Heroes 3 Gameplay - Conquering the Richlands - Episode 05

[laughter] Pride downfall. Don't you know who I am, old man? [music] >> And maybe that's a ne thing. Maybe she could land here. She could actually land and help him clear all this cuz it's a lot of work for one man. We get it done in half the time. I'll do the top, you do the bottom, you know, and then we'll meet up and sort sort out the rest of the game. So, I think if she comes around here initially just to see is there a way through. I'm hoping there's a a place where I can land. See how much move she has. Oh, that's a nuisance. Oh, no. I can look at that. Hang on. There's a way through. So, what if I land today, start fighting my way down through here, and we rendevu, just smash this area cuz it's so lucrative. We do the utopia, and we just hope that the rest of our stuff doesn't get messed with. That's the only problem is, you know, how good is the stuff that we might get surprised by. It looks like teal is out of the game. Pink is in actually major trouble now as well. Blue has lost their town to teal. And purple and red are on one town each. I've got a fresh week of solutions. I've got Luna kind of at the crossroads. Do I have time for this? See, the alternative would be that he just speaks to her on the coast, but there's no coast necessarily. Well, hang on. Maybe I can see if I come here. No, there's no coast. So, I think I'm going to do this. What? I don't think so. One magic arrow is all that need. Look at it. Oh yeah. So the battle is joined. So I can run through here, aren't you? Hey, with the ogre. Um I have ogre stuff, right? This is the iron fist of the ogre. This is the rampaging tag of the rampaging ogre. So what else do you need? I got the club. I've got three things for the ogre. Let me check what it is. I need the tunic of the Cyclops king. So, let's bear that in mind. Um, okay. Right. We are in position. I don't want to go chasing Halon really. Um, what are these guys doing? This bloke was on a journey to level himself [music] up. And uh we're going to take the earth magic. That's one thing that the changes to the Horn of the Abyss have not done. Have have not made that any less of a no-brainer. [music] Can either have two of these or two of these. I think I'll go this way. I want to be near their trading post. Okay, excellent. I'll wait there for tomorrow. Alamar is just a total junior. Let's do his friend first. Well, I'm just going to get in the way. So, we need to decide. What are these boys doing? Back home. You can stay out here in the freezing snow. Man, I was looking at this sulfur. I was thinking we could get that. Yeah, let's head in that direction. That'll refresh my memory tomorrow. Uh, and then this guy just get a bit more scouting done for me in this area. It's best we can do at the moment. We are somewhat stretched. Um, one thing we could do is get the monks to the castle. It's a decent stack. I mean, 25 monks, it's a pretty good stack, right? Luna was ready for that, but Tamika chickened out. How far away did she run? She completely vanished. Wonder if this connects. Yeah. So, Luna can come here, do this, and wait here. Well, actually, h I do want those gems though. Yeah. Okay, I will be the messenger. Um, if I come to here Jaggar gives me one of my what am I messaging? Well, the message is I think we're putting these guys on the skeleton transformer, aren't we? Uh, take the 25 monks is the message, but you may as well leave me the undead. Oops. Leave me the undead. You can have this little rampart army. I guess I won't kill them. I just can't I can't skeleton transform a grand elf. I can't do it. It would it just wouldn't be right. I'll stay here and scare off Alamar with these soldiers. You go and give the monks something useful. Learn earth magic on your way back. There you go. Nice little weekend away. He will die to these forces. I don't need more. Don't need to waste time going home first. Just tidy this up a little bit. I I know. lightning bolt and all kinds of cool things as well. So, there's I don't need to do any more than that. Okay, let's just hedge against plague. Obviously, angels matter a lot. Um, these are going to matter now as well. So, buy them. Um, yeah, we're a long way from home on all of these. Uh, yeah, go ahead and buy these soldiers. Let's just make it make it un unassalable. Okay. And that might be her there. Oh, okay. Let's see. Okay. Bottom of the factory area. Tamika emerges. Oh, okay. So, she's here. All right. What was the other stuff that happened in that turn? Let me just check. He went here. We saw her. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we got to kill this guy now. No, that's it. All right, let's kill him. Let's follow through with the plan and kill him. Wrong guy. This one. Here we go. Give me that back, Halon. And now die by my hand. 30 annoying spell points. Yeah, we're just going to have to let him do what he wants here. Let him have a turn. Yes. Wow. Halen, you really do stink, man. Do I know chain ling? No. This guy's substantially less good. No, that won't work. So, 70 points of dam. It's all we we really need. Um I guess on this guy mcking around. Don't really care too much here. Oh, that's useful. Uh, well, you never know. I might be able to do it here if I shoot first. They do take reduced damage. Okay, so attack. So, I need to deal 18 damage. Uh, which is half of Yeah. So that way he's just gone forever even though he was a useless hero. Oh wow. Halon's really playing a junior game, isn't he? It's like week three of month two. I have a scroll of magic arrow. Wow. Uh, we could always hop in this boat as well if we want to come over here and take anything off. Jagger. Yeah, let's meet sort of halfway. Um, I'm more likely to end up fighting than you, so I'll take that off you. Thank you. Pulling rank. I will also take the bow who I perceive. Well, who who am I talking to? Luna. And then [music] I'm thinking that maybe Luna. Yeah, if I might be the messenger. You take this. There you go. That's something for you to do. Go do that. Go up these. Go upgrade these immediately. Yeah, and that's why it's a good idea not to move Alamar yet, I think. Um, because I do it, [groaning] but I don't go all the way. In fact, Alamar, maybe you can come down [music] and get them. Should have gone. Yeah. See, look at all this teaching and learning that's happening. Take this, Malamar. We're probably a safer haven. Give me one more of these. Alamar comes back up and he stupidly was meant to pop in and get the stables. Although maybe it doesn't matter. H no griffins. Excellent. Now you may embark on that task. I think get the sulfur. I meanwhile will continue I think to explore either this underground or just get the scout done on this area. It's kind of close. this. I guess I'll do this. Something to do here, Demer. Okay. I'm right by the trading post. If you want anything, maybe let you know at the end of the turn. Yeah. Okay. Well, maybe it's Seth first. A throng of haunted demons. Let's do some reveal as we go. No, it's nowhere near as bad as you think. Is there anything? It feels so weird to be a water and earth mage and find myself casting chain lightning every round. It's just the most cost effective thing to do. I mean, if I expert slow. Yeah. 525 plays 705. I probably deal overall. Or maybe I do need to expert slow here because there's a,000 HP per stack here. Yeah, I probably do, right? Does it pay me back? Speed six to speed four. But if I just carve through 525 deals a,000 damage. [music] Chain is just better. It does use more mana, but I don't have I have the mysticism and everything. It's just better. Like it feels like I'm super super strong with chain lightning, but I'm not I never got the air magic. So how much stronger would she be if he was expert earth instead of expert water? Look how busted is that? Um who's the slowest guy on my team? Me. Well, why don't we just meteor shower these? >> Yeah, that's fine. Oh. Um, well, all right. How the can you move? I can't get there. Well, how much damage can these things do? Some Yeah. Don't Don't Don't scare me here. No, you're never even scared. I mean, I wasn't scared. You guys think I was scared? I was I wasn't. I do not have a hand weapon. So, we take on the drunken ogre at the side of the road. Take his club now against these vamps. Expert slow turn one. Yeah, I can picture how this works. Oh, hey, town portal is here. Ooh, I love this artifact. It's such a beautiful rebalance of the town portal skill. So, I've got town portal is banned as a spell, but there are places in the world where you can nonetheless portal back to your house. Uh, very very power. It becomes an immensely powerful adventure map item when you ban the spell. It's really really fun. Of course, castle gate is still on as well. Um, yeah. Oh, okay. I'll kill these ones. Just come away. You'll probably be fine. Um, will this be all right? >> Yeah, we should be Uh, well, why don't you kill this one? Actually, I'll deal with this one. Uh, that's fine. That's fine. Oh, no. That's not quite right. I thought that was the one we wanted. [snorts] Never mind. Okay, now there's this opportunity to meet with Jedi early and then uh take the angels back. I could actually run down and just jump in this boat. He has to take the town. So, why don't we do that? That is a risk you take. Um, it's not too bad on this occasion. Happy with that exchange. Bye-bye, harpies. Better than this? No. Yep. That is a risk you take. Opening a box when you've when you're fully loaded. Was that Picadram's concern? Maybe that's what it was. Is it coded to not Oh, be careful. I might lose my three stone golems if I have to. I don't know. All right, Brisa has tried her best to load up. Um, but this guy's just going to do a weaker version of chain lightning as well, right? We're just going to chain it [music] together until you're dead. If the elves die, I'll be slightly sad. And if you target the angels, I'll be very sad. But I need to do it today cuz it's day one. Decent. I think it's probably going to be hard to [music] top this. Um, okay, cool. Yeah, you can kill the elves. That's not a problem. She has 60. Do we want to wait um see what she's made of? I think we can wait. Expert slow isn't paying much divs. Everyone waits now. I kind of hate these. I mean, I don't really want them to have a turn. I might just take that shot. Yeah. All right. And then you can wait. Wait. So, can we get them to Sally? Well, I don't really want to get hit by the Pegasus that badly. Very happy for these to be hit by absolutely anything that wants to come. It's a pretty good opportunity to get the gate open. The pegasy hitting the minotaurs. I got 23 defense against your 11, I think. Bring that on. You can't get out now. Right. Health left six. Okay. Well, that was a bit of a closer call than I thought it would be. Um, centaurs die. They're not going to finish off the centaur. No, I thought they might. Um, right. The Gremlins go next. Then the Minotaurs kill this and then the 14 go after that. So, I think on the Minotaur's turn, I kill this and then the game's over. So, before I kill the Oh, no. It's the game's not over because there's 32 dwarfs here. So, counter proposal is the kings kill this. Uh, but before I do, I kill the elves. They don't get a turn. Then the meduses, the evil eyes and the medusas try to kill the dwarfs. They probably won't succeed. What else can I do? Is that enough? Might not be enough. 14. What do I need? What about an ice bolt? I don't know. Icebolt. Kill these. Kill them. And then let's just try. We won't get morale here. Yeah, it's not going to work, is it? All right. Whatever. And I do lose a king. Oh god. All right. Pop your head in. Yeah. It's a nothing town. Wow. Look at this. Not even a town hall. up. Okay. Um [snorts] um there's no mage guild here. No bless is here. So we won't do that. Um none of these upgrades make sense. And it's day one, so none of these builds make sense either. Mage Guild 2 could teach us nothing that we don't already know. But if I start building it, right, I get to level five before we leave the island. That's got to be it, right? I also want the tavern for the updated um info, but I think that I think we've got to do this because I think we can just keep building it. Yeah. All prerequisites. So, you just get to keep going up and up and up. Okay, it doesn't matter. Okay, Seph doesn't want [music] to come and speak to him. She doesn't want to go through here yet because she wants to speak to him. So, yep. So, that's her rest of her day. He is He could stand here. That's probably better than [music] standing on the front door. We are safe down below. So I can stand here for the day. Be happy. Could leave some defenders. Maybe some of the guys that are naturally happy being here that I don't need in particular. Is there a world where is there ever a world where I take any of this with me? I don't think there is. There are no other ramp parts on the map. Do you want to take dendroids? Not really. I want ar I want to be the archangel goddess of 253 will remain. Let's just go to here and then come back. Okay. So, I'm guarding that portal. No one's getting through here without fighting me. In the vanilla game, what happens is if someone comes through the other side of the portal, we will have a fight. Yeah, that's that's surely been retained, that functionality. Thank you. Never been here. And there's no way I'm doing anything other than that we haven't seen Tamika. reappear. Should have looked at her artifacts. I think knowledge. Get that mysticism filling up. Yeah. No, she has poor artifacts. We want to give that That's right. There's a bit of a mission here. She's going to come back. Speak to Luna. She's going to visit this on her way. That's right. So, come on back to me. Take the earth magic. Very good. I will stand and No, I've already done that. Okay, deliver. No. So, I was staying here cuz I want to do some trading. I got more gems than I'm ever going to need. I know angels need gems, but I don't need that many. Give me money. See, it's one to three. You're getting better rates. Okay. Sell 40. Yeah, I'd even be a bit more aggressive. Just don't need all this. There's plenty on this green utopia that we're invading. Plenty of resources. A bit heavy. Uh we have a new crystal mine coming up soon. Hopefully a new sulfur mine from Alamar. Yep. Good trading. He's having a good time. Diligent custodian. Don't need to buy them yet. Don't need to buy them unless we feel there's any kind of threat. And I just don't feel it's anything credible. Halen does still live. Halen lives. No, he doesn't. I killed him. Right. I'm going to end the turn here and then I'm going to take a break. I've been at this all day. Like I'm glued to it. Whoa. Whoa. Okay, we saw some movement at the top of the stronghold here. Uh, yeah. And down here, we saw some interesting activity, that two-way monolith, which as we know connects to here. Yep. Okay. So, there's still a degree of removal, right? There's a body of water between us and a week's worth of stuff here. Like end of this week, I'm probably building the dragon cave. Alamar, um, tell me. Well, I don't know for sure that you're free to do that yet. Who hasn't finished leveling up? Yeah, Jedi's the one. So, he should probably collect this. at the box. Why don't I clear the lots of unicorns for you? Why don't we meet first? Let the 11 angels. Look at her moves. Is that just from the boots of speed and the gloves? Man, that's good. Sephenroth and Jedi finally meet and Jedi who has studied magic extensively after all despite the prognostications of Luna learns clone meteor shower water anti magic frosting teleport etc from Sephenroth and teaches resurrection It's almost like this was the mission of our entire game, not the actual conquest of the enemy. Sephro [snorts] learns resurrection. Greetings, Sephro. Allow me to teach you the secrets of resurrection. Ah, excellent. I understand now. Yes. By the way, [music] Jedi, you never quite made it to expert Earth magic, did you? What do you mean? No, I'm adv I'm advanced. I'm advanced and I'm I'm a specialist at resurrection. There's no one better in the land to teach you. All right. And now we have the joyous decision as to who gets >> [music] >> um who gets what. So let's do a few quick checks at the beginning. Visions weakness and scuttleboat. So maybe it was summon visions. I need weakness. I do not need. Okay. So, visions is the only one that actually I don't have. Okay. Um, one person needs to be the ogre person. So, I feel like that's going to be Jedi. He's got two pieces of the ogre, right? So, that's all sorting itself out for us. He can also be the dead knight guy. We just need the shield of the awning dead. Yep. Okay. So, that's cool. So, that's that decision made. Power by three, attack and defense by four. Uh, look, whatever. It's okay. We know we want the angels together. The question is just for this fight with the unicorns. Uh, we'll just do that so it's nice and tidy. Um, enemy morale doesn't matter much. Uh, to Stephenroth, I think this is a swaparoo as well. So, we're really going for spell power here. And we're going to let the archangels speak for themselves with 159. I like this. The heroes part ways. Now, I said I was going to log off, but I'm just going to do this one fight and then that's it. Um, I am a little concerned about morale here. So, I think we'll do that initially. Uh, don't do anything. Wow. He needs to get the box. But I want the knowledge. Okay. And what was through that portal? We don't know yet. Kind of both hogging the same area here. Um, yeah, he doesn't really, having lost his five angels, he's like going to go, well, I don't really have I don't really have much going on here now. Um, so I think that means I do want Alamar to do this. Let's do this next. I I'm logging [music] off. Why am I doing this? I told you guys. Sure. Okay, I'll see you in a little bit. We'll come back. It's okay. Yeah, I think Seph, if you can free that for me. Um, uh, and what are we doing with the Bone Dragon and Dread Knight? Well, I'll leave all these troops at the Yeah, you don't need to talk to me. Set me up. You're the more powerful hero. Let's do this. Um, yeah. Well, about a thousand. Yeah. It just does so much more damage now, doesn't it? Hang on. Is it still just I think when you're an expert air mage, it jumps to five units. Yeah, it's just ridiculous, isn't it? Now, there's no risk of morale here. So, we just watch them go about their business. Uh, and angels and hopefully meteor shower will do the job. No, they're being smart enough. No, they're not. Okay. Uh, so kill this stack. So, I dealt a,000 damage there. >> [snorts] >> Okay. Yeah, this is our plan. and we build the mage guild just to see what we get rather than the tavern. The alternative would be the tavern uh which gives us the option. I had considered this idea of fing the angels through the town portal back to the castle with just a a a troop carrier. But I'm not as much of a fan of that now. Like it could kind of be Jedi's job. could be just lingering here. Yeah. So, let's do this. And mage good level three. I don't anticipate there's anything here that's going to change our lives dramatically. Does she have first aid? spend the night. I don't think I need to. How many spell points am I recovering each day? 30% about 60. Don't think that's worth it. Jedi. Yeah, I think Jedi's this man. He he he he keeps us fresh and ready in a pinch. Like if things go crazy, Seph could come running back. We could hire a hero here. Seph gives the angels to him. Gives the angels to Jedi. As long as Jedi is within range of that portal, it gives us massive option value. So, I think that's really, really good. Um, now who's next? What's the rest of you guys doing? That looks like an obvious one. Alamar's done his move. It's just a critical juncture here. We really don't want to make a mistake. [music] Not visited. There are three minotaurs there. Are they available at the portal? They are. Okay. So, let's get them. And that saves me having to run down there. No, it doesn't. I don't understand. Okay. I don't get why they are still there. What's going on here? I might just go and collect them. The green portal. I can connect up with Luna. Um, but the whole point is I want to get the skull cap. I want to give the skull cap to uh you. Yeah, you're bringing back the bow. Okay. Cuz one of us is going to maybe we were going to talk to Jedi. That was our plan. I don't know. Let's do this guy next. He was getting some scouts on. Um, takes him a bit out of the way. Just be careful. Okay, that's a dragon tower that I can't do. I don't really want to waste time doing that. Um, so I'm okay with this now. How does portal work with um Yeah, it's weird. I don't get why I was able to buy three minotaurs here and another three. So, the portal doesn't actually go and get the creatures that are there. It's a bonus. It's like if you want, I can also give you I didn't realize that. Okay. I thought the three that were on offer were the three that were there, but it's an additional three. So, that's um that's a lesson. Um I don't know what I want to do with these heroes. That's my problem. I'm kind of in in stuck in indecision mode. Yeah, Z is carrying the golden bow and I'd like Jedi to have it. So, that's reason enough. I don't want her pushing further south. So, if I come to here, you can get in a boat tomorrow. with what I have. Now, Luna wants to give the skull cap and tribute. Xi is going to go to there and probably make it to here. [music] And then you are going to get in the boat tomorrow, which you can get actually Yeah, this works. This works. Jaggar gets in the boat now. Um, well, she might not actually quite kill the Naga. She probably will, actually. That's what I'm doing. So, come to here. Luna says, "Hi." Hello. Take this. We'll keep these other things. I'll keep my harpies. Yeah, I just want to give you this. So, she's got both of these things she wants to give. Jedi has the other ingredients. No. Who has it? She has it. Rib cage. Black Shard. Oh, what did I do? Dude, did I get it wrong? I did. Blackshard is in the wrong place. Okay, well, they're going to speak again. Hopefully. That was [music] a mistake. I swear I know what I'm doing. Back home at the castle. We will be upgrading the portal of glory, but it's just not really something I want to do yet. This is something I will definitely end up doing. And I think we can buy the initial angels zealots. It's not too much. That's a really good stack. Necro development not really necessary. All these things can be done later. Dungeon development again. It's only day two. If we choose we do want dragons, we can decide way later in the week. Okay. Blue. What's blue's story? Blue's has no town. That teal hero is Sauron. We can't ignore Sauron completely. Okay. Okay, so the plan was I'm now equipped with the things. I give them to Jagger. Jagger, take these. Don't take any of this [music] other nonsense. Keep your undead. Well, h no, no. They have grand elves over there, so you could give her the grand elves. I'll be undead. You be alive. You take the living stuff. I take the dead stuff. You stay over there and help support the campaign. I keep the orb. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Jar can land here. Doesn't really want to. Um, that's not something I think he wants to do. Se first or we do Jedi first. Do some of these easy things. Yay. Basic air. I clicked it very quickly. Basic air. Well, yeah. I don't know. I can't learn implosion off her if she's got the book. I think I can learn everything else, though. Do these things, Jedi. We have gone separate ways. I do want to punch through here. I know I do. She's feeling the impact of uh giving him the boots. So that was also in hindsight a mistake. I should have left the book uh the boots on her. I think hillfort will not work and I'm not going to approve it. Now this is just going to be the answer, right? Jar will get all of this sorted. Yeah, I'll still be in pretty good shape actually. [snorts] How how much damage are the angels going to take from [music] the dragons at the beginning? That's that's a bit of a question, right? So, I think I'm faster than a green dragon. I know I am. I'm faster than a red dragon. And then I'm slower than the other two kinds. Um, but it'll tell me what what's there. I've got expert resurrection. I can resurrect like I don't know, eight of them. Maybe at six I can only resurrect. Anyway, I can kill the queens, right? Caution to the wind. Whoa. Let's just be sensible here. Very boring, but there's a reason why earth magic just works, man. Expert slow into expert implosions or meteor showers followed by resurrection at the end. Everyone's a winner. If everyone is me. 550. Yeah. Why don't we blow up these? Um, don't lose your first aid tent, though, man. There's always the possibility of a misclick. There's also possibility of morale here. They have four. I didn't run far enough away. So, let's just shower them again. Having beaten the naggers and spent some spell [music] points, we come across across a condra who begs to accompany [music] you and your army while a while for safety. You agree and he offers us payment. A copy of the book of the elements. This is just like a description of the Wait a second. The tome of earth magic. Every [music] single spell. How much does our implosion do? [laughter] I wouldn't be want to be on the receiving end of that. I can also do expert earth elemental. I didn't even think of that. Which is really really good. Cards of prophecy. Who wants that? Someone does. Oh, you can click on it. And there she is. Cool. All right. Uh, that's the necro. And can I do it today? If I pick them up, I don't think I'll have quite enough moves. Try. I don't think it's going to work. >> [laughter] >> I need to be able to send boat so she can Can she summon a boat? No, [laughter] I need to send the boat back. Uh, I don't think it's quite going to work. 39 will remain. Can she? No. [laughter] So close. Ah, bummer. While you're waiting, you may as well come south cuz he's just going to go bang bang. We want to stay in Kooi just in case Sauron lands or we we need to readjust. Oh, she's available. Actually, she hasn't moved. Okay, right. Uh, what do we do next? Let's just do some other stuff and then we'll come back to figuring out what we do uh with all this other stuff. Demons horseshoe to um deliver a dungeon a set of dungeon reinforcements to Jedi. Uh, so on day one, Dema, you are going to be standing here. So, anything you haven't done yet. Yep, we can do that. There we go. These fellas. Yeah, let's get this scout. Let's just see what this is just in case it's really important. Slayer. Yeah, come around here. Good sulfur. And then we get to scout. Sounds good. Alamar. Don't care too [music] much for these resources. I don't know. Water walk. It's not amazing though, is it? I'm not worried about there being anything up here. I don't think the implications are almost certainly solved. That hasn't been solved. That's You never know. You do not have the wisdom and I don't have the wisdom to know how the game works. Even at the end there, I stepped off the thinging when I wasn't supposed to. Um, where do you want me? Why do you have extra spell points? Because you gave an item away. Maybe skull skull helmet. That's why. Okay. Could do this. How mobile are you? about here. Don't hate that. Did we ever find out what they want? We did. Okay. All right. All right. We're controlling the center. Jaggar, you may as well stay there. And now Jedi um was going to clear a path to here. Yeah, I still like that idea. I think did we decide that they need to speak again? They definitely need to speak to each other again. So, stick to the plan, man. This This is a much better hedge. Being near this object is so powerful. Whoa, well, well. Okay. A hoorde of Corsair. Do we have the right layout? I think so. I mean, interesting. If it was the 75, I'd be interested. Corsair are the upgraded pirate, right? They have a few I think they still have four shots, but they're pretty good. I am going to get the golden bow. I'll have three troop types. 20 grand is a lot of money though. How much are they costing per guy? Feels like a lot. 700 per guy. What's a Corsair cost normally? Nah, the morale hit's not worth it. The mor I'm saying the morale hit is not worth it for 37. And I'll just say no, you're good. Actually, right. I don't really want to waste my spell power. Yeah. Be aed by the power of my forces. I own this gate and that means I can go anywhere in the world I want. Right. Keep going. Level four. I do need the archers as well. Can you roll berserk in the rampart? I'm not even sure. Let's find out. Huh? The ironing. Okay. I think we we're building it to to level five. It just doesn't matter. We're just doing it anyway. Now, castle. We ready for crusaders yet? Not really. I don't think so. Yeah, we've got time. Artifact merchant is interesting, but it's expensive. Okay, let's see. Nothing from red. Okay, no. Here we go. He is active. Blue is active. Sauron does not know what to do with her life. Speak to him. I'll take the bow that you wanted so desperately to give me. You take the cards. Um, while we're at it, is there any other stuff you'd like to give? Yeah, I I'm I'm giving gifts here. We wanted to give that away. Uh, I don't think anyone wants this actually, but I'll hang on to it. Keeping it. Oh, yeah. Take the violet mercury. That's big one. Um, that's it. I have the skull and the rib cage. Let's do this. You go to 600 900 will remain. Just being extra careful here. Uh, speak to him. Hello, you're back. What's the Ooh, cards of prophecy. Oh, I'll have all these things. Thank you. Okay. Uh I can now get the cards to the person who wants them. And I'm fine with Yeah, I'm fine with you being exhausted here. Luna, I brought a cool shield. I got the cards. I got this thing for you. Oh, although maybe I'll keep it cuz she's already in advanced mysticism with Yeah, I'll keep these two things. Uh, I don't want you to have anything else. Take the cards. Go down and reveal your hand to Iette who [music] just in case she wants to give you creatures. I'll just do that now. Wow. Oh, awesome. They're even going to slow me down for the day. Straight to the skeleton transformer. Well, is that a waste? way. [laughter] He's going to sail away, man. I need him to sail away. Well, maybe Seph should do the fight first with Maybe we do the massive epic fight with the dragons and then determine the fate of the 50 dwarfs after that. I am missing those gloves, man. Or the boots of speed. Jedi's not even using them. Look at him. He's just chilling up there. Well, that's unacceptable. Jed, come here. Let's do Jed first. A horde of Thunderbirds that outrank me and could get morale, but I do have resurrection. Spell scroll could be very good. Just imagine. It could be implosion. It could be important 99. Oh, criy. They can clear the map. No. Um, help. Meteor shower doesn't hurt that much. Chain lightning is still good for 465. There's also slow. Yeah, maybe we slow. That just buys us a bit of time. Do I want to soak? I think I do. I need to hurry up. 10. I'm hoping that the minotaurs are going to wreck the 10. Kills eight to 10. Trogs have blocked them off. You fools. Let's hit them where it hurts. That's good. Come back and hit these ones. Trogs go down. I res. No. Why don't I do massive damage to somebody instead? Now 375. How good is 375? Kills six and six. I don't know how good this is, but I'll do it anyway. Pretty resilient, weren't they? Hey So now I could blind these until I'm finished. So, he can't flee or do any of that kind of thing. There's been no light. There's been no actual lightning bolt. I don't know if I'll bother resurrecting one. We'll see. Yeah. Stop there. Oh, it wakes them up. Of course it does. [sighs] I hate the ballista. Can I blow up my own ballista? I'm actually serious. Would that work? No, I can't I can't target it, but I actually can AoE it. You know what? I'm going to do that. [laughter] Get lost. Now, the rest of the stuff's going to hit the defend key. The only question is just on the off chance I'm wrong. Um, so on the off chance that I'm wrong, I'm going to defend here. This is totally fine, though. Yeah, cool. [snorts] Oh, no. It wasn't retaliation. I didn't even think. Oh my god. Uh, right now I got to do it all again. I'm wasting so many spell points. Oh man, and a 27 Trogs worth continuing. I don't think they are right because I don't have I don't have good spell regen. Uh spell point regen. I mean, so I think I'll let the Trogs go. That's just hilarious. I lost lost so many more spell points than I needed to. I don't Well, maybe I could take ballistics now. Go on, I'll take it. Okay, this better have been worthwhile. What? [laughter] Prayer. I probably already knew. No, it would have told me if I already knew it. Um, he struggled there. That was not a comfy fight. Um, several of these. I don't know the speed anymore. So, they'll they'll be the fastest thing, will they? On the map. Yeah. Speed nine. Yeah, this is fine. Okay. And are they immune to blind? Maybe they are. Yeah, elementals can't be blinded. Um, so we'll wait until they hurt us and then we'll resurrect stuff. Yeah. Okay. Hopefully they just pile into the beholders. Great. No, this one. Kill 18 to 30. Oh, minotaur kings. Cool thing with resurrection. You want no damage coming into one. Oh, did I lose one? No, I didn't actually lose one. I had 26 at the start of the fight. So, let's res now. Well, I can just wait. Yeah. Yeah, that kills 18. Okay, cool. So, okay, we've got the loop going. The problem is his spell points. A gang of rogues is sifting through the possessions of dead warriors, scaring off the scavengers. You know, the rogues had overlooked a strange breast plate, which is terrible. All right, I'm putting this off. Are we ready for these dragons? We do one stack. Uh, I could consider counter striking. No, I couldn't. Uh, it's mainly about just retaliations and resurrection. Possibly an implosion depending on the situation. Maybe an earth [music] elemental willing to spend the spell points. The hoorde of thingies are no good. Whoa. There's no morale here on these things. Let's wait then. Maybe slow detonation. Will I just spend some spell points? 700 damage. I'm not quite sure how the Yeah, I think it's tons of damage. So, let's not Yeah, you can see the little red flame going on in the background there. Just a safer way to do things. How do I get that? Well, I've got to go here. How do I get the ring? Okay, I've got to walk to the entrance. Let's have a look. Several greenies, several reds, a few and a few. I think we'll be okay with that. A place off limits. You stand before the utopia. A place off limits to me, humans. [music] Do you wish to violate this rule and challenge the dragons to a fight? I do. And even in a vanilla fight with no rares. Whoa. I actually wish it was more powerful than this, but never mind. It isn't. Need to be a bit careful here because the fight could end with me losing one. Need to be very careful that I res. What I'm concerned about is that the dragons attack, kill an angel, put me down to 10, and they retaliate, [music] ending the fight with me on 10. One way to hedge against that would be to resurrect. now before the reds act. That's reasonable. I think I worked it out. The implosion kills eight. The angels kill five. The black flies over. Gets retaliated against, but doesn't kill an angel. Crackatoa. Now, this is fine. I don't die. I mean, I'm sore, but I don't die. Oh, okay. I wish you could give me expert air magic instead. I'll take all this. All right. To air. And none of us became air mages in the end, which is a bit of a shame. The only thing that does do is turn on Counter-Strike and air elemental. That's all that's there. No fly, no dimension door. Uh, I may as well hang on to that. Okay. Uh, I also got the still eye of the dragon and we want to keep an eye on on the dragon father stuff. Yeah. I mean, it's mainly the money, right, that that I'm happy about there. Okay. She comes back from her visit to the dragons. Kind of wish it had been a bit harder, but we'll take it. We're happy. What does it mean we want to do? Um, I will wait here in the water uh for the dwarfs. Not happily, but I will wait here for you. Where are these dwarves you speak? Are they here? Oh, okay. Well, Luna can give the dragonfather thing over then. Yep. What's this one do? That's not part of anything. Angelic Alliance feels like it's a long way off. All four skills by one. I'm keeping it. Who's doing the running? Yeah, why don't I come here and G tomorrow? Even with the dwarf debuff, I'm saying you'll make it. Okay, I understand they want these and I understand they also Oh, yeah. I'm taking that back. They're taking this. We're never buying another blister as long as we live. Um, they have first aid tents. They can buy them from the rampart anyway. Okay, that's fine for me. I'll just be near the uh necro. You're going to run up here and deliver this and then you are going to Yep. disembark. All right, let's do some scouting. Oh, the mic's kind of just completely in my face here. There we go. How will you all see my beautiful, beautiful face? What have you got left? Oh, be greedy. Come on. You got to push the boat out in this game a little bit. Sometimes, you know, you can't be too cautious. This is fine. I'm not going to come back uh for a while. Day four. Don't get stuck with them. There was some action up near the top of there before. Never showed up. Okay. And just offload. Get into the habit. I just want you ready to gallop out, man. Do I? What can I do better? Well, yeah, I could maybe do better. I could try to get these troops to Dude Meister. It's a pretty long journey though and I'd be leaving the dungeon vulnerable. So, I don't think I am actually. Jedi, I don't think you are getting reinforcements on these three stacks. No, you're not. Stay here. If I change my mind, I'll I move you later. Alma, I kind of want you ready. No. What's she going to do? She's going to do it herself. She's going to come through this portal with the angels. So, Alamar, you are probably Alamar, you're just doing this. That's all you're that's all that [music] it's worth your time to do. All right, keep building. Um, I think trying to think what in here I could get that I don't have now to know implosion naturally would be quite nice. economic thing. Well, let's work towards that then. Yeah, let's get the tavern. Upgrades our rumors. Oh, look at this guy. Elmore and an overlord. Okay, we got good info now. We got the strongest army. Good. We got most towns. Red has lost its town. I have four. Three. Two. not have one town. Blue went from none to some towns. Okay. Wow. It's interesting. Uh number of heroes isn't a very good indicator of anything. Gold. I haven't got the most artifacts. To be an empire of magic and to have the highest kingdom army strength is pretty impressive. Paul goes, I mean I the [music] the Paul goes player. It's doing pretty well. Titans now, but you're down here on kingdom army. So, dark angels beat Titans. Can't remember. Uh, useful intel. What's left to build? What's left to build? What's left to build? Um, day four. Don't want to go up cause. So, yep. End the turn. Oh, yep. End the turn. Oh. Oh. Hello. Challenge. Movement near the yellow portal. Okay, let's go in reverse order. I will be getting out of your way, Melanda. Well, will I or will I be a jerk and sprint through here? My griffins are faster than so. Let's say she gets the first turn. E freet get hasted. I think I live. [sighs] Yep. Merlander. Uh, the Interloper. Not good enough. Uh, okay. Why do I do Alamar first? Okay. I was going to measure how far it is. It's like, no, I'll just go do it. [laughter] Nothing better. It's totally fine. and like this. Um, that will be fine. Sandra can't make it today anyway. So, that's that one dealt with. This one, where where is he up here? I think we do want to just run on force my lander to kill us. Which way? East or west? I'm guessing it could. If we go east, I'm guessing there could be a shipyard here in the sea. So, I'm going to go west. Don't need that. And it's just so rewarding wasting their time. So, there is the shipyard there. Oh, how fascinating. Two different blues down by the Inferno. And am I right that the Inferno was blue at the beginning? No, Teal was Inferno. Teal was Inferno. Giselle is Rampart. And somehow they have the Hall of Sins. [snorts] How cool is the Inferno Town, man? Right. Wait, don't go anywhere. Um, Luna, I mean, Thingo Xi has stuff she wants to hand over. Dwarves. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, we're ready to go with this. Yes. Take the quiet eye of the dragon. Take this for our man in the north. Take the dwarves. Don't take undead. I'll I'll retain the undead. Jar's like, "No, can I please get off this boat? Please." I think he does get off the boat now. Finally. [snorts] Um, do I want to go out of my way to speak to him? Not really. No, he can sort it out himself. He can come find me if he wants me. Hoorde of Medusa queens. No, no, no. He won't be taking any losses. know it might feel like we are but the thing is this is half half the cost of a chain lightning. So, will we just do that and then we'll resurrect? No, my tent. But the angels are not happy. Uh, now when they attack, they'll deal about No, no, we're near enough. Unless I get petrified, of course. Well, that's annoying. Uh, this one. Yeah, it's fine. I'm slow this time. Uh, that actually hurt. Uh, let's do this. Oh, and five grand orb of driving rain. Not bad. I'll get the arms. Searching a ruin. You're amazed to find a piece of the statue of Legion. I think that's a good piece. I think that might be Dendroids. Fifth level units. Yep. Lots of Kotals. I am faster than a Kotal. Should be all right. Yeah. 22. Wow. Do I slow first? I think so. Yeah. Down to six. That's very good. [snorts] I love to cotles. I just think they're so cool. I love the flavor. A big fan of the factory town. This is magic. The gathering. Do they kill one? I don't think they do. You pause to help a diplomat with a broken axle fixes problems. And in gratitude, he gives you a medal with magical properties which he says will help people see things your way. And that's another good one to give to Yeah. reduce if notice do. Oh, does it buff the skill at all? I will get this scroll just to see. Okay. Counter strike. I That's I've got the tome of air magic now. So, it's actually pointless. But Jedi could maybe have it. Okay. It's a bit of a waste. So, he's going to come up here, speak to her, come around here. Jedi, meanwhile, yeah, she'll speak to him up here. Jedi, you should be strong enough to do these things, man. Like, I worry for you if you're not. Will I let him take my Trog? Yeah, I think so. I think so. Let him take it. Well, we take it that we ballistics in the end, right? Uh, I'll take the armorer. Well, learning into Yeah, this is just better. And armor. Yeah. A hoorde of stormies. Yeah. Again, I should be all right. [snorts] 500 per piece seems reasonable. Uh, I'll have the three alignments thing going on. Yeah, but I don't have to use them, do I? I mean, I think I will accept. Actually, welcome aboard. Do you want me to do this uh workshop? Great. Um, XP. Do you want me to do this? Yeah. Well, let's just steal golems. Yeah. Okay. Well, whatever. Yeah. There's no losses. Do we want the giants? Kind of got them now, haven't we? Okay. She's going to come to She's going to do the behemoths and she's going to run to here. You're going to meet with her there. Okay. We got this whole narrative arc worked out. Love it when it just starts to click. No one's ever going back here. Jedi might come back here. Sorry. Yeah. Okay. So, there's town hall. We need to get the dendroids ready. And it could be dragon cliffs as well. Yeah, that's a castle. So, day five, day six. So, literally, it's arches and dragon cliffs. I think it makes sense to do it. I won't upgrade the um Portal of Glory until we're sure and we're ready. Something dodgy could happen. You just never know. Luna is the only character I'm not really sure about. Can't get her. There she is. So, she could pass you skeletons and liches tomorrow. It's all right. She's a guardian anyway, so it doesn't it's not going to matter too much. I think we'll do that. We'll try and push and try and create a new narrative for Luna. Day [music] five. She pops in here. Comes back to here. Gives her six liches and some skeletons. Yeah, I think this works. Have a first day 10 ballista. And how much moves do you have now? Can't tell. Tons. Yeah. So, I want to leave today. Buy these. Buy these. Four ghost dragons. Maybe. I need these. Uh, and these. >> Hey, one thing. You know how Oh, please leave me comments and stuff. One comment I would like to note in this run, I've moved the camera so that you can see what I'm doing in the town screen better, but it covers the little bottom right panel on the adventure map where you get a little hot tip of when I've selected a hero, what that hero is doing and what they've got, you know, in their army and stuff. So, I'm not sure which one's better. Um, maybe no one cares. So, if I don't hear any comment, then I just won't care and I'll just do whatever I want. Right. So, 62 grand. Where is Sephenroth? Is she going to want to do the Portal of Glory tomorrow? It's probably the day after. What's the budget for the portal? The portal cost 20. The guys inside here that uh have already been bought. So, there are 13* 2 is 26. That's only 46 grand that adventure. So, I have money. I can build the D dragon cave and I could give you four ghost dragons. Not going to miss the Mercury. Is four enough to make that worthwhile? It's not exactly a phenomenal improvement. So, I think we do it. like the idea of the vampires building up into something we can use to defend later on. Uh if we do come upon uh also helps keep give her the first turn a little bit better against anything that's speedy. The harpies are really going to hate their lives here in this army. Um, I kind of want to bring them with. I kind of feel like it's part of the story. Harp is a part of our journey, you know. No, this isn't what I want to do. I want to shield the liches. Yeah. Okay. And I think my decision as well then is that we're building the dragon lair again. I don't have to right now though. I can wait. Okay. I don't need the well that's not been visited, but I'm I'm going to give the the benefit of the doubt that it's been done. I'm not going to waste my time checking. The reason I'm going through this pink portal is what? Nothing. I don't want you to do that. That wasn't what we were going to do. You were going to come down here and go through the this thing. That's it. Get down there. Go. Look at her go, Luna. All right, not bad. I'm going to end the turn there, mate. Whatever you want. Like, I want to get that necro, but I want to protect what we have. Oh, you let me live. [laughter] Let's do dema first. No, Malakth. You let me live. Day six. The scout is more important. Hi, Gina. There's no point flagging any of this stuff. It'll just be unfl flagged after I'm dead and gone. Uh, running down into this pocket means probably certain death. Um, no. I'd rather you come this way. Tell me what this is. Uh, shipyard at the at the top here. Or is it better to do this? Let's be cheeky. Absolutely. [laughter] Malikica's having a great time just la just trottting through the countryside. Uh all right. Yeah, we will prepare to bring you Well, we're going to be prepared. Let's just say not much downside to this. She's not serious anyway. Uh you're you're just going to be in the area, so that's fine. Now, your job was to come north. Speak to me. Yeah, speak to me now before the ship before I set off. Greetings, Sephro Jaggar. I see it is you once again. I'm about to rendevu with Jedi to [music] make it quick. Well, you need to give me some stuff and I need to give you some stuff. Oh, for starters, I need you to give me that sack of gold, for you are far too powerful and important to be wasting your time with [music] it. Now, we also have to decide who will be the custodian of the dragon father pieces. Um, well, I think it should be Jedi. Actually, he's the one who's most likely to go through that town portal to one of our other towns. He's the one most likely to communicate with the rest of the team after I go through the portal. What do you think? Yes, I think you may be right. So take this ring of the dragon father or whatever it is. It's quiet eye of the dragon. I mean also give this thing to Jedi. [music] He really really wanted it. Made a massive fuss about it. Very well. Is there anything else I can give you that will [music] make you less annoying. I didn't realize I was annoying. Perhaps these arms. That's one thing. Orb of driving rain. Well, I am a water mage. Maybe I'll use it at some point. Take some of this chaff away from me. Diplomacy. I'll give that to Thingy. Yep. I'm satisfied. Jaggar, you may leave my presence as you command. [snorts] Jaggar diligently rides off to do that. Sephro goes and throws the whole campaign away on several behemoths. No, impossible, I hear you say. All these loins are annoying. Could you have stayed there for them? Oh, he probably should have come up here with her. Oh, that's a mistake. I didn't see that there were loins there, man. Oh, why do I lose any? Can't I just uh scam? Well, behemoths versus other tier sevens is uh terrifying. They are really, really strong, but not when there's only this many of them. You're not going to stick together, are you fellas? No. One, two, three, four, five. He's out of the game. If I go here, tempestuous orb of fire, you come across a condra, another one who wants my company. And in an agreement, he gives me the most epic thing in the history of epicness. Oh yeah. Now, sadly, I do have Armageddon switched off. Searching a ruin. I'm amazed to find another piece. And if only thingo had come with me. Jagger. I mean, third level units. Well, h Jedi comes and does the armadillos. Jaggar comes and speaks to him. Yeah, this is a one-time deal. I'm going to speak to you once and then that's it. We part ways. You can speak to Jay Guy and give him the loins. Yeah, expert prayer could be a thing. Jedite learns and teaches. Excellent. Okay, fine. Jedi, we meet one more time in this hallowed land before I must ride on to my destiny. And what destiny might that be? Why? To rule all of Arathia. Of course. Sephro, beware. Your pride will be your downfall. [laughter] Pride. Downfall. Don't you know who I am, old man. Let us exchange artifacts and be on our way. I wish you well, Sevenroth. I don't need you to wish me well, but yes, let's do the trade. Okay. I think I've finished here. So, I've decided [music] that Sephanroth is going to take all of the dragonfather stuff, which means sadly I have to take the armor, which I really wanted a Jedi to have. Plus three plus three, but oh well. Um, maybe it's a little decadent of me. I'm kind of insisting that it's more likely Sephro unlocks all the stuff. She's going to have more adventures. Let's just say um he's taken the bow. He's got the manner regen. He's got the ogre pieces and he's got the armor of the damned pieces. I'm only taking the counter-strike scroll and I'm giving the tome to you because [music] you can get things done with it. I'm going to keep both sets of good boots and the gloves. I'm the one who's going to be doing all of the running around and doing stuff. Okay. Um, visions. I'm not sure if I need to keep. I'll check now in a second. I don't think I do. Uh yeah, and then with the giants, I had thought about maybe taking them with me to the castle, but I don't think I love that idea, so I'm not going to bother. I'm still not sure there's a use for this anywhere cuz all my guys want to be doing blinding and slowing all the time. My whole my whole roster wants to be doing it. So, I've also given all the chaff scrolls that don't matter [music] to Jedi. So, he can give them to someone else who don't who doesn't matter. Are we happy? I think we're happy. He gets the statesman medal. Makes sense, right? He's the diplomat. Seph gallops off across the paddic to her future. Uh, now I kill the thingies and meet up with this guy. Yeah. No. No. Surely not. Yeah. I'm still trying to become a good person. Yep. So, no. I'm saying no to your offer to join me and I'm instead I'm going to kill you. Oh, please don't make me laugh. Uh, grab them now. I kind of want to be not too far from the portal. I want to be able to get to a town. So, I might stand here kind of by default. Well, maybe I could have done this for thingo first instead of him having to clear them. [snorts] Never mind. Um, all right. Let's keep building up. Okay, it's day six. Sephro's big day where she wants to spend 46 grand is literally tomorrow. So, we need to be a bit careful. [snorts] What's something we know we want to do for week one? These things. Unicorn Glade. I think definitely the glade. Yeah, let's build the glade. I think I'm happy with that. Um, nothing else. No, I can decide on red dragons tomorrow. Alamar has a whole day up his sleeve if you want me to do something. I have nothing to do. Do you want me to ride out and kill him? Oh, he went down and collected the 15 griffins that were there. That's so annoying. Only problem is sallying out does expose me to whatever's happening here. What's Luna going to do? She was going to come this way, wasn't she? She was going to go to here to the turquoise. Maybe we do that first. No, no. Go downstairs. Do this. I don't. Shame, but I don't really have time now. Follow the plan or stick around. I don't stick around because it's going to be a while before week one. Yeah. Okay. This is fine. I don't want the refugees. [groaning] Oh, I thought this connected. Oh, awkward. Oh, you're on your own. You're on your own up there, Alamar. Uh, I think I can kill Sandro. My only concern is what if I lose uh some angels? And I think we just play around that by not taking them uh to spell points just to magic is what I'm worried about. Let's take our best guys. Um, something like this. If I die, avenge me, I guess. Did he even go here ever? Oh, he did. Alamar fights Sandro. Seven of 20. Okay. Now, we just let him do whatever he wants here. What the Oh, I don't kill many. It's like being in week week one again. Well, that gets a job, doesn't it? No, I don't need to settle for that. I can just do this. Uh, let's just wait. See what he wants to do. Oh, maybe you just want to die. Uh, whoops. Goodbye forever. Just take it. I could go through the thingy and learn it. But obviously his journey is just going to be a cakewalk compared to Jedi. He just gets offered it right up front. Not a problem. Look at him. Even look at his look at the look on his face, his expression. He's just like, "Yeah, I'm a winner. [snorts] I mean, I love him, but I kind of hate him." Oh, there's a redwood down there. Actually, that's probably more important. Yeah, go get that man now. [snorts] Do it. I didn't know that was there. That's amazing. It's going to show me the whole ocean and everything. You're here, Jedi. Right. You're here because you want to be ready to leap through this portal. And that's how far I can move in one turn. Yeah. No more money to spend. Okay. Have to watch her. I'm still alive down [music] here.