Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with 2023 Futerra Unique World Football. Your soccer, two box, random letter break number two, you can see the next break is in the store right now. We're going by the first letter of their first name. Now, for example, 23 cards, all card ship, blah, blah, blah, blah. So Jack Grealish will go to J, right, first letter, first name. We're going to go to the first letter of their nickname that's printed on the card as well, right, so Gavi is a nickname, right, it'll go to G. Pelle is actually a nickname. His full name is, I don't know where his first real name is actually, but Pelle obviously goes to P, so on and so forth, right. They only made, they didn't make very many cases and there's just a lot of, the checklist is kind of amazing and there's a lot of big hit potential here. So we got to, we got to search for it. Big thanks to the treasure hunters here, searching for the big hits in Futera. Those are the letters, let's roll it, let's randomize names and letters, six and a three, nine times for names and letters, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine. All right, so after nine, let's get everybody's names in here, six and a three, nine times for the letters, one, two, three, four, five, six, ninth and final time. After nine, we got M down to W. Mirzi also includes all other letters not on the list. All right, so Brian with the letter M, remember first letter, first name. Aaron with C and R, Ricky with F, Adam with T, John with O, Kevin with Y, Carl with H, Aaron with K, Brian with J, Tristan with P, Jason with D, Nicholas with A and I, A-I, Aaron with G, Tristan with L, Nicholas, seven and all other letters, Carl E-B, Nicholas S-V, Carl N and Brian with W. There you go, thank you, Jen. That's Pele's full name. But Pele will go to P. All right, so now let's alphabetize by letter and we are going to pause the video just for a wee bit and when we come back we see if there's any trades and then we'll have the break, stick around, BRB. All right, welcome back ladies and gentlemen, no deals are done, no trades. There rarely are in these letter breaks but there we go, first letter, first name, break number, this is not break number three, this is break number two, break number two.  Now it was a six box case I think if I remember correctly, so there's two boxes here and two boxes there. We're going to go one, two, three for the left two, four, five, six for the right two and it's one. So we're going to do the left side right here and this we will save for next time. Let's see what kind of unique things we can find in here. So kind of cool to see something a little different that you don't see all the time. You can see all their information right there. If you wanted to learn some more, pop this guy open, let's see what we can get. Yeah, the presentation is pretty unique here as well. So it's one hit a box, it's usually a few two or three base cards on the bottom and then the hits down there. All right, that one should be numbered right? Yeah, I hope that's numbered too. Sometimes it's hard to tell the color of the parallel there. All right, so we got a nice Zinedine Zidane. Great, 24 out of 62. He is pretty great. Nicholas L with the Z and there's Alejandro Balde, eight out of ten. And that will be for letter A, it's also for Nicholas. And behind Cristiano, which will go to Aaron, it is Leroy Sane, Reflection, Game Use Material, 18 out of 24, good looking cards here ladies and gentlemen. So that'll go to letter L, that'll be for Tristan, Cristiano Ronaldo will go to Aaron. The hit is right here. All right, and we got a Wilfred Gannato, Gannato, 30 out of 40, that's going to go to Brian with letter W, first letter of their first name, and we've got Gabriel Jesus, nice and his Brazil gear, 16 out of 20. They also use these weird kind of this left side open sort of top load or penny sleeve. We're going to put it in full penny sleeve, so we don't mess with the edge right there. Letter G, Aaron, and Paul will go to P, Tristan, and Nick thinks the box is nice and well wait till we hit a monster and that might change people's minds, might change your mind. All right, there's Edison, going to Carl in the letter E, 15 out of 55, behind Cancelo is Christian Pulisic, and that looks like a quad relic, Game Use Material, that's Aaron with the letter C, 18 out of 18, all right, we've got some gold coming up. There's Gatko, who scored a goal today for my club Liverpool, should have a, I'm hoping he's going to have a big season this year. Ruben Diaz will go to Aaron, and the letter R, Cody Gatko goes to Aaron as well, and behind Sandro Tonali, what do we got here? We have, we have Zlatan Ibrahimovic, golden gold, gold frame, he should be a 23 karat gold, according to cardboardconnection.com, one out of 10, nice, Z, Nicholas with the letter Z, who would have thought Z would be so, people who knew that Zlatan began to the letter Z, those people knew, all right, another box. And we got two more boxes loaded up already, jaskyscasebreak.com, we can run that back. Yeah, nothing underneath here, in case you were wondering, no hidden hits hiding in there. Do they say you can store toplers in there, I guess? If there was something underneath there, it probably would be twice the price. Nick, were you willing to play it twice the price for some more, for four more boxes underneath? If so, I'm sure Futero would be happy to do that. Trent Alexander Arnold, 55, nice, Erlen Holland, another numbered card. We've got Denzel Dumfries, heritage card for the letter D, Jason K. Nice, Erlen Holland, that's for the letter E, that'll be for Carl. And here's my guy, Trent Alexander Arnold, 755, from Liverpool, vice captain of the squad, just announced recently, letter T, Adam Brown, and then behind Antoine Griezmann, for France. And the letter A is gonna be, is gonna be Majestic Bukayo Saka, quad relic right here in those small little windows, but a cool design. And that'll be for Carl in the letter B, some game use memorabilia for one of the bright and up and coming stars for not only Arsenal, but for the three Lions, for England as well. And that's out of ten. Let's see what we've got here. Nothing numbered here behind Christopher is, good luck. We have, we have Glory, Paul Gasconege. Let me just have a trouble with his name. He's kind of an old school player. Old school guys will remember this dude. 12 out of 17, Paul's gonna go to Tristan in the letter P. Tells you when he signed the card too, 31st of March, 2023, in Bolton, England. Very specific. Is it Gasconge or something like that? I don't know. I think it's a French last name, CKH, Carl, but he is English. Pronounce sometimes about Gasconge, Gasconge? A British surname of old French origin. So a little history behind his name. Gaza is what he would often be referred to as. Oh no, so it begins. Rex is gonna give us probably hour by hour updates on where the Cubs are in the standings. There's Pele, 32 out of 32. That's gonna be for Tristan in the letter P. We got Lionel Messi for Tristan in the letter L. And then Eusebio reveals a, is Gabriel Martinelli. Oh, nice. Game use memorabilia. Letter G, Aaron. Six out of 15. And there's 18 out of 35, Eusebio. That'll be for Carl in the letter E. Rex saying 36 runs are the most two game run by single teams since 1900. That is interesting. 36 runs is the most. According to who? You're just making up this information, Rex? And the team, the last team that did that, that had 35 runs in two games, what are they doing in the playoffs? Rhys James is 24. Got some other numbers here. Declan Rice for Jason K. And we got Rhys James, 23 out of 24. Letter R, Aaron. All right, and the final hit behind, oh, this is gonna be a tough one. I'm gonna try it. Kevika Kavara Kaskila, Skahelia with Memphis DePie. Nice. Preceduralic, game use memorabilia for the Orange. Memphis going to letter M, Brian K. All right, game, we got two more boxes in the store right now. 10 out of 10, by the way. Two boxes in the store right now, jaspyscasebreaks.com. Check it out. And I'll see you next time for the next futera break in the future. In the futera. I'll see you for the next two box break in the futera, jaspyscasebreaks.com.


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Okay what next we're back just bought a ghost dragon for five engineers basically made that trade flag this building I'm hoping it's gonna be relevant because we've got Israel and we've got what I thought was an acropolis we've been a conquer You can run back to receive the army for this week, which is coming. Do I have it out my sleeve though for that? Probably right stay one I'm here I can go spacebar that Do I have time or need or inclination to waste a day of his time? I don't think I do actually But the Derek I do I do want More gems or cash Or more more more more big oil. That's the thing Right big oil indeed. So I'm gonna stay here. I'm actually a day out of the loop though anyway that Derek has been missed There's no point. Might as well just do this. Yeah, okay atrocious movement Look at the army though and Upgrading the catacombs is not very expensive. So I'm minded to go for that So she has the wisdom it might be worth it to build so that I can build a mage guild But these resources aren't too bad for me now and a grand isn't very much So I'm gonna do it. Oh, there we are third level. We're only down to one window now on each side We whiffed okay, rostering Half playable probably won't be casting these other two things. Okay. That was a gamble worth taking though. That's all right Tomorrow we buy on the staff and I am going to gala to About here the underground So that's a useful thing for you to do is to go and get ready to receive those soldiers May as well stop at the well Anyway, enough about me a horde of nymphs goes down to this army Pretty hard so let's do that. Yes, but I don't lose anyone Speed eight speed nine. What on earth? Why would I lose two? I don't get why? Why it's saying that This just kills all of them It's not even a fight. It's not even a realistic reluctant to turn down earth magic. He has the interference earth magic Think logistics is doing more for us especially in the short term might start Investing in XP. Okay now that we have our capital we can be a little bit more Generous where are my whites and okay? They're there. Okay. Yeah, yeah Okay, okay doing well tan having a good time up on the surface Isra by the soldiers And let us venture forth. We know we want these so that's a no-brainer Especially with your grand alts, right? So let's do that So it develops a green blowing portal out the front of the What looked to be an abandoned mine shaft? So it's here. They are the okays Or you can have basic sandworms so basic sandworm as I say looks like a minotaur but faster and flying and this thing Goes to health 60 attack is 15 and 12 instead of 13 as well, but goes to health 60 and Speed 10 so it's basically a thunderbird But on top of instead of lightning casting lightning ball like a thunderbird instead of that it you can devour a corpse traditional strikes so Let's go for these not very much more money.  What could I do with them? after I've given Given this factory army to these two heroes I can take the bone dragon and Any skeletons he gets and I can have the halflings as well Except for the fact that I don't have enough money. I will have by the time I've done some of my day She's actually we're probably gonna have to skip a turn here. So you've got a day off Come do you come do this come back to you about here? So you may as well get this money and isn't money Let's go for XP. Let's make this guy into something Yeah, because it's good and we've got another hero coming as well up. She goes I've already got water on this girl. So we'll stick to our guns Israel To gonna get to about here So she's looking solid enough now herself This fellow still doesn't know any spells, so that's a problem Okay day two you've been here you've done that Be near go here. So because they're movement for I'm gonna I feel like these could be of use and we leave 14 back They're movement for these movement for so there's very little downside To doing this. She's got a spell book There's no ammo point getting an ammo cart Come here chat with my man. Take the legs Keep the centaurs. Yeah, see you later. I'm gonna go here anyway. Get the bloodlust come to here And we're gonna fall pretty far short actually So tomorrow is race. Yeah, really not getting to well actually look she can get away to there So underground she'll probably make it to about there She's gonna go boom come back down to about here. So yeah, we should probably use his His moves to come back To there ish, okay So wrong don't you take those elves out man? I want those elves what that pandora's box This is what you want to see though You want to see tan wasting quite a lot of heroes time or just Taking turns going to the seeing stone the kind of thing you would have done as a beginner in the campaign, you know like Carefully leveling up every year. I'll never taking any risks That's the kind of behavior we want to see because it means they're wasting their time or we're making amazing use of ours So she comes to here, but after she's done it She's only gonna get back to about there isn't very good So I think it kind of didn't work what we probably want to do Is just crack on with this fellow Get ready to maybe have a go at this treasury tomorrow Yep That's my knowledge. All right. I'll take the gold this time. I think Three the prisoner no major downside to this in another third to daring display of daring There are criminals all over the map here. I do this and I get Jabakus Barbarian he is a level one barbarian. So okay our luck runs out. Okay. He's good at orcs, but who cares Probably not really planning to use Jabakus for much at all other than as a very man, which he actually can be now um Give me the skellies Give me the stuff as well because I'll be passing that on well I actually kind of feel like you should give me everything man You take my army and You can go for a wander with that. I'm gonna stop investing in this fellow though. Just I'm not sure if that might have been a mistake Jabakus, uh She comes down a girl. We want to actually do the job. She's heading to here Like that's her destiny. Uh, yeah. Yeah, it comes as far as you can Jab Gives everything he's got This is fine Do I want her slowed? I don't want her to have 12 skeletons. Um, but I do that's okay The one bone dragon is fine. So the sand worms will get minus one morale To that but who cares. It's okay. All right. So he's the one who's going to work with Isra to get the army down here. So that's useful. Jabakus. Thank you. Well done man. Let's find out about him Being the eldest son of Duke Borragus, Jabakus knows that he will one day rule the lands of Krula Like his father. He has learned that the best way to achieve his goals is through conquest Okay, well not leaving anyone guessing there. Are you not exactly a man in mystery? Let's get the derrick. Yeah It's worth going out of your way for Construction Nothing urgent, right? Like we don't need any of this to be built on day three No orders back. She goes. She's running background that way Tan still dallying around up there Okay, Isra bring me the stuff just in case I'll leave a little bit of movement there just in case I need to get out of the way of someone Jab, okay, so I've got 44 skeletons now. That's actually not nothing I know she deserves the bone dragon, but the bone dragon is going to be handy for these And I feel like I've got so many god people in the area that we'll be able to reconstitute ourselves as needed Sam is ready to fight the gremlins today, but that's going to be a gimme I think it's the treasury I wanted right here actually And we could use this fellow to do that Um, it's not very bad to run onto here with Clancy and just and change our mind. What do we do that? Wrong again, of course. It just seems like it's a bit too much On the other hand, it could be just five stacks of 30 And we get to fight Two kill them completely I might be all right We could sacrifice the gobos in New York something that don't matter at all Ezra is exhausted. Jabakus comes to here Give me the things I need to kill the dwarves None of that's gonna matter I think the orc and goblins are better than the one bone dragon Yeah, okay, let's do that So I never like ending up in this situation where all my good heroes are all bunched into one area Um Pretty nice All right, he's a good looking hero now I think he can beat a throng of dwarves It's only a hundred and they're not even good ones Okay, all right, let's have a go. Let's have a look at the animation of these sand worms Dives under the earth pops up crushes Because they're movement three, right?  I can Big damage great And I can just do this Take one step back One, two, three. I just wait So not quite get there Defense skill 18 Waiting waiting Waiting Really the only risk we're taking is good old-fashioned morale risk Which is what does happen at this stage of the game Pathetic Ah, it's woeful woeful. How hurt are you?  We've got these two stacks to come Just get out of the way with your flamethrower. I'm just worried about five reading Kills 19. I love that the automatons do an exact amount of damage Permanently blessed don't know if I love that Tell you what we could do for fun. We could absorb this corpse Look, see they can't see their little logo changes or you can't see behind my Check that isn't that cool I think as well if there's an enemy next door to the square you can attack from that square And it will devour first and then attack if I've read the rules rightly What am I doing? So I'm gonna left click on here and see what happens. Let's have a look He dives up and oh Did you see that animation? Terrifying Now what has that done? It doesn't outwardly show you exactly what it's done. His attack skill remains the same Now you can see down the bottom attack count two I think that means it's the same as a Crusader so he still will retaliate Which is unacceptable. I am just gonna end the fight here But I think that's what's what would happen is if we did attack with the ok's That's what they would do They've hurt themselves an extra attack As I say, I think this I think you can set it up in a way that gives you Gives you the ability to vow the corpse and then attack pretty nice Luck I already deal maximum damage with the automaton. I kind of feel like luck isn't really switched on the halflings have positive luck anyway So I'm just gonna take archery even though You know, I'm not really doing anything with the archery Because that's a nice pickup extra 5k.  I'll get ready to do it. Marcus is exhausted. That's good. That's in line with my Attention and She does want the bone dragon Does she want the L did she want these guys? They're not going to be spreading to seven right and a horde actually isn't that bad 50 to 99 right Smash past these yes, and I'll just take the freebie. No, I won't I lose one like how does that maths work?  I'm not worried. I'm not I'm not worried Yeah, right. Do you worst? Yeah, a horde of grand elves isn't gonna kill an automaton in a stack of 12 he said Got the tactics don't need to worry get this 80 I'm gonna be flying Borrowing against uh My word come on boys. How much damn is this? So I had planned to just kill them with this stack and then do this with this stack.  Yeah, I can easily still be up there. Now, what can I do? Plan a I'm just stand here if I just stand here With some stone skin for fighting shields better, right? Armageddon is letting them shoot armageddon is Right. Do you worst? 19 damage Oh, that did hurt must say that did hurt Shoot them.  I'm expert tactics So I think I'm gonna try and make this a wisdomless. I'm more in it for the bless, right? I want to do expert bless I don't need wisdom for that I suppose prayer would be another thing but with expert tactics Do I really need all of that or is it just overkill? Is this the girl I want to open the box? She's level six. I'm level 10 and I'm level 11 I don't want Sauron coming back through and stealing it from me. I don't think she's got the moves though Yes, she does Maybe just about okay on that basis. I'll just take it So she doesn't learn a bunch of air spells. Oh, that's wonderful terrible prize I was making noises in the last campaign about the Pandora's box as being a bit too good Um Or I've said it in the past anyway that sometimes it feels like oh you get a couple of Pandora's boxes early in the game and it's too good but They've definitely nerfed them. I think we're all still heading south though, right? We are still all continuing our journey south. We're leaving Agar to visit Derek's Am I seriously sending him down to do that? Just to find that out She's gonna run this way I'm gonna bring the army south with Clancy. I think I'll do this investigation first though What am I bringing you? She has a slot in her army. I mean, I'll get rid of the bone dragon probably after the horrible experience of the negative moron See what I mean about negative morale freezing in combat can completely ruin the combat Or is getting the extra attack When it's on the plus side is good, but it's not as good as the bad freeze as freezing It's not as good as freezing is bad It's a lot sided Bad morale is more bad Than good morale is good I don't think that's a better way to say it. It's still very confusing Serpentarium There it is up on the hill. Oh check it out the rainbow dragon He's only two grand Okay, two per week is pretty miserly, isn't it with the castles shouldn't they get more than that? That's like titans. That's like titans and archangels grow at that rate Maybe that's because of the gantry fair enough. You might say That's actually fair enough factory has two level seven creatures. So this can't be two op. You can't just get tons of them I think that's worth My time to mess around with this week How annoying will that be? Yeah, it's fine though. Just go do it. Okay Happy turn Sauron, what are you doing? You can't even fight the goblins like that's pathetic All right while I'm here and while I've got the army I'm doing this Uh, I just clicked there without even thinking we just found orange's base And it's available for us to just walk into that's just a fort Am I doing that? Royal armor of nyx sounds very good. Imagine if we got that I'm gonna step here because I'd like to know. Oh, I was hoping it would reveal me I think we just have to do this Obviously we might not get to keep the town You have to punish when your opponent leaves his town undefended. It might not even be his primary town. That's the thing And I mean it probably isn't right. It's a fort.  Oh, this is all that's here Um, okay, if that's all that's there, you can picture what's gonna happen, right?  So I'm just gonna apply the battle result I don't think it's gonna be a particularly interesting fight stick your head in Haste haste is actually gonna be useful And they haven't even built the tavern, but there is a fort here, which means you can do all these things I think they've built the fort. So that's a massive investment. They've put in there We can exploit now It's kind of cool Could also build the tavern In the old horn of the abyss they changed it so that you couldn't get sprites at all without the magic university Which they've built. Oh my god Ha ha ha ha Wow, any hero can come here and learn any school they want. That's really good Yeah, you gotta pay two grand. Okay. Well given that I've forcibly learned a bunch of air magic What did she learn? She learned Yeah, she learned a bunch of air spells That she didn't get to keep because she didn't have the wisdom. Um anyway Okay, so this is inconclusive. I don't so the old horn of the abyss had it that you couldn't get the Sprites at all until you built the magic uni, which is five grand So they've they've built the fort and the magic uni, but they haven't built the town hall They're five grand each these things Because the university is built you can now get sprites However, I heard a rumor that with 1.7 in the factory that made the sprites more accessible again Because the nerf was too big Basically made it too difficult to get sprites in the vanilla game. The sprites are insane. They're just so so good And you can do unfair things with them, especially in the early game But I do wax on about that in one of my tier list videos Check out the channel by the way for more Great heroes three content. Um, don't go anywhere. We'll be right back after these messages Um orange is gonna come back and they're gonna be cross. I don't want to leave any of my factory troops here I don't really want to leave the bone dragon either If they come back and recapture it who cares If it's still there on day one, I'll buy some annoying creatures to defend it like maybe By the citadel for example Bird alone another school of magic day five day six He's not gonna make it back. Is he day five? Maybe just do these two There's a good chance he's not gonna get back in time Day five day six get some you'll get back if you do if he ignores this one He'll be all right get the windmill as well. It's probably on. I've been visited. Okay, right. She's coming back Get yourself ready mate. Uh because we're gonna do We're gonna do these jobs She comes galloping through to here probably about here. She gives us stuff He's gonna do both of these give the army back to her. She's gonna come Lie down. No, actually I've got a whole third hero I can use for that Okay, so I rarely play this way I really do this sort of stacking thing where I have three viable fighting heroes all moving around together You're a bit vulnerable with just one halfling, but who cares too much if you die not me really I have to decide whether we're gonna hover around this region with him Now in terms of investment it's day five. I bought the Serpentarium That's too greedy surely um Do I also want to invest in? The watchtower I'm gonna get the watchtower eventually and I'm gonna get the gantry eventually so So what what else is competing for my attention? I could try to invest in this I mean, this is a pretty cheap investment, right? I think just do this Get this town moving. Solium It's weird, you know, like my last two campaigns necropolis and Conflux no move on before that was inferno in the moon before that was complex It's interesting that we find ourselves, uh Essentially in the same town. I might be wrong that there's no necro anyway What are we doing here? I can just build it later like I could build it on day seven Right See what they do What are you doing sourong? You're just running for it now You can't even beat the archers. So you're just completely Bricking it Okay, she pops through the portal What was the plan again? We're gonna give you the army. You're gonna do this. You're gonna come back and give it to Isra Isra's in the way That doesn't quite get the job finished logistics people The dwarf guy doesn't know how to cast spells so that doesn't matter Not the finished halflings. Yep. Okay. Clancy much. We might be quite useful here, too You're gonna be safe here, right? Yeah Yeah, it's not a problem 100 m's like it's but you can see my army 24 of these nine of these You guys forgive me. I'm just gonna take it What is this? Is this golems, right? Steel golems Yeah, okay. We're gonna need to apply a little bit of uh Can you come up and help me with these after I've done that? I think that's probably right Yeah, you could be in a spot of bother here kill I think this is right. We want to use the automotons. We want to split up, right? And I'll see you at the end for a big repair Kill three to eight here Okay, you need to move anyway three Oh, yeah, they've already retaliated. Okay That's fine This is also fine. This isn't very good Oh cop that you little buzzard Uh It's messy. It's because they're speedy. They've got speed six. I think this is what I want to do though Wait with them. What I had with this was to box this guy in To keep him out of uh halfling range. I think my mistake was maybe bringing the halflings Yeah, over to you.  I can completely incinerated my own halflings. Well, I just sort of Set it all down that. Oh my god You can do the same to the armadillos here from not careful. In fact, I can't attack them at all without Army my own team Okay, how about this? How does this work? Can I devour and then attack? So let me try. I thought I could devour and attack I don't need two attacks there. Do I what happens? Can I devour and then attack? Yeah, and I still get an extra turn No, no, that was the end of my turn. Okay. Okay. Actually, I like I like that better. You can't do both I thought I'd read that you can do both That's not actually true.  Yes apply the battle result. But let's take good for this fellow Okay, that's the prize giants. Well, actually, I suppose that's useful. That's okay with her Right with tactics giants are pretty good with tactics Bring me back what remains of the army Oh god, um You see guys are all that remain.  I might as well just have this and the giants just do that So I'll be undead You have this I think Sam has a grievance with Clancy what were you doing? Where's all the halflings? Well We hit a bit of a snafu You call this a snafu? Pendant of freedom Okay, he easily makes it home. That's good No time for this, do it Let's get back up here You've already done this this week, right? Yeah Oof All right, go and learn something Halfling now What's it gonna be? Do we Wait around to this bone dragon? Yeah, go find out just for interest Interest say what it does. Okay, shield Isra is the one I want Oh, hey, he can just run down this way with the army Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can just pop out here with it Uh, or if you send someone up Like even Isra could right pop up here and just grab it. There's no sign of orange up here So I think this might be mine. This is a very low regret investment, right? But I'm tempted to go town hall if we think it is ours We should definitely go town hall. I'm gonna I'm gonna build this garden of life And then I'm gonna upgrade on day one if we get any If we do still have the town at that point Uh, you can be here waiting for that Clancy, you're the one who's gonna go and receive the army We're saving some money because we think we're gonna want to spend it on That's just her that's just sarong. Yeah Quite nice shape here, right? Let's go down and find out Once and for all Is there an acropolis here? No Oh, well, there still could be hang on No, it is a tower town Yes, and then except So I can conquer this tower. It is a tower town. I'm gonna conquer it Today Try to conquer it today Does it matter No, because I get the first turn, right? I can just do day one.  Well, that's what we came for That's what we uh claim to be about But for some reason it's flung the these two way out of position Tempted me into thinking is there is gonna be a thing Loins legs of Legs of Legion get them back there And I need money, but we're still not investing anything else further today in this town I'm not getting any more dwellings I'm not doing it because there's too much uncertainty, right? There's just way too much uncertainty I could go citadel today That's a decent investment actually citadel. I really thought we'd find a necro here and this would be something else But it clearly isn't what's she doing is she coming back now or What did we decide we decided we could invade them tomorrow The sandworms can go under the Walls It's either. I mean, it'll be the same fight tomorrow that it is today So So let's just have a bit of a look around Do the fight tomorrow Get some scouts while we're on the road Good enough that is my ideas ago that these used to have multiple exits. They used to have more than one Order would share different exits. Maybe it did but anyway, every random map I've played in the last 10 years or so They're always what they say on the same monolith two-way. I might have been wrong about it ever being a thing in first place as well Let's head against you of plague and buy one of these Oh, look at it. It's like something out of uh bar eastern mythology speed 11 25 to 45 is very hydra. It's very much a hydra health 160 But the speed 11 and then on top of that if you're in trouble you can skip your whole turn To be invulnerable, but you can't also attack on the same turn once they're upgraded they get to do both Okay Yeah, if I end up upgrading the armadillos, I can do that tomorrow So you stay put you get ready to receive the army Jabaka gets ready to buy a bone dragon You're gonna make it to About here tomorrow. So is where you can stay right where you are Clancy is gonna receive the army and I am going to Deliver the army to about Here it's all just feeling a bit too cakey needed to ish to me though like How has orange not come back to punish? Uh, maybe we should have a look in the D Den of thieves Just get a sense So we're tied for first on towns. We have the ogre club giving us the big attack, but everyone's pretty mediocre. Look at this Every single faction has kind of mediocre We're ahead of the curtain. I have to say we are ahead of where I thought it would be at this turn Where we usually are at this point At the end of month one. We're usually you like second worst factions Seems like it's very even steven right across the map I'm surprised to see Tan is exhaustive this area. Okay.  I think maybe the answer is No, because we want the soldiers We certainly want the sand worms Um and the coattles stack of three now Okay, I don't have the heart to buy the halflings because I'm just too incompetent to um For their lives to be We better leave them here as garrison defenders kind of thing. Like it's It's fine, right? Don't care about armadillos enough This is fine. Oh, that is where as far as I was going to make it yesterday Um No, look at him smashing it down the road. Absolutely fangin it Clancy Swap armies Clancy comes running back down She's here I'll look at that when a plan comes together, baby Um This is just gonna be this and she's gonna smash through here. We're going to link up the conflict. So yeah, let's just do this Boom boom boom This is looking good now Now she's looking pretty Good Day one advantage goes to the player Okay, they have not purchased this week's troops yet And this is just part of the single player experience It's one of the advantages that the player does have is that you always have that day up your sleeve You get to reinforce and buy your stuff Uh before then so it is an arrow tower um We are going to be taking hits I can try to get the fight over with more quickly by I don't think remove obstacle is going to get me over there Uh, I've got a decent magic arrow. That's about all I can do to help Don't know earthquake or any other stuff like that. Maybe stone skinning something Yes, and I'll gladly take the free Clancy will need to come down here. Where did sarong end up? I can trap her in there. That's quite nice I think we just have to get this done don't we first So I might lose some sand worms here, but Because the arrow tower I think would be too stupid It might the arrow tower might go for the engineers though as well, which is also quite bad Um See this is where ballistics would be nice Sorry, it would right that kills two I can kill 12 of these. That's the biggest stack. I think that's what I want to do Oh look at that bearing under the walls very very evil All right, can lightning bolt, but that won't kill Oh god Right, yeah, we've got to get these stacks dead So that's a stack dead And these guys really have no choice but to hit the defend button and just hope for the best That's a very nice favor you've done me. Thank you Never losing one It's hilarious. That's hilarious. Oh, I didn't actually kill the whole stack That's good That I can use What are they? Nagas I could do the invulnerability thing Nagas come down I don't deal enough. I do invulnerability On her turn I repair And then it cycles back to On her turn. Sorry on her turn. She walks around here and Attacks the worms and gets retaliated against some dice and if she doesn't I'll Yeah, I'm gonna do that. So let's go. Let's go skip a turn Oh, look at them. They're meditating The colors like coming out like the pulsing colors flowing down the feathers Wicked cool is that I ask you So my plan is I'm waiting this turn And then the automaton is getting repaired Then the naga's either come and kill me or if they don't I kill them I never thought of I should have dangled these guys out the front So that I could repair them like this Can't touch me. I'm invulnerable and then I don't retaliate because they're naga's but now I kill them anyway That's a price we paid there Is there a mage guild in here? There is Welcome to cloud fire. Oh, I never switched this off spell research. What does that mean? All right. Well, actually I do want less I'm not gonna I'm gonna let myself learn that right It looks like it's a work in progress. I I don't hate this idea of swapping spells out of the mage guilds I just don't think it's necessary I do love the art. Look at that. So you can see it in the crystal ball there. It's being researched kind of thing Very very cool. Um, but I don't really Intend to use it much. I think it's something probably the AI Well, then again, the AI was doing it wasn't it? So I'm saying that it's an advantage to the player, but The AI's perfectly capable of learning it too. Did we decide she wants to go in there is the wall of knowledge built? It is not built Look out tower could be good. Oh, couldn't it? But I won't be quite as bad this time of the day Where are we? We don't have the cloud temple up yet all of knowledge today Yes, let's do the wall of knowledge today Invest in her education. And do I want to try to Fly out of here and trap her? Yeah Yes, and yes free experience by the way. Yeah, see the creatures are available. That's a thing So I get to buy them sort of day one abuse I had thought actually that it would be interesting to do a campaign where I'm not allowed to buy creatures on day one It's a road down here So there's nothing for free or guaranteed in this world We're gonna want to Put some stodge behind the walls. These guys are great for that to just sit there in case uh Tan comes back Right Jabakus Do what you would put on this earth to do To run mindlessly around Helping other people achieve greatness You didn't get very far there pal did you?  Let them just swarm the bone dragon. It doesn't matter terrible Yeah, I'm not gonna come anywhere near death. So it's fine It's an important dynamic of the game with tier seven creatures So we've paid five engineers to get this one bone dragon, right? Because of the way that The game works the way damage gets stacked on That one bone dragon can take a hundred and fifty points of punishment or there are any consequences whatsoever And being able to leverage and exploit that is really what the reward is for um ramping into tier seven It's the HP more than anything else more than the damage they deal or any of the other school special abilities Like resurrection or you know dragon breath. It's the HP.  It just gets it all back for free as soon as the fight's over Jabakus My mate, okay, we can barely get there anyway. Jeez I'll stand here. There is a question. Could I do that fight? With three bone dragons that it's the wrong kind of enemy to be going up against Um We never resisted to some of these things as well can't be hypnotized Yeah, I don't know about that one. I don't know but I'm out of money. I'm out of moves. So let's end the turn She gets the gems and then just Runs out of ideas Jab help me out here, son It's only one bone dragon If he gets caught and dies with one half thing, I'm not that sad, right? I'm a bit sad, but I'm not gonna play around it I don't know if I want to do this fight. Yeah, you'll see all it couldn't am I completely wrong I I could get it later or I could get it with um Ice elementals and lightning elementals the benefit of them As another library good god lots of kings. Oh man Sam would have been amazing against them. I want to get scouts off. I could teach isra What do you want to learn? Do you want to learn slow? Earth magic. I mean, I could I could go and buy her a uh a school of magic or two I mean all these skeletons We're just free meet for the grinder taking kendi from a baby Okay, they're gonna murder the skulls and she's just the wrong hero for that fight. Sadly There is a wrong place But yeah, I'm willing to invest I'm making enough money But I can afford to do this That's interesting, right? That's a grand. Let's just do this No, my spot's not bad She already knows lightning ball though. Worth a go Right You are gonna be the tower guy Makes sense makes sense for him to do it. So If we stop on the way Um Pick up a spell book finally didn't learn much. Did you what'd you learn? Oh? Well I could build this. Um, I get something useful I think I'm probably gonna do that. Yep. Okay, so we need to grant Go to the marketplace here. What'd you get? Yeah, okay. Well, we've got something here weakness could be quite good against them Uh, no money left. So gallop on So that one worked They're too far away Come closer and cast it again There's only 10 I can't beat 67 of them Not without taking massive losses That's good because I'm sick of freeing prisoners, you know Like that's all I do with my life is free prisoners All right swap a roof Go get that task done man with my blessing Good luck. Godspeed I will return to well. No your job's actually to do this Yeah, just to get that done Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. Cool. End turn Sarah ungrows a brain decides to Fighting down here Let's go ahead and gallop on past though So Here's where he gets to learn the stuff that's in here. Do we want to do this? What could I learn? I'm never gonna learn animate dead What are these three spells? And while I'm here. Do I want to learn a law of magic? That's a very good good question actually should is relearn a law Well, she might get animate dead eventually So we should maybe go for earth Just so she knows it um Kind of feel like actually buffing the skellies is what I want to do with the necromancy which earth doesn't help Whereas water I can't bless them Bloodlust I can shield and stone skin them though. That's pretty nice. I know how to do that now All right, let's set her up so that she can be She can be an expert earth mage There you go. It's done. She goes to the university. She learns earth magic very very good Uh, I'm gonna let these build up here because they're gonna need to get upgraded to uh lightning and ice elementals A horde of dragonflies is doable. Looks like they're guarding something that's just okay Um You get to get back It's just available five birds Never mind couldn't do things in the right order for that to happen All right, this is the big fight we were building up to before we do that. Well sam have a look down here Take your head up through here for me Here's the rest of tan stuff I think I'm happy for her to get the scouts off if it's a stronghold That it will last It'll stick There's nothing like knowing where they are So even if she gets killed Am I quite killed? I mean You know what I mean like I have to flee from combat Revealing that chunk of map is going to be really really valuable I'll do this. Do you have time this time to get this? Waste some time getting there. That's fine Clancy I've been 10 dread knights here. I've got no Tactics this time we're in tight formation Good luck, mate. He basically has no useful spells Dread knights pause, I pause, you pause Very careful to avoid murdering our allies Okay, well, that's I hope that if I can I lose one here So I think I want to move here and body block because you can't go around the top Yeah And I'd love you to hit the automatons if you wouldn't mind Please Yeah, this works out beautifully actually. It's really really good Automatons. Yes, that's okay. Not from Wait Come do this All right, we lose a worm It's okay Library of Enlightenment caretaker admits me Into the library of enlightenment It's not me. It's him. You're able to learn much in the short time you spend here. Well, he is What's his name again? Clancy All right, that's a that's a that's a pretty big step up to be fair What are we doing?   I need more. I do need people I need I need to find good people. Welcome to the TQ So he was trapped in a genie bottle for over a millennium I'm so grateful to the human who finally released him that he accidentally swore to serve the man for eternity As fate would have it that man is Gavin Magnus the immortal ruler Of the Bracata Highlands and here he is serving us With his exceptional magical abilities How do we feel about obsidian gargoyles? I don't know if we were to get them No, I can't really afford to Come fly up here. I've got some gargoyles Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's do that Buy some normal gargoyles stone ones Leave these at home.  He's already incredible Okay, lots of wyverns are terrified by my forces. It feels too easy. I'm saying yes Monarchs Damn it. I was gonna curse them. I didn't realize they could actually get all the way over there Waiting with these, you know, look at that kills seven. I'm happy Slumping in my chair here Breeze hand worms is pretty bad. Oh that hurt too Don't have a good square to attack from with the fire breathing. So I'll do this Quite bad Quite a bad outcome Yes, apply the battle results. I'll own it Wisdom You can come steal that off me. Good.  Do I wish to retreat? Oh, I am getting hit. Um, no Apply a battle result. No Okay, Iona is the hero. They busted it up jail and she is level one That good I have a whole pile of these Diffling at you He's gonna get tired first Oh, she helped quite a lot there. All right, maybe I'm gonna win it Well, again, is there a thing where um I mean, I'm gonna flee I guess but I think there's a thing where I could I could give these guys the endless run around and eventually it runs out of turns But I think it might be a hundred turns or something So I won't subject you guys to all that. I'll just uh I'll just flee here Fleece from battle, but I killed his army or her. Iona. Hello. Who are you? Yeah, I think we have to try that This is all fine. I'm just gonna get these things A horde of air by lords.  Could give me the I come and do that. I'll come and do this fight now Even though I don't anticipate I'll be very good at it Some about clancy There's nothing I could do about that I mean, that's just Yes, there is. I could have thought about it. I could have had her out on the edges Guard against silver pegacy Thought about it a bit hard Wait on Stay where you are and kill 19 of these Nice Not nice. Let's see Do nothing Yep, nice Oh terrible I had his woeful I feel like I'm coming off the boil. I was making good decisions earlier that that's an atrocious result That's got to be my worst result in the last couple of campaigns of a fight like 90 pegacy And I'm giving up look how much I gave up there That's just shocking with 15 and 10 Over them I have to accept it's that's so disappointing like I'm really salty like that's awful. What a terrible outcome six of my best And then two of these they're going sort of some critical now as well like they're getting too small He was useless Clancy Even after you went to the library and everything like I cannot believe that result And my own stupidity for putting engineers not having loose formation with them out at the edge Okay, you might say that's on me I mean, it's all on me This guy does not go well with this army compared to the tactics girl Having said that the tactics wouldn't have saved me against them Well, yes, they would right because with the tactics I walk over with movement 10 and kill the pegacy with the automatons Yeah, I don't know Salt salt is real in this one. What do I do against this? It comes running up here. What am I gonna do? I have defenders she won't take the town Do I care enough about that hero likewise here like it's to you Maybe it's the right answer to come back down.  That's insane, man. What you found there? That's another portal All right Portals portals everywhere. Oh, soul me. I would like that. All right. We're starting to form a bit of a plan, aren't we Soul me with the orb of the firmament investments town hall are we Confident and often this now There's the bridge over this is already a city hall and castle. That's a much much more sophisticated town Oh, did I ever get the tower and do I need the tower? Oh, I should have done that instead of wasting her move there. Ah, oh going off the boil here I'm losing. That's still worth doing What is all this? Okay. So does the cloud temple guarded by nothing? Okay. I want that cloud temple And I want to build one in here As well before the end of the week and I want soul me to have the orb of the firmament And I've got so many viable people who want to be heroes now. I still have to hire back thingy before the end of So I think a good a good plan could be to hire her and come galloping down here with the armadillos What are 29 armadillos and 29 halflings going to do? We could challenge with the tactics, right? We could do that. Maybe hire some other stuff as well What's in here for her now with the water magic still just frustrating And she has no spell points. Does she come back with full spell points? I wonder. I'm hiring her here. Okay What do you have for spell points? Nothing? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So you could stay the night here, right? We could upgrade the ranch And then they turn into bell weather armadillos stay the night and um Then you can come and we can squeeze this hero out Especially if she's gallops up if she gallops stupidly up into here We could sting her. Yeah, that's not a bad move. Okay. That's a bit better My brain's coming back to me.  So you reach your own point where it's like surely I just can't keep massively expanding with no major forces of my own.  Actually, yeah Well, I mean, I do it's better than I thought plus four to both attack and defense. That's quite nice go ahead and I'll unbother Go ahead and do all that And we're a little bit late getting everything out of the front door on day one But who cares and we have the armadillos which aren't useless 30 halflings will they just die? Come on, Sam I'm interesting fine. Okay, see if we can do better better to just kill things I think right? Yeah, I just kill five of these straight away. Look at them pacing over and then Oh, I tell you Oh one parishes Did you not know I am stodgy as hell? Do I need magic hour? I don't need it. I'm just gonna do it.  I will just walk through your battle lines So I get to kill girl now I want to make sure I kill girl just in case she does have anything All right, so I've got two people left. What happens here? Let's remove this. Oh, I thought I could remove this chasm Right at movement seven. Can you believe these armadillos are faster than wolf riders? Very bad. What do I need here 66? Still alive. Come on down. Do you have more army? I don't miss them. I think that's the end of it, right? I didn't even notice how they moved before They don't move like that every time do they? Do they roll around? Is it only when they're hasted? Have they programmed it so that they move that way when they're hasted? Or have I just not noticed How cool it is that they roll up in a ball and roll around? Anyway All right, so I get whatever she was carrying was just this oh, I like leadership I think I quite like leadership.  I'm down sort of sort your stuff out I've been there Get me back to civilization. Yeah, come this way. Tell me the red hero fortress callback. Okay, that's their best hero So if he wants the conflux, it's his right. There's no point. Is there a hero here or not? No Just recentralize with her I think that's a pretty good use of his life now or his uh His life and times great great great. Can you get to it?  No, there's something huge guardian or tomatons by the looks Okay Okay, he's not interested in me at the moment blue is showing an interest in that part of the world Everything's kind of everywhere. Everyone's everywhere You guys are coming for vengeance How far can you get? Can Clancy even get back? He can He can but it's all right. Oh man. I have a bit left over So if we wanted to make sure so me it doesn't die Probably do this 282 No, I won't go that far. I'll just what I'll do is I'll do the Okay. Well, there you go. I'm just rect it. So might be losing some here, but um, probably not Probably not. It's probably okay. Whoever you think deserves it. All right. Well quite a lot of our campaigns have gone this way where we get behind the walls and Yeah, I think that's right As and when he attacks me, but he probably won't attack me Maybe I should have attacked him. It's fine man. Get some scouts If you do nothing else Oh, yeah Yeah, there's a blue guy. Yeah, come back this way Lou has some action in this area and then this connects through to us as well So Isra could be In a spot of bother here.  That's fine. That done Day six day seven is boom And we miss out on the legs again. I just realized I could sit in here We'll do that Because you never seem to get this right to deal with the legs Okay, I don't think you can uh, take me and I'm gonna use the day to buy the cloud temple. I'm serious I'm all in I am all in. I'm maybe gonna buy that giant. There you go Hey, we must come to the complex at some point. I take blues up in there doing that 10 runs further north to escape. That's okay Use it think twice. That's not surprising I now actually could trap you though, right? So I could leave the golems at home I can trap you in this pocket That's what we're gonna do. All right. That's what we're gonna do Yeah, what do we do that?  You can't escape me. Get the money. Stay where you are You get the legs back I'm making sense It's clicking You can draw this guy away with your barkers, maybe I thought to run for it, but might be better to Get his attention Let's stay alive Scouting is good That's useful Can't tell me that's not useful All right, where'd she go? She went all the way up to here now Uh, I might skip these ones and just get these ones On that music Go have your turn You don't have any good ideas Blue is strong blue blue feels good Sarah looks like you're messing around No, that won't do Well, that might help a bit Purple is, oh man, purple is interested in the conflicts now So we're very friendly, so we can't defend everything We'd go here, you know, first Is that greedy? Do I miss out on killing him if I do that?  Yes, I do, then do you want these? Absolutely Reinforcements Thank you, Solmyr I cannot hold a candle to you as a hero, but I am level 12 Clancy, you're dopey Mate, I haven't been impressed with you at all You haven't done me a good job I've given you all my resources Now I want you to kill this guy without a lot of hoo-ha Use your imagination, son, get it done 49, 70 What do you want to do? So Dima's the good one, the one who knows Armageddon I thought he was one of the bad ones I think I was thinking of Dark Storm 150, kills 11, most of them will probably guard or else I didn't actually lose a codle I feel like I did lose a giant Okay, and he's got how many of them up his sleeve Oh, look at my interference, though, helping That's good Let's not move into short range, everyone's waiting Oh, I meant to curse Oh, my actual No, no, hang on, I'm cursing the orcs It's okay, it's all right Cursing the orcs Still shoot them? Go for the Cyclops, we'll start working them over 38 from the first ATK, good god Oh, I'm going to lose most of my army I don't know if this was a good decision to attack I'm like having massive second thoughts More meteor shower coming That is what it is, I can't play around everything Well, that's nice of you, thank you I'll take that Kill zero Nope, didn't live Okay, this is uh... It's not good I put my guy here, not fly here and do this, right? That would be great to land there and go invulnerable Right, this time we're cursing the Cyclops Waiting on the Cotal Oh, no, I've got two hexes of body I could eat this Could do that, kill three to four of them No, let's just kill him And deny the archery, seems good Okay, now we're talking, this is good I need to do it, I think that's fine That's handy That's fine, sure Yeah, not good enough Now... Pre-emptive Or hit here Let's pre-emptive these guys The Cyclops do get to shoot, but they get to shoot anyway Cop that, that's a great attack Well, alright I can do this Oh, fine Kill one, I don't think I need to bother Fly up here and finish him off Bad luck, whatever, okay Might be able to destroy the tent Yeah, okay, he's going to come up and hit the Cyclops Let's keep cursing, it's working nicely for us Actually, Automatons are going to do that These fellows are going to smash these Taunt between that and the corpse developer That's a nice attack Now, do you have one? No, blind! Okay, why'd you blind them? Five giants do damage Bad luck on the crack back Okay, but I need... I'll kill him, but I'm worried that I can't repair him Well, okay, we're having another round Oh, now I've made it too hard for you to get No, you can't get around You can work your way through, yeah I have one bad luck, and you can see the impact that that has, man Kill five of these And then on the giant's turn I unblind my ladies No, that's not necessary Get in there and do the repair Only three? There she runs Gremlins and Gargoyles weren't what I would call core I don't think it's a terrible outcome Losing the codles, it's not too bad We didn't invest too much, we spent ten grand on the dwelling Six grand on the guys We've nearly run out of sandworms Giants are going to be a bit more tenable as a snowball I think for us Expert water gives This guy knows Ice Bolt, is he the knowledge guy? No, he's not, yeah, yeah Don't think we really need basic water magic, do we? Take the archery again Now at his day one there will be another giant sitting here We're going to want to buy him and then go finish Tan off or take Tan's main town And then we want to be able to quickly come back and defend against blue or red There's quite a lot going on here Right, Sauron ran away to here Might be worth killing her now How many moves will I have left? None? Okay, so I can't get the bone dragon I'm going to go do this first That's fine there Okay, go do that That'll be okay, so he's none Do we want to fight this fight? I mean, the bone dragon is just going to kill everything Yeah, let's fight it in case we can get her to capitulate Might be able to sting her with the magic arrow Like, I feel like I don't want them to run away Wait Okay, so what I'm saying now is Bone dragons are going to act Need a bit more damage than 50 What else can you do for me? 90? And then Sauron's dead, dead She didn't have anything anyway Okay, before we finish that off down there We want to finish this work in the north I don't know what you're going to use me for yet But maybe something... Sam back at the factory Now what's she buying? We're kind of invested in these armadillos now, aren't we? The automotons are still a very viable stack The engineers... Feel like it's maybe the coattles we want to let go And just not really invest much more in So that's where I'm going to wait for you I might get as far as that Oh, and I have the legs, but that's okay, you're taken So you're going to doof, doof Right, see if I can do better I can actually walk him to here and offer him as a sacrifice This is the way to do it That wastes his attack Yeah, perfect Oh man, well, if I'd killed him that would have been good, wouldn't it? Paul goes, ladies and gentlemen For all of your Hero's Might Magic 3... Ninja moves Sometimes I wonder Sometimes I wonder Do I actually deserve to have a YouTube channel? Am I just really an imposter? Who claims to be an enthusiast of the game? Doesn't actually know what he's doing Yeah, yeah, sorcery, no way Yes After all that Okay Upstairs to kill Tan Can't be bothered with that Yep, that's what we're going to do next Jabakus, keep exploring my man What are these? Look at that, crimson codles Leaving them to it just for the meantime With my one halfling Come and be an absolute nuisance With my blessing End it there In fact, I'm going to save it there I'll see you guys in a wee bit And we're back the next day Welcome back everybody I want to start by apologising to anyone who noticed That I was constantly touching my face For the first couple of hours I started doing the edits for the first couple of weeks And I've noticed that in a couple of the fights I'm just absently touching my face all the time It's really annoying to me And here I'm doing it right now, see So I'm going to make a conscious effort You're not going to see this hand That sounds dodgy You're not going to see this hand But I can assure you all it will be doing is Holding my teacup And that kind of thing Alright, that's enough about my hand Where were we up to? We were up to a point where Clancy was going to go upstairs And murder Tan Who has a stronghold up here That we know must exist It must be almost exactly right here Okay, to do that though He is going to be using this army Which is a bit tired looking The giants are nice But everything else is a bit tired Like the sand worm stack is not good on eight We lost the codles down to one And yeah, the other stuff is all looking a bit tired I think we want to freshen him up with The new troops we have in New Dole And that's going to be brought down to him by Agar Passing on to Sam And Sam's going to come galloping down here We also have these cool fast armadillos Which are expensive though So they're good but they'll chew up all of our gold If we waste all our gold on them So let's see who we've got on offer In the tavern Castles constructed colossus, that's cool Jury is a level one mercenary And look at jury Look at that artwork What, I'm not sure if jury is male or female Could be female Look at that artwork Like something out of Phantom of the Opera Or I'm actually thinking maybe it's Like Seven of Nine Like you know I'm going to use my hand here Like what is that called? Like a prosthetic piece of plate For the skull So we've either got jury Jury is a mercenary with an okay army Armourer is pretty good Instead takes arena And she's eagle eye which is terrible But she does have a good, relevant army And we are saving up golems And she's got the spell book and the three knowledge So this is a classic example of what I mean This army is too good This makes her too good as a hire Compared to jury Eagle eye doesn't matter right Because she's just offering so much She'll have whatever's in the mage guild here Yeah, so lightning bolt, ice bolt But I think for flavours sake Um In a vacuum I'd take Serena But I want to take jury and find out about him Okay jury welcome to the team Immediately gains one knowledge Look at that hard work man That's just so good Alright jury what's the story Jury spent the longest time in search for a magician Who would not just promise to But actually eliminate the repercussions of wounds She had sustained Apologies she is a lady She had sustained in dozens of clashes One excellent blacksmith was able To forge a surchial plate To replace the part of her skull Caved in by a wyvern's tail And the mercenary now values fine armour Far more than any magical malarkey So fun and well written What is surchial Surchial must mean related to the skull Or cranium I'm learning all these words and definitions Like I learned what an adobe is I love this amazing Amazing character Cool hero Interesting flavourful Fun In a word Now jury I do want you to Get ready to receive the army You're gonna come flying down here Probably get to about there Solmy's gonna do the rest How about you here? Do you need a spell book? I think we'll buy it We'll buy jury a spell book Even though probably there will be repercussions tomorrow I don't think we're gonna have enough money to buy everything The factory But we'll find out A big part of our success from here on Will depend on whether blue and red Give us a break I was gonna say I don't think the game is teasing me So weirdly jury's not dead Blue right out of moves Oh that's brilliant That is perfect However Can I get the army up there? It's all gonna depend on whether Sam How many moves will she have left? Not enough So the other thing I could do is hire Serena And upgrade all of these two armor golems And that's pretty nice I could also get the Nagas Could do that Okay that's the first thing we're doing We're hiring Serena Here she is She starts with these slow guys So I don't think Okay she's gotta get to there Here 532 will remain Oh man We could go for iron golems By the rest of these guys And turn them into iron golems Which are much much better than I rated them In the creatures tier list video I gave them a C plus They're more important than that Especially because of the mage tower Even though the whole thing with mages Is not as bad anymore Another option would be We could go for the Nagas here But they're very expensive And the pavilion upgrading Is just out of our reach financially I think iron golems are a solid investment I hate the genies, especially 12 I think we've got enough money To just about do all this today And it's not an investment I'm Sad to make anyway Only 1100 And that's a really solid stack of units right there 34 iron golems Is the business Now he doesn't want to go too far out of the way Solmir has plenty of moves Come to here So Solmir grabs the army I can actually give her the trident And Curse in case she doesn't know it Cure Interference probably won't matter But go ahead and take it Take this incredible thing as well Plus 4 to everything And you can keep that And recover the spells Okay, happy with this? Yes Okay, so Solmir gallops north Urgently To our new hire Serena Let's find out about Serena The first time she cast a spell She nearly killed herself Off to a great start, aren't we? She channeled so much magical energy Into the spell That a wizard in a neighboring town felt it He quickly sought her out Bringing her to the wizard's guild So that she could learn to control her powers Okay And then she chose to go into the speciality Of Eagle Eye Thereby completely wasting Her talent altogether Right I want all these to aren't the Kotal Or should we bank him? Well, I don't have enough slots anyway So let's keep the Kotal Take all the artifacts Is that foolish? Or is it just gonna die? I'm worried it's just gonna die Or it's just a one-off? Could be quite a useful thing to have For a runner hero to have a single Kotal Just to be super fast on the adventure map Might be better Okay, I think I might be with that Alright Serena, what can you do for us?  Just looking at the line up The beholders are in the top I think that's the side I want to pressure So I'm gonna flip this over a little bit And there's gonna be more pressure Coming down on the beholders As a result of that I'll let the Rocks, Minotaurs and Wyverns Find their way to us instead of chasing them Let's try it like that In terms of spells Yeah, she can do some useful things Let's go, Serena, straight into it Tough fight Okay, what can we do? Oris mercifully has Ten spell points, but she does have nine attack Eight Cyclopses So this could be quite a deep and interesting combat here I feel like Curse is gonna do good work With the automatons Let's get him cursed You wait If you guys want to attack me, you can I might leave the Minotaurs out of it And the Wyverns I hope Fine with this And the Wyverns, just about Right, I'm gonna wait with these Giants Do you have positive morale, fellas? Is there any reason to go yet? Or should I wait? I think I'm still waiting It'd be great if I could lure these guys out To here Ooh, did you see the way that dissipated the electricity? That's new, is it? Whoa, crikey What happened to you? You got blessed So Oris undid my curse, and then some I think now is a good time to repair Just get that done Yeah, come back to me, boys Now the Giant has seven And you've got six I don't really want to fight behemoths with my Giant, though I might not have a choice Not too worried about that She can go around the long way, actually, if she has to So I'm just gonna move to here And then the Sandworms are gonna kill a couple of these I think that's probably worthwhile And we're both gonna go and hit the Cyclops after that Okay, I did lose one on the Crackback, actually It's quite bad Maybe I'll just stay here and do this And yeah, we wanna wait and see what they do Well, actually, if the Minotaur is dead, that's really, really good for me Yeah, let's try and kill them Okay, that's done Now I was thinking Cyclops To block the Cyclops' attack I just really don't want her to haste That's my only concern Let's hit the Cyclops because that's got such a big upside Of stopping their ranged attack It is just magic arrow Now I have this Which is just a leash Should I be blessed? Maybe I could be blessed How much damage will I do? 200 odd at maximum bless Let's do that first Maybe the Giants need to walk down here Oh man, how many did I lose? 7? How good are Ogres? It's not fair Oris can't stop me cursing now This just kills 3 outright Okay, well, I just didn't do the math right Or I can kill 5 to 8 Let's just kill them That's value That is value Alright Do I waste the Gargoyles in order to make this hit here?  Has that been buffed? 13 attack skill? I lose all my engineers? That really stinks How many have I lost? I've lost like 25 of them 8 normal Ogres How strong? Salt Salt and pepper 25 engineers Oh now you learn Bless Wait, someone Through eagle-eyed observation Serena's able to learn eagle eye Eagle eye, people Greatest secondary skill in the game Oh That, I think This can't be true Right, but I'm about to say it anyway I think it's the first time I think this is my first eagle eye trigger I must have triggered some point in my playing history Through eagle-eyed observation I actually learned a spell I learned something And I'm going to be a scholar because then I can teach Bless to other people I'm a wizardy type person But I've just blasted 25 of your best engineers Right, is that critical? Can the stack recover? We get back up to 34 now 34 engineers can repair About 22 automotons So now we've dropped below The ratio doesn't work anymore And the fun is effectively over These boys aren't getting healed to full anymore Okay, because I have 38 of these But only 30 of something of these Which just makes me sad I can't believe, I cannot believe how good the ogres were, man How strong Yeah, so there's some salt Come on, there's some salt coming out of the Okay, well plan A was give him everything Which we now can do If she can get out of the way, which she can All right, well, I think we stick to the plan Hey, Garret, it starts with you, mate Dear Odiem Right, what am I buying? These are just... Oh no, hang on, I can't, I haven't got any money I don't have the money to do the daisy chain that I even wanted to do So... Oh boy Not a happy camper Not happy Deary, jury Jury, Judy Rotten Is everyone else busy? I'm kind of busy, sort of not really What was Isra doing? Isra was chasing a hero? Kind of free, everyone else is part of the production chain Jabarkus, why don't we do Jabarkus? Act of Phoenix is guarding something good looking Sphere of permanence Good scouts, but doesn't actually help me Right, tomorrow I'll have about 6k It's not worth setting off with only 1,500 troops worth of stuff The person who I want to Do the job is Him We have so many heroes in the daisy chain though now It's just hilarious I actually don't need this many How far can you get tomorrow, my man? I'm getting off a long way So is Deary a free... We're thinking now, I think Well, we've got way too many heroes here There's some jobs to be done down here So Sam Take all that back and upgrade it all Yes, it's fine Learns Bless Give me something I can run around with You take these The combats have gone just generally quite badly This is the thing, I'm getting salty Because I feel like I'm fighting badly But part of it is I just don't have a good instinctive Intrinsic knowledge and understanding Of the strengths and weaknesses of the factory Like with the engineers there Maybe I should have stayed right at the very, very back Again, the automatons got crouched on turn one So that was a huge repair that they did But then I went around and did the fire breathing That was the bad evaluation It's like, okay, 11 ogres Maybe just 8 ogres? No problem I've got 40 of these fire breathing women I'm like, bring this on They just get slaughtered, right?


Hello, hello, writers. I'm Kristen Kiefer, author of fantasy fiction and creative writing resources. And you are listening to the Well-Storied Podcast, where I share insights, encouragement, and actionable advice designed to help you craft sensational novels and build your best writing life. Always in 30 minutes or less, so you can get back to writing, of course. Ready for the show? Let's get talking. Friends, it's so great to be back with you for a second week in a row again. That's something that I used to do all the time. I used to publish new podcasts weekly. And then this year, as I got into writing and revising my upcoming book, Build Your Best Writing Life, I found that it just took up so much more time than expected. Writing a book is hard work, guys, if you didn't know, you know now. And I just found that I was writing fewer blog posts, which meant that I was publishing fewer podcast episodes as well. But that's really something that I want to change. I want to get back into weekly blogging and podcasting. So thank you for bearing with me in the meantime, and I'm excited to be back. Today, I have a new blog post and podcast episode for you guys called Eight Things to Cut or Reconsider When Editing Fiction. In last week's episode, we talked about the big picture ways that you can improve your prose as you draft, revise, and edit. If you're someone for whom writing, the actual physical writing of involved in telling stories does not come easily, last week's article and episode was a great one for you. It comes directly from my own experience in working to improve the quality of my prose. And I was really excited to share that episode. Today, we're covering a very similar topic, but we're getting technical. So if you want to make your book as readable as possible, or even better yet, if you want to make your book as irresistible as possible, you need to tighten your prose. It's simply an essential step. So today, I am sharing the eight key areas that you'll want to address when your story is finalized and you're ready to polish your book to high shine before publishing. But first, let's do a quick behind the scenes update. First up, I'm really excited. I keep saying really excited in this episode, don't I? Wow, I'm thrilled to have early feedback, early beta reader feedback start to come in on my upcoming book, Build Your Best Writing Life. This is the first time I've ever received beta feedback or worked with betas on a project of this scale. And so I didn't realize until this feedback started to come in this week, how much worry and doubt and stress I was carrying about this project. And so early beta feedback, like I said, started to come in and it certainly had its constructive criticisms, no doubt. But overall, the feedback was highly encouraging and positive. And it was just this huge weight off my shoulders, a weight that I didn't even know I was carrying to finally realize that this book was out in the world with a small select number of readers. But it was out in the world and people were enjoying it. So that's really exciting. My beta readers still have just shy of two weeks to get their feedback to me. So the vast majority of feedback has not come in yet. But I'm I'm looking forward to receiving that feedback and using it to shape my next revision on Build Your Best Writing Life before it goes out to an editor. The other pretty cool thing that's happening this week is happening this week only from June 11th through June 18th. So if you are listening in from the future, I do apologize that this won't apply to you. But this week only there is a super awesome resource bundle happening called Write, Publish, Profit. This bundle includes 47 tools and resources. These are digital resources such as workbooks, ebooks, e-courses, templates and the like designed to help writers, both fiction and nonfiction writers craft their very best work and then publish it and make a profit from their writing. And the really amazing thing about this bundle is that it is worth in total over $5,000, but you can get it on SuperSale for this week only for $49. I know it's insane. It's really awesome. I am one of the people who has contributed to this bundle. My digital workbook, The Pre-Write Project, is included in this bundle. And this is certainly not, look, I kind of gave this caveat in the newsletter this week and I feel that I should share it here as well. I am very, very selective about the things that I choose to promote to you, especially the paid products. I have personally bought a lot of crappy resources and resource bundles in the past and that is never something I would want to try to sell to you just to make a quick buck because I am indeed an affiliate for this bundle. If you make a purchase through one of my links, I will make a commission on the sale. This resource bundle is packed with super awesome, valuable content, awesome tools and resources, and it's something that I have purchased myself. There are quite a few tools in here for people who are preparing to self-publish and build their author platforms and market their work, and since that's something that I'll be getting into later this year when I prepare to publish Build Your Best Writing Life, I seized on this opportunity to snag a few amazing resources at an incredible price. If you're not ready to publish yet, there are also many amazing resources in this bundle that have to do with pre-writing, like my own workbook that's included, drafting, writing, revising, editing, it's all in there, anything you need, there's probably a resource in this bundle for you. So if you would like to check it out and you would like to support Well-Storied if you make a purchase, I have a very specific affiliate link in today's episode description that you'll want to click through. Once again, this is the right publish profit bundle from InfoStack, and it's just truly one of the coolest things I've been a part of, one of the best collaborations I've been a part of since I've been blogging. So again, just go ahead and use that link in today's episode description to check it out, and thank you for listening to my quick ramble about it. Before we dive into today's episode, I have one quick and really awesome guest post to share with you all. This week's guest post comes from author and blogger Heather Curry. It's called Five Tips for Finding Writing Motivation, and as someone who blogs about the arts and positive living, Heather has a lot of experience in talking about this topic, and that shows in her article. So if you are someone who's struggling to just sit down and start writing, if you just cannot seem to make words happen, make sure to check out Heather's article at www.Well-Storied.com slash Motivation Tips. I'll include that link for you in today's episode description, as always. And if you would like to submit your own guest post for the WellStory blog, you can do so by checking out the guest post submission guidelines at www.WellStoried.com slash Guest. Today's episode of the podcast translates the latest article from the WellStory blog into audio, titled Eight Things to Cut or Reconsider when Editing Fiction. You can find the article that also serves as the episode transcript at www.Well-Storied.com slash Reconsider. Now let's dive in. Eight Things to Cut or Reconsider when Editing Fiction. I often say the magic of writing happens in revision. When you revise, you transform a lumpy first draft into a powerful and cohesive story. Cutting filler, strengthening the narrative, and shoring up your story's foundations. As you edit, that same magic manifests in your prose, helping you transform weak and clumsy writing into an irresistible read. In last week's episode, I shared an overview of how you can strengthen your prose at every step in the writing process, from drafting to revising and editing. Today, let's dive into the nitty-gritty. As you work to tighten your prose during edits, here are eight things in your manuscript to cut or reconsider. Item number one, adverbs. You've likely heard it said that the road to hell is paved with adverbs. Though it's not necessary to cut every adverb from your writing, bear in mind that adverbs are often a sign of poor word choice. Inexperienced writers frequently use adverbs in a vain attempt to strengthen weak verbiage. For example, the boy pushed him roughly to the ground, versus the boy shoved him to the ground. She moved clumsily as if drunk, versus she staggered as if drunk. And finally, he spoke nonsensically, and her frustration rapidly worsened, versus he blathered on, and her frustration spiraled. Seeking clarity, many writers also tack redundant adverbs onto their sentences. The bell clanged loudly, and the bell clanged carry the same meaning, right? The same goes for, he whispered softly, and he whispered. Can a person whisper harshly? Sure, but whispers are typically soft in nature, and readers will assume them to be so without the added adverb. As you edit, interrogate any adverbs you uncover. Some may serve a purpose. Earlier, I used the adverb frequently to indicate that inexperienced writers don't abuse adverbs at all times. But frequently, adverbs reveal an opportunity to choose a verb that packs a more powerful punch. There's nothing wrong with a well-placed adjective. The trouble comes when writers overuse adjectives in an effort to ensure readers can visualize their imagery. For example, the woman was tall and thin, with long, tanned limbs and beautiful pale-blonde hair. Or, the peeling walls in the tiny ramshackle room seemed to loom over me, dark and menacing. To tighten your prose, cut redundant adjectives and scale back on your usage. Remember that readers have strong imaginations. Choose the most pertinent and evocative adjectives, then trust in readers to fill in any details that remain. Let's rework our examples together. First up, the woman was live, her limbs tanned and blonde hair bleached by the summer sun. And, the walls in the ramshackle room loomed in the dark, setting my nerves on edge. Notice how these descriptions use far fewer adjectives? I also reworked the first example to deepen the woman's characterization. Readers now know she spends a great deal of time outdoors. While I crafted a more immersive description in the second example, by grounding readers in the point-of-view character's experience. Item number three, intensifiers. Intensifiers are a subset of adverbs designed to intensify the meaning of a verb. Common intensifiers include very, extremely, completely, utterly, rather, quite, and really. Like general adverbs, there is a time and place for the use of intensifiers. But consider Robin Williams' famous speech from Dead Poets Society. Avoid using the word very because it's lazy. A man is not very tired. He is exhausted. Don't use very sad. Use morose. Yet again, intensifiers are a sign of weak word choice. They exist to make a verb more extreme, yet rarely do. In fact, I originally wrote, They exist to make a verb more extreme, yet very rarely do. But what purpose does very serve in that sentence? Is a man described as really rather stupid, any more or less dull-witted than one described as stupid? Which description holds more power? She is extremely beautiful or she is stunning. Item number four, vocabulary. I've harped on about the importance of word choice in this episode and I am not done yet. Choosing the vocabulary in your fiction with care is essential. If you're writing from the perspective of a narrator or point of view character, that person will have a unique voice. Everything from their upbringing, experiences, education, cultural background, personality, and beyond will affect the words they use throughout their narrative. As you edit, be mindful. Is your character having oatmeal for breakfast or porridge? Would they truly know the meaning of the word anathema? Do they use improper language to describe their work, because you haven't done the proper research to understand their profession? I once read a fantasy novel set in a medieval Arab-inspired world, in which the point of view character described themselves as adopting a laissez-faire attitude. A French phrase that didn't even exist in medieval times. The anachronism pulled me out of the story in a flash. Don't make the same mistake. Item number five, metaphors and similes. Metaphors and similes are figures of speech that compare two objects to create imagery or deepen meaning. Unfortunately, many metaphors and similes found in fiction are too cliche or ill-considered to carry much emotional weight. Consider the following examples. His eyes pierced me like twin daggers. Anger rolled off her body in waves. The boy ran like a gazelle. Nerves fluttered in my stomach like a thousand butterfly wings. These examples are unlikely to make or break the overall success of your prose, but they are tired, and there's little power in tired writing. When you uncover metaphors and similes in your prose, consider their purpose. Would removing them weaken your writing? If so, consider your point of view character and craft a phrase unique to their voice. As I said in last week's episode, your character can't describe another's eyes as a storm at sea if they've never seen the sea. Item number six, dialogue tags. There's a good deal of contradicting advice concerning dialogue tags on the internet. Some writers insist that said is dead and encourage others to use flamboyant tags like barped, sniveled, preened, hissed, and cajoled, believing these verbs to be stronger word choices. But it's important to remember that dialogue tags are marks of authorship. Because they aren't a natural part of your point of view character's voice, they remind readers that an author exists behind each word, disrupting the flow of your narrative. To maintain this flow, consider using common tags, such as said, whispered, and shouted. Because they're common, these tags are unlikely to jar readers out of your story, while still achieving their purpose in indicating the speaker and tone of voice. When possible, cut dialogue tags altogether. The fewer marks of authorship in your story, the better. You can use action tags, such as the following examples, to replace them. Meg's lips parted. You can't be serious. Just a moment, please. I shuffled to my feet. He rolled the vial between his fingers. They say it's a poison. For more guidance on writing and editing dialogue, make sure to check out the article and episode I've linked in today's episode transcript. Item number seven, filter words. Certain words place a degree of separation, or a filter, between the reader and the point of view character's experiences. Examples include watch, heard, saw, felt, thought, realized, and wondered. Removing these words from your narrative will bridge the gap between reader and point of view character, without affecting readers' understanding of your prose. For example, I watched as the sun set low on the horizon, wondering if this would be the day daddy didn't come home. Versus, the sun set low on the horizon, would this be the day daddy didn't come home? Removing filter words is a key step in writing in deep point of view, a popular technique that immerses readers in the point of view character's experiences. For more on deep point of view, check out the article I've linked in today's episode transcript. And finally, item number eight, leading words. Leading words are those intended to draw readers from one sentence or clause to the next. In fiction, common leading words include then, suddenly, so, soon, shortly, a moment passed and in order to. Rather than add context or act as transitions as intended, leading words serve as filler that disrupts the micropacing of a scene. Consider the following example. I sat on the bench as the tide rolled out to see, a sense of calm descending as my mind emptied. Suddenly, a cry tore through the air, startling me to my feet. The word, suddenly, is intended to bridge the gap between calm and chaos, but consider its usage. If our character is sitting on the bench in a state of calm, a cry would prove sudden regardless of whether we explicitly state that it is. Let's review this example without the leading word. I sat on the bench as the tide rolled out to see, a sense of calm descending as my mind emptied. A cry tore through the air, startling me to my feet. The action in this scene is easily understood without the word, suddenly. If you did want to add a transition, try setting the second sentence on its own line. Paragraph breaks indicate a shift in focus, revealing to readers that the event in the second paragraph is unlike the first. Ready to tighten your prose? Remember, you don't need to cut every instance of these items from your work. Writing is both an art and a craft. Though reevaluating these items will generally lead to better quality prose, good writing is also subjective, and your writing style is your own. If including an unnecessary adjective improves the flow of a sentence, keep it. If your character is fond of using intensifiers or metaphors in their dialogue, let their voice continue to shine. Adverbs have their place, as do the occasional filter, leading word, and dialogue tag. As you work to tighten your prose, don't forget to leave it and yourself a little breathing room. Thank you for listening to today's episode of the podcast writer. I hope you found it helpful to your writing journey. 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