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Egallager: +cat

2023-04-07T15:32:50Z

+cat

Egallager: /* Story */ minor wikification

2023-04-07T14:59:47Z

‎Story: minor wikification

Revolting peasant: Reflecting some of the changes to this campaign since 1.12.x. Dropped recommendation about leveling Delfador up for Houses of the Dead

2022-10-24T18:55:42Z

Reflecting some of the changes to this campaign since 1.12.x. Dropped recommendation about leveling Delfador up for Houses of the Dead

Revolting peasant: We're long past v13.10

2022-10-22T19:43:56Z

We're long past v13.10

Mal Shubertal: /* The Return of Trouble */

2020-04-18T17:58:59Z

‎The Return of Trouble

Mal Shubertal: /* Wasteland */

2020-04-11T17:21:37Z

‎Wasteland

Mal Shubertal: /* Ur-Thorodor */

2020-04-11T11:45:40Z

‎Ur-Thorodor

Mal Shubertal: /* This Valley Belongs to Me */

2020-04-04T11:42:04Z

‎This Valley Belongs to Me

Revolting peasant: Typos, phrasing

2020-03-21T18:54:35Z

Typos, phrasing

SigurdFireDragon: /* Showdown in the Northern Swamp */ Add note about changed objectives

2017-11-28T01:48:27Z

‎Showdown in the Northern Swamp: Add note about changed objectives

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 ==Story==
-This campaign follows the adventures of Delfador, beginning from him leaving home as a newly qualified journeyman mage, and leading up to him helping to bring peace to Wesnoth.  It is set two generations earlier than [[HeirToTheThrone|Heir to the Throne]].
+This campaign follows the adventures of [[Delfador]], beginning from him leaving home as a newly qualified journeyman mage, and leading up to him helping to bring peace to Wesnoth.  It is set two generations earlier than [[HeirToTheThrone|Heir to the Throne]].
 ==Development==

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 ==Story==
-This campaign follows the adventures of Delfador, beginning from him leaving home as a newly qualified journeyman mage, and leading up to him helping to bring peace to Wesnoth.  It is set a couple of generations earlier than [[HeirToTheThrone|Heir to the Throne]].
+This campaign follows the adventures of Delfador, beginning from him leaving home as a newly qualified journeyman mage, and leading up to him helping to bring peace to Wesnoth.  It is set two generations earlier than [[HeirToTheThrone|Heir to the Throne]].
 ==Development==
-Original developer: email to Josh Parsons, jp30 AT st-and.ac.uk.
+* Original developer: Josh Parsons, email jp30 AT st-and.ac.uk.
-Thread is at http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1293.
+* Current maintainer: Oto 'tapik' Buchta, see [[CampaignDelfadorsMemoirs]].
+* Discussion thread: [http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1293 Here].
 ==Campaign Strategy==
-This section gives some advice on long-term strategy in this campaign. '''NOTE: plot spoilers below'''.
+This section gives some advice on long-term strategy in this campaign. '''NOTE: plot spoilers for later scenarios below'''.
-In this campaign, you work with multiple armies from different factions: Human (Loyalists essentially), Elves, Dwarves and even Undead; and the availability of these armies for recall varies from scenario to scenario. To an extent this means that long-term strategy doesn't matter, because you keep being given a clean slate; conversely, if you are short of vital units, you might have to go back ten whole levels to fix it.
+In this campaign, you work with multiple armies from different factions: Human (Loyalists essentially), Elves, Dwarves and even Undead; and the availability of these armies for recall varies from scenario to scenario. To an extent, this means that long-term strategy doesn't matter, because you keep being given a clean slate; conversely, if you are short some vital units, you might have to go back ten whole levels to fix that.
 === Army participation by scenario ===
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 === Recruitment & Leveling ===
 ==== Loyalists ====
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 The standard mixture of Elves is fine; although there are many Undead, you get holy water to deal with them. The notable exceptions are:
-* '''Druids''': You get one Druid free, but you'll will want to level-up a second one.
+* '''Druids''': You get one Druid free, but you will want to level-up a second one.
-* '''Sorceresses''': On Hard, these will be important for your Elven army's well being, you should get several of Sorceresses/Enchantresses - as these are a good match for the sort of Undead that you don't want to face in melee even with holy water (e.g. Spectres).
+* '''Sorceresses''': On Hard, these will be important for your Elven army's well-being. You should get several of Sorceresses/Enchantresses - as these are a good match for the sort of Undead that you don't want to face in melee even with holy water (e.g. Spectres).
 * '''Rangers/Avengers''': Some consider these "compromise" units an undesirable promotion for Archers, seeing how Elvish Marksmen are more deadly with the Marksmanship capability increasing their changes to hit. However, Orcs will likely go after your warriors more than your archers; and you'll probably have enough Marksmen/Sharpshooters; and last but not least - Rangers' camouflage evens things up by allowing you to retreat more safely, to lure units into an ambush or to circumnavigate them.
 ==Walkthrough==
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 [Mal Shubertal]
-  It is possible to finish a bit earlier by splitting your forces. Send horsemen north and south to claim the villages, and your mage of light with a mage and some spearman across the river. The enemy will also split up, with many fording the river to attack delfador, who will keep recruiting mages to defend the castle tiles and pick them off as they cross. If the AI sends just one wolf rider against the northern horseman, wait until daylight, lure him into the open, and charge. You may need to send another horseman to help him out. Then, in control of all villages, everyone converges on the enemy leader.
+  It is possible to finish a bit earlier by splitting your forces. Send horsemen north and south to claim the villages, and your mage of light with a mage and some Spearmen across the river. The enemy will also split up, with many fording the river to attack Delfador, who will keep recruiting mages to defend the castle tiles and pick them off as they cross. If the AI sends just one wolf rider against the northern horseman, wait until daylight, lure him into the open, and charge. You may need to send another horseman to help him out. Then, in control of all villages, everyone converges on the enemy leader.
 ===The Road to Weldyn===
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 ===Council in Weldyn===
-Just story.
+Dialog only.
 ===Swamps of Illuven===
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 Note that Ur Thorodor only recruits 2 Gryphons, and they are by far the most dangerous enemies on this map, so it's possible to use delfador or a fodder mage as bait to draw one or both of them out in the first few turns, then take it down with your other ranged units. Your white mage can heal your units during the crossing, and you will have an easier time on the other side.
-Also note that Ur Thorodor will NEVER attack your units, so it's perfectly safe to stand right next to him as you take out his troops.
+Also note that Ur Thorodor will ''never'' attack your units, so it's perfectly safe to stand right next to him as you take out his troops.
 ===Houses of the Dead===
 * Objective: Move Delfador to the signpost.
 * Lose if: Delfador dies or turns run out.
-* Turns: 64.
+* Turns: 35 (on Medium).
 * Starting units: Delfador.
-* Other: Delfador acquires the Staff of An-Usrukhar, which grants him his 4-hits lightning attack ans boosts his melee attack.
+* Other: Delfador acquires the Staff of An-Usrukhar, which grants him his 4-hit lightning attack ans boosts his melee attack.
-Relax, this isn't a 64-turn long arduous fight. What you have here is one enemy leader - a Death Knight - near the sign post to which you need to get - who churns out a Skeleton every turn or two; and those Skeletons slowly advance in your direction.
+Relax, this isn't a 35-turn long arduous fight. What you have here is one enemy leader - a Death Knight - near the sign post to which you need to get - who churns out a Skeleton every turn or two; and those Skeletons slowly advance in your direction.
-This place is rather well-populated with villages - apparently the dead are rather industrious; you want to capture these, since you'll need gold in subsequent scenarios. Each captured village houses some undead - and they are surprisingly friendly and helpful. Funny how they don't act that way back in the real world.
+This place is well-populated with villages - apparently the dead are rather industrious; you want to capture these, since you'll need gold in subsequent scenarios. Each captured village houses some undead - which will come out and join Delfador, provided he captures the villages himself rather than via another undead. They are surprisingly friendly and helpful... funny how they don't act that way back in the real world.
-Explore to your North-West first - it's a dead-end, but there's one village in that direction. To your North is an impassable barrier behind some mountains, so next turn back and work around the level anti-clockwise. No need to climb through the mountains: if you stick to the "road" you won't miss anything (but do watch the forks in the road). If you pay attention to what you're told, you'll learn about a secret passage that _will_ make life easier: It is located North of the village where you find a ghost by the name Sythan, on the East side of the map. But this scenario is pretty straightforward either way.
+Explore to your North-West first - it's a dead-end, but there's one village, and a Ghost recruit, there. To your North is an impassable barrier behind some mountains, so next turn back and work around the level anti-clockwise. No need to climb through the mountains: if you stick to the "road" you won't miss anything (but do watch the forks in the road). If you pay attention to what you're told, you'll learn about a secret passage that _will_ make life easier: It is located North of the village where you find a ghost by the name Sythan, on the East side of the map. But this scenario is pretty straightforward either way.
-The friends you find will try to help, but usually throw their, uh, existences away against the skeletons quite quickly; at least they serve as a temporary distraction. Any survivors will be available for recall on the next level, one even for free — but that's a huge benefit, since Ghosts cost as much to recruit as to recall (20 Gold) while Ghouls are _more_ expensive to recall than to recruit. On Medium difficult, You do get at least one Shadow, so consider delaying tapping his village (to the West of the road and right below the pass with the cobbled road on  which the Skeletons advance. A Shadow and a Ghoul with some XP are very doable on Medium. But, again, don't bend over backwards for it.
+As your new minions and yourself battle the steady trickle of skeletons, remember that survivors will be available for recall on the next level, and one will even be recalled for free. On Medium difficulty, You get at least one Shadow from one of the village, so don't miss its village (to the West of the road and right below the pass with the cobbled road on  which the Skeletons advance).
 When you reach the Death Knight's keep, to the North-West, don't capture his two villages until after you have dealt with him: Additional skeleton guards are waiting in there and will come out if 'prodded'. The guards will ask you to declare whether you serve Iliah-Malal; but they don't really care about your answer.
-Be careful about timing your use of the secret passage too quickly; remember you're facing a long line of Skeleton Warriors which, while easily done away with individually, occasionally also hit you, and you could end up dying a sad death at the hand of the n'th weakling - even if you hole up in the village near where you found the staff. This is especially an issue if Delfador is not a Great Mage (Mage Magister) yet. If you make it to the staff by, say, turn 17 you should be ok even with Delfador as an Arch Mage (Mage Commander). And once you've gotten the staff you have to attack the Death Knight right away, or you'll be awash with Skeletons.
+Be careful about timing your use of the secret passage too quickly; remember you're facing a long line of Skeleton Warriors which, while easily done away with individually, occasionally also hit you, and you could end up dying a sad death at the hand of the n'th weakling - even if you hole up in the village near where you found the staff. This is especially an issue if Delfador is not a Great Mage (Mage Magister) yet. If you make it to the staff by, say, turn 17 you should be Ok even with Delfador as an Arch Mage (Mage Commander). And once you've gotten the staff you have to attack the Death Knight right away, or you'll be awash with Skeletons.
-{{DevFeature1.13|10}} This level is 50 turns and the undead that join you are under your command immediately. The secret passage is bi-directional for all after the first usage. There is now an early finish bonus.
+Remembering you need your gold on the next scenario, avoid delaying to milk more XP for your new troops, and aim for the early finish bonus.
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 It is worth noting that if you finish this scenario with any Undead veterans, you will be able to recall them one more time in the future - in fact, you will have to recall at least one. However, it's unlikely they will be incredibly useful to you then, so just focus on leveling one of them - preferably a Ghost, and preferably to L3 if you can.
-. If you want to use them, then it's a good idea to level up some of your ghosts here and make sure that you end up with at least a couple of Shadows. Otherwise, make sure to get rid of all your undead units before finishing this scenario, or they will be more of a hindrance to you than anything else. See [[#Showdown_in_the_Northern_Swamp|Showdown in the Northern Swamp]] for the implications of finishing this scenario with or without any undead remaining. {{DevFeature1.13|11}} There is no longer any point to getting rid of your undead at the end of this scenario, see [[#Showdown_in_the_Northern_Swamp|Showdown in the Northern Swamp]].
+. If you want to use them, then it's a good idea to level up some of your ghosts here and make sure that you end up with at least a couple of Shadows.
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 * Other: This scenario doesn't follow the usual day/night cycle.
-This is a very small level - four villages within a turn's reach from your keep, and magical Skeleton generator stones a bit further away; and you have nowhere else to go other than that. You'll have 1 generator stone on Easy and 2 on Medium. On Easy or Medium, each turn the stone generates an enemy unit - either a Skeleton or a Skeleton Archer. The generated unit does not act immediately - just like a unit recalled or recruited at a keep. {{DevFeature1.13|10}} There are 2 stones on easy & medium, and hard has 3.
+This is a very small level - four villages within a turn's reach from your keep, and magical Skeleton generator stones a bit further away; and you have nowhere else to go other than that. You'll have 1 generator stone on Easy and 2 on Medium. On Easy or Medium, each turn the stone generates an enemy unit - either a Skeleton or a Skeleton Archer. The generated unit does not act immediately - just like a unit recalled or recruited at a keep. There are 2 stones on easy & medium, and hard has 3.
 As the scenario name suggests, it occurs over a single night, stretched onto 13 turns. The first turn is Dusk, the last turn is Dawn, and all other turns are night-time - so the Skeletons have the Chaotic advantage over you.
-You can put a generator out of action by landing any Level 2 or better Mage on it, ({{DevFeature1.13|10}} any mage or paladin) and if you take out all generators you'll win and get an early finish bonus, but - it's probably a better idea to use this level as a training ground to level-up some units.
+You can put a generator out of action by landing any Mage or Paladin on it - and if you take out all generators you'll win and get an early finish bonus. It's probably a better idea, though, to use this level as a training ground to level-up some units.
 Recruit considering the [[#Campaign Strategy]]; specifically, this is an opportunity to recruit some Heavy Infantry, which will not be available later, to get some Mages more experience, and maybe also advance a Knight further towards leveling up into a Paladin.

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	You're attacking the South-Western leader first: Just across the stream, the forest leads up to his keep; and you've probably dealt with most of his units - since they're pretty helpless against you in the forest. Focus on taking him out ASAP, even at the price of exposing your units to damage from of his leftover units. This focus is especially important if you're past turn 20, since you can't spare the time to play it safe.		You're attacking the South-Western leader first: Just across the stream, the forest leads up to his keep; and you've probably dealt with most of his units - since they're pretty helpless against you in the forest. Focus on taking him out ASAP, even at the price of exposing your units to damage from of his leftover units. This focus is especially important if you're past turn 20, since you can't spare the time to play it safe.
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		+	[Mal Shubertal] On hard, it is still possible to rush the eastern enemy immediately. You spam out archers and fighters supported by a few druids and captains, and engage the orcs on open terrain between your keeps, where neither has an advantage. Keep solid lines, rotate out damaged units, use your healers, and after a few turns your ally's troops will rush up from the south, and the orc line will collapse as they fight on 2 fronts. In the meantime, your ally also sends out random doomed units to distract the other orcs. After you mop up the eastern orcs and whatever orcish reinforcements came up behind you, return to the woods and proceed as usual. This faster engagement saves more of your ally's units, and they continue to be useful fodder/distractions throughout the level.

	===Shadows in the Dark===		===Shadows in the Dark===

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	Straightforward scenario, albeit the enemy can recruit L2 units and you have only raw Elven recruits. The walk north to the Elven castle is simple. Most of the fighting takes place in the woods that you can see to your west, so elven archers are good here. Also grab a scout to steal all your ally's villages, otherwise she will keep recruiting L2 units and stealing your XP. On Hard, consider recruiting 1 or 2 shamans, as a sorceress would come in handy early in the next level (on Medium this is less of a priority.)		Straightforward scenario, albeit the enemy can recruit L2 units and you have only raw Elven recruits. The walk north to the Elven castle is simple. Most of the fighting takes place in the woods that you can see to your west, so elven archers are good here. Also grab a scout to steal all your ally's villages, otherwise she will keep recruiting L2 units and stealing your XP. On Hard, consider recruiting 1 or 2 shamans, as a sorceress would come in handy early in the next level (on Medium this is less of a priority.)
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		+	Although Chantal's units do have a tendency to "steal" xp, you will be able to recall them yourself in the next scenario, so you can use shamans and other units to soften up the enemy and intentionally "give" the kills to her units, so as to come into the next scenario with several units at or near level 3.

	===Terror at the Ford of Parthyn===		===Terror at the Ford of Parthyn===

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	On Easy or Medium you can do about the same, but with a second round of recall (if you have the money) you should be able to subdue Ur-Thorodor's forces and take control of the island, stepping into the castle at your leisure. Note that you're not going to be keeping any money from this scenario, so prolonging the fight only makes sense for leveling units up.		On Easy or Medium you can do about the same, but with a second round of recall (if you have the money) you should be able to subdue Ur-Thorodor's forces and take control of the island, stepping into the castle at your leisure. Note that you're not going to be keeping any money from this scenario, so prolonging the fight only makes sense for leveling units up.
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		+	Note that Ur Thorodor only recruits 2 Gryphons, and they are by far the most dangerous enemies on this map, so it's possible to use delfador or a fodder mage as bait to draw one or both of them out in the first few turns, then take it down with your other ranged units. Your white mage can heal your units during the crossing, and you will have an easier time on the other side.
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		+	Also note that Ur Thorodor will NEVER attack your units, so it's perfectly safe to stand right next to him as you take out his troops.

	===Houses of the Dead===		===Houses of the Dead===

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	The tricky bit is to the north - wolf riders cross the river to the north and come down through the woods. Some Spearmen and mages in the woods works here, and there's a village in the woods to the north to anchor your defense on. Wolf riders don't benefit as much as your units do on the woodland tiles. Aim to give plenty of XP to at least one mage, so you can level him up here or early at the next level.		The tricky bit is to the north - wolf riders cross the river to the north and come down through the woods. Some Spearmen and mages in the woods works here, and there's a village in the woods to the north to anchor your defense on. Wolf riders don't benefit as much as your units do on the woodland tiles. Aim to give plenty of XP to at least one mage, so you can level him up here or early at the next level.
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		+	[Mal Shubertal]
		+	It is possible to finish a bit earlier by splitting your forces. Send horsemen north and south to claim the villages, and your mage of light with a mage and some spearman across the river. The enemy will also split up, with many fording the river to attack delfador, who will keep recruiting mages to defend the castle tiles and pick them off as they cross. If the AI sends just one wolf rider against the northern horseman, wait until daylight, lure him into the open, and charge. You may need to send another horseman to help him out. Then, in control of all villages, everyone converges on the enemy leader.

	===The Road to Weldyn===		===The Road to Weldyn===

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 * Starting units: Delfador, Methor.
-This one is tricky for a first scenario, so play patiently. The enemy has a lot of gold and sends a steady stream of units your way for the first day. In the south/centre is the easy bit - defend the river. Use your mage of light here to back up a few horsemen/spearmen to fend off the attackers.
+This one is tricky for a first scenario, so play patiently. The enemy has a lot of gold and sends a steady stream of units your way for the first day. In the South-center is the easy bit - defend the river. Use your mage of light here to back up a few Horsemen and/or Spearmen to fend off the attackers.
-The tricky bit is to the north - wolf riders cross the river to the north and come down through the woods. Some spearmen and mages in the woods works here, and there's a village in the woods to the north to anchor your defence on. Wolf riders don't benefit as much as your units do on the wooded tiles. Aim to give plenty of XP to at least one mage, so you can level him up here or early at the next level.
+The tricky bit is to the north - wolf riders cross the river to the north and come down through the woods. Some Spearmen and mages in the woods works here, and there's a village in the woods to the north to anchor your defense on. Wolf riders don't benefit as much as your units do on the woodland tiles. Aim to give plenty of XP to at least one mage, so you can level him up here or early at the next level.
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 You can usually ignore the ally; the enemy sends a few units down that way, but the L3 mage and his L2 mage recruits are well able to handle them.
-You want to recall at least one and preferably two white mages (there will be lots of assassins), and a horseman near leveling up. The rest of your recruit should be a mix of bowmen and spearmen, including one or two level 2 ones. March up to the ford to the north-west and build a defensive position for the night; keep the front line together with as few units as you can, as most will end up poisoned each turn; cycle them out and replace with others.
+You want to recall at least one and preferably two White Mages (there will be lots of assassins), and a Horseman near leveling up. The rest of your recruit should be a mix of Bowmen and Spearmen, including one or two level 2 ones. March up to the ford to the north-west and build a defensive position for the night; keep the front line together with as few units as you can, as most will end up poisoned each turn; cycle them out and replace with others.
-Once day breaks, hopefully you have enough decent units left to mop up the enemy's first wave; your horseman is ideal to pick off any strong enemy units standing in the water. When you handled most wolves, red mages (Delfador and other) are good frontline units against assassins and archers as they won't use their ranged attack against them.
+Once day breaks, hopefully you have enough decent units left to mop up the enemy's first wave; your horseman is ideal to pick off any strong enemy units standing in the water. When you handled most wolves, red mages (Delfador and other) are good front-line units against assassins and archers as they won't use their ranged attack against them.
 Hopefully you can push over the river by afternoon on the second day. If you've managed that, there are probably still some Archers, Assassin and/or Wolf Riders closing in on you; instead of focusing on clearing all of them, try to lure out the enemy leader by putting units in his range of movement. You want to finish this one early, turn 10-12, to get a big enough bonus for the next scenario, as it seems impossible with minimum starting gold.
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 ** There is a chest with 100 gold in the rogue's keep if you refuse to pay him.
-Spoiler: The protection charge is always 80% of whatever gold you have, and gets rid of Garrath, the North-Western leader (the one not in the way of getting to the signpost). The North-Eastern enemy leader (Harold, the one blocking the signpost) gets a small gold bonus if you make the deal. You are thus giving away 80% of your gold to get rid of around 40% of the enemy's gold: Your business sense (if they teach that in magic school) should be telling you to refuse to pay. If you're still not convinced: Garrath is hiding his spoils from past extortions (or just robberies) in a chest in a treasure chest, in his keep in the North-West. If you take him on, not only will *you* not be paying *him* - *he* will end up paying *you*. Well, sort off.
+You will be approached by bandits, demanding a protection charge. The charge is always 80% of whatever gold you have, and gets rid of Garrath, the North-Western leader (the one *not* in the way of getting to the signpost). The North-Eastern enemy leader (Harold, the one blocking the signpost) gets a small gold bonus if you make the deal. You are thus giving away 80% of your gold to get rid of around 40% of the enemy's gold: Your business sense (if they teach that in magic school) should be telling you to refuse to pay. If you're still not convinced: Garrath is hiding his savings from his extortion career (or just regular banditry) in a treasure chest, in his keep in the North-West. If you take him on, not only will *you* not be paying *him* - *he* will end up paying *you*. Well, sort off.
 On Easy difficulty, the deal is even worse, as the net effect is only about -25% of the enemy gold.
-Finally, if you employ in-game logic - paying Garrath does not improve your security one bit: He's still a bandit; why would he keep his end of the bargain? Not to mention the fact that he seems to be in kahoots with Harold, the other leader. And there's the moral issue of abetting felons; and a public relations disaster: If it becomes known that you misused large amounts of royal funds while on official crown business in the middle of a war, your career is not very likely to blossom further, shall we say.
+Finally, if you employ in-game logic - paying Garrath does not improve your security one bit: He's still a bandit; why would he keep his end of the bargain? Not to mention the fact that he seems to be in league with Harold, the other leader. And there's the moral issue of abetting felons; and a public relations disaster: If it becomes known that you misused large amounts of royal funds while on official crown business in the middle of a war, your career is not very likely to blossom further, shall we say.
 Still, you do have both options.
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 '''Refuse to pay & take them both on:'''
-If you don't pay the charge, you get to recruit a big army, get more XP, and finish quicker. Both leaders' forces tend to scatter out, fail to support each other well enough and don't really follow your own forces' movements so much. One strategy is to move your forces into the central island and holding it against the NE leader's push -  while yourself sending off a force to press North-West towards Garrath and his treasure chest. Another approach (at least on Medium difficult) is to have your force targeting Garrath just press Northwards right from your own keep in the South-West; you'll pay for this with more pressure on the central island, but reach him faster, easily dispatching him - as he'll typically only have money for a single recruit to help defend himself, and his other troops may not make it back in time.
+If you don't pay the charge, you get to recruit a big army, get more XP, and finish quicker. Both leaders' forces tend to scatter out, fail to support each other well enough, and not really follow your own forces' movements too well. One strategy is to move your forces into the central island and holding it against the NE leader's push -  while yourself sending off a force to press North-West towards Garrath and his treasure chest. Another approach (at least on Medium difficulty) is to have your force targeting Garrath just press Northwards right from your own keep in the South-West. You'll pay for this with more pressure on the central island, but reach Garrath faster, easily dispatching him - as he'll typically only have money for a single round of recruitment to help defend himself, and his other troops may not make it back in time.
-A balanced force for this option would consist of couple of Horsemen (recall them, don't pay the extra 3 gold for nothing), 2 White Mages (you _have_ leveled them up already, right?), a couple of other Level 2s - Knights perhaps, a couple of level 1 Mages (which are pretty good against Footpads and Poachers, as they ignore their high defense ratings), and the rest - Spearmen as fodder to form your defensive line. On Middle difficult you might even skip one of the L1 Mages. It is vital to use Lionel's level-3 leadership to help your level-1 units fight better.
+A balanced force for this option would consist of couple of Horsemen (recall them, don't pay the extra 3 gold for nothing), two White Mages (you _have_ leveled them up already, right?), a couple of other Level-2's - Knights perhaps, a couple of L11 Mages (which are pretty good against Footpads and Poachers, as they ignore their high defense ratings), and the rest - Spearmen as fodder to form your defensive line. On Middle difficult you might even skip one of the L1 Mages. It is vital to use Lionel's L3 leadership to help your L1 units fight better.
 '''Pay up like a boss:'''
-The level is playable paying the charge if you are coming in with ~250 gold or more. Although it gives the AI a big lead in gold, you have halved the recruit rate for the AIs and ensured that they are all on the far side of the level; the AI's forces don't concentrate so well and your small force can evade them at night. You may take this approach if you prefer a challenging small-army scouting battle rather than a big army battle. Alternative, you can win by starting with as little as two raw recruit Spearman and a recalled Horseman, if you take some villages so that you can recall some more units later.
+The level is playable paying the charge if you are coming in with ~250 gold or more. Although it gives the AI a big lead in gold, you have halved the recruit rate for the AIs and ensured that they are all on the far side of the level; the AI's forces don't concentrate so well and your small force can evade them at night. You may take this approach if you prefer a challenging small-army scouting battle rather than a big army battle. Alternatively, you can win by starting with as little as two raw-recruit Spearman and a recalled Horseman, if you take some villages so that you can recall some more units later.
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 * Turns: 24/28/32 (easy/medium/hard).
 * Starting units: Delfador, Kalenz, {{DevFeature1.13|10}} Ulrek.
-* Other: If you have any undead veterans from [[#The_Gate_Between_Worlds|The Gate Between Worlds]], then one of them has to give the final strike to Illah-Malal, otherwise Delfador has to do it.
+* Other: If you have any undead veterans from [[#The_Gate_Between_Worlds|The Gate Between Worlds]], then one of them has to give the final strike to Illah-Malal, otherwise Delfador has to do it. {{DevFeature1.13|11}} Either your undead veterans or Delfador can give the killing blow to Illah-Malal.
 There is a few holy water flasks at the start, but you may not have many fast, high-level units with powerful melee attacks to assign them. You get control of Lionel on turn 3 (plus a castle of L1 recruits), so you don't have to take villages off of him. It is recommended to save one of the holy water flasks for Lionel, and give the other two to Ulrek and Kalenz, or some other loyalist veteran (perhaps a Halberdier or a Knight). Your remaining recalls could be 2 white mages, a steelclad and a paladin (or a knight close to leveling - as it is an open level).