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BBeryllium: i just noticed some things while playing this campaign

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i just noticed some things while playing this campaign

Seansy: /* Item List */

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‎Item List

Seansy: /* S9 (The Library) */

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‎S9 (The Library)

Seansy: /* S23 A (Into the Lair) */

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‎S23 A (Into the Lair)

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 Try to recruit as much as possible with Galas on turns 1-3. At the start of turn 4, the Emperor will possess Mal Keshar (meaning you can’t recruit undead anymore) and Erathan (or Galas, if you don’t have Erathan). You’ll then have to use Elynia to kill Mal Keshar (you can make this part easier by making sure Mal Keshar is close to your units and on 40% defense on turn 4.) The Emperor can recall your unused undead veterans while he’s controlling Mal Keshar, so try to finish Mal Keshar off immediately.
-Once you kill Mal Keshar, the Emperor will get a new Union attack and Elynia will also get a powered up (35-4) Union attack when next to him. Elynia’s Union is the only attack which does full damage to the Emperor; all other attacks will do just a few HP of damage (also, non-Union attacks will sometimes cause him to become unslowed so be careful). Lure the Emperor out onto 40% defense, slow him, and then Union with Elynia. You’ll probably need about 3 turns (2 if you’re lucky) of Elynia using the Union. Hopefully Elynia doesn’t get hit too much; if she does you could try ZOCing the boss with cannon fodder while Elynia gets healed or moves to a healing glyph.
+Once you kill Mal Keshar, the Emperor will get a new Union attack and Elynia will also get a powered up (35-4) Union attack when next to him. Elynia’s Union is the only attack which does full damage to the Emperor; all other attacks will do just a few HP of damage (also, non-Union attacks will sometimes cause him to become unslowed so be careful). Lure the Emperor out onto 40% defense, slow him, and then Union with Elynia. You’ll probably need about 3 turns (2 if you’re lucky) of Elynia using the Union. It's also really helpful to use Galas special leadership with Elynia. Hopefully Elynia doesn’t get hit too much; if she does you could try ZOCing the boss with cannon fodder while Elynia gets healed or moves to a healing glyph.
 Once you defeat him Mal Keshar will return and you can recruit undead again (although he is extremely fragile now so it’s essential to keep him away from the Emperor), and the Emperor will transform into his final form. This form has much more HP and a stronger ranged attack (hopefully at least one slower is still alive!) but fortunately can now be fully damaged by regular attacks. Elynia’s Union also gets a major powerup, so his HP should go down very quickly. He sometimes spawns drones when hit; you may want to move your own units next to him before attacking so that the drones don’t block the hexes next to him. Make sure to have Elynia finish him off with the Union, or else he’ll regenerate a ton of HP.

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 Past the corridor of enemies is another gate; once you open it all your units will be teleported into the chamber beyond, where you’ll be surrounded by powerful enemies. Try to focus on killing a few at a time while staying out of range of the others. A few turns later the Chaos Warlord will show up in the keep in the west. She’ll recruit some units, so retreat and deal with her army before taking her on.
-Once you defeat her she’ll heal back to full so you’ll have to run away by having Mal Keshar destroy the exit gate to the southeast. Fortunately Elynia will cast a spell on her so she’ll only have 1 movement until you open the gate, at which point she regains all her movement (so make sure your units aren’t in her range at that time). The Warlord will just stay in her keep and recruit and not chase you, so it should be easy to get away. The southeast area just has some drones in the south and a giant spider; move a leader to the southern border of the map to proceed to the next part.
+Once you defeat her, she’ll heal back to full, so you’ll have to run away by having Mal Keshar destroy the exit gate to the southeast. Fortunately, Elynia will cast a spell on her so she’ll only have 1 movement until you open the gate, at which point she regains all her movement (so make sure your units aren’t in her range at that time). The Warlord will just stay in her keep and recruit and not chase you, so it should be easy to get away. Once all your units are past the gate, the gate will transform into a wall and stop all of them from chasing you. The southeast area just has some drones in the south and a giant spider; move a leader to the southern border of the map to proceed to the next part.
 ===S22 B (Dark Hive)===

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 ===S19 (Under the Sands)===
 *Objective: Reach the exit in the south with Elynia or Mal Keshar
-*Note: You actually have to reach the exit with both of them.
+*Note: If either Elynia or Mal Keshar is still in the hive, you won't be able to end the scenario (with the other one) until they leave the hive.
 This scenario has a lot of rough terrain and chasms, so ghostly undead (spectres, nightgaunts) will be extremely useful. Also, the blue matrix flow systems have 0% defense and can be drained, so they can be used as free full heals for your spectres.

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 Once you scout far enough south, you’ll trigger the southern leader to start recruiting and a boss Armageddon Imp will appear and start heading for you. It’s probably best to wait near the central keep and let the imps come to you so you don’t get in range of the enemies stationed in the southern fort. Once they arrive, illuminate and slow the boss and then zap him with your magical ranged units. Next you’ll have to deal with the army of soulless and necrophages coming from the south; once again an effective tactic is to blast away with your veterans from the back and then insert some expendable units in the front.
-Be careful when approaching the fort because the powerful units stationed there will come out and attack; use the v or ctrl + v keybind to make sure no one is too exposed, and try to lure them out one by one. The ancient lich leader can be lured out onto 40% defense terrain by placing a walking corpse in his range. Don’t bother about setting up the kill on the leader because he will just run away, denying you the killing XP.
+Be careful when approaching the fort because the powerful units stationed there will come out and attack; use the show enemy moves keybind (by default it's Ctrl + v) to make sure no one is too exposed, and try to lure them out one by one. The ancient lich leader can be lured out onto 40% defense terrain by placing a walking corpse in his range. Don’t bother about setting up the kill on the leader because he will just run away, denying you the killing XP.
 ===S18 (Ashes of Wesmere)===
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 ===S19 (Under the Sands)===
 *Objective: Reach the exit in the south with Elynia or Mal Keshar
 This scenario has a lot of rough terrain and chasms, so ghostly undead (spectres, nightgaunts) will be extremely useful. Also, the blue matrix flow systems have 0% defense and can be drained, so they can be used as free full heals for your spectres.

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 Once you scout far enough south, you’ll trigger the southern leader to start recruiting and a boss Armageddon Imp will appear and start heading for you. It’s probably best to wait near the central keep and let the imps come to you so you don’t get in range of the enemies stationed in the southern fort. Once they arrive, illuminate and slow the boss and then zap him with your magical ranged units. Next you’ll have to deal with the army of soulless and necrophages coming from the south; once again an effective tactic is to blast away with your veterans from the back and then insert some expendable units in the front.
-Be careful when approaching the fort because the powerful units stationed there will come out and attack; use the v keybind (show enemy moves) to make sure no one is too exposed, and try to lure them out one by one. The ancient lich leader can be lured out onto 40% defense terrain by placing a walking corpse in his range. Don’t bother about setting up the kill on the leader because he will just run away, denying you the killing XP.
+Be careful when approaching the fort because the powerful units stationed there will come out and attack; use the v or ctrl + v keybind to make sure no one is too exposed, and try to lure them out one by one. The ancient lich leader can be lured out onto 40% defense terrain by placing a walking corpse in his range. Don’t bother about setting up the kill on the leader because he will just run away, denying you the killing XP.
 ===S18 (Ashes of Wesmere)===

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 ===S15 (Shadows of Time)===
-*Objectives: Defeat all enemy leaders. (You actually do not need to kill the ancient lich leader – once you attack him he will flee.)
+*Objectives: Defeat all enemy leaders. (You actually do not need to kill the ancient lich leader – once you reduce him to half health he will flee.)
 You’ll be fighting a lot of undead so arcane (sorceresses, dark adepts, etc.) and fire damage (sprites) will be very useful. Your orcish allies will mostly go up the northeastern side of the map and delay the undead coming from that direction, so the main battle will likely take place on two fronts: fighting the undead from the west, and the orcs in the center.
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 *Objectives: Reach the southern edge of the map with Galas, Elynia or Mal Keshar.
 **Optional objective (early finish bonus): Defeat all enemy leaders.
-*Note: You can only recruit / recall elves on the first turn, and all veterans not recalled in this scenario are permanently lost.
+*Note: after this scenario, you won't be able to recruit elves or dark adepts, and all elven veterans not recalled in this scenario are permanently lost.
 Recalling advice:

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 ===Item List===
-This is a list of the permanent items which can be picked up throughout the campaign, and which units can use them.
+This is a list of the permanent items which can be picked up throughout the campaign, and which units can use them. Items given to your hero units, mostly Galas, carry over to the After the Storm campaign!
 *S3: '''Ring of Swiftness''' (+1 movement) - ''living units''
 *S4: '''Staff of Petrichor''' (EDIT: New item from recent update) Replaces melee attack with '''Touch of Petrichor''' a 7x2 magical cold attack that reads "When this attack hits a lower level opponent during offense, the target becomes petrified for one turn. Once the petrification effect expires, the target gains the mark status effect." The petrification effect makes the afflicted unit unable to move or attack and they cannot be attacked themselves either. Usable by shamans and their advancements. Not usable for hero units.
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 **'''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.''
 **'''Amulet of t
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 **'''Ring of the Revenant''' (Any living creature wearing this ring is granted the power to cheat death once, after which the ring shall become inert for a thousand years) - ''living units besides sprites and bats.''

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 Don’t recruit too heavily at the beginning, since you’ll get another opportunity to recruit about halfway through the scenario. You’ll probably have to do quite a bit of fighting before then though, so some durable units will be helpful. Ghosts/wraiths/spectres are especially good in this scenario due to the lack of chaos invokers and fire demons. Head west (the passage south of your starting keep just leads to an empty dead end) and after fighting through a couple level 2 undead you’ll come to an intersection.
-The northwest path leads to a dead end with a ruined house; when you send a living nonbat unit there to investigate you’ll discover Igor, a loyal wolf rider. He is automatically recalled in all later scenarios and even has his own dialogue, so it's highly recommended to keep him alive. Meanwhile in the south, the combined forces of the 3 enemy leaders will begin to arrive. The easiest way to fight them is to just defend in the bottleneck until the massive army is mostly gone; it will take quite a while but the rest of the scenario will go much quicker after the main enemy army is gone.
+The northwest path leads to a dead end with a ruined house; when you send a living nonbat unit there to investigate you’ll discover Igor, a loyal wolf rider. He is automatically recalled in all later scenarios and even has his own dialogue, so it's highly recommended to keep him alive. EDIT: If you keep Igor alive until the end of the campaign, not only do you get an achievement, but he will be with you at the start of the follow up campaign in After the Storm! Meanwhile in the south, the combined forces of the 3 enemy leaders will begin to arrive. The easiest way to fight them is to just defend in the bottleneck until the massive army is mostly gone; it will take quite a while but the rest of the scenario will go much quicker after the main enemy army is gone.
 When you get past the bottleneck you’ll come to a large keep where you can recruit some reinforcements, and the path splits into a western and eastern one. There are two enemy leaders in the west and one in the south, so one possibility is to split into two groups and have one group take out the two western leaders one after another (there’s a banebow leader in the northwest and a draug leader in the southwest), while another group circles east and then south to take care of the southern lich leader (bring some arcane damage).

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	Once you open the exit gate, there will be another flood of cockatrices from the southeast. Past the exit gate there’s a very weak enemy leader and some assorted enemies scattered around. The path then splits three ways: south is an empty dead end, north is a dead end with some story glyphs, and east is the entrance to the lair.		Once you open the exit gate, there will be another flood of cockatrices from the southeast. Past the exit gate there’s a very weak enemy leader and some assorted enemies scattered around. The path then splits three ways: south is an empty dead end, north is a dead end with some story glyphs, and east is the entrance to the lair.
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		+	Seansy: I suggest if you have plenty of turns remaining once you reach the exit to feed more experience to your units to get them as close as possible to an AMLA since the next scenario is the final boss fight and there is no early finish bonus. I had the Stealth ability on Galas so I could theoretically leave him alone next to the exit in stealth until the last turn, but you can also split up your units into two teams and have 1 stay by the entrance to farm the spawning drones and have another backtrack to kill spawning drones in another area.

	===S23 B (Until Death)===		===S23 B (Until Death)===