Okay we're back and it occurred to me that now that we've got engineers falling underneath the required amount we might want to consider making mini stacks of automatons for detonation. Okay I want to get to that stage. It might be of use. If we have like a spare slot we'll definitely try that out when we come to give the army to Flancy. Um now as we're getting ready for tomorrow she's going to receive the army. Don't particularly need Serena. Solmy is in the right location. Clancy could stick his head above ground and I'm not even that sad if he does get tagged because Solmy I can cover do the job. Oh yeah as long as I don't lose any of this stuff that's here we have time to go and do this although I don't have a lot of slots left. I do have time to check it out right? So I might as well get that scouting done. I don't think so right? Not for this guy. Remain unintelligent. No one's ever come down here. A bit more scouting. Okay I think I want to stand here. I think the other person left to do anything is Isra. There are dragons available and I don't think I want Isra to go anywhere or do anything without that. She could maybe do this and she could definitely do that and then I could easily kill a horde of archers with well could I? I don't have haste. I do have haste. Okay let's think about that but I think she's happy enough to wait here for her. Yeah wait here for her soldiers. Okay red still leaves us alone. My narrative was blue and tan just blue and red just leave us alone will be tickety boo. Where is that? Is that up here? Over here? Is that near Jabakus that tan woman? Who is that tan hero? Oh that's bad. It's down here. It's right in the middle of all of our stuff. Who's this? Verdish?  I've got to come and kill Verdish now as well. Dribs and drabs. Can Solmya get to you? I think he probably can yeah or I could try to do it with dude master. Okay let's get moving. We've got eight grand to spend. I feel like these are the biggest priority to make that stack more viable and they're expensive. These guys just seem amazing value though as well. And then I've got the armadillos to think about. Can't do it all. I'm gonna have money. Can anyone get me some more money? I can go to the bank. Let's go to the bank. Okay that worked. You guys can't see but I've got 11 grand. Yeah that helped. Go to the bank. How good is the bank? Let's see if I can get some more money here. Probably not right. These areas have been trodden. Okay pillar of eyes. I used to think that meant that there was a dungeon nearby but I've since learned that that's not necessarily the case anymore. This guy wants the glyph of gallantry. That's a minotaur, manticore. Manticore there. Can't get down into there. Or potentially quite lucrative if we can find someone with the forces necessary. Isra's gonna have to wait. No way I can buy the dragon today. What else can we do? There are Derek's nearby but I'm the one who needs to run and I can only get to here? Well I miscalculated that didn't I? I can run back up and get back down.  Get back down. I can just about make it work. Clancy can come around and do this if Solmia has to do a lot of running. Where's this person? Jury. Jury you're enough out of the loop. We've made the decision you're gonna go do these jobs so let's just go get them done. Get the extra scouts done. Okay what is that then? That must be a monolith. The end of that road. Is it better to kill Verdish?  But this time I want to do it with a proper army. It's one thing we could think about do is leave the engineers behind. We want the engineers. We want the, I think the sandworms are more important now. Get that stacked back up to 13. No because you could have two stacks of automatons right? These the value of these sentinel automatons. It's just too high. It's too good to say no. And get your four sandworms and then could, how much more money do you need? 1300 maybe I could find a way to get you 1300. Quite a lot of mercury up my sleeve. It's acceptable. I wasn't, I was never buying the codles anyway. These guys are quite expensive for what they do. I've got enough for one though. I'll upgrade you. There you go, I've got two of them. Should I spend a bit of money on these just to beef that stack up that Sam's carrying here? Yeah I think it's mercury. That's another two? It's another four? How much do they cost? They cost 230 per troop. Why don't I think they cost 400? Yeah I don't want to blast through all my resources too much. I can leave 10 behind and not be too sad. I'm not the chirpy Heroes 3 player that I was 24 hours ago though, I must say. Too much has gone, at least. So I can, I cannot actually get back. So I'm gonna have to go to here and I'll get back to about here. So Solmier, he's only gonna make it to about there. I actually can't deal with it. I can't deal with Verdish. Okay that's what we're doing. Sam you've got no choice but to go and do it. Give the legs back to him. Two extra spell points per day. Let's swap armies initially. Give me that armadillo. You take these troops back with you. Do not want the centaurs. Are the centaurs causing Agar to be slower on on-road? I'd like to know the answer to that because if so I've just yet another thing I've done badly wrong in this campaign.  Okay Serena did the scholar thing and now she gets to teach bless to Sam and that's a spell I really wanted her to have so that's actually really good.  That looks good as well. Anyone engineers you to have? Gargles? I don't think so. Come back down Serena.  It's probably better to put Solmier behind the walls with everybody. I don't think she probably has enough moves but just in case she has and it takes yet it takes another day. Never saw she can maybe drive up here and try and surprise Jury. What are you what is your okay three masters? Yep so I'm not guessing the logistics well either. So Serena's scholarship is spreading like wildfire through the community. Solmier is learning a bunch of air stuff and we want him to be an AM age that's good. It's the old Swaperoo. Fine with this. You can either do that or you can come to here and then this fellow's got a ride to here meet you and still have enough left over. I think he'll fall just short right so he's going to use 1100 to get there. He's got 850 left. He'll land just there. It's just been a game of not being able to have what I want. Now Verge comes up here and kills him. I'll be quite happy with that. So I could stand outside the castle. I got my chain lightening. I got the trident and all this other great stuff. What are you holding? You're still holding the club. So we could do that. We could come to here instead of hiding behind the walls. It's a bit more front foot. I think I like it better than hiding behind the walls. Now you're going to actually go further the other way. I'm just gonna hope that a tan here doesn't come down here. It's just how greedy do you want to be is the thing. Can't get too greedy. I mean, Solmere is just a waste, right? I mean, if ideally you'd be standing here, Solmere can ride to there. I'll go one more hex. That's as far as I'm willing to push it. All right. It feels like we've wasted a day on our haunches economically. We've been thrown all out of kilter by tan. Verdish does go the wrong way. That's very, very good. Wow. The logistics on that girl. Okay. She's got, she's got, she's got moves. She's all the way around through there. So she came all the way from there all the way up to there. Still couldn't quite get to Deary. That's twice now. The AI has done that run right up to Deary and Deary, sorry, and looked at Deary and gone on second thoughts.  Solmere rendezvous with Clancy in the wastes. Clancy's like, what happened? Where have you been? Solmere's like, mate, you do not want to know the day they've had up in HQ. Oh, keep them. They're too precious. I'm going to lose automatons, that means, but the alternative is to just lose tons of engineers, but also seems bad. Might get a demolition guy going on as well. Now, I'm saying you don't need everything. And we could really use some soldiers to defend against, uh, furdish. Get an extra spell point per day. You may as well have that. Okay. All right, good luck, Clancy. Go for it, pal. You don't have wisdom, though. My visions. This is for all the marbles. Thirteen sandworms. Gonna get annihilated once they burrow under there. It's all about the ballistics. I have weakness. I have curse. Yeah, it's curses the one I want. YOLO.  Yes, did you? A glorious victory. And I'm up against the behemoth, not against an enemy hero. Okay, let's see if we can do a bit better. I lose the army.  In this world. Oh, they blew up the automaton immediately. Okay, we just go through the gate here. Come on, get it, get it. Okay, it's a good AI. So we want to wait until they've wasted their turn, which is great. Bring you into position. And I didn't turn detonation on. I meant to do that. Well, then again, maybe it's better not to just yet. So I think on that basis, let's come down. Okay, you're trying to get to the orcs. That's interesting. Maybe I should have cursed first. I did lose two. Here they come. Oh, okay, he's going down to there. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, I've wasted. I meant to curse something. It's a bit late now. It's out though. So I'm hitting the thunderbirds. Maybe the other thing I'm going to curse, actually. I'm getting some value out of it at least. Okay, okay, he's bearing under the walls. These guys are all dead, really. Speaking. Yeah, so this guy, there's a use for him. Wise AI. Wise. Thunderbirds go first, but I don't care. I could curse something before we begin. I'm not going to bother. Open the door. Open the door. Mence. Yeah, who knows you might live. Love that. Oh, shame you guys can't see the full animation. It's been amazing. That is where you're sitting. Okay, we didn't breach the walls. So I feel like we're probably done for here. Kill all goblins. Still alive. Can't do anything. I can't help. Hummelled. Still alive. One turn too late. I think expert ballistics might have got us there. How many of these are left? Four. I've still got 96 HP left. That's pretty good. What else can I do? I can haste, try and get on top of the ancients. Not, can't. It's okay. Is it going to die? I'd like to give the ancients more of a haircut if I could. Pretty much did it. Had their body blocking. I nearly did anyway, right?  Kill the star. It gets useful. How can I use detonate here? So there's no point turning on, turning that on. Down they go. Okay, so this guy can walk straight through here and do his thing. So neither of those stacks are firing anyways. I might just wait with these. Wait with you. I'm just thinking, I can't park there. Come to here. Kill all six cyclopses. It's quite nice.  He lives. I don't know, you're lucky. In a big city, I might just be able to finish them. No? Yes. Well, talk about painful. We basically bought the town without sandworms there. Ballistics just did not work fast enough, but without it, we would have been in really massive trouble. So not being able to actually get in. If we'd gotten in one turn later, it would have been far, far worse, I feel. So there is some pessimism mounting, I have to say. I hope this is still fun to watch, but it just feels like every single engagement we take is just that little bit not good enough and we're losing too much. Stuff. Oh, Warlord's monument. This is the Grail Town. Ten. You magnificent. Oh, but all my pessimism and all my complaining. Seven grand a day. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's good. Well, all this changes everything. This completely changes the game, but breaks everything open. I just have to hold this place. That's my army, though. Look at my army.  Oh, man. Oh, what do I do from here? Right. Isra, we know what you're doing with you, right? We doing this? Bothering anymore. Getting to three bone dragon stars actually seem worthwhile. Let's do that. What did she say she could do? She said she could do this. And then she was making claims about being able to do these jobs as well with these bone dragons. Big claims. Let's see if you can do it. I have to absorb this. I, I, I can't believe it. We've conquered the, we've conquered the Grail Town. I actually had it in my head that the Grail vanishes when you conquer it, but when the town gets conquered, it's been that long since I conquered a town with the Grail in it. Full level mage guild was blind inside it and teleport. Both huge spells that we're trying to learn. Bless us here in case no one's spoken to Serena. He hasn't done any of that yet because he hasn't walked in there. Gets the attack skill. What doesn't this town have? It doesn't have an upgraded one of them and it doesn't have a guild. Almost might have to build the escape tunnel today. Warehouse of awe. Paul is in awe. Solmia, you are carrying this club. I need to get that to someone who can use it that isn't Clancy who's doing something else of use, like fighting her. Right. Would our engineers have lived there? All depends on the arrow towers. He's got no choice. She? Jury? Jury has no choice. Can't believe it. I think he can hold though. I think we can defend it with six giants. I'd like to do that actually. Do you want intelligence mate? Yes I do. Well you'll have to wait. We'll try, we'll try. Okay you're doing that. I'm available. Do you want me to fight her with my tactics? Oh man I'm feeling more optimistic now if I can hang on to that town. We're going to guess that she can't get all the way to there. Okay but I'm going to be ready for her. Um, Tagus? So she can't reach Serena. She maybe can reach Jury but if she does that she's dead. Because I'll use the Naga's. You're happy. You're, I don't, what else can I do with this guy this particular day? Could just go exploring. So we're all in at this point. Like if this doesn't work, if we can't hold this town, yeah I'm going to be a bit risky. The chance Clancy dies outright but it needs to be a pretty powerful shot to the system. I guess I'll take one extra fast unit with me just in case. Um, now it could go this way. Plus one defense and I don't want to know what's out this way though. That will have been visited. I can't do it anyway. Wow, so the Grail was right here right next to their town and they just dug it up. Never even went this way. Look at this. They never even flagged this. Jabakus what do you make of all this mate? I'm coming back to you. I don't know what to think.  He could be dismissible actually. If he's stuck in the middle of nowhere not really adding much. I'm not going to build, I could build the escape tunnel coming in in the door. So let's actually start, yeah let's start spending some money to make our opponent's lives more of a misery. Really want a turtle now and make, I mean normally it's not a game of turtling. You can't turtle and expect to live but with the way things are now it's a game of turtling. Can we hold? Can we just hold that stronghold?  Walked right into it. I missed this purple guy. I saw him during the enemy turn and I'm I'm just playing badly. Right here we are.  That's great. Okay. Now we want to kill Verdish, Somieth, Thunders North, Savage Army and the Ogre's Club. Serena take these soldiers, send them east. Do I want to keep the engineers? Yeah because I can't beat her army without, well the engineers don't do anything about that. I'm not going to miss the engineers. Serena's like you expect Sam to defeat Verdish with nothing more than 30 tier three soldiers? This will not do and will not send the child to certain doom. I will recruit the Naga's of the Tower to assist us. Will they be Naga queens? Not quite have enough money but Naga queens are great. I'll get those other two now in a second to figure out a way to do it. I'll find a way to make it happen. Maybe Jabakus can help us? I cannot help you. I've outgrown my use.  Cold Shadow is here. So this is actually an orange region. Hmm many towns out there down here then. There's one here, one here, one there. It's Conflux. What's it saying? Sam's like okay I'm ready to fight them. What's going on? Can I get any more money out of anyone? Isra can you get any more money? Quite possibly I can. I would like you to try please. We got that. Was it cash you were looking for? Not enough. Three bone dragons are good. You are all coming back to serve me. You can't even come to their rescue, isn't that pathetic? Just want to make sure I don't lose one. Um Stone skin's interesting. Shield is pretty interesting. I'll spend four points. Just make that a little more robust. Getting down here. That's good. That's excellent. And now if I go here 88 left. Probably safe enough. 16. Just gotta be careful. What is this doing? Oh that wasn't very good. That wasn't very good at all. I've lost way more than I need. 15's more than I needed to. Especially after casting all that. Magic? Yeah. Yeah well whatever. Okay how's five grand? That will do nicely. I think not. I don't think pendant of life's worth going for. Yeah we'll just make a beeline for the imps. Then get past the archers. That was your job. Now with that money back in the tower is a risk of the rescue. Boom. Get the additional two. Five genies. Am I actually buying genies? 12 genies. 12 genies could be useful. I'm happy to kind of blow my money on things that aren't particularly efficient because we have so much money coming in. What do you need man? I need another two grand. It's okay. It's all right. How about that? Where are they anyway? They're up here. One more for another couple of hungee. I feel like stone. We're a little bit long. All right.  So it's her and not the engineers. Even though she's good with engineers, I'm changing my mind. Should I go for it with the engineers? Change my mind.  I mean, what's the point of saving and trying to protect their lives just for the flavor? No. That's not how we roll here. I did get the ogre's club, didn't I? I didn't go on. Take the club in my chat.  I think maybe let's swap these over. I think that might be a bit more useful to you. Now go. Use that expert water magic. You can beat that with that. Look at the naga queens. Yes. The queens are what wins this.  Let's see if we can do better. Except not there. Maybe there. We're happy for that. The rocks to come and fly over and look at the armadillos. So that proves my point, right? They have a normal walking animation. When you haste them, they roll up in a ball. Really good. Just want to be able to go out of the way. I think I'm happy with that. Let's go. Oh, I go first with speed eight. So what can I do that's nasty right out of the gate? I could bless everybody. That's going to be hard for her to deal with. You can deal 90 points if you're not very good. The other thing I can do is haste, right? I think I want to wait for her to do her thing. Yep, there it is. Okay, so she did try to do something. That's not going to work though and that's a waste. It's beautiful. Okay, so I can expert to spell. I could just haste her though. Uses a bit more spell points, but it means that it's better. On the other hand, I miss out on blessing everybody. Blessing these is quite good. Blessing her is useless anyway. Okay, okay, it's just it for tat. That's a fantastic attack. I think I'm just going to do that. Then no one else has to worry about it. Yeah, strong, strong. Strong from the genies. That's the end of the Cyclops. These girls are brutal. Um, we can tempt one of these units out. Yeah, it's fine. We don't want to waste him just yet. Let's come to, yeah, well, let's let's do it. I don't know if I love it. This is me being too aggressive again with the, uh, see you're going to stand right there. Well, I'm just walking straight back into the same thing that I had last time. 84 points of damage. Man, that has been buffed. Now that's a good attack. I'm just going to do it. I'm not going to think, overthink it. How many? Two. Yeah, exactly. Two. It's more like it. And then I get to go again. Oh, very nice. Do you want to centralize here? Maybe get next to them? Just want to avoid any fire-breathing nastiness. Okay, we want to make sure birdish dies properly. So I need the genies to kill the leprechauns. If the behemoth doesn't die here, I still have... Okay, he did. Oh man. Sweet vengeance on the ogres. Look at them green feet. Face up. This is just the end of the game now. Is there anything I can do? I can't resurrect anybody. It's okay. It's okay. Birdish. These are acceptable losses. That's a fight. That is a fight. I'm happy with that. See what I mean? That's okay. I feel like I fought reasonably well. You know, sensible decisions. Keeping it simple. Just turn slow into haste. Don't need to overthink it. Okay. Better. Better. Crown of the Supreme is good. I think these are quite weak. Scroll of Bless. No archery. Advanced logistics. Okay, I'm going to pause it there and have dinner and reflect. Tan's nearly gone, I think, and we've got their grail, warlord, pike of the warlords, grail structure. So let's game on. Okay, so we have more towns than anyone else and really, if we could just survive a couple of weeks holding what we have, we'll draw a long way ahead economically. So that's kind of the idea. So where should we start? I think we will begin with, whoops, Clancy. That plan. I think holds water. Let's do that. So there is a tan hero still loitering around out here. This is kind of useful for self-destruction if we get in trouble. And I think I'm going to invest the full army of defenders, iron golems, to protect this town rather than bring them down to cloud fire and try to savor a big ball of them or maybe link them up again later. But this is extremely annoying to chew through. You need to have a proper army to get it. I don't think Tan has that and I don't think there's any other enemies in the area. One thing to note, the mage guild here is really good and it's kind of important that we're get quite a few heroes who are going to want to find their way up here to get blind and to get teleport.  It's really, really good. It's almost the perfect spell. Right, he went to the Hall of Valhalla. That's done. So he is going to continue his journey south to bring everything back down. I don't have the money for that. So I'm actually just going to gallop straight past. Never even tried that. We'll end up regretting that. I already have blind. There's no in the second level spell this guy desperately needs. So I'm just going to absolutely optimize on moves. So I want this fight to happen. I think though, with the library of enlightenment being in the region, there's two heroes I'm looking at in particular Isra, who's level 12. She needs to come down and go to that library. And then Sam is nearly there. So we're going to want to try to do these fights, especially this one with Sam, to get her to level 10. I don't think it'll be enough XP to get her to level 10. We'll see what else she can do. Maybe she can do this, for example, to try to get some more XP. Right, Solmyr I think is going to probably nominate himself to be the hero of the old Solmyr. I can call it that. Yeah, come this way and we'll decide tomorrow what your loadout looks like. Serena, I think move this way. I'm not quite sure what we're doing with her yet. Juri, I had hoped, could spend a bit of time. I'll actually use her moves for this. Spend a bit of time. Just give me some. I don't think you need three. Okay, I think it might be for Juri to be a purely adventuring hero, not you. Level one, cool hero but not someone we're going to be investing in, I don't think. You're going to come over here and do that fight once we have the army all together. The only other person to talk about is Agar. He's up in the north, a faithful messenger hero. Yeah, just do these messages, that's fine. We have no money left. Let's end the turn, see what they want to do. Does Tann have anything up its sleeve? Purple, that's a weak hero. That's a thing. That guy that just showed his face there, I think might be a Tann hero. He just did something. Look at this, the Titan's gladius, it's amazing, there's some amazing artifacts on offer around here. Look at this thing, Lion's shield of courage, I actually can't remember what they all do and I should do badge of courage, I don't know what that does.  There's another region as well up here, the snow region where there's some pretty, like that's the Sentinel shield, that's plus 12 to defense, very, very nice. Anyway, we didn't get, we didn't get messed with. Iona sort of just trotted around to this area, she knows she can't do anything. I think we're pretty safe. Okay, so Solmere will ride north, I think I will keep the four gargoyles and no need for you to talk to him, could do this job for you quickly. There's a lot of big downside in that, I do that. We're using Solmere as a messenger, but we're quite far into the game here, month two, week two, day six.  Yeah, all right, let's go around and do this. Have you been to that guild and remove obstacle, she has no wisdom. Lightning bolt, ice bolt weakness, so she definitely does no weakness. Yeah, she has, she has those, she has those spells. Okay, I think what I might do is I'm gonna send Serena up to the conflux, and I might take an artifact with me before I go. I think defense is more important for me to have, take the Centaur's axe, Serena, go for it. Sort of ignoring this portal, I mean ignore it at your own peril, obviously we have to keep an eye on what's happening in this region. This is another fight that Sam can do with the whole army, so that's another thing we'll be doing with her to try to get her XP up. Time's a waste, and let's go, come on. Flancy reunites with Sam. Well, well, well, Sam, you've really built yourself into something, haven't you? He's a bit jealous. I heard your latest campaigns have gone rather poorly. Flancy, I hear that senior management is not happy. Well, Sam, you'd be right. Their tactics is online, so none of this matters. We're gonna have repairing going on. Actually, well, yeah, none of that matters. Okay, yeah, let's do the fight, not you. That's easy to get wrong, right, you. Yes, and of course none, ah. Huh. La, la, la, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's no risk, is there? Attack five, defense 21, there's no risk. What are you gonna do?  I was a little bit, I was a little bit sweating there.  Okay, there's no morale risk, these golems.  Oh, look at that. There's only 20 of them. Will we just take this? A little, won't we? Yeah, it's only one giant, okay, because it was such an easy fight. That's actually quite disappointing. I was hoping for a big stonking fight there. She's still a long way from, she's very close to level 10 now. Okay, great. So we can either go kill the demons, or we can try to top ourselves up with this. Statesman Metal doesn't matter too much to me. No, I think we go and do the demons, Sam. Right, jury, who's next on the list? You can't fight anything, you're just checking things out for me. And maybe I could waste his time here and here. Come down under here. He's got one codle to do the job though. That's a bit risky. My best hero wandering around in here, but he's not doing too much. Okay, I want to find out what's down here. Is that an underground? What the heck is guarding that? If that's an underground, then there's our overground, and we've got a cool town portal here, where we can just walk in and portal anywhere we want with expert town portal. And there's another library. So this is a gaunt that I kind of want all three of my best heroes to walk. Can we see if it's guarded? It's not guarded. Come all the way down, yeah. I can't get in there without getting past the livens. Just feels like a bit of a waste of his time, but we could just flag this, see what this is. Come down here, take the risk that the codle isn't enough to let him live. Grab this on our way through as well. The only problem is we're pulling our army out of um, alignment in the sense that it might be easy to get it back again if we're bringing it all up down through here. So we might want to think about how we do this. We might want enough creatures to do this job, but I'm not necessarily everybody. So I have to think about that. Who's next? We do you next. Visit the windmill.  Derek Smith. There's Derek Jones who lives over here. Um, okay, dad jokes coming in thick and fast. I cannot believe Jabakus was allowed to live, but now I just get to do all this. I can just wander around. I think this is a better side to actually scout now. Yeah. Man, the Jabakus has been amazing. Cheeky. I mean, talk about someone who would crumple with one halfling, uh, but he's been allowed to live. Okay, I'm flying through here this day. This is much, much easier than it was, wasn't for Imkais. I'm gonna lose my four whites, but do I care? Uh, no. You can also go and get this. I don't think this is very good, though. Pendant of life. What's that do? Does it add HP? Pack of sorcerers won't be easy. They're gonna hurt quite badly as well. Go to the XP, though. You can get these guys, actually. You can do this fight first for the skeletons. Yeah, I'm not coming back this way. Let's get some free, uh, some free skeletons. Yeah, perfect. All right, let's do this. Okay, kill them. Yep, love that noise. Goodbye. Okay, need like a grand. We'll hit this in one grand. Now, a horde of archers. Um, we'll do this, and what can I do on turn one? I do have nice, uh, direct damage. 135 lightning bolt. I can do maybe a frost ring might do quite well. Uh, this is where expert forgetfulness really, uh, really comes into its own. But the plan is you smash through here. Probably grab the soul fight. Come get the library. There is activity in this area. We saw, I think it was a tan hero poked their head and then re-poked. You want to be a bit careful. Um, do this fight. Okay, can we do better? 33 marksman.  Um, nevertheless, they'll hurt enough for me to want to do this. I mean, it's very paint by numbers, but yeah, they've just gone scallies. That's fine. Okay, all right. What's going to go happen? Yeah, yeah, they can't deal enough damage fast enough, I think. Yeah, they're dated practically nothing. Those guys. All right, what's going on? Yeah, no, we're fine. I will just let them do it. That's fine. You see what I mean? You just lean on your tier sevens to do all of the heavy lifting. Not bad. Okay. Net profit, actually. Net profit of one skeleton. Uh, cool. Well done, Israel. Nice turn. And you can see, we were on 73 gold yesterday. We're now on 15 and a half more than that every single day that we control the old dollar. That's very, very good. It's amazing, really. Now, while I'm here, do we have enough money to upgrade the Titans, upgrade two Titans, have seven Titans? Is that insane? It is insane, yes. Yeah, still a bit out of reach, I think. We don't have quite enough money for that. Okay. Not to worry. We happy to bank. I think we do want to make sure we're investing here. Yeah, this is the town that's worth investing in now. I'm thinking maybe altars and then a castle. Got two days to make up my mind. Is that low regret? It's like a city hall. Let's earmark city hall for next week. I feel like the town still isn't really ours. Strange as that might sound. Don't have the upgraded magic lenses. I don't really want to buy them. This is kind of the frontier of air and fire. It's very, very vulnerable. So, we need to be a bit careful about how we spend money there. New delay. I don't think new delay is getting any more investment at the moment. Gantry's probably a way off now. Yeah, let's end it there. What do you guys want to do? What do you want to do? You do want to come down and challenge me and hello. That's the last decent 10 hero.  She's decent, but she's not insane. Where does that connect? Is that this one? No. It's connected in through here as it's up. It's there. So, it's near the conflux and it's near our suit. Everything's kind of interconnected by these monoliths. So, Pyre is kind of close to our empire, but she's effectively sort of half a day from there. Yeah, so if Serena goes there, she could get killed. If I come here, no, no, no. She's ages away. Get behind the walls. So, the question is, could a hero behind the walls defend this? And the answer is overwhelmingly yes. Overwhelmingly yes. Let's get that very last corner and I cannot go any further. This is invaluable though, this scout right here. And Shield of Naval Glory is the best shield, along with the Trident. Thunder Helmet is insane. This snow area is a premium area with high treasure and hard monsters. And I do know that such a region exists in the template. So, this looks like where it is. Given that there's the library and the town portal, all of our best heroes can come up through here. And we should be planning to do that, I think. Can't go any further with Jury in any direction, so that's nice and easy. That's the obvious next task for you, is to flag that. It's always a good one. There's no problem to be solved. Sometimes you just need a, you know, a break from all of the optimization. A Horde of Master Gremlins. Okay, they're not going, they're not taking it lying down, are they? I think this result is almost impossible to stop and I don't want to waste any spell points, so I'm just going to say yes to this. Lose seven and gain 10. I don't think I can beat a Horde of Vampire Lords. I just don't think that's happening. I'm just going to go for the library. I know we want to know what this is through here. Is it crazy for me to do that? It means that she's never getting to the complex. Why don't we do this with, um, once we split the army in two again, we could do that with Clancy or something? We come up this way? Yep, okay. Just hasten your way south. Eubarcus, what were you up to? Generally doing scouting? Very high value scouting. Oh, and maybe dying to Pyre? Okay. In fact, his army's so bad, it's one of those ones where Magic Arrow turned one and he abandons our cause. That's quite likely. So I think we just want to run him headlong into danger. We can either go this way or this way. What's more valuable? Probably this way, actually. Do you have scouting?  I can steal all stuff. He's such a thief, Eubarcus. I love him. All right, Solmere, you were going to go up there and do that. What were you doing?  While you're there, you could come and challenge Pyre, but she's just going to run away. You could also do this, but they will hurt. They will hurt a lot. Okay, you know, I think it's demon time. Let's do the demon and then we'll decide what we're doing after that, which way she's going to go. She won't have much moves left anyway. All right, Tactics is online. 90 horned demons. It's not straightforward. They're in one stack. So on turn one, I can wait with everyone. They walk over. I then cast Weakness on them. Right, which would be pretty good. And then smack them with the automatons. They don't retaliate. Then on my turn, I cast Bless on everybody. The automatons get plus one attack. They attack again. The demons then have their turn. They've got no choice but to stand there and attack the automatons. And we just train blows together until it's a weak stack, and then I just manage it through to the conclusion and then do resurrection at the end. Sound good? So I'm going to do Weakness first just on the off chance. Oh, a bit of a lag there, a bit of a delay. So they've gone from attack 10 to attack 4. Very, very good. And now everyone just literally waits. They've waited. I'm not going to waste the gargoyles yet. Okay, boys, what are you going to do? You're going to walk out to the middle. Now I do outspeed you. As you can see, they're out of range of everyone, so I think I want to keep them that way. But I may as well move into range with my best units. With anyone who can out range them, basically, I may as well move into attack range myself. Okay, this is safe. I know I've got to hang up over these girls. Oops, sorry. Damn it. I don't know what happened there. I must have clicked where I thought the engineers were walking to, and then I didn't, and then I thought I did, but I hadn't. So I can either wait for them to come over or I can get the Alpha Strike in first and then take the retaliation as well. What else can I do? I can also curse them. Cursing a demon is worthwhile. I can shield my boys. The Weakness only lasts one more turn. Yeah, okay, let's bless. So I missed that up. I missed a whole attack. I would have killed 14. All right, let's follow the plan. It's only a mistake there, just a misclick. Sorry, everyone. I'm trying to do quality content, and instead I end up doing am fisted. All right, do it. How many do I? How many do I? Okay, I lost half the stack. That's all right. That's actually all right. Yeah. So I think we're jumping in now, right? We're moving into position and jumping in. Everyone's coming along. Now, how many will you kill? 28? This is where we got to be careful. I don't think this is an attack. I certainly can't lose a giant. Don't think we attack. The genies will die. Kill the 13 for free. Let's do that. Now, I can repair now, and then we have... They have a chance to run away then before the demons have their turn, and I do risk the giants cracking back after these automatons have already done their thing, and they'll be that much bigger. So I think it's now is a good time to repair. Do that. They all come back and it's the next turn. Okay, so we put the weakness back on, and I think that's better than curse, and I might need to just get out of the way of the genies here. Come to here and do that. Okay, there's 40 left. So your whole plan was to run away. Now, I don't think a giant dies in response after I've killed 28 of them. Watch and walk over. Okay, that's pretty good. 13 becomes 1 after the genies have had their say, and the naga's. Finish things off, and even though I misclicked, I did it. Use some spell points, but I did it. Why not? I mean, she knows curse. As cool as that feels. Let's just do that. Now, leadership I'm interested in. I think it's close. Who do we see? Callbacks our main enemy, right? Callbacks the guy we're going to be going up against, either with her or someone else. I'm going to take the leadership. I'm happy enough with this girl that she's good enough to invest in opening the box. The other candidate for opening the box would be down here, or Isra.  I'm not going to open it with Jabaka's here, am I? Open the box. Well, actually, blind is really useful. Now, I wish I had taken the fire magic. They have nerfed. They have majorly nerfed. Pandora's Box as man. I don't know if it's 1.7 or in Hodar in general, but okay, I'm not going to be summoning a lot of earth elementals, but maybe Isra could do that. Is Isra the earth mage here? Okay. Who is currently standing here? Audal here. She's effectively standing here. We want to get her up and round and fighting through this corridor into the Conflux area. We want her to unlock some of these amazing things for us, especially the library. Once she's done these things, she can come back through the portal, and I've got another library for her to visit here, and then eventually her, as well as both her and Clancy, are going to find their way up into the snow realm upstairs, going to come and hit this library, come back through the town portal, all very tickety-boo. In the meantime, Isra is also on a journey of wisdom and understanding. She's going to visit all the libraries as well. I think to do that, because it's day seven, we're going to want to use our heroes to load Sam up with new giants and nagers and stuff from the tower. I had thought about bringing Somi up to the stronghold, but I actually don't think it needs it. We're defending against this tan hero, but tomorrow's day one, and I'm going to have all this stuff. 50% growth on top of the castle growth, fully developed town there in the stronghold, so I'm pretty comfortable with the stronghold. I don't think Somi needs to get back there yet. So I like the idea of Solmyr waiting here for the giant tomorrow. Tempted actually to take the stables. If he's waiting at the stables, he gallops to there. He's going to miss it. He's probably headed upstairs anyway, so we'll do that at the start of next week. He's going to do that. He's going to bring the giant to here, and I think Serena is going to be the one that waits here. What can you do tomorrow, Solmyr? Yeah, he can just about do that whole job. Serena meanwhile, she was hired here, so let's just wait. Let's just wait here in the town. Okay, so we're looking to pick up giants and all the rest of it. And you can see, isn't that fantastic? In addition to the plus two, we get a whole extra plus one giant by virtue of the fact that we have that temple flagged. That's massive external dwellings. If you can get that tier seven external dwelling, pair it up. That whole plus one extra guy is really, really good. It does meet as well. I'm leaning very heavily towards eventually investing in the titans upgrade. Okay, so these two heroes are set to go. Sam's going to get ready to do that job. Look at her stats now, 20 and 12. One thing she's really lacking though is spell power, but a visit to the library will fix all of that. So I'm happy enough with her coming straight back through. She's going to go as far as she can towards this mission. We'll be doing this on the way. I also think that on route, she can meet up with Agar. He's been and done his jobs this week. He's done this job. So yeah, we're just going to get ready for tomorrow. Ah, you the guy, you are. Look at that. So there's the legs. That's a whole five extra engineers we're going to miss out on by one hex due to bad management by me, but never mind. So tomorrow, I think what Sam wants from the factory is, well, you can see what she wants there. Automotons and engineers, maybe the armadillos, but maybe we won't have quite enough money for the armadillos. That's okay. Who else hasn't moved yet? Just this fellow, Clancy. Drew is going to ride up here and come around and help with ferrying. I think we'll do this. What's the cards of prophecy? Okay. How many prisoners? I've got to go into the template and see what the, okay. Well, I can't actually, I have to fight these okays to get through to any of this. So that makes the job a bit easier as in decision making. There's tons of moves. Look at them. This is his path finding coming through. These are useful scouts. We don't really want to be surprised by any enemies coming through here. Colosseum, I'll ask you for one more hex mate. Do I go for it or is it too dangerous? I'd love to get to that lookout tower. I just feel like it's a bit too dangerous. Yeah, let's just buy our time on that. Now, in terms of upgrades for tomorrow, I could invest here at the complex to try to lock this area down. It's an excellent spot to try to defend a big siege against one of the large factions that we're up against. Everyone knows about this area. Everyone's travelled through here. Purple, orange, red. Don't know if blue's been here. It is a gamble. We do have already some investment in the town as you can see. I think I'm minded to do that and I think I like the castle more than any of these upgrades for today. I can't do the altar. I have to do this altar here. Are earth elementals that bad? If what I want them to do is just sit there and live behind the walls? Yeah, I think I'm actually going to save my money rather than build the castle and get the extra troops. I'm just going to start stockpiling these earth elementals.  They're one of my most hated units. I actually think that's kind of what the complex, this particular complex, wants at the moment. Something to exist here. I might even buy them. Isn't that ridiculous? I actually bought them just in case a hero comes. Just make it that much harder for the town to be taken. Nothing new to lair. Nothing really here to invest in at this stage on day seven. The tower is happy. Oh, sculptor's wings could be something. Should we do that? A thousand bucks for an extra four? How many do I get? 18 goes to 22. Is that worth one? Not really, actually. I think I'd rather have the grand at this point. This town here is finished. You don't need to do anything except an escape tunnel if we get back to it. I'm really hoping we don't get any nasty surprises here when we hit the end turn button. Let's see. Well, here's Cawback. That's not Cawback. It's a different hero. Tan. Yep, we knew about this. We knew about that. Very happy for them to fight each other. Okay, purple is growing in influence. Cyclops growth. Fantastic for us. How many cyclops do we have to hire? 11 in one week. Beautiful. Look at this. A whole army out of the box ready to hire. Of course, we don't need to at this point. Just as things stand, we're better off just waiting. I think plan A was to get the giant to get soul near moving. There's that giant. Not very good, is he, if he's walking off the road. That's one thing I'll say about him. I'm sorry, Sam, you're going to have to come out of your way a little bit for these soldiers. Do I let the giant...  Two at seven. Because I'm only going to get to about here. Sam's got quite a long way to backtrack. How much of my time will you waste for the sake of one giant? That's my movement substantially, actually. So you know what? I'm not going to do it. Sorry, soul me. You're too slow, mate. Now, I do want these. They have been quite bad in this campaign so far at getting that right, that estimate of movement range and getting that consistently wrong. I feel like soul me can come in and grab these golems because we're collecting those upstairs in the stronghold anyway. That's something useful he can do. Has soul me actually learned all the spells? Does he have good spells? Yeah. Okay, that's fine. I can come to here. That's not a problem. Should I just do that now? Any reason not to? What else are you packing? Gargoyles? Let's have a look at New Dollair. Agar? No, Agar isn't ready. He has to go here first. Agar, get rid of this nonsense. These guys all need to be upgraded if you're serious. These girls are amazing. Let's get them. These. Upgrade these. Okay. Right, what else? I've got nine grand left. You guys can't see, but I am tempted. What is Sam doing in terms of troops? So she's got the 22 Bellweather armadillos. Let's have a look around the rest of the empire before we decide. Isra, what are you up to? You can do this. No reason not to. Just get that done. The caretaker admits you. Despite the fact that he is terrified of you. In you go. And she's leveled right across the board. 7777. Very, very nice. Okay, we want more of that please, Isra. So the next library for you to visit is through here. Just thinking what kind of tour can I send her on? I wanted to end up at the Conflux. Kind of as the Conflux Guardian. 898. Yeah, I think it's actually faster to come around. So if you're coming around, you may as well visit the tower as well. The reason that the maths wasn't working there is because Sam is standing in the way. Okay, who else has things to do? Clancy, what are you doing, mate? We just do jury because it's a bit easier to decide what jury should do. Again, out of position. Not much used to anyone. Stuck all the way out here. So just come back around. Both jury and Isra are really badly out of position. But I feel like with Clancy, I'm motivated to get the stables. And with the stables and my pathfinding and logistics. He has logistics. Let me just check. Expert logistics, expert pathfinding and stables. He actually has time to run around like crazy. Do all this stuff. Come and get some soldiers from here. Rendezvous back with whatever the balance of the tower is. I think that's okay. So I'm done spending money. She's ready to rendezvous. Agar, you can spend the nine grand on whatever you think she wants most. I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to go codels. Boom. I think a stack of five of these is going to be useful. So that's what we're doing. Right, you've got to come a very long way south, so far south that you're not going to get to Sam today, which is regrettable. Set off anyway, Agar. Tomorrow I will have 1712. So tomorrow I'm going to get to about here. It's okay there. Sam. Rendezvous with Serena. And because Serena has become a scholar, she's able to learn the stuff in particular blind from Sam. Greetings, Sam. I bring you fresh troops. This is excellent, Serena. Thank you. Now return. Actually, maybe come with me. Yep. I think come with me, actually, because Jury is coming around here to support this logistics area. I've got Solmere in the area as well. I don't need three of you. So come with me. Come and observe my prowess on the battlefield against this horde of earth elementals which will die to the giants easily. I'm happy with this because Agar is going to be able to talk to Serena tomorrow. Serena will bring me the rest of the stuff tomorrow, so that's fine. Is this worth waiting for? How much move do I have left after this? Or 56 will remain, so that's enough to come through. I can engineer this to my advantage, right? That I can weaken these things. I can naga them. I think I'm confident. Do I wish to pursue and engage them? Yes. I think it's good experience. 72 should be okay. Okay, let's try like this. Hope to lure this guy down here waste his time. Now these guys have no morale, so there's no risk of anything here. There's no point doing much other than waiting. Let's see if we can do it with no spell points. 4 to 8 damage means weakness. Sorry, means curse will be quite good. Weakness as well. Weakness reduces their attack down to 4. I don't think it's going to end up mattering. Let's wait with everyone. That's excellent. Do nothing. Is this just a kill? Oh, that's so much damage from 10 Giants. 10 Giants. Oh, fantastic. Power stack. Absolute power stack. I feel like Giants and then into Titans is where we're headed. This particular campaign. I don't need to do anything here. Wait still, we still don't want them. There's no morale risk here, right? Wasting everyone's time here it's a much easier fight than I realized with the stack of 10 Giants.  Grab the glory. Grab that huge experience. Oh, this is interesting. Wisdom. Expert water mage. I feel like it's worth it for teleport. Waterwalk's not going to matter, but imagine cloning my Titan stack. Don't have the spell power though. She will have that, right? By the time she's done the library, she'll have better spell power. I get a big discount on the cost of teleport as well. What else? What is that in clone as well? I don't need huge spell power apart from the fact that clone is expensive to cast. So I'm not using it for direct damage. So I think having low spell power here with wisdom is still okay. So on that basis I'm going to do that. Let's not overthink it.  Taking him up on any pieces together, some dragon scales forming a well-fashioned shield. I think that's the same narrative of the fellow who thought he owed us a favor for the dragon armor she's wearing back in defense by three. Now, as you can see, these are clearly part of a set. There is a special artifact you can build, but you need lots of different dragon items to build it, a combo artifact that you can build. These might be one of the dragon bone grieves. It's kind of at this point that I give myself permission to look up what that combo artifact is, because I can or never remember all the pieces of it, but as soon as I feel like I'm on to something, I give myself permission to check the wiki to see what it is. So I'm going to do that. Okay, so yeah, it's two pieces of a very large artifact. I need like six other things. Basically, let's all be on the lookout for anything with the word dragon in its name. There's five or six other items I require to build the armor of the dragon father, which I can only imagine is absolutely game breaking if I can pull it off. Now, Sam's done that. She is tired. She's not that tired. To here or here? Let's get to here. Debarca's the last guy to move. I can't see much downside in this. He has netted us quite a lot of value. Okay, so the dungeon has some nice value. Her best idea is to attack that, which is fantastic for us. They're just going to burn each other out. That's exactly what we want to see. Okay, we have an enemy hero. We'll get a look at a damith. Okay, so that's the end of Debarca's. Surely, I might as well be absolutely brass-necked here. I knew Debarca's was going to die at some point. All right, damith, you have the honor of... But once he's out of the picture, actually, it opens up a slot for us and we're able to get some more stuff going. I don't have any money. I'm out of moves. I think we're done. Oh, I needed to. Iona flew over the thing and attacked me. No, hang on. No. So she has angel wings. Has the angel wings or something? No one do anything, fellas. Yeah, that does work. That's why Ion Golems is so good, man. So she is tan in desperation mode, I assume it must be. So there's no hero here for her to capture the angel wings, though. That was really... I didn't know she was going to commit suicide, though. But I don't get to capture any of the artifacts. It's just, yeah. Yeah, and then 10. Oh, no, okay. So it did win that. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, sorry, Debarca's. It's all over, mate. Damith clears him away. But we got great scouts. We got annoying flags put up. Gretchen is here in blue to challenge Pyre. Oh, oh, very good to see. What I missed last turn is just some red hero here mucking around. And I never actually hedged and bought creatures here in the conflux. Now I kind of don't need to because I've got my superstar. Izra is coming through. Do you want me to just do this job? Yeah, let's stick to the plan. Let's not overthink things. Solmir was going to do this job. It's not optimal the way I'm moving my heroes around here, but okay. And the learnings of blind and firewall in particular are starting to percolate around the empire. Have this axe. I'll have the giant. I'm coming with you anyway. Have the giant. Okay, that would have been good if you wanted to give me that. Anything else you want to offload? Yeah, I can't cast this very profitably. So that's a spell that does care about spell power. Okay, I want to recover two spell points per day. Do I already know if you earth without this? Got to push this button. No, I don't. Maybe I'll keep it then. Keep the rest of these artifacts for me for now. Got 11 giants. Okay, so it might be worth her ferrying back to Solmir to give the shield and the scroll to him. He'll pass it on to Izra. Um, right. Sam forges ahead at this point. No need to wait for anyone else. Yes, there is. I messed up. This guy's supposed to be delivering his soldiers. Right, I messed up. Agar was supposed to come down and do this, but he didn't. And now I have no time. What can Sam do? Sam can still pop through here. Win this pretty easily without these troops. I think it's okay. Man, when you're just not quite in the zone, you get it wrong. I missed something important. A little bit of lag there. Right, here I am. I know I'm too late to the party. Um, come as far as you can. You're going to need to do that. We'll send the codles back the other way tomorrow. Sam should still be in the area loitering around after some of these fights anyway. So lots of vampire lords. What can we do? Send the automatons and giants right out into the middle. That's something we can do. We can also go here and just get this done first. That's probably the best fight, right? Get the library unlocked. That's another giant inside the experiment. Lots of Cyclops Kings. Okay, let's leave it like this. See how we get on. So I think if we're going to haste, we might be all right. I don't remember if she knows it. He doesn't know it. Okay, great. So what I'm going to do is haste the giants. Otherwise, they would be allowed to act. The automatons take a big melee hit from these and then we just repair them at the end. It should be okay. We're lucky that it's in two stacks, though. He could walk out and hit the nagers, but I don't think he will. And then I do this. Yep. Oh, that's perfect. Absolutely perfect. We can just repair straight away. Well, let's wait. Just in case he goes for a walk, he does. It's like I rode it. Do this. Just do nothing, fellas. You repair. Oh, when a plan comes together, baby, did lose six bell points, but... So that's the power that we're going to have in the power of prayer. That is the power of prayer. You get plus four speed. Really, really nice. Straight out of the gate with our expert tactics. Do I open the box first or go to the library first? I think it's better to hedge and go to the library first, where I go in and learn much. Look at the stat buff. 25 attack. Yeah, open it. Make room for the pixies in your ardent. I'm a pixie. Well, there's a complex right there. I'm not so new to this.  Can you help me beat these golems? 20 to four. Okay. There's only 20. Absolutely walking the park with one giant as a prize. No sorcery. You discover one giant. Now we're up to 12. That is pretty nice. Okay. Well, given that there's pixies on the way, I think we want to do this. And we're happy to continue investing in sort of the middle of the road creatures. That's going to be quite a good army for Isra when she gets here. And how do I build towards sprites? I need to upgrade the lantern. Just do that as well. Very cheap upgrade. Look at that. I don't know if you guys could see that. 600 bucks to upgrades. 120. Very, very solid. And that's still without the castle built, by the way. So yeah, we're priced in. We're going to go for this, I think. Isra is making her way up to the... There's the knowledge I so desperately sought. I think gargoyles are coming with me because they don't care about morale. Yeah, chew a kit moving. I think that's fine. Happy with that. Sam, we've either got to decide if she can come around and do the tour of Judy. Okay, let's just come down this way. Oh yeah, we've invested there. Okay, who's left? Jury and Plancy. And we have a hero, a spare hero as well. I think Plancy, definitely while you're in the neighborhood, get that. He can cover some serious ground now. He loads a useless spell. Let's give him... Ow. Don't want intelligence, I think, with this guy. I don't need to visit that now. That must surely be taken already, but we could check. See the stuff down here that they never bothered doing. Is it better to use Plancy to run around this week, exploring things, unlocking things here with his amazing power finding? I think yes, actually. Even though he's a top tier hero, we just don't have the soldiers to make the most of that. I'm not going to go to the Imp catch because it must have been cleared. I think that gives luck or something. I'm happy enough with that. Jury can centralize at this point. It's about it. It's all you're really good for. Just centralize, man. I don't know what we're going to do with you. Okay, we've spent our money again. Pretty happy though, right? Now, if Red wants to mess with us, they can kind of mess with us, and then they have to face Sam. So I actually don't think they will because it looked like a secondary hero. I said confidently, yeah. Okay, he's not in the area anymore. Blue is off doing things. Strong enough to do so. Tan... Tan's in desperation mode. Yeah, so things are quiet on the Western front at the moment. Now, don't mess this up, Agaha. Don't mess this up, anyone. Sam is supposed to have these two soldiers. So Serena could bring them. Isra is coming through any way. So why don't I just go up to here? Agaha never even speaks to Serena. It's like, ugh, Serena? You mean that eagle-eye woman? Simply absurd. Ridiculous.  I mean, while study sandworms and their potential... Augmentation. I'm doing that. Isra is going to be the messenger, actually, so that I can ride south with these guys to Solnia. Okay.  Sorry about him. Serena. Grab the people we need, and while we're at it, let me teach you a little of what I know, what I've learned over the years. Now, I want from you. You can have the artifacts, right? And the cool spell, but I get the soldiers. Which I'm going to be passing to Sam. Serena shaking as she approaches Isra. It's level 12, death knight. Crush her with butthole thought. Thank you, Queen Isra. Now proceed post-hace to Sam. Am I missing anything? No? Do this. Boom, boom. Sam, you are a hero, literally. Now, one thing you could do for me. Vampire lords. What if they fly over and smash my engineers? My pixies. You know that I've worked. You know that I want to try and build them to something meaningful. This is my concern. So Serena, talk to me again. I feel like we protect these stacks. Why risk them? They can be very hard to defend. What if we did that? Yeah, I'm leaving the engineers at home. I think it might hurt in terms of automatons. Let's find out. Sam having to make some difficult decisions here. They begin to scatter. I think I might take the deal, actually. Even though there's a couple of thousand experience at stake. I'm just not 100% convinced I can win this without losses. So I'm not going to engage them. Sam is well placed to open the box. Will we get the army back for that? Get the engineers back for that? Take the pixies. Serena, take the pixies. I don't need them. Open them. Earth magic. Earth magic. I just said I really want to be able to slow. I did say that. You heard me say it. How good is Earth with what I'm doing? I think I'd rather have air. Why? So just on that basis, I'm going to say no. Oh man, you insist, don't you? Let's take the wisdom. Have a quick look. What's here? More great stuff. I've got the moves. That's a Cyclops. The free Cyclops is behind there. Am I doing that? Yeah, I'm just travelling forth now. I'm doing good jobs that appear to be available. Get these Cyclops as I can use them for this fight even. Yeah, let's do this. Hang on. Should be okay. Really? No, I know I'm going to be cheap. I know it's not good viewing, but I'd like to win this game. That's sadly useless. And these are wolf raiders. I have movement eight. I think the raiders have movement eight as well. Yeah. I mean, I do act first. I take no casualties. There's only 50. I think that's all right. We'll take that battle result. It's okay. It's fine. There's only four. I need to get rid of them for morale reasons. Maybe, but not really, because I have leadership, so it doesn't matter. They're just going to absolutely get creamed. Right. Oh, I should have said yes. Sorry, and then taking the auto result. Let's get that wrong. So that may have been a bit cowardly of Sam, that particular last part of the turn, saying no to the vampires, no to the nuggers, and no to the oxen just getting all the stuff for free. Not very fun viewing, so my apologies for that. Maybe I should have done at least one of those fights.  Judy, Judy, Solmere, who's talking to whom? Isra is coming through, and she's going to inherit the conflicts and go to the library. And there she's going to remain as our key person out on the frontier of the empire. Agar is carrying the legs. Once again, we're going to miss out, probably. I'm going to give the thingies to Solmere. Solmere's going to decide what to do with them. Let's just do a straight swap. I feel like Agar's pretty safe. Let's risk him. Let's risk him and the legs. Level one, I'd say. Everyone's really grown up around him. Let's step behind a little bit. I have to choose to either get a bone dragon for Isra or go back to my chores. Do all this by the end of week one. It's probably a little bit better to come up and do that. I think Agar is the custodian of our hometown, and he deserves our respect and our love, even though things didn't really ever quite work out for him, in terms of getting the attention of senior management, by which I mean us. Now, I have good news for Clancy. Clancy, five of these is going to be quite nice. I could pop in here and also pick up the golems. He likes those. Let's do that. Anything else Clancy's going to want? What's that? Is that ammo, Carl or something? I just never want to buy them. Yes, this is okay. Jewry. Okay, it's just too about here-ish tomorrow. Now, let's see what Clancy ends up doing and then we'll decide. Make Jewry part of the- The magic spring doubles my spell points. I've got no clue who that was. That's very good. What else has all been cleared before? It's very low value. I'm not almost minded to say no thanks. Just save my movement points. This is a hero we're investing in. I think maybe knowledge was right there. Yeah, just wanted to check. So Jewry or someone else can come down and do all these things. Look, I don't think it's amazing this move, but let's do it anyway. Solma, you keep that. Because Jewry and Judy- Not Jewry, Clancy. Yeah, Clancy has a nice weapon already. You know, we're not struggling for weapons. It's more armors and shields. That as we'll go here tomorrow. Yeah, we've saved a bit of money at 13 grand. Have to buy anything right now? Anywhere. Unless maybe City Hall. We go for that. Pay us back in five days. Let's do it. I might argue that should have been Castle, maybe just with Red still sniffing around, but let's just see if we get away with it. Sometimes you just get a feeling, I think Red is doing other things. It would be great to come down to that area and try to take this artifact, this one here. The Titan's Gladius. Now, if we have Titans of our own, come down here and take that. That'd be really nice. Pendent free will doesn't matter very much. All right, so while you're down here, go here. He's like, these tasks are beneath me. You want me to go to hit the seeing stone? Don't you know who I am? Thousand experience. I stare into the stone and I learn nothing. I'll do that. I'll head this way. You're not going to have the same moves as me, though. My ability to move over difficult terrain is unmatched by any of the empire, even though I've vanished on other areas. Yeah, come to here, man. Come to here, jury. I feel like it's all safe up here. There's no threat coming from the north. Say that confidently. Might just, now that I've said that, run and tempt fate. Set myself up. I think that's a stack we're going to be going for. Yeah, I might as well go Kings in that case. Since it's the week of, it does take 10 Crystal Offices though, so I might just pause on that. Don't have to make them Kings just yet, but that's a good stack. 11 Cyclops there. That just puts a bit more beef on the town. Day four, he needs to hurry up and do his chores. He's kind of like the Cinderella, isn't he? He's there doing the sweeping. He never quite got to be a real, never go to the ball himself. Now Serena, you are waiting in the wings while Sam does the glorious stuff. Let's just take XP at this point. I'm such a legend. And it's a cake. I'm right. Speed six. I have speed eight, seven, seven. So it's just the Kings we need to worry about. I think everyone else is getting out speed. Speed is an issue with her army, isn't it? It's going to be amazing once we have the Titans.  So I think I'm going to do that. Oh, Tamatons are fantastic. I think we're just going to do the dopey thing. It's inelegant because she's a water mage, but just an unexpert haste just gets the job done. So that's what I'm going to do. I don't know how this is going to go. Right, lose one. Yeah, it's this guy. Kill him. That's a kill, I think you'll find. That's a kill. Didn't lose any. Okay, cool. Did burn spell points, but we've got to leave cool resources that you get. Now, we are ready to open the box. I can do more of this hasting business if I have to. Oh, that hurts. Don't think I can take them, right? Sadly, there's no stack I can give up, unless I give up the Cyclops. All right, Pyre, next thing is to unlock this, I think. Why don't you just come back? Serena, you were going to talk to me because I'm carrying Cyclops, okay? All right, so Isra, do what you came here to do, which is this. Serena, give me the Cyclopses. You're taking all this off and you're saying job done here. Yep. So Sam is out of here. She's heading back to do the rest of her. Do you want to make a decision about what you want to do Isra with this and this? No, wait, I'm doing that because I've got to give them to, right. So I have a mission. I'm going to go off and do that. You're going to do more this. See you later. I'm taking the Cyclopses back to the team. Jewry or someone like that is going to, or Jewry's miles out. So Somi is going to get ready to receive them. Oh, it's a lovely Gallop tomorrow. Look at that. Fantastic. Somi comes and prepares to receive. Come down, Sam, Sam Gallops down the two Titanic heroes meet one another in the underground.  Isra, well met. She nods respectfully. Now what are we doing?  What are we doing here? Does Isra no curse? Let's start with that. She does not. Haven't been using curse, although it would go really well with weakness. So I'm actually going to hang on to that. I don't think there's any swap of the army. She may as well keep these as well, even though we want these items to be together, but we're a long way from all the other dragon items. So I'm happy with that. All right, Sam is exhausted. Isra is off to the library. Caretaker admits her in once more and she levels up again. Kaboom. It's so nice. I think her first task is going to be to... Sam actually could quickly pop down and do that job, but couldn't she? Then I can come down. I need to go, I want to go to the Conflux as well. So I think Sam will earmark that for tomorrow. Just get that job cleared away. And I think I might like to continue investing. Go for Castle now. These are good investments. This is a harder and harder, town is getting harder and harder to conquer. I'm okay with that, yeah. Now, last question. Do we want to hire another hero? And if so, where? I think it might hold fire on that. Let's just see who we can get. Morton, level one mercenary. Look at him. Look at the artwork on Morton. Look at that image, man. Fantastic. So he's just the Christian of the factory. Sorry, just a bit of a coughing fit there. How cool is he, man? Free Ballista comes with artillery. Knows Ballistics. What's not to love about that guy? He's amazing. Or I can have Tamika, but she's only level one. Very fond of Tamika, but no. Red has found the most artifacts. That's something to bear in mind. Um, how bad is Tamika actually here? Get the offense, you get the decremency. 24 skeletons to give to Isra. So maybe I will hire Tamika. Welcome to Mika. I am going to use... I'm just going to get rid of these. Too slow. And let's just do this. Just go do that. It's very much an auxiliary role I'm playing here. Just to start with. Great. Welcome on board. We've seen Tamika before in a previous campaign. Her superior combat skills have put her in a position of power. Within the military forces of Deja. Besides merely leading troops, she's also responsible for training Black Knights and Red Knights. And a fine job she does. Of that. I think we're out of moves. Nothing from Red. Blue still has ambitions in the area. Tan is too weak to do anything. Although they are coming a little closer to our contact point in the portal. Let's have another quick look at that. She's just there and we need to be aware that that is our hometown basically. It's not very far from our tower town. Interesting fight. Probably very winnable. So let's do that. Let's stick with the plan even though it's not particularly good. Not particularly good plan. Jury meets with Clancy. And is immediately awestruck by his presence. Sheer power. Expert interference. Expert archery. Expert, no advanced offense. And advanced ballistics. Clancy, I have additional codles for you. Thank you child.  Go now, back to the stronghold. As you command. I wish Jury had the legs of Legion. Although that's just wolf raiders, which I don't love as much as you guys all love. A lot of controversy on the TLS video around wolf raiders. And well, no one's ever bothered coming here. Yes, engage them and yes, take the freebie.  I'm talking to myself here. And same deal. Yes, except the free experience. Thank you. Guilt free. Pretty good galantry. That's actually quite nice for me. That's quite good. The gems are quite important and useful and I still have tons of moves. So day one is where I'm working to. I've got a bit of time to waste Clancy's life. Day five. Visit Derek's. Derek Smith. Derek Jones. It's over that way. Day five. Day six. Day seven. Does he make it back? Probably not, right? Day five. Day six. Day seven. He doesn't make it. So I'm going to let Derek Smith. I'm going to let his money go and I'm going to make sure I get the legs back for those engineers. Right, Isra. You were coming this way. Shall we let Isra do this fight? With 12 giants. Just let Sam do it. Just let Sam do it quickly. The only thing is, I'm just worried about the engineers. Isra's not going to raise a lot of skelies anyway. We are going to have to solve this problem eventually. Isra rendezvous with Sam one last time. Just to de-risk the next engagement she's about to embark on. I'll take both stacks because otherwise I need to get Sam's spell points up as well. Where's the wishing well? Let me just check. There's one here, isn't it? It's up here. It's all out there. I think the Royal Armour of Nix is a really powerful defensive armor. Lots of E-Feed. I'm going to beat them with this stack here without much trouble. Yes. No. Don't get the first turn. We are at their mercy. They do wait. That's great. So I think it's weakness actually. Blind won't work. Yeah, how good is weakness? I think it's quite good. We're just going to hit the defend button with everybody, I think. Yep. So this is quite bad, right? We're just handing them an alpha strike. I greedily said no. I don't want to greedily said no. I don't want to take the auto-resolve. I've wasted spell points. I lost five genies. You can see that the engineers would have absolutely perished. I think they hate each other and stuff. I think that's a part of what happened there. It's quite bad. There's roads everywhere. You know, do I need pathfinding? I have the logistics. I'm not going to take it. Royal Armour of Nix. I think I read. It's a really powerful body armour. Just let Isra have it. And the elementals are going to be good against the serpent flies. Well, I saw my. How good do we even care about the wyverns? I'm annoyed with that. Do we care about the wyverns? Not at all. I don't want the wyverns at all. So why risk? I'm not even going to step on the space. Okay, get out of my way. Still keep getting out of my way. That was a defeat. That was quite a bad defeat. That was a waste. I should have thought twice about that. Oh, and I've galloped off without my. I've galloped off without the army. I've galloped off without these guys. She's too far to help. Who's going to waste their time? Yeah, well, come back. Isra, it's a waste of Isra's time. Isra ends up here. It's pointless. Right, I might as well waste Serena's time tomorrow. Which Dan about here is probably okay. It does waste, uh, wasting time. Bad mistakes, little mistakes that add up. And he, someone wants that. So that's good. The picket is potentially good, but more stuff. It's fine. Solmya, you were going to get ready to receive something that never happened. Okay, so Solmya, move along. Is there anything we want to do in here to prepare? 18 gargoyles are available. Not really. Silly, Billy. What am I doing in here? I get this. I need the altar of thought, and that's expensive. Not quite there, are we? I think we're done here. We're going to start upgrading. We might as well upgrade these altars though. Because we know we're going to start using this stack. Okay, storm elementals. Other investments we need to make. I think that's it. Not a good turn. Hamfisted. It's useful. I really don't want to see that Titan's Gladius get taken. You're joking. I thought blue was strong. Well, that's a turn up for the books. Right, Agar, you've got one job. I realized as well, there's still two little resources I never got hiding here. There's this wood, and then there's a campfire somewhere there. I'm going to try and get one of them. Sorry for anyone who's noticed that, or I think I did point it out. Found them, and then I forgot about them. You guys, if anyone's sitting there still rocking back and forth six hours later, begging for me to do it, it's like when I never started buying the peasants for the skeleton transformers, there must have been some of you guys watching that in the last campaign. Just like extremely frustrating YouTube content, or all the folks out there. That's what we're about here at Paul Goes. Clancy, these are good scouts. There's no way the picket is still available. I'm not even going to entertain the thought of checking. Clancy doesn't have much room left. He's only got two left. No trading post here. That's pretty good. What have you got time to do? Day six, day seven. You've got time to see what these things are, which has value. So do that. Is there, I'm so sorry for wasting your time. Six nine three. Okay, that's fine. Right. No choice but to absolutely waste everyone's time. Not paying attention. Right, Isra, that's it. You're on your way. Thank you for everything and apologies again. So Isra picks up the armor. You see a fight on the hill nearby as you get closer. You see two nicks. One is winning and he's about to land a finishing blow. You intervene. The defeated nicks thanks you for your help and gifts you with his armor. He believes you deserve it more than he does. Wow, what a great story. And indeed it is magnificent. Oh, it's a power buff. That's what we wanted. That's exactly what we wanted for Earth Elemental, brilliant. This gives me confidence going into the next fight against the throng of dragonblocks. Now ironically, I don't actually want to upgrade these girls to... I want to upgrade these. Okay, I don't even see behind my camera. I have 210.  Now Isra, do you want to be good at any other schools of magic? With your expert wisdom, your advanced earth, and your fantastic spell power? Oh my, yes I do. What are you good at? Where do you want to go in your career? Well, I would like to learn, I guess, implosion one day. Yeah, that's an earth spell I'd like to learn. If I'm going to be fighting with elementals, Bless worked quite nicely. Works with Skellies? You can bless? No, you can't bless Skellies, that's right. Yeah, I think on the basis you can't bless, I'm dead. Water drops off a little bit. What about haste? Hasting is okay. I think blind and curse is more where I'd like to be. Is that worth going into? Picking a school and dedicating that we buy her some fire magic. What fire school spell does she know? Did she ever get blind? She got blind, but she never got cursed. That's the one I really want. I left curse with Sam, Sam has curse. You know, I'm a little bit torn. I don't think it's worthwhile. I'm quite tired as well. So will we stop here for the 140 spell points? Yeah, that sounds good too. So we'll stop here for the night. I could build the third level magical and just see what we get. She might get teleport or something useful. I think that's okay. She's my best spellcaster. What do we get? Nothing. I'm going to work, isn't it? That might have been a mistake because, well, then again, against the... What's her morale going to look like? So she'll be at minus one morale. And I'm up against serpent flies as well. Dragon flies him. That's quite bad. So I think we just do this. Okay, that's what she's doing tomorrow. Serena. Fixing everyone's problems. Sam turns around and looks back at Serena. What is going on logistically in this army? You're all fools. I'm sorry, Princess Sam. It's her new title. It wasn't my fault. Whose fault was it? It was Sam's fault.  Serena's like, ooh, do I speak up and point that out? To the favored child of the faction that actually it's... You're the reason we're wasting time. Serena is too wise. It has been in too many environments in the past. She's been around and she knows when to keep her mouth shut. My apologies, Sam. It won't happen again. They part ways, but Serena is miffed. She is not happy. Now, Sam has never been here. So she's got to do that. But I have Cyclops to get rid of. 2955 to do it this way. And then I get to go in here as well. Yes. Yeah, do that. That's good. 27 attacks, just bonkers. She has been here before, though. Now, with her wisdom, which is now expert level, I'm just going to start doing this in the hope of getting cool things. There's a cool thing. Boom. Boom. Well, we have been whiffing on Mage Guild construction. Now, how good is this for her? Anywhere I want, and it's only three spell points, that suits me like a, fits me like a speedo. Solmia speaks to Sam. Takes the Cyclopses. Okay, that's fine. Solmia wants to give these Cyclopses to someone who's going to care about them. Let's come away for a second. Should she stay the night for the spell points? I think yes now. She goes back up to 60. Comes to the library, frees the prisoner. We need someone to stay behind the walls in that case. Solmia is just heading upstairs. I'm just doing that. Going to overthink it. Still do this. Tamika comes here, does this. Another prisoner. I have to check the template because town portal here. That's nice. You can go one way from the conflict straight to any of our other towns. Very, very good. I can even jump in now and take her anywhere in the world I want. Let's get some more scouting done. And the value of scouting. The importance of it. I'm up to 31 grand in the bank, people. Just say you know. Right, Isra. Yeah, wait the night. Sam's waiting the night. Let's leave it there. That's okay. It's really red now, right? But it looks red and purple. Day seven. I have 642. I am not risking it. I'm not missing out on these five engineers again. Now, I'm up to 46,000 gold. You could make the case that we go Titans tomorrow. Now to upgrade a giant into a titan, it's going to cost about three grand. It's about 30,000. And then the titan dwelling is 20,000. Down from 25, by the way, in one of the business, it's actually cheaper. If we do that, then I really don't need, I can leave actually these troops behind for someone else. For Agar to come and rendezvous, top up these units. And someone else can be this person. And Sam is the tower person. And she has not just the 12 Titans, she has all the other Titans that are coming from next week as well. Even at 46 grand here, we don't have enough money to do actually all that. Which is really interesting. So the cool thing about Sam is we get to make a balanced decision. We can actually leave the stuff here while we go and do this work. In case we do change our mind about things. We could upgrade the Master Genies now. That's not very much money, is it? Yeah, upgrade the altar. Upgrade the boys. Very cheap. Very, very cheap. Do this. That is so worth going out of your way to do. Massively. Boom. Sam just levels up. Look at him. He's just absolutely gorgeous. Hey, this is strong. I'm feeling strong here. Now, Somiya could come back. Could come back. He needs to come here tomorrow as well.  And trust the cyclopses to me, Sam? I mean Somiya. Do I use... Oh man. So stepping off the road really hurts, Juri. Yeah, let me deal with this. Man, I've gone out of my way to move these cyclopses around, haven't I? I talk about just move the junk to the junk. Junkier of the heroes. Now we're fine with this, Juri. You're just there ready to lock. That's not... Somiya, I think this is worth doing. Even though it runs out like literally now.  Sam is going to smash these. Read this prisoner. We've got to get someone behind a wall. That's going to be you. First thing tomorrow, to find out who the prisoner is. We could also put Juri behind the wall. Lifecurdles could do this pretty easily. Not a problem. Clancy's just like I cannot believe you're wasting my time. Scouting? When I joined your faction, when you freed me from prison. You told me that I would be first among all of the heroes. Do I wait for tomorrow's troops or do I just write out now and do this now? A throng of dragonflies. But I have Earth Elemental. I can slow you, but you move before me. I don't know. I'm not waiting a whole other day, am I? Well, I kind of am because I want to come back and get this stuff. I think is there a case to do this instead? Let's do this and start saving firebirds. Then come back around, come here, then come here. Shoot it together. And then get the bird of deception. Seems strong. Don't need this stuff just yet. Yeah, let's do that. Yeah, and the portal is also important. It's also important that we're ready to fight Pyre if she comes through. Three of the firebirds killed. I don't think there's probably going to be a way to avoid that. They're going to fly over and do that with their immense moves. I'm just going to accept this. That's fine. Yeah, we hire that firebird and then I'm ready to pretty much just stand here tomorrow. Stuff here to do. That's a good artifact. Just saying, oh look how much moves I wasted doing that. I've got to go all the way around again. That stinks. Okay. Agar, you're waiting there. You are not moving a muscle. Serena, Tameka, Tameka is my scout. That was ineffective and inefficient. Can you please be more efficient with your movement? Head of Legion. I was looking at this the other day. It gives a buff to your level six creatures. Um, so Cyclops are a stack that we're saving. That could matter. Also Naga's and actually also Altar of Thought is tier six. If we want to maybe do that in the conflicts today, we could get them started. Now that I've seen that, we've seen an Altar of Magic and we've seen the Head of Legion. I think that's a pretty clear signal to commence production. Yeah, that's pretty low regret. Three grand. Okay, so, you know, we aren't going to have enough money to do all this Titans stuff, but maybe by day two we will. And the only person I can't decide what to do anything with is Serena. So the hero I'm picturing, I actually have four viable heroes. Now I have Isra as a Conflux hero. I have Sam as a Tower hero. I have Clancy now as a stronghold plus Kotal's guy, but he could give the Kotal's back. And I kind of have an extra army left over. I have the Factory Army. I'm going to have like seven Kotal's and then all these guys and then next week's troops. Are there any other avenues we could pursue? We cannot build a boat. We can. We can build a boat here. That doesn't do much. Is there any way off this stinking rock? Could summon a boat here? Do you know summon boat? He does not. You know who knows how to summon boats? No one. Expert Automage. That would have been quite nice to stand there. Summon a boat and just go, that creates a whole other avenue of exploration for us. I was hoping to find, there has to be an underground or something or another portal. I mean, there's always this area. These areas up here, right? There's the, there's this Conquest. Kind of feel like I need to fight Red though, to stop them getting too much more powerful before we have a big showdown. Um, uh, delivered ASAP. His movement points get me to there. I don't know why I've gotten that wrong so many times in the past, but she can stand there. Wait for him. All machines I'm not really interested in. No other investments. Saving up for Titans. Okay, Orange. Hello. Okay, let's just double check back on that. Purple showed up. Here? Okay, that's Jabarcus' area. Ooh, Sceptiana, my old sweetheart. Hello there. Let's fight. Let's fight. Also, Malcolm, welcome, welcome, Malcolm. Can Israel kill you? Unless I cannot kill him today. 490. Ooh, that's a risk, isn't it? 490. Though I'm going out of my way, and this is 490. Let's measure it from here. This uses up 341 moves. 490 will remain, but I'll be galloping from further back. I'll have to go out and up. So there's another 100 there, and then I think they're equidistant. 490. This is 341. If she lands here, I'll be safe. Just for the sake of 1-5, but I'm not going to take the risk. I actually think she makes it. I think she goes here, and she has exactly enough moves to get back. But because the downside is so bad, I don't want to do it. Ah, it's so close. I'm just, I'm not going to do it. I actually think she just barely makes it by the skin of her teeth. Um, okay, cool. I don't mean that if we need to. Malcolm can't, but there's no way he'll challenge me as things stand now. Probably shouldn't have even bought them. The firebird away for now. I don't want to waste, I don't want to, you know, huge defences up here at the risk of not being able to get the other things moving. Can we just do this? A horde of dendroid soldiers? We can't, right? Well, should be alright. Let's start combat right as we are. I should have split these into small stacks.  Um, let's start us off. Haste is a great start, okay? I'm just going to spam this guy until these guys come over. And I'm also going to start casting things. We have a blind up our sleeve. Teleports not what I want against these guys. Expert weakness. She has spell power seven. Let's just wait. Morales an issue with these boys too. Okay, now's the time, that's fine. Yeah, so if I bless the giants here, that's a pretty good value. Um, do nothing. Start with a bless. It's probably a straight kill. It's pretty good, right? Might have gotten away with it a little bit. Can anyone come to his rescue? No, they can't. I can just do this. Counter strike. Okay, counter strike. Many of you guys out there massive counter strike fans. By which I mean either the spell or the game. I don't know. Am I just kiting? Yeah, like, we just want to use the giants. Um, oh, he's run out of, uh, can he do three? Is that what it is? So if I'd split them, if I'd split him into tiny sacks, that would have been just so, so good. It's what you're supposed to do, but I didn't do it. There is some morale risk here. I feel like it's better to, well, can I avoid the morale? One, two, three, four. I can avoid the morale in that corner with the masters. I'll risk morale. I can escape morale. Yeah, I'll at least avoid that one. Please don't. Please don't. No, don't do it. Okay, that's game over. Good game. Look at these boys. Thank goodness. All right, so plan worked. Let's get jury behind the walls. That happens.  Woohoo. And I need to put jury behind the walls. There we go. We free the prisoner. This better be a good prisoner. Let's find out in another record breaking. Dazzlingly amazing display of dairy. We break in and we discover level 20. Thane, expert scholar, bit of a shame, but he's going to learn everything immediately from talking to Sam, all the good stuff. Expert first aid, expert navigation. Gets logistics, wisdom, armorer, interference. And he's good with genies and I do have some genies. Welcome to the team. Have a chat too. Sam and see if he can learn something. Thane, who studied magic extensively, learns tons of things from Sam. Finally, I am released from prison. Greetings, sir. Thank you. Sam's there like, I thought I was the best hero. Uh, you're level 20? Worry not, child. I am 5,000 years old. I'm no more a threat to you. And the wind, Sam acknowledges. Welcome to the team.  What are we going to do now? We've got this guy, viable hero, right? He is a genies guy. Now how good is the genies? Attack and defense go up by 5% for every five levels. 5% for every five levels. So that's 20%. So their attack and defense goes up by 20%. And I think that's a cumulative thing. So 40 becomes 50. In the example here. That isn't quite good enough for me to care. You keep the artifacts. I want to not die. I wanted to learn spells from you and I've done that. So thank you for that. I'm going to go to the library now. I'm off to the library. Do they have the latest Harry Potter? Caretaker admits him. Boom. Immediately jump starts him. No artifacts. Look at that already. Already. Fantastic. Now I must taste. Orth. To the other library. Probably faster for me to go that way, honestly. Should he do that? Or is this all a bit too slow? No. I want him hooked up with factory. That's what I want. I want Thane to be my factory hero while I'm working out what I'm doing with the rest of my life. Okay. Soulmere it's day one. Get that giant. Giant purchased. We're all heading back this way. Although I could stagger it. So Sam's ready to receive everything. Soulmere does all of the heavy lifting. I'm sorry. Running around. Should be fine. No problem. Does this. Run over. Moves. Take these guys and upgrade them. Have you seen the blow guy just freed from prison? Wow. Some of these skills just aren't that good though. First aid. Now where was that place where you can buy things? It's up here. It's upstairs. It's right here. You can buy the first aid tent right there. So I suggest we do that. Now in terms of economy. Are we doing this now? Or because we do have to wait a day should we do it tomorrow. Let's buy the giants. Make sure we have that online. Wait is this silly? This is silly. I want Agar to move out today. I want him to do this stuff. I want to make sure he does his thing. These are worth buying now. We've got to stack them there building up. These are worth buying. These. Guess what. Ba ba ba ba ba. 12 still not enough to excite me. 40 of these armadillos. How many do I have? 17. That's very good. Big session this. Big big session. It's day one here in the conflux. Oh I've made that decision already. Yeah that's right. Got plenty to think about. I'm trying to decide. What I'm trying to decide about the armadillos right? I think it's one of those halfway houses. I think you could make a good case for buying a few. And just spend tons. But see an investment of 3k turns that back into a semi-viable stack. I also have this upgrade solid. 19 more of them is solid and I didn't have to spend too much money but I didn't go the whole hog. Let's get moving. I'm just going to quickly check. We did buy everything we had to do? Yes we did. Okay let's get moving. Wow Serena is learning some stuff but mainly teaching Agar. Things he will never end up using in his life or times because he's not a long-term viable hero. Still saving engineers? Why not? Yeah. Okay you're exhausted. Serena comes downstairs. I need to keep home waiting. Who's near that portal? The blue hero died. There was a blue hero around here who died? There's no risk here anymore. So you can judge how likely the prisoner is to be good by the... So a horde of empires that's likely to be a level 5 hero now I'm saying based on how hard the monsters are. Never really made that connection before but that makes sense because that was quite a hard fight against all those dendroids. Didn't expect level 20 that's fantastic. To me, yeah. Isra's going to do this eventually. May as well check. More of these pickets. I don't get why the AI just doesn't go for it. I think maybe there's negative consequences to the Pandora's Box. In the vanilla game it was always positive and I'm just... I just automatically open them. I don't know if in Horn of the Abyss I've just been lucky. I haven't gotten the negative ones where you have to fight a really hard enemy. Or you get negative luck for negative three luck and stuff. Anyway it's day one. Clancy can you find a way through... This nonsense. Take some free experience. Trade. If you're in the area you could trade for me tomorrow. 7.13 remain. I think this is slightly better. Once you've got like six towns I think it's better to just use your... I need the gems right? I'm going to be buying a cloud temple. I need the solver that badly. Are these good enough prices? I don't think these prices don't seem amazing. I'm unlikely to need all this though. Just give it all a bit of a haircut but I do want to keep this propped up. I'll blow too much of it. Look at those moves.