Posts from Necropolis – “Dawn from All Sides” [Campaign 2, Mission 3]

Let me share my misadventures in this mission...

Main objectives:
- Defeat Miranda and free Svetlana;
Additional objectives:
- Defeat the demons in the dungeon;
- Defeat Sharka;
- Bring the Staff of Sandro to Yasher.

This mission, unlike the previous one I described, is not linear at all. The walkthrough was also done on normal difficulty, but this time it turned out to be a mistake: without a well-thought-out strategy and good development of the heroine, this mission will seem impossible. But it is simply very difficult :). But there is also a positive moment: you can get A LOT of experience for it. I leveled up from level 6 of the dynasty to level 14.

So, at the beginning, we are given a city. I hope it is clear what needs to be done with it :). We clear the area around the city, move to the southern area. We recruit bone knights (it is reasonable to upgrade the cemetery in the city at this point so that the troops are uniform), move to the fort. From the sky, the noble corpses are greeted by the Archangel Uriel, and a quest with an excellent title "Doves" appears. It is paraphrased as follows: it is necessary to go down into the dungeon and arrange a total genocide of the demons. Anastasia, driven by love for the angel in silver armor, decides to take this difficult step :D.

Hmm, in general, we capture the fort and clear the adjacent area. We find the altar of Arkath, stand in front of it, at the crossroads of two roads. One road leads to the southwest, to Lyudmila, but we don't need to go there (otherwise we will have to fight the orcs right away). Therefore, we go southeast and... clear another area! Our attention is drawn to the head of an incomprehensible creature, which leads to the dungeon, to the demons. We go south, then west, and then along the road. We come across a fort, we capture it. We reach the city, admire the danger. So, it will not be possible to take the city by storm, but it is easy to terrorize the heroes from there, who will try to repel the fort. In the meantime, we build a portal + reverse portal and spider + upgrade in the city. Then we don't waste time and teleport to the city, gather reinforcements, teleport to the fort. Now we can try to capture the demons. I managed to do it, although once I died on Daleb and was resurrected in the city (the portal costs only 8500 gold :)), and then I returned with reinforcements. It will be easier for the mage.

So, the demons are defeated. Now we are interested in the nearest of the roads leading north. We go along it. We meet Yasher - a lich-lamassu expert. To save his charming feline creatures, we break through the demons (if you kill them all manually, you will get a lot of experience :)), we take the Staff of Sandro. Congratulations, we now have 5 dynasty weapons!

We clear the dungeon, return to the surface. A hero of the Lords of the Undead may come to visit, but he will teleport to the city, seeing our undead from two fully built cities. Now we go to Lyudmila (I wrote earlier where to find her). We get a quest to kill Sharka. The gates to the orcs open, Rangir comes. Now we have two paths: either she teleports to the city, or she accepts the battle. The second option is better (if you don't forget to gather an army!). We enter the area, defeat the leader. "And the city became three." We go to the next area, capture the fort, try to catch Rangir if she still ran away. Now we go to Lyudmila, now we get her under our command (she will also be in the next mission, it will not hurt to develop her ;)). We capture the city of the former Independent Cities. Now we carry out a sea expansion to the next continent. Here we are waiting for two Necropolis cities, we capture them. Don't touch the phoenixes before that - it will be very painful! On the way to Miranda, we will see another dialogue between Anastasia and Uriel, we will learn that the latter is a bad archangel, he just wanted to give new life to his real beloved angelic, uniting her with the soul of Nastya and instilling it in her body. Oh, what a jerk and a creep :p. In the next turn, we will hear beautifully voiced sobs from Anastasia, who plucked feathers... e-e-e, hair. We reach Miranda, we learn the purpose of the comb, which we have been carrying for the third mission.

So, Miranda has a large army. And we have 6 cities :)! When the danger is "High", you can attack. Again, the mage with teleport, with which you can throw a crowd of Weavers behind the walls, will defeat her easier. If the autobattle defeats Miranda, don't be lazy to replay this battle manually - I got a promotion from level 11 to level 14 of the dynasty on it (more than 500000 experience).

So, victory. Svetlana is fine (I was worried about her fate :(), and Mother Namtara may reduce the number of nasty faces of Kirill. The Necromancers are rushing to help :)!

Well written. One question. Is the number of units for Sharku constant? Or does it also increase each week? I tried twice – both with maximum speed and with about fifteen weavers – and both times I got my butt kicked.

No, of course, he's not permanent – he's just standing in the city ;). I defeated him without any problems with fifty Fate Weavers – and I didn't prolong the game, I just wandered around the dungeon. By the way, I then defeated everyone with that army :).

I defeated him easily with fifty Fate Weavers – I didn't prolong the game, I just explored the dungeon.

So, is capturing the underground castle mandatory? The map is indeed quite challenging. Moreover (until the latest patch), whenever I defeated one of the demons in the dungeon, each of my turns was followed by some kind of "lightning" (before the start of each turn), which reduced one of the tiles with my creatures to zero.
Have you encountered this? Or is it a bug?

Yes, you definitely need to defeat the demons before visiting the Sanctuary and unlocking the Orcs – otherwise, they will overwhelm you together :(. I haven't encountered that bug, though.

Damn, I messed up again, as always: I immediately headed to Svetlana, and as a result, I was being attacked by demons, orcs, and sometimes necropolises. With Anastasia, I killed Sharka and some other orcish heroine, but it doesn't say that the orcs have been defeated. Svetlana tried to attack the demons, but it was hopeless... In short, I plan to clear the entire island and then go to defeat the demon with Anastasia. Svetlana is currently managing to hold back the secondary demons.
If that doesn't work, I'll have to replay according to your plan, Winner :)

Demons are a secondary quest; defeating them is not required :). Ludmila's quest is completed immediately after defeating Sharka. The Orcs may not be defeated – in my case, Rangi (the second heroine) captured one of the Necropolis cities, which made defeating the Orcs somewhat more difficult.

At the beginning of this mission, you receive a second Necromancer, level 18 (Anastasia is only level 15). I was really tempted to use him in battles. But since Anastasia had gained good stats in the previous missions, I realized that it was a mistake.
I wonder, how did you use him?

As I understand it, you're talking about Kaspar? So, he's given to the Tears faction heroes. Lyudmila joins the Blood faction heroes :). I only used Lyudmila in the next mission because I recruited her very late in this one. Her ideal role is scouting and gathering resources :).

I didn't beat this mission on my first try either. At first, I immediately headed to Ludmila, the gates to the Orcs opened, and an Orcish hero immediately ran up. I defeated him and went to take down Sharka. Somehow, I managed to defeat him, although for some reason, I had to fight him twice! (Is this the case for everyone?). The losses were significant, and Necromancers and Demons started arriving, but I didn't have enough money to buy back all the losses in the corresponding building. I went into the Dungeon, wandered around for a couple of days, and ran into a Demon hero with a decent army, and I was defeated without a chance. I realized that I needed to restart. I started over and began to do everything properly, as described in the intro: "If enemies surround you, destroy them one by one." I calmly cleared the entire area (of course, I only took gold from the chests), gathered a combat-ready army, and went to the Demons. I defeated them with some difficulty. I had accumulated a lot of money, so I bought back almost all the losses. Then I went to take down Sharka. I didn't have any problems with him. Only, for some reason, this time he died on the first try! Well, and that's it, from that point on, it was basically a matter of technique.

I have a question. I defeated Sharak, and a message appeared: "Now go to Lyudmila and talk to her." However, the problem is that I cleared the Necropolis town almost immediately after receiving the quest. What should I do, and where can I find her? Or is this a bug?

I spoke to her first after defeating the orcs, and only then did I capture the town located behind her. I've already read that other players have encountered the same problem as you: if they cleared the town before completing the quest, they couldn't continue with the mission's progress.

Hmm, but the gate to the Orcs only opens after you talk to Lyudmila!

I used a different tactic.
First, I went to Lyudmila and took on her quest. After the gates opened, an Orcish hero ran up, and I defeated him. Then, I defeated another hero near the Castle, but I ran out of mana. I had to return to the Castle to gather more troops. In general, I defeated Sharka and returned to Lyudmila.
I left her to guard 3 Castles, which she did very well, and with Anastasia, I gathered the troops and went to the demon cave. In the cave, I managed to complete the quest for the staff, but I had to teleport to the city for reinforcements because the demons had already surrounded me and were trying to leave the cave.
Then, with a strong army, I finally went to eliminate the demons, and with Lyudmila, after buying her an army, I went further southwest to take 2 Castles. While Anastasia was dealing with the demons, Lyudmila already took 2 Castles and all the forts. The Necromancer tried to attack Lyudmila, but without success.
When only Miranda's Castle remained in the southwest, the Necromancer stopped attacking, and I sent Lyudmila to visit all the useful locations (like defenses/arenas, etc.). In general, after visiting all the necessary buildings with both heroes, they both reached the maximum level.

I found the mission not very difficult, but I did experience a bug: sometimes, something would glitch, and the crystals, as well as other resources, would not increase the next day. Restarting the game helped.

Lyudmila has joined. I tried to upgrade her with the Time Stop spell, but it's not in the list of her starting spells. Why is that?