| Author | Underground caves/Dungeon caves |
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| faction doesn't do anything. Its just a picture and attack animation for this event. |
I wish I knew how to play from beginning.. now messed up this event :3
Although I can say till now its most interesting and fun event I ever played. |
Hiya,
given what happens later on I think it is all about getting a game changing stack early on - for me that transition was cave demons - abyss demons and then devils. However, I do not think this is necessarily the best way through.
However it is smaller stacks where you can get some properly large numbers - this is what is needed to start the exponential growth - it is very much like the old HoMM with diplomacy and fighting neutral stacks later on in the game. You could suddenly gain a ridiculously large stack of dragons or something. IF you did then all other neutral stacks would also join you -and you could generate a super army of awesome power.
So how to do it. Get lucky mostly with which stacks you find. I tried finding high hp stacks so that they were less likely to die, though of course when one happened to one noticed it more strongly. In comparison more numerous stacks will pretty much always have something die, but you get a fair proportion of them back.
My advice to those starting, donlt go for silver - only stacks, particularly early on. Getting certain stacks are perhaps better than others to do with how AI moves, while I love my devils/antichrists, I only ever really get half of what I could do as they suicide against the enemy. Though upgrade is super cheap) Shooters tend to be easier as they will tend to move back into line with the others if you give them a space, while some other stacks have low AI priority so do not get annhilated. you of course can lose up to 50% of stacks you are trying to gain, but only 20% of those you already have, ie best to protect new stack even at the expense of old ones. IF you can therefore get ones in cages it will be much better for you (you control them when you free them, not AI and they will not target them till free)
Hydras are very useful, high hp, no retal and low AI priority mean you will probably not lose many when trying to recruit, but beneficial in reducing stacks you cannot one hit. |
| I wish I knew how to play from beginning.. |
https://www.lordswm.com/pl_warlog.php?id=108929
Just copied out this persons first 14 battles in terms of what he got, but when I clicked send I lsot it all, not about to go and do it again (actually I decided to anyway)
Fight 1 - 27 bowmen
2 - 17 faeries
3 - 5 sphinx guardians
4 - 7 cyclops
These two recruits I think are pretty critical early on
ie a high level no retal (hydras may also work well here) with a high level shooter - he got some more dark witches and some more faeries to start with, then starting hitting full on significant growth around battle 8/9
getting 593 bows along with more and more sphinx guardians.
5- Lizard cavalry(9), Dark witches(4)
6 - Faeries(78), Dark witches(2)
7 - Dark witches(12)
8 - Faeries(33), Sphynx guardians(13)
9 - Bowmen(593)
10 - Sphynx guardians(42)
11 - Monks(263)
12 - Sphynx guardians(178
13 - Succubi(898), Demons(1617)
14 - Monks(695)
15 - Faeries(1263), Faeries(1114)
16 - Cave demons(631), Succubi(2250)
17 - Succubi(4308)
18 - Monks(2515)
19 - cyclops 1536
I think you get the picture with this by now - high level shooters - some no retal - faeries and sphinx and probably adding to the difficulty a lot.
For those just starting - if you feel like a challenge, try and emulate him and whip all our asses! |
@46 goes to the available but you will lose it if you find it again and have left it outside
no you don't...
i tested this and left 3 succubi outside and recruited 10 more and came out with 13 waiting for me outside to be recruited... |
| Thanks Milesteg for the list of those units! |
I feel like I messed up taking brawlers, devils and not taking enough shooters in the beginning. Ot seems likely that the rolls you're getting at this point are associated with the army yoy've already chosen. Either that or everyone that has landed monks so far multiple time has just been profoundly luckier than me.
Maybe, now I'll try to salvage whatever's left and build faction resistances and take shooters wherever I can. |
| i keep getting bowmen, 70 total bowmen now ;( |
faction doesn't do anything.
Eh, my faction i.e. necromancer has the inherent disadvantage of having no morale at all, which works fine with undead troops but not so much with others.
i keep getting bowmen, 70 total bowmen now ;(
You do realize that you could skip battles right? keep searching till you find something you think is worth it or you run out of tries. |
Another example of a good start - though only 11 battles done
https://www.lordswm.com/pl_warlog.php?id=5847093
once again sphinx guardians feature - but some others in there too
I am just trawling through those who top scored on the last pirate event as likely people who are competitive for this |
| Thats weird, my battle ready for when I next have fights was ready with 10 devils, I clicked find a harder battle, and two further along I came to one which gave me only 5 devils but in a cage. Seemingly therefore do not go for ones in cages as they are giving you less (since the worst you get is 50% of the original amount, the benefit of the cage is lost by the lower recruit count) |
| They added a note. I have "5 search(es) left". Before they force me to battle. I think this counts only in one direction, so I had an indicator saying I have 5 searches but only above the arrow saying look for harder. This did not decrease if I looked for an easier battle. Not tried to see if I can get it coming up for both. |
| It can come for both. |
I wish I knew how to play from beginning.. now messed up this event
I am happy with the fsp though, build up resistance without investing the castle itself |
I am happy with the fsp though,
especially since you won't lose much during this event... this makes it the perfect farm to build resistance even better then pot |
Yeah its fun and getting to build resistance :D
Although still greedy for better rewards :P |
Some people have got so much in 24 battles :3
https://www.lordswm.com/war.php?lt=-1&warid=837208867 |
second acc
Total army strength: 4,796
Victories / Combats: 24 / 24
Silver available: 470
Silver gained: 38,548(30k from 1 battle today)
i found that its better to use troos with over 10(so you can be same or better than enemy) base initiative. all my fight troops have 11 i thing. works great. |
They added a note. I have "5 search(es) left". Before they force me to battle. I think this counts only in one direction, so I had an indicator saying I have 5 searches but only above the arrow saying look for harder. This did not decrease if I looked for an easier battle. Not tried to see if I can get it coming up for both.
It does come up for both. |
