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‎Item List

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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)===

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 **'''Potion of Strength''' (+1 melee damage, +8 HP) - ''living non bat units.''
 **'''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 the Divine Breeze''' (+10% arcane resist, sets ranged damage type to arcane) - ''living units besides sprites and bats.''
+**'''Amulet of t
 ==Part I: Seeking the Light==
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 Some tips:
-*In general due to the respawning drones it’s best to stick together in a single group, move forward quickly, and not send units off exploring side passages or they may end up trapped – the only things to find anyway are two glyphs with some backstory.
+*In general due to the respawning drones it’s best to stick together in a single group, move forward quickly, and not send units off exploring side passages or they may end up trapped – the only things to find anyway are two glyphs with some backstory. *EDIT: There is a '''Ring of the Revenant''' to the southwest below the southern river that provides an extra life for a living unit. It is guarded by a few drones and under a glyph tile with additional backstory in a coffin. I gave it to one of my Shydes flying around with my Spectres exploring the area.
 *A useful (but cheap) tactic is to deliberately leave units (especially Elynia/Mal Keshar) a few XP from leveling so when they attack the boss they’ll automatically heal to full.
 *Always make sure to lure off and get rid of as many surrounding drones as possible before confronting the Chaos Warlord, because her leadership combined with the drones is deadly.

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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''
-EDIT: *S4: '''Staff of Petrichor''' 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.
+*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.
 *S5 (This is a branching path so you'll only be able to obtain one of the following:)
 **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 ''

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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 on the forums available for [https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?t=43309 IftU version 2.0.0 and Wesnoth v.1.12].
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 ===Units===
 You begin with the typical elvish recruits plus the campaign specific elvish hunter unit, then gain the ability to recruit undead in Scenario 4, dark adepts in Scenario 5, and sprites in Scenario 14.
 *A large part of this campaign takes place underground, making undead units especially ideal. Spectres are perhaps the most useful unit throughout the campaign due to their draining, excellent mobility and arcane damage. Nightgaunts (raw damage) and necromancers (arcane resist and plague) are also very useful. Skeletal undead are generally not recommended due to their low mobility.
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 *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.
+**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. EDIT: The most recent version has changed this so that any elf unit not recalled in this scenario is permanently lost. There is no longer a limit on how many elves you recruit/recall.
 **S21 (Innuendo): You can only recall 8 veterans, which will be the only veterans you have for the rest of the campaign.
 *In Part II gold becomes very scarce so you will only be able to use a limited amount of veterans in each scenario; therefore quality (units with good traits such as resilient, and several AMLAs) is better than quantity.
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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''
 *S5 (This is a branching path so you'll only be able to obtain one of the following:)
 **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 ''
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 When you kill the orcish leader you’ll get about 50 gold. You can use his keep to recruit some reinforcements (watch your income; there aren’t any more villages for a long time). Start heading west, where you’ll encounter some very weak undead. There will also be some scorpions north and south of the path which are free experience for wraiths and ghosts.
-After a while the path will turn south and you’ll spot some bandits.
+After a while the path will turn south and you’ll spot some bandits. EDIT: The '''Staff of Petrichor''' is located to the southeast and has 4 petrified griffin units that will awaken and attack you once you attempt to loot the tomb. Make sure you have multiple ghost line units there during the nighttime to try to drain through the damage.
 '''Part 2'''
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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.
-In the far southeast, down the watery passage, there is a secret touchplate at 40,26 which opens a passage to the Void Armor, which is located in the lit hex at 31,24. The armor sets physical resistances to 50% blade/50% pierce/40% impact and is a great item for Galas (it can be used by elvish fighters, rangers, skeletons, skeleton riders and their advancements) - start sending whichever unit you want to take it southeast ASAP if you want to make it in time.
+In the far southeast, down the watery passage, there is a secret touchplate at 40,26 which opens a passage to the Void Armor, which is located in the lit hex at 31,24. The armor sets physical resistances to 50% blade/50% pierce/40% impact (EDIT: Changed Void Armor stats to provide +15/15/20/10% resistance to blade, pierce, impact, and fire damage; as opposed to the previous replacement of blade/pierce/impact with 50/50/60% and increase of fire by 10%) and is a great item for Galas (it can be used by elvish fighters, rangers, skeletons, skeleton riders and their advancements) - start sending whichever unit you want to take it southeast ASAP if you want to make it in time.
 ===S8 (An Errand of Hope)===
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 ==Part II: Armageddon==
-===S14 (Bye and Behold)===
+===S14 (Clearing the Road)===
 *Objectives: Defeat both enemy leaders.
 This should be a very easy scenario, especially if you’re continuing from a Part I save, so it’s a good opportunity to get some easy XP for fresh recruits. The barrel contains 6 explosive arrows (does 80% of the base damage to the unit immediately behind the target).
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 ===S17 (Voice of the Armageddon)===
 *Objective: Defeat all enemy leaders.
-You will face two enemy leaders: a relatively weak enemy in the center, and a very powerful enemy far to the south. You’ll probably want to recruit a few expendable units such as skeletons or vampire bats to distract the powerful enemy units from your veterans. The central enemy shouldn’t be too much of a problem: blast them with your veterans and then put a couple expendable units in front to screen them.
+You will face two enemy leaders: a relatively weak enemy in the center, and a very powerful enemy far to the south. You’ll probably want to recruit a few expendable units such as ghosts or vampire bats to distract the powerful enemy units from your veterans. The central enemy shouldn’t be too much of a problem: blast them with your veterans and then put a couple expendable units in front to screen them.
 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.
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 *Objectives: Defeat the enemy leader, and then move Galas, Elynia or Mal Keshar to the cave in the southeast.
-The more spectres you have the easier this scenario will be; I recommend recalling all your spectres and wraiths. Since there aren’t any villages you’ll surely start next scenario with minimum gold anyway, so there’s no point in worrying about upkeep or saving gold. The main enemies you’ll be facing are drones, which do impact damage and are weak to arcane. Advance very cautiously at first because there will be several level 2 drones lurking around. They’re extremely nasty in ranged, so spectres are ideal for taking them out.
+The more spectres you have the easier this scenario will be; I recommend recalling all your spectres and wraiths. Since there aren’t any villages you’ll surely start next scenario with minimum gold anyway, so there’s no point in worrying about upkeep or saving gold (EDIT: I was able to complete this scenario on hard with 1 keep worth of recalled units if you want some gold carryover). The main enemies you’ll be facing are drones, which do impact damage and are weak to arcane. Advance very cautiously at first because there will be several level 2 drones lurking around. They’re extremely nasty in ranged, so spectres are ideal for taking them out.
 Once you start heading south, you’ll face a horde of level 1 drones from all directions. Just keep killing them every turn with spectres and wraiths, focusing on one group at a time, and eventually they’ll run out. Be careful of putting Mal Keshar in range of a lot of drones because they’ll chain attack him and he’s weak to impact.
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 Head south across the lava chasm (it will probably take a while, due to being assaulted by enemy spawns from all directions) and you’ll come across the chaos empire leader to the left and a dead end with a second matrix core on the right. Once you defeat the leader head south towards a swampy area.
-Past the swamp is a fork: the southern fork doesn’t have enemies and leads straight to the exit. The eastern fork leads into a large hive, where the remaining 3 matrix cores are. One of the cores is near the entrance. The remaining 2 cores are extremely deep into the hive so getting at them may be more trouble than it’s worth, though you can get some good XP out of fighting your way through to them. Note that you won’t be able to leave until Elynia and Mal Keshar are both outside the hive, so make sure you have enough turns left before exploring (but if you kill the innermost core, a shortcut will open up, so you don’t have to backtrack all the way).
+Past the swamp is a fork: the southern fork doesn’t have enemies and leads straight to the exit. The eastern fork leads into a large hive, where the remaining 3 matrix cores are. One of the cores is near the entrance. The remaining 2 cores are extremely deep into the hive so getting at them may be more trouble than it’s worth, though you can get some good XP out of fighting your way through to them. Note that you won’t be able to leave until Elynia or Mal Keshar are outside the hive, so make sure you have enough turns left before exploring (but if you kill the innermost core, a shortcut will open up, so you don’t have to backtrack all the way).
 ===S20 (The Heart)===

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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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