to here and then come back and tidy this up another time I'm just gonna have to do it that way one thing I could do is Nagash is summon the boat over back to me and then Nagash can beat Halon we're all out of moves be closer depend on how strong Halon is I have a pretty pretty nasty lightning bolt 185 I'm gonna guess that 185 on a single stack I can kill them in one shot but he gets the first turn so I think with my existing setup I can do this might even be able to kill a horde of pirates I don't want to leave him any soldiers to do that with except maybe some zombies but yeah I just don't think I have the luxury if I want to threaten the conflicts I need to go and hurry up and do it okay Stig, do you have navigation I thought in my head one of you guys had navigation it doesn't really matter because we're just we're just island hopping but you did go there love that's good you could go here but it's day six it's kind of pointless Septian is coming back around here I don't need another hero loitering in the area I don't really want to invest money money in Stig oh I meant to say as well if I haven't already creature dwellings accumulate so normally it's 15 halflings a week well guess what a week passed and no one visited now there's 30 and they're all mine really changes the way the game works if you've got excellent scouting and you can see everything and you can see something like a dwelling here let's imagine we could see all this if you you can plan weeks ahead whereas in the normal game you can't you kind of like well you really don't want to let those creatures go to waste or find a hero to get out there and grab them it's a bit of a pain in the backside really right it's a logistical headache so that's really nice the only thing is I think similar to what I talked about I think in a previous episode of the series it gives the player more leverage and the AI I think probably is too stupid to understand that it's a that it's a priority again I'd love to be corrected if the AI has can be taught about accumulation and that it maybe can value how how how urgent is it for me to get out to that dwelling this week well in this version of the game it's less urgent in a lot of cases because if the dwelling isn't being threatened by anybody else there's actually no hurry you can just pop out there the week after and suffer no consequence for that anyway right let's see what Tan wants to do I'm fascinated to see if green has a nasty surprise for us but I think we have to play to win we have to try to play to win get that conflicts conquered and this is the benefit of doing an exploration that then ends up dying or losing well you really are a moron aren't you're just dead now orange is there to fight over the stronghold maybe he's not a moron maybe he hadn't seen that area how good are you oh I don't get to know okay okay maybe you get some target practice my only concern is he goes turn one lightning bolt on my vampires is that a big enough worry to actually let him live no surely not he has 60 spell points oh man it's very possible that I'm getting lightning bolted here ooh I could do this 60 spell points but he's a garbage hero do I really want to waste blind on that I'm gonna gamble at the AI will lightning magic arrow this instead of the vampire lord I'm just gonna gamble yep I think that's what the auto resolver did yep okay fine so this is a bit of an exploitation right it would have been far better to kill a vampire lord I don't think owning a shipyard I'm gonna hedge against the risk that it does matter it's still gonna be touch and go isn't it look at her full pelt she still only gets to there I'll be annoyed if I don't get around here I don't think I'm gonna get around here how far did she run there she took a d2 and then went there went that far she's only gonna get to about here still I mean it puts the it puts the question on them you know do you have the refunds to defend sterium do you have someone to come back and defend it um okay I think we could try to kill a horde of pirates with spells the only thing is pirate has 15 hp alright so death ripple kills not enough kills 3 pirates per stack this bad boy kills about 15 really want the spirit of oppression so plan B would be to come back grab some troops on day 1 and then go do it it's probably the right answer right septiana oh yes septiana was gonna do this job I think she can right because of all the lightning bolts and magic arrows it's hard to die guarded by practically nothing I do want to search the graves septiana what did I tell you about self confidence these guys are morons 60 hp okay so magic arrow kills one of them and this is 150 hp so lightning bolt kills them so that's all my mana but there's a wishing well on the other side so who cares come up here boys this one's on me skelly's on skelly's you don't like to see it I made a boo boo here forgot that movement 4 on this terrain love that audio you just feel like an absolute boss you know just killing a big stack of bad guys with your spells this is what this is what being a this is what being a mage is all about man the immersion you feel that the game gives you you know and the odds it feels the odds are overwhelming 50 of them just smoked dark arts kick in we get 1500 bucks for our efforts which is no no I think to sneeze at let's refresh our memories shall we 120 and it absolutely makes sense to wait here because this is a weekly buff and it's the end of day seven so this is could not be more perfect timing for September to just pause here for a moment and tomorrow there's actually going to be a bunch more halflings but I'm coming back this way almost certainly based on my memory of everything here I care about that well I just play it safe and go under here yeah we'll go and learn how to attack and then we'll come back grab these run back around under here and try to get the satyrs at the wine yard how much flavor is there look at this cool big barrel shaped cool thing the corrugated roof just the way it's being designed and drawn just fits the game so beautifully the satyr on the battlefield looked like he looked really good like it he'd been drawn in 1999 and has always been in the game I just really really have so much respect for this this horn of the abyss now let's see a horde of pirates every single one that shoots is going to kill a stack we'll wait here another thing we can do is try to summon the boat back here so it's ready and then go back to base spend the night replenish the spell points buy some soldiers come back over and we're going to fight and contest this area again flag these things we'll have a whole second hero yeah that seems good I did this in the conflux campaign I sat and tried to summon a boat for ages got it ready and once it was ready it went back to base and stayed the night it was pretty good strategy in the end so he summoned the boat there it's waiting for him when he gets back he spends the night now here's a question should we invest in a third floor well I don't know how to cast spells in that third category so no would be my gut feeling certainly not tonight anyway we could build a hall of darkness people is it time could build a tomb of stupid souls and I don't know tomb of souls I won't waste money on those they're just not good I don't like that I don't have to build one I think I said that last night or yesterday I'm pretty sure in the old tech tree of the vanilla game that's a thing you can't get up into hall of darkness and stuff without having done it so but I'm playing I took the necromancy hit of 50% so I'm taking this buff of not having to do this 6 grand a lot though tomorrow's troops are going to cost quite a lot of money right we're going to have another 8 of these to buy another 6 of these to buy yeah there's 3 grand there alone there's going to be 4 grand so we're talking we're going to have at least 12 grand expenditure and about 11 grand of income I'm missing out on a couple of black knights being accumulated so I'm just going to skip it save my money and spend it on soldiers hope that Stig doesn't get a nasty surprise from anybody down under here she'll have enough halflings to do that job flag this I mean it could be time for another hero as well get someone in the water permanently to go up and down and you know get out here see what's out here on the islands get some more scouting done before we do hit end of day let's have a look who's here yeah so we hired Stig this week and G so we've run it I hate this eagle eye hero yeah Tiva Rylander is dendroids with diplomacy and I banned myself from diplomacy I don't know if I've talked to you guys already in the previous couple of days about Horn of the Abyss templates can be tuned to ban certain skills so you'll find Nagash can never learn diplomacy it'll never come up on the screen because I've changed the template so that no hero can ever be offered it what I can't do is stop Ryland from already knowing it however if you really hate diplomacy you can go into the template and ban Ryland himself so he's a banned hero I haven't done that because I didn't want to tie hands behind the back of any particular faction I thought I didn't want to wade in too deeply to start banning individual heroes because you don't know how that might change the balance of the game and I'm reluctant to create buffs for the player in the template if I can avoid doing that right let's see what happens now G how have they already so does that mean they've had a turn before me on they've they've so does that mean no I think I'm still right so yeah I'm still the first player to act each day on day one each week I don't think that's changed at all yeah it's not like they've had a turn they haven't had their day one before I have my day one I think this is last week's troops okay which is concerning I could get around to try to fight if I can get around and fight them should I see the problem is I'm not even sure how how far she ran she ran from there to there I think she's going to land about here and even if she does like even if she gets there that's a tough fight like so with a week's worth of all the three elementals the vampires won't hit them the magic elementals like that's too hard now man yeah I don't think we can do this anymore I don't even really want to fight them like if they came out into the open with one week's worth I'd fight them but there's another whole second week they could buy so I don't think this is a thing I think we got to go back plan B who came did anything happen under here yeah who's this guy Ooland and that's gonna wreck what Sig was gonna do she was gonna do all this and he's gonna do it now instead he's got the bores he gets all the bores and the sadas and stuff yeah but I don't think this is a thing now I don't think she can do I don't think she can do her job so she's coming back she could come back well she can just do this job now oh that stinks maybe it was a bit ambitious anyway right 17 vampire lords doing that whole job so we'll just have to keep going vertical try to build up I've never looked under there but I want to kill Ooland now and get this don't just have to do this B sort of job instead not very exciting although it'll be nice to have that artifact but a horde of pirates I just hope they don't well no I can prey on them right here they're living the only problem with the horde of pirates is they might shoot the liches which isn't very good so I could put Nagash in a boat get him over here give him the liches do the fight gallop back up give him the rest of the army he sails back over lands gets ready he lands wherever except for the understanding here waiting for him to then gallop and she comes in underneath and we surprise Ooland with a great big kick in the teeth so Sceptiana does this and she is formidable now right she is she is going to murder him yeah now this seems good to me now so Nagash you're going to get in the boat you're going to come down here you're going to act as a muse she's going to come over give you the liches do this job come back up give you the army you need to be able to get back again do the exchanges with Ji Ji has to be able to come here talk to you come down get the thing quickly get the spirit workshop give you the thing the other thing you could do then is you could just sail to here that doesn't help me that wastes a day of Sceptiana's time alright so this is a strategic thinking in the way I failed miserably with Ji strategically on the Conflux Conquest there and had to abandon it you're trying to set up these daisy chains in a way that are going to work the best right so another idea so what I'm trying to think about is Ji comes in does this job here right forget about this guy for now Ji does this job but before she does it she runs to the coast gives the liches to Nagash then comes down does the job links back up with Nagash gives him the rest of the army and the spirit of oppression he then sails back to here jumps out of the boat to be able to jump out of the boat all on that one day if things go wrong though he could do that here then the next day he gallops as far as he can to there yeah so does he have enough to sail down to here and sail to there and land I think he does plan B would be to hire another hero for logistical purposes unless Stig can help us but she can't Ji's way up here doing this mercenaries can't believe that being lizard woman is coming into their camp but being the great guys there they're like no problem would you like to learn how to attack I see that you have no knowledge whatsoever on this matter Stig wisely agrees and she now has learned how to attack at least a little bit just get them right just get them get out of Ulan's way yeah join I promise not to death ripple you right yeah is this plan gonna work and is there a plan B if things go pear shaped I think there is plan B would be that Nagash stupidly only makes it to the coast but can't get out of the boat hire a hero come down do the thingy boom okay so that's plan B so what does all that mean it means that I need to hire Sceptiana could come in first no because I need to get in the boat right now ooh risky risky risky if I get in the boat right now only half my moves so 886 will remain so I could get to here and then still get in the boat 338 886 will remain which means I've got 886 to spend coming down here first so I'm not gonna risk I'm just gonna go to here and the reason I'm doing that is so that I don't have to pay a visit to the dark eternal on the way back Sceptiana is gonna waste some time coming to here she's going to have though still quite a lot of points to get to about here is today which is fine and then that way I get to just gallop through with Nagash and get to her without popping into town which is a too hexty tour I don't want to come back to town tomorrow so please do these things for me like that ooh deadly deadly forces beginning to stockpile air of inevitability in the air wait is that what I meant to say? yeah it is let's get another first aid tent so that she can keep hers I'm gonna gallop to here and I'm gonna do something quite bold and cheeky that you'll see now in a second as well let's just check how many remain? 444 I can do this I love this alt key thing it's just so good I'm not gonna risk it any further I don't want to be too clever right come here get this let's have a conversation I'm happy with my spell points now normally I would do straight swaparu but what I'm thinking is no it doesn't matter just keep it like this take this in case I don't see you you keep these guys she could even maybe go and do some stuff right she could actually do some things get in the boat okay now your job is gonna be to come here which takes up 782 movement points out of 464 so you've got to get to here 682 and then you got to get to there and land I think you can but then she's got quite a job to do as well tomorrow still stuck with movement 4 because of the zombies and the skellies on grass that's okay yeah sepchenna is gonna have a turn up her sleeve though right because he's gonna land there so there's no way to really avoid her having to waste some time so that's okay I could have maybe sent her back here to learn level 3 she's wisdom that was maybe a miss I could have done that anime dead is level 3 I think that might have been wrong sepchenna could be here let's not beat ourselves up over that she obviously do want her to learn anime dead but she doesn't know earth yet see basic earth magic is probably the last thing I want here right it really is especially death ripple like it's pretty obvious she's supposed to be a death may an earth mage she is supposed to be sorry about the mess up with what is ulan gonna do okay he's not pressing he's not pushing the issue that's nice that's quite nice so do we still need given that he's sort of gone oh actually I won't come any further this way do we really need to come down here I think we could right because then we get to come up here vampire lords are great against this kind of fight um this kind of fight if it hasn't been done yet maybe it has probably has sorceress is not a problem vampire lords you couldn't ask for a better thing even these kind of things we could find out what these boots do the wayfarer's boots we can beat that army they've built a fort for us now if we can conquer that or I could come back and try to say come back and try to kill the conflicts I could alright let's see if we can pull this off so the way things were supposed to work is you were supposed to sail to here sail on silverbird now you can get to here and you can get to here with how many moves to spare the alt key tells us none effectively right if I come to here I have quite a bit to spare but if Nagash is here it means that I can stick her head underground today okay it's a question of where she's going to be standing she could have time actually to do this major level 3 thing let's see what we get I'm actually willing to do this it's a lot of crystal do we do it do we go for it all in the name of animate dead it would be a very handy spell to have even without earth magic is animate dead level 4 I think it's level 3 let's do this there it is the third tier of the mage guild arrives what do we get yes animate dead people alright perfect pause there I've got to go pick up kids but I'll be back back there sorry for that interruption so yeah animate dead that's something I'm going to want to go ahead and learn I think and I have time too because by the time he'll be here he'll probably get to about here he's going to have yeah okay so let's just go in I'd just like to double check it's in here right now what do I get 15 spell points I've got no skill at all but I get 330 back that's enough to raise back 8 vampire lords or something like that for 15 spell points that's pretty nice we want to learn earth magic now though enough's enough right get in position I should get all the way back down here cool so how far do we think Nagash can run from here he can run he's still about there right through the dirt he might be able to get back to there so let's be bold go to there so he can get to there but only if G okay so worst case scenario actually I could land there so I am going to go one more square with Nagash I'm back to not being able to hear things I hope you guys can hear I'd like to get feedback by the way anyone who's listening in you know watching if my voice is louder than the music and sound effects those three things blending together is hard for me to always get exactly right I find when I've watched it back not that I watch myself a lot although I am exceptionally self-absorbed it varies like my voice seems loud and the music seems quiet and then vice versa so anyway feedback welcome all comments of any nature that helped me make this better are a good thing if you've got time and inclination okay so Nagash is waiting G the reason I wanted to speak to you Nagash is I don't want to do this fight with the liches so I'm going to use a third of my points getting to there I'm going to use at least most of the rest doing this job fuck and I sail I don't think I can afford another step down maybe that's the right thing to do is to hedge that off though I've got one two three four five six moves left there's actually seven there but let's call it six one two three four five I could do it from here surely I could so I think that's okay nice but now my options are very limited that's the only place I can land but that's okay G well I think I wasted there because I can't get to there so I still have to stand here to do it on the way back I'll get the benefit so she has to do all of the negotiation okay should I take this tool tip a horde of pirates is overwhelming I don't really have spells I've blind I did not see this coming I need to think about this now I have two copies of blind I'm gonna go I'm gonna press ahead okay there's a hunt oh man there's 99 of them it's this biggest possible horde that's possible blind last four turns lords come here oh my god and they are going for the lords look at that that's just sickening wait what did I do that that was a mistake oh my god nomally penalty kill them okay they're back oh I've walked into a dead end okay don't get in the way of the zombies whatever you do do not do that alright I've got 99 like come on what happened that was the first aid tent helping out 15 of 17 I think it's better to go for the big stack here yeah one two three four that's good that's good damn what is their speed in melee if they want to go out and melee something speed six what a solid solid unit the pirate very very nice unit okay they're not waking up yet so possible proposal would be one-on-one it feels like the vamps are gonna do the do the job do they wake up next turn some of them do don't they no uh oh there it is we've got two turns of blind remaining so that's this turn and next turn man this is terrifying can't believe this she just she just exactly had the right spell and the right 99 of them though as well what am I supposed to do there's only one of these left so I'm not wasting his attack on that the question is do I burn this turn of blindness I don't think I do I make use of it right by attacking now he when he's awake he's gonna walk out and do that job which will annoy me I can block this guy off though hang on have you moved yet you haven't moved so I think what I'm supposed to do is wait put the skeleton here so that this guy on his turn has no choice but to either kill a skelly or attack the vampire lords they then retaliate so I think this guy waits we let these two small stacks do whatever they want not a problem great that he lived that's awesome oh he's not fast enough no but he is and he's acting before the vampires no the zombies can do that let's you come to here so there's something to be said for physically trapping them in their respective corners okay get in the way of me so I'll come to here yeah this is this seems good to me you do this and then the retaliation oh sorry there's no retaliation but yeah okay so now I do this again and the other stack is still blind so the four power the four spell power just amazing here next turn I want to fly up here and smack you so you hold tight you try to finish these off man this could have gone differently right next next round they're awake but guess what I'm here hello rawr how good are they I'm acting first next turn I think I'm just going to count on yeah I think I'm just going to count on the vampires carrying the day this is my point about how good they are right they're very good okay they can get in the way of this I'll do that try to defend the skellies from them coming around here alright boom that's a big win that's a big big win for g huge xp 1633 99 of the sods formidable unit man formidable unit alright wisdom for g wisdom unlocks animate dead for a necromancer wisdom I feel is just an absolute must I already have seph jenna she's expert wisdom and scholar that'll be leveling up so I'm going to say no to scholar can I get you alt key I'll still have tons of points left let's get the spirit walking through the ruins of an ancient world city you find the instrument of the destruction of that city the spirit of oppression love that eh you can't have morale can't have positive morale but you can't have negative morale because you are the oppressed that'll use half my moves am I feeling lucky about this uses 100 movement points to get there if I do this I have 296 remaining so how much does it cost to take one step 100 so it looks like I'm taking a minus 200 if I do this I'll just make it I have no spell points left anyway these are full of golems the experimental workshop I have no spell points to protect the vampire lords and they can't regenerate so I'm actually going to decline this offer just get you the stuff you need now what would have happened there in that fight if the liches were there they would all be dead by now which is obviously unacceptable G is left with nothing is that what I want to do or do I want to leave her with some soldiers nah I'm going to leave you with nothing again sorry let's go get that again and no spell points either level 4 man that 4 spell power she had oh I get it she had the reason she had 4 spell powers because of the rib cage gotcha alright here we go execute the plan carry it out carry forth my will okay I've gone too far hopefully that won't hurt us too much we've been there for the day oh hey I realized while I was downstairs I forgot about this so I missed out on the 3 vampire lords that's really bad but um I can't do anything about it now tempted to run up here and grab these but I don't want Irland coming back who are you again why would he come back I don't have wisdom do I I do I'm a witch I'm going to tag me when I meet up with Sceptiana well one of us is going to go back and take the torso back I would have loved to get up there actually then that's a thing too we can do now that mission 45 halflings we could play tag and I could kill these with the army there's a few things we can do here right yeah I think I like I'm not I'm just not going to overcook it I don't want to stand there and risk Irland I'm just going to stand here he might have logistics or something that's way too far even for someone with logistics I think to get me huge turn animate dead and a massive hold against the pirates massive turn hopefully green just get bored and stay there now yeah so they're still stuck behind there kind of cool actually if green mistakenly think that well green will have seen all this though right I don't know maybe let's end the turn oh he gallops back to defend against pink pink isn't a threat though pink's not your problem so this is all developing quite nicely for us I can see myself this orange hero must be junk I've noticed that in a couple of days like with the digging the random digging that happened before heroes just getting stuck I didn't I wouldn't see this as often in the vanilla game I wonder if is there something about this being one of the abyss that causes heroes to just gallop and then in the AI just kind of run out of ideas that's quite bad if true it might not be anything to do with one of the abyss at all I don't know okay I can only get to there I'm really sorry yeah again just so sorry so sorry about this please accept my apologies accept Jenna's like not impressed she's down there like looking back up the road Adam you moron I'll just come back to you then will I give me that army fool give me these still don't want the whites do I have they both learnt shouldn't she have taught him well it's first and second level shouldn't she have taught him anime dead but she can't she doesn't know how yet not experienced enough teacher this army looks pretty mean don't mind telling you pretty good it's a pretty good army let's go and use it to kill Erland is that realistic where's that guy where's he gone here he is yeah yeah you are a dead man if I catch you spacebar let's go is this what I want to do with my life or do I want to come over here still so tempted but vamp lords just do not interact yeah now this is the right answer go and kill living things so what I want you to do Stig oh yeah the halflings might be of use to me I'm not going to death ripple do a quick recce not irrelevant worth my time in stopping she can hire bores and I think there's going to be satyrs I have three slots in my army so I can get halflings satyrs and then I can probably just take them as well take these as well so would thingy here have time for a quick scout run back up here get this septiana is on her way through now though so if you want to speak to announce the time Stig meets with septiana in the underground I understand you were instrumental in the defense of our fortress thank you Stig the fact that you are 11th in the throne in line for the 11th in line for the throne has no bearing on the merit of your performance and you should be proud of yourself you are not a spare in my eyes now what do you have for me well my liege I have these 45 idiots who know how to throw rocks give them to me they shall be my fodder I also have the torso of legion keep it return it to nagash post haste oh my queen she comes here she finds out what this is why not I was going to teach you how to curse things but I see your powers are too good you didn't learn protection from earth did you she didn't she didn't but might come might live to regret that she'll end up learning it off somebody accidentally once she knows how to be a better scholar only if we meet again is it worth the movement points well it's too late now I'm not coming back for it now sticky I'd like a little bit more map revealed here and these can wait subgenre could go there on the way yeah subgenre is going to go there just let me see in fact I want you to stick your head through the portal and risk dying even if you risk dying with the torso I wish I had four skellies in this army but it's just I need this intel G now might be a good time to show you guys this functionality if I push the space bar G can leave a man here now there's not much point leaving one man here is there what's the point of that but you could for example leave two which would be enough to stop someone with one gremlin stealing it I'm not going to do that because I just don't have I just don't want to well maybe what I could have done is given she like four zombies that would be enough to actually just delete a lot of heroes from being able to take it still can't go down to here I mean I'm completely out of spell points so alright this is the price we pay for chasing ooland it's okay it's alright back at base is it time to begin investing something low regret skeleton transformer perhaps turn these things into skellies maybe who's the hero striker is the walking dead guy earth can do little harm to those who've mastered it that might be a new tip I think protection from earth is a lot better than it used to be precision you say zubin the battle mage knows precision and it's good at casting it they also understand artillery which doesn't help me much they could all become skeletons and the skeleton transform of those things there's also a stronghold underground trying to conco okay so nagash I think is the man I'll put in the boat just because he's got great spells and with a nominal size to army he'll be able to get something done I wanted these as well I just don't have time to do everything yeah I'm not hiring another hero today I don't think yeah that's it Lou is mucking around look at that tan is back why can I never have what I want why can I never go and do the things I want to do septiana we have to kill tan can you get to her you can how good are you don't be amazing crelion might even have time for satyrs first 341 no okay there's not enough time to buy satyrs before coming back are we doing this crelion is a barbarian if I'm not mistaken who gets the first turn there's a movement 9 my vamp lords a movement 9 okay so what's the worst case scenario turn one haste on the it would have to be expert haste to really care if it's basic haste basic haste on the serpent flyers are at the bottom of the screen lizard men are at the top of the screen so let's do the old swaperoo here it's my first thought flyers and cyclops are down the bottom and yeah I'm just really going to want to vampire lord my way through this and chump the he's going to have better attack in defense I'm 4 and 7 he's going to be like he could be 10-10 right but I have animate dead and I throw a mean lightning bolt to don't mind telling you and I've got fostering now cool 110 that could be relevant that is not probably going to be until they've killed my yeah be good to get expert water but I don't I can't bless obviously I might try removing an obstacle see what that does 110 points of damage in a ring for 9 spell points or I can do double that in a single and that's with no air magic knowledge I can do that much damage to one stack or I can do this much damage to maybe 2 that's with advanced fostering that's how good lightning bolt is the maths just of lightning bolt are too skewed towards it being awesome regardless it gets cast it gets overcast if that makes sense it gets cast more than it's fair share for a good reason swap this these guys have 4 hexes to travel to get up and be relevant in defense so you know it's possible that the liches will be attacked by serpent flies on turn 2 if he magic arrows the one stack of skeletons do I care not really not really we can take this guy we can do this fight you've come at a bad time crelian now is not a good time mate what can I do come on septiana really this prompt is terrifying every time it happens ok no it's not overwhelming look at this 2 spell points I still don't know blind I haven't swallowed my way up to blind yet but I know anime dead you have no spell points how is this hopeless my vamps are gonna absolutely annihilate this am I wrong am I too cocky what happened to all my damage so he has interference he has artifacts that lower my spell power yeah I've got 5 spell power instead of 8 ok that's gonna reduce the animation as well alright I can respect that he's got an anti magic amulet or something I'm only spell power 5 ideal less damage death ripple only does 35 points of damage it's not a thing in this fight ok halflings anyway the key thing I'm gonna want to do is the scalable things like this I can shield someone like the vampire lords I can curse and I can animate dead still is gonna be great right who hates being cursed the most I know these guys do they don't love it these guys hate being cursed Hydra's hate being cursed that's excellent now who gets the first turn next turn I can't see but it'll probably be him right cause I'm going first this time yeah it's interesting ok I need to think about this I think I've figured out what I'm gonna do I'm going to well firstly I'm gonna wait I'm hoping these guys move out to the middle the liches hopefully have a near term and they act before the cyclopsis so I'm gonna decide what happens after that um ok they acted a bit what have they done they've waited they're at the back of the queue again now so I could wait I thought about maybe this shot here kills one yeah no it kills the tent so the tent will just die and I'll get a nice shot off there is that better so if I was just targeting the cyclopsis down I would kill one and leave a haircut on the other so maybe I should do this shot I think that might be a better shot even though I give up the short range opportunity and I could lightening bolt the cyclopsis as well for good measure next turn when I get my turn I'm gonna curse the hydras cause they really hate being cursed as you can see 25 to 45 I think I like this I think it's ok I don't have amazing spells in this matchup do this that hits all three didn't kill oh I did kill see what I mean the seven stuck around longer than I wanted it to so he went for the liches that's ok I can animate their butts when the time comes how many of you got left got a good chance of killing one there let's just do that although that's massive damage on these guys no didn't do it so they're highly variable right 1 to 3 yeah pretty highly variable 4 so I have to come to here I will come to here and I guess I'll come up here too don't care if the half things die is that a mistake not really come down here I should care if the half things die I should be trying to defend them better so they're out of the game they're not gonna be relevant until I say so so what should I attack should I attack them and then I could fly down on my first turn do this could go back up there both are ok options kill a couple of gorgons but they're out of the game unless I say so he's got no haste he's got no way to get them into the game they cover the basilisks but they don't what should I do now yeah so I think I like the idea of giving one of these units a haircut and then coming back to here if that is when I wait and the basilisks walk up if they attack me with the basilisks that's just not great at all so the wyverns come down kill the skeleton he walks and kills the halflings I just don't really want the vamps out here in the middle of the park it just doesn't seem necessary the halflings are gonna die that's just the way it is I'm just trying to think how I leverage them best if I hit one of these units and then I could go up here that invites both of these units back how sad am I about that not very they're gonna be cursed they'll retaliate I think that might be the way to go let's do this because I'm gonna curse that stack let's do this move I've thought about it long enough thank god they're not mighty this is fantastic that's just a gift that's ridiculous that's a really really bad idea I do this job yeah you can't get to me you can throw a rock at me and if they turn around and come back that's fine huge hits and I don't get to leverage I don't get to leverage my amazing death cloud optionality could just go for him two to three of those he's kind of out of the game at the moment I think it's the wyverns here so that felt like it hurt but that hit hard and it did hurt don't do anything you're an idiot but I have to suffer this fate it's alright it's okay I can't protect the liches if I try to take this retaliation right unless how can I protect the liches I let this guy die skelly no I can't do it I just wanted to get a hit off now you have to wait you guys have to die don't do anything not bad good to get that trigger okay next turn sorry about that we had it there had to go have dinner I don't mind telling you I wasn't paying much attention to the conversation at the table because I was thinking an awful lot about how how much these vamps are just becoming utter chads in this fight I'm going to cast anything yet then it may be exception to that to see the bassies again I have to go next they'll probably kill one of these rather than try to wade and do for anything funny up here with the zombies so I don't need to address them and I think these guys are just going to fly down here and get bigger by killing these and then they're both out of the game again look at this three rise decent and now I feel like the next best attack is this one although it's very tempting do about 100 damage to each stack or I can do this yeah this is better how much damage are the zombies going to do to these could kill three to four of these and then just get out of their way madness okay I got shot there 23 right from a maximum of 25 and if I move to here the bassies don't get me now I do have one skelly left so I can make a decision about spells after this attack okay very nice what I want to do next here one thing you really want to be careful of is crellion fleeing while before I started animating dead things now there's a stack here to reanimate how many guys do I get back if I do this 41 skellies come back to life the problem with that is I just get killed by the bassies straight away the other thing I can do is raise these up but I don't think I've lost enough there's only three liches missing they're still cursed for five more turns that's just lovely not even be able to help the gorgons look at that I'm just going to go up here to kill the gorgons so mean they're out of the game if they kill the first 810 I don't care I care a bit actually it's kind of annoying if they kill the first 810 right I don't think the liches are getting hit again so this feels a bit like a bit of a waste but I think it's okay what a waste oh no they are they're centralising it okay fine fine fine vamps could do this could come here and do that who act next the gorgons it doesn't run away from the hydras anyway so the other mean thing I could do is just run away and tease them they're still cursed for ages I could just come to here how useful is that though because they're both just after me well it's useful because I'm just going to be shooting them that seems good to me that seems good to me now you can't touch me on this square yeah what are you going to do you can attack me with a basilisk that's fine unless I get petrified okay don't get petrified oh yes it's just so hard to get rid of a big stack of vampire lords they're just impossible to work with they're like the Dave Mustaine of heroes of might and magic 3 okay let's go now I say that out of massive love for Dave Mustaine and only because he's self confessed that he's not in one of the songs he's not hard to get along with he's impossible we didn't come here to talk about Dave Mustaine basilisks man that's good movement 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 so if I stand there that would be really annoying for you wouldn't it I still haven't cast a spell this turn Crellion could flee at any moment I don't think with 4 hydras he'll flee yet hmm what are the skeletons protecting now nothing so I went without casting a spell that turn oh man that was a silly silly thing to do the hydras are just so abusable isn't that just gorgeous look at this I still don't need to cast we have run rings around the hydras and the gorgons I could wait but I'm worried about a flea how worried am I I've got both both my full stacks back to full health I don't get these maybe I should just resurrect the skellies now what's the downside of just doing this now now that the bassies are gone wait if you want to run you can retaliate they all come back you've got to have multiple units on them ganging up it's so hard to put a dent in them and these guys still can't fight yet that is woeful for you that is so bad there's no morale risk I can just run down here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 I mean the liches can just run for it on their turn these guys might run into fear it's do I just do this I think I just pile into the hydras I think it's okay seems risky but I'm gonna go for it that doesn't do anything do this there's one left actually that's probably even worse for the hydras now what are you gonna do now what are you about okay the zombies act next that's unlucky so we can come back here do this job guilt free you're probably just getting out of the way largely let's pop you here keep a nice matrix together I'm movement 5 I'm movement 4 that was maybe a bit foolish of me they're all movement 4 the hydra will get to them okay so I'm gonna need okay I can cast a spell on the vamp's turn so you just do nothing oh superb just superb it's brutal is there any way I can kill Krillian with this combo the two hex body really hurts them here 3 hydras hit me with no retaliation the next unit to act is the zombies so I'm fine with this isn't idea yeah this is fine maybe I shouldn't have changed places there that might have been a mistake yeah it was definitely a mistake kills 1 and then it's your turn that was a mistake right still whatever he attacks I can just raise back he's gonna do your 50 damage 25 I'm gonna kill 1 for sure he might just flee right on the hydra's turn or he might yeah he's just gonna flee that's perfect that is PERFECT what a result folks what a result great result Septiana Krillian departs the field and shame look at everything we killed and it was all thanks to our good friend the vampires to a lesser extent the liches as well just once you get that critical mass of both units together it's just so nice never artillery in a million years spell power plus 1 very nice there's our expert Bert Warder we're not gonna take navigation at this point we want earth ideally great stuff right I'm going to save the game at this point but I'll be back again tomorrow who couldn't come back how could you not want to come back this is just becoming an epic epic adventure so I'll see you all again tomorrow