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‎S21 (Innuendo): corrected an inaccuracy about the dungeon area

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Inky: Good idea to add a link to the campaign thread! Wesnoth 1.4 is completely outdated though so I removed that link to avoid confusion.

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Good idea to add a link to the campaign thread! Wesnoth 1.4 is completely outdated though so I removed that link to avoid confusion.

Gavenkoa: links for campaign discussion

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links for campaign discussion

Inky: added info on S7's secret item

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Inky: reformatted the item list

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	This is a strategy guide for the add-on campaign '''Invasion from the Unknown''' (IftU) version 2.0 by shadowm. Note that there have been many major gameplay changes from the original version (for example, elvish enchantresses can no longer advance to sylphs, the elvish warrior spirit and Aragwaithi recruits have been removed, and many scenarios were changed), so much of the advice here won’t apply to earlier campaign versions.		This is a strategy guide for the add-on campaign '''Invasion from the Unknown''' (IftU) version 2.0 by shadowm. Note that there have been many major gameplay changes from the original version (for example, elvish enchantresses can no longer advance to sylphs, the elvish warrior spirit and Aragwaithi recruits have been removed, and many scenarios were changed), so much of the advice here won’t apply to earlier campaign versions.

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 '''The imp boss''': Past the eastern gate, you’ll come to a long passage east with some enemies. Once you advance far enough, you’ll discover a large chamber with a nasty imp boss and some other enemies. It’s best to fight them in the 3-hex bottleneck, and try to have Elynia illuminate and slow the boss.
-'''The dungeon:''' The area northwest of the chamber where the imp was leads to the exit, but it’s blocked by a gate so you’ll have to go east to the dungeons first. There’s a couple (useless) soulless in the cells which will join you. In the southeast, there’s an unwalkable chasm with some enemies on the other side; if you send some flying undead exploring there they can trigger a touchplate which opens a passage for regular units to enter. There is a Glacial Gladius there which gives a slowing cold melee attack (usable by elves other than shamans+advancements, and Erathan.)
+'''The dungeon:''' The area northwest of the chamber where the imp was leads to the exit, but it’s blocked by a gate so you’ll have to go east to the dungeons first. You'll find a (useless) troll soulless and a merman soulless which will join you, as well as a hostile drake soulless. In the southeast, there’s an unwalkable chasm with some enemies on the other side; if you send some flying undead exploring there they can trigger a touchplate which opens a passage for regular units to enter. There is a Glacial Gladius there which gives a slowing cold melee attack (usable by elves other than shamans+advancements, and by Erathan.)
-The goal is the northeast hive area, where there’s an amulet (+10% arcane resistance, changes ranged damage type to arcane) which is good for units like shydes so they’ll take less damage when slowing later bosses. The south of the hive contains a cage with Ledinor, the elvish lord from the beginning; freeing him will open the gate in the northwest where there are a ton of high level enemies and a drone boss.
+The goal is the northeast hive area, where there’s an amulet (+10% arcane resistance, changes ranged damage type to arcane) which is good for units like shydes so they’ll take less damage when slowing later bosses. The south of the hive contains a cage with Ledinor, the elvish lord from the beginning. Freeing him and the other three soulless will open the gate in the northwest where there are a ton of high level enemies and a drone boss.
 '''The exit (finally!):'''  For the horde of high level enemies coming from the exit, it’s safest to retreat to one of the 3-hex passages leading to the dungeons and just pick them off slowly. When approaching the exit, be careful since the chasms on either side contain drones.

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 ====S5b (Cursed Plateau)====
 *Objectives: Move to the northwest corner of the map with Galas, Anlindë or Mal Keshar.
-**In order to get the item you must defeat both enemy leaders.
+**In order to get the item you must find the piece of parchment in the southwest cave, and defeat both enemy leaders.
-You won't be getting any more villages for a while, so recruit very lightly initially. There's another tiny 1-hex keep to the west where you can recall some more reinforcements, and you'll only face some scorpions and bats at first, so a couple wraiths should be enough. Once you reach the tiny keep in the west, send some flying undead into the southwest cave, where there's a touchplate opening into a chasm full of bats. To the southeast of the chasm is a passage leading to a piece of parchment, which reveals a secret passage through the mountains in the northwest.
+You won't be getting any more villages for a while, so recruit very lightly initially. There's another tiny 1-hex keep to the west where you can recall some more reinforcements, and you'll only face some scorpions and bats at first, so a couple wraiths should be enough. Once you reach the tiny keep in the west, send some flying undead into the southwest cave, where there's a touchplate opening into a chasm full of bats. To the southeast of the chasm is a passage leading to a piece of parchment, which opens a passage through the mountains in the northwest.
 To the north is another small 2-hex keep, though you might have to clear out some chaos empire units before you can use it. There are a lot of invokers so you'll probably want either some cannon fodder or some durable non undead units. It's preferable to form a solid line and defend until most of the enemies are gone, because there are many high level enemies and also some nasty shadow minions (nightstalking, skirmishing and backstabbing pests) around.
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 Following the northwest path through the mountains leads to a gate, which you won't be able to open until you defeat both enemy leaders, though you could start sending whichever unit you want to pick up the item that way (it can be used by elvish hunters, fighters and advancements; I'd strongly recommend Galas.) Just send them on their own because there aren't any enemies behind the gate. Once you kill both leaders, you'll be able to pass through the gate to a chest in the south containing Shardia's Meteor (adds 15-2 ranged fire firststrike slow attack, +20% fire resistance, intimidates ability which causes level 0 and 1 enemies to fight worse).
 Continuing north and then east, there's another cave with the second leader. There's also a couple small piles of gold (in the southeast and northeast) in the cave. In the northwest is the shadow courier leader; try to kill him as quickly as possible in melee (preferably luring him out of the castle first so he doesn't have such high defense) because he will completely demolish your undead units. Once you kill the shadow courier, the western path which leads outside to the exit only has a few vampire bats.
 ===S6 (Moon Valley)===

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	After heading east across the doors past the second checkpoint, the path will turn north. Once you approach the third checkpoint, several high level undead will appear in the 3-hex keep just north of the checkpoint. Once you’ve dealt with them, it’s a pretty uneventful trip northwest toward the exit.		After heading east across the doors past the second checkpoint, the path will turn north. Once you approach the third checkpoint, several high level undead will appear in the 3-hex keep just north of the checkpoint. Once you’ve dealt with them, it’s a pretty uneventful trip northwest toward the exit.

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 This walkthrough was written by Inky and is based on the hard difficulty. (I also did a commented playthrough of the campaign with screenshots and replays on the [https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=43960 forums].) Feel free to make corrections or add your own advice.
-Campaign discussion and developer support available for [https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?t=43309 version 2.0.0 and Wesnoth v.1.12] and for older [https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?t=17827 version 1.9.99 and Wesnoth v1.4].
+Campaign discussion and developer support on the forums available for [https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?t=43309 IftU version 2.0.0 and Wesnoth v.1.12].
 ==General campaign advice==

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	This walkthrough was written by Inky and is based on the hard difficulty. (I also did a commented playthrough of the campaign with screenshots and replays on the [https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=43960 forums].) Feel free to make corrections or add your own advice.		This walkthrough was written by Inky and is based on the hard difficulty. (I also did a commented playthrough of the campaign with screenshots and replays on the [https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=43960 forums].) Feel free to make corrections or add your own advice.
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		+	Campaign discussion and developer support available for [https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?t=43309 version 2.0.0 and Wesnoth v.1.12] and for older [https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?t=17827 version 1.9.99 and Wesnoth v1.4].

	==General campaign advice==		==General campaign advice==

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 **S5a: '''Ring of Regeneration''' (if you chose to spare the bandit leader) (+5 HP, regenerates +4 ability, +1 melee damage) - ''not usable by: shamans and their advancements and Anlindë ''
 **S5b: '''Shardia's Meteor''' (adds 15-2 ranged fire firststrike slow attack, +20% fire resistance, intimidates ability which causes level 0 and 1 enemies to fight worse) - ''elvish hunters, fighters, and their advancements''
 *S8: '''Poisonous Bow''' (adds a new 11-3 poisonous ranged bow attack) - ''skeleton archers, revenants, elvish archers, elvish heroes and their advancements.''
 *S10:
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 The passage leads into a huge chamber in the south filled with automatons. Moving further south in this chamber reveals the scenario’s boss, Goliath, who appears along with a few level 1 automatons. Goliath has a lot of HP and good resistances but is extremely weak in offense, so just slow him and attack with powerful units like Mal Keshar and he will be destroyed in no time.
 ===S8 (An Errand of Hope)===

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 ====The Recall List====
-*There are several recall list wipes in the campaign:
+*You have the option of either continuing to Part II keeping all your veterans from Part I (recommended), or starting Part II fresh. To compensate for the difference, there are several recall list wipes in the campaign:
 **S12 (The Escape): You can only bring up to 6 undead units (dark adepts/sorcerers/necromancers and bats do not count) with you and the rest are permanently lost.
 **S16 (Dawn of War): You can only bring up to 6 elves with you and the rest are permanently lost. In addition, any unit not recalled in this scenario is permanently lost.
 **S21 (Innuendo): You can only recall 8 veterans, which will be the only veterans you have for the rest of the campaign.
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 This is a list of the permanent items which can be picked up throughout the campaign, and which units can use them.
 *S3: '''Ring of Swiftness''' (+1 movement) - ''living units''
-*S5a: '''Ring of Regeneration''' (if you chose to spare the bandit leader) (+5 HP, regenerates +4 ability, +1 melee damage) - ''not usable by: shamans and their advancements and Anlindë ''
+*S5 (This is a branching path so you'll only be able to obtain one of the following:)
-*S5b: '''Shardia's Meteor''' (adds 15-2 ranged fire firststrike slow attack, +20% fire resistance, intimidates ability which causes level 0 and 1 enemies to fight worse) - ''elvish hunters, fighters, and their advancements''
+**S5a: '''Ring of Regeneration''' (if you chose to spare the bandit leader) (+5 HP, regenerates +4 ability, +1 melee damage) - ''not usable by: shamans and their advancements and Anlindë ''
 *S8: '''Poisonous Bow''' (adds a new 11-3 poisonous ranged bow attack) - ''skeleton archers, revenants, elvish archers, elvish heroes and their advancements.''
-*S10: '''Berserker Potion'''  (adds berserk special to melee attacks, +1 melee damage, +10% HP, and +10% blade / +20% fire / +30% impact resistance) - ''not usable by: ghosts, bats, corpses, elvish shamans and their advancements, or hero units.''
+*S10:
-*S10: '''Potion of Drain''' (adds drain special to melee attacks, -5% HP, +10% arcane resistance) - ''living units''
+**'''Berserker Potion'''  (adds berserk special to melee attacks, +1 melee damage, +10% HP, and +10% blade / +20% fire / +30% impact resistance) - ''not usable by: ghosts, bats, corpses, elvish shamans and their advancements, or hero units.''
 *S14: '''Explosive arrows''' (6 uses, does 80% base damage to the unit in the hex behind the target) ''- elvish archers, skeleton archers and their advancements''
-*S21: '''Potion of Deftness''' (+1 movement, +1 ranged damage) - ''living non bat units.''
+*S21:
-*S21: '''Accuracy Bow''' (adds marksman special to ranged attacks) - ''bone shooters and elvish rangers and their advancements, and Erathan.''
+**'''Potion of Deftness''' (+1 movement, +1 ranged damage) - ''living non bat units.''
-*S21: '''Potion of Strength''' (+1 melee damage, +8 HP) - ''living non bat units.''
+**'''Accuracy Bow''' (adds marksman special to ranged attacks) - ''bone shooters and elvish rangers and their advancements, and Erathan.''
-*S21: '''Glacial Gladius''' (+1 melee damage, cold damage and slow for a unit’s melee attack, -5% HP) - ''elvish fighters, archers, hunters, scouts and their advancements, and Erathan.''
+**'''Potion of Strength''' (+1 melee damage, +8 HP) - ''living non bat units.''
-*S21: '''Amulet of the Divine Breeze''' (+10% arcane resist, sets ranged damage type to arcane) - ''living units besides sprites and bats.''
+**'''Glacial Gladius''' (+1 melee damage, cold damage and slow for a unit’s melee attack, -5% HP) - ''elvish fighters, archers, hunters, scouts and their advancements, and Erathan.''
 ==Part I: Seeking the Light==
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 *Objectives: Defeat the bandit leader in the southwest.
-Try to fight the elusive outlaw units (footpads, thieves) on sand terrain where they only have 40% instead of their usual 60 or 70%. Bats make great bait for luring out powerful guard units, or the enemy leader.
+Try to fight the elusive outlaw units (footpads, thieves) on sand terrain where they only have 40% defense instead of their usual 60 or 70%. Bats make great bait for luring out powerful guard units, or the enemy leader.
-After you defeat the leader some humans will show up from the north, and you will have to decide whether to fight them. If you do decide to fight them you'll have to defeat their leader and will go to S5a (Crossfire). If you choose the second option instead, the scenario will end immediately and you will go to S5b (Cursed Plateau).
+Once you defeat the leader some humans will show up from the north, and you will have to decide whether to fight them. If you do decide to fight them you'll have to defeat their leader and will go to S5a (Crossfire). If you choose the second option instead, the scenario will end immediately and you will go to S5b (Cursed Plateau).
 S5a is the easier scenario, but since both scenarios give a different item (see the [[#Item_List | Item List]]) you may want to decide based on that.
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 Following the northwest path through the mountains leads to a gate, which you won't be able to open until you defeat both enemy leaders, though you could start sending whichever unit you want to pick up the item that way (it can be used by elvish hunters, fighters and advancements; I'd strongly recommend Galas.) Just send them on their own because there aren't any enemies behind the gate. Once you kill both leaders, you'll be able to pass through the gate to a chest in the south containing Shardia's Meteor (adds 15-2 ranged fire firststrike slow attack, +20% fire resistance, intimidates ability which causes level 0 and 1 enemies to fight worse).
-Continuing north and then east, there's another cave with the second leader. There's also a couple small piles of gold (in the southeast and northeast) in the cave. In the northwest is the Shadow Courier leader; try to kill him as quickly as possible in melee (preferably luring him out of the castle first so he doesn't have such high defense) because he will completely demolish your undead units. Once you kill the shadow courier, the western path which leads outside to the exit only has a few vampire bats.
+Continuing north and then east, there's another cave with the second leader. There's also a couple small piles of gold (in the southeast and northeast) in the cave. In the northwest is the shadow courier leader; try to kill him as quickly as possible in melee (preferably luring him out of the castle first so he doesn't have such high defense) because he will completely demolish your undead units. Once you kill the shadow courier, the western path which leads outside to the exit only has a few vampire bats.
 ===S6 (Moon Valley)===
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 ===S13 (Face Your Fate)===
 *Objectives: Hold out to the end of turns; then accept the inevitable.
-*Note: If you didn’t manage to recall some of your undead veterans last scenario, you can recall them now.
 This is mostly a cutscene scenario.
-Holding out until the end of turns should be trivial with your extremely high starting gold. A few turns after the initial turn limit, the Chaos Warlord will appear in the southwest and the objectives will change to defeating her. However, it is impossible (if you reduce her HP to 0 she’ll just heal back to full and instantly kill all your undead units), and the only way to end the scenario is to let your leader die.
+Holding out until the end of turns should be trivial with your extremely high starting gold. If you didn’t manage to recall some of your undead veterans last scenario, you can recall them now. A few turns after the initial turn limit, the Chaos Warlord will appear in the southwest and the objectives will change to defeating her. However, it is impossible (if you reduce her HP to 0 she’ll just heal back to full and instantly kill all your undead units), and the only way to end the scenario is to let your leader die.
 ==Part II: Armageddon==
 ===S14 (Bye and Behold)===
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 Get ready for an absolutely massive dungeon crawl! You’ll face several waves of enemies in this scenario:
-'''The beginning:''' Some Chaos Empire units will come at you immediately, so just form a solid line in the passage and let them come. After that the path splits north to a dead end with a potion giving +1 MP and +1 ranged damage (living units only), and a southwestern passage leading to a large chamber full of powerful enemies. You can safely destroy them by forming a line in the 3-hex passage and slowly picking them off until they’re gone. (Try to turn some of them into corpses, which can be used as bait for powerful enemies later).
+'''The beginning:''' Some Chaos Empire units will come at you immediately, so just form a solid line in the passage and let them come. After that the path splits north to a dead end with a Potion of Deftness giving +1 movement and +1 ranged damage (living units only), and a southwestern passage leading to a large chamber full of powerful enemies. You can safely destroy them by forming a line in the 3-hex passage and slowly picking them off until they’re gone. (Try to turn some of them into corpses, which can be used as bait for powerful enemies later).
 '''The large chamber in the south:''' There are two paths north (both lead to the same place) with some enemies guarding them. In the southwest corner there’s a room with a Potion of Strength (+1 melee, +8 HP, a great item for Galas), an Accuracy Bow (for archer units only, such as Erathan), and a chest of gold. There is an enemy leader in the northwest, and moving to the gem behind him will open one of the gates in the northeast.