Video summary
In this episode of Heroes 3 gameplay, the player continues to control Sephroth after securing the Necropolis and upgrading her estate, focusing on resource management and strategic prioritization. Rather than immediately investing in costly structures like the Portal of Glory or expanding into Red's territory, the primary objective is to prepare for the arrival of Jedi to confront the main antagonist, Picadram. The player carefully manages spell points, utilizing abilities such as Chain Lightning and Meteor Shower to defeat enemy units like Griffins and Harpies, while deliberately avoiding risky engagements with powerful foes like Bone Dragons unless absolutely necessary. This cautious approach allows for the consolidation of forces and the careful preparation of Jedi's army, which includes Minotaurs and Kings, ensuring they are ready for a decisive battle at the portal.
As the campaign progresses through Day 7, significant developments occur within the party and the broader narrative. A new hero named Alamar joins late in the game, learning spells like *Bless* and *Bloodlust*, before eventually usurping leadership by claiming the throne of Arathia and departing. Meanwhile, Sephroth secures Archangels but must make a difficult choice regarding skill upgrades, rejecting stables and opting for Navigation instead of Air Magic after losing the latter ability. The player also acquires several key artifacts, including the Crest of Valor, Enchanted Sword, Resurrection, the Pendant of Downfall, and pieces of the Armor of the Damned, all while managing hero levels and spell expertise to maintain a competitive edge against various threats.
The gameplay involves complex logistical challenges and tactical positioning, particularly during naval battles against Taurus where range limitations and chain lightning mechanics prevent a successful kill. The player must also navigate conflicts with Tamika, utilizing Luna's resurrection ability to survive potential deaths and manage army morale effectively. Throughout these engagements, strategic emphasis is placed on preventing enemy flanking and maximizing damage output before retreating or repositioning as needed. Additionally, the player ensures that no angels die during critical conflicts while dealing with formidable enemies like giants, balancing the need for aggressive offense with the preservation of valuable units.
Ultimately, the episode concludes with the player well-prepared for the final confrontation against Picadram, having balanced resource expansion, hero development, and artifact acquisition. The decision to delay expensive construction projects in favor of strengthening Jedi's forces demonstrates a clear long-term strategy aimed at securing victory in the upcoming decisive battle. By managing logistics, optimizing skill choices, and completing essential quests, the player builds a robust army capable of facing the main antagonist. This episode sets the stage for the climactic showdown, highlighting the importance of patience, strategic foresight, and careful unit management in overcoming the challenges presented by powerful enemies and complex campaign objectives.
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It was mostly me
me. Pride cometh before a fall. Sephro,
heed my words. Now
[music]
[singing]
>> Padram,
I see now
your Schwarz is as big as mine.
Oh, he's going to get [music] all this
delicious stuff. Can he beat lots of
scorpionicores with this army?
Well, he won't laugh.
He can do this though. It's kind of
almost cruel that we can watch Picadram
just kicking absolute butt.
He can upgrade his genies and get arch
mages here.
Uh these are all amazing opportunities
that he's got.
Kill these. Get more giants.
We've got work to do.
We've got an economy to catch up on.
Does this have a capital? Did they ever
build a capital?
Thank god. Okay, good. I never ever even
checked that.
Uh, right. Let's start with Xi and do
this week one fight.
picking up where Ranloo [music] should
have
left off. 25 points of damage.
It's not amazing.
70 is [music] maybe better.
Just icebolt is better, right?
Better than blind.
Why do I only have 22 of 60? Don't know.
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Short range. Long
range rather.
I don't know why I'm doing this. There's
no morale chance.
Uh we'll do this.
thing is I probably shouldn't have
bothered because there's a um wishing
well on my way back up.
So I didn't need to save a turn of uh
spell points there. Although she's only
got 14.
Um,
okay.
Yeah.
Uh there's some more skeletons around
here for me if I kill them. So, let's do
that. That was a good little uh good
little day.
This guy can't just land here. Um but
that would be a waste. We want to get
some scouts in.
I don't have great movement out here on
the water, but I think that's worthwhile
since we're here anyway.
Not a lot JGar can do
other than follow the plan that he was
destined to follow.
It's all good.
Luna, you can't fight those great
charments. I don't want you to.
Uh, you can't fight them. You can fight.
That's barely a throng, though, isn't
it? We'll be all right.
more firewall shenanigans
like that.
It just cracks me up, man. [laughter]
just willingly w like if they came if
they took damage and continued walking
and it's like oh this grim assessment
we're going to have to do it guys you
know
come on
we're going to have to grin and bear it
um
but it's the fact that the stack dies
like look at this
>> [laughter]
>> Why are you going to walk that way?
[laughter]
Just cracks me up. [snorts]
Yeah. So abusable.
Jedi did this. Now, we have seven grand,
but I would like kings,
and I'd like these ones, too. And I feel
like the thing can bring them to me
later.
If I don't have them, I'm still very
strong.
Getting more angels, doing stuff around
here, so I can live without them.
I want to do this and hope that this
hooks around. If it doesn't, I'll be
sad, but I will. come to you.
All right.
I do like this graphic.
And I think we'll flag this. We don't
certainly won't be buying them cobalts,
but um let's get them accumulating.
Um,
scouting is pretty nice here, isn't it?
We should be able to do all these
fights. A pack of cotals.
How fast is a total?
I want to check that. I think they're
faster than me. Nope. Kotal is speed 11.
So, that's a fight I will be doing. Can
I just do this right now?
Who's going to stop me? Huh?
Oh,
someone has been here. That's a bit
unlucky. So, the angels are at minus one
now, I think. Yeah, minus one for the
next fight. That's not ideal.
So, someone's been here, but they
haven't done these other things. What a
load of
nonsense. Uh, spending.
I don't think so. [music] We have a
castle here. We must have. So, yeah.
What's left here to start investing in?
I mean, we do want the upgraded estate.
We want, but we just don't have to. Um,
wood and ore isn't a problem. I'm not
spending five grand on that. Back home.
Just don't need to yet.
It's probably dragon [music] cave.
Actually, we save up and do that. Bring
Jedi some dragons.
All right, let's keep an eye on this
area. There we have a tan hero, Alen.
He's still alive.
How are you there and still alive?
Well, actually, it would be amazing if
Tan stole this off Pink. That's useful
for me. All right, let's watch him.
Great. Alcenia nuisance.
Oh, purple's contesting it as well.
Okay, finally tan gives up the ghost.
Oh, pink is getting very strong up
there.
That's pretty scary actually.
Um, that's where they're up to. Is pink
the one that have conquered
have Yeah. Yeah. Well, they know we know
where they've got the rampart, but do
they have three towns now? No. Okay. The
rampart is only their second town.
That's actually really good.
The other crew is red. Yeah.
They don't look quite as impressive.
Oh, it's getting juicy here. It's
getting very, [music] very juicy.
Contend harpies. And do you have
mysticism? You must. Yeah, I was going
to say [music] adv. Yeah, his specialty
is mysticism because he's he just seems
to replenish
a hoorde of them this time. Don't
desperately need you to do this.
I only have four lightning bolts.
It's a bit risky. Go one more day and
I'll have um two more lightning bolts up
my sleeve.
Surely that's been taken. Yeah. Okay.
Someone has been here, so that's good.
Uh, come here.
Tempted to just have a look.
Go on.
Well, come here. Let's just see.
I kind of want to know what's down here.
although the fastest thing on the pitch.
Look at that.
Wisdom.
Well,
there are a lot of very nice spells back
at base. I don't have anime dead. I'll
take the wisdom.
I'm never coming back here. So, we may
as well now cuz Yeah, it's fine. All
right, Luna finishes that.
Not too interested in her well-being as
we've said before.
Cool.
Oh, I like that. I love that. Tucked
away in the corner. A little Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Very nice.
Who do you want to do first?
Hello boots.
[snorts]
Okay. Is red. Um,
is that their hometown?
Well, Sant is their best hero.
So, I wonder if that's Green's town.
They're the ones who murdered Green.
Oh, well, that's no joke. I don't
actually think I want to do that.
Do I want to invite them out though for
a
for a tango?
If he came out to me
with that army
on the open field, I would destroy them.
Unless it depends who the hero is.
What do we think?
[snorts] I'm very tempted to just do it.
Take it now.
I think we've got to try. I think we got
to do it. We got to get these scouts.
Let's [music] do this.
I don't need this.
Hello.
We doing it. The army is not very good.
I cast visions. I can't tell if there's
a garrisoned hero there, but if it's a
if it's a good hero,
it's got a it's a [music] very poor army
if it's a decent hero.
Two chain [music] lightnings and this
fight's over. I do lose an I lose at
least one angel.
don't know resurrection, [music]
but I don't care. The momentum,
whatever Red, whatever Fant is up to,
I'm about to take this off him. We're
doing this.
Yeah.
No, it's just monks. Okay.
Yeah, it's a shame.
What's the chunkiest unit? Why are there
whites here? Vance whites ruining their
morale. Um
450 there,
500 here. I think it's bang bang.
This is also decent.
Probably hitting the pikeman is the most
[music] cost efficient thing to do. You
could also do this 450.
That just wipes that block out there.
No, it doesn't kill the
Okay, expert. That's 450.
585 is better than 450. I'm sorry. It
just is.
Um,
guess we can try fighting
as well.
I certainly hope I don't lose um in a
way it might be better to lose an angel
than a bone dragon.
That's that's good.
There's no way ahead of it. might get
lucky. They might go for the bone
dragon. Somehow I'm happier. [laughter]
Somehow I am a lot happier uh with that
outcome. Let me kill this. Who's left?
Uh Bony Joanie needs to run away, I
think.
So, let's
eight swordsmen. How dangerous are they?
Be very careful here. We don't want
another turn.
So,
can eight swordsman deal 81 damage? No.
No, they cannot.
So, it's quite simple.
A humble fireball for 15 mana. Oh,
meteor show's cheaper. So, do that.
Wait, run.
Commit suicide, please. Thank you.
Oh. Oh, they didn't die. Okay,
get in there.
Whoa. Level four. Could be anything.
Resurrection could be in here.
[laughter]
Actually, I am an uh expert water mage.
So, I already knew clone, I think. But
water is the most powerful spell in the
entire map um in [music] terms of
adventure adventure mode.
Now, there won't be any creatures here.
Um yeah, and this was Greenstown that's
been conquered. Okay.
Um,
could just build this. Why can't I build
it? I don't have enough money.
Did she spend the night?
You can do this
unconquered stuff. Strange. Stay there
tonight.
It's going to be stables, I think.
Stay here for now.
You know, one thing we could do actually
would be to hire a um
hire a hero here.
Who's available?
Yep.
About that guy.
Yep. Let's do it.
Great.
How much risk do I want to take? I want
to take plenty of risk I think with him.
Do you want to speak to her? Is there
any point?
Do not speak to me.
Oh. Uh yeah, someone [music] needs that.
Someone needs that crest of valor.
Uh now, who was it?
This guy.
So, there's a little quest log you can
tick.
Aha, here he is. Tim the seer.
Christo Valor. I think that's here.
Tim, where are you?
Timmy,
is that him? Was there another one up
here? Feel like there was maybe another
one in there.
No.
She's in the way. Can't find out.
Right.
Last man to move. Jedite.
I just need the shield of the awning
dead after that.
Lots of power ledges. [music] Now I do
have the first turn. What am I planning
to do? I can't blind them.
It's about the best I can hope for if
they're spread out.
Haste on the angels is another option.
[snorts]
Yeah.
Oh, it's not a very fun fight this one.
It's only lots. I'm going to go for it.
Interesting. 30,
huh?
All right. What if I just haste you?
Um,
well,
you've got amazing targets, so I'm going
to go here and offer you the harpies.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, 10.
Oh, who'd you go for? Not bad.
Okay, this game's over.
Uh, Jedi. He learned the Earth magic, so
he's free to do what he wants now.
Sorcery, I think.
Sorcery.
Does he know meteor shower? He doesn't,
but he will.
Where has meteor shower? Is it uh the
necropolis? I can't find out.
Yeah, most of the time I want to be
resurrecting. Honestly,
I am a warlock though.
I'm going to say no. I think it's close.
I think it's very close.
Yeah, this is more important. Okay,
cool.
Pick up the sword. Oh, yeah. It's the
widow of a former captain of the guard.
Gives her the He gives you the enchanted
sword.
Oh, yes.
You notice a bobcat climbing a tree. You
climb the tree yourself and scare off
the cat. When you look in the nest, you
find the ring.
Great. Great. Great. Love that.
And
growing knowledge for this fellow.
Lots of Corsairs.
Same layout.
I think we just say no to this.
Don't pursue
against the Wolf Raiders. Um,
that's a fairly annoying fight, isn't
it?
Goblins all maybe die. Let's find out
how many there are.
What's my prize here, by the way? Wolf,
raiders,
picket. What do they give you?
Cyclops.
They give you Cyclops. That's the prize.
I'm nearly sure.
I don't really want any Cyclops anyway.
Well, I do have H.
I could use some Cyclops, I suppose.
I just don't have a very good solution
to them. And they're going to kill
Trogs, and that's not in my interest.
I'm just going to leave it. Okay. Okay.
Unfortunately, it doesn't connect
through either.
So, we've slapped down a gauntlet here.
It's like, what can Red do in response
to this? Is it nothing?
Feels like you're planning to do nothing
about it.
I was thinking there about what we want
to do with Sephro and the money uh and
our opportunity. So, yes, we've
conquered the castle. There isn't a
portal of glory in there. I could build
one. It's expensive.
And that would add to her three angels
and one day she might be able to link up
with Jedi's angels maybe.
Is that better or is it better to really
go for Necropolis? One reason why we
might want to put money and effort into
Necropolis is that if we check the
scenario info, we can see that red
indeed, and this isn't surprising,
right? That red is in fact necropolis.
And red was the town that uh I took this
off, which means they're not far away.
So red and green spawn sort of two zones
apart I think in this template
typically. Uh so well no I mean all the
time right because that's how the
template works.
Um so Red's hometown isn't far away and
it's probably better that we try to do
that. Um
you can see here Thant is their best
hero but he's [music] not a very good
hero.
Um,
and uh, yeah, so we've knocked him down
to one town. We have three. Pink has
two. Pink is kind of the player I'm the
most worried about because I can
physically see them unlocking fun things
here with Pikatra. His arm is not great,
though.
Anyway,
that's what I'm thinking of doing. Uh, I
think I am just hitting the end turn
button. Uh, I'm happy with Sephro. I'm
happy with this stuff. I don't want to
make any purchases here,
uh, or investments.
Mage girls at level five already. We
have all of the stuff we need. We can
upgrade the estate when we're ready.
There's no point when we've only got
nine dudes. Interested to see is there
any other red hero in the neighborhood.
Sephanor does have some more troops in
the in Alexandrietta
to fall back on if red does come back.
Okay.
Whoa.
Oh, well, this isn't the kind of fight I
on the ch I'm terrified, but at the same
time, it's not the kind of fight on the
channel that I will tend to auto
resolve. So, [music] yikes.
I do have the first turn though, Chana.
And unless you have No. Okay, I'm not
scared after all. But I mean, that was a
bit of a gamble, right? I mean, she
could have been arbitrarily powerful.
Who knows how how powerful she might
have been.
I guess I was backing this idea that 202
spell points and enough HP
to cast plenty of chain lightnings, you
know, is what I would have needed um to
get the job done. So, I think will I
just go for h I can kill these on my
turn. No, this thing hasn't had a turn
yet. Okay, right. Let's see how far they
can move.
They could get to my beholders.
I'm thinking chain lightning.
Oh, terrible morale because of the
skeletons. If I had the skeletons,
arc to here. No, why don't I just go for
the griffins and just accept whatever
the outcome of all that is.
It's amazing that chain lightning I have
no skill in air magic and yet chain
lightning is still significantly
stronger than meteor shower. 450 for 12
or I can do 585.
So, is 450 enough? And the answer is not
really actually.
Certainly not.
I think I do just crack the griffins
here.
Okay. And it just completely takes the
heat out of the situation.
These things can only barely make it to
the beholders.
So rather than fly out, I could just
block
be a jerk. Wait here. Okay, no problem.
That's your best. It is expert though.
Expert.
Um, yeah. No, just don't just don't die.
Your your job is to not die.
Okay, not too bad in the end. Oh, don't
land on the moat.
Come on, AI. Really? You You've got
flying. Why would you land on the moat?
I don't think I've ever even seen I've
seen it do some dumb things, but come
on.
160.
Oh, that's why the auto resolve said we
lose some.
Yikes. How can I end this quickly before
Chana can do any more damage?
Right. So, if I clone If I clone now,
allow me to do this one.
The clone of course is not slowed.
You never know. They might
they might be up for it.
Uh, wait here.
Um, I could soak here. H.
No, I don't know. Come here.
You're not much use.
Just the ballista.
Oh, fiddlesticks. All right, speed five.
Speed five is faster than the skellies.
Oh, hang on. Maybe I can.
Okay, so they're dead
now. Do I get the first turn and can I
prevent you casting?
I do. And the dreads go second.
So I can kill 52 here. Start off with
Well, probably only need a magic arrow.
170. Wow, cool. That's excellent. Uh, I
deal 315 damage.
Um, how much do I need to actually I'll
just do this maths here quickly. So
480US 315 is
175.
Not taking that risk. Let's do an
icebolt for fun.
Great. We managed to save an angel
there. That's excellent.
Yeah, way better than the auto resolve.
I'm happy with that. Sephanroth, good
job.
The golden bow.
Well,
I still say chain lightning is worth
chasing air magic for. We will learn
fire elemental eventually.
Give up and go for fire.
You can actually go in here. Yeah,
that's pretty lackluster, isn't it? I
don't have Berserk. See, it's the main
payoff.
I don't have Berserk. I I I've never
seen Berserk, so I'm just going to go
take the scouting. Plus, it gives me an
immediate payoff.
Wow, red are mad.
They are furious. Okay, can't [music]
stop pink.
Oh no, they don't take the box. Why does
the AI do that? They unlock a box and
then don't take it.
Who you saving that for?
It's not like it's a true Pandora's box
in the sense that it's got bad things in
it sometimes.
See how he walked through that though?
That was lots of scorps. He just walked
through it.
I think feel like he did lose some
soldiers there though. He didn't lose
his giants or naggers, but I feel like
he lost some of the other stuff.
No way we [music] can interfere with
this. It's just I have nothing in the
area that can stop it
or interact with it really. Okay.
Wow. Uh what a hold against China. Well
done. But just goes to show it's worth
it to be paranoid [music]
um you know about how how well defended
you actually are.
Uh what's happening over with Xi? We
have other No, it's not G. Who's this
fellow here?
Dema.
There's that. We can see his army.
It's not good.
It's not very good.
I almost feel like with Dimma,
he's not holding anything that matters
too much. 11 harpies aren't a big deal.
So, we could run this way. Um, it's
probably better to just be as annoying
as possible. Quick look here. Oh, that's
here. Okay, that connects here. So,
eventually red could get to us through
the pack of great shamans and then down
through this way.
Interesting.
Great scout for us. That's amazing. I
could run off this way actually.
But I kind of want to
be a jerk and uh
tell me more about their
homeland. Oh, I suppose they'll have the
cover of darkness.
Okay. So, I'm going to go out on a limb
and say that this is that is this dirt
here? Will it tell me? This counts as
dirt, right? This could be an Acropolis
here.
And rather than sailing to them, which I
don't think Jedi can do.
Uh, no, we can't summon boat.
Sephro
is a a long way from
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, we want Jedi to
do the job, but once probably not yet.
So, I'm going to do that. Yeah, we're
definitely
definitely in the right place.
What second level spell could we roll?
How much do I have left?
Quite a lot. Let's have a look.
Interesting.
Just be an absolute pain. I bet there's
a shipyard that way.
No point flagging.
Well, that would be a real nuisance if
we threw Demer away.
Then on his turn, he has to come all the
way back and recapture.
Pointless.
Tell you what.
No, he can definitely [music] come back.
I was going to say if he couldn't make
it back, we could stay there.
um buy all the creatures on day one.
[laughter]
Uh pure evil
got to be done though. Um yeah,
interesting.
Oh, I can't get there.
Okay, you are definitely going to die.
Okay, take a visual memory of this.
It's 1,570.
Let's call it 1,700
movement points from the portal to the
gate.
Take a visual map of this. We're never
going to see it again till we come back
to conquer it.
Um, nothing else of importance along the
way really.
Um, okay.
Now, who are you? Sauron, right?
Uh, could I beat her just as is? I think
I maybe could.
Need a few more spell [music] points.
Biggest mistake you can make is getting
a boat in order to hunt them down
because they can just jump off.
So, let's use Malekith to
um determine that's worth her going to.
Bless isn't in here, is it?
Usually it is. No. Okay. Yep. She
doesn't know it. And she's an expert
water mage. Probably going for undead,
though, so
that may or may not be pointless.
Oh, wow. Okay. Oh,
no. Not one bone dragon. Well, h
one bone dragon and
150.
So, I can kill about 30 of them with
magic arrows and stuff. It's actually
not undoable.
Okay, simple question. [music] Could we
just go get it?
Yeah, you know, like I don't really want
to risk it.
Stop.
clicked without
Well, with that said, now that I'm here.
Okay, that just that's [music] quite
nice actually. God, her scouting is so
much
so powerful.
Okay, we're safe on [music] that side. I
think that means
she could get Hey, you know what she
could do? She could get in a boat here,
sail over and hope that she could land
here,
and then she would be up against this.
And I'm sorry, but it would be castle
troops. Like, she's not going back.
She's not going here, right?
And then all the way over to here.
And we aren't daisy chaining. She's way
out of position.
>> [snorts]
>> Okay, Jaggar is available.
He has 10 harpies and tons of spell
points. He can actually do this fight.
Let's just do this initially.
He should be all right.
Right. Kill six at a time.
Do I have time?
Just blast them.
Don't feel bad.
Okay. Um,
well, I'll be here for this. How about
that?
Try and make some savings.
Two magic arrows cost less than a
lightning bolt.
May as well save some mana cuz we made
him to may need him to um
fight again. He does have good
mysticism.
Will you leave that alone?
Pesky little guy, isn't he?
I wish I'd never embarked on this
foolish crusade.
Uh, no. Come back. Where are you?
[clears throat] It's day seven. I can be
here ready to gallop forth with Necro
soldiers for Sevenroth. And Xi, you can
be ready to
um help a bit. Although I mean she's way
out of position. I can't do much with
this army.
How safe is the necropolis?
Yeah, Picadram could sail down here. I
had to stop actually to have lunch
there. And since I've come back, I think
I've realized that she doesn't need to
rush over to conquer this. in principle
Jedi
um can be available. Where are you, man?
Yeah. To come back here if we think
Red's coming our way. He could defend.
He could get ready to push over. Jump in
a boat himself and come over.
It's not really a huge like I don't have
to do it. And there are opportunities
not far from her that she never did.
Like okay, a horde of gremlins. That's a
bit of a shame that that's such a
[music] weak fight. But she can do all
this. She can get this box.
blah blah blah and just be in the area.
She's still within Kuey then of the
necropolis which is effectively here on
the pink portal as you can see.
So I recommend that you do this
and wait for me right there. That's
perfect.
Um
we could talk about Crest of Valor
actually as well.
Do you have time to do that? Might
change my mind tomorrow. Let's just see.
It'll mean I will have wasted moves, but
that's okay. I'd like to get the crystal
online from Luna. It's just lots of
skellies. This is an absolute gift.
No, they're not Luna.
You Luna tick. Um, right. I'll say that
once. It's one time only. It's a one
time thing, I swear. Come nice and
central for them. Make sure they want to
walk through the firewall.
Walk to their deaths. Kind of kind of
undeaths.
110. Is that enough? Yeah.
Don't really want to waste the spells
here.
Should be all right.
Boom. Love this.
Luna is still trying to become a
scholar.
Uh, okay. Come get this stuff. We'll do
this tomorrow. This is useful.
Okay. And there's a pocket of
termination up here, but that's
absolutely fine.
Uh, nice little side mission for her.
Yeah, we're going to decide what's
happening at the necropolis now in a
sec. I mean, well, Xi Xi can't do
anything
other than come back. There's no point
sticking around. If Sauron comes and
flags these things, we don't care. We'll
just come back.
Um, there is this for tomorrow. [music]
Yeah, it's easy.
Jagga may as well centralize. I've
already been there actually.
Land mine.
Yeah. Where is he? [music] He's down
here. I don't know. Does that mean
there's a better pink hero coming
through to sweep up these Pandora's
boxes? That's pretty terrifying.
He can just be here for day one and then
we'll decide tomorrow.
Don't need to prep anything. I mean, we
could
We could get one of the upgrades ready.
Yeah, I'm really struggling to figure
out [sighs] what my actual strategy is
for the next few days because I have no
armies. I have no armies. I've got good
DNA
and I've got all the spell points in the
world, but I've got no actual soldiers.
And to beat Thanon to actually do this
campaign, you need I need something.
Three angels and four dread knights just
isn't enough to get anything done. So,
let's do Jedi next. Um,
see if we can figure out what we want to
do with him. We know he has to come to
at least here. That's one decision.
I feel like if he was to come down now
with the five angels and
um
I don't have expert earth yet
we've got we we can't [music] we can't
just keep chaining like Sephanroth.
Okay, she took the necropolis quickly
within [music] a week. She took the
castle. That's great. But now we have to
consolidate.
We aren't pushing into red. We aren't
going to try and harass pink.
We're just coming here.
Uh we're going to just determine
tomorrow. Just check what that is. Yeah.
Um
you know, all of the rest of the
movements.
I think that means let's get the crest
of val. Let's just take some time. Get
the vett yetis. You never know. There's
might be resurrection here. And the
necropolis. Okay. Going for ghost
dragons. Just I mean I don't think
that's it. So if we think it's going to
be a thing, then let's do it. Let's just
actually do it.
Let's do this now.
and not look back in anger.
We're really seriously doing this, man.
I'm all in on this. In fact, well, kind
of all inish.
Done it. Now,
we've gone and done it. Now, if a red
hero comes galloping up through here,
I'll be really sad.
Um,
but how aggressively do I want to trade
to stop someone else getting him?
I'll I'll hedge. I'll hedge. This isn't
very good. Hang on. How much do I need?
No, I need another 1400.
Right. Let's just have him. So, he's
there. We get another two tomorrow by my
account. Yes. Okay.
I don't know. I have no idea if if
that's good, if that's bad.
Um, but at least it's something like
it's a long-term strategy. Yeah, you're
going to gallop all the way back up to
get rid of me. It's fantastic. Don't
abandon my cause, man.
Whoa. What was that?
Anti-agic.
Oh, no. So, I can't lightning bolt them.
You clever sod.
Um, now giving the
I might get two turns here actually. So,
he's not a very good hero, is he?
Kill as many of them as you possibly can
before we flee. Everybody waits.
Oh, whatever. Probably should have seen
that.
Uh,
I hope we haven't messed this up.
Don't bother.
Well, he might abandon my cause here.
Like, there's no morale,
but then these things are going to heal.
Okay, I'm in big trouble.
I lose.
One, two, three.
No.
Kill another three.
Take my 85 gold.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's your It's
your necro. I was just visiting. You
know, massively wasted time there.
That's fantastic. It's effectively two
days of of momentum.
Pikatran is getting stronger.
[clears throat] And he's here. Oh,
actually. Hey. Wow.
Oh.
Oh. Oh. Oh, that's there.
Jedi.
Jedi. If you get to [music] the portal,
the green portal, you will emerge here.
I want you to gallop across and brawl
with Picadram.
Now I have a reason to live.
Okay, cool. Let's do this next. So, one
thing we could do is hire
um Dude Meister from here,
the defeated hero.
He could come out of here,
buy the angels. So, it' have six angels,
fly over to here, just get this job
done.
I I'm okay with this. Yeah, I'm okay
with sticking around and doing this with
her because of the possibility that
that's resurrection as well. Yeah, let's
do that. Um, it seems a bit weak, but I
think it's all right.
Offload the stuff you're never going to
use in a million years. I might use
[music] weakness one day.
What's that do?
I'm just not going to bother. Oh, go on.
I'll keep it. Um, the fang arm things
maybe while wearing the cape. Okay.
Yeah. So, take the slow nonsense off me.
Give me the bone dragon.
I will go and clear [music] the way
with this army.
I will learn
summon boat on my way.
No, I'm the one who's actually fetching
this stuff. Yeah.
Yeah, this is fine.
Take this 93. But uh whatever. I mean,
I'm just going to take it.
Let's do the Yeti.
Oh, wow. Okay. Well, they get smoked as
well.
Um, I'm just going to take this. I I
think it's okay, right?
Is that too jammy? I'm just going to
take it.
Resurrection
would be so handy. It's water walk. Sad
times.
I won't waste moves on those resources.
I do need to stand here. Okay, fine.
Okay, who's next? Luna. Yeah, Luna's
pretty easy
to determine what to do.
Do this fight.
Okay.
get central.
Um,
yep.
And then we'll fight this guy.
Okay, let me get through that quickly,
please. We are in a bit of a hurry.
No reason not to.
Um,
yep.
68 spell points.
Just trying to pancake up here. want to
try to get the
um we definitely want to get try to get
the
experience. Sorry, scholar. We want we
still want that scholar thing. It's
still an ambition of ours.
Okay.
How cool is the sound it makes, man?
My turn.
Yes. Okay. One step closer.
Okay. She needs to get to expert. We
need that to get to expert and then she
can gallop from person to person uh
spreading the good news of resurrection
and
meteor shower
to a lesser extent from the guy who got
beaten. We still have to decide where
he's going to emerge from. But yeah, so
this is I'm right now, right? I mean, we
want Jedi to fight Picadram.
Someone else can do that. I'm too I'm
too important.
Yep. Come back.
Cancel the above. Now, the 87
guys can stay. Okay. [music] Cuz they're
not the slowest thing. All right.
Okay. Okay. So, what that means [music]
I want to do is
Dimma comes out of here,
gets these initial things worked out
um
through the portal.
Oh, now I'm having second thoughts cuz I
could have maybe used Yeah. The
necropolis is the same distance
from Picadram as the dungeon is. I'd
missed that nuance
and it is in less danger from Fant.
Man, I'll be ready. I'll be ready. Don't
worry.
I'll be ready.
Right. do things that we know are
no-brainers. Here, we've been thinking
about [music] this.
Get it. Now,
at the necro, we don't have anything.
No. Okay.
Uh, at the dungeon,
we do have something to do.
Get him back.
Grab a few more of these girls.
One thing you could do is race down here
and hurry up and do this so that it's
ready for us
cuz he wants to come down
mana mana vortex and keep keep going. He
doesn't want to stop.
I mean, he could probably stop. He could
probably get the wood. We'll let We'll
let him do that.
Back after a [music] short distraction
there.
Doing this. Completing
the journey.
Okay. You're You know what you're doing,
do you? Why are you here?
No. Well, why don't you What are you
doing?
She you're you're being her helper.
Just pop in here, man. I don't know
exactly what you're doing.
Okay. I missed that the stables there so
that she didn't hit. That was a mistake.
Okay.
Good to know that we're making mistakes
as we go. That's wonderful. Do this. Oh,
right. Yeah. Okay. I could grab a
griffin or two.
Uh be mobile. I could buy the angels
now. No, I couldn't.
I mean, I'm not really worried about red
now coming up.
I need to buy Jedi soldiers.
Ideally want to do that tomorrow. I
don't really want them to lose momentum.
Oo, okay. That means there's no
stuff here. We aren't spending any money
here.
Can't get to that. It's annoying. I
could get this, this, this,
and these.
It's probably worthwhile. I have a hero
here.
Come here. Replenish.
Jaggar. come and meet her, but give her
no
new stuff.
The reason I want to meet her is to take
the
basic skeletons back. There's 11 of
them.
Does she want the harpy hags?
Go on, you can have the harpy hags.
Might be useful against the orcs.
Um,
okay. That's all right. That's fine.
Yeah. Okay. So, she has a bit of a
story.
He is defending against Sauron and
anyone else that comes. The other thing
he can do, actually, I shouldn't have g
back because what he could do is be
ready to receive the
crest.
So, I regret that now.
Yeah, I think I would rather he does
that. Mhm.
It's okay. I mean, it's a bit of a
waste. Bit indecisive.
Build nothing. I've rehired my guy. He's
safe. Okay.
Right.
Ah, you're coming my way. Who is that
purple guy?
I can't do everything. He is coming my
way.
No, it's just an explorer. Okay.
Where's purple?
Halon not a threat. Okay.
Yeah. Cool. All right. Let's start with
Sephenroth.
She's going to learn air magic from this
scholar.
Nope. She's going to get the crest of
valor.
She's learned water.
I don't think she's going to go get
bless.
If I'm mainly angel based, the bless
isn't that good anyway,
right?
I can always use a slot
to deal with it.
Yeah. I mean, it's wasting like 1,200
moves.
It's wasting most of a day.
Not worth it.
Okay. The stuff she does want again, she
doesn't need these troops today though,
right? Because she can do the small beer
stuff without
resources.
So,
my man,
if you're speaking to her,
hang on. Wasted a movement point of his
there. But I think it's okay.
Buy three royal griffins for me
today. Take this angel.
Do you even need that other stuff?
Well, no. But
I don't want it. I don't want any undead
stuff here. There's no need for it,
right?
Yeah. No, that's fine. She never did
this.
Yeah, he's going to come down through
here. Do the stuff she never did.
Now,
he wants the helm. Well,
I hope that's not a hero. [laughter]
I saw a red flag and I was like, could
be a red flag on my campaign.
Okay, Griffin Tower
back home. There is some vulnerability
here, right? I mean, I have unpurchased
angels, which is
a bit of an issue.
The reason why I don't want to spend
money is I want to invest in Jedi
and I want Jedi [music] to kill
Picadram. I think that's
more important to me.
14 Trogs. No time.
Okay. Okay, how much movement do I
waste?
I waste that much movement by waiting a
day.
So, it's actually going to be close,
right? Cuz
I have nowhere near enough money for all
this stuff,
to do everything that I want to do,
which includes buying these ones as
well. So, let's prioritize this guy.
Get these boys. I'll do the I'll do the
running,
man.
You convert yourself to a speed demon.
Pop into the vortex.
Yes.
What' that put you up to? 300 spell
points.
>> [sighs]
>> Do you have a
uh ballista? No. First aid. Where's the
blacksmith?
I can't I don't know. It's here. Oh,
ballista.
It's a thing to have. I'm just going to
buy it. Yeah, why not?
Now, you know, fire elemental, so that's
going to be huge against
spell power times three. So, 36 fire
elementals.
That's good. Brawling for Picadram.
He's not going to like that.
Um, we are going to be upgrading the
labyrinth. Let's just make sure we do
that now.
And then all of our earnings tomorrow
will go to that.
Is it worth it to do this first? It's
quite a lot of movement. I'll end up
back.
But I think I do do it.
Oh, that's annoying.
Uh, that's okay, though. All right.
You're here. You're here.
I will be ready.
do it already.
Uh, keep me quick, please.
Yeah, harpies.
Got to remember to do that. It's such an
important bonus.
Geon was going to get ready to collect
the
crest. Does she have the crest?
Yep. Can Gillon collect it from you,
please?
Uh, yes.
That mistake of sending him back to the
town was
Oh, no. Hang on. She's exhausted. It's
all right. It's all right. It's not too
bad. Uh, Luna, do this.
And yeah, let's see if we can kill these
things. What is it? Throng.
Throng's quite a lot, isn't it?
Maybe she knows visions. She does not.
Will I just try it?
Crew mates aren't as they're the
unupgraded one.
I can't do the hive. They act first and
kill all my stuff. And the prize is just
some gems.
On the other hand, I'm trying to get to
expert scholar and it fits the story.
Uh, ouch. 212.
Oh god.
Um, I may have messed up here.
Let's see if we get away with it.
>> Thing is, there's a lot of them. Feel
like if each of them goes through at
least one firewall, that's a reasonable
start. There's a lot of them. They're
getting each other's way.
So,
oh no.
[laughter]
Ah.
Okay.
Uh here.
Go for here.
If they freeze again next turn, they're
definitely dead.
Okay.
Well, I was worried.
If I was worried before, I'm not now.
Uhhuh.
I bought your blood.
Um,
well done, Luna.
Thank you.
Can't be bothered. That's too far.
plus 300 movement points at the end of
the week, but it's going to cost me
600 to get, 1,200 to get, so it will pay
for itself on the last day.
Eh,
now I was going to be strong enough to
do this. I decided
I know some spells surely can muck you
around. Yeah, blind maybe.
Let's try it.
Uh, my ice bolt does 70. It's nowhere
near enough.
strike and stay here. Need to be a bit
careful actually.
Can't use the liches.
Other thing I could do is haste my
skellies.
That would probably do the job.
You can strike and return.
You can just smack them.
Oh, great.
Oh no.
I hate that interaction, man. I hate it.
Spent 25 years hating that interaction.
But what?
I had it all set up just how I wanted
moaning and complaining.
I don't have a better I mean what am I
going to do? I'm going to wait and then
you have a turn before cuz you you act
next. Now what am I down to? 42
God salty.
Oh yeah, ballista.
Oh,
[laughter]
31.
[gasps]
Oh, that's not how that was meant to go.
[snorts]
Right. Um, still save your money, right?
I need it for tomorrow.
cannot be too careful with this stuff.
I've played a bit sloppy the last few
turns. I need to get
Whoa.
Than's
going on a growth and um [music]
well-being kind of adventure.
Suits us actually. Oh, mate, you are.
Unless I was going to say unless you got
town portal which I know you don't
I am going to kill Pikram man going to
absolutely murder him.
Greetings sevenroth. I come for the
crest of valor.
Take it. I have no use for it.
Uh anything else you want to give me?
What's this do? One extra spell point
per day.
I'm a master of mysticism. I need no
such thing.
I think you'll find I am the better
mystic than ye.
Maybe you're right.
Uh
weakness. I've got all these things I'm
going to keep. Bless.
I'm more important than you. That's
basically what it comes down to.
That's all I came for. That's fine.
What was this one? Earth magic. Okay.
Uh, this is annoying. Yes. And it's a
free one. Sure.
Get the boots. I think over the course
of the campaign they will pay me back.
Yeah, it's 400.
This spell might matter.
Yes, for free.
Worth a look.
Can't walk through here. That's
displeases me.
Luna can't fight the dragonflies. I
think we've agreed everything dies at
the very beginning of the fight. Of
course, she's done these things. She
hasn't done that. So, let's do that.
G. Well, I could check what's here.
I don't want Picadram to get whatever's
there.
Okay. I definitely don't want him to get
that.
Um,
in fact, could he get to me?
Need to be a bit careful with her.
Jedi comes through the portal, comes
thundering west.
>> [laughter]
[snorts]
>> Pick a drum.
I am calling you out.
Face me. But not right now because
someone's at the door. Trying to make
content here. People
don't make it easy. Um, right. What we
going to do,
Kings?
Do it. Yeah. Sorry, I keep getting
interrupted here. Uh, let me just see
before I spend any more money, can I get
any more money from anyone else?
Um,
Malekith maybe.
Okay, I don't think this is money very
[music] often, but let's do it.
This may be guarded. I can't remember.
Yeah, it's all scouts, so we just want
to do it.
Brilliant.
Okay, that's it. That's all the money
we're getting.
Does Jedi need a full payment of stuff
today? He kind of does.
Yeah. Yeah. It's now or never.
And I'm going to get it. I'm going to go
get it. I got good crystal now. Good
good resources for crystal.
I don't have a gem. I do have a sulfur.
That should be enough to do some decent
business.
Yeah.
And how many harpies does Jedi need?
Harpies are the flex. Yeah.
Leave these soldiers here.
Yes.
Leave the goblins [music] here.
Actually,
they'll be good defenders.
So, I was thinking for these fellows,
they could maybe do this job while we're
away.
29 Minotaur Kings.
Okay.
Okay, now
Picadram is going to struggle here,
right? Surely he's going to struggle.
He's got giants.
He's got nuggets. He's a long way from
home. He should be pretty tired.
Yep.
Been here, done this. Got got the
t-shirt.
Let's go and kill him.
Tempted.
>> [snorts]
>> Thing is though, I don't I almost want
him to come around here and stumble into
me. He hasn't seen this yet. His
scouting radius is like there.
Oh, hey, there's this, by the way.
Oh.
Get it out to about here.
I might do this. Actually,
it might help with the experience. And
I've got a decent chance of hitting
expert earth. Yeah, I think this is a
thing.
Okay, on turn one, I don't have slow.
No, yeah, it's just advanced.
But I can blind and I can summon fire
elemental as well.
Okay, so the stack that goes in the
middle, it can be the
Medusas
and then stack three can be the evil
eye. No, [music] stack one. Actually,
the angel will fly over and murder the
top left stack of naggers.
2, three, four, five. I'm at five. I'm
at six. I'm at seven. Yeah, let's do
that.
I think we can. I think we can do that.
Yeah. Attack the guards.
Okay, now I am fast. I'm fast. Fast
fast. fast.
I can do a fire elemental. I could go
for
damage. He's not the best damage dealer
to be fair. Old Jedi.
Uh, so I think it's either blind or 36
fire elementals.
Everything in my army acts before them.
That's amazing.
Fantastic.
So if I come up here, fence them in,
shoot them with the evil eyes, then my
whole army gets to evacuate.
In fact, the kings can come can walk
over there and just do that job.
I will absolutely survive the crackback.
Thank you for asking. Good question.
So, do I even need to spend any spell
points here?
Not yet. I don't. I mean, I can do it
closer to the time. Um.
Oh, wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Whoa. Whoa.
Whoa. The kings are going to walk to
here and murder this stack. So, will I
just go down here and get stuck in here?
Yeah.
Uh, I will strike and stay up here.
Will I get in the way though?
Nah.
One, two, three, four, five. I'll strike
and stay up here.
Oh, well, I might. Hang on. The
minotaurs want to hit them here.
I want to go and smack them here.
Yeah. So, just come here.
This is a kill anyway. Is this a kill?
Yeah, almost certainly. Yes.
So, why don't we blind this instead and
just kill just get this over with?
It's probably a kill. Sometimes one
lives. All right.
And if I go to melee mode here.
Why does everyone have such great
morale? Oh, it's just plus one. Okay,
I'm just getting lucky.
Do I want to do this and take the risk
of a morale hit or or what? I suppose if
they get a morale,
they'll come up here and probably kill
one.
I've gotten good morale, so
there's every chance you guys might get
it. No kills four.
Uh, this is a kill.
No. Well, logistics. Hm.
I wanted an expert earth, but I didn't
get it. Uh, I still have to get past all
the armor as well. So, let's fill up
this
instead. Logistics is nice, actually,
but I'll take this.
Worth it.
Very worth it.
So worth it that I could bring you more.
No, I don't really have a lot more to
bring you.
It's weird. I've landed here with
Yeah. kind of I do need to be ready to
bring the army back and defend.
Uh but me
me being near you, is that useful?
I want to stay close to you. You mean a
lot to me, Jedi.
I worry for you.
I worry that you're not taking care of
yourself.
Um,
just stay back a little bit.
Stay back.
Uh, there are some defenders here, but
it's not in any danger.
I'm here. One thing you could do is buy
me.
Where's my runner?
Okay. Mhm. [snorts]
Seph is ready for more angels.
So, he needs to come back and do that.
Will we just buy them now?
Yes.
That's one thing you can do [music] to
just head just if you just buy them. If
an enemy comes and takes the town, it's
like, well, at least you've denied them
those those troops.
[sighs]
Everyone's tired. No more investments.
Just playing games. Th doing his thing.
It's nice that we know where he is. It's
very, very nice.
Sauron's got no ideas. Wow. Okay.
Oh, you're mine. You are mine. Can I get
him?
With that said,
if I beline towards him,
that's fine. Just beline it.
break cover. He comes sprinting back,
but what's the best he can do? The best
he can do is run back up through here
and I just I just carry on and I take
this town.
Day four, day five, day six. I take take
it before the end of the week.
That's it.
Last skill is not going to be any of
these. Although mysticism [music] is
tempting,
he's already a scholar. Yeah, I just go
for it now, right? I just put the pedal
down.
I'm actually not going to take Okay,
I've decided I'm not going to do it
because I have stables.
He does not have stables.
So, there's a chance I can catch him.
There's a chance.
Let's get this artifact to the dude
Meister. Going out of our way to do
this.
Will I just do it? Yeah, I'm the only
one [music] in town.
Luna,
let's take the defense.
Hoorde of them should be right.
Okay, just wait on them here.
[snorts]
Okay, [laughter]
thank you. I'll take this.
Um, I didn't even look. Oh, man. Was
that It didn't offer me scholar, did it?
No, it was something else. I didn't even
I auto autodecided that without even
looking. Uh, I can't do the Cyclops, but
whatever.
Uh, right. She's free to do the things
that are here for me. Get this. Get
this.
Check what that is. Why can't I get in
there? Oh, it's all the way around
through there. Oh, that's why we never
did it. Okay. Well, Luna will do that on
her way back.
Wait, can't I just gallop up that way if
I kill the goblins? That was what you
were. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe that's all
that's going on here. I'm just going to
take this.
That's fine. I'm not going to look too
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, that's a bit
better. What is it? Death Ripple.
Okay, great. Now, remember, we aren't
far from that.
Santa's here and he's strong enough to
kill these things.
So maybe [snorts] it is a good idea for
me to go here today.
Learn a thing or two
and just wait here on the off chance
that
shows himself. Now I do need to get back
because Seph wants
those angels.
Okay.
All right. And finally, last but not
least,
the woman of the moment.
It's going to be all right. Okay.
Yeah, it's just [music] going to be a
cakewalk.
Oh [laughter]
no.
[gasps]
Oh no,
it happened. We've We've lost air magic.
We've lost it.
Too many other people are scholars and
the navigation actually might matter.
So, I'll take the navigation.
Oh, well, you can't always get what you
want.
Uh, as MC Jagger famously sang,
I can do this, right?
Yeah. I mean, it's not
it's not comfortable. I have speed 11. I
do have the speed advantage.
No, I don't.
Okay, so you're invulnerable this turn.
Does that mean I can't uh target you?
Yeah. Well,
and I can't attack you either.
Well, chain lightning will quite work
work quite nicely here. Bang, bang,
bang, bang. Yeah,
so let's do it.
Wait on.
Got bad morale, right?
Yeah.
Uh, I don't want to risk that.
We'll have to see if the two can kill a
No. Cop that.
[snorts] Uh, sucks to be you.
Uh, yeah. Well, you can hit the angels
if you want. The guy in the corner. I
love how they die. These things when
they die.
It's like they're kind of unmade or
something. It's sad in a way.
400 damage coming your way. Well, okay.
But then that'll be enough to finish
you.
Oh.
Brilliant.
That's fun.
Go that morale thing. Hey, this thing's
amazing. Pendant of downfall.
Pendant of downfall.
Construction
purchases
unnecessary. You say I say that they
probably are unnecessary. Yes.
It's not like
I'm going to want to desperately buy up
the um yeah, let's save up and we can
talk Archangels,
right? That was kind of my plan is
where I'm heading with this is actually
archangels on Seph and that's the endame
config
and the turn. We could hire another
hero.
Um,
but I'm close enough to home with
everything.
Yeah, he's coming back up to do that
job. I don't think I need another hero.
No, no, I'm cool. I'm cool. No, thank
you.
Okay, is coming our way.
H.
All right. Well, firstly, do I even have
the option? [music] I don't.
Is it better to kill Fant?
No, it's Tamika.
Okay. I actually thought this had was
that the whole time.
She might not even want to do that
fight. And even if she does,
she comes through. I could be ready for
her with the necro.
[sighs] So I think we push on with Jedi
when he runs upstairs and runs behind
the walls. Can I beat him at full HP?
At full spell power? Yeah, I can.
I can definitely [music] win that fight.
He has a week's worth of Rampart, but
nothing in his current army is rampart.
Day five. Day six.
You can actually make the case even if
Picadram lives.
There's no time for this.
Yes, there is. Yes, there is.
take the power.
Even if he lives, I can take the town
and he can just be in the countryside
waiting for me to, you know, I don't
know what's he going to do.
[snorts]
And I am catching I am gaining on him.
I'm I'm pretty sure I gained on him that
turn as well, even with going here.
Ice Bolt.
Luna is a good hero. Luna could beat
Tama.
Yes, she could. New hero comes out of
here. Comes through here. No. New hero
comes out of here. Hits the underground.
I'm kind of in the wrong wrong place.
Who's this Dimma?
Who's the hero that I would want to do
this job?
I kind of really want to get this done
and I'm out of position anyway. So,
let's just make that decision.
Oh, yeah. I'll take them.
[snorts]
all that effort. That's a week of his
life for 25 monks.
It's pretty much from there to there,
right? You're not going to get much
further tomorrow.
So, I will wait here
for an army
that may never arrive, that I may never
need.
Uh if Dika comes through
and happens to ride south.
The only problem with that is she could
kill me.
Not really. Not really. Who says she's a
hero of might, by the way? Even my
standing army is not terrible
against her.
I don't need to decide today because
she's tired anyway.
Jedi knows what he's doing. Yep. Cool.
All right. Seph opens the box.
Fine.
Uh, I'll open this one as well.
Take it. Fine. Whatever.
Okay. [sighs]
Now, one thing she could do is actually
summon boat off that.
Um,
but it might be good to get the
archangels [music]
first.
It's too risky.
All right. Who's here?
>> [laughter]
>> Okay. Well, as Luna prognosticated,
Alamar
joins the crew. Welcome, Alamar.
You're joining far too late to eclipse
anybody or um grab the spotlight.
So, don't get any ideas now. Uh, he
walks to here.
Alamar.
Oh, what happens now if I go like that
with Alamar?
Nothing.
You need to be here.
He begins scholarizing immediately.
learns bless blood lust and summon vote
from male kith.
How does male? Wait a second. How do you
know bless?
How do he You just learned bless from
him.
But how do you know? Was bless your
starting spell? Cuz she doesn't know it.
Like if I take this off,
she doesn't know it.
And yet you learned it from him.
Oh
well mate, in that case
um no let's use your moves to collect
the troops.
Come with me.
Yeah, come with me, men.
We will both go and visit her together.
Greetings, Sevenroth. I bring you two
more angels and some more Speed N stuff.
Thank you, Malchus. I am worried that
this isn't enough meat for my quest.
Indeed, I do have some other good news.
We have a new recruit.
Oh,
indeed. Allow me to introduce, drum
roll.
Who is it? I can't quite see you. Come
closer.
I'm too tired. I'll meet you tomorrow.
Very well, whoever you are.
Uh, come to I guess here. I can go a
little bit further along maybe.
Summon the boat
424 and then that many will remain. I
could unlock this for them.
Alamar could learn that and teach it to
me.
424 814 will remain. Right. So I'm okay
to do this.
And then she gets in the boat.
Okay,
that navigation actually of all things
that if I can't have air magic,
navigation's actually not bad. If we're
planning to try to use the waterways,
could be worse. And it's nice to
actually have been incentivized to take
it. That's kind of a win. Now I will die
to Tama [music]
and she has
she's cut us off.
That said, maybe I should let her die to
[music] Tamika.
The consequences are fine.
I'll just rehire.
This is one good thing if you've got
heroes that are very light on troops
like like what Sephanroth's doing. She
can lose as long as she doesn't die. she
can lose and as long as the opponent
doesn't have the shackles.
Um,
there is also losing on purpose in order
to town portal, which I'm not a fan of.
I don't like doing.
Well, I just take this gamble that Tika
doesn't want to fight the shamans.
And if she does, and she wants to fight
me,
I'll throw I'll throw all kinds of stuff
at her. and then flee. Fine.
Okay, Jedi's all the way up there now.
He's gone.
He's a He's a speck. So, the dungeon is
now vulnerable.
But Red really is not offering [music]
anything at all by way of threat.
So, just go home, man.
>> [groaning]
>> Start investing in this guy a little
bit.
Yeah, you are the caretaker.
Okay, no more purchases.
I don't think we could just maybe
do that. Just hedge a little bit. Have a
little bit more meat.
Do some of these really high value
things.
We're okay here. Okay.
Can she? She just can't can't do it.
She can. Wow. Okay. I want to see.
I missed that. Purple's here.
You done with the box? No.
Halon.
Damn you.
Halon. I don't even think I need to
hedge that hard here. Yeah, I mean, I'll
just buy this stuff.
That was a bit of a bad miss. Although,
if you'd been closer, I would have seen
him. That happened in the Fortress
campaign, too. I noticed when I was
posting the last of those videos, I was
like, "Oh, man. Someone had landed on my
home zone, and I just hadn't dealt with
it." [laughter]
Uh, anyway, we know we want to do this.
Yes, please.
Stay six. Um, it's not very interesting
to just go there. Could do this.
could do this.
Day six. Day seven.
Day seven. You could be ready here at
the trading post. It's quite nice.
[music] Let's do that. I got this run.
Yeah. No, I didn't.
Okay. Somehow I missed that. Worth
checking people. Worth checking.
Before Seph sails off, Alamar meets with
her on the coastline.
Alamar who has studied magic extensively
learns blind death ripple disguise
firewall fortune protection from air
quick sand haste view air and view worth
[gasps] from sephenroth and teaches
bless and bloodlust
[sighs]
well well Sephenroth
I see that you have finally ready to
seize the throne of Arathia indeed I am
Alamar I've done it all without you I've
done it without Jedi I've done it with
mere assistance of Malikus and a couple
of others. It was mostly me
me.
Pride cometh before a fall. Sephro, heed
my words. No.
And with that,
uh, heroes part ways. Whoa.
Okay, now she can take bless off.
That's better.
She probably should have given it to
Alamar actually, but um whatever. Maybe
these as well.
Um I'll almost certainly forget when I
land to put them back on, so I'll just
leave them on.
Okay,
it's not too late, by the way. Do you
want Alamar to get to grab them? What do
we want?
I certainly don't need the bless scroll.
Do I need weakness?
Yeah, she doesn't know weakness.
Uh, does she know fireball?
She does.
Never casting that in a million years.
Pendant of free will is probably more of
a quest item. I may as well take it.
Okay,
just to free up your uh baggage there.
Why don't I take these things? Okay. All
right. Good luck.
The other thing is this cool mystic orb
of mana that she doesn't need.
No, no, hang on. But I could learn this.
Well, it's too late.
Wait, could I go? Could I run through
here and learn this? Desperately teach
it to Alamar. [laughter]
Does she have frost ring? I should have
thought about that a bit more. I was too
interested in the story. Uh, it doesn't
matter.
Mystic orb of mana by dancing the
Ramabuta.
And that's actually really nice for
someone as lowly as Malikth.
This has all been done by
her majesty. Come back, fellas. All
right, Seph.
I don't know if this is enough. Should I
have waited for day one and archangels?
Like, I could build the Dark Angels
today. I still won't have enough money
for all of it, though. They're very
expensive.
I could always pop back to here actually
and Ren Desvouse.
Oh, look at her out on the water. Is
there anything she can't do?
Toroser.
One thing you can do is kill Taurus.
He's he at one time he was their best
hero. By the way, is it worth going out?
I've got tons of moves.
Kill him quickly.
[laughter] Yes. Shipto ship battle. He's
joined.
H for anyone who's been following
the channel, uh I've been desperately
trying to get uh a naval
combat to happen.
And uh I think it feels like I finally
done it. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 2 3 4 5 6 Okay,
why don't I go crack?
No, it'll go there. And then I'll just
Oh, I can't kill the cobalt then. Okay,
right. Well, what if I kill the Got do
this first?
Will it work then?
No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8.
Is that right? The angels are eight
squares away. 1 2 3 4 5 6. So, if I hit
the ballista with the chain lightning,
game over and we get to kill Toazar.
Hope I haven't got that wrong.
Crack. Crack. It cannot jump to me.
6 7 8. It has to go here
and then here.
Oh, it didn't work.
We're just going to flee.
That's annoying.
Magic arrow is the best he could come up
with though. So, Jedi is coming here.
So, I don't know that.
Um
Oh, he's not an expert scholar yet. I
was going to say there's a chance for
them to meet each other, but he's got a
good chance of becoming an expert, I
[music] suppose.
When he comes up here and just takes the
Pandora's box, like what? Why? Of
course I do.
Of course,
I'll take 40 elves. Especially when I'm
about to conquer a rampart. Cheers.
Taurus. Who is Picadram? Do you not
think they would have been useful?
I don't get why the AI does that. I
would love them to patch that.
might need to go on the list of possible
self nerfs for the next run. I've been
thinking about a list of different nerfs
that I could um apply to me as the
player that don't apply to the AI.
Um which I might talk about another day.
[snorts]
But Picadram runs up here. Maybe he
hides. Maybe he runs. Whatever. Don't
really care. I think I want to head
south.
I could talk to you here or maybe up
here one day.
I'm not missing the resurrection to be
honest. It's not really my thing. I'm
more of a damage dealer.
Nothing's dying.
Right. Tama is stronger than we thought.
How are you not Okay, you killed the
shamans and you took practically no
losses.
So, Luna is in big trouble.
She can try to escape. Is she the better
hero? Whoa.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She is.
So, if Luna stands here
in readiness for Tamika,
we've bought ourselves a bit of time.
I've got 25 useless monks.
This guy's out of the game. Although, I
could give them to Luna if I've got a
hero that's galloping through here.
Oh, no. I don't. But everyone's too
tired.
And I can't get I can't get I can I can
get behind the walls. Okay. Oh god.
Can I No, she hasn't got enough moves.
She's got slow skeletons.
And I got to deal with this idiot. A
If she kills me, I will respawn.
So, let's just get in position and
gamble on her. And by the way, I'm doing
these things, too.
If you kill me, I'm just going to
respawn, man.
So, I'm not worried.
Luna is the teacher.
Luna, no more vampires. I'll take those.
take these harpies instead. I'll take
all this slow stuff.
I'll also take the
guys here.
Let's buff you up.
I'll take this. You probably don't need
these.
You don't need ice bolt. You don't need
slow.
Okay.
I will
return. You will live.
You will live against
the uh Well, how are we doing this? It's
all a bit awkward, isn't it?
If I go doof doof, I mean, that's not
too bad.
I could have met with you. Maybe.
Gon goes, "Doom, doom."
I should have met I should have met with
her and taken the slow stuff off her.
go up to here.
There's also the risk of
Halon, although not really.
Okay. Uh, right. Well, we have
maybe wraiths are a decent shout.
going to do it.
>> [snorts]
>> Uh, yeah.
Don't really need to buy those vampires
yet. I can decide tomorrow.
Day six.
She's set off now. So, I'm not sure if
Archangels is on or not. I'm going to
save my money.
Let's see what happens to Luna here.
Looking forward to seeing this Tika
girl. No. Okay. We had to prepare.
[snorts] We had to be ready.
Freeing that up for me. Are you? Thank
you. [laughter]
Day seven.
I've got the town. I can also take out
the man.
Can't do both.
I think I want to kill the man and then
um
on my day one
attack the uh town.
I might get that box actually. No, I
won't cuz I'll still be standing here.
I could bow guard it though. I [music]
could stand here.
That's pretty much his destiny, isn't
it? This is out. This is out of the way
now.
Chased him all the way to here. We ready
for this
slight morale concern.
Three alignments is it but angels. So
it's neutral. Yeah, neutral morale.
Yeah, let's do this. See what he's made
of.
I can't get the box, so you may as well
do this. Yep. What if it messes me up,
man?
It won't mess you up.
Have faith.
Pikach,
I'm not seeing it. What am I missing?
What's so great about this guy?
Could I cure the angels?
No. Well, I can't.
[snorts] Just in case you're wondering,
fire elemental here.
Yeah, I kind of want to see what he's
made of. If I want to wait and then like
if he blinds the angels or something,
that's probably the best outcome.
Yeah, I think we're waiting. Oh, expert
earth. Okay. And that cost him two spell
points. Two
because of these.
So that means expert slow is coming.
Okay. So, I would need
225 [music]
damage.
I could just do that. Actually,
do 585, but it's a waste.
So, I don't like his spell points
costing uh being a bargain.
Fireball doesn't do enough damage even
though I'm an expert fire mage.
Lightning bolt with no skill does more
damage.
So, his spells cost more now.
Uh, we're all waiting. Yeah.
Issues.
Well, at some point, one of us has to do
something.
Get these guys out of the way.
Everything's long range. Um
stack I'm the most concerned about
doesn't a lot of damage. Is it
probably the queens?
Short range. Thank you kindly.
Yeah, defense 11.
It's a good kill.
I think I'm happy to brawl here,
provided that you don't die.
Relocate. I don't care if the elves die
too much. I probably should actually.
So, do that. Blind the giant on my turn.
I love it.
Wow.
So, he had he had a morale issue last
time, did he?
If I kill the Nagas and then on his turn
he
hastes the giant that will go to speed
10
and that would be bad.
Let's wait here.
Fantastic. I'll take that.
Oh, please be my guest. How many did you
kill, by the way?
13.
It's not very good. Yeah. So, fire
elemental is just very nice here. Now,
it does get to act this turn, does it?
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh, so kind of you, man.
Strike and return.
You haven't acted yet.
Fine.
We do need to kill this eventually.
Oh, that was a mistake. I could have
done it with the
dudes. Um, kill that
right
die.
Where? I hate genies. kill him.
Um,
well, maybe I'm still pretty healthy.
How much damage are you going to deal
back? Yeah, giants hurt like hell.
Kill this.
Three giants fighting back
could hurt a lot. Um
26 plays 28.
I've already lost a bit of HP. I
definitely killed two.
Stone skins been pretty good for them
actually. And then the minotaurs kill
this.
I think I don't need any spells.
I'll do a magic arrow. I don't think I
need any more than that. Yeah,
it's just I want to make sure that no
angel dies.
May as well. Helps the narrative.
It's good for views.
One to two. Oh,
I just saw that one to two and I was
like, what?
So that way we guarantee that Padam dies
and we also guarantee that no angel dies
in the process. So he nicked that offer.
So it's good to have got that back.
Good, good, good.
Yes,
I'm going to teach that woman
resurrection whether it kills me.
Hillfort.
No, just the grand elves
tomorrow.
It's starting to come together, isn't
it? Right. Where's girly pants? And can
you
if you were to sail to here, I could
ride out to you and teach you
everything except fire elemental.
And I can also swap artifacts
if we want to. This is plus five. This
is plus four.
I don't even have a shield. So, there's
a reason.
Mercury rib cage. If we're thinking
about the armor of the damned.
Uh, no. No. The skull. Yeah. Somewhere
else. So, I've got this piece of it and
the rib cage. And then the skull is
sitting on her head, Luna's head.
And then we're missing the yawning
shield.