Secrets of the Ancients Walkthrough - Revision history

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‎S21 Against the World

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‎S20 North Knalga

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‎S19 Lava and Stone

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‎S19 Lava and Stone

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‎S18 Abandoned Outpost

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‎S16 The Mage

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‎S15 Mountain Pass

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‎S15 Mountain Pass

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‎S14 Entering the Northlands

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‎S12 Walking Trees

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 ===S21 Against the World===
 *Objectives: Defeat all enemy leaders.
 *Notes:
 **On turn 2, a saurian leader will appear in the eastern swamp castle.
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 **On turn 12, a mage leader will appear in the northwest.
 **On turn 13, an elf leader will appear in the southeastern forest.
 This is the final scenario, so just recall all your best veterans, and recruit some cannon fodder (skeletons are a good choice, since many of the starting enemies do blade/pierce damage) with any remaining gold. Since there's no turn limit, patience and playing defensively will guarantee you eventual victory. Attack all out during the night, then retreat and heal during the day, and eventually the enemy armies will start to thin out. Don't try to block the enemy leaders' keeps before they arrive, because this will just cause them to appear with a full keep of units already recruited. Parking some units just outside the keep to assassinate the leader will have the same effect.

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 ===S20 North Knalga===
 *Objectives: Defeat the enemy leader.
 It's not made obvious, but you can recruit in the area where your units first appear even though it's not marked as a keep.

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 * '''Starting units''': Ardonna, Ras-Tabahn, Rudic, Vendraxis, Carcyn, Shynal
 * '''Turn limit''': 45 / 42 / 39 (Easy / Medium / Hard)
-* '''Starting gold''': 270/ 240 / 210
+* '''Starting gold''': 270 / 240 / 210
 You'll be fighting trolls which are weak to arcane, so wraiths/spectres and liches are the best units to use here. Both units are vulnerable to the troll shamans' fire damage though, so try to kill the shamans quickly using spectres or backstab with shadows/nightgaunts. When you reach the lava chasm in the beginning, the path will branch west, where the main battle will take place, and southeast. The southeastern path leads to a small lake, so you can send a couple spectres/wraiths there to easily pick off trolls in the water.

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 ===S19 Lava and Stone===
 *Objectives: Defeat all enemy leaders.
 You'll be fighting trolls which are weak to arcane, so wraiths/spectres and liches are the best units to use here. Both units are vulnerable to the troll shamans' fire damage though, so try to kill the shamans quickly using spectres or backstab with shadows/nightgaunts. When you reach the lava chasm in the beginning, the path will branch west, where the main battle will take place, and southeast. The southeastern path leads to a small lake, so you can send a couple spectres/wraiths there to easily pick off trolls in the water.

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 ===S18 Abandoned Outpost===
 *Objectives: Reach the end of the western tunnel with both Ardryn-Na and Ras-Tabahn, or defeat every enemy unit.
 This is a very tough scenario - you'll have to fight your way through two hordes of level 3 giant spiders, in a relatively short amount of turns. By far the best units to use here are spectres, and liches are also useful. You'll also want a bat or two to grab villages near the starting area.

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 ===S16 The Mage===
 *Objectives: Defeat Crelanu.
-*Note: Moving a unit onto a bottle of holy water will remove the bottle. A living unit can do this safely, but any undead unit will be destroyed.
+* '''Objectives''': Defeat Crelanu.
 This is an easy scenario. Send a couple bats along the edges of the map to village grab, and just have Ras Tabahn move to the village near your keep and stay there for the scenario. You'll be facing high level mages, but only a few at a time. If you wait until night to engage, you'll easily demolish them with skeletons backed by leadership. Necromancers are also very effective here, since they have high HP, no fire weakness, and resistance to arcane. Don't bother with ghostly units because they will just get fried by mages. The mages absolutely love attacking walking corpses, so if you use walking corpses or your necromancers' plague staff to zombify some enemies, your other units probably won't even be attacked.

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	* '''Objectives''': Move Ardryn-Na and Ras-Tabahn to the flat terrain in the northeast corner.		* '''Objectives''': Move Ardryn-Na and Ras-Tabahn to the flat terrain in the northeast corner.

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 ===S15 Mountain Pass===
-*Objectives: Move Ardryn-Na and Ras-Tabahn to the flat terrain in the northeast corner.
+*Objectives:
 *Note: If you did not already find the bones in Scenario 10, moving to the bones at 16,21 will cause a chocobone to appear and allow you to recruit chocobones. (Edit: as of version 1.14.9 the bones are now at 25,9)
 This scenario is extremely hard - you'll be attacked from all directions by gryphons, which have good defense everywhere and are extremely mobile. There are two gryphon leaders, one in the northwest and one in the northeast. The best way to kill gryphons is to zap them with the necromancers' magical attack, but using skeleton archer types can work as well. Ghosts and their advancements are extremely useful due to their mobility, especially spectres/wraiths because their drain attack makes them harder to kill.

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 ==Chapter Three: To Conquer Death==
 ===S14 Entering the Northlands===
 *Objectives: Defeat both enemy leaders.
 There is a lot of experience available in this scenario from the high level orcs. Some good units to focus on leveling are spectres and necromancers, because these units will be the most helpful in later scenarios. Try not to go too negative on gold because you will probably need about 150 gold carryover (100 at the very least) to manage the next scenario on Hard. A couple vampire bats are very helpful for grabbing out of the way villages.

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 ===S12 Walking Trees===
 *Objectives: Move Ardonna to the northeast corner of the map.
 You will be fighting woses, which can be drained and have a glaring weakness to arcane damage, making this the perfect chance to level some ghosts. Recall any wraiths or experienced ghosts, and you may also want a death knight for leadership, and then just start mass recruiting ghosts. It is very difficult to get any gold carryover from this scenario, so you may want to just forget about carryover and spend all your gold at the beginning.