Sceptre of Fire - Revision history

BBeryllium at 05:16, 12 August 2026

2026-08-12T05:16:12Z

BBeryllium at 02:26, 12 August 2026

2026-08-12T02:26:41Z

BBeryllium at 04:28, 11 August 2026

2026-08-11T04:28:43Z

Revolting peasant: /* Caverns of Flame */

2026-05-19T20:43:38Z

‎Caverns of Flame

Revolting peasant: /* The Dragon */

2026-05-19T20:43:18Z

‎The Dragon

Revolting peasant: /* The Dragon */

2026-05-19T20:43:13Z

‎The Dragon

Revolting peasant: /* Outriding the Outriders */

2026-05-19T20:41:48Z

‎Outriding the Outriders

Revolting peasant: /* Towards the Caves */

2026-05-19T20:41:32Z

‎Towards the Caves

Revolting peasant: /* Hills of the Shorbear Clan */

2026-05-19T20:41:16Z

‎Hills of the Shorbear Clan

Revolting peasant: /* Gathering Materials */

2026-05-19T20:40:13Z

‎Gathering Materials

@@ Line 151: / Line 151: @@
 * '''Starting units:''' Alanin.
-Your mission is to run south as quickly as possible. The Elvish Outriders will easily catch up with Alanin and defeat him, all things being equal - Alanin has 9 MP, while the Outriders have 10 MP and 11 MP for the quick ones. Plus, there are six of them (on Medium difficult) and one of you... in fact, if four or five of the Outriders reach Alanin at once, he's likely to be killed even starting out with full HP. An encounter with just one or two Outriders is survivable - but you'll have to make sure to shake them the next turn.
+Your mission is to run south as quickly as possible. The Elvish Outriders will easily catch up with Alanin and defeat him, all things being equal - Alanin has 9 MP, while the Outriders have 11 MP. Plus, there are six of them (on Medium difficult) and one of you... in fact, if four or five of the Outriders reach Alanin at once, he's likely to be killed even starting out with full HP. An encounter with just one or two Outriders is survivable - but you'll have to make sure to shake them the next turn.
 Luckily, the stout Wesnothi Yeoman rises to the occasion, equipping L1 loyalist units and sending them out from every village you flag. 2-3 units will come out - Spearmen and Bowmen - to help you against the elves. They will, unfortunately, be mostly cannon fodder, so don't worry about keeping them for later in the campaign, or leveling them etc. They will have exactly one function: Slowing down the Elves.

@@ Line 64: / Line 64: @@
 The number of villages is quite small, so don't expect much beyond your initial recalls and recruits.
-The interesting feature of this map is the steel rail through running on the path North, with two carts along the way: A Dwarf can get in such a cart (using the context menu when on its hex), then travel quite a distance on the rails beyond its movement points for the turn - spending them either reaching the cart, or after disembarking, or both. Be careful - you may be surrounded by Goblins with Orcish units not far away if you take a single unit on a joyride too far from the rest of your force.
+The interesting feature of this map is the steel rail through running on the path North, with two carts along the way: A Dwarf can get in such a cart (using the context menu when on its hex), then travel quite a distance on the rails beyond its movement points for the turn - spending them either reaching the cart, or after disembarking, or both. Be careful - you may be surrounded by Goblins with Orcish units not far away if you take a single unit on a joyride too far from the rest of your force. It's worth noting that moving a unit (probably Alanin) over to the mushroom tiles up in the northeast will cause the entire center portion of the map to turn to water. This is important because it instantly kills all goblins in the water at that moment, and it slows the orcs significantly. You can still use the rails to get across here, so this can be really helpful.
 Remember the Goblins are rather weak, so consider making it a priority to either get the Goblin leader out of its keep, or filling up his two castle hexes - which also provide good defense for your units. Moving in on  _both_ the Goblins and the Orcs at once is a risky affair, probably only relevant if you started the level with a lot of bonus gold; the safer bet may be to focus on the Goblins, and utilize defense bonuses against the incoming Orcs, while letting Rugnur, Alanin and Baglur move up ahead.

@@ Line 50: / Line 50: @@
 Once the Trolls are dead, place Dwarves on each of those fours glyphs. You will notice that there are a couple of small additional entrances to the cave at the end of each passage. Don't worry, turning the glyphs closest to those openings to the "on" state will seal the entrances. You might even shut one or two Trolls outside this way.
-Once those four glyphs are done you're ready to finish your mission. However, you might as well defend the gate until turn 14 or so, picking up as much experience as possible (try to get Rugnor at least to level 2). Then, pull all your troops back behind the gate (any left outside will automatically die, and those trapped in the door will be squished) and place units on the two remaining glyphs.
+Once those four glyphs are done you're ready to finish your mission. However, you might as well defend the gate until turn 14 or so, picking up as much experience as possible (try to get Rugnur at least to level 2). Then, pull all your troops back behind the gate (any left outside will automatically die, and those trapped in the door will be squished) and place units on the two remaining glyphs.
 [Comment: Killing all the Elves outside will also successfully end the scenario. It is quite possible to do so (with v.1.11.6 and medium difficulty).]

@@ Line 199: / Line 199: @@
 === Caverns of Flame ===
-* Objectives: Locate the runic tablet of the guardian trolls, and destroy them
+* '''Objectives:''' Locate the runic tablet of the guardian trolls, and destroy them
-* Lose if: Rugnur, Thursagan or Krawg die.
+* '''Lose if:''' Rugnur, Thursagan or Krawg die.
-* Turns: Unlimited.
+* '''Turns:''' Unlimited.
-* Starting Gold: ???/160/??? (Easy/Medium/Hard)
+* '''Starting Gold:''' ???/160/??? (Easy/Medium/Hard)
-* Starting units: Rugnur, Thursagan, Krawg, Baglur and 3 other units
+* '''Starting units:''' Rugnur, Thursagan, Krawg, Baglur and 3 other units
 (The extra starting units may be two Runesmiths and an Explorer; but this may change depending on what your army has; strangely, you may well have additional recallable loyal units but without all units in the starting being loyal.)

@@ Line 168: / Line 168: @@
 * '''Objectives:''' Get Rugnur, Thursagan and Krawg to the end of the tunnel; then move Thursagan to the forge and defend him for 9 turns
 * '''Lose if:''' Rugnur, Thursagan or Krawg die
-* ''Turns:''' Unlimited.
+* '''Turns:''' Unlimited.
 * '''Starting units:''' Rugnur, Thursagan, Krawg, and Baglur.

@@ Line 146: / Line 146: @@
 === Outriding the Outriders ===
-* Objectives: Reach the outpost in the south.
+* '''Objectives:''' Reach the outpost in the south.
-* Lose if: Alanin dies or time runs out.
+* '''Lose if:''' Alanin dies or time runs out.
-* Turns: 12.
+* '''Turns:''' 12.
-* Starting units: Alanin.
+* '''Starting units:''' Alanin.
 Your mission is to run south as quickly as possible. The Elvish Outriders will easily catch up with Alanin and defeat him, all things being equal - Alanin has 9 MP, while the Outriders have 10 MP and 11 MP for the quick ones. Plus, there are six of them (on Medium difficult) and one of you... in fact, if four or five of the Outriders reach Alanin at once, he's likely to be killed even starting out with full HP. An encounter with just one or two Outriders is survivable - but you'll have to make sure to shake them the next turn.

@@ Line 130: / Line 130: @@
 === Towards the Caves ===
-* Objectives:
+* '''Objectives:'''
 ** Move Rugnur to the north-east cave entrance.
 ** Move Alanin to the southern border east of the river.
-* Lose if: Rugnur, Alanin, Krawg or Thursagan die or time runs out.
+* '''Lose if:''' Rugnur, Alanin, Krawg or Thursagan die or time runs out.
-* Turns: 12.
+* '''Turns:''' 12.
-* Starting units: Rugnur, Baglur, Krawg, Thursagan and Alanin.
+* '''Starting units:''' Rugnur, Baglur, Krawg, Thursagan and Alanin.
 It is important to realize that the two objectives do not need to be accomplished simultaneously; once Alanin touches the southern border, east of the river, he disappears and his part is done. So, you can just send him straight south from turn 1. Have him go along the western edge of the river and cross over when he is at the bottom. The southeastern elves really don't like Alanin, so be careful not to attract too much attention. (Note that you can use that to your advantage to slow the advance of those elves).

@@ Line 116: / Line 116: @@
 === Hills of the Shorbear Clan ===
-* Objectives: Defeat the dwarf leader and have all heroes in the cave while no enemies are in it.
+* '''Objectives:''' Defeat the Dwarf leader and have all heroes in the cave while no enemies are in it.
-* Lose if: Rugnur, Alanin, Krawg, Thursagan or Durstorn die or time runs out.
+* '''Lose if:''' Rugnur, Alanin, Krawg, Thursagan or Durstorn die or time runs out.
-* Turns: 24.
+* '''Turns:''' 24.
-* Starting units: Rugnur, Alanin, Baglur, Krawg, Thursagan, Durstorn, two new loyal units—a Thunderguard and a Steelclad.
+* '''Starting units:''' Rugnur, Alanin, Baglur, Krawg, Thursagan, Durstorn, two new loyal units—a Thunderguard and a Steelclad.
-Since Durstorn started a fight, you have to kick the dwarves out of their cave. The problem is that some elves show up and start fighting you too. So you have to take over the cave '''and''' kick everyone else out.
+Since Durstorn started a fight, you have to kick the dwarves out of their cave. The problem is that some Elves show up and start fighting you too. So you have to take over the cave '''and''' kick everyone else out.
 You can use Krawg and another Gryphon to go around the map and flag lots of villages. You'll get lots of gold and can use that to recruit a couple of fresh units if you need after you capture the Shorbears' keep.
-The scenario is pretty straightforward. When fighting the dwarves use the terrain to your advantage. A dwarf on a mountain tile is only hit 30% of the time... unless you are attacking with a Runesmith/Runemaster. Their magical attacks (70% chance to hit) can make all the difference. Once you are in the cave and fighting off the elves, seal up the exits when you can. Now all you need to do is wipe out any stragglers and you are done.
+The scenario is pretty straightforward. When fighting the dwarves use the terrain to your advantage. A Dwarf on a mountain tile is only hit 30% of the time... unless you are attacking with a Runesmith/Runemaster. Their magical attacks (70% chance to hit) can make all the difference. Once you are in the cave and fighting off the Elves, seal up the exits when you can. Now all you need to do is wipe out any stragglers and you are done.
-[Mal Shubertal: There is no early finish bonus in this scenario, but there is a 40% gold carryover. Due to many loyal units (especially if you recall your runesmiths from last scenario) and many villages in the cave, you can accumulate a lot of gold if you delay the ending as long as possible. The scenario ended a few turns early for me because the last elf in the cave accidentally killed himself against my Thunderer; this could have been avoided by leaving Krawg just outside the cave until turn 24.]
+[Mal Shubertal: There is no early finish bonus in this scenario, but there is a 40% gold carryover. Due to many loyal units (especially if you recall your runesmiths from last scenario) and many villages in the cave, you can accumulate a lot of gold if you delay the ending as long as possible. The scenario ended a few turns early for me because the last Elf in the cave accidentally killed himself against my Thunderer; this could have been avoided by leaving Krawg just outside the cave until turn 24.]
 === Towards the Caves ===

@@ Line 85: / Line 85: @@
 === Gathering Materials ===
-* Objective: Mine one gold deposit and two coal deposits (see below).
+* '''Objective:''' Mine one gold deposit and two coal deposits (see below).
-* Lose if: Rugnur or Thursagan die or time runs out.
+* '''Lose if:''' Rugnur or Thursagan die or time runs out.
-* Turns: 40/37/34 (easy/medium/hard).
+* '''Turns:''' 40/37/34 (easy/medium/hard).
-* Starting units: Rugnur, Baglur, Thursagan and two loyal Runesmiths.
+* '''Starting units:''' Rugnur, Baglur, Thursagan and two loyal Runesmiths.
 * Other
 ** To mine you must recruit a Dwarvish Miner, move him to the deposit and move him back to the keep.