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Description
Now that the time for war has come again, the Lizardfolk must bring the War Felldrakes back into the
fold to defend their lands once more. To their horror, they find that their new enemies are already
threatening the sacred grove of these great beasts.
New Units
- Spirit of Nature
- War Felldrake
Walkthrough
You'll get to use Darroc for this chapter, as well as one of the four regular champions. Darroc is
a melee champion, so you might want to choose a support champion like Wowen to assist him rather
than another melee champion like Redfang.
The clock will be ticking right from the start in the chapter. Until you stop the ceremony that is
sapping the strength of the war felldrakes (#7), a war felldrake will die once every five minutes.
There are five war felldrakes in all, and if you can't save at least one of them, then you'll lose
the mission.
To save the war felldrakes, you'll have to defeat all of the Umbragen units at the ceremony beneath
the corrupted tree (#4). Since you won't find very many Umbragen units there, and since they won't
be replenished if you kill some, beating the group eventually shouldn't be a problem. The trick is
to kill them within the first five minutes of the chapter, especially since you'll have to build up
your starting nexus (#1) from scratch, which will require a good chunk of those minutes.
So if you want to save all of the war felldrakes, what you'll have to do is immediately start building
your nexus, and then run your two champions right to the ceremony. Conveniently, the exit closest to
the ceremony (Exit B) and the surface area over the ceremony will both be exposed, and so you can
center the view on the surface area, then switch to the underworld view, and then click to tell your
champions where to go. Various enemies will attack your champions along the way, but they won't
pursue them all the way to the ceremony.
Note: It's probably a good idea to read the plaque at #2 before heading to the ceremony. If you have
Wowen as your champion, then you can do it on the way. Otherwise, you'll have to wait for a tribal
shaman to be produced to read it. You might also want to fight some of the spiders in the underworld
first, to charge up the power-up ability of your non-Darroc champion.
When you approach the ceremony site, a blood queen will be resurrected, and a few Umbragen units will
attack you. Make good use to Darroc's "dragon leap" ability to damage and knock down the Umbragen,
and have your other champion help out as much as possible. When you defeat the Umbragen units, you'll
gain control of all of the war felldrakes.
Note: If you can't win the battle with just two champions (we've done it on the hard difficulty setting
using Wowen and Darroc, so it is possible), don't worry about it too much. War felldrakes are the
Lizardfolk juggernaut unit, and you won't need all five of them to beat the chapter.
Once you've saved the war felldrakes, the rest of the chapter should be pretty easy. You'll just need
to defeat the two enemy nexuses in the region (#3 and #5). But since the Order of the Flame and the
Umbragen will be fighting each other as well as you, they won't put too much pressure on you, and so
you should be able to explore the underworld and build up your nexus and army in peace. Once you've
decided that it's time to take on your enemies, defeating their nexuses should be straightforward.
If you saved all of the war felldrakes, then they might be able to defeat the nexuses all by
themselves, and if you support them with your army, then it should be a total slaughter. Once the
two enemy nexuses are history, the chapter will end.
1 - Nexus
2 - Plaque
You'll need to have Wowen or a tribal shaman selected to read the plaque. Once you can decipher the
words, you'll find that the message is from a shaman named Greathawk, and that reading it will boost
your spell resistance.
3 - Order of the Flame Nexus
4 - Corrupted Tree
5 - Umbragen Nexus
6 - Nature Shrine
When you use the
nature totem (from #10) on the shrine, you'll gain at least one spirit of nature, and
you'll be allowed to build Verdant Cairns at your nexus (#1).
7 - Blood Queen Ceremony
A blood queen will be resurrected when you approach the ceremony. You'll have to defeat all of the
Umbragen units here to cleanse the corrupted tree (#4) and bring all of the war felldrakes on the
surface to your side. After the battle, you'll find a
talisman of vitality on the ground.
8 - Restless Spirit
The restless spirit (#8) will tell you about some other spirits who have "hidden away" in new bodies,
and he'll ask you to release the spirits so that they might find their final resting place. The
spirits are inhabiting the bodies of iron golems. The golems can be found at #8a, although the one
to the south will make its way to attack you once you've accepted the quest. Once you've defeated
all three iron golems, the restless spirit will drop four scrolls onto the ground and allow you to
take two of them.
9 - Treasure Room
The only way to enter this treasure room is to have Darroc use his "dragon leap" ability to jump
over the wall. Inside, you'll find a
cloak of invisibility plus some gold.
10 - Spirit of Greathawk
The spirit of Greathawk will ask you to kill the marilith to the north (#11). Once you've done so,
he'll reward you with a
nature totem, which you can use at the nature shrine on the surface (#6).
11 - Marilith
The marilith will drop a
sword of cinders when it dies.
12 - Drider
Sadly, the drider won't drop anything particularly useful when it dies, and killing it won't stop the
random spider battles in the underworld.
Exits:
- Tunnel.
- Tunnel.
| Mission Points | Value | Description
| Avenge Greathawk's Death | 250
| Killed the marilith.
| | Restore the Nature Shrine | 250
| Used the nature totem to restore the nature shrine.
| | Destroy the Order of the Flame's Encampment | 1000
| Destroyed the Order of the Flame nexus.
| | Destroy the Dark One's Encampment | 1000
| Destroyed the Umbragen nexus.
| | Save the War Felldrakes | 1000
| Saved at least one war felldrake.
| | Cleanse the Sacred Grove | 1000
| Defeated all enemies in the region.
| | Restless Spirit | 1000
| Defeated the iron golems in the underworld.
| | Bonus: Felldrake Keeper | 1000
| Saved all of the war felldrakes.
| | Bonus: Brief Revival | 500
| Killed the blood queen within one minute of her resurrection.
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| Bonus Points | Value | Description
| Great Commander Bonus | 500
| Allowed fewer than 25% of your units to die.
| | Against All Odds Bonus | 500
| Created less than nine captains.
| | Miser Bonus | 1000
| Used less than 2000 gold and 2000 shards.
| | Meticulous Bonus | 2000
| Completed every possible quest.
| | Time Bonus | 0
| Beat the mission in under 10 minutes. (You can actually score up to 1500
points here, but this bonus will never count against you.)
| | Difficulty | Varies
| Easy is worth 0 points, Normal is worth 500 points, and
Hard is worth 2000 points.
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