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Deeper Dungeons
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Game: Dungeon Keeper: Deeper Dungeons
Platform: Windows PC (95+)
Version: 0.9
Last Updated: 4 November 2012
Written by: Iron Knuckle
Type: FAQ/Walkthrough
GameFAQ status: 90%
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Table of Contents
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Version Updates
FAQ
Controls
Game options
Keyboard shortcuts
Creatures
Heroes
Rooms
Spells
Doors and Traps
Walkthrough
1. Morkardar
2. Korros Tor
3. Kari-Mar
4. Belbata
5. Caddis Fell
6. Pladitz
7. Abbadon
8. Svatona
9. Kanasko
10. Netzcaro
11. Batezek
12. Benetzaron
13. Daka-Gorn
14. Dixaroc
15. Belial
Appendix A: Statistics tables
Heroes & Creatures
Creature spells
Appendix C: Multiplayer
Appendix D: Bugs, Glitches and Stuff
Credits
Copyrights
E-mail, Questions and Contributions
Unfinished business
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Version updates
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03 October, 2012 (v0.1):
First start on the walkthrough, after owning this game for about 12
years now. Haven't played it in quite a while, though.
04 November, 2012 (v0.85):
Finished all but Belial. Still need to do some proper markup of
several sections.
05 November, 2012 (v0.9):
Wrote the description for Belial, and made this the first released
version. I might still add some general information in the beginning
and check the spelling/grammar at some locations.
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Controls
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The controls of this game are very easy. You can move the cursor
around with the mouse and click with left mouse button (abbreviated
as LMB) on certain parts to select rooms/spells/traps and creatures.
Hover the cursor over a specific part to get information about that
topic.
Control panel
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The left pane shows your dungeon view with the four wind directions
relative to the degree of rotation you applied to the map. This way
you can always find north. The dotted line always points back to your
Dungeon heart which makes it easier for you to locate it. Around the
map you have five options:
-The Map icon which shows you the overall map for the land
-The letter "C" which toggles computer assistance
-The letter "Q" to see some options and to quit the game
-Plus(+) and Minus(-) signs to zoom in and out on the mini-map
The panel below it contains five tabbed panels with their own uses:
Info tab (Question mark)
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At the top there are two options: Imprison and Flee. Click on the
options to toggle them (they start blinking if active). Of course you
need to have a Prison before you can set the Imprison option.
Just below the remaining time to the next payday is shown. When the
gauge is completely filled you need to pay out your creatures. The
total amount is shown in red numbers in the center. Another two
gauges are shown below this tab, these are the research and
manufacture times. Theses represent the progress on completing new
spells and traps/doors.
Below that four tabs are shown; one for each active Keeper in the
region (if available). Next to the color it shows the number of rooms
and the number of creatures that Keeper has. However remember to not
count the safety in numbers...
The very bottom of the tab shows a "?" query options. Click on it to
turn your cursor into a "?" shape. If you click on a creature friend
or foe you'll learn some additional information about it. The game
now automatically tracks every movement of this creature to keep the
screen centerized around it.
Room tab
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These are the rooms you can build. Any raised icon means that the
room has already been build. If you still need to research the
specific room it will appear as a "?". Do research in the Library to
discover this room. The bottom-right icon is reserved for the selling
icon. Click on it to change your cursor to a "$" icon. Now you can
sell any rooms in your possession on the map.
Spell tab
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Similar to the rooms tab, all spells are shown which have been
researched so far. "?"s depict spells which still need to be
researched.
Manufacture tab
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In the same manner this tab shows the traps and doors together in
one tab. The traps are displayed in the two topmost rows whereas the
doors are shown in the third row. Again, the "$" icon can be used to
sell the doors and traps, but only selling traps pays out some money.
Creature tab
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All your creatures are displayed here by on-of-three activities. Left
are the idle creatures, the center shows the working creatures and
the rightmost column shows the currently fighting creatures. Click on
the number to select any creatures from that activity (right click
makes the view change to that creature). Also clicking on the icon
picks up the creature with the highest level of experience for that
type.
Options menu
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Pressing the "Q" in the top left corner or hitting "Esc" will bring
up this small menu. From left to right you can:
-Load game
-Save game
-Set visual options
-Set sound options
-Set computer assistance
-Quit game
Load and Save game
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These two options speak from themselves. Pick any save file (out of
8) and save the current data so you can resume playing from here at
any moment in time afterwards.
Set visual options
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This option lets you set a few options so you can tweak the game's
performance. The game should be able to run under the best settings
without slow down on any machine build after 1997 so it should work
fine. Basically the five options are:
Shadows - Set how many shadows can be cast on a single
object (between 0 to 4)
View distance - Set how much is visible on the dungeon map
Field of view - Allow rotation in steps 90 degrees or smoothly
Wall height - Raise/lower walls to make the creatures stand out
better
Gamma correction - Change brightness of the dungeon view from dark
to light
Set sound options
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The sound options let you change the volume of the BGM music and the
Special effects, sounds and voice-over (SFX) independently.
Set computer assistance
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I never use computer assistance since it's more a nuisance than a
help. But if you really wish to try there's four different types from
left to right:
Red - Aggresive Builds rooms / uses spells & traps /
tries to attack
Yellow - Defensive Builds rooms / uses spells & traps /
never tries to attack
Green - Construction Can only build rooms
Blue - Movement Can only slap and move creatures
Click on the "c" near the map radar to activate the computer
assistance and see what happens.
Quit game
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Select the trashcan to quit the game and return to the main
options screen.
Shortcut keys
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Key combination Effect
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Alt + R Switch between 8 bit & 16 bit resolution
<, >, ^, v Move view of dungeon map / Move creature (FPV)
Shift + <, >, ^, v Move view in one direction but faster
Ctrl + > or < Rotate dungeon view
Ctrl + ^ or v Zoom in / out on the dungeon map
Ctrl + 0..9 Select marker 0..9 on map
Shift + 0..9 Go to marker 0..9 on map
A Go to annoyed creature
F Go to fight
M Go to overview map
P Pause game
Esc Brings up Options panel
1 Select Information panel
2 Select Rooms panel
3 Select Spells panel
4 Select Manufacture panel
5 Select Creature panel
NUMPAD "+" Speed up game
NUMPAD "-" Slow down game
Room Shortcut key combination
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Barracks B
Bridge Shift + B
Graveyard G
Guardpost Shift + G
Hatchery Shift + H
Heart H
Lair Shift + L
Library L
Prison Shift + P
Scavenger S
Temple Ctrl + T
Torture Room Alt + T
Treasure room T
Training room Shift + T
Workshop W
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Creatures
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Using the in-game query feature in the "?" tab you can learn quite a
lot about the statistics of a certain creature, but it's much easier
to open the "creature.txt" file in the Keeper directory to view all
the values in a table format. Using knowledge of both I've made this
section where all creatures in the game are described.
All values are for creatures of level 1 and the data is extracted
from the Creatures.txt file enclosed in your Keeper game directory.
To calculate the values for the higher levels take the following
percentage for the corresponding level (only HP, STR, SKL, DEX and
Wage increase with a level up) and round it down to the nearest
integer:
level %
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1 100
2 135
3 170
4 205
5 240
6 275
7 310
8 345
9 380
10 415
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Imp
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 311 Dig (1) Training Cost: 10
ATK: 20 Attack (1) Scavenge Cost: -
ARM: 5 Speed (3) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 0 Teleport (10) Slaps to kill: 20
SKL: 20 Eat #chickens: -
DEX: 249 Lair Size: -
Reward: 0 Job: many, see below
Traits
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-Generated by "Create Imp"
-Can dig earth/gold/gems, claim Tiles/Rooms, fortify walls,
and many more jobs
The weakest type of creatures with little to no fighting abilities,
yet they are the most important creatures for your survival as a
Keeper. Imps can be generated by casting the "Create Imp" spell which
is usually always available from the start of the level. The first
Imp you generate costs 150 gold and each additional one costs 150
more, so don't make too many of them.
They are very important because they do all kinds of works for you
like digging gold, claiming tiles and rooms, arming traps,
transporting dead/knocked out heroes and reinforcing your dungeon
walls. They are generated slaves and therefore you can slap them as
much as you like and they will never complain. Use this in your
advantage; like any creature slapped Imps work 25% faster. So hit
them every now and then to motivate them. Imps will never attack
always fleeing from battle, unless the enemy is also an Imp or when
the Dungeon heart is under attack; Imps protect the Heart at all
costs.
The special abilities of the Imp are as mentioned above the "speed"
spell which becomes available from level 3 and the "teleport" spell.
In some cases training Imps to level three (or using "Level up"
dungeon specials) can be handy as "speed" Imps move twice as fast as
they normally would and the spell is recasted before it wears out,
meaning that they are permanently under it's influence. There's no
need to get train them any higher than this. Yes, "teleport" is a
faster transportation, but like all creatures level 10 Imp's "speed"
ability lasts only for a few seconds.
Sometimes it can be handy to manually cast the "Invisibility" spell
on them, when they're claiming tiles in hostile territory as enemy
creatures can't spot them. Another quirk about the Imps is that
sacrificing them in the Temple fountain makes them much cheaper to
produce quadraticly. That is, if you sacrifice 'x' Imps you can
generate the first 'x' Imps for 150 gold and the 'x + 1'th for 300!
Using this tactic you can truly treat them as cannon fodder in case
you're in a hazardous environment.
Fly
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Portal requirement:
-
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 622 Attack (1) Training Cost: 5
ATK: 41 Sight (5) Scavenge Cost: 4
ARM: 10 Speed (8) Natural enemy: Spider
LCK: 15 Slaps to kill: 8
SKL: 124 Eat #chickens: 1
DEX: 209 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 20 Job: Explore Dungeon
Traits
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-Flying creature
-Extremely cheap, but only a bit stronger than an Imp, actually
-Explores unmapped parts of dungeon
The First creature you'll come across in the game. Flies are very
weak and are hardly of any use later on in the game. If you'd get a
Fly in the later levels slap (nearly) to death and put in the
Torture/Graveyard for a stronger undead creature. The Fly however
never seems to get irritated so he's easy to please at all time.
Another tactic with the Fly for later levels is that you can infect
him with "Disease" and have him fly off towards your opponent. He'll
get killed no doubt, but if your enemy doesn't have a Temple then,
he's going to loose all his creatures because of the infection. If
there are some Spiders in the neighborhood keep them away from the
flies as they will attack each other head on, when forced to share
the same lair. You could not interfere and let the better of the two
win which is the Spider (unless it a level 10 Fly against level 1
Spider). But dead bodies can annoy your creatures quite a lot so
better remove the Fly from your dungeon.
Beetle (sometimes referred to as Bug)
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Portal requirement:
Lair(1)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 1037 Attack (1) Training Cost: 8
ATK: 103 Freeze (7) Scavenge Cost: 8
ARM: 25 Natural enemy: -
LCK: 3 Slaps to kill: 22
SKL: 166 Eat #chickens: 1
DEX: 228 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 74 Job: -
Traits
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-
Also appearing in the first level the Beetle is quite a bit stronger
than the Fly. Beetles however have only little abilities and should
only be trained if no better creatures are available. Otherwise put
them in Torture/Graveyard for a better undead.
Demon Spawn
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Portal requirement:
Treasure room(1), Training room(1)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 1348 Attack (1) Training Cost: 15
ATK: 207 Missile (4) Scavenge Cost: 16
ARM: 40 Heal (7) Natural enemy: Hellhound
LCK: 8 Slaps to kill: 30
SKL: 207 Eat #chickens: 2
DEX: 207 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 207 Job: Training
Traits
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-Immune to lava
-Becomes a level 5 Dragon when it surpasses level 11. However the
Demon Spawn's max level has been capped to 10 for the missions up
to Moonbrush Wood.
These creatures are strong fighters considering how cheap they are
to maintain. They only require a Training room (and the money to keep
them trained). If the level script allows it they continue on with
training and turn into a fine level 5 Dragon, once they reach level
11. Next to that their immunity to lava makes them good for attacking
lone islands filled with distant enemies.
Even though, they are not as strong as the later creatures you'll
come across Demon spawns are quite good and can research /
manufacture / scavenge better than most of the other low level
creatures. Keep them separated from Hell hounds however as they fight
each other to the death, if they share the same lair. Just build two
separate lairs from them or make sure they not both of them are
resting at the same time.
Spider
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Portal requirement:
Hatchery(9), Lair(9)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 1660 Attack (1) Training Cost: 18
ATK: 166 Slow (2) Scavenge Cost: 12
ARM: 30 Freeze (4) Natural enemy: Fly
LCK: 3 Hail storm (8) Slaps to kill: 24
SKL: 207 Eat #chickens: 2
DEX: 249 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 103 Job: Freeze prisoners
Traits
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-Once it has reached level 4 it will try to mess around with the
prisoners by freezing them. They really enjoy doing this.
Spider are not that common in the single player mode. They make
their first appearance in Flowerhat during the missions and can be
attracted in few of the levels afterwards. Spiders naturally hunt
down Flies and they'll do so in this game as well, if they both share
the same lair. When this happens kick the Fly out as it is inferior
to the Spider in every possible way (apart from being fastest
creature around that is). Spiders can do better than average in the
Workshops, but otherwise they have no real tasks at which they excel.
Tentacle
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Portal requirement:
Temple(9), Lair(9)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 2905 Attack (1) Training Cost: 14
ATK: 207 Freeze (5) Scavenge Cost: 8
ARM: 50 Natural enemy: -
LCK: 3 Slaps to kill: 40
SKL: 207 Eat #chickens: 1
DEX: 269 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 186 Job: -
Traits
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-Gains experience while sleeping if Lair is build next to water
-Hard to attract, appears very rarely. A Temple or hitting water
might increase your chances.
-Is one of the strongest non-humanoid creatures
-Has extremely poor healing rate. When they sleep they energy is
replenished at an really slow pace
His statistics look like those of an upgraded Beetle, and in fact it
is to some degree. They're very cheap, but has quite a lot of HP and
can fight just as well as one of your average fighters such as a
Skeleton or a Troll. The only downside of using them in battle is
that they need a lot of time to recover afterwards and they are just
as slow as the slug called Giant.
They can do some scavenging, but other than that their skills are
mediocre. Also when Tentacles get annoyed they might join your enemy
instead. Tentacles can appear in most level from 16 and onwards, but
they hardly do. In 19 and 20 you'll come across some good Tentacles
which need persuasion before they join you.
Troll (sometimes referred to as Goblin)
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Portal requirement:
Workshop(1)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 1867 Attack (1) Training Cost: 12
ATK: 166 Speed (4) Scavenge Cost: 18
ARM: 35 Fireball (7) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 10 Grenade (10) Slaps to kill: 25
SKL: 207 Eat #chickens: 3
DEX: 207 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 207 Job: Workshop
Traits
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-Cannot do Research
-Top notch manufacturer
-Poor fighter
Trolls are weak, when compared to the Tentacle and the Spider, but
they can be very useful. Their Workshop skills are unmatched,
especially after they reach level 4 as they can work continuously
under influence of "Speed".
On the highest levels they do posses some spells, but they die
rather easily on the battle field. You'd better have them work for
some Traps and Doors. To get some profit back sell the traps. This
way you can easily make up for their timely wage.
Hell hound
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Portal requirement:
Scavenger room(9)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 1867 Attack (1) Training Cost: 14
ATK: 228 Speed (3) Scavenge Cost: 16
ARM: 35 Flame breath (5) Natural enemy: Demon Spawn
LCK: 8 Slaps to kill: 40
SKL: 207 Eat #chickens: 3
DEX: 290 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 278 Job: Seek out the enemy on map
Traits
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-Immune to lava
-Quick and nimble creature
-Speeds up dead body decomposition in the graveyard by pissing on
the dead
-After reaching level 5 they prefer using Flame breath over their
normal attack.
Attracted by building a Scavenger room the Hell hounds posses
training and scavenging skills. When you don't make them do anything
a Hell hound walks around the dungeon and seeks out the enemy with
its noses (he has two heads). As mentioned with the Demon Spawn keep
these two creatures apart if they need to sleep, but otherwise there
should be no trouble with them.
Like Flies they explore the region, but these dogs do so more
aggressively and they can kill some of the weaker creatures. Hell
Hounds however do not posses any great fighting skills and therefore
you should not spend too much time on them in case you can afford
better creatures.
Ghost
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Portal requirement:
Torture room(1), Temple(9)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 830 Attack (1) Training Cost: 20
ATK: 83 Rebound (1) Scavenge Cost: 10
ARM: 20 Invisibility (3) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 10 Whirlwind (6) Slaps to kill: -
SKL: 249 Drain (8) Eat #chickens: -
DEX: 373 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 83 Job: Moaning in the Temple
Traits
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-Flying creature
-Immune to poisonous gas
-Cannot be killed by slapping
-Doesn't need to eat
-Doesn't leave a body/carcass when killed, instead it dissolves
-Can spot invisible creatures
-Is supposed to be able to move through locked doors
(this feature doesn't seem to work on my game, however)
-Can only be attained by torturing a creature to death and maintains
the experience level of the original creature.
Ghost are very specific creatures. They are incredibly weak in
battle (they are only better than Flies and Beetles), and yet they
posses skills none of the other creatures have like seeing invisible
enemies. Ghosts tend to swarm around the Temple fountain doing
nothing. Because Ghosts are spirits they do not need to eat and they
cannot be slapped to death. Ghosts are also better than average in
the Library, but other than that they hardly have any uses.
Skeleton
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Portal requirement:
Prison(9), Training(1)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 2075 Attack (1) Training Cost: 20
ATK: 228 Protect (5) Scavenge Cost: 15
ARM: 20 Lightning (10) Natural enemy: Bile Demon
LCK: 2 Slaps to kill: 20
SKL: 207 Eat #chickens: -
DEX: 290 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 290 Job: Training
Traits
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-Immune to poisonous gas
-Doesn't need to eat
-Excellent trainers
-Can only be attained (under normal circumstances) by having a
humanoid creature die in Prison.
Skeletons normally only appear when you leave a captured humanoid
creature to die inside the Prison. Skeletons are not very expensive
to maintain and have reasonable fighting skills although they take
damage very easily. Because they are excellent trainers they can
reach level 10 rather quick as opposed to most other creatures who
need to spend an eternity in the Training room to get that far.
Warlock (sometimes referred to as Sorceror)
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Portal requirement:
Library(9)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 1452 Attack (1) Training Cost: 30
ATK: 83 Fireball (2) Scavenge Cost: 25
ARM: 15 Heal (3) Natural enemy: Vampire
LCK: 6 Meteor (4) Slaps to kill: 17
SKL: 124 Invisibility (5) Eat #chickens: 3
DEX: 415 Guided Missile(6) Lair Size: 1
Reward: 498 Sight (7) Job: Research spells in Library
Whirlwind (8)
Word of Power (9)
Traits
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-Great researchers and scavenger
-Cannot Manufacture
-Arrogant creature, gets annoyed easily
-Gains (little) experience from sleeping next to a treasure room
-Warlocks of level 2+ will drive out any non-Warlock/Wizard
creatures from the Library while researching. Even Imps who just
pass by.
-Large groups of Warlocks can incite revolts spreading unhappiness
in your dungeon.
In the earlier levels Warlocks are essential for your research and
high leveled Warlocks can research the quickest. But this comes at a
cost. As soon as a Warlock hits level 2 he'll use his Fireball attack
to remove any non-worthy researcher from the Library. They even cast
it against Horned Reapers who may get aggravated by it. If Warlocks
get angry you may want them to walk around the Temple fountain or
give them some gold (quantity doesn't matter).
Furthermore Warlocks with a high level are among the best long
ranged fighter in your arsenal. The hero Witches, Wizards and Fairies
are easier to maintain and have similar long range attacks, but are
often harder to attain. After level six you may not need to train the
Warlocks anymore. Wind and Sight are not that useful IMO, then again
Word-of-Power(10) has quite some potential for the shorter range.
In the later levels Warlocks may often come in conflict with
Vampires. Usually I would take out the Warlocks one-by-one slapping
them to death on the graveyard to receive another Vampire from their
left-overs. That usually sorts out the differences, but it may not be
ideal in any situation.
Dark Mistress
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Portal requirement:
Torture room(9)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
------------ ------------------ ---------------------------------
HP: 2905 Attack (1) Training Cost: 24
ATK: 249 Lightning (6) Scavenge Cost: 25
ARM: 50 Speed (7) Natural enemy: Samurai
LCK: 20 Drain (9) Slaps to kill: 50
SKL: 290 Teleport (10) Eat #chickens: 3
DEX: 290 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 363 Job: Torture themselves
Traits
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-Easy to keep happy; just give a slap with your hand
-Automatically teleports to your Call-to-Arms flag on level 10
First appearing in level 6 (Snuggledell) these peculiar creatures
need a specific treatment to keep them satisfied. It's quite easy
actually. Mistresses desire to feel pain and therefore slapping them
makes them quite happy indeed. They usually visit the Torture room if
one is available.
As you may notice by the abilities, Dark Mistress gain a lot in the
later levels. If you have a Mistress in service be sure to train her
to at least 7. Finally, the Samurai is a sworn enemy of the Dark
Mistress and vice versa. They're both great warriors therefore you
should build two separate lairs and keep their lairs in different
rooms. Otherwise they can work together pretty well.
Orc
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Portal requirement:
Training room(9), Barracks(1)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
------------ ------------------ ---------------------------------
HP: 2905 Attack (1) Training Cost: 15
ATK: 269 Speed (5) Scavenge Cost: 20
ARM: 60 Protect (7) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 12 Grenade (9) Slaps to kill: 40
SKL: 269 Eat #chickens: 2
DEX: 249 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 394 Job: Training / Guard
Traits
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-Cannot research
-Does a decent job in the workshop
-Automatically walks to any guard posts
-Has least amount of fear among living creatures
-Inspires group morale in Barracks, except for Horned Reapers
Once Orcs reach level 7 they have both the Speed and Protect
available. This makes these creatures strong warriors and also good
addition to your army. They will automatically start training, until
they reach level 10. After that they take jobs for guard post, but
you can also put them to work in the Workshops. Orcs do not ask for
much and you actually have to put some effort into it to make them
angry (i.e. Orcs are pleased very easily).
Bile Demon
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Portal requirement:
Hatchery (25), Lair(25)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
------------ ------------------ ---------------------------------
HP: 4980 Attack (1) Training Cost: 38
ATK: 332 Poison cloud (2) Scavenge Cost: 30
ARM: 60 Flatulence (4) Natural enemy: Skeleton
LCK: 5 Grenade (7) Slaps to kill: -
SKL: 124 Eat #chickens: 6(!)
DEX: 166 Lair Size: 2
Reward: 406 Job: Manufacture in Workshop
Traits
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-Immune to poisonous gas
-Immune to Whirlwind
-Has a lot of HP
-Decent manufacturer
Bile demons are very tough; they cannot be killed by slapping, they
are resistant to poisonous gas and they have a combination of many HP
and good Armor. Compared to some of the creatures below they are also
not that expensive to pay, but they do require large Hatcheries as a
single Bile Demon can eat as many as 6 chickens in one go.
Skeletons are enemies with the Bile Demons, perhaps because one is
extremely fat and the others are utmost skinny. In any case you'd
better separate their lairs as well. The Flatulence attack is a fart
similar to the poison cloud, the only difference is that Flatulence
will not harm any friendly creatures. When Bile Demons grow to level
10 they sure look very big and intimidating, indeed. Another
interesting fact about these demons is that their gigantic weight has
made them immune to the whirlwind attack. This may come in handy when
fighting Witches and the like.
Dragon
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Portal requirement:
Treasure room(25), Lair(15)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 3735 Flame breath (1) Training Cost: 40
ATK: 373 Heal (2) Scavenge Cost: 35
ARM: 90 Grenade (4) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 18 Meteor (7) Slaps to kill: -
SKL: 207 Word-of-Power(10) Eat #chickens: 4
DEX: 249 Lair Size: 4
Reward: 1473 Job: Researching spells
Traits
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-Immune to lava
-Gains experience from sleeping next to lava
-Slow moving, but best armor of the creatures
-Cannot imprison opponent, because it does not have a physical
'Attack' option.
-Great Trainers/Researchers/Scavengers
-Very idle creatures who get angry when not paid
(they might steal your money)
They can best be described in battle as slow moving tanks which a
versatile range of attacks and the ability to heal oneself. Dragons
are great to use when disarming traps (except boulders), because of
their high defense and the immunity to lava.
Getting your dragons to high levels early on can surely benefit your
dungeon as they can do nearly anything. But as you noticed by the
reward they come for the right price. Also their home costs you four
tiles of lair you just constructed, so if you plan to attract Dragons
make sure to build a big Lair preferably next to lava. Although, it
should be noted that the experience they gain from sleeping next to
lava is hardly noticeable at all.
Vampire
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Portal requirement:
Graveyard(30), Lair(9)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 3320 Attack (1) Training Cost: 50
ATK: 290 Fly (2) Scavenge Cost: 25
ARM: 30 Slow (3) Natural enemy: Warlock
LCK: 25 Teleport (4) Slaps to kill: 60
SKL: 332 Heal (5) Eat #chickens: 2
DEX: 332 Drain (6) Lair Size: 2
Reward: 3112 Protect (7) Job: Scavenging
Whirlwind (8)
Word-of-Power(10)
Traits
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-Immune to poisonous gas
-Fly ability (from level 2 onwards)
-Immortal from level 3 onwards. If killed returns to its lair,
and experience drops one level.
-Top notch scavenger
-Great trainer/researcher
-Cannot manufacture
-Can be generated infinitely many (see below)
Vampires are by far the strongest undead and also possible one of
the best creatures in the game. When a Vampire's level raises over 3
it becomes immortal. Thus a level 10 Vampire is also a level 9, 8, 7,
6, 5, 4, 3 Vampire. Although his ability will vanish when his level
drops below the required points. However if the "flee" option is
active a level 4+ Vampire will simply teleport to his lair when his
energy is nearly depleted meaning that it is nearly impossible to
kill them.
These undead can train very quick for the first few levels, but once
they reach level 3 they need much more experience compared to the
other creatures in order to ascend another level. Perhaps a side-
effect from becoming immortal. Of all the things you should not do is
putting them in the Temple. The sacred place will annoy them to no
end, also slapping them or torturing may not be a good idea. Vampires
also grow annoying when held in your hand for a long time. Another
thing to consider is their hatred for Warlocks. Should the two share
rooms kill the Warlock to get another Vampire imo. >:D
To get a Vampire you first need to build a Graveyard and then you
need about 8-10 dead bodies which need to be dragged to the Graveyard
by your Imps. Once these have all decomposed a Vampire transcends
from the graves. What you could do is making your Imps cheap by
sacrificing them and then generating one, killing it and repeating
this process to get 10 carcasses which are required for the Vampire.
This way, albeit being a bit tedious, can give you an infinite amount
of Vampires.
Horned Reaper
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Portal requirement:
Temple(9) (Though, Horned Reapers will never come through a portal)
Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 8300 Attack (1) Training Cost: 150
ATK: 622 Speed (5) Scavenge Cost: 30
ARM: 70 Slow (10) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 30 Slaps to kill: 80
SKL: 290 Eat #chickens: 4
DEX: 644 Lair Size: 2
Reward: 3942 Job: Kill. Anything!
Be it friend or foe
Traits
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-Immune to lava
-Physically the strongest creature
(equal to the Avatar and much stronger than the Knight)
-Good at scavenging, otherwise performs poor in any job or task
-Cannot manufacture
-Cannot form groups in the Barracks
-Extremely easy to annoy (never ever slap him or do bad things)
-Goes psychotic, when angry kills anything in his path
As noted by the list above Horned Reapers aren't good in any
particular job. In fact if it wasn't for his incredible stamina and
strength you're better off without them! Horned Reapers are only good
for one thing: fighting. They can take out any creature/hero even at
much higher levels in one-on-one combat. Things become more
complicated, when the enemy attacks in groups. Horned Reapers don't
have any magical protection or anything leaving them vulnerable to
Freeze or his own rebounded Slow spell.
To get hold of this killer machine you need to sacrifice these
creatures in the Temple fountain (3x3 temple or bigger):
1 Bile Demon + 1 Dark Mistress + 1 Troll.
The level of the returned Horny will be something like the average of
the three, but this may differ a bit. As everybody knows Horned
Reapers are annoyed by anything. Eating, researching, sleeping, doing
nothing, picking them up while they're sleeping, being held in your
Keeper hand for too long. There are only three things to my knowledge
that will make a Horned Reaper happy:
-Give him some money
(only works if he's not yet psycho)
-Let him walk around the Temple fountain
(it takes time before they cool down)
-Death; Have him fight or stand on dead creatures
(it doesn't matter whether they are friends or foes)
If you have a Temple simply place them there at all time, and the
Reapers cause you no trouble at all. Simple! Otherwise you don't need
to take any drastic measures like separating them like I hear so much
about. They can live together with other monsters just any other
creature, but you need to make sure to give them as little as 10 gold,
when you hear the message: "Your creatures are getting angry!". If
you give them any quantity of gold before they go psycho nothing will
happen. It has always worked for me, so it should work for you too.
Otherwise activate the "Must Obey" spell and the Reapers won't go
berserk, but as soon as the spell is retracted and they are still
annoyed they go psycho nonetheless! "Must Obey" only prevents them
(or any other creature for that matter) from actually doing bad
things.
Furthermore, like said in the traits they're terrible at anything
that doesn't involve fighting so you better keep your Bile Demon,
Mistress and Troll, until research is completed. Sacrifice them
afterwards, when they all reached high levels to get a high leveled
Reaper in return. This is cheaper than having him train. Hornies cost
150 gold to train and they're slow at that, whereas the other three
cost: 38 + 24 + 12 = 74 to train. The same can be said about the wage.
Wait with the sacrifice, until you're almost ready to do combat. Also
a "Resurrect Creature" special might allow you to get one of the
original creatures back...
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Heroes
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Tunneller Dwarf (also referred to as Valley Dwarf)
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 1425 Attack (1) Training Cost: 10
ATK: 166 Teleport (10) Scavenge Cost: 10
ARM: 30 Natural enemy: -
LCK: 0 Slaps to kill: 30
SKL: 166 Eat #chickens: 2
DEX: 166 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 207 Job: See Imp
Traits
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-Cannot research
-Behaves as an Imp when converted to your side
-Has the dig ability, but you can't dig in First Person View
The Tunneller Dwarf also called Mole sometimes is in overall the
weakest member of the Heroes. His sole purpose is to dig passages
towards your Dungeon. When breaching through your walls the heroes
who follow along with him are free to attack, steal to their own
heart's content.
Tunnellers posses little fighting power, but it is still better than
that of your Beetles and the like. During the first missions of the
game the Tunnellers are tuned down a bit to make the fights easier to
win.
As noted in the traits Tunnellers have the bizarre behaviour of
mimicking Imps when they get into your possession. They can do any
job the Imp does, but you can't use these while "possessing" him.
Also this 'Imp' is pretty strong and he does cost some money when it
is payday.
Dwarf (also referred to as Mountain Dwarf or DwarfA)
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 2075 Attack (1) Training Cost: 5
ATK: 207 Protect (4) Scavenge Cost: 6
ARM: 40 Rebound (7) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 2 Slaps to kill: 30
SKL: 124 Eat #chickens: 2
DEX: 228 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 145 Job: Manufacture in Workshop
Traits
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-Good at manufacturing
Dwarfs posses no attack spells so they solely rely on close-range
combat. However they are not that much stronger to their blonde
Tunneller related cousins. Pretty easy to defeat and a nice addition
for your workshop, but otherwise you might be better of with a
Vampire or Skeleton.
Archer
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 1245 Attack (1) Training Cost: 8
ATK: 83 Arrow (1) Scavenge Cost: 8
ARM: 20 Guided Missile(4) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 15 Speed (6) Slaps to kill: 30
SKL: 249 Slow (8) Eat #chickens: 2
DEX: 415 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 249 Job: Manufacture in Workshop
Traits
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-Reasonable at manufacturing
-Great for putting on Guard posts stations
-Terrible in close range combat
Lightly armored with only medium strength the Archer is at it best
from a distance. An individual arrow doesn't do much damage, but
combined with Speed, Slow and the guided missile this adversary can
cause a great deal of damage to his opponents. If converted they may
get annoyed if the workshop is too small for him to work in.
Thief
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 1037 Attack (1) Training Cost: 12
ATK: 124 Speed (4) Scavenge Cost: 8
ARM: 20 Invisibility (8) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 14 Rebound (10) Slaps to kill: 30
SKL: 332 Eat #chickens: 2
DEX: 498 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 236 Job: -
Traits
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-Mediocre but very stealthy fighter with Speed and Invisibility
-Becomes a level 3 Knight if trained beyond level 10
-Often appointed to stealing gold from your dungeon
Again, another weak fighter. He's stronger than the Archer, but left
on its own a Spider or a Tentacle can easily finish him of. Fighting
is not the best quality of this hero. The ability of mixing Speed
with Invisibility of leads to cases where the Thief just wanders by
your minions and steals money without you even knowing it. This might
happen in level 18: Blaise End for example. Better get a ghost in
your army as he can spot invisible creatures.
If you have the chance to convert a Thief do so! He may look very
weak, but once he transcends level 11 he becomes a fine level 3
Knight who is much better at fighting.
Barbarian
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 2905 Attack (1) Training Cost: 40
ATK: 249 Protect (6) Scavenge Cost: 18
ARM: 50 Natural enemy: -
LCK: 10 Slaps to kill: 40
SKL: 294 Eat #chickens: 1
DEX: 290 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 394 Job: Training
Traits
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-Reasonable good at training
-Cannot research
The hammer wielding barbarian is a strong adversary who takes a lot
of abuse before he falls down to the earth. Converting a Barbarian is
an excellent choice as these creatures are pretty strong physical
fighters.
Giant
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 2697 Attack (1) Training Cost: 35
ATK: 415 Speed (10) Scavenge Cost: 25
ARM: 60 Natural enemy: -
LCK: 20 Slaps to kill: 40
SKL: 124 Eat #chickens: 3
DEX: 249 Lair Size: 2
Reward: 178 Job: Training
Traits
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-Third most powerful enemy after Horned Reaper and Avatar
-Cannot research
-Slowest hero
Similar to the Barbarian, but more set to the extremes this
creatures has more stamina and strength, but it is also slower and
less skillful. Giants can be a good addition to your army, as their
biggest shortcoming is resolved by their level 10 ability: Speed. But
still his inability to use any type of magic can mean that he has a
difficult time against any magic users.
Fairy
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 622 Attack (1) Training Cost: 4
ATK: 41 Drain (3) Scavenge Cost: 4
ARM: 10 Lightning (4) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 40 Heal (5) Slaps to kill: 8
SKL: 244 Invisible (6) Eat #chickens: 1
DEX: 290 Guided Missile(7) Lair Size: 1
Reward: 236 Rebound (8) Job: Doing research
Meteor (9)
Freeze (10)
Traits
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-Immune to poisonous gas
-Flying creature
-Great researcher
-Weakest creature of all (can be killed with 1 "Lightning" spell)
-Can be deadly in groups in long distance battles
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are, but Fairies are good researchers and if you drop a few of them
in the back of a battle they can do some serious damage on your
opponents, but at close range they're completely hopeless. I once had
a single level 10 Vampire against two level 5 Fairies and a level 10
Fairy. The Vampire lost.., so this shows that Fairies can be
dangerous, but only when the enemy can't get close to them. It only
takes few hits to knock out a Fairy.
Witch (also referred to as Priestess sometimes)
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 1245 Attack (1) Training Cost: 16
ATK: 83 Fly (2) Scavenge Cost: 20
ARM: 20 Poison cloud (3) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 6 Rebound (4) Slaps to kill: 20
SKL: 124 Whirlwind (5) Eat #chickens: 2
DEX: 332 Lightning (7) Lair Size: 1
Reward: 311 Heal (8) Job: Doing research
Guided Missile(9)
Hailstorm (10)
Traits
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-Fly ability (level 2 and up)
-Reasonable researcher/scavenger
Like her male counter-part the Wizard this creature excels at using
spells just like the Fairy, but she's a bit stronger than her. Still
she's pretty weak and can be defeated easily if attacked by more than
one creature. If she's above level 5 use some Bile Demons as they are
too heavy to be blown away by the whirlwind attack.
Wizard
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 1452 Attack (1) Training Cost: 30
ATK: 83 Missile (1) Scavenge Cost: 20
ARM: 15 Fireball (3) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 5 Rebound (5) Slaps to kill: 17
SKL: 124 Heal (5) Eat #chickens: 2
DEX: 415 Freeze (6) Lair Size: 1
Reward: 518 Hailstorm (7) Job: Doing research
Drain (8)
Slow (9)
Meteor (10)
Traits
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-Immune to poisonous gas
-Top notch researcher, better than the Warlock
-Good scavenger
-Cannot manufacture
-Drives any non Wizard/Warlock out of the Library
If possible you should get some Wizards to do your research. They're
the best researchers amongst all creatures. However just Wizards are
almost carbon-copies of the Warlock painted blue instead of purple.
Their statistics and traits are so similar that they can be
considered as the same. A Wizard is just as arrogant as it's dark
counter part so take care and prevent any riots if their numbers
increase.
Monk
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 1348 Attack (1) Training Cost: 12
ATK: 166 Heal (2) Scavenge Cost: 15
ARM: 20 Protect (3) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 30 Slow (4) Slaps to kill: 25
SKL: 332 Missile (5) Eat #chickens: 2
DEX: 332 Drain (7) Lair Size: 1
Reward: 311 Hailstorm (9) Job: Doing research
Word-of-Power(10)
Traits
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-A more balanced fighter and spell caster
-Reasonable researchers and scavengers
-Slow moving
-Loves to be in and around the Temple
Some consider him the religious and sacred counterpart of the
Vampire, but one-on-one a Vampire should be able to win the battle on
the same height. Otherwise Monks can be serious problems as the
highest level versions learn Word-of-Power which packs a serious
punch to all surrounding creatures. Converting one of these might be
a wise decision as they are quite good in battle (more balanced
trade-off between power and spells than all the previous heroes) and
have relatively little costs attached to them.
Samurai (also referred to as Ninja sometimes)
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 2905 Attack (1) Training Cost: 50
ATK: 332 Sight (5) Scavenge Cost: 30
ARM: 60 Lightning (6) Natural enemy: Dark Mistress
LCK: 20 Speed (7) Slaps to kill: 50
SKL: 290 Freeze (9) Eat #chickens: 3
DEX: 373 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 809 Job: Training
Traits
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-One of the best creatures in the game
-Excellent trainer
-Good at all types of jobs
The legendary Samurai are pretty rare in the single player game, but
they are not to be taken too lightly. for levels 1 to 5 a Samurai
possesses no skills other than his sword, but if he levels up any
further he learns two long range spells and can also speed up his
movement
Samurai are good at any kind of job, but there is only one problem
which you need to sort out. Dark Mistresses and Samurai following the
code of the bushido cannot live together in one lair. They are both
fierce warriors and therefore you don't want to lose either of them.
Again, split their lairs and everything will work out fine.
Knight (also referred to as Lord of the Land sometimes)
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 2905 Attack (1) Training Cost: 40
ATK: 332 Sight (4) Scavenge Cost: 30
ARM: 100 Lightning (7) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 10 Slaps to kill: 40
SKL: 294 Eat #chickens: 3
DEX: 290 Lair Size: 1
Reward: 2241 Job: -
Traits
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-Good fighter
-Doesn't excel in any job
-Cannot Scavenge (it does cost money; but no Knights get attracted)
This guy is pretty expensive considering what he has to offer. A
good figher, but unlike what others think the Knight is by far not
the Reaper's equal. Knights are only half as strong and have much
less HP, even their ability to heal themselves doesn't make up for
that. In any case only convert the lord of the land if you need to
take out the other Keeper as it is a solid warrior capable of doing
quite some damage for you.
Avatar
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Lvl 10 stats Abilities Other
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HP: 12450 Attack (1) Training Cost: 100
ATK: 622 Protect (2) Scavenge Cost: 50
ARM: 120 Heal (4) Natural enemy: -
LCK: 20 Freeze (6) Slaps to kill: 40
SKL: 456 Drain (7) Eat #chickens: 3
DEX: 747 Guided Missile(8) Lair Size: 1
Reward: 4980 Invisibility (9) Job: -
Word-of-Power(10)
Traits
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-One-on-one unmatched in combat against any creature
-Physical strength is equal to the Horned Reaper
-Ability to take out small armies single handedly
-Excellent trainer
-Good Researcher
-Cannot Scavenge (it does cost money; but no Avatars get attracted)
The final boss of the game appears only as level 10 in the last
single player level of the game. The avatar is dubbed the walking
tank or the one man army. With an nearly endless supply of health
this creature is capable of slaying entire groups of your creatures
if you don't take care.
With the Protect and Heal in his possession it will take even longer
to slay him. Then you imprison him, but you need to cast the "Heal"
spell literary thirty to forty times at it's highest level to
completely heal this adversary. Then put him in the Torture room and
wait... After a while he'll change side and choose for you. Now you
have the most powerful creature in your possession. He may cost
nearly 5000 gold per payday, but he's worth an entire army. You have
almost nothing to fear except boulder traps maybe...
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Rooms
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Treasure Room
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Cost per tile: 50
Research value: 1000
Shortcut key: T
Creatures attracted:
Demon Spawn, Dragon
The treasure room is like the Lair and Hatchery one of the primary
and essential rooms in your dungeon. Without one you cannot function
properly (unless you start out with a gigantic amount of cash in the
beginning). Usually available right from the start the Treasure room
stores all the gold you find in the level. Increasing the efficiency
of this room makes it possible to store more and more money on a
single tile. As treasure heaps up larger piles of wealth become
visible.
Make sure to build treasure rooms close towards gold seams or gem
blocks as your Imps spend too much time walking around with the money
they claim otherwise. In some cases having multiple treasure rooms
can be very handy if you are digging in a completely different corner
of the map. On the other you also need to place it close to where
your creatures reside as you don't want them walking all over the
place when it is payday. Large Treasure rooms also attract Dragons
and Demon Spawns in particular.
Lair
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Cost per tile: 100
Research value: 1000
Shortcut key: Shift + L
Creatures attracted:
Beetle, Bile Demon, Dragon, Spider, Tentacle, Vampire
Without a lair all of your creatures grow unhappy rather quick. The
Lair is the resorting place of tired out creatures who regenerate
their energy by sleeping. Although all homes build in the Lair take
up at one tile each creature claims a distinct number of tiles in the
entire Lair. For most creatures this value is one, but certain big
creatures like Dragons take up 4 tiles. In some of the levels you
need to construct two separate Lairs as certain creatures will not
live together in the same shared lair. The following types of
creatures should always be kept apart:
Fly <-> Spider
Hell hound <-> Demon Spawn
Warlock <-> Vampire
Skeleton <-> Bile Demon
Samurai <-> Dark Mistress
The easiest way to do this is by building two separate lairs and
plunging either type in its own distinct lair. This way they build
their homes won't cause any rivalry.
Hatchery
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Cost per tile: 150
Research value: 1000
Shortcut key: Shift + H
Creatures attracted:
Bile Demon, Spider
A Hatchery is required to feed you minions. After building it little
eggs rise from the ground, they break freeing a small, yellow, pluche
chicken. They wander around aiminglessly and die rather quick if they
are taken outside of the Hatchery.
You creatures need to eat otherwise they lose energy by starvation.
Another thing to note is that certain creatures can get particularly
unhappy, when no Hatchery is available or when it is too small. The
Bile Demon is one example of this. Most creatures digest at most one
or two chicken per visit, but again the Bile Demon eats a stagger 6
pieces of poultry before it is satisfied. You can imagine that a
small group of these creatures is a serious drain on your food supply.
Another reason to build a large Hatchery is that you can effectively
heal your imprisoned heroes with the chickens. This is much cheaper
than the "Heal" spell, but it does require some patience as a
chickens only heal little health. Also, when a victim is tortured
feeding him/her makes sure the tortured creature doesn't die too
early.
Training room
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Cost per tile: 150
Research value: 1000
Shortcut key: Shift + T
Creatures attracted:
Demon Spawn, Orc
Although, combat is twice as effective to reach get your creatures
to reach higher levels a Training room is essential in most levels.
Using this room you can train any of your creatures (including Imps)
to the maximum of level 10. training however costs quite a lot of
money and if you can only afford little money to spend you may want
to keep most of your creatures outside of this room. Therefore it is
often a good idea to build some doors to the entrances of the
Training rooms. If you lock these none of your creatures can spend
your money in here.
Lastly, if your dungeon has any weak parts it might be best to build
either a Workshop or this Training room in the vicinity as any
breaches will immediately be noticed by the working creatures in
those places.
Library
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Cost per tile: 200
Research value: 1000 (researching the Library is usually never done)
Shortcut key: L
Creatures attracted:
Warlock
The Library is place where creatures can be put to work to research
new spells for you to use or the more advanced rooms that can build
afterwards. Warlocks are automatically attracted to doing research
and if you have any Warlocks with a level greater than 1 they will
open fire on any creature who is not a Wizard/Warlock that trespasses
the Library. Hence you should either not train your Warlocks too
early or build the Library in a quiet area away from your other
creatures.
Each room or spell has its own Research value, when this many
research points have been reached the spell/room becomes available to
you. The more advanced the item you are researching the more research
points are required to research it. The "Destroy Walls" spell costs a
whopping 750,000 points and therefore it takes ages to get this spell.
The order in which the spells/rooms are researched is fixed in a
predefined order, even though some spells take longer to research
than the consecutive ones:
1 Create Imp (usually available)
2 Treasure Room (usually available)
3 Lair (usually available)
4 Hatchery (usually available)
5 Training Room (usually available)
6 Library (usually available)
7 Sight of Evil
8 Bridge
9 Speed
10 Must Obey
11 Guard Post
12 Call-to-Arms
13 Workshop
14 Conceal Monster
15 Barracks
16 Hold Audience
17 Prison
18 Cave In
19 Torture Chamber
20 Heal
21 Temple
22 Lightning
23 Graveyard
24 Protect
25 Scavenger Room
26 Chicken
27 Disease
28 Armageddon
29 Destroy Walls
To speed up the research either have the highest leveled creatures
research or have Dragons/Wizards/Warlocks/Fairies doing this job as
they are most able of all creatures (the hero Wizard in particular).
Bridge
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Cost per tile: 30
Research value: 4600
Shortcut key: Shift + B
Creatures attracted:
-
The bridge can be a valuable asset as it allows your minions to
traverse more easily through water and it also allows them to move
over lava. One of the strategies you could try with bridges on lava
is building one to your enemy and as soon as they reach the center
start selling the bridge this way they take a lot of damage before
reaching safeland.
Guard Post
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Cost per tile: 50
Research value: 6700
Shortcut key: Shift + G
Creatures attracted:
-
I used to ignore the Guard posts in DK, but after learning about
their use in creating impassible blockades these rooms make the game
much easier to play. When a Guardpost is placed against a lowered
section (e.g. water/lava) the height difference will be two steps
which any non-flying creature cannot ascend! This leads to several
situations where your Imps can leave your dungeon, but Heroes cannot
enter yours. This makes several of the maps much easier to play,
although one may wonder if this was intended behaviour from the
programmers, as it seems like an almost unfair advantage to use.
Workshop
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Cost per tile: 200
Research value: 9000
Shortcut key: W
Creatures attracted:
Troll
Workshops are the ideal and only locations where you can build and
manufacture the traps and doors that can be set up in your dungeon.
Similar to the research in the Library it takes a certain amount of
Manufacture time to construct a trap or door. Not only does the size
of the Workshop influence the efficiency, but it also influences
which items can be built:
Trap type Size (in tiles)
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Alarm 1
Poison Gas 10
Lightning 13
Lava 17
Word-of-Power 21
Boulder 17
Door type Size (in tiles)
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Wooden 10
Braced 13
Iron 17
Magic 21
Trolls are by far the most proficient manufacturers, but other
creatures like Bile Demons, Orcs and the red haired Dwarfs have good
manufacturing skills as well.
Barracks
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Cost per tile: 125
Research value: 12000
Shortcut key: B
Creatures attracted:
Orc
Barracks serve for two purposes: 1. They are required for attracting
the very handy working slaves called the Orcs. 2. Barracks can be
used to group your creatures. Place all the creatures you want to
assign to the group in the Barracks then "Posses" the leading
creature and all the other creatures in the Barracks will follow you
around. They do so until they either die or when you retract the
"Posses" spell. In the latter case they will resume doing what they
initially did. Also notice that natural enemies will never form
groups together and the Horned Reaper won't do group work either.
Prison
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Cost per tile: 225
Research value: 20000
Shortcut key: Shift + P
Creatures attracted:
-, but can get you Skeletons
This room is used to keep all the vile creatures and imprisoned
heroes. Heroes can only be imprisoned if you set the "Imprison"
option under the "?" in the left pane menu. You can also place one of
your own creatures here so they can't do any harm to anybody. While a
creature is here he cannot go out to the Hatchery an they cannot be
scavenged by hostile keepers as well. During the time they spend here
they start moaning every now and then, which causes them to lose
health over time.
Certain creatures like Spiders like to taunt the creatures inside
the Prison. They do so by applying their Freeze spells on them for
fun. Next to that when a humanoid creature dies there is a chance
that a Skeleton may raise from the remains. Also if the creature was
carrying any money with him it will be released the moment he/dies.
Small Prisons can also be the cause of an outbreak when there are too
many creatures inside of it. This may lead to prisoners escaping,
which is usually a bad thing.
You can also feed them chickens or drop the chicken inside the
Prison to watch the inhabitants fighting over the little delicacies.
When heroes or hostile creatures have been dragged to the Prison by
the Imps you can pick them up with your Keeper hand and drop them at
any location. Usually you want to put the creature in the Torture
room so that it can be subdued to torture for various reasons as
spelled out below.
Torture room
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Cost per tile: 350
Research value: 20000
Shortcut key: Alt + T
Creatures attracted:
Dark Mistress, Ghosts may appear from dead torture victims
Even without a Prison the Torture room can be essential to construct.
It does not only attract the Dark Mistress to your dungeon, but can
also be used to torture your own minions. You may want to do this
with, say Warlocks, as torturing one creature of that type makes all
the other creatures of that type work 25% harder. This is the same
effect as slapping them. You have to take care that when a certain
pain threshold is crossed the creature's health depletes rather
quickly. During the torture the creature doesn't get any salary out
from payday.
Torturing a Hero may result in two things. For one thing, it might
reveal some information about the enemy dungeon. This will always be
showing the location of the enemy's dungeon heart. The view expands
each time more information is claimed. Secondly, if a creature is
subdued to torture for a long enough period without dying it will
convert to your side. This can be done for any creature, but certain
creatures need more time to be mentally 'broken'. If the creature
doesn't survive the pain, it will die and return as a Ghost who has
the same level of experience as the original host of the body had.
Ghosts have only poor combat skills, and therefore you should only
let the weakest creatures die.
The time it requires to break the enemy depends on the type of
creature (Thieves have a really low threshold for pain, whereas
Samurai are more resistant), the efficiency of the room and whether
the "Speed" spell has been cast. Yes, you can cast this spell on
enemy creatures too once they're in your possession.
Temple
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Cost per tile: 350
Research value: 25000
Shortcut key: Ctrl + T
Creatures attracted:
Tentacle (still difficult to attract),
also sacrifices can give you interesting creatures
Temples are quite important assets later on in the game. Not only
can you use them for sacrifices and keeping the Horned Reaper (and
any creature except the Vampire) happy, but they can also be used to
cure 'diseased' or 'chickenfied' creatures. Apart from those
advantages putting a creature in the Temple will make them immune to
scavenging for ~1.5 minutes. The sacrifice list goes as following:
Sacrifice Result
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Imp Cost of generating more Imps decreases dramatically
2x Fly Current research completed (handy for "break walls")
2x Beetle Current manufacture Workshop completed
3x Spider Receive a Bile Demon
Beetle + Spider Receive a Dark Mistress
Fly + Spider Receive a Warlock
Bile Demon + \
Troll + |Receive a Horned Reaper
Dark Mistress /
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Ghost All chickens die
Vampire Disease spreads amongst all your creatures
2x Bile Demon All creatures turn into chickens
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As you can see you'd better not sacrifice any undeads or else you're
in trouble. The received creatures have a level depending on what the
levels of the sacrificed beings are. It's not quite the average of
the two/three, but it does look like there's a connection between
these experience levels.
Graveyard
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Cost per tile: 300
Research value: 25000
Shortcut key: G
Creatures attracted:
-, but Vampires are raised from it.
One of the final rooms you'll research is the Graveyard. Use this to
remove dead bodies loitering around in your dungeon or put the slain
heroes to rest where their bodies lie and rot. After 10 bodies have
decomposed a Vampire will transcend from the graves working for your
side. To speed the decomposition process up get out a Hell hound and
make him walk around the Graveyard. He starts to lift his leg and
pees on the dead increasing the speed at which the bodies decompose.
Even if you're not out for Vampires in particular a Graveyard might
be wise to build as dead friends seriously sadden and annoy all of
your creatures, but the Horned Reaper and the Vampire himself.
Scavenger room
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Cost per tile: 750
Research value: 27500
Shortcut key: S
Creatures attracted:
Hell hound,
and many indirectly via scavenging
The last room is also by far the most expensive one to build. Make
sure you have enough gold reserves when building it and also
afterwards as scavenging costs gold. The scavenger room can be used
to attract more creatures even after you reach the maximal limitation
of creatures which can be attracted by Portals for that level. If a
Vampire, who automatically scavenges by default, is present in the
Scavenger room the rate at which monsters enter your dungeon
increases by 50% giving you a serious edge over your opponents.
Also you can put down any creature into the scavenger room and
they'll start walking around trying to scavenge other creatures on
the map, but they can only scavenge creatures of their own type. The
more and the higher leveled creatures of the same type are scavenging
the greater your chances are another creature of that type will join
you. First the creatures of the lowest level are attracted and
afterwards then the stronger versions. Note that scavenging works on
_any_ aligned creature on the map; this includes neutral creatures as
well.
If the creature can also be attracted via a Portal even more copies
may appear even after all creatures on the map are already in your
army. Finally, if all the creatures that can be attracted via the
Portal are also exhausted it no longer costs gold to attract. Use
this guideline to see whether attracting creatures still serves a
purpose. One more note: The Knight and Avatar cannot scavenge any
companions even if they are present on the map. Therefore you should
never waste money on them scavenging.
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Spells
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Posses
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Cost: 0
Location: On any of your creatures
Research value: - (always available)
Chant: "Cranium Internal"
This unique ability in this game allows you to take over the body of
any of the creatures in your dungeon. "Posses" doesn't cost you a
penny and can be very useful if you need to do certain specific tasks
yourself (e.g. like leading the group in the Barracks). You have full
control over the creature using the mouse to turn and the arrow keys
to walk. Use digits 0-9 to control any of the spells this creature
has, if available. Yes, you can even use spells 7,8,9 and 0 (10)
which are hidden from the initial sight. Just press the digit to make
select them. Click with the mouse to apply the skill and see what
happens. After a little while everything feels comfortable. Press the
right mouse button to return to your overall view, thus releasing the
creature of the mind control.
Notice that the programmers added cool effects to the view. To make
it appear even more realistic that you actually posses the creature
certain effects are applied. Flies have a broken sight, just like
most of the lower life forms. Dogs (i.e. the Hell hound) can only see
black and white and the Vampire sees everything in red. In some cases
possessing creatures can be useful to disarm traps (like with Dragons
or Bile Demons).
Create Imp
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Cost: 150 + 150 * (number of Imps - sacrificed Imps)
Research value: 1000
Location: Only your tiles
Chant: "Impus Natum"
The most valuable spell of them all is usually available straight
away. Use it to create an infinite supply of slaves called: the Imps.
Take note that the spell becomes progressively more expensive each
time used. In order to get large groups of Imps cheaply sacrifice all
your Imps this will drop the price of the Imps more than it normally
would. If you sacrifice all 4 Imps then constructing the next 4 Imps
only costs 4 * 150 = 600 instead of 150 + 300 + 450 + 600 = 1900 and
the difference only becomes bigger with larger quantities. A true
must!
Sight
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Cost: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130
Research value: 3800
Location: Anywhere
Chant: "Octus Diablos"
This spell lets you view an arbitrary location on the map and it
reveals anything in that area. The longer you keep the mouse button
pressed the more expensive the spell becomes, but also the larger the
area of you view expands. You can use certain spells like "Lightning"
while using this spell, but you cannot cast the Chicken or Disease
spells with sight. The chant also means literary "Devil's Eye" in
Latin.
Speed
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Cost: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
Research value: 5700
Locations: On any of your creatures
Chant: "Accelerate"
This spell doubles the speed at which your creatures move. This the
"Speed" has the same effect as the Speed ability that some of your
minions have. So you can't apply both of them. If you consider that
slapping your creature makes them move 25% faster, then combining
that with "Speed" means that they move at an incredible 250%! If the
creature is too arrogant to be slapped then have the "Must Obey"
spell active or torture one of his mates to achieve the same effect.
Must obey
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Cost: 25 / second
Research value: 6000
Location: N/A (applies to any of your creatures on the map)
Chant: "Slavee"
A very expensive spell, but it can be useful under the right
conditions. What it does is the following:
-Makes your creatures move at 125% (same speed as slapping)
-Forces them to work; they will never sleep in their lairs
-It prevents creatures from deploying bad behavior when annoyed
(but they still get annoyed nonetheless)
So, if your Imps are digging Gems and you need your jobs to be done
fast cast the spell. It is going to be quite effective, but if you
just had a big battle you may want to turn it off. Otherwise your
creatures cannot go to rest and replenish their energy. Because of
the 25% speed increase training a lot of creatures at the same time
can actually be more efficient on your money as they need 25% less
time to train to reach level 10. This essentially can save you money
on the long term, and get you the edge of another Keeper!
Call-to-Arms
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Cost: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 / second; 0 if cast on own tile
Research value: 7400
Location: Any visible tile
Chant: "Aggresum actractus"
This spell can be used to put a flag pole down which will attract
any nearby creatures. They will ignore their works and heed for the
call. Using this spell you can guide your creatures effectively
through new territory, however casting the spell on ground that
hasn't been claimed as yours costs a lot of money.
If the call range is maximized Teleporting creatures such as the
Vampire and the Dark Mistress automatically jump towards the location.
This can be very beneficial if you wish to attack the Dungeon heart
straight away after revealing its location. Oddly enough an AI
controlled Keeper can pinpoint your Dungeon heart and put down the
flag without him ever exploring that area. This way the CPU can cheat
by having the teleporting creatures simply jump to that position on
the map. This lead to silly/unexpected situations when playing
Skybird Trill.
Invisibility
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Cost: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
Research value: 9400
Locations: On any of your creatures
Chant: "Vapous"
The invisibility spell doesn't seem to work as I hoped it would. The
manual says that the spell works as long as you don't attack the
enemy. However I tried to "posses" such a creature but Heroes just
attacked me head on...
Applying it to any of your creatures in Dungeon view doesn't have a
good effect either as creatures always attack (there's no "Suppress
attack" option). The only situation of which I can think of using
this spell is when an Imp needs to claim enemy territory from under
their noses. Imps don't attack at all and so they continue claiming
area as long as the opposition don't spot him.
Hold Audience
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Cost: 1000
Research value: 11000
Location: Anywhere, your view jumps back to the Dungeon heart
Chant: -
This spell calls all your creatures back to your Dungeon heart.
Otherwise nothing happens. An audience is only useful if there is a
direct treat to your Dungeon heart.
Cave-in
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Cost: 1000, 1200, 1400, 1600, 1800, 2000, 2200, 2400, 2600
Research value: 25000
Locations: Any visible tile ("Sight" included)
Chant: "Petrundeos"
I never use this spell either. "Lightning" is not only much more
effective, but this spell also damages your creatures too. Basically,
the spell causes many small rocks to drop down on the location you
applied "Cave-in". Most of the time the creatures simply move out of
the spell's reach and they're safe. The manual says that it can be
used to turn water or lava into solid ground, but even after spending
50,000 gold on this spell in a test setup it still didn't work for a
single tile...
The only use for this spell is in the "Crush the Imp" bonus levels.
Just get all your Imps into one small room and lock the door. Apply
the spell at its highest level and kill all the Imps to win the bonus,
but other than that I never made use of it.
Heal
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Cost: 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100
Research value: 14000
Location: Any creature, who's health is not completely filled
Chant: "Vitae"
I bet you want to get this spell asap, its much better than
restoring health with chicken and it is not that expensive except
when you need to fully heal an Avatar. This spell has a very peculiar
behavior as it heals the following amount of health points (the
smallest base unit for measuring health) depending on the strength
cost:
Cost Heals Increase (both in health points)
---- ---- --------
300 80 -
400 120 40
500 160 40
600 190 30
700 220 30
800 270 50
900 290 20
1000 340 50
1100 500 160(!)
As noticeable the gap between the costs of 1000 and 1100 is
tremendous so always go for that additional 100 gold when maximizing
this spell. Furthermore, the spell's power doesn't increase linearly
which is pretty odd in my opinion.
Lightning
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Cost: 600, 1200, 1300, 1700, 1800, 2000, 2200, 2400, 3000
Research value: 15000
Location: Any visible tile ("sight" included)
Chant: "Electrundeos"
A great spell, use it at maximum charge to have an instant enemy Imp
killing spell at your disposal. Also this spell is best to use in
melee as it won't harm your own creatures. On all but the highest
level the Lightning bolt is not that special, but that very last bit
adds so much more charge to this attack. You should only use
completely charged shots otherwise they drain your money way too
rapidly. Use this spell also to weaken incoming enemies. They are
much easier to defeat for your (possibly) weaker minions.
Protect
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Cost: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
Research value: 15000
Location: Any creature under your control
Chant: "Sanctus"
Similar to the Protect spell as owned by certain high leveled
creatures this spell will lessen any damage from incoming attacks by
25%. Most of the time you don't really need it, but certain battles
especially longer ones give you a clear benefit when this spell is
used. The increase in power makes the spell last longer (up to about
~1 minute at most).
Chicken
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Cost: 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800, 1900, 3000
Research value: 20000
Location: On any creature that stands on one of your tiles
Chant: "Tica"
The "Chicken" spell can be very useful against tough enemies. It
turns them into pacifistic chicken during the battle who will flee
towards the closest hatchery. If the 'chicken' is eaten the original
creature dies. You may notice the vast increase for the last upgrade,
but it's worth it as the spell lasts nearly twice as long when maxed
out. Also "Tica" is Latin for chicken.
Disease
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Cost: 7000, 7200, 7400, 7600, 7800, 8000, 8200, 8400, 9000
Research value: 20000
Location: On any creature that stands on one of your tiles
Chant: "Mortiis"
Like the Chicken spell this attack is more subtle than any direct
attack. The "Disease" spell gradually inflicts damage on any creature
that comes in contact with the victim on whom it was cast. This can
work in both ways for you. Suppose you send out a diseased fly. He'll
surely die when meeting more than a few Imps, but before dying he is
going to spread the plague amongst all of your opponents creatures.
If he hasn't build a large enough Temple to cleanse his creatures
they will all perish sooner or later.
On the other hand if one of your creatures gets contaminated you
quickly need to move any creatures infested with an animation of
flies to the Temple otherwise they shall die just as well! An
expensive spell, but in some situations it just might work out...
Armageddon
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Cost: 60000 (can't be charged)
Research value: 100000
Location: -
Chant: "Inume hastum mortis viserum nussey"
An expensive spell which asks for a confirmation before it's being
cast. This spell brings upon the apocalypse by assembling all
creatures on the map to your Dungeon heart for an all decisive battle.
After being cast the dreadful chant can be heard around the entire
map. All enemy Keepers receive a warning and a countdown timer starts
to tick showing the remaining time until Judgment is there. Once the
timer reaches 0 all your creatures are sent to the Dungeon heart just
one second before all the other creatures on the entire map appear.
During the Armageddon you cannot hold any of your creatures using
your hand so beware of the consequences. Casting this spell may give
you an advantage being in your home stretch, but if you fail your
dungeon is doomed. That is, if all creatures of any side dies the
Heart of that Keeper is automatically destroyed (not counting Imps).
I did notice some 'gaps' that can prevent the spell from working as
it is supposed to be. For one thing, Chickens don't heed the call so
casting "Chicken" on any of your creatures keeps them safe from being
attracted. Secondly, during the Armageddon new creatures may appear
from Portals this way it could be the case that even though you
completely defeat all the troops of a Keeper the Heart is still not
obliterated. The entire purpose of the Armageddon is calling upon the
final battle, so basically this works quite counter productive
sometimes.
Destroy Walls
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Cost: 10000, 12000, 14000, 16000, 18000, 20000, 22000, 24000, 26000
Research value: 750000(!)
Location: Any earth tiles, except impenetrable rock
Chant: "Pinitins yajetee"
This spell costs a tremendous amount of time to research, and the
results are not that pleasing at all IMO. Anyway, in certain cases
you may wish to break through certain sections of reinforced wall. To
do so you need this spell and at least 10000 gold. Cast the spell on
an enemy reinforced tile to turn it into normal earth again, then
your Imps can dig through it before your rival re-reinforces the wall
again. If you use it at maximum charge an area of 3x3 is not only
weakened but also excavated completely.
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Dungeon Specials
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There's eight types of Dungeon specials to be found in the game.
Here follows a short description for each type and its purpose.
Reveal map
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This will show you the entire map as if you explored every single
tile already. If hostile Imps dig through gold then the resulting
area becomes shrouded again, because the game turns those areas black
by default. It can be handy to locate all interesting parts on the
map or to use "Lightning" without needing "Sight" to pinpoint the
location.
Resurrect creature
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This special simply allows you to get back any creature that died or
was sacrificed in the temple fountain. It even shows the level of the
creature so you can pick the strongest one among them all.
Steal hero
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Bewitches any hero on the map, if none present a level 1 Archer or
Thief is summoned instead. Naturally, you can't claim Knights and
Avatars using this item.
Multiply creatures
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Does what it says, it creates duplicates of any of your creatures
including the Imps. This special is found in levels 16 and 17, but I
haven't really used them in my strategies. Double the amount of work
force, but it also doubles your burden in terms of cost...
Increase level
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Blesses your creatures by increasing their experience levels by one
You'd better save a few of these for later occasions. Training at
higher levels becomes gradually more tedious. Also if you can find
more than one of these don't use them too shortly after each other or
the second special's effects will not be executed. Lastly, if you
have two and have a large number of Imps digging for gems you may
want to utilize it to give your Imps the power of Speed permanently.
Make safe
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Fortifies your dungeon by reinforcing every single square of soil
that touches one of your tiles (includes bridges). Level 15 has a
plethora of this specials to occlude your view from the real bonuses.
See if you can sort them out.
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Doors and Traps
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All doors share the same properties, so I can explain them straight
away. Each type of door is progressively stronger and more resist to
enemy attacks before it breaches. You can use the door to separate
rooms or to keep you opponents out of the area for a little while.
Putting a trap just in front of an door or behind (Boulder!) can be a
very strategic thing to do. Hover over the door with your cursor to
lock it by clicking on it. If it succeeded a small key is depicted
over the door signifying that none of your creatures will (attempt)
to pass through it. This can be useful for restricting creatures not
to go into certain areas at your command. Just one thing I need to
put out, somehow doors have sale values yet I've never seen a gold
value appear when I sell them. This is a glitch. Keeping track of
the actual gold counter shows how much they are actually worth.
Wooden Door
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Workshop size required: 10 tiles
Manufacture time: 18000
Strength: 400
Selling value: 250
Braced Door
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Workshop size required: 13 tiles
Manufacture time: 24000
Strength: 750
Selling value: 500
Iron Door
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Workshop size required: 17 tiles
Manufacture time: 26000
Strength: 1500
Selling value: 750
Magic Door
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Workshop size required: 21 tiles
Manufacture time: 50000
Strength: 3000
Selling value: 1500
Traps are very interesting when placed properly, but you only
use/need them if you are on the defensive play (like in Hearth).
Alarm Trap
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Workshop size: -
Manufacture time: 18000
Times used: 12
Selling value: 250
The alarm trap doesn't do any damage, but it notifies you of any
type of intrusions. A siren goes off as soon as a hostile creature
stand on the tile in question.
Poisonous Trap
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Workshop size: 10
Manufacture time: 20000
Times used: 5
Selling value: 350
Poisonous traps act the same as the level 2 Bile Demon's Poison gas
attack. Some poisonous clouds are spread killing any weak Imp nearly
instantaneously. Like the creature attack this trap will damage your
creatures too. Certain creatures are immune to the attack like the
Bile Demon again. Use those to deactivate the trap if your opponents
use it on you.
Lightning Trap
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Workshop size: 13
Manufacture time: 20000
Times used: 8
Selling value: 500
Even more effective than the Poisonous gas trap this trap has 8
shots and it can do quite a lot of damage to any type of creature. It
doesn't damage your creatures which makes it even better. To disarm
one yourself take out a high leveled Dragon with the Heal ability.
Then step over the trap and use Heal to restore the minimal damage he
sustains. I also noticed that when you step around the corner the
lightning that is emitted from trap cannot hit you. This lets you
take even less damage.
Lava Trap
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Workshop size: 17
Manufacture time: 20000
Times used: 1
Selling value: 750
Lava traps will only work once, but can be very essential creating
gaps changing solid land into lava. When placed strategically they
can ward of many creatures, except the flying types and those who are
immune to lava.
Boulder Trap
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Workshop size: 17
Manufacture time: 25000
Times used: 1
Selling value: 1000
Truly, the most deadly of all traps it can kill any creature, even
the Avatar, in a single hit. The Boulder trap is triggered when a
creature gets too close. The Boulder automatically rolls towards the
victim who triggered it. Boulder traps can remain active for long
times if you leave them rolling around. If 6 or more creatures are
squished by it, it should dissolve. Just like it does when it rolls
into water or lava. Placing them in long corridors makes them very
efficient, but take care not to get any of your creatures between the
enemy and the boulder or else they suffer the same fate.
Word-of-Power Trap
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Workshop size: 21
Manufacture time: 20000
Times used: 3
Selling value: 750
The Word-of-Power is a strong trap, but on its own it's pretty
pathetic. That is, you can disarm it with a level 1 Warlock who has
pretty much only little help. The true power of this trap is deployed
when large groups come along. The trap does 200 damage to any enemy
creature within two tiles range the moment it is triggered. This way
the trap can do a lot of damage by hitting anything that gets near it.
Unfortunately, it can only be set off thrice before you need to
reload it with another charge.
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Walkthrough
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1. Morkardar
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Initial Gold: 10000
Initial creatures: 8x Imp (1)
Max creatures: 23
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
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Troll Treasure room Posses ?Alarm
Dark Mistress Lair Create Imp ?Poisonous gas
Warlock Hatchery ?Sight ?Lightning
Bile Demon Training room ?Speed(1) ....
Hell Hound Library .... .... ?Boulder
Dragon ?Bridge ?Cave-in .... .. .....
Vampire ?Guard post ?Call-to-Arms ...... ....
Orc ?Workshop ?Heal ...... ....
?Barracks ?Invisibility ?Steel door
?Prison ......... ?Magic door
?Torture room ?Protect
?Temple ?Audience
?Graveyard ?Chicken
?Scavenger room .......
..........
?Destroy Walls
(1): Blue keeper starts with this
Opposition
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Blue Keeper:
Initial Gold: 48000
Initial creatures: 5x Imp(1), 1x Imp(10), 4x Warlock(4)
Max creatures: 35
Heroes:
5x Samurai(3), 1x Samurai(5), 9x Fairy(5), 4x Wizard(7),
5x Mountain Dward(5), 4x Witch(6), 4x Monk(6)
Secrets
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Neutral rooms : Treasure room, Workshop, Torture room,
Prison, Temple
Neutral creatures: Horned Reaper(8), 2x Warlock(7), Skeleton(6),
Wizard(6), Troll(7), 2x Imp(8), Fairy(9)
Dungeon specials : Lightning, Resurrect Creature, Reveal Map
This first introductory mission is indeed the easiest in terms of
leeway and build up. It is probably meant for people to get into the
game, when they start with Deeper dungeons. As visible above almost
everything except "Lightning", "Disease" and "Armageddon" spells are
researchable. Don't get used to the luxury of a Prison and Scavenger
room, so treasure their usage here. Play this level aggressively and
you'll retrieve all of the hidden treasures before you nemesis blue
Keeper does. He starts out with some Warlocks already so he'll be
researching faster than you. The two inlets on the west in
impenetrable rock are the locations of the few heroes in this level.
Don't head there too early on because:
A: They're too strong for now
B: you want to convert the Samurai (and maybe others) and add them to
your army
With your starting forces immediately dig to the right in the northern
most part of your existing dungeon. Here you'll tunnel into an
unclaimed path which is connected to an unclaimed Treasure room. Take
command over it, and you'll gain the gold funding that is located
within. The locked door in the room below contains a free Torture room
and an unallied Horned Reaper(8). Get him, and put him in a (partially
built) library using the empty rooms you start with. If he get's angry
just give him some gold, until you get a Temple to place him in. It's
all the same as with the original Dungeon Keeper. Now that you have 1
actual creature you can do multiple things:
1. Head for the gems to the north. Rather than concentrating on
building an army leave the portal for what it is. Dig north directly
from the treasure room to find a huge lake with some gold and two gem
blocks. The lake itself is free for the taking so plunder the
gold/gems.
2. If you are fast enough (there's quite some margin actually) you can
lock up your adversary and completely build him in preventing him from
expanding too far. To do this: Research the bridge and build a path to
the hero tile to the northwest. Break down the door, pull out the
troops and send 1 or 2 expendable Imps(1) in there to clear out the 2
Boulders. Do NOT yet break the door to the right as there's quite some
Witches & Monks in there. The doors to the left contain a free Temple
and a dead end. The Temple is always good to keep your Reaper there.
So just put him in there now.
Claim all the ground tiles and break through the wall that has now
turned into earth in the north. Dig a little to the east and create a
vertical corridor running from top to bottom impenetrable rock
sections. If you stay left of the portal it should be safe to dig out
this corridor. Fortify the entire east wall, and this prevents any
premature and unwanted contact with the blue Keeper.
3. Claim the portal and get several creatures from it. Because you
have 2 full Gem blocks at your disposal you can train them as much as
you like! Also make sure you have sufficient Imps to dig (also use
Temple sacrifies to get >16 Imps at minimal price).
3. When you wish (either wait for the creature limit, or go here
directly) dig east from the topmost tile in the treasure room, until
you reach the topmost gold block in the seam to the right (dig any
lower and you'll tunnel into some weak archers/thieves). There's a
path leading to an unaligned prison behind the right door. When you
get there you'll trigger an action point that will generate 5
Dwarves(5) within the lake next to the doorway. Your Horned Reaper
take those ants out without taking any damage. Once they're dead have
the Reaper clear out the door to the prison and claim the room, along
with: Skeleton(6), Wizard(6), Troll(7), 2x Imp(8) & Fairy(9).
4. With the Torture Room and Prison, put Imprisoning "on" and dig into
the inlet to your west. Take out the 5 Samurai, convert them, give
them a separate lair, and claim the 2 Warlocks if you like past the
miniature lava lake.
5. Further to the east below the prison and right of the Portal watch
out for 2 Boulders and takout out the Thieves/Archers. You may wish to
convert the Thieves and train these past level 10 to get some powerful
Knights! The archers are probably more useful as skeletons so let
those starve in prison. For defeating these foes you can also claim a
free Workshop that contains 3 trap crates (2 Boulders, and 1
Lightning). Use or sell them.
6. Now that you probably have some decent forces break the door we
went past near the Temple and use some Bile Demons to dispose of the
Witches with their silly Wind attacks. Once you're done with Deeper
Dungeons you get to hate that attack more than enough. Also convert
and train the Monks as they are pretty powerful.
7. To the northwest of the barricade corridor you constructed is a "+"
shaped room. Dig into this place and defeat 4 Wizards(7) to get the
only copy of the "Lightning" spell book in this level! This might come
in handy for the few remaining battles.
8. The doorway to the far west of the lake contains another small pond
with 3 Barbarians(5) & 2x Wizard(5). Take them out with ease to get
the Resurrect Creature special. You might want to use it on the level
10 Thief that became a Knight to get another one, or get a Mistress
back that you might have sacrificied for a Horned Reaper.
Seal off the entrance with a locked door, build a bridge to the
northwestern hero door. Break through it and extend a bridge a long
the river to the north. Some illegally placed Poison gas traps are
located here so sell the bridge tiles leaving only the furthest tile
you built. Drop and pick up an Imp to extend your vision and you'll
reacht the end of the path. There are some weak Fairies(5) here, so
just beat the crap out of them, or just hit them once with
"Lightning".
At the end of the river break three doors and each time watch out for
the boulders. Inside there's a few more wimpy fairies. Just get rid of
them and bring out a creature with a lot of armour & health;
preferably a well trained Dragon. "Posses" him and take out all the
Word of Power traps. Once they're all depleted claim the tiles and use
the "Reveal Map" dungeon special as soon as its tile is claimed.
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If you've completed all of the above steps you should have plenty of
high level creatures, gold and spells. The blue keeper being
completely locked into his dungeon has probably dug out the entire
perimeter in an attempt to expand his dungeon. You can probably even
weaken him further by using either "Lightning" and the Scavenger room
to its fullest extend.
But before breaking into his dungeon please note a peculiarity of the
'improved' Deeper Dungeon's Keeper AI. These Keepers can construct
doors/traps and sell them, unlike their original counter parts.
However, due to some bug in the game script they can place them on
illegal locations (this includes built rooms) and place dozens of
traps on a single tile. Therefore, you want to guide your troops
directly to the dungeon heart and not have them stray off too much.
Since you have used the "Reveal Map" you can find the best path which
is probably directly east from the portal. Put your troops together
with "Call-to-Arms", break through the wall and guide them directly to
the heart. An (probably) one sided battle will occur with you being
the victor!
Once the keeper is gone, you can claim all his rooms and probably find
that some tiles contain a trillion traps. Fortunately they all trigger
at the same time, so you only need to waste at most 6 freshly
generated level 1 Imps if you're careful. Moreover, if you claim the
said land tile you can still sell almost all of the traps the enemy
keeper placed here as they aren't cleared. You'll be surprised how
much money you can make out of doing that.
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2. Korros Tor
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Initial Gold: 25000
Initial creatures: 5x Imp (2)
Max creatures: 20
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
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Fly Treasure room Posses .....
Beetle Lair Create Imp ?Poisonous gas
Spider Hatchery ?Sight .........
Demon Spawn Training room ?Speed ?Lava
Warlock Library ?Must Obey ?Boulder
Troll ?Bridge(1) ?Cave-in .... .. .....
Orc ?Guard post ?Call-to-Arms ...... ....
Bile Demon ?Workshop ?Heal ...... ....
Dark Mistress ?Barracks ?Invisibility ?Steel door
Dragon ...... ?Lightning ?Magic door
?Torture room ?Protect
?Temple ........
.........(2) ?Chicken
......... .... .......
..........
?Destroy Walls(3)
(1): Bridge not researchable by Green Keeper
(2): Graveyard only researchable by Blue Keeper
(3): Destroy walls only available to you
Opposition
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Blue Keeper:
Initial Gold: 15000
Initial creatures: 5x Imp (2)
Max creatures: 30
Green Keeper:
Initial Gold: 15000
Initial creatures: 5x Imp (2)
Max creatures: 30
Heroes:
Archer, Barbarian, Dwarf, Samurai, Knight, Wizard
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Neutral rooms : -
Neutral creatures: 2x Imp(7), 2x Imp(10), Beetle(8), Spider(8),
Horned Reaper(8)
Dungeon specials : 2x Steal Hero, 3x Increase Level, Make Safe
With no Prison or Scavenger room the upcoming levels will give a
different playing experience as before. You start out on a central
island surrounded by roughly 20 level 3 heroes (Dwarfs & Archers).
There's no Gem seam nearby and the only tile to the west is guarded by
several high leveled heroes. The green Keeper to the north is
completely built in by impenetrable rock expect for one tile. Most
likely this keeper will never even bother you. The other keeper to
your south has more locations to break out into the open as there are
holes in the impenetrable wall sections. Moreover, there's an unallied
Horned Reaper(8) hidden in the most southwestern accessible tile. You
want to get him before the blue keeper does!
1. Clear the initial perimeter
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Therefore, the first task will be to defeat all the heroes in the
watery path surrounding you, barricade the walls to barricade the blue
keeper and get the Horned Reaper. Dig out all the gold nearby to find
two Imps(10) to help you out. Build several rooms and the smallest
training room to train no more than one or two Dragons/Mistresses.
You'll also come across an "Increase Level" a little to the east of
your Heart. Place it for safe keeping. Also throw out weak creatures
such as the Demon Spawn. Other antropods can be scarificied for
Mistresses/Bile Demons or speed up the research using Fly sacrifices.
Check the description of the Temple room in the in beginning of the
document to find all useful sacrifices.
Once you have researched "Invisibility" (and the Guard Post), dig
towards the southwest until you hit the water. Quickly claim the tile
and put a Guard Post on the tile. By doing so you prevent any creature
to enter your dungeon. The reason for this is, that the elevated Guard
Post against the water creates a step of height 2 which is higher than
any non-flying creature can walk up against. Furthermore, if a hero
cannot detect a straight path to _any_ dungeon heart it will remain
wandering out aiminglessly. Using this method you can easily setup
several enemy heroes/keepers up against each other in later missions,
while you don't have to fight at all!
Build a bridge towards the south starting from the Guard Post and
sells the tile connecting to your dungeon to break the link with your
dungeon as the archers can step up via the Bridge over the Guard post.
"Conceal" an Imp and use him to dig out a path against the
impenetrable rock to the southwest to get to the Reaper(8). Once he's
freed let him free to rampage and he'll kill off the feeble dwarfs and
archers.
With the cleared out water area build a bridge against the other
southern earth sections and fortify the walls. Note to leave the
bridge there as the tiles will turn to earth again when there's no
bridge functioning as path next to them! You can also do this for the
single earth tile leading to the green Keeper. Btw. don't forget to
fortify the walls you dug to get the Reaper.
Before heading to the gems dig out to the east just below the
Impenetrable rock to the right of your Portal to find two more
Imps(7). Continue digging along the outer wall to come along a "Reveal
Map" special. Immediately use this to make the view clear. Depending
on your speed the blue keeper probably hasn't expanded very far. You
can try to dig/fortify a lot of space from him so this will prevent
him from increasing his boundaries, and kill some Imps with
"Lightning" but only if he doesn't have a graveyard of course, and
your gold isn't too dire! Most importantly, dig out a path towards the
blue keeper Library and fortify this as well. The reason for this is
that you can, later on, use "Destroy Walls" to gain direct access to
the blue Keeper's Heart. This prevents your minions from geting killed
by the numerous boulder traps in his domain.
2. Eliminate all Hero presence and secure financial fundings
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Now that bother Keepers have been sealed in, you could go and take
things leisurely were it not for the fact that you don't have any
financial fundings. And thus the next target will be the the Gem tile
to the west. You can see the location of all of the heroes and select
the shortest/easiest path leading to them. You only need to fight two
groups, so leave the others for the time being. You might want to put
up some Boulder traps near their location before digging into them.
This way most of them are destroyed before they can start to bother
you.
Build the biggest treasure room you can make surrounding the two face
Gem tile and have 6 of your higher level Imps dig as much as they can.
Expand the training room and crank up your creatures's levels. The
pocket to the southwest contains some more Archers and a lone Samurai
and behind them is the first "Steal Hero" special. Since you cannot
covert people via a Prison try to get the most valuable Samurai out of
the special, there should still be some more on the map in the
northeastern section.
To the east there's also an optional hero dungeon. In here's there's a
lot of Giants and Archers. Again, building some Boulder traps close to
the entry (use bridge tiles to place Boulders to the left of the
water) and break down the door just to kill them all. In the most
northern room contains a "Increase Level" special surrounded by Lava
traps and the most southern one is only a "Make Safe". Also collect
the gold pots as they can boost your balance, while all your creatures
train.
Lastly, head to the most northeastern room to find 2 more Archers(8)
along the corridor. They should be no match for several high-leveled
Mistresses & Horned Reaper. Kill all the heroes including the
Archers/Wizard/Samurai in the back room, and dismantle all the traps
using either a Dragon or by wasting several level 1 Imps on them (make
sure to seal the doorway to prevent their level 10 counterparts from
killing themselves). Behind the two doors you'll find another "Steal
Hero" special and a level 8 Beetle & Spider. The former can be used on
the last remaining Samurai in the other pocket near the Gem seam you
shouldn't have broken into. You may wonder what to do with the
anthropods, though. They may seem like a crappy reward, were it not
for the fact that the two should be sacrificed together in the Temple
Fountain for an all new Mistress(9)!
With your new troops train everybody to level 8+ and use both Dungeon
Specials. Then put everybody who can manufacture into the Workshop to
make some extra money by selling only Magic doors. Also you may want
to sacrifice a Troll+Bile Demon+Mistress for an extra Reaper. However,
I recommend doing this once all three creatures have trained past
level 9. The reason for this is is that Reapers are very poor at
training and their training cost (150 gold) is more than the combined
cost for the other 3, plus you'll also lose 3 creatures with
manufacturing abilities, not to mention that the wage of a level 10
Reaper is almost 4000 gold per pay day! In short only make the
sacrifice when you're ready to attack.
2. Destroy the Blue & Green Keepers
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If you made a path all the way to the blue Keeper's Library like
suggested, just put a "Call-to-Arms" flag here get all your
Mistresses/Dragons/Reapers/Samurai together and cast "Destroy Walls"
twice with maximal power. Once on the most southern Library wall, and
again on the double tiled wall leading to the blue's Heart room. Just
place the flag on the Heart itself and your creatures will make short
work out of this Keeper. You can help with "Speed", "Protect", "Heal"
and "Lightning". When you hear the Heart exploding put your creatures
back to work and the Reaper(s) back into the Temple. Lock a door to
this dungeon on your tiles and have some expendable Imps claim all the
rooms. Like in Morkardar there can be a lot of illegally placed traps
in this dungeon so clear them out before allowing your level 3+ Imps
access to it. If the Blue Keeper has built a graveyard you could use
the Imp/Bile Demon trick to get several Vampires, but you should be
able to do without this.
Next is the Green Keeper whom might actually be more difficult to
defeat, because you cannot dig a path to his heart directly and break
a wall section there. You'll have to go through all of the corridors
here and this is not advisable with all of the Boulder Traps he has in
his dungeon. This Keeper however, always seems to fail to expand his
initial Lair, and therefore will never reach the portal maximum as
there is no living space for others. Moreover, chances are that he has
only a few Imps whom are busy digging for gold and has not even
claimed all of the tiles connecting to his dungeon. The Keeper AI is
sometimes really poor in this game... In order to beat this Keeper
with the most ease:
1. Use "Destroy Walls" on the wall sections next to the Boulder
traps. Place an Imp(1) on the empty tile to trigger the Boulder. If
you do this correctly, you can even kill a lot of his most powerful
creatures.
2. Kill off several of his remaining high level creatures in the Lair
with "Lightning".
3. Break the single wall section that you claimed and get close to
his Imps. Now place several Guard Posts here and put creatures with
Lightning capabilities on the posts (such as Mistresses & Samurai).
They'll kill all the Imps they see from a distance with single hit
Lightning spells. Once they're all gone, send out one or two Imps to
claim all the tiles in the perimeter and move the Guard Post towards
the left. Keep sending out some Imp scouts to claim tiles and you
should be able to reach the dungeon Heart with minimal losses.
At the dungeon Heart it is just a free for all to administer the coup
de grace to this Keeper and send him on his way to oblivion! Btw.
there is an "Increase Level" special in the tile against the
impenetreble rock near his torture chamber, you could claim it, but
now there's hardly any use for it anymore...
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3. Kari-Mar
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Initial Gold: 15000
Initial creatures: 4x Imp (3)
Max creatures: 15
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
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Fly Treasure room Posses .....
Beetle Lair Create Imp ?Poisonous gas
Spider Hatchery ..... .........
Warlock Training room ?Speed ?Lava
Troll Library ?Must Obey ?Boulder
Orc ?Bridge .... .. .... .. .....
Bile Demon ?Guard post ?Call-to-Arms ?Wooden door
Dark Mistress ........(1) ?Heal ...... ....
Dragon ?Barracks ?Invisibility ?Steel door
......(2) .........(3) ?Magic door(1)
?Torture room ?Protect
?Temple ........
.........(1) ?Chicken
......... .... .......(3)
..........
....... .....(3)
(1): Graveyard/Workshop does NOT become available even after claiming
the 20 tile version, thus no Magic doors can be manufactured
at all!
(2): Prison only researchable by Yellow Keeper
(3): "Lightning", "Disease" & "Destroy Walls" books can be found
Opposition
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Yellow Keeper:
Initial Gold: 20000
Initial creatures: 5x Imp(3)
Max creatures: 40
Heroes:
Dwarf/Archer/Barbarian/Giant/Samurai/Knight/Wizard/Witch
(see map below for more details, no drops occur during this level)
Secrets
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Neutral rooms : Workshop, Graveyard
Neutral creatures: Troll(10), 2x Skeleton(10), Vampire(8),
Horned Reaper(10)
Dungeon specials : 2x Steal Hero, 2x Increase Level, Reveal Map
A quick glance at the script for this level shows that it was poorly
copied from Korros Tor. One of the biggest issues with it is that the
Workshop will never become available; it cannot be researched and even
after finding one on the map there's no condition in the script to add
it to your buildable rooms. This means that the Gem seam close to the
workshop is not easy to access for building up some fundings. Other
than that the map holds a lot of small crevices with elite heroes you
are not supposed to tunnel into. However, their locations are rather
random on the map. Here's a small summary (not entirely to scale of
course), but it shows all points of interest:
________________________________________________ .: Lava stream
| ' .\ \ Gem GGGG\ | P: Portal
| K' ..\__\ 8 |¯ ¯| ___ GGGGGGG\_ | H: Heart
| '10. | T | |_ _| __ GGGG I\ | G: Gold
|Ss' ../¯¯/ 3¯0¯2 | H |_| | \| S: Skeleton(10)
|_____/ / |- - - - |___|¯¯¯¯ /| H: Reaper(10)
| R | /G\\ 6 P S/ | T: Troll(10)
|_14_|/GGG\\ _ ___/__| & Workshop
| ||_ ..5 4 _/.\_ _/ |_H_| V: Vampire(8)
| ¯¯|9.. // _/..G..\_ _/ .......| & Graveyard
| _\__// _/...GGG...\_ _/ .........| d: "Disease"
| _/¯L¯¯¯\\ _/...GGemGGG...\_ 11/ ...........| D: "Destroy Walls"
|/G V 7 ¯ 1 /....GGGGGGGGG../ / ....13....| I: Increase Level
|\G __/¯/ |.....GGGGGGG../¯\ ¯\ 12 .........| L: "Lightning"
| ¯\__/ /¯GGG \ ....... ../¯/ ¯\ ¯\ ...........| K: Hero Keep
| /¯¯ GGGGG \ ¯ ¯\ ¯\____I ____| R: Reveal Map
| /s P ¯¯\ / GGGG | s: Steal Hero
| | yellow keeper here ¯\ \ GGG | -: Excavated path
| | H ¯¯ D |
| \ d |
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Hero locations:
0: 2x Archer(5)
1: 2x Monk(10), 4x Samurai(8) + 2 unaligned Boulders to the east
2: 2x Archer(5), 3x Barbarian(7), 2x Thief(5)
3: 2x Archer(5), 3x Barbarian(7), 2x Dwarf(6)
4: 2x Samurai(8), 2x Monk(6)
5: 4x Wizard(6), 3x Witch(8), 4x Barbarian(8) + Lightning traps
6: 3x Archer(6), 3x Dwarf(7)
7: 5x Knight(10)! also a Boulder is right within the Graveyard
8: 1x Giant(10), 2x Samurai(10) + 63x Gold pots
9: 6x Archer(8)
10: 7x Archer(8), 2x Barbarian(8)
11: 4x Dwarf(5)
12: 2x Archer(9), 2x Barbarian(8), 2x Wizard(7), 3x Samurai(9)
13: 3x Wizard(7) + ~20 Lightning/Lave/WoP traps
14: 4x Samurai(10) + Reveal Map, with several
Lightning/Boulder/WoP Traps, requires "Destroy Walls"
in order to enter
K (Hero Keep) five rooms containing few Boulders:
-3x Samurai(8), 2x Barbarian(10)
-3x Samurai(8) + 72 Gold pots + Lightning Traps
-6x Barbarian(10)
-5x Monk(8), to the left of this room dig to find Skeleton(10)
-3x Samurai(8), 2x Barbarian(10) + Steal Hero special
With no availability of "Sight" you probably need to use save/load
games more than a few times. Next to that there's several locations
with several dozens of traps placed next to each other. You really
need a 'Dragon tank' to clear these all out or use your Imps
sparingly, which is rather pointless imo. In some cases getting past
all these traps leads to nothing more than a "Steal Hero" special
which is just not worth all that effort. Or even more staggering is
the fact that the only available graveyard is guarded by no less than
5 Knights(10)! Good luck beating those optional goons with only 15
creatures. Boulders seem to be the only viable option here if played
the intended way...
On the other hand: You might think beating the yellow Keeper is
difficult considering you can only have 15 creatures and he has a
limit of 40, but in fact it is not. To conquer this realm only the
yellow Keeper's heart should be destroyed by you. Or actually, someone
needs to take it out. The silly thing is that most times when I play
this level, the Keeper defeats _itself_ by tunneling into a pocket
just north of his gold vein where 2 Monks(10) & 4 Samurai(8) are
located. For some reason they are just allowed to walk into the Heart
room, kill the Keeper without any resistence, and thus beating the
level for you when you least expect it. Pretty lame indeed.
In all: The map doesn't feel like it was properly designed and test
played, but it can still be beaten. It is actually not that difficult,
but quite a nuissance to play it. I think you were supposed to go for
the Graveyard using Boulder Traps, then get an army of Vampires by
killing all heroes using more Boulder Traps, then get the Destroy
Walls spell, then get Reveal Map and finally beat the yellow keeper.
1. Get Workshop & Gems
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Even with a creature limit of 15 it would still be a good idea to get
the Workshop & Gems early on, because Boulders are the only way to
attack your overpowered enemies. Also Lava Traps can create protective
barries. First, it might be best to create a fortification just above
'1' on the map. This narrow path can be reached without tunnelling
into heroes and also ensures the yellow Keeper won't get to you. To do
this claim the portal, dig 3 tiles left and go all the way down to the
bottleneck. Fortity the bottom wall and you should be safe for the
time being.
Go for the nearby gold and excavate all the way to the east to find a
Skeleton(10) and Increase Level specials. I don't recommend waiting
until you hit the portal limit as 15 or 16 creatures isn't going to
make much of a difference here. With the Skeleton break through the
door above the portal and take out the 2 wimpy Archers. Just like with
digging do not break the doors to the two side rooms marked with '2' &
'3' on the map. The adversaries here are too strong. Instead, go up to
the workshop and claim the Troll as well. Dig out a path to the right
from the Gems seam into the treasure room and keep your speedy Imps
occupied by it. Create some rooms and train the few minions that you
have to high levels. Again, throw out weaker creatures that aren't
useful for sacrifices. You could go for Horned Reapers, but take note
that your one sided Gem tile provides very limited cash.
2. Put your enemies up against each other
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I'd suggest you keep clear of the Hero Keep to the NW. It contains a
lot of uberpowerful heroes and only a "Steal Hero" and Skeleton(10) as
reward. It's just not worth going there. You could instead go for the
Vampire & Graveyard or the Horned Reaper & "Destroy Walls" book.
However, another option is possible which probably makes stuff easier
for you. Save the game before doing this, though. Place several Lava
traps followed by one or two Boulder traps near your portal (e.g. as
close to your dungeon as possible) and break into the pocket
containing the Samurai/Monks. Quickly pull your Imp out and let them
walk towards your dungeon. They'll trigger the Lava traps and stay on
the correct side of the lava. If not, then let the Boulder trap take
them out, but try to kill as few of them as possible.
Once this has happened the heroes cannot connect to your Dungeon Heart
and therefore will wander about doing nothing. Now is your chance to
strike the yellow Keeper! Dig out a path to the below '1' into the
yellow Keeper's place via the gold seam. With a little luck there
should be an opening here that is not fortified. Depending on the
strength of the yellow Keeper also unleash the Heroes at points '4'-
'7' if necessary as long as the lava pit is closest to your dungeon
(heck, you could even tunnel into point '8' or the Hero Keep from here
as well! Sooner or later they'll all head towards the Yellow Keeper as
that is the only Heart they can detect a direct path towards! The
group of Knights at '7' should actually sufficient, but depending on
the time it took you to do this they might need some support. In the
end, the huge quantity of these elite heroes should be able to get the
better out of the yellow Keeper.
If the Keeper hasn't dug into '1' by himself he's probably already
defeated, and otherwise your troups should be able to finish off the
heavily weakened yellow Keeper if by some fluke he manages to get past
all of those heroes. This tactic may seem very unsatifying, but I
wonder how you would feel if you went through the level the way it was
intended. Like stated before there's just an insideous amount of
heroes/traps here. If you wish to kill all heroes on the map, make
sure not to release too many of them in the yellow Keeper's dungeon.
Otherwise you have to deal with the same group yourself! Furthermore,
mopping up all the goods from the map is hardly rewarding here, but
just look at the ASCII map above for more information.
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4. Belbata
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Initial Gold: 10000
Initial creatures: 5x Imp (4), 4x Warlock(4)
Max creatures: 4!
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Creature pool(1) Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
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Fly Treasure room Posses .....
Spider Lair Create Imp ?Poisonous gas
Warlock Hatchery ..... .........
Troll Training room ?Speed ?Lava
Orc Library ?Must Obey ?Boulder
Bile Demon ?Bridge(2) ?Cave-in .... .. .....
Dark Mistress ?Guard post ?Call-to-Arms ?Wooden door
Dragon ?Workshop ?Heal ...... ....
?Barracks ?Invisibility ?Steel door
......(3) .........(5) ?Magic door
....... ....(4) ?Protect
?Temple ........
.........(3) ?Chicken
......... .... .......
..........
?Destroy Walls(6)
(1): You can only attract Warlocks
Other keepers can attract everything
(2): Bridge cannot be researched by Yellow Keeper
(3): Prison/Graveyard can only be researched by Blue Keeper
(4): Torture room not researchable, but all enemy keepers have it
(5): Lightning researchable by Green Keeper only
(6): Destroy walls researchable only by you
Opposition
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Blue Keeper:
Initial Gold: 250000
Initial creatures: 6x Imp (2), 4x Dark Mistress(10)
Max creatures: 25
Green Keeper:
Initial Gold: 250000
Initial creatures: 6x Imp (2), 4x Dark Mistress(10)
Max creatures: 30
Yellow Keeper:
Initial Gold: 250000
Initial creatures: 6x Imp (2), 4x Dark Mistress(10)
Max creatures: 30
Heroes:
Archer/Dwarf/Barbarian/Knight/Samurai/Monk/Giant
(see map below for details)
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Neutral rooms : Graveyard
Neutral creature: 11x Skeleton(3), 1x Dark Mistress(5),
1x Bile Demon(5), 1x Vampire(4), 1x Vampire(5)
Dungeon specials: 2xIncrease level, 2x Ressurrect Creature
________________________________________________ .: Water
| _____________________________________ | G: Gold
| / \_ GGGG\___ | -: Excavated path
|| \_ green GGGGGG R\ | P: Portal
|| G \_ H GGGemGG __/ | H: Heart
||R GG \_ P GGGGG / __/| | R: Ressurrect
|| GGG \_ Gem G___/_/ | | I: Increase Level
||GG \_ _____/_____/ \ | M: Mistress(5)
|| \__ x ______/_____/G / | B: Bile Demon(5)
|| H P / / ___ /I GGGGG H \ | V: Vampire(4,5)
|| __/ | /Gem\_¯\_GGG / | + Graveyard
|| blue __/.... / / 5 GGG\__\ P \ | i: Imp(10)
|| _/........\ \i GGG G\\ yellow GG|| S: Skeleton(5)
|| _/ .........\_\GG 5 GGG\\ GGemG|| divided in 4
| \ _/ ...4 ..... _G GGGG___\\ GGGGG \| groups.
| /GGG ..........\ \___/_____\________/|..| x: Locked door,
|/GGemGG 6 .... \____/|_V_|\________/.. | entry of
|B....... 7 M| Green Keeper
| GG [1 2 3] |
| GGGGG H P- - - - - - - - [4x Prison] I|
| S I GG |
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Hero locations:
1: 2x Archer(4), 1x Barbarian(4)
2: 3x Barbarian(4), 1x Giant(7)
3: 2x Archer(4), 2x Barbarian(4), 1x Giant(7)
4: 3x Archer(4), 4x Dwarf(5), 2x Samurai(6)
5: 1x Samurai(6), 3x Barbarian(5)
6: 2x Monk(6), 2 Giant(7)
7: 5x Samurai(6), 1x Knight(10)
This is the first (and only) map where all three colored adversay
Keepers are active! Each Keeper including yourself have been given a
quarter of the map. All of your opponents start with 4x Mistress(10)
and you only get 4x Warlock(4). Moreover, this is also your creature
limit for the portal, and you can only attract Warlocks, thus Portals
are useless to you in this realm.
Green & Yellow have easy access to Gems, but Blue has a harder time.
If you seal off the walls just north of the single full(!) Gem tile
here you insure that you have no cash problems and Blue cannot get
infinite fundings. However, because the DD AI can sell traps this
doesn't mean you can tire him out that easily. In fact, by the time we
can attack they'll still have stronger forces than you (not even
taking those intial Mistresses into account). However, once you defeat
any of the 3 Keepers you can get access to the Torture chamber as they
all posses it. Only blue can make a Graveyard, but you can also get a
free one on the map when you get to the Vampires. But beware this yard
is directly guarded by the group at point '7'.
Before starting take into account that we want to get the strong
heroes from groups 5(2x), 6 & 7. Therefore, do not attack them
_before_ getting a prison. You can still keep them fed, until you get
a Torture room from any of the other Keepers to convert them to your
side.
1. Claim all treasures & Wall out the Keepers
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From the start plan out parts of your dungeon. We'll have access to
lots of Gold later on so don't cramp the rooms together too tightly.
The entire bottom area can be claimed, if you're careful not to hit
points 4, 6 or 7. So do not dig north directly from your heart or
otherwise you'll stumble into some powerful Monks. Initially, just
carve out a small section so your grumpy Warlocks have a home. You're
going to end up with Lair rivals (Mistress/Samurai, Bile
Demon/Skeleton) and you cannot afford to throw creatures away in this
realm, hence make sure to make at least two separate Lairs. I'd also
recommend to keep the entire area western of your Heart reserved for
Treasure room.
Your most immediate goal is to fortify the wall just to the north of
the Gems as the blue Keeper is just two tiles away from it. Initially,
his attention will go to the gold in the far north, so you should have
plenty of leeway to claim the Gems for yourself. Go there directly and
only dig out the topmost row of gold tiles, then have your Imps
fortify the entire northern wall. Once this is done you can construct
a Treasure Room at this location.
By now your Warlocks probably want to start researching. Since they
are level 4 absolutely make sure you put the Library in a dead end
corner of your dungeon, and fortify it before letting the Warlocks in!
Imps will die numerous by the Fireball/Meteor attacks, when they run
through it. I prefer to make this in a separate room just south of
your dungeon Heart. There should be sufficient space to keep them
occupied.
Excavate the entire western section and you'll find a Bile Demon(5)
west of the water pool and 5x Skeletons(3) along with an Increase
level in the southwestern corner of the map. Don't forget to put the
Bile Demon in a separate Lair. Mine along the impenetrable rock at the
bottom of the map to the right to find a second Increase Level and
your only Mistress(5). You have plenty of fundings, and therefore you
should put everybody in a large Training Room. Continue along the
rocks to the north, until you hit water. It should still be safe here
so build a bridge here (which should have been researched by now) and
fortify the northern wall. You can even dig out one or two tiles if
you like so you can place Boulder/Lightning traps here for later.
Lastly, you want to lock up the Green Keeper. This will require some
effort as the pond at point '4' contains more than a few enemies.
Research "Heal", Train everybody a bit and then dig into the water to
the north. Drop in the level 6 Mistress and Bile Demon along with the
Skeletons, then drop the Warlocks so they are no primary targets but
will still attack from a distance. Your troops should be able to
defeat these creatures without any losses just cast maximal powered
"Heal" if necessary. When the waters are clear quickly build a bridge
to the north and excavate some of the earth and fortify the wall one
tile below the choking point marked with "x" (use save/reload to find
the correct location if you're afraid of digging into his dungeon).
There's locked door there, which the enemy Keeper won't bother with
for a long time. When he's walled out your most immediate threats has
subsided for now...
2. Prison Break
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Now that everything is safe, make sure to build all the necessary
rooms, sacrifice some level 1 Imps, get at least 12 cheap Imps for
digging out all faces of the Gem tile and train everybody. When you
feel confident head to the Portal and claim it if you like. The path
to the east leads to a prison where 3 groups of heroes reside. Inside
the first two groups ('1' & '2'), then break the most eastern doors to
find two prisons along with 2 and 3 Skeletons(3). Put Imprison mode on
and then take out the last group. You can starve all of them into
Skeletons, or "Heal"/feed the defeated Giant(7) so you can torture him
later on.
Now make sure to train everybody asap. You have plenty of gold, and
thus cast "Speed" on all of them! Once the majority is past level 8
you could put one of your Increase Level specials to use. Also build a
very large Workshop (the area south of the Portal seems fine for this)
and put all level 10 creatures in here, except the Warlocks of course.
When you finally get "Destroy Walls" the next phse commences.
Elimination of the weakest Keeper.
3. Eliminate the weakest link
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You could go for either the blue/yellow Keeper here. The blue one has
less fundings, but the yellow one is just very poor at managing stuff
so it's probably easier to go for him. You'll be surprised how easily
he can fall, if you steal his dungeon section by section. Don't try an
all out assault as this will drain your army quite a lot. Skeletons
even at level 10 are, albeit being good fighters, quite vulnerable.
Build some magic doors in the corridor you dug out and put Boulder
traps between them for just the case. Also lock these doors so
creatures cannot accidently trigger the trap when they're
running/entering from nearby intruders. Break down the wall and
depending on how the yellow Keeper is working you'll probably notice
that a lot of floor tiles are unclaimed. Try to claim a few tiles and
send in your Mistress/Skeletons to kill the Imps with distant
"Lightning". Put them on Guard Posts as they should not wander off
into the dungeon itself. New Imps will spawn from the Dungeon Heart,
but this only makes it easier to kill them over and over again.
Continue claiming tiles and try to scout the southern part of the
dungeon without drawing too much attention (use "Conceal"), so you can
see the activity in the Torture chamber.
Dig along the southern earth tiles towards the west, until you're
directly below the Torture room. What you can do here is constructing
a group of 3x2 Boulder traps, which just fit in this space. Then when
the Mistresses are here fire a single shot of "Destroy Walls" in the
center of the wall with maximum power. All 6 Boulders will activate
and instantly kill all Mistresses! You should now be able to:
1. Claim the Torture room, so you can construct one yourself. Open up
the small pockets of heroes one by one (at points '5' to '7'), defeat
them and convert all the valuable creatures to your side. You also
gain an Imp(10) from topmost group '5'.
2. Apply "Destroy Walls" on the wall to the north of this room, to
have the boulder tumble into the Lair. Where probably a lot of Orcs
and other creatures are resting. Additionally, have your Imps reload
the Boulder traps so you can send in some more Boulders and control
their trajectory in the lair.
With the Mistresses gone the yellow Keeper will severly be weakened by
this, and you should be able to claim his Portal and to the north, and
his Dungeon Heart. Alternatively, put Guard Posts next to the Portal
and capture all of the level 1 creature that enter his domain. When he
is finally defeated you should have built up an army of the Samurai
that once wandered this land, claimed the Graveyard along with its
Vampires and put everybody into training. The Yellow Keeper might have
the "Increase Level" special in his Library as it is located in the
gold vein had access to.
4. Defeat Green & Blue Keepers
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With all the converted Samurai you have the next target is probably
the Blue Keeper. Because his domain is so close to your Treasure room
you might want to sell a few tiles and lock the Imps out for a moment.
Put "Call-to-Arms" there when you have a complete set of level 10
Samurai etc., "Destroy Walls" and carefully navigate your group
towards the nearby Heart. It is located north of the Training room and
west of the Portal. This battle will be more intense, but you should
be able to win this one as well. Alternatively, you can cast "Destroy
Walls" next to the Portal and drop an Imp here. Chances are that the
blue Keeper will drop all his creatures on the Portal tiles, thus
sending them all out of his dungeon. This cheap trick can surely help
you quite a lot. Btw. like the yellow one there's a dungeon special
most likely in his Library as the "Resurrect" special was also in a
Gold seam this Keeper had access to.
As for the green Keeper you might have to use a different approach.
Like in Morkardar this Keeper puts traps everywhere (again also on
illegal locations). Put some Magic door/Boulder traps in the corridor
to the south of his domain, and then draw some attention with some
Imps. They might fire of his own Boulder traps killing his goons for
you. They will most likely follow you so you can sell the door and
have your own Boulder cause them to reach a 'death' end. When most of
the Boulders are gone, send in your Vampires/Mistress/Samurai to take
this 3rd Keeper out of commision. The reward for beating him is a
victory and the "Lightning" & "Resurrect" spell in his Library,
although it won't be of use to you anymore. If the special is not
here, just check the mark on the map if you really want to find it.
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5. Caddis Fell
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Initial Gold: 250
Initial creatures: 3x Imp (3), 2x Dark Mistress (6)
Max creatures: 20
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
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Fly Treasure room Posses .....
Beetle Lair Create Imp ?Poisonous gas
Spider ........(2) ..... .........
Warlock ........ ....(3) ?Speed ?Lava
Troll .......(2) ?Must Obey ?Boulder
Orc .....(3) ?Cave-in .... .. .....
Bile Demon ?Guard post ?Call-to-Arms ...... ....
Dark Mistress ?Workshop ?Heal ?Braced door
Dragon(1) ?Barracks ?Invisibility ?Steel door
Vampire(1) ......(3) ......... ?Magic door
?Torture room .......
?Temple ........
?Graveyard .......
......... .... .......
..........
....... .....(4)
(1) : Only available to the Blue Keeper
(2) : Rooms never become available even after claiming
(3) : Only researchable by the Blue keeper, available after claiming
(4) : "Destroy Walls" book can be found
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Blue Keeper:
Initial Gold: 10000
Initial creatures: 5x Imp (1), 7x Hell hound(7)
Max creatures: 30
Heroes:
Fly/Horned Reaper/Archer/Barbarian/Giant/Fairy/Witch
Secrets
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Neutral rooms : Library, Training room, 2x Hatchery, Bridge
Neutral creature: 2x Dragon(10), Imp(5), Beetle(9), Spider(9),
Vampire(1), 6x Hell hound(6)
Dungeon specials: 2x Increase Level, Reveal Map, Steal Hero,
Make Safe, Resurrect Creature
________________________________________________ .: Lava
|....d| _ H P ___|\/wwwww|w: Water
|.|¯¯¯ | | blue Keeper |____ www/|G: Gold
|.| __| | ____ ____ __ | | |-: Excavated path
| |____| |___| GG|___|G |___|G |__ _| / |=: Preferred path
| GG 5 GGGG 6 GGG 7 GGGG 8 G\_ |P: Portal
|ww9 __GGG|¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯| GGG \|H: Heart
|I / X\ |............................| 9 R |R: Ressurrect
|___\__/__|.....___.....___.....___....|_________|I: Increase Level
|..............| L |===| 2 |---| h |.............|F: Make Safe
|..............|___|---|___|===|___|.............|S: Steal Hero
|_____..........| = = = |........______|B: Bridge tile
| GG |........|¯3¯| = |¯1¯|......| |h: Hatchery
|GemG |.......B|___| H |___|......| P h |L: Library
|GG 12|.........| = = |.......|______|T: Training room
|¯¯¯¯¯.........|¯¯¯|===|¯¯¯|---|¯¯¯|.............|+: Vampire(1) &
|________......| h |---| 4 |===| T |...__________| Graveyard
| | _| _\......¯¯¯.....¯¯¯.....¯¯¯.../ /___ |D: "Destroy Walls"
| ||___|D|________ _________________| /| V | |d: Dragon(10)
| ¯¯¯¯| |___ \| |¯¯¯¯¯¯¯| _ _ w ¯¯¯ |`: Beetle&Spider(9)
|______ ¯¯¯¯|| _ || | |¯¯¯| | |11 | wXww |h: 6x Hell hound(6)
| ..... ||_||||| | |_H_| | '|Gem|`wwwI\__ |X: action point 2x,
|...d... ____¯¯¯ ¯¯___ |_____| ¯'¯ /¯¯\__F\__| triggers a swarm
| ..... ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯|10S| S\/¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ \__R| of flies
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Heroes (incomplete summary as there's not enough room on the map)
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1: 3x Archer(5)
2: 3x Thief(5)
3: 3x Barbarian(5)
4: 3x Giant(5)
5: 2x Barbarian(7), 1x Barbarian(9), 1x Giant(7)
6: 2x Giant(7), 1x Giant(9)
7: 2x Archer(7), 1x Giant(7), 1x Giant(9)
8: 3x Giant(7), 1x Giant(9)
9: 5x Horned Reaper(5)
10: 4x Giant(10)
11: 6x Skeleton(10)
12: 7x Archer(7)
': 1x Beetle(10), 1x Spider(10)
Around Destroy Walls spell: 5x Dwarf(5), 1x Wizard(8)
South Destroy Walls spell: 3x Monk
Around Graveyard: 2x Vampire(5)
West of Hero Heart: 5x Barbarian(8), 2x Archer(8), 2x Fairy(8)
East of Hero Heart: 2x Barbarian(8), 2x Archer(8), 4x Witch(8)
North of Hero Heart: 2x Barbarian(8), 2x Archer(8), 3x Witch(8)
This level does something that none of the original DK level did.
Rather than letting you generate an army yourself you have to work
with the 2 Mistresses that you are given. Later on you will be able
assemble a larger group, but in the beginning you'll have to carefully
manage each piece of gold you receive. You cannot build a Hatchery or
Library at any moment in the game, thus make sure not to sell these
rooms by accident!
1. Clear the central island
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Upon entering this realm you'll find that you have 3 Imps and 2
Mistresses at your disposal. Dig 3 tiles in any direction to tunnel
into the central corridor connecting to four empty rooms (not drawn on
the map). Claim these rooms and make sure to build exactly 1 tile
Treasure room (50 Gold) and 2 tiles Lair (2x 100 Gold) = 250 Gold. For
now that is all you can do. Let the Mistresses create a home and hold
all your creatures except one Imp. There are single level 6 heroes in
each corner so don't dig out the rooms any further for the time being.
Instead, dig from the centre of your Dungeon heart dig into one
direction (e.g. north) to find a wooden doorway. Let 1 Mistress out
and make sure to hold your Imps and the other Mistress at all time
from now on, they might go for other doors and trigger Boulder traps
you don't want to set off. "Posses" the Mistress and tear down the
doorway.
In the room behind, regardless of the direction you'll find 3 level 5
heroes of the same type. Kill all three of them, let your Mistress
sleep to heal and you'll find two doors leading in either direction.
Also pick up all the gold from the pots here and place it in your 1
tile Treasure room. You can expand this later on, when the island
you're on is cleared in all directions.
Look at the map to find out which one to take, the path marked with
"=" is preferred as it doesn't contain Boulder Traps, and also the
weakest hero if any is present at all. If you take care you can
actually break all the doors one-by-one as all of the lurking heroes
can be defeated. The NE corridor also contains a free Imp(5), quickly
pick him up or he'll get blasted by the hero that spawns here.
Work your way around the area killing off all the heroes by staying
distant and spamming all heroes with the Mistresses' Lightning attack.
Once you get the Hatchery you can use some chickens to heal your
Mistress as well. Also be careful with the Posionous Gas traps. Your
Imps won't survive them! In bottom/left central room you can trigger
these traps to damage the enemy groups here as well, so make use of
that.
Once all the weak heroes are gone, put your Mistresses in the Library
so they can do some research. Get at least the Guard Post and, if
they're very close to reaching next level let them train a bit. Level
7 Mistresses also control Speed, so this makes them twice as
effective.
2. Expand beyond the lava pool
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In case you haven't noticed it turns out your surrounded by lava from
all sides. The only way to get off this island and get some gold is by
building bridges, but you cannot research them. There is however 1
bridge tile connected to your dungeon on the west side directly in
line with your Dungeon Heart. Fortify the walls here, and then dig out
the central tile of the western room. However, by doing so you'll
allow ~20 Flies(5) entry to the dungeon. This may seem like a lot, but
the flies are really, really weak. In factyour two Mistresses should
easily be able to handle it with their Lightning. Claim the bridge
tile, which grants you the ability to construct them, and extend the
bridge a few tiles. Place a Guard post on the tile against the bridge
and sell the Bridge tile against it. This way no enemy creature
(including the lava walking white Horned Reapers) cannot reach you!
Extend the bridge further to the west to where the Gems are. Get your
Mistress to eliminate the 7 Archers in smaller groups. When they're
gone have your Imps claim the entire island and excavate all the gold
here. Build Guard Posts along the perimeter of the land to keep your
Imps stuck on that island, and fill the rest up with Treasure room.
This should resolve your financial issues. The question is where to go
next... You could go for the Hero Keep to the south, or the blue
Keeper in the north. Traditionally, you'd want to go for the heroes
first, so you can expand your ranks by claiming up the rooms/treasures
they have. I'll go for the blue Keeper first, but the choice is yours
to act differently.
3. Defeat the blue Keeper
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Ah this seems more daring, but this can actually work out pretty well.
Contstruct a bridge from all around the north of your dungeon, but do
not connect the bridge to the Guard Post you have. Notice those hero
groups marked on the map numbered '5' to '9'? You can make a large
bridge and dig out the entrance to the blue Keeper first, and then
free all these heroes at the same time. As they cannot detect the
entrance to your dungeon heart they'll all barge into the blue Keeper
instead. With the help of 10x white Horned Reapers(5) from both group
'9's on the map chances are that he will be utterly defeated. Of
course you might want to wait a little while with breaking into these
sections, if you want to get a Prison. Only the blue Keeper can
research it and it will take a while for him to build it.
In the mean time you can of course train/research with your own
creatures and explore the points of interest on this map. You could of
course still access the right group of Reapers with a "Concealed" Imp
and use him to claim the tile where the "Reveal Map" special is.
Immediately use it to make you omniscent.
1. Dig into the NW/SW corners of the map to find two free Dragons(10).
They'll make good researchers & manufacturers for you.
2. Around the portal to the east are 6x unaligned Hell hounds(6).
They're not the best addition, but for now you shouldn't be
complaining about extra troops. Just make sure they don't randomly
start breaking enemy doors, as they do like to wander off and seek out
the enemy only to get killed.
3. Create a bridge past the SE corner of your dungeon, just past the
Hatchery, and dig here to find that the the Hero Wall becomes regular
earth, if you claim the path next to it. This way you can claim the
"Destroy walls" spell with relative ease. Only the Dwarves and Wizard
will attack you here. You can claim the rest of the path around here
to find a dead end with a Boulder Trap, or some Lava Traps on the
other side. Past those traps are 2 Giants (6 & 8) and the 'supposed'
entrance how you were get here.
4. To the east of the SE Dragon and below the corridor leading to the
"Destroy Walls" spell is a tile made up of earth. Dig this out, avoid
the Boulder and work your way around to find a room at the bottom with
4x Giant(10) and a "Steal Hero" special. You can continue digging to
the east against the rock to find a second "Steal Hero" guarded by a
trap. Don't dig out the row above the earth just exacavated as you
otherwise get very close to the hero Dungeon Heart. You can better do
this later on.
5. To the south of your training room are two Boulder traps waiting to
be dug out. Below that is a room with 6x Skeletons(10) and a 4 faced
Gem seam. There's also some white Beetles/Spiders(10), which are not
that hard to defeat. Furthermore, the unaligned Beetle/Spider(9) can
be used for sacrifice in order to get another powerful Mistress.
6. With "Destroy Walls" you can now get into the graveyard to the SE.
Inside you'll find two white Vampire (whom luckily do not resurrect).
Inside the central room is a free Vampire(1) and a graveyard... Oddly
enough, you can research the Graveyard so why put it here as well?
7. Just below the Graveyard and east of the Gem tile there's a small
lake. Entering it causes a set of ~30 Flies to enter your dungeon
(similar to moving a creature into the empty pocket to the right of
the western Reapers). Again, killing them is rather trivial, but you
can make use of their corpses to get another Vampire. When they're all
gone build a bridge to the south and use "Destroy walls" on 3
consecutive locations to get: "Increase Level", "Make Safe" &
"Resurrect Creature" specials along the golden pots scattered here.
Finally, if you wait very long the blue Keeper might actually be able
to beat all the joint Hero forces, but should be mortally wounded. If
this happens immediately follow up with your own Mistresses, Dragons,
Vampires and other stuff you can find. If you happend to have attract
a troll & Bile Demon you'd better get a Horned Reaper from the Temple!
In the end you should be able to beat all of the blue goons.
4. 'Beat' the Hero's heart
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With all of the above taken into account all that remains is beating
the crap out of the remaining heroes. The easiest approach I can think
of is building lot's of Boulder traps in the corridors leading to the
heart that you already claimed during item #4 from the previous
section. When you have a lot of boulders in place, get an expendable
Imp and drop him in each of the empty, unclaimed path sections to
spawn 5 extra hero parties! Using the Imp you can also activate the
hero Boulder traps, so some of the troops are easily killed. :) Since
there are tunneller's here they will make their way to you, but your
own boulder traps should prevent them from getting near you.
Otherwise, fight them if you have a prison and construct yourself 'la
grande armee'!
Sooner or later all the heroes will be gone and you can claim the path
to the heroes' Heart room. Either trigger the action point at the
heart and have the heroes get killed by even more boulders or fight
them in a real battle. The choice is up to you.
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6. Pladitz
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Initial Gold: 35000
Initial creatures: 6x Imp(2)
Max creatures: 13
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
--------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------
Fly Treasure room Posses .....
Beetle Lair Create Imp ?Poisonous gas
Spider Hatchery ..... .........
Warlock Training Room ?Speed ?Lava
Troll Library ?Must Obey ?Boulder
Orc ?Bridge(2) ?Cave-in .... .. .....
Bile Demon ?Guard post ?Call-to-Arms ?Wooden door
Dark Mistress ?Workshop ....(3) ...... ....
Dragon ?Barracks ............(3) ?Steel door
......(1) .........(1) ?Magic door
?Torture room .......(3)
?Temple ........
.........(1) ?Chicken
......... .... .......
..........
?Destroy Walls(2)
(1) : Only researchable by Blue Keeper (Prison/Graveyard/Lightning)
(2) : Only researchable by you (Bridge/"Destroy Walls")
(3) : Spell book can be found ("Heal"/"Invisibility"/"Protect")
Opposition
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Blue Keeper:
Initial Gold: 15000
Initial creatures: 3x Imp (1), 3x Dark Mistress(10)
Max creatures: 25
Heroes:
Archer/Barbarian/Giant/Thief/Knight/Samurai/Wizard/Fairy/Monk
Secrets
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Neutral rooms : -
Neutral creature: 2x Skeleton(5), 1x Dragon(5), 1x Mistress(6)
Dungeon specials: Increase Level, 2x Steal Hero, Resurrect Creature
________________________________________________ .: Water
| 2 GGG___...\\...___....I....___.._.\\ 9 9 | G: Gold
| GGG 1 \...\\.| |_______| ||P|.|\ | -: Excavated path
|GGGG\____/...||.|_ _|¯¯| |¯¯|_ _|¯¯..| \ S | P: Portal
|......__........| |__| |__| |GGG \ |x 9 | H: Heart
|.__..|3 x ......|_ _|¯¯|H|¯¯|_ _|GGGG// /|¯¯¯x¯¯| R: Resurrect
|| 4|..¯¯........| |__| |__| |\GG// / | 9 Gem| I: Increase Level
|.¯¯__.._..._x_..|___|¯¯¯¯¯¯¯|___|..|¯8 ¯| ¯¯¯¯¯¯| S: 2x Skeleton(5)
|..| 5|//..| 6 |...____________......¯¯¯¯........| M: Mistress(6)
| ¯¯//....¯¯¯...x 7x x x x.................| D: Dragon(5)
|¯¯¯¯¯¯__/¯¯¯¯¯¯\..¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯.../¯¯\ __ _x_| x: door
| / ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ 11 ¯¯ | |S10|
| ___|¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯|x|¯¯ ¯¯¯|
|| x |¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯| |¯¯¯¯¯¯|16|__15_|12 ____ |
||¯D¯x |____________| H | |_____|x|__|13 R| |
| ¯¯¯|17 17 _________x__18 __|__14_|¯|__|¯|____| |
| |__|__| ..........|x|.......__......\ |
|___.............................|Gems\\...\_____|
| M_|..../¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ GGG |
| ___...| H blue Keeper GGGem|
||19S|..| GGGGGem|
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Hero locations:
1: 2x Archer(4), 2x Dwarf(5), 1x Barbarian
2: 2x Archer(4), 2x Dwarf(5), 1x Barbarian
3: 4x Archer(4), 30 Gold pots
4: 2x Archer(4), 1x Dwarf(5), "Heal", 28 Gold pots
5: 4x Archer(4), 1x Dwarf(5), 1x Barbarian, 24 Gold pots
6: 1x Archer(4), 1x Dwarf(5), 2x Barbarian, 25 Gold pots form "DIE"
7: 5x Giant(5), 6x Barbarian(5), 2x Thief(4), 2x Fairy(5),
"Protect", 27 Gold pots
8: 3x Giant(5), 2x Archer(4)
9: 2x Samurai(8), 2x Dwarf(8), 1x Archer(8)
10: 2x Archer(4), 1x Giant(5), 2x Poison trap
11: 24x(!) Barbarian(5)
12: 4x Archer(5), 2x Wizard(5)
13: 2x Dwarf(5), 2x Archer(6), 1x Barbarian(10)
14: 7x Skeleton (6)
15: 6x Dwarf(5), 2x Barbarian(10)
16: 2x Archer(4), 2x Archer(6), 2x Dwarf(5), 2x Samurai(6) 1x
Barbarian(10)
17: 1x Archer(6), 2x Samurai(6)
18: 2x Samurai(10), 3x Giant(10), 1x Barbarian(10)
+ 1x Archer(10), 1x Giant(10), 2x Wizard(10), 1x Knight(10)
triggered
by action point
19: 2x Monk(6), 1x Thief(6), 2x Barbarian(6)
Another level that at first overview seems very hard, but due to poor
scripting, the availability of "Destroy Walls", and some oversights in
the design this level can be beaten with hardly any effort. Your
creature limit is the lowest so far, so you'll have to select your
minions carefully. Gold is also very conservative here. The Gem tile
to the NE is remarkably well protected by four copies of the above
mentioned group '9'. After that you still have enter the Hero's domain
where a whopping 24 Barbarians will meet you at the same time. Next
going through all the rooms is also a daunting process with your
limited amount of creatures. But if you make use of the Guard Post
trick again, this level becomes a little too easy, actually.
1. Setup a stronghold
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
You start the level in a fully fortified dungeon. However, break out
from any side will cause the heroes behind the locked doors at points
'3' and '6' to attack you. This is caused by the fact that the doors
that hold them are set to unaligned, which means the heroes will
attack it if they can detect a path to your heart! Hence you should
first constrain yourself to the local area. Excavate all the safe
gold, dig out one side of the double walls to get some extra space,
build some rooms (with only a small Training room!), and carefully
pick which creatures to attract.
Once you have researched the Guard Post & Bridge break through an part
of the wall on the western area, except the central tile directly west
from your Heart. The reason for this is that you should build a Guard
Post on it to prevent the groups at '3' & '6' to attack you. The
central tile hides an excavated path, which prevents you from blocking
the entrance to your dungeon. Build a small bridge so you can claim
this path and immediately sell it afterwards so the Heroes won't
detect you.
With the claimed path you can safely excavate all the gold near '2'
with the exception of the leftmost row as some heroes hide behind it.
On second thought, the heroes there are pretty weak so you could make
the tradeoff to get extra gold & fight them directly. With the given
fundings train a group of 4 Mistresses to at least level 6, and have
the rest research/manufacture. If you like you can attack all points
'1' to '6' one by one, claim the "Heal" spell along with ~100 gold
pots (worth 25000 gold). This will extend the period you can survive
without Gems.
2. Break the game...
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Normally, you're supposed to put in a lot of effort to reach the NE
gems, build up more troops and fight all the heroes in every room of
the hero fortress, and then finally fight the blue Keeper on his home
turf, where he can blast you with his "Lightning". However, there's a
much easier tactic possible.
Start building a bridge through the water towards '10', and also in
direction of the "Increase Level" spell north of your dungeon! Make
sure that your dungeon isn't externally accesible at all times (to
prevent the heroes from homing into your dungeon Heart), and dig just
north of the door at '10' to the west. Here you'll find several groups
in a long corridor that add up to the ludicrous amount of 24
Barbarians(5). Your Mistresses(7+) should be able to take them out
with little effort, if you attack them in small groups. In fact you
only need to take the right most group as the others won't bother you.
You might actually want to leave them, so you can have them attack the
blue Keeper!
From this point on you could go south through the door at point '12',
but instead dig south on the east side of the door along the
impenetrable rock, when you reach a dead end on the east (due to hero
walls against the rock), cast "Destroy Walls" once. Attack the heroes
at point '13', have your Imps claim the room unfortifying the walls on
the southern side. Now dig south, until you hit water again. You'll
reach a watery area where you can explore the area by walking around.
Just beware that there may be a lost Giant(10)/Samurai(10) around here
as the door leading to the Hero Heart (at point '18') isn't locked!
Build a bridge inside this lake leading towards the blue dungeon and
towards '18'. You'll get a silly message for getting 'past' the hero
dungeon so just ignore it. XD After doing so, dig into the blue
Keeper's domain (and possibly cast "Destroy Walls" again) and that's
it. All the heroes that aren't locked by Hero doors will sooner or
later start moving towards the blue Keeper. Once the Hero Heart room
is empty (e.g. Samurai/Barbarians have left), quickly claim the tile
with the Poisonous Gas trap near the door, break it with your
Mistresses and move them towards the Heart. This will bring
in The-lord-of-the-Land-approaches sequence. If your blue rival is not
yet defeated the Knight & his comrades will leave the Heart Room. Once
they're gone get your Mistresses in again, and destroy the Heart.
Doing so will unleash all the Heroes from the Hero dungeon, which will
flood the blue Keeper with more enemies than he will ever be able to
handle. This massive horde will kill your enemy with little effort.
That's it, 'you've conquered this realm'... This victory doesn't feel
like one, but if you wish it is possible to mop up all the goodies.
The unaligned Dragon(5)/Mistress(6) at points 'D' & 'M' are easily
accessible.
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7. Abbadon
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Initial Gold: 20000
Initial creatures: 6x Imp (4x4,2x1)
Max creatures: 10
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
--------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------
Dragon ........ ....(1) Posses ?Alarm
Beetle ....(1) ...... ...(3) ?Poisonous gas
Spider ........(1) ..... .........
Warlock ........ ....(1) .....(3) ?Lava
Troll .......(1) .... .... .......(2)
Orc ?Bridge(1) .... ..(3) .... .. .....
Bile Demon ?Guard post .... .. ....(3) ?Wooden door
Demon Spawn ........(1) ....(3) ?Braced door
........(1) ............(3) ?Steel door
......(1) .........(3) ..... ....
....... .... .......(3)
...... ........
......... .......
......... .... .......
..........
....... .....(3)
(1) : Only available after room has been claimed
(2) : Only manufacturable after reaching Boulde trap crate on the map
(3) : Can be found on the map ("Create Imp"/"Speed"/"Cave in"/
"Call to Arms"/"Invisibility"/"Heal"/"Protect"/"Lightning"/
"Destroy Walls")
Opposition
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Heroes:
Archer/Barbarian/Giant/Thief/Knight/Samurai/Wizard/Fairy/Monk
Secrets
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Neutral rooms : Treasure Room, Lair, Hatchery, Training Room,
Library, Workshop, Barracks, Prison
Neutral creature: Bile Demon(1), Dragon(1), Mistress(3),
3x Skeleton(2x 4,5), Vampire(?), 2x Warlock(6)
Dungeon specials: 3x Increase Level, 4x Resurrect Creature,
2x Steal Hero
________________________________________________ .: Lava
|1 | ___ W/ .__/\______________ | G: Gold
|_ |_ | H | _/ ..|12 | |7 x |__x__ |__________ | `: Excavated path
|23 \|_ _|/ ...|__ ||¯8¯¯x | ||_x______x_| | P: Portal
| ` __ ..|Gem|||9¯¯x | 6 || |M5____| | H: Heart
| P ` ` ` `xT| .¯||¯.||10¯x |_____||_x_|_| W | | L: Library
|\ _x_ ¯¯GG 4.||__||11¯x__________ 30x ___| | B: Bile Demon(1)
|| | t | GGL ..¯¯¯¯.¯¯¯¯..........|_ _| | D: Dragon(1)
|| _|_x_|_ GG .............31.......``/______| M: Mistress(3)
|/ |bx ` xl| ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` //| | | W: 2x Warlock(6)
| ¯¯|x|¯¯ ` _____ ___// | | H | s: Skeleton(5)
| GGBGG P ` __ /_____|.|___/20 |___| S: 2x Skeleton(4,5)
|2 GGG D ` / _|_|/ ......| |__| | 21| + Prison
|_| ___________ ` __/ |¯13 ¯|____14| .. | | V| T: Treasure Room
|s| |_ ______|`|_24 |_____|| T|¯¯x .... x_|_ | t: Training Room
|.....\__/ `` ` `\ | __| x__| || .Gem.|18 | | L: Library
|............` __||__\ | x__| | | ||19....| | | | l: Lair
|.........3 .`|x___15|_|___ | x__| ||______| | | | b: Barracks
|___x____.. .`| | |¯ __| | S| x_________| | | W: Workshop
|x__x__x_|....`| | x 16 |17| x__| | x_____25| |_| V: Vampire(7)
|26|27|28|....`|___| ____ |___________29|
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Locations:
1: 1x Barbarian(5), 2x Witch(6), 2x Monk(3), "Create Imp"
+ 4x Thief(4), 2x Archer(6)
2: 1x Barbarian(8), 1x Wizard(5), "Speed", Increase Level
3: 6x Archer(8), 6x Witch(8), 1x Monk(5)
4: 4x Fairy(6), "Call to Arms"
5: 2x Archer(6), 1x Monk(1), 1x Giant(3)
6: 4x Monk(5), 4x Barbarian(5), "Resurrect Creature"
7: 2x Dwarf(5), 2x Archer(5), "Resurrect Creature"
8: 1x Monk(4), 2x Wizard(6)
9: 3x Dwarf(5), 2x Fairy(7)
10: 1x Wizard(5), 2x Fairy(7)
11: 6x Dwarf(5,2x6,3x7)
12: 4x Samurai(8), "Destroy Walls", "Steal Hero"
+ 3x Barbarian(6,7,8), 1x Acher(7)
+ 2x Giant(5), 2x Samurai(8), 2x Archer(7), 1x Thief(6)*
13: 4x Samurai(10), 2x Giant(10), "Increase Level"
14: 3x Wizard(8), "Invisibility", Boulder Trap crate
15: 1x Dwarf(9), 3x Monk(8), 2x Barbarian(8), 1x Fairy(9), 2x Giant(6)
16: 4x Archer(7), 4x Archer(8), 2x Wizard(10), 3x Fairy(10)
17: 2x Giant(9), 1x Monk(9), "Protect", 10 gold pots
18: 2x Samurai, 3x Barbarian(5,6,7), "Lightning"
19: 2x Giant(10), 2x Barbarian(10)
+ 3x Fairy(10), 2x Witch(10)
+ 2x Fairy(10), 3x Witch(10)
20: 3x Monk(10), 3x Wizard(10), 2x Thief(10), 2x Archer(10)
21: 2x Barbarian(10)
23: "Increase Level"
24: "Protect"
25: 2x Archer(10), "Resurrect Creature"
26: "Resurrect Creature"
+ 2x Fairy(10), 1x Archer(8), 1x Barbarian(7)
27: "Steal Hero"
+ 2x Witch(10), 1x Samurai(8), 1x Thief(8)
28: "Resurrect Creature"
+ 2x Wizard(10), 2x Giant(8)
29+ 2x Barbarian(10), 1x Giant(9), 1x Monk(10), 1x Samurai(10, 1x
Archer(10)
30+ 1x Wizard(5), 1x Thief(4), 1x Barbarian(4)
+ 1x Fairy(7), 1x Witch(5), 1x Giant(4)
31+ 8x Fairy(6)
32+ 3x Samurai(10), 2x Wizard(10), 2x Giant(10), 1x Knight(10)
* = triggers only when player has more than 25000 gold!
The main theme of this map is exploring the areas one-by-one and
discover new rooms and spells as go through progressively more
difficult enemies. You start out with absolutely no spell/room and 4x
Imps. If they die before you reach the "Create Imp" spell at '1'
you're pretty much stuck in a dead-lock situation and have to restart.
Fortunately, things are not that hard in this level. The most basic
rooms are easily accessible by digging south from your dungeon Heart.
With a creature limit of only 10 minions you should leave the
unaligned Warlocks(6), Dragon(1) & Bile Demon(1) untouched, until you
hit the creature limit. Since you cannot get any Dark Mistresses via
the Portal you'd best stick with Orcs. Also there's no Temple on this
map so don't try keep antropods for sacrifices, therefore throw out
everything that is not an Orc or Bile Demon. 1 or 2 Dragons are fine,
but none more as you're in dire gold sitations for most of the level
and these tanks are usually too slow for most enemy creatures to keep
up. However, since there is no active assault by the heroes you can
play this level at your own pace.
1. Claim up the basic rooms, spells & gems
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From the entry to the level, dig south and claim all basic rooms
including Barracks around. Next dig south and claim up all the gold,
but leave the central corridor of gold and the door lock in tact so
you can claim the Bile Demon later on, when you have reached the
creature limit. Also this large excavated area will function as a
humongous Workshop, when you get to build it. Also when it's payday
make sure to give the most expensive creatures a manual pay, by
getting the smallest piles of gold from the treasure room and sprinkle
them on the specific minions. If they make a small victory dance they
will accept whatever you gave them as their pay instead, and continue
working. This way you can keep Dragons(10) cost down to as little as
100 gold which is a fraction compared to their standard pay!
Next claim both portals, attract as many Orcs as possible and have
them train. Continue to the east and claim all the gold and Library
here. Watch out to leave the easternmost wall near the north as you'll
dig into lava (with several Fairies) in here. Once your Orcs are mid
level dig towards points '1', '2', '23' to the west. And kill the two
groups of heroes here. It should be doable without too much effort
(also don't forget the heroes that come by the action point at '1'.
Claim the 2x "Increase Level", "Create Imp" & "Speed" spells.
After getting all the goods, you probably want to head east towards
the Gems, which are heavily guarded. Dig east from the Library to find
the said Fairies and have the Orcs take care of them. If they have
learned the "Protect" spell by now they should be pretty resistent
against the Fairy's "Ligtning" spells. Have your Imps claim the entire
excavated path and collect the "Call-to-Arms" spell near the Library.
Beware that point '31' will spawn some more Fairies, though.
Furthermore, don't go too far into the southern area, there's a lot of
strong hero activity there.
Break down the door to the NE hero structure. Inside fight the spawned
parties at point '30', claim the Workshop and remove it. Rebuild it
near the large gold vein you dug out with the Bile Demon. This large
Workshop will be your primary way of making gold, eventhough you
cannot create the expensive Boulder Traps/Magic Doors. Try to sell as
many Steel Doors, instead. Continue through the hallways and go east
to find a small hero party with the only unaligned Mistress(3) in this
level. Quickly, nab here once she joins you as she is will start
fighting as soon as this happens, and most likely get killed as she's
only level 3 at the moment.
The optional room at '6' contains a "Resurrect Creature" special, but
you'll need "Destroy Walls" to get it, so don't mind it for now.
Further to the left you'll find 5 doors leading to points '7' to '11'.
'8' is the correct one to follow toward the Gems, but '7' also contain
interesting "Resurrect" special. After all Heroes are killed here (or
not), claim the entire corridor leading to the Gem room. Let your
creatures heal, enter the Gem room, dismantle all the traps, and
continue north. The three groups of enemies here protect the Gems &
the obligatory "Destroy Walls" spell. Also beware of the Boulder-trap-
behind-a-door trick here!
2. Build up your ranks (optional sections)
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After clearing out the "Destroy Walls" spell, create a bridge leading
to the Libray from the Gems so your Imps can use a shortcut. Have 3 of
them continuously dig out the gems so you can get some compensation.
If you haven't gotten all unaligned creatures get them now, perhaps
even the Warlocks.
There's an optional areas on the map:
-The area south of '31' leads to point '14' where 3 Wizards protect
the "Invisibility" and Boulder trap crate. Kill them and claim the
goods in order to gain the ability to construct Boulder traps all the
time!
-The area at point '13' contains some rather deadly creatures hidden
behind a hero wall. Use "Destroy Walls here to get inside. You may
want to build some boulder traps at the entrance, before doing so.
Apart from some traps there's another "Increase Level" special.
However, from here you can dig west to reach point '24' where a single
tile is open with the "Protect" spell free for the grabbin'.
-SW corner of the map if you like you can go there now. Dig into the
only entrance and build a bridge around the left corner to find a
single Skeleton(4). Again, you may want to have some Boulder traps to
kill the 13 Heroes with little to no effort. Once you've gotten the
Boulders in place construct a bridge to the far south and connect to
all regions. This will draw out the heroes, who will kill themselves
with no value for their own life. When cleared reload the boulders and
enter the small structure to the SW. Inside there's a single Boulder
along with 3 doors. Kick them all down to trigger action points at
'26', '27' & '28'. They guard the 2x "Resurrect Creature" & "Steal
Hero" specials.
-With all these specials you can try to get one or two level 10
Thieves and use the Increase level & Resurrect Creature specials to
generate a small army of these armored clads. After getting those you
should be nearly indestructible. Otherwise, try to get some Samurai as
they are the most valuable non-Knight creatures.
3. Showdown at the hero's fortress
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Like the previous world there's a relatively large hero dungeon around
here. I'm not going to write down every single room here, as it's
mostly more of the same. However, beware of the boulders in the west
wing, and get the Prison/Treasure Room after passing point '17'. They
might be helpful for raising more Skeletons if you feel like you need
more of these... The long corridor leading to the Gem area also
contains several Barbarians/Samurai. At the end you'll also find the
"Lightning" spell which can be useful, but by going there you almost
inevitably trigger the hero action point at '29'. Another "Resurrect
Creature" is guarded by several traps/Archers(10) to it's west.
Enter the Gem room to find a large lava area and several heroes. Let
them come out and attack them on your own tiles. When they're
annihilated enter the lava room, to find 2 groups of Witches/Fairies
to appear! Kill these as well ("Lightning" can work wonders on these
weak heroes). Build a bridge around the Gems and construct a large
Treasure room nearby to resolve your gold issues permanently. But it
may hardly be worth it as you've also reached the hero dungeon Heart
already.
Go through the door to the east, head up, kill the strong resistence
at '20' and you'll find a dead end. Optionally, go for the Vampire(7)
to the east of this corridor first hidden along with two hero
Barbarians. Then use "Destroy Walls" on the eastern side of the dead
end (you can even see the light glowing from the dungeon Heart on the
edges of the walls here). Enter the Heart room and the Knight with his
comrades approaches. Kill this dunce with your own army (or boulders)
and all will go well...
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8. Svatona
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Initial Gold: 15000
Initial creatures: 5x Imp (3)
Max creatures: 15
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
--------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------
Demon Spawn Treasure room Posses ?Alarm
Beetle Lair Create Imp ?Poisonous gas
Spider Hatchery ..... ?Lightning
Warlock Training Room ?Speed ....
Troll Library ?Must Obey ?Boulder
Orc ...... ?Cave-in .... .. .....
Bile Demon ?Guard post ?Call-to-Arms ?Wooden door
Dark Mistress ?Workshop ?Heal ?Braced door
Dragon ?Barracks ?Invisibility ?Steel door
...... ......... ?Magic door
?Torture room .......
?Temple ........
.........(1) ?Chicken
......... .... .......(2)
..........
?Destroy Walls
(1) : Only available after room has been claimed
(2) : Can be found on the map ("Disease")
Opposition
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Blue Keeper:
Initial Gold: 40000
Initial creatures: 3x Imp (1)
Max creatures: 25
Heroes:
Tentacle/Fairy/Samurai/Knight/Barbarian/Archer/Witch/Thief/Giant
Secrets
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Neutral rooms : Graveyard
Neutral creature: 2x Hellhound(4), 1x Mistress(5), 2x Vampire(2)
Dungeon specials: Reveal Map, "Disease", Steal Hero,
2x Increase Level
________________________________________________ .: Lava/Water
| H | GG\_ | G: Gold
|_ _| P 2 GGem| `: Excavated path
|\ _ GGG/ | P: Portal
| |G GGGG// |V | _ \ | H: Heart
| \GGG __GGGG_|¯|MG//__________¯¯_____/ \_3 \| R: Reveal Map
|__\GGG1/__\G+| |¯¯¯¯¯......................\_ /| h: 2x Hellhound(4)
|h GGGGGG |__| ......___...___.____..___.__| ¯| M: Mistress(5)
| ... ........| x¯x 8 x 8 x¯x 7|..\ 4| V: 2x Vampire(3)
| ....................|_x_|¯|___|____|¯|x_|.. \ | & Graveyard
|.............10........ x11 x12x 13 | x```` | D: "Disease"
|...................... _x|___|__|_H__|__x_6../ | +: Increase Level
|.... .........|9 x_x 8 x 8 x_x 7|..| 5| S: Steal Hero
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1: 3x Archer(3), 2x Barbarian(4)
2: 3x Barbarian(5), 2x Fairy(7), 2x Thief(5)
3+ 2x Witch(7), 2x Giant(7), 1x Samurai(8)
4: 3x Samurai(7), 2x Giant(6), 1x Monk(6)
5: 4x Samurai(7), 1x Knight(7)
6: 4x Archer(8), 2x Witch(8)
7: 2x Samurai(7)
8: 2x Barbarian(6), 2x Samurai(7), 2x Archer(5)
9: 4x Dwarf(9), Treasure Room
10: 9x Tentacle(5)
11: 3x Barbarian(6), 1x Archer(5), 1x Samurai(7)
12: 4x Dwarf(9), 1x Barbarian(6), 1x Archer(5)
13+ 2x Witch(9), 2x Giant(10), 2x Samurai(9,10), Knight(10)
14: 4x Fairy(7), 4x Tentacle(8)
15: 2x Giant(10)
16: 3x Samurai(6), 1x Knight(7)
17: 4x Fairy(8)
This level is very reminiscent of Pladitz. A hero dungeon is between
you and the blue keeper to the far south. Slight variation here is
that you are separated by a large lake, filled with many 'hero'
Tentacles, thus you should not dig south too fast or too soon. You
cannot build bridges, so if you want to claim some of the southern
specials you need to claim all the tiles of the hero keep to access
them. Again your creature limit is low, but this is not very relevant
for now. The reason for this is that like Pladitz this level is broken
as well. Again, "Destroy Walls" is available, but you can even beat
the blue Keeper using only 1 Imp. :) To find out how, just read on
below. The only thing that is necessary is speed!
1. Claim the northern hemisphere
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
In this level you're actually given quite a large section on the map.
In fact you can claim the entire nothern half of it, as long as you
don't dig into the water or the areas marked by '1', '2' & '3'. Start
digging to the south and get most of the gold, but leave the rightmost
section of the most western gold to prevent being attacked by the
Archers & Barbarians. Ignore the graveyard for now, and focus on the
gold in the far NE corner. To the left of it is a very strong hero
party, but you can get to the gems by only digging out the gold
against the impenetrable rock. This way you can safely get infinite
funding.
Start building the most essential rooms, research the Torture Chamber,
and try to get several Dark Mistresses as well. If you keep some
Trolls and Bile Demons you could actually sacrifice them later on for
a Horned Reaper. Also don't forget the have the Mistress(5) join you
who's hiding between a wall of gold and rock east of '1'.
After researching the Guard Post you could, go and beat the group at
'1', claim the gold to the south, and then quickly build guard posts
along the waterline (to prevent attracting the hostile Tentacles &
Samurai (because the bottom '7' area has an unlocked door!). Then dig
westward to find 2 Hellhounds(4). Although, they're not very strong
you could use them for manufacturing. Lastly, take care when going for
the "Increase Level" special between '1' & the free Mistress as it is
boobytrapped by several Poison & Boulder traps.
2. Imp Intrigant
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After digging into the lake and warding it off with Guard posts and a
locked door. You could train everybody, fight through the hero
fortress again, and then head out for the blue Keeper. This is the
only way you can connect to his land via claiming all the tiles in the
hero dungeon, otherwise you have to fight him on his own land.
However, with all these roaming heroes you could as well put _them_ up
against the blue Keeper, but unless he digs into the lake himself
(which he does eventually) he will beat all the heroes. Therefore,
cast maximum powered "Invisibility"/"Speed" on an Imp put him outside
your main dungeon and posses him.
Walk around the vicinity and dig into the blue Keeper's domain on the
other side of the lake. Make sure to do this fast, because as soon as
you start digging you'll lose the stealth of invisibility (also the
Samurai(10) has "sight" so he can see through your disguise!). Try to
dig between the two sections of solid rock as he's probably still
excavating the gold blocks, meaning that the areas is not yet
fortified.
Once you have a connection, quickly pull back and break through the
earth at section '15'. This way 2 more Giants(10) are released.
Finally, to top it off you could also try to release all the Heroes in
the southern part points '14' to '16'. This way it will be ensured
that the blue Keeper is destroyed. Just wait a moment for the Samurai
to enter the blue dungeon, then you can return with your Imp to that
section and set them free. Also the magic door just below '7' can be
avoided just by digging into the soft earth one tile next of it. XD
This also makes sure you avoid the Word-of-Power traps on the land
bridge between the two sections!
That should be one Keeper down. If by bad timing or so he still isn't
defeated, then it's time to head down there yourself with your
Mistresses such. You should defeat this Keeper, while he hasn't
recovered from the flood of heroes! He'll only grow stronger
otherwise.
3. Mop up the remaining heroes
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In any case, with the blue Keeper gone (and probably some Heroes left
in his Heart room), you can start working your way around the eastern
section lead downwards. Since there is no time limit, you could rely
completely on Boulder traps to take out all the opposition if your
patient enough. Otherwise have your Mistresses trained to level 7+ and
take out each of the Hero rooms one, by one. Alternatively, just use
west of point '6' to gain entry to the Heart chamber. Beat some more
heroes
and the land is yours.
There's not much more to say about this really. You can still go and
collect most of the goodies from the southern area. The octopus shaped
lake at point '14' contains a "Reveal Map" it might be nice to get it.
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9. Kanasko
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Initial Gold: 15000
Initial creatures: 4x Imp (1), 2x Skeleton(1), 1 Vampire(1),
3x Warlocks(3), 3x Dragon(3), 2x Bile Demon(3)
1x Dark Mistress(2)
Max creatures: 12
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
--------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------
Fly Treasure room Posses ?Alarm
Beetle Lair Create Imp ?Poisonous gas
Spider Hatchery Sight .........
Warlock Training Room .....(2) ?Lava
Dragon Library Must Obey ?Boulder
Orc ?Bridge .... .. ?Word of Power
Bile Demon ?Guard post .... .. .... ?Wooden door
Dark Mistress Workshop ....(2) ?Braced door
?Barracks ............(2) ?Steel door
...... ......... ?Magic door
?Torture room .......(2)
?Temple ........
?Graveyard ?Chicken
......... .... ?Disease
..........
?Destroy Walls
(1) : Only available after room has been claimed
(2) : Can be found on map ("Speed"/"Heal"/"Invisibility"/"Protect")
Opposition
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Heroes:
Just about every available type and level
Secrets
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Neutral rooms : -
Neutral creature: Hellhound(5), Orc(5), Skeleton(7),
Mistress(9), Dragon(9)
Dungeon specials: 3x Increase Level, Steal Hero, Reveal Map,
Resurrect Creature
(*sigh* again a complex dungeon design that hardly maps with ASCII)
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|| -3 _ | ____ ____ ____ _____ GGGG\| `: Excavated path
||____| | |_|Lair Hatc Lair| ___| ... | GG| P: Portal
| |P __ _|__ _|__ _ `````x 2 x Gem+| GG| H: Heart
| ¯¯¯|Trai H Work| |___| ...3| _| +: Increase level
| |__ _|__ _|__ _| |_____| `30 S: Steal Hero
|`1| |Lair Trea Lib | ___ ``| R: Reveal Map
|¯¯ |____|____|____| | 4 |````` /¯¯| s: Skeleton(7)
|__ G ````¯x¯```````/ | M: Mistress(9)
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|¯````6 ```` GGGGG`````````___/¯¯¯/x/__/ `S\| O: Orc(5)
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+ 1x Tunnel(4), 2x Giant(6), 2x Dwarf(7) trigger after 1850 sec.
3: 2x Wizard(7), 2x Samurai(5), 4x Giant(6),
"Invisibility","Protect", Increase Level
4: 3x Archer(4), 35 gold pots
5: 2x Dwarf(5), "Heal"
6: 2x Monk(2), 3x Fairy(3)
+ 2x Giant(6), 2x Dwarf(7) trigger after 1850 sec.
7: 1x Witch(6), 26 gold pots
8: 2x Thief(8), 31 or 47 gold pots
9: 2x Dwarf(6), 2x Fairy(7)
10: 2x Fairy(5), 4x Archer(6)
11: 4x Barbarian(7), 2x Skeleton(6), Increase Level
12: 2x Archer(5), 2x Fairy(5), 46 gold pots
13: 16x Dwarf(4)
14: 3x Wizard(8), 2 Archer(6), 2x Monk(7)
15: 1x Samurai(6), 1x Wizard(7), 28 gold pots
16: 3x Wizard(6), 2x Fairy(7)
17: 3x Monk(6), 2x Giant(7), 2x Samurai(7)
18: 2x Wizard(7), 4x Fairy(8), 42 gold pots (14 lava traps)
19: 2x Archer(3), 2x Barbarian(8), 2x Wizard(8)
20: 2x Monk(7), Giant(7), 46 gold pots
21: 4x Barbarian(7)
22: 4x Archer(7), Giant(9)
23: 4x Archer(8), 3x Samurai(8), 2x Giant(8)
24: 2x Fairy(10), 18 gold pots
25: 4x Dwarf(7), 2x Fairy(8), 17 gold pots
26: 4x Barbarian(8), 3x Wizard(8), 2x Monk(9)
27: 3x Monk(10), Reveal Map
28: 2x Wizard(10), Resurrect Creature
29: 3x Monk(10), 3x Giant(10), 1x Wizard(10), 1x Knight(10)
30+ 2x Giant(6), 2x Dwarf(7) trigger after 1850 sec.
31: 1x Giant(8), 5x Barbarian(2x7,3x8), 76 gold pots
Hero Doors:
-1+ 3x Monk(7), 2x Witch(6) trigger after 1450 sec.
+ 2x Giant(6), 2x Dwarf(7) trigger after 1750 sec.
-2+ 3x Wizard(2x5,1x6), 3x Thief(2x6,1x5) trigger after 600 sec.
+ 2x Giant(6), 2x Dwarf(7) trigger after 1450 sec.
+ 3x Wizard(2x5,1x6), 3x Thief(2x6,1x5) trigger after 1750 sec.
-3+ 3x Archer(2), 3x Barbarian(3) trigger after 350 sec.
+ 3x Archer(2), 3x Barbarian(3) trigger after 650 sec.
+ 2x Giant(6), 2x Dwarf(7) trigger after 1100 sec.
+ 3x Archer(7), 2x Thief(8) trigger after 1450 sec.
+ 3x Monk(7), 2x Witch(6) trigger after 1750 sec.
The first half of this level can be very hard if not played carefully,
as you have to handle multiple hero invasions that get progressively
tougher during the first half hour of play. The hero drops start after
6~7 minutes so you have a short head-start to get your bearings. Pause
the level (press 'p') the moment you get into it, so you can think
ahead about your steps. Once you get through all the waves you can
slowly work your way towards the heroes' dungeon Heart. Start out with
a basic prebuild dungeon, hence this gives a similar feel as the
"Hearth" or "Mirthshire" level in the original DK, but this one is
somewhat different. Fortunately, Hero doors -2 & -1 can be avoided as
the enemies they spawn don't include Tunneller dwarfs, so they cannot
attack you as long as you keep clear of thie excavated crevice.
1. Evade and/or Crush the hero invasions
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You start out the level with a 11 creatures (one less than the
maximum)! You must act quick to get through the first phase without
pain.
1. Activate "Must obey". This may cost 25 gold per second, but
everybody will output 125% efficiency (as if they were continuously
slapped). This means that creature training time reduces also by a
quarter. Thus the loss of gold is worth it as your creatures will
actually spend less money on gaining a level up! Next to that, you
need to get your creatures as powerful and fast as possible.
2. Separate lair rivals. You have 3 Lairs, however, one of them is
just north of the small Workshop. Since you only need two groups sell
the NE lair and make it one large workshop (later on). Next put the
Vampire/Warlocks, Bile Demons/Skeletons in separate lairs and have
everybody work.
3. You'd best put the Dragons & Mistress in the Training room, the
Bile Demons in the Workshop and the Warlocks in the Library. Note: the
Warlocks(3) have Fireball/Meteor, so make sure no stray Imps enter the
Library or they'll get killed! Alternate the Dragons/Bile Demons so
they both level up. Construct & lock one of the two entrances to the
library with a wooden door to prevent this.
4. Dig out all the gold to your south (directly beneath the Treasure
room). Leave the bottom right area, as you do not want to connect to
the large crevice leading to hero doors '-1' & '-2'. Instead, dig
further southward to find '5' where you beat two medium Dwarfs and get
the "Heal" spell as a reward. Btw. for a change you can use "Sight" to
aid you during the dig.
5. Claim the area to the NW with hero door '-3'. This will be the only
entry point where heroes will bother you for now. Collect the "Call-
to-Arms" and place at least an Alarm Trap here, as 5 groups are going
to enter here. This way you'll always be alerted, as some of the
groups intend to destroy your rooms and mind you that Portals count as
rooms as well!
6. Dig west from the "Heal" spell to find an Orc along the bottom
corridor (put him to training!), collect the "Increase Level" for
later, and connect to the large area. Defeat the weak spell casters at
'6', use Bile Demon's for the single Witch in the small shack at '7'.
This allows you to collect some additional gold from the storage.
Lastly, go north here to find a single Giant(5) along with the "Speed"
spell book.
7. Dig also around the large gem room to find a Hellhound(5) hidden up
here and some more gold. You will be needing this as training a lot of
creatures can be very expensive. You must also leave the room at '30'
untouched (you can fortify it, but there won't be a Tunneller drop
here). This will lock out several Giants and Dwarfs later on during
the final ambush. You'd better make a medium treasure room here as
well.
8. If you've done most of this the first two waves of heroes will
probably have passed by now without any fuzz. Your Dragons/Bile Demons
can act as primary targets as they have a lot health/armor, so drop
them in battle first. The nimble Orc/Mistress/Skeleton/Hound can
attack alongside them minimizing any damage to themselves. All waves
at '-2' & '-3' will be avoided as you didn't dig into the open area
down there.
9. Once your gold situation starts to become dire again (less than
20000 or so), and after everybody has recovered of an attack wave head
out to points '2' & '3'. If you had "Must Obey" activated at all time,
this will happen soon enough, but your creatures will also have gained
at least 1 extra level. Use the "Increase Level" special and attack
the feeble Archers and Barbarians first, then go for the much stronger
party at '3'. It is worth pushing on to here, as you do not only get 6
digging spots on the 2-faced Gem tile, but you'll also nab
"Invisibility", "Protect", and another "Increase Level". Construct a
large bridge so get rid of all the lava, and break the eastern wall to
connect to your auxiliary treasure room, which will now become the
primary treasure room!
10. Place an Alarm Trap and/or Magic Doors at '2' and '-3' so you'll
be warned about imminent attacks. Once you've done this you should be
able to withstand all waves, until the final Tunnaller party enters
your dungeon at mark '2'. When they're eliminated the continuous drops
will come to a permanent halt! Note: you can also put some
Lava/Lightning/Boulder traps here as you won't be able to convert any
of the heroes in this realm (except for one "Steal Hero").
2. Boulder trap galore & hero domain reclamation
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
When you've completed the 1st phase you could deactivate the "Must
Obey" spell, if you want to or keep it active to have all your
manufacturing minions churn out more Boulder/Magic Doors. Make a long
corridor to the left of '4', fill it with door/boulder altenations and
have an Imp excavate the area. The roughly 27 heroes we locked out
earlier will be miraculously attracted to your dungeon Heart by their
6th sight and will fall under the boulders.
Rebuild the outermost door, lock it, and have an Imp claim all the
tiles in the area. From here on you can push on to the locked hero
door at point '9'. Take care of all the traps, and don't forget to the
dig into the western/eastern walls to find several hidden hero stashes
with gold pots, the "Steal Hero" special in the NE. You can get a
level 7/10 Samurai from it, which can be very helpful.
Once you're at point '10' you'll find that several groups of heroes
are put together on a Guard post effectively meaning that they won't
be drawn to your dungeon even if they can detect a path to your Heart.
You'll have to fight them where you find them instead. Again, the side
room to the left ('11') contains another "Increase Level" which should
ensure your minions are level 10 just about now.
Connecting to the area south of here will unleash a group of 16
Dwarfs(4), once they're all gone you can start claiming up all the
individual rooms if you like. They're all optional so you could decide
to head towards '19' right away. If you want another easy Mistress(9)
just cast "Destroy Walls" on the southeastern wall at point '10'. This
provides you a backdoor into her locked room, so you can evade the
heroes at '14'.
In any case, after getting past '19' there will be multiple doors to
choose from. But first dig north of the Dragon area to find a hidden
Skeleton. You can go and claim all the areas, but there's not much
relevant stuff in here. Digging south of area '21' gives you access to
another secret shack of heroes ('31') and several gold pots.
You're drawing near the end of the level, but your enemies are getting
stronger as well. After reaching the water and beating the crap out of
all the Samurai & Giants, use "Sight" on the bend at point '26' to
find a secret tile with some Monks & "Reveal Map" special hidden. You
may want to get it if you like. Furthermore, there are 2 Wizards(10) &
"Resurrect Creature" special hidden at easy to miss point '28'. Enter
the lava filled Heart room to find the Knight and his cronies, which
are probably no threat compared to the heroes you fought during this
level. That's all... Just note that breaking the dungeon Heart will
set free all the heroes you didn't clear in the optional rooms earlier
on, so this might get ugly if you forget about that, but you can still
press " " to leave the realm victorious.
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10. Netzcaro
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Initial Gold: 10000
Initial creatures: 6x Imp (3)
Max creatures: 20
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
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Warlock Treasure room Posses ?Alarm
Dark Mistress Lair Create Imp ?Poisonous gas
Orc Hatchery .....(2) ?Lightning
Training Room ?Speed ?Lava
Library ?Must Obey ?Boulder
......(3) ?Cave-in ?Word of Power
?Guard post ?Call-to-Arms ...... ....
?Workshop(1) ?Heal ...... ....
?Barracks ?Invisibility Steel door(4)
......(1) ......... ?Magic door
?Torture room ?Protect
?Temple ........
?Graveyard ?Chicken
......... ....(5) .......
..........
....... .....
(1) : Workshop/Prison available after room has been claimed
(2) : Sight only available to the Blue keeper, but there is none...
(3) : Bridge available after reaching the tile with the steam bubbles
(4) : You start with 7 Steel doors
(5) : The level scripts shows many intentions of giving you a
scavenger room, including having Hell hounds in the creature pool, but
since it is absent in the actual level they are all useless.
Opposition
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Heroes:
Just about every flavour you can think of, and also some Reapers(4)
Secrets
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Neutral rooms : Prison, Bridge
Neutral creature: Bile Demon(3), Vampire(7)*
Dungeon specials: 3x Increase Level, Fortify Walls
* = The vampire starts over a lava pool and will therefore die,
before you can reach him. Likewise there's a Horned Reaper
whom is assigned to the yellow Keeper. But due to his absence
the creature dies the moment you start the level.
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| /. __| ____x_____31_x_ 30 |28¯x |24\ ... | G: Gold
| /.h.| |18|21 x20 x -1|32 |x| |27¯x x \ .V.| `: Excavated path
| /... | x |___|___|__x| H |29\|26¯x 25|_x__|.. | P: Portal
| |____|x|______19______|___|_______|______23| | H: Heart
| \x_ |_______________x_____________________|___| +: Increase level
| | |_____________17__________17_____________x_| x: Door
| / G .........¯¯.7....8...¯¯............ | B: Bile Demon(3)
| / G14 ............`+`bbbb`b.9........... __| & Workshop
|/ GG ....5.......6......22....10...... x12| V: Vampire(7)*
| Gem ...Gem.4........................... 11|_p| p: Prison
|__x__/...3..........bbb`bbbbb`bbbbb`bb....... | b: Bridge
| 15 | .......b................b`bbbb`s...| s: Steam
|_x___| ... ` _________x_| h: Horned
Reaper(4)*
|16+| . ```P / ____ /13 |
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1: 3x Samurai(5)
+ 1x Tunneller(4), 1x Dwarf(6), 3x Archer(6), 2x Wizard(7)
triggered _every_ 300 sec, until bridge available
2: 3x Monk(4)
3: 4x Archer(3)
4: 3x Archer(4)
5: 5x Archer(5), 2x Witch(6)
6: 4x Archer(4)
7: 1x Archer(5), 1x Thief(7)
8: 2x Archer(5)
9: 1x Archer(5)
10: 4x Archer(5)
11: 3x Archer(5), 5x Barbarian(5)
12: 5x Horned Reaper(4)
13: 5x Wizard(3), 3x Thief(8)
14: 5x Archer(4), 2x Wizard(7), 3x Boulder Trap
15: 1x Archer(5), 2x Boulder Trap
16: 1x Wizard(10), 4x Fairy(7)
17: 3x Archer(5)
18: 6x Archer(6)
+ 4x Witch(7), 2x Monk(8), 6x Samurai(6) triggered by
entering room
19: 3x Giant(4)
20: 3x Wizard(7)
21: 2x Fairy(5), 1x Monk(9)
22: 1x Archer(5)
+ 5x Fairy(4) triggered after 1250 sec.
23: 1x Fairy(10)
24: 1x Witch(6)
25: 6x Archer(4), 5x Barbarian(4)
26: 2x Thief(9)
27: 3x Samurai(7), Fortify Walls
28: 5x Dwarf(6), 2x Monk(6)
29: 2x Witch(6), Treasure Room
30: 3x Dwarf(4), Boulder Trap
31: 3x Archer(7), 2x thief(7)
32+ 1x Samurai(7), 1x Witch(7), 1x Thief(7), 2x Dwarf(7)
+ 3x Barbarian(8), 2x Fairy(8)
+ 3x Gaint(8), 3x Dwarf(8)
+ 5x Samurai(10), 1x Knight(10)
all triggered by entering room
Hero Door:
-1+ 2x Barbarian(7), 3x Archer(5) triggered by entering room
This level has some new twisted added to it, but due to poor design
and scripting several things don't work as intended. It is actually
only half as hard as there was supposed to be a continuous stream of
heroes from point '2' just like '1'. However, with their absence you
can just wall out the western part and prevent any of them from
entering your domain. You are required to claim several bridge parts,
until you reach the tile where steam magically appears from the floor.
After that you can build bridges yourself, reach out for the gems,
build up an army and, again wash out the hero castle. A slight
difference is that the Prison is back from its long absence! Since you
can also get the Torture chamber this means you can get a lot of
heroes to work for you. :) Alright, it was also there in Abbadon, but
I find it more useful here to use on the hero Horned Reapers.
1. Fortifications on the west wing & bridge reclamation
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Upon entering the level look at the map to find the gold at the
bottom. Notice the impenetrable rock to the left of the most western
gold, and use that as a guide to create a long corridor from the
bottom of the map, up to the far north (against the lava). If you wall
out the entire western wall within the first 5 minutes you should be
safe for the time being.
After doing so build a treasure room near the gold, excavate it and
build your basic room (only a small Training Chamber for the time
being as your gold is limited). Go to the Portal and claim it, this
will automatically make your Imps go to the bridge section, but
they'll get slaughtered there. Put one of the 7 doors you're granted
with there to prevent this from happening. You'll only attract
Warlocks, but mind that for now, just have them all research.
You can get the first bridge section so take it immediately. Sell the
tile against your land and build a Guard post there. This will be very
important later on. For one, a group of Fairies will appear in the
lava, and later on a group of hero Horned Reapers will be released.
When this happens they'll all rush towards your dungeon if they find a
path towards it! Once you get "Invisibility" use it to claim the
individual bridge sections until you reach point 's'. By doing so
you'll be prompted that you miraculously discovered the ability to
build bridges yourself. This will also stop the constant stream of
heroes spawning at point '1'!
By now the Torture chamber/Barracks should be available. Throw out
some Warlocks and get a few Mistresses/Orcs to training. Only a few as
you cannot afford that many creatures to train. Btw. you can dig out
along the impenetrable rock to the east towards the Bile Demon and his
free Workshop, while avoiding the Monks at point '2'. Use this to your
advantage.
Construct a bridge to the far west, and remove all the intermediate
segments. Over there you'll find some heroes along with 3 precariously
placed Boulder traps. You can use those to kill most of the heroes
just by dropping an Imp near the boulder when the timing is right. The
one or two remaining goons on the island should be killed with
expendable Warlocks helped by an Orc/Mistress or two. Once you have
control over the western island. Build Guard posts along the right
side and fill the rest with a Treasure room. Dig for infinite wealth,
expand the Training room & Workshop and everybody work.
2. Cleansing the lava lake & gaining new troops!
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Since you can have a graveyard here you could as well use the
following trick to get rid of the Warlocks permanently and get some
Vampires in return. A Warlock can be killed with as little as 20
slaps, so just pludge one into the graveyard and slap him to death.
This works pretty well, I must say so myself. This way you can get rid
of these grumpy guys and make good use for their corpses. This can
also be somewhat satifying as most people find Warlocks rather
annoying creatures to maintain.
Once your Orcs & Mistresses are sufficiently strong (level 7 will do),
clear out the entire lava lake island-by-island. Well get a Prison
soon enough, but this plethora of Archers at points '3' to '10' isn't
that interesting anyway. Beware of the Witches however, they can blow
your minions into the lava, which isn't very good for their health.
During this time you can also gain access to an "Increase Level"
special. The first of 3, but you may want to wait with this as we'll
be getting some Reapers to join our ranks!
On the eastern island kill all ground troops at '11'. Break down the
door and pull everybody back within your dungeon. Behind the door is a
prison with 5 hero Horned Reapers(4). Cloak one of your Imps with
"Invisibility", claim the room and sell it. Doing so will allow you to
construct Prisons yourself. With this knowledge enable "Imprisoning",
then fight the Horned Reapers, and drag them into the Prison. After
conversion have them train or put them in the Temple to keep them
silent. Basically, you can't lose the level anymore with this might,
but I'll still continue on. XD
You can remove the guard post near the portal, so everybody has free
access to the dungeon. Break into the room at '13' kill all the goons
(perhaps converting the high level Thieves to make Knights is a nice
thing to do). Get another "Increase Level" special here as well by
digging out the southern wall. Do the same on the western side, but
beware of the Boulder traps inside 'guarding' the lone Archer here.
Once the boulder are dissolved enter the southern room to find some
weak Fairies and a Wizard, along with the 3rd and final "Increase
Level".
Don't forget about the heroes at '1' whom are still roaming around.
You could convert the Samurai and just kill the others to death. When
cleared only the hero keep to the north remains. Use your "Increase
Level" specials and everybody should be close to level 10 as possible.
3. Another ransack tour on a hero dungeon
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You can enter the area from both west/east sides, but the left area is
more risky as your Imps are working here. So enter via the east side
to find 2 groups of feeble Archers here. Take out the traps and claim
the entire corridor, until you reach '18' or '23' (west/east sides).
Go through all the rooms one-by-one, with your built up troops there
should be little resistence. Other than Boulder traps you should be
nearly indestructible with your Samurai & Reapers. Btw. at point '18'
and '26' you have another chance to convert some Samurai to work for
you! The west side has some additional hero drops as enlisted above,
but both sides are doable without much effort. You can find a "Fortify
Walls" special in the Samurai room, but it won't do you much good imo.
When you get near the Heart, ready your troops (there's a single lava
tile inside) which means all but the Horned Reaper won't be able to
pass it directly. Enter it and find a rather large group to
materialize inside. Soon enough the Knight will join in with his
comrades to fight you, but as you may have guessed all is for naught.
With little effort you should be able to strike them down.
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11. Batezek
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Initial Gold: 25000
Initial creatures: 5x Imp (1)
Max creatures: 20
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
--------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------
Fly Treasure room Posses ?Alarm
Beetle Lair Create Imp ?Poisonous gas
Spider Hatchery .....(2) ?Lightning
Warlock Training Room ?Speed ....
Dragon Library .... .... .......
Orc ...... ?Cave-in ?Word of Power(3)
Bile Demon ?Guard post ?Call-to-Arms ...... ....
Dark Mistress ?Workshop ?Heal ...... ....
Hell hound ?Barracks ?Invisibility ?Steel door
Tentacle ......(1) ......... ?Magic door
Vampire ?Torture room ?Protect
?Temple ........
?Graveyard(1) ?Chicken
......... ....(1) .......
..........
....... .....
(1) : Prison/Graveyard/Scavenger room available after it is claimed
(2) : Sight only available to the Blue keeper, but there is none...
(3) : One Word-of-Power crate can be found on the map
Opposition
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Heroes:
Again, about every type and level available
Secrets
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Neutral rooms : Treasure Room, 2x Prison
Neutral creature: 5x Skeleton(4), 2x Samurai(7), 1x Horned Reaper(4)
Dungeon specials: Reveal Map, 2x Increase Level, Fortify Walls,
Steal Hero
________________________________________________ .: Lava/Water
| ______| 4 | |S |_|-1| g 10| | G: Gold
| |+ 3 x x | |__x11__x_____| | `: Excavated path
| ¯¯¯¯| |¯¯¯ ``ss``` `````|x| ___ | P: Portal
|_____ |x|`` ```` GGG GGG````` `` |A | | H: Heart
| | ``` GGG 2` |_ x| | +: Increase level
|_ 5 _|```G P G`` __| | | x: Door
| | | GGG __ GGG2`x | | s: Skeleton(4)
| | | ``GG | | GG` ¯¯| |_| A: 2x Samurai(7)
| | x`1` | | + ``| 9 | & Prison
|G|_|`` | |___ `2`|___| R: Horned Reaper(4)
|GGG | H ___| | & Prison
|GG `s` | | `` /| S: Scavenger Room
|\G `s` | | `s`GG|| g: Graveyard
|____ ____| |____ `GGGG||
| x``` ``___________``GG__ GGGG/ |
| |¯ ``` ``` G``Gem| ```/ |
|-3| GGGG GGGG¯ ````````/ |
| _| ``` GGG_ ``` ``` GG````/¯¯¯x¯¯| |
||______ ``````12|`````1``/¯|¯¯¯|¯¯¯¯¯¯¯| -5| |
|______x|_______| | ````/¯ x H x 8 x | |
|Gem 6x R 7x -2x__|/¯¯¯¯¯ -6 | | |-4 | |
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1: 1x Dwarf(3)
2: 2x Dwarf(3)
3: 2x Fairy(8)
+ 2x Archer(7), 2x Witch(7) trigger on proximity
4: 3x Barbarian(4), 1x Barbarian(5),
Word of Power crate & Treasure Room
5: 4x Fairy(8), 1x Monk(4), Boulder trap,
"Fortify Walls"
+ 4x Archer(7) trigger on proximity
6: 2x Fairy(9)
7: 2x Horned Reaper(4)
8: 4x Fairy(5)
+ 5x Giant(8)
+ 1x Thief(3), 3x Barbarian(3)
+ 2x Witch(3), 4x Dwarf(2x3,2x4)
all (re)triggered on proximity, until 2000 secs have passed
9: 8x Dwarf(5), "Steal Hero"
10: 1x Giant(10), "Reveal Map"
11: 2x Thief(5)
12+ 8x Barbarian(10) trigger after 1500 sec
+ 8x Monk(8) trigger after 2250 sec
+ Tunnel(1), 2x Giant(10), 4x Barbarian(9) trigger on post(2)*
Hero Door:
-1+ Tunnel(1), 2x Archer(2), 2x Thief(2) trigger after 400 sec
+ Tunnel(1), 2x Witch(3), 4x Dwarf(2x3,2x4) trigger after 950 sec
+ Tunnel(1), 4x Archer(5) trigger after 1500 sec
+ Tunnel(1), 4x Archer(5) trigger after 2050 sec
+ 2x Archer(7), 2x Witch(7) trigger on proximity
+ 5x Giant(8) trigger on post(1)*
-2+ Tunnel(1), 2x Archer(2), 4x Dwarf(2) trigger after 550 sec
+ Tunnel(1), 4x Fairy(4) trigger after 1100 sec
+ Tunnel(1), 4x Archer(7) trigger after 1900 sec
+ Tunnel(1), 1x Thief(3), 3x Barbarian(3) trigger after 2250 sec
+ Tunnel(1), 2x Witch(3), 4x Dwarf(2x3,2x4) trigger after 2250 sec
+ 4x Archer(5) trigger on proximity
+ 1x Witch(10), 5x Samurai(9) trigger on post(2)*
-3+ Tunnel(1), 1x Thief(3), 3x Barbarian(3) trigger after 800 sec
+ Tunnel(1), 4x Thief(4), 2x Wizard(5) trigger after 1350 sec
+ Tunnel(1), 2x Archer(6), 2x Wizard(7) trigger after 1750 sec
+ Tunnel(1), 2x Witch(3), 4x Dwarf(2x3,2x4) trigger after 2450 sec
+ Tunnel(1), 4x Fairy(4) trigger after 2450 sec
+ 2x Archer(6), 2x Wizard(7) trigger on proximity
+ 5x Giant(8) trigger on post(1)*
+ Tunnel(1), 2x Giant(10), 4x Barbarian(9) trigger on post(2)*
+ 1x Witch(10), 5x Samurai(9) trigger on post(2)*
-4+ 2x Archer(6), 2x Wizard(7) trigger on proximity
+ 5x Giant(8) trigger on post(1)*
+ 4x Archer(5) trigger on post(1)*
+ 4x Thief(4), 2x Wizard(5) trigger on proximity^
-5+ 5x Giant(8) trigger on proximity
+ 2x Giant(5), 2x Samurai(5) trigger on proximity^
-6+ 5x Giant(8) trigger on post(3)*
+ 2x Archer(7), 2x Witch(7) trigger on post(3)*
+ 2x Archer(6), 2x Wizard(7) trigger on post(3)*
+ 3x Barbarian(9), 1x Knight(10) trigger on post(3)*
^ = these two will keep spawning heroes indefinitely every 275 sec, or
until the maximum amount of heroes are on the map.
* = where post(x) is:
1: 3000 secs have passed & no living heroes on the map
2: 3025 secs have passed & no living heroes on the map
3: 3038 secs have passed & no living heroes on the map
Note: Effectively this mean that the 3 groups keep appearing each time
the members of the previous drop have been killed.
This level is the hardest official Dungeon Keeper level to my
knowledge. The level looks similar to Mirthshire or Hearth, but even
moreso than Kanasko. The entire level is about warding of invasions of
(Tunneller) parties from multiple directions that keep on flowing and
lasts for an hour or so. However, unlike Mirthsire the heroes don't
have any mercy on you in this realm. You'll seriously need to fortify
all the relevant sections to keep them from entering your dungeon and
also prevent them from forming one super party. Moreover, you don't
have the luxury of Boulder/Lava traps so you cannot prevent heroes
from entering that easily.
You can start out with the normal tactic and allow the first waves of
heroes enter your dungeon. But after a while a group of Barbarians &
Monks at point '12' will spawn, which are many times stronger than
your creatures. You'll fail to no avail! Therefore, it is of the
highest importance to spend the first 10 minutes solely on digging and
fortifying. Moreover, trying to attack the hero dungeon Heart will
spawn a (near)infinite supply of hero parties at hero doors -4 & -5
with unlocked doors, these are going to get you. Don't go near the SE
part of the map, until you have succeeded in defeating all other hero
waves, which should keep you pretty occupied.
1. Divide...
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As (hopefully) noticible on the mini-map the land consists of you
being in the centre and having 6 small hero dungeons spread around
you. There are also 14 crevices that form a circle around you. This
will make it harder to wall out some of the heroes as some of the
paths will trigger action points that drop more heroes! However, by
carefully digging you can split the map in four separate quadrants.
During this level tunnellers only appear from NE & SW corners (Hero
portals '-1' to '-3'). Therefore, one should focus on walling them out
completely. The first party will be spawned at '-1', thus let's handle
that section first.
NE quadrant:
-From the Gold to the far east dig out a horizontal tunnel one tile
below the topmost gold. Fortify the northside here until the
impenetrable wall, and also don't forget to get the Skeleton(4), just
to the south. Just build a small lair, as they don't need a hatchery.
-From the northern gold dig a tunnel directly upward on the rightside
up until one tile below/right the topmost goldblock. Fortify the east
wall.
-Dig out 4 gold blocks + 7 earth tiles to the west directly from there
(if you don't have a Treasure room your Imps will just keep mining
which is much faster). Dig north up until the impenetreble rock.
You'll hit the small left crevice with two skeletons inside, fortify
the north/east sections of the wall. This should keep out all of the
troops originating from '-1'!
SW quadrant:
-Directly south of the unaligned Treasure room is a crevice with a
single Dwarf(4). Use your newly found Skeletons to take him out and
dig on the most western tile of the cave directly down towards the
impenetrable rock. Also dig up 4 tiles and then west towards the small
gold deposit. Fortify the western/southeren wall sections.
-Dig out gold blocks adjacent to the southern edge (Tunnellers cannot
dig gold), from there dig north 12 tiles. which should be 2 tiles
above the long horizontal corridor that you start with. Dig directly
west and you'll find the last 2 free Skeletons(4). Continue on to the
west, until you hit rock and fortify the entire southern wall.
This should prevent any heroes from entering your dungeon for now.
Mind you that you may want to create some vertical hallways here as
you'll need to set up a long line of Lightning traps for the heroes to
trip on when they enter your dungeon on a direct path to your dungeon
heart (you'll have to fight them sooner or later, and the group will
become pretty large).
2. Construct...
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With the elimination of your most immediate threat start building up a
dungeon use most of the space in the NW part of the map, as the heroes
are passive there (don't draw them out yet, though). Don't go SE
unless you want to destroy yourself as explained in the intro.
Claim all the gold you can get your hands on: N, NW, W, SW, SE, & E
can be dug out without compromising your safety if you leave the other
edges of gold in tact. You may not have the "Sight" spell, but you can
use the light generated by your cursor to check whether there is solid
earth behind the gold. Just try it out yourself. The cursor will
generate a circle of light, when it is on Earth/Gold tiles, but no
light will be shown when the tile is already excavated. Build the
treasure room in the southern section near the single face Gem tile
you can get.
Open up the portal, and start working on some strong forces. Get many
Mistresses/Orcs/Bile Demons and also a few Dragons/Vampires. You're
safe for now, so research/manufacture/train everbody to decent levels.
Even with the gems you may need to use the manual pay-day trick to
prevent huge losses of gold. Alternatively, put a Dragon/Vampire in
the torture chamber just before pay-day and the others will lower
their wage to half the value. This may enrage the tortured creatures,
but you can easily solve that by paying them a little amount of money
yourself. Alternatively, also sell as many Magic Doors as possible in
your frickin' huge Workshop.
Btw. don't forget the free "Increase level" special just a little NE
of your dungeon Heart. It should be easy to find.
3. & Conquer
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By the time you're ready for the next step probably almost all heroes
have spawned, which show up as a huge pack of white dots on the mini-
map. Time to take over control over this realm. We'll go through the 3
quadrants in this order: NW, NE & SW.
North-West
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This quadrant is the easiest. The two structures at '3' & '4' can be
taken on without too much effort by your trained creatures. Enter each
secion trigger the action point and kill all heroes around. This
should give you a "Fortify Walls" special which is useless by now, and
some additional gold from the hero Treasure room to the north, along
with Word-of-Power crate and a second "Increase Level".
North-east
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Refresh your gold with the NW treasure room & apply the "Increase
Level" so you can take on the heroes here. As you may have noticed the
groups generated at -1 aren't that special. There are a few level 5
creatures, but some heroes like the 8x Dwarfs(5) at '9' are most
likely also released because of the digging habits of the Tunnellers.
In any case your Mistresses and others should be able to handle this.
Break open the wall in the far north so there's still a long corridor
between them and your dungeon Heart.
Explore the dungeon using an Imp and you may come across one of the
two Samurai(7) that strayed off from the prison that was breached by
the hero tunnellers themselves. In the mean while the mediocre hero
parties will make their way to your dungeon Heart. Have your welcoming
committee ready to serve them properly! Once they're all gone scout
out to find the Scavenger Room & "Reveal Map" in the most northern
dungeon, and the fabled prison in the NE one.
The Scavenger room is not of much use at the moment, there are no
other Samurai on the map and you don't posses any other heroes. But at
least you can now also claim the gold in the NE section.
South-west
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After clearing the view on the entire realm you can see all the groups
wandering around here. You can bully them a bit with "Cave-in" but
this will probably be insufficient to seriously damage all of them.
With a little luck the one unaligned Horned Reaper(4) will be on an
unclaimed tile and you can collect him by quickly dropping an Imp on
the same tile.
Fill an entire corridor with many Lightning traps, and a few Magic
Doors. Break open the most distant wall tile to the east and let them
enter your deadly corridor. When a large pack gathers around the Magic
Door cast a few maximum powered "Cave-in" shots and the heroes will
start fleeing back from where they came. Alternate this with a few
drops of your most powerful creatures and pull them out if they take
too much damage so they can recover. After several attempts all 10
Tunneller groups and individual Barbarians/Monks should have been
reduced to just a few weakened remainders.
4. Final hero stand
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After clearing the SW area you may be tempted to excavate all around
the Gems and continue digging here. This is fine, but beware that 2
groups of Samurai(9) will start here in the final round. They caught
me offguard the first time and almost completely eradicated all my
Imps the first time I played this level.
As precare build some guardposts near the three Hero doors (-1 to -3)
and place your strongest minions along with some Bile Demons (witches
will spawn) in the SW. Dig into the SE and have the Horned Reaper
wreck carnage here. Perhaps a Vampire/Orc can assist him here. Push on
to the Fairies and several hero groups will spawn. Most likely the
Giant will be the last group to fall, and once they do the 'post(1)'
trigger will generate several groups in both edges of the map.
Quickly manage them and once the NE is cleared get everybody with
"Call-to-Arms" in the SW. "Heal"/"Speed"/"Protect" them if possible as
the second wave will be triggered very soon. A staggering total of 10x
Samurai(10) along other powerful creatures will spawn at Hero doors '-
2' & '-3'. This may very well be the hardest battle you have to
handle! Because of the short interval there's hardly any time to
prepare here. This may very well be harder than the final group. Good
luck!
Finally, the last group including the Knight are generated at the most
deepest hidden Hero door '-6'. This is actually pretty easy, the 3
groups all spawn on the same 6 tiles. Thus a massive "Cave-in" frenzy
takes them out. Once the Knight is slain you have finally conquered
this realm!
You may want to take out the optional hero dungeon Heart now, just get
a few troops there and it should be gone pretty swiftly. This will
probably feel as one of the hardest well earned victories!
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12. Benetzaron
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Initial Gold: 10000
Initial creatures: 4x Imp (2)
Max creatures: 20
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
--------------- --------------- -------------- ----------------
Fly Treasure room Posses ?Alarm
Beetle Lair Create Imp ?Poisonous gas
Spider Hatchery ..... ?Lightning
Warlock Training Room ?Speed ....
Dragon Library .... .... ?Boulder
Orc ?Bridge(1) ?Cave-in ?Word of Power
Bile Demon ?Guard post ?Call-to-Arms ...... ....
Dark Mistress ?Workshop .... ...... ....
Vampire ?Barracks ?Invisibility ?Steel door
Tentacle ......(1) ?Lightning ?Magic door
?Torture room ?Protect
?Temple ........
?Graveyard .......
......... ....(2) .......
..........
....... .....
(1) : Prison/Bridge available after it is claimed (prison is twice in
script)
(2) : Hell hounds are available from the creature pool, but cannot be
attracted due to the absence of this room on the map.
Opposition
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Heroes:
Again, almost every regular type and level.
Secrets
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Neutral rooms : Treasure room
Neutral creature: 2x Imp(3,10), 5x Skeleton(5)
Dungeon specials: 2x Increase Level, Fortify Walls, Resurrect Creature
________________________________________________ .: Lava/Water
| _______________ | G: Gold
| GGGGGG |7x______x | 10 | | `: Excavated path
| GGG S GGGG ``|x| |8|¯¯x¯| | P: Portal
| GGGGGGGGGGG`` ``````` | x -1 | | H: Heart
| GG`````1````` ``6`` ¯ ¯¯¯¯ | +: Increase level
| ``` ``````````` | x: Door
| | b: Bridge
|``` GG P `` | p: Prison
| `````` GG G ``` | t: Treasure room
|.... `````` GG ``` G ``` | s: 2x Skeleton(5)
|b4bbb ``3``` GG `H` GGG `5` | & 1x Imp(3)
|... ````` GG ``` GGGG `` | S: 3x Skeleton(5)
|.. ````` GG ```` | & 1x Imp(10)
| ````` GG ``s` `````````|x|_|
| ````` ____`` ``` ... | |
| `````x_ __x``` ```\``` .16.+. |x__|
| |¯¯¯| | ¯|```|``````9GG|````` ... | +|
| | x x11|```\_GGGGGGGG/`````` _|___|
| |¯¯¯¯¯12¯¯¯¯¯|`2`\GGemGG/`````` | |
| |¯x¯¯|¯x¯|¯x¯| ```¯¯¯¯¯¯`````` _______| 14 /|
| | 13 |p |t | ``````````` 15x //|
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1: 3x Archer(5), 2x Dwarf(3)
+ 5x Giant(7) trigger on post(2)*
2: 3x Archer(5), 5x Dwarf(3)
+ 2x Dwarf(2), 1x Witch(5) trigger on proximity
+ 2x Dwarf(2), 1x Witch(5) trigger on post(1)*
+ 6x Witch(8) trigger on post(2)*
3: 7x Archer(3), 2x Samurai(5)
+ Tunneller(2), 2x Dwarf(2), 1x Witch(5) trigger after 1500 sec
+ 4x Archer(3) trigger on proximity
+ 6x Barbarian(5) trigger on post(1)*
+ 2x Witch(9) trigger on post(1)*
+ 3x Barbarian(8), 2x Thief(9), 1x Giant(9) trigger on post(2)*
+ 5x Samurai(3x7,2x8), 1x Wizard(10) trigger on post(2)*
4: 6x Fairy(7), "Fortify Walls"
5: 4x Archer(5), 3x Dwarf(3)
6+ Tunneller(2), 3x Thief(2), 1x Archer(3) trigger after 500 sec
7: 2x Giant(6)
+ 6x Barbarian(5) trigger on proximity
8: 5x Barbarian(3x5,2x7)
9: 3x Barbarian(5)
+ 3x Monk(3) trigger on proximity
+ 3x Monk(3) trigger on post(1)*
10: 2x Thief(7), "Heal"
11: 7x Dwarf(7), 2x Witch(7)
12: 6x Archer(5)
13: 7x Dwarf(7), 1x Witch(7)
14: 6x Samurai(6), "Resurrect Creature"
15+ 2x Giant(5), 2x Barbarian(5) trigger on proximity
16+ Tunneller(2), 4x Archer(3) trigger after 1000 sec
+ 2x Dwarf(2), 1x Witch(5) trigger on post(1)*
+ 5x Wizard(9) trigger on post(2)*
+ Tunneller(1), 4x Archer(9), 1x Knight(10) trigger on post(2)*
Hero Door:
-1+ 2x Witch(9) trigger on proximity
* = where post(x) is:
1: <= 5 heroes on the map
2: <= 5 heroes AND <= 1 hero Monk on the map
Similar to Batezek this level also has a lot of drop points where many
heroes will enter the level to make your life miserable. However,
unlike Batezek walling them out may actually complicate things as it's
impossible to wall them out in groups. The entire southern range
consists of one large chasm which is also connected by two unlocked(!)
doors. Therefore, all heroes will bundle the forces if you don't take
them out at each drop.
The NE (point '6') has the first (and only) drop at 500 seconds and
that part can be walled out, which helps you build up a dungeon. You
may want to do this as this party will attempt to attack you real
early on. Blocking them off effectively doubles the time you'll have
until a similar party from '16' starts heading your way. Let them
enter your dungeon, if they connect to the bottom area you will be in
the same mess as described above. Or actually dig into '5' yourself so
you can get rid of the small group of heroes here to clear them out
before the Tunneller party arrives. After also fending off the western
hero drop the level can be played in the old fashioned way. Just
beware that certain hot spots will generate a lot of heroes.
1. Best defense is offense
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When you start the level dig out in any direction to find you've
"tunnelled into a new area". These false alarms are generated because
the programmers stuck 8 small caves spread out around your dungeon.
Just ignore them as it is nothing serious. Directly south you can find
2 Skeletons and an Imp. Collect them right away. You might be tempted
to leave them for later once you hit the portal max, but the hardest
part is the beginning of this level so get them now.
Tunnel around the portal and head north asap on the leftmost tile of
the portal itself. When you notice the 'hole' in the golden structure
to the west dig 3 or 4 tiles east and up again to avoid the hero
pocket at '1'. After hitting the impenetrable rock wall out the entire
eastern section back up to the portal. Note that this hole also
contains an Imp(10) and some Skeletons, try to also get those from
above. From the centre of the portal head all the way east, until you
hit the impenetrable rock (after passing the gold seam go up two tiles
to prevent hitting '5' too early on). Wall out this area as well, this
should keep you safe for the first half hour.
You should have access to the gold at points '1', '5' and '3'. All but
'1' can be completely mined out. Just leave the bottom row of gold to
prevent contact with the heroes there. With all this gold you should
be able to build up some troops. Have your Skeletons train, and put
the rest in the Library so you can get the Torture room/Barracks asap
to attract Orcs & Mistresses. After 20~25 minutes into play dig into
the area at '5' to find several weak heroes. Take them out and claim
the area to find an "Increase Level" behind two locked doors.
When the hero party at '5' apears you should be ready to pummel these
Archery goofs. By now you're probably running low of gold so you can
head for the gold & gem tile at '9'. Which is only guarded by a few
medium Barbarians, but when you actually get to the gems you'll be
greeted by a few Monks. Again, these aren't a problem so get rid of
them to claim the treasures for yourself. After healing your troops
(if necessary) dig into the western vein to find a large area with
several enemies including Samurai here. Beware that the doors to the
south are unlocked, thus all the heroes in the south will also attack
you! Take thenm all out as quickly as possible. If you do this before
the third they won't have a chance to group up and attack you all at
the same time.
2. Expand your ranks
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After eliminating the 3 groups you can change tactic and safely
explore the rest of the realm. Leave the west area at '4' behind the
locked door. This way you can have the 5 Fairies act as the trigger
for the final party drop. As you may have noticed this attack will
occur if less than 5 enemies are present. The Bridge & "Fortify Walls"
aren't necessary so just leave them there and you can pick yourself
when you want to fight the lord of the land and his comrades.
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structure, along with a prison and treasure room that are there for
the taking. Note that there are a lot of Dwarves and Witches bundled
in groups of 7-on-1 (Snowwhite perhaps. XD)... After getting the
prison room you can build one yourself. Do so and you'll be able raise
a lot more troops from the heroes yourself.
Don't forget the area to the NE. Take out the wimpy Tunneller and co.
which are very likely outranked by your forces. Take over the rooms of
the hero structure here to find the "Heal" spell at '10', which makes
your life even more easy. Finally, go for points '16' & '14' to find
another "Increase Level" spell and a group of highly valuable Samurai.
Convert & train them when you get the chance.
3. Kill the Lord of the land - another day at the office
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Once you've taken over just about the entire map, enter the area at
'4', blast the Fairies with "Lightning" and watch dozens of heroes
appearing from different locations. With all the Orcs/Mistresses along
with the converted Samurai this should not prove much difficulty
anymore. Just beat the crap out of them, imprisoning won't be
necessary as the level will soon be over. Just take care that the
longetivity of the Monks at '5' can trigger or delay the drop of the
final party containing the Knight. The big battle will most likely
occur at point '16'. Afterwards, there's nothing much to do around
here, which is just a pity.
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13. Daka-Gorn
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Initial Gold: 15000
Initial creatures: 3x Imp (3)
Max creatures: 10
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
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Warlock Treasure room Posses .....
Bile Demon Lair Create Imp ......... ...
Dark Mistress Hatchery ..... .........
Training Room ?Speed ....
Library ?Must Obey .......
...... ?Cave-in .... .. .....
?Guard post ?Call-to-Arms ...... ....
........ .... ...... ....
........ ............(2) ..... ....
...... .........(2) ..... ....
?Torture room .......(2)
......(1) ........
......... ?Chicken
......... .... .......
..........
....... .....
(1) : Only available after room has been claimed (Temple)
(2) : Can be found on map
("Heal"/"Invisibility"/"Protect"/"Lightning")
Opposition
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Heroes:
Hundreds of heroes, on the map and dropped off at every single room
Secrets
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Neutral rooms : Temple
Neutral creature: Horned Reaper(6), Beetle(4), Spider(4), Warlock(7)
3x Skeleton(8), Dark Mistress(8)
Dungeon specials: Increase Level, Resurrect Creature, Fortify Walls
-No map-
It will hardly be of any use. This level is linear to the extreme;
there's only one path, with some side branches to follow.
You might expect this level to be very hard and difficult, but in fact
it is none of this at all. It may be long, daunting and annoying, but
it isn't hard. The map consists of 5 areas spread out over the entire
sides of the realm. The five areas from top to bottom are:
Northmost: Here's where you start, with quite some space and
a one-face gem tile
North : Fiery pit with a one-tile corridor with many enemies.
There are three doors, one to the west with a dungeon
special and two to the south.
Centre : A small keep with 10 rooms and many corridors.
There's a Temple to be found alongside a Horned Reaper.
South : See north, buth with 3 doors leading to the last area.
Southmost: See centre, but larger with ~20 rooms and many
door-boulder trap combinations. Also just about every room
has hero drops. The dungeon Heart is in the centre.
As you may have noticed by the info panel in the header there's really
not much you can do. There's no Workshop, Prison, spells etc, and you
can hardly make any useful sacrifices. Even the creature pool is very
limited, you'll probably only have a few Mistreses, Bile Demons &
Dragons as your limited to 10 creatures. However, Dragons are very
slow therefore you should try to get only Mistresses and some Bile
Demons (for handling Witches) and that's about it.
1. The 10 level 10 creatures
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In this level you will not actively be attacked, but there's no way to
prevent heroes from entering your dungeon either (or protecting it
period). Once you attack a group you must kill them or they'll reach
your dungeon heart otherwise. Start out with the Imps you have and
build the basic rooms, dig out all the gold you can find to the east,
and leave the western most column to the west (as there's a hostile
room behind it). Don't dig south of the Portal either or you'll hit
another room with heroes.
In the beginning you'll only attract some Warlocks so put them all in
the Library to research. In the meanwhile make a large Treasure room
around the Gem vein to ensure your Imps will be kept busy once they're
done reinforcing the walls (just to make your rooms more effective).
With the Torture room get some Mistresses and throw out all the
Warlocks (or slap them to death). Put 6~7 Mistresses with 2~3 Bile
Demons and a lone Dragon in the Training Room and leave your computer
on for some time. After a while everybody will be maxed out at level
10 and your minions will all be idling in their Lair.
Take out the enemies to the west and south with your maxed out
creatures and claim the "Invisibility" spell and all the tiles. You
should be ready for the next phase.
2. Repetition to no end
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What comes next is probably the longest draught of enemies rooms that
need to be taken over in any level. There are many traps around and
thus your Imps will die very often. So never have more than 4 Imps at
a time (3 can mine gems constantly, whereas the other single level 1
Imp can be used to claim tiles).
- - North - -
Break the doorway to the south to find a large area with many heroes
on islands in the lava. Get one Imp, case "Invisiblity" and "Speed" on
it and have it claim all the tiles, until it reached all three doors.
Pick and keep him in your hand and drop all your Mistresses into
combat. Their "Lightning" & "Drain" spells should kill all the heroes
with little effort. Break the door to the west for an "Increase Level"
special.
- - Centre - -
Enter either via left/right doorway and work your way around the keep
here. There's some boulder traps, but also a free Horned Reaper(6) to
the east, and a Temple with Beetle(4) & Spider(4) to the west. Use the
sacrifice to get another Mistress and have them both train. There's a
lot of opposition here so only break one door at a time, but
eventually you'll wear them all out.
- - South - -
See description of "North", but all doors lead to the hero keep in the
bottom area. The left door is a dud leading to a 'death' end (boulder
trap). The centre has two rooms, but also some rewards so take this
one first (including a "Steal Hero", ust it for a Samurai). The right
door actually leads into the final dungeon.
- - Southmost - -
Similar to "Centre". However, breaking into the first door will
attract a lot of heroes as the long winding corridor has many heroes
scattered around. Kill them all one-by-one as they make their way to
you. Have the single Imp claim tiles to expand your view and your
control. Next use a Bile Demon/Horned Reaper(10) to take out each door
individually (they only take 2 or 3 hits to break down the door) as
half of them contain boulder traps behind them. Just hover you mouse
over the panel and click on the said minion to pick him up before he
gets squashed by the boulder. Entering each room drops more heroes,
but they can all be taken out. Alternatively, have you single Imp
claim all the tiles in the corridor, until he reaches a dead end in
the centre. Put down your creatures here and attack the heart room.
Some heroes drop in, but that's all.
- - Closing words - -
Breaking the heart will crumble all doors and fortifications unlocking
any hero that was already free. Thus if you didn't take the time to
clear each room one-by-one you probably want to leave the realm with
"space" very soon. There's not much else to do anyway. XD
Btw. To the south of the hero dungeon heart is a piece of wall that
looks like there is a path behind it (you can tell by looking at the
reinforcements). Dig it out to find the "Lightning" spell. This should
make things less painful for you during the final stretch.
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14. Dixaroc
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Initial Gold: 0
Initial creatures: 1x Spider (4)
Max creatures: 50, but nothing to draw from
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
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n/a Treasure room Posses .....
Lair ?Create Imp(3) ......... ...(3)
Hatchery .....(2,3) .........(3)
........ ....(1,3).....(2,3) ....(3)
.......(1,3) .... .... .......
......(4) .... ..(2) .... .. .....
..... ....(3) .... .. ....(2,3)...... ....
........ ....(3) ...... ....(3)
........(3) ............(2) ..... ....(3)
...... .........(2) ..... ....(3)
....... ....(3) .......(3)
......(1) ........(3)
......... .......
......... .... .......
..........
....... .....
(1) : Training/Library available after it is claimed
(2) : Green Keeper can reseach these
(3) : Available/Researchable after defeating the single Wizard
(4) : Available after beating blue Keeper
Opposition
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Blue Keeper:
Initial Gold: 5
Initial creatures: 6x Imp (1), 10x Troll(2), 6x Beetle(3)
Max creatures: 0
Green Keeper:
Initial Gold: 5000
Initial creatures: 9x Imp (5x1,4x3), 2x Fly(9), 2x Troll(6),
4x Hellhound(8), 7x Tentacle(5), 3 Dragon(5),
1x Vampire(6)
Max creatures: 0
Heroes:
Thief/Knight/Wizard/Fairy/Giant/Barbarian/Monk/Archer/Samurai
Secrets
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Neutral rooms : Library
Neutral creature: 6x Imp(4), 5x Mistress(6), 6x Spider(3),
4x Bile Demon(2), 4x Warlock(8), 5x Dragon(8),
3x Monk(6)
Dungeon specials: 2x Increase Level, 5x Resurrect Creature
_______________________________________________ `: Lava/Water
| GG___ |1 | M x | | | x I| H GGG| G: Gold
|GG|7__| | x_x_|___| | | 4 | |__| Blue | .: Excavated path
|G|H __| |_| 2x 3| | x x_| |¯ Keeper | P: Portal
|GG| ```|+|___|___|___|___| |__X 5 ____| H: Heart
| ````|¯__| ``` |__|___| | | +: Increase level
|____|¯+|```````````````````````````````````````| x: Door
| 8 x ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯|.......| b: Bridge
|____|x¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯|¯¯¯|¯¯¯| ¯¯|````| M: 2x Mistress(6)
| 10..`` ___ ___ _______ | W |.9GG¯¯|x 6¯¯x| m: 3x Mistress(6)
| ...```|12 | 9 | x 16| ¯¯¯ ..GGGG¯|____| I: 6x Imp(4)
||¯x¯¯¯¯¯¯x¯¯¯x¯11| |¯¯¯¯¯| ...GGGGGGGG| W: 5x Warlock(8)
||_x___x___x______| x 15 |_____|¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯|¯¯¯¯¯| & Library
|| 14| 13| 9 | ¯|_____x______|¯x|¯x|¯x|¯¯| | X: 6x Spider(3)
| ¯¯¯|¯¯¯ ¯¯¯ ```` |m |17|18x19| G| & 4x Bile Demon(2)
|GemG ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯|__`````` ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ GG|
|GGG H |_```````` GGGGG|
| |__``````````````````````|
| Green Keeper ``````````````````|
| GG|
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1: 2x Archer(1)
2+ 2x Dwarf(4), 3x Barbarian(2) trigger on proximity
3+ 2x Dwarf(2), 3x Barbarian(2) trigger on proximity
4+ 4x Giant(6,7,8,9) trigger on proximity
5+ 2x Dwarf(2), 3x Archer(1x3,2x4) trigger on Blue Keeper defeat*
+ 2x Fairy(2), 3x Monk(4) trigger on Blue Keeper defeat*
6: 7x Thief(4)
7+ 3x Samurai(3), 3x Thief(4), trigger on point '6'
+ 5x Giant(2), 5x Barbarian(2) trigger on point '6'
8+ 1x Dwarf(7), 2x Archer(5,6) trigger on proximity
9: 7x Dwarf(4)
10: 4x Knight(2x6,2x8)
11: 5x Giant(3x5,2x7)
12: 2x Dragon(5), "Resurrect Creature"
13: 3x Dragon(5), "Resurrect Creature"
14: 2x Fairy(7), "Resurrect Creature"
15: 1x Wizard(10)
+ 4x Archer(2,3,5,6) trigger on proximity
+ 2x Barbarian(5,6), 2x Monk(5,7) trigger on proximity
+ 2x Archer(5,6), 1x Giant(8) trigger on proximity
16: 5x Fairy(8)
17: 4x Archer(7), 2x Giant(7)
18: 6x Archer(5)
19: 3x Monk(6), 3x Monk(6) unaligned, 2x Resurrect Creature
* = 35 seconds after blue Keeper destroyed
This level is the penultimate level! The design of the level is as
intriguing as its concept. Similar to Caddis Fell you start with
minimal resources and have to defeat not one, but 2 Keepers and all
the heroes on the map. However, as an extra 'twist' all your
magic/rooms are restricted (even "Create Imp"), because a maniacal
wizard has stripped you of all these priviledges. You need to seek him
out first before you can try to attempt a full scale attack on the
green Keeper.
As limited as your resources are you start with a single Spider(4)
whom we'll have to use in "possession" during the first steps on your
path to total domination of this realm. One thing that may comfort you
is the fact that none of the Keepers can attract any new creatures.
This means that you can get the better of them, if you get all the
unaligned creatures.
1. The spider, the hero, his boulder & the lovely mistresses
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Upon entry you'll find there's a hatchery a lair of a few tiles and no
Imps/Gold, not even the "Create Imp" is available. Your lone Spider(4)
is all you have. Make it build a lair, then "Posses" it. Look at the
corridor up ahead, trigger the boulders and quickly retreat. The
boulder will shatter in the water. Continue on, break a wooden door
and watch the 3 Archers(1) around the bend. Use "Freeze" on the first
one you see, step back a little and "Slow" the other. This way you'll
sustain minimal damage during the fight as you are limited to Hand-to-
Fang combat! With a little effort you should be able to beat them all.
If necessary unposses, and drag the spider to the lair/hatchery to
heal.
Continue on, and break the door ahead. Now you're on a short delay
before a lot of heroes drop into the room. These are too strong for
your current creature. Quickly, run through the watery hallway to the
east, break two more wooden doors to find to free Mistresses(6) whom
are very eager to join the fight. Unposses the Spider (have him attack
or pull out), and immediately "Posses" the Mistress. Like Caddis Fell
run around your enemies in circles and keep blasting them with
"Lightning". Eventually, you should be able to get all of them. Just
note the damage your creatures are sustaining. You cannot afford to
lose both Mistresses here! One is still doable, but you'd best keep
both of them.
Once their all dead. Your remaining creatures will head for the
lair/hatchery. Stay "possessed" and continue along the corridor. Break
some doors to find a large room at '4' with boulders. Quickly strafe
run to the other side (the 4 Giants that spawn here are so slow that
they _will_ be crushed by the boulders that run around here). Continue
up ahead and you'll finally find the necessary Imps you need to
continue on.
2. Defeat blue for all eternity!
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Get everybody healed and during this time mine out some of the gold.
While your creatures are recovering start digging to the east.
Eventhough your outnumbered the two Mistresses are stronger than the
entire band of Trolls & Beetles held by the blue Keeper. You must
strike now or else he might start training them! Have your Imps dig a
path as close to '5' as possible, while having another Imp follow the
group to claim all the tiles.
Pick up a Mistress and drop her as close as possible to '5', when you
hit the water near that point. "Posses" and strafe run into the small
dungeon. Head NW to find the Dungeon Heart beating. Once in the Heart
Room unposses and get your second Mistress over there too. This way
you can distract most of the mini-Trolls and Beetles while smashing
the Heart itself. After a while, it should fall and all of the blue
creatures will be gone.
Upon its defeat you can build bridges and you the doors that crumble
lead you to find several unaligned Spiders & Bile Demons that were
previously locked in some of the side rooms of this dungeon. Quickly
gather them as you claim all the rooms of this dungeon. Place the
Mistresses in the Training room and have the others outside of it
(your gold is still very limited).
The warning message you got after defeating the Keeper will trigger
several heroes from the portal in the centre of the blue Dungeon. Get
them quickly with all your creatures. Don't hestitate to put in your
Spiders (last), this way they can "Freeze" the enemies, while avoiding
direct damage themselves. Now you can enjoy a little rest as this
marks the final defeat of the blue Keeper in the DD series.
3. Relinquish yourself from the Wizard's curse
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Next up you can build a bridge across the water & lava towards point
'6'. Claim the tiles, and remove the bridge tiles over the lava to
prevent possible heroes from crossing it. This also triggers an attack
directly next to your Dungeon Heart. A thing never seen before in the
original DK series. Get your groups together and fight them off right
away.
Once they're gone continue claiming tiles and don't forget to dig
south of the long corridor to find a large gold seam and a library
with several grumpy Warlocks. They can only research "Create Imp" for
now, but that can still be helpful. Take care of the Dwarfs and all
the gold is yours! This allows you to train some Bile Demons &
Mistresses more.
Keep heading west to find 2 Increase Level specials, which come in
handy later on. Also take out the heroes at the hero door and the 4
Knights to the south of it. You might need to retreat once, if your
Mistresses aren't strong enough, but the lava pit will ensure they
don't come over to your dungeon, when you don't want them to. They
should fall sooner or later and quite possibly level up your
Mistresses as fighting them gives them a lot of experience points.
South past the Knights there's some Giant, but they're nowhere as
strong as the Knights. Break down to the doors to find some Dragons
and 3 "Resurrect" specials. Continue on and you'll get to the room of
the Wizard soon enough. Before entering claim all the tiles so you can
drop your creatures directly at the entrance. Break down the doorway
and prepare for a great massacre of heroes. As soon as you enter the
Wizard's library 3 hero groups will come to his aid. Still you should
be able to beat them. Once you do, put the Warlocks to research as a
lot of new '?' marks appear on your panel.
In the meanwhile continue east to finish of the remaining heroes and
find the final 3 Mistresses(6), along with 3 Monks(6) who'll switch to
your side the moment they spot you and fight their 'former' comrade
Monks.
3. No more mr. green guy
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Once you've researched everything you may want to start training just
about all creatures, but you can't simply because there are no Gems on
your side of the map. The only solution to this is building one of the
largest possible Workshops and put everybody in there. Have them
produce 5 or 6 of all items, and then only sell "magic doors" such
that the creatures will only continue manufacturing this valuable
object. This way you should be able to get a lot of gold given that
everybody who is not training is in the Workshop. On a payday manually
pay the Dragons 100 gold so they are satisfied with this small
fraction rather that consuming >1000 from your hoard.
Furthermore, you may have some "Resurrect" specials left over, which
are of no use if you haven't lost any creatures. What I did here was
torturing all my Warlocks and turn them into Ghosts. Not only are
Ghosts cheaper, but they can also manufacture decently. Then later on,
when you are about to attack the Green Keeper you can resurrect all 5
Warlocks with the specials so you have an even stronger army.
With the precious conservation of gold and micromanagement you can
actually make this into profitable gold margins! Spiders like Bile
Demons are relatively cheap for their manufacture value, add that up
to their abilities on level 10 and you should be able to get the best
out of them. So don't throw them away...
When your ready dig into the southern watery area near '19' and you'll
find the Green Keeper. He may have some reasonable powerful creatures
(like a Vampire & Dragons) you can beat him with your full army. Just
cast maximally charged "Speed" & "Protect" on everybody, cause the
Green Keeper likes to waste his money on frying your minions with
"Lightning". The "Protect" spell will make sure the damage will be
halved from lightning strikes. Use the "Call-to-Arms" to get your
troops moving throughout his dungeon and find the dungeon Heart to the
far west. If you can claim the Lair then beating the Vampire once will
ensure he can never resurrect himself.
You may lose a few Spiders and Ghosts during the battle, but in all
your minions can defeat this Keeper sooner or later. Just never stop
pressing the attack! If you do his graveyard will pile up all the dead
corpses where he'll gain a lot of Vampires, and you cannot afford to
have this happen. Once defeated there's nothing left to do on this
map, you've conquered this realm. Now all that stands between you and
total domination is the wicked Avatar you'll meet in the next realm.
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15. Belial
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Initial Gold: 15000
Initial creatures: 6x Imp (4)
Max creatures: 20
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Creature pool Rooms Spells Traps / Doors
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Fly Treasure room Posses ?Alarm
Beetle Lair Create Imp ?Poisonous gas
Spider ........(2) ..... ?Lightning
Warlock Training Room ?Speed ?Lava
Dragon Library .... .... ?Boulder
Orc ?Bridge ?Cave-in ?Word of Power
Bile Demon ?Guard post ?Call-to-Arms ...... ....
Dark Mistress ?Workshop ....(3) ...... ....
Tentacle ?Barracks ?Invisibility ?Steel door
Troll ......(1) ?Lightning ?Magic door
?Torture room ?Protect
?Temple ........
......... .......
......... .... .......
..........
....... .....
(1) : Prison available after it is claimed
(2) : Hatchery becomes available once all 5 Hatcheries are claimed
(3) : Can be found on the map ("Heal"), near hostile Bile Demons
Opposition
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Heroes:
All (including the Avatar!)
Secrets
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Neutral rooms : Workshop
Neutral creature: Bile Demon(4), 10x Skeleton(5x2,1x3,4x4), Monk(3),
Wizard(6), 3x Ghost(7), Warlock(6), Vampire(6)
Dungeon specials: Resurrect Creature, Increase Level, Fortify Walls
_______________________________________________ `: Lava/Water
| \ / |-2x H x________ | G: Gold
| \ / _|__|_x_|____ | | .: Excavated path
| _______ \ / | 16 x 20x 17 | |A| P: Portal
| | |h| | \ / |____| ` |____| ¯| H: Heart
| |___ ___| \/ |__h_x -1x__h_|`````| p: Prison
| ___ | H | | 15 | ` | 18 |`Gem`| x: Door
| | B| |___| /\ |____x_x_x____|`13``| h: Hatchery
| |x__| P /_/ ___ __| | ____ ` | v: Vampire(6)
| |x__ __.... _____|Lx7| | __| | x| | ` | s: 3x Skeleton
| |19sx s| |x|_ |5__x_5x|¯__| |__ |s|12| x | w: Wizard(6)
| ¯¯¯¯¯¯ |__x|__ |x4|6|4x|¯ h ¯| |pxx |`` | X: 3x Ghost(7)
| GG .1 x ||___¯ __| |_____| |_`¯¯¯¯ ``/| & 1x Monk(3)
|GGGG GGG .x ¯¯ __|`x__ 9 _````` `/ | & Warlock(6)
|GGGGGGG __|N|__ |8 __| |___|_|___|`````` / | & 2x Bould.crate
| GGGGG _|x_x_x_x||x| ``````````````` 10_/ | L: Lava pool
| GGGG | | | | | | ``14Gem`````__x____/ | & "Heal"
| GG |x| ¯|¯|¯ |x| ___|x| |X 11 h| |
| G | |___|2|___| |_|w ___| |x____x| |
| |3_____x_____3____| ```x```/ |
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1: 5x Thief(3x1,2,4), Lightning trap crate
+ 2x Wizard(7), 2x Monk(7), 2x Witch(7) post(1)*
2: 3x Giant(6), "Resurrect Creature", Boulder crate
3: 2x Giant(4)
4: 2x Archer(3), 1x Giant(4)
5: 5x Samurai(5)
6: 1x Barbarian(10), "Increase Level"
+ 5x Dwarf(4) trigger on proximity
7: 2x Bile Demon(5) <- are heroes...
8: 3x Thief(3), 2x Archer(5)
9: 4x Barbarian(4), 2x Monk(6), 2x Samurai(5), Boulder crate
10: 6x Archer(4)
11: 16x Dwarf(2), 2x Boulder trap
+ 5x Dwarf(4) trigger on proximity
12: 5x Wizard(5), 5x Giant(6)
13: 5x Fairy(4), "Fortify Walls"
14: 3x Witch(6)
15+ Tunnel(1), 2x Archer(5),4x Dwarf(5) trigger after 500 s
16+ Tunnel(1), 3x Archer(6),Dwarf(6),2xWizard(7) trigger after 1250 s
17+ Tunnel(1), 2x Wizard(7),2xMonk(7),2xWitch(7) trigger after 1500 s
18+ Tunnel(1), 6x Samurai(6) trigger after 1750 s
19+ 2x Thief(2), 1x Archer(4) trigger on proximity
20+ 6x Samurai(6),5xGiant(6),4xArcher(3,4,2x5) trigger on proximity
A+ Avatar(10), 8x Knight(7), Archer(5), post(2)*
Monk(7), 3x Samurai(9), Giant(8),
N - there are many small rooms here that trigger drops. Since this
gets a little too complicated I'll just note the groups themselves:
1+ 4x Thief(2), 2x Archer(4), 1x Acher(5)
2+ 6x Archer(2,3,2x4,2x5), 2x Barbarian(3,4)
3+ 6x Archer(2,3,2x4,2x5), 2x Barbarian(3,4)
4+ 5x Samurai(2x2,3,2x4)
5+ 6x Samurai(2x2,3,2x4,5)
6+ 5x Fairy(4)
7+ 5x Samurai(2x2,3,2x4)
8+ 5x Fairy(4)
Hero door:
-1+ 5x Giant(6), 2x Archer(7), proximity @ '11' &
2x Witch(7), 5x Fairy(4x8,10) delayed by 2250 s
-2+ 3x Samurai(9), Archer(5), Monk(7), Giant(8) post(1)*
+ 6x Samurai(9) post(2)*
* = where post(x) is:
1: <= 30 s after entering heart room
2: <= 50 s after entering heart room
The final realm is quite something indeed. You'll have to ward off
imminent attacks as soon as you take over the portal as it is directly
connected to a 'neutral' dungeon in which the hostile heroes will
gladly take out all the doors for you, when they try to assault you.
There are also 4 groups of Tunnellers that originate from the Dungeon
Heart area which become progressively stronger with each wave. To top
it all of the only available Hatchery is a 3x5 one you're given at the
start. Therefore, you don't want to attract too many hungry Bile
Demons. This handicap will however be removed once you claimed all the
hero Hatcheries in the realm. Lastly, the final attack will indeed
also contain a single Avatar(10), whom we haven't seen since Skybird
Trill in the original game.
This is indeed a quite difficult realm, but it can be beaten. In fact
the final battle is probably rather easy if you get a prison and
convert as many Samurai prior to this attack. The real hard part is
getting through the first waves of timed attacks.
1. Tunneller preparations
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Upon entry of the level dig out some of the rooms to enlarge them, but
make sure to keep all walls of the Hatchery intact. This will keep its
limited efficiency as high as possible. Parallel to this dig westward
and then go south along the impenetrable rock to get a hold of all the
Gold around here, start digging and create some rooms (most notably a
Library & Training room).
Next connect to the portal, but beware that doing so will alert the
Thieves & Giants at '1', '2' & '3'. Because there are neutral boulder
traps spread throughout the dungeon the Giants should die. However,
the Thieves near your dungeon will attack the two magic doors
separating them from you. You'll have to get some minios before they
get to you! Get into the workshop and claim the Bile Demon. Next also
get the Skeletons in the two rooms below, but beware that they will be
attacked by a small drop of 3 heroes. It shouldn't be too difficult to
take those out. Put the best creatures into the training room; the
Skeletons & Dragons being fast trainers should be able to gain 1 or 2
levels before the attack. Put the Bile Demon into the Workshop and
also get the Warlocks to study you'll need the Bridge & Guard post.
Btw. Skeletons don't eat, so this is good for your Hatchery!
Have your Imps dig out a path to the "L" on the map just SE of the
lower impenetrable rock section. If you dig into this area the walls
will unfortify allowing you to dig into the lava pit room. Build a
bridge to the centre, get the "Heal" spell (which was actually not
meant to be gotten like this :P) and build one more Bridge tile
upwards. Now this part is critical. Dig all the way to the north along
the hero wall (near points '15' & '16'). By doing so the Tunneller's
will 'breach' into your dungeon, BUT they cannot reach you if you sell
the bridge over the lava. This way you can effectively lock the heroes
out of your dungeon! If you can do this in 5~6 minutes you should be
able to win the level with not too much effort, as the Tunnellers and
their group are probably the hardest part in this level.
Once the first Tunneller appears, your army should be able to take
them on head-on. Then quickly get an Imp to claim the room and also
the two Hatcheries around here. This way you can replenish your
Hatcheries by manually carrying over the pluchy cuccos (if necessary).
The heroes here won't mind that you have some rooms here so this won't
be a problem. Just don't go north of this place or you'll trigger the
post(1) trigger which brings on the Knight & Avatar whom are a little
too strong for you at this moment. Two more hatcheries to go, and you
have claimed all of them.
2. Exploration for Gems, Prison, Vampire, Hatchery & 'Decamurai'
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Beware about having Imps scout the unclaimed tiles to the south where
the Thieves came from. Hero drops will occur in every small room, and
you probably don't want to attract that much attention at this time.
- - Gems - -
Then again, your gold is limited you may want to get to the Gem tile
which can be found at the end of it. Therefore, get a door and set it
to locked near '1'. Then you can have one Imp carefully claim the
tiles and pull him out, if he triggers any of the 8 parties mentioned
under the "N" section in the legend. After some time you should be
able to get to the free Wizard and the Gem tile. Break down the door
to find 3 Witches. You know what to do about this. Get them to your
land (as they're over lava) and drop some Bile Demons on this gals.
Oh, there's actually even more gems to be had. To the east of '12' is
some lava with a locked door. Break through it to find some Fairies,
after blasting them with "Lightning" another Gem tile becomes
available, but since it's that far out it's not easy to build a good
treasure room around it.
- - Prison - -
With an infinite supply of gold the only problem in expanding your
dungeon at the moment is food. Build a bridge to point '10' and kill
the mediocre Archers. Then head north to find some Wizards & Giants @
'12'. If they're too strong remove some bridge tiles so they cannot
attack you directly. For the Wizards one or two "Lightning" strikes
will do the trick. To the west there is the only unclaimed prison with
some more Skeletons!
- - Vampire - -
The structure at point '11' also contains some interesting items.
Inside you'll find a large quantity of weak Dwarfs. Just get some
Mistresses and they'll all be toast, literary. Break down all the
doors, but beware of the Boulder traps. There's one on the left and
one on the right. The other rooms contain: a free Monk(3), free 3x
Ghosts(7), a free Warlock(6), 2 Boulder crates, and at the bottom is
Hatchery #3. Even further down you'll find a small structure in the
water with a single door. Break it down to find a free Vampire(6) whom
was entombed here by some heroes. He'll be more than happy to help you
fight them. However, this will enrage the heroes who will backfire
(with a delay of >30 minutes) at you from the hero door at -1!
- - Hatchery - -
From point '10' you can enter another hero structure with a large
Hatchery inside. First take out all the goons here, and imprison the
Samurai if possible. Once you get this fourth Hatchery the limitation
will be undone and you can construct as many Hatchery tiles as you
like. This will improve your dungeon quite a lot!
- - 'Decamurai' - -
What I mean by Decamurai is that you can find two groups of 5x
Samurai(5) at both points '5'. By fighting your way to that location
and getting the Samurai in prison, you can easily convert this bunch
to you side. By doing so, get them a separate lair (unless you have no
Mistresses for some reason), then have all 10 of them train to level
10. All their "Freeze" abilities will make _very_ short work of the
Avatar later on who is vulnerable to this attack.
With all of the above in mind, you can still get some Bile Demons by
fighting them at point '7'. Furthermore, the Barbarian(10) at '6'
hides an "Increase Level". You can get it to speed up your training
effort. If you have any Troll/Mistress/Bile Demon combinations you'd
do well sacrificing as many of them as possible for some Reapers!
3. Last stand
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Put a "Call-to-Arms" banner near point '21' and get your best fighters
there. The Decamurai alone should be able to get the job done, but a
little assistence will never hurt. Horned Reapers, Bile Demons &
Dragons are good. Put the banner on the door and trigger the sequence
in the Heart room. Don't forget area '1', as a group will drop there
as well! Put some of your weaker creatures here as they can defend
this side, while the others go for the Heart.
From the left the first group will appear, and with a little more
latency the Avatar(10) and his 8 Knights(7) appear from the east along
with some more Samurai. Get the "Heal" spell out, and/or the "Cave-in"
spell. Once you enter the right area they'll all be close together.
With "Cave-in" you can kill all but the Avatar with little to no
effort. Just cast it 10x with maximum power. Although it doesn't look
this strong "Cave-in" can do more damage than "Lightning" in some
cases. All that remains is the Avatar, but with the Decamurai this
battle will be a lot easier than it was in Skybird Trill. "Freeze"
just makes a sitting duck out of him. He may have a gigantic amount of
energy, but since he can't do anything the combined
"Lightning"/"Freeze" from the Decamurai will kill him in less than a
minute. You might wonder, that this actually seems easier than it was
in the original game... Strange...
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THE END
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Appendix A: Statistic tables
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Creature Statistics
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This is a small comparison table which can be used to compare all
the available creatures in the game with one and another. All values
are for creatures of level 1 and the data is extracted from the
Creatures.txt file enclosed in your Keeper game directory. To
calculate the values for the higher levels take the following
percentage for the corresponding level (only HP, STR, SKL, DEX and
Wage increase with a level up) and round it down to the nearest
integer:
level %
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1 100
2 135
3 170
4 205
5 240
6 275
7 310
8 345
9 380
10 415
Yes, the increases are linear and exactly 35% is added with each
level up. Hence a level 4 creature is twice as strong as its level 1
cousin and a level 10 creatures is more than four times the original
value. Taking into account all values you could compare certain
creatures (e.g. a level 10 Fly is about the same as a level 1 Dwarf),
but this excludes the additional abilities that a creature learns...
The following attributes are displayed:
HP: Health Points
STR: Physical strength
ARM: Armour
SKL: Skill (referred to as Defense in the Creature.txt file)
DEX Dexterity
LK: Luck
Wage: Payday value
T/R/W/S: Training/Research/Workshop/Scavenger value (shows how good
a creature is in that area; the higher value the better)
H: Humanoid (Can be turned into skeleton via Prison)
Name HP STR ARM SKL DEX LK Wage T R W S H Other
------------- ---- --- --- --- --- -- ---- - - - - - ----------------
Beetle 250 25 25 40 55 3 18 1 1 1 1 n
Bile Demon 1200 80 60 30 40 5 98 2 1 3 1 n gas, wind
Dragon 900 90 90 50 60 18 350 3 4 1 5 n lava
Demon Spawn 325 50 40 50 70 18 70 2 2 2 2 n lava
Fly 150 10 10 30 50 15 5 1 1 1 1 n fly
Ghost 200 20 20 60 95 10 20 1 2 1 3 n fly, gas
Hellhound 600 55 35 50 70 8 67 2 1 1 3 n lava
Horned Reaper 2000 150 70 70 160 30 950 1 1 0 4 y lava
Imp 75 5 5 5 60 0 0 1 0 0 0 n
Mistress 700 60 50 70 70 20 175 2 2 2 3 y
Orc 700 65 60 65 60 12 95 2 0 3 2 y
Skeleton 500 55 20 50 70 2 70 4 1 1 1 n gas
Spider 400 40 30 50 60 3 25 1 1 2 2 n
Troll 450 40 35 50 50 10 50 1 1 4 2 y
Tentacle 700 50 50 50 65 3 45 1 1 1 2 n
Vampire 800 70 30 80 80 25 750 4 3 1 8 y gas
Warlock 350 20 15 30 100 6 120 2 4 1 5 y
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Archer 300 20 20 60 100 15 60 1 2 2 2 y
Avatar 3000 150 100 110 180 20 1200 4 3 1 0 y
Barbarian 700 60 50 60 70 10 95 3 0 2 1 y
Dwarf 500 50 40 30 55 2 35 1 1 3 1 y
Fairy 150 10 10 30 70 40 59 1 4 1 1 y fly
Giant 650 100 60 30 60 20 43 2 0 2 2 y
Knight 950 80 100 30 150 15 540 3 1 1 0 y
Monk 325 40 20 80 80 30 75 1 3 2 3 y
Samurai 700 80 60 70 90 20 195 4 2 2 3 y
Thief 250 30 20 80 120 14 57 1 1 1 2 y gas
Tunneller 350 40 30 40 40 0 50 1 0 1 1 y
Witch 300 20 20 30 80 6 75 2 3 1 3 y
Wizard 350 20 15 30 100 5 125 2 5 1 4 y gas
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fly - flies/hovers by default
gas - Immune to Poisonous gas
wind - Immune to Whirlwind attack
Creature Special Attacks
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Attack - Hit opponent physically
Arrow - Hit opponent with an arrow from a distance
Chicken - Not used
Dig - Digs through earth
Disease - Not used
Drain - Drain 20 health points from target
Fireball - Fires a fiery projectile (range 8 tiles)
Flamebreath - Constant fire stream
Flatulence - Same as Poison gas, but doesn't damage own creatures
Flight - Allow creature to fly
Freeze - Freeze victim but doesn't do damage (range 10 tiles)
Grenade - Bouncing projectile <120 damage
Hailstorm - Hits all creatures for <75 damage
Heal - Restore 200 health points
Invisibility - Turn invisible
Lightning - Electic beam <20 damage (range 4 tiles)
Meteor - Upgraded fireball, <100 damage (range 14 tiles)
Missile - Reptile projectile, <20 damage (range 10 tiles)
Guided Missile - Guided Reptile projectile, <20 damage
Poison cloud - Fill 5 tile radius with poisonous gas
Protect - Decrease damage by 25% for a short time, also halves
damage from "Lightning" attacks.
Rebound - Reflects incoming spell back at attacker
Sight - Not used
Slow - Halves target speed (range 14 tiles)
Speed - Doubles targest speed
Teleport - Jump to any position, in FPV sends back to Lair
(Imp goes to Dungeon Heart)
Whirlwind - Blows away all creatures, except Bile Demons
Word-of-Power - Does 200 damage to any enemy in 2 tiles radius
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Appendix C: Multiplayer
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The game allows you to play multiplayer games, but I haven't tried
this out before. So I know very little about this topic. There are
three types of connections to choose between: Serial, Modem and IPX.
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Appendix D: Bugs, Glitches and Stuff
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Glitches
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-Deeper Dungeon AI Keepers can place traps on illegal locations
-Deeper Dungeon AI Keepers can >100 traps on a single tile.
-more to come...
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Stuff
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Boot up messages - Ancient wisdoms of the dark
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Ever noticed one of those messages which pops up when you start
playing the game. They're displayed on various occasions such as Full
Moon dates and other peculiar dates which I don't know by heart.
Here's a few of them and use the new wisdom in each wisely:
When night does not give way to day,
And children are too scared to play,
Abandon hope, embrace despair,
You're destined for my Dragon's lair
If thou art bold and pure of heart,
Come down here, be torn apart.
Through my dungeon you may tread,
But rest assured, you'll end up dead.
If you find you lose it all,
Why not play Theme Hospital?
Armoured Knights who have true grit,
Roast more quickly on a spit.
Evil, malice, death, decay,
I think you'll find they're here to stay.
Evil, malice, death, decay,
Just another working day.
Evil, malice, death, decay,
There really is no better way.
Giant, Dwarf, Thief and Fairy,
None of you are very scary.
The denizens of your domain,
Just cannot wait to kill again.
The better creatures you employ,
The greater carnage you enjoy.
Hark! The Avatar's abroad,
And I can smell a frightened Lord.
Trespassers will meet their doom,
In your dungeon's Torture Room.
Though intruders' hearts be pure,
They'll end up on your dungeon floor.
Your tunnels will be dark and cold,
And no place for a Knight of old,
Even if he claims he's bold.
The fools who enter your domain,
Will never see the light again.
Pain and anguish are your tools,
To use upon intruding fools.
When good guys head right for your treasure,
Hunt and kill them at your leisure.
Protect your gold and Dungeon Heart,
And slap your minions till they fart.
Use your creatures' fear of you.
To make them do what you want them to.
Wizard in your dungeon grim?
A trap will make short work of him.
When your creatures give you hell,
Stick them in your Prison Cell.
Torture is the crowning glory,
Of your Dungeon Keeper story.
You are the Keeper, chosen one,
And being evil is great fun.
When your troops are hunger-stricken,
Your Hatchery has yummy chicken.
Fill the Avatar with dread.
Really make him wet the bed.
Imps are the lifeblood of your dungeon.
Like blood, they must be allowed to circulate.
Feeling mean?
Set your minions to imprison and when your cells are full,
spend some time torturing...
If your creatures get unhappy,
slap some sense into them.
They'll soon realise how lucky they are.
The underworld is your domain and the adventurers
come to steal it. Never show pity, even when the intruders
are defenceless and pathetic.
Compassion is the hallmark of the good Keeper. But good
Keepers never win. Only evil ones.
There's never a moment to waste.
Already the bravest of the brave are queuing up to enter
your dungeon. So stop reading this and get going.
Build fast. You'll want the biggest possible welcoming committee
ready for the intruders.
Keep your Imps digging. There are always surprises to be found
deep in the earth.
He who controls the most gold controls the entire Underworld.
Fear and lack of mercy are your greatest weapons.
Use them wisely.
Foolish is the Keeper who sells all his rooms and refuses to pay
his creatures.
Boot up messages II - Happy birthday to you
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Playing the game on a peculiar date? Sometimes a Happy Birthday
message appears out of the blue. Set you system time to it, and
quiver in fear... One of the main artists has been added another
year! I can only remember two of them. They're for the main
programmer and the project leader:
Peter Molyneux: May, 5th
Simon Carter: May, 3rd
Hidden in-game messages
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During game-play (anywhere within the actual game) hold down the
left Shift button and enter:
FECKOFF or SKESIS
To see a weird hard-coded message bounce around the screen as long
as you keep the shift down. The latter code also makes the advisor
say something really weird. o_O
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Credits
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The credits go to:
Bullfrog:
For creating this truly evil and terrific badly twisted game
Gamefaqs.com:
For putting this up the website
You:
For reading this FAQ
Me:
As I enjoyed making this FAQ
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Website locations
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http://www.neoseekers.com
http://www.mycheats.com
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Other Interesting Links
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Full moon dates for the bonus game up to 2005 - 2010
(at least the time I checked)
http://www.moonphases.info/full_moon_calendar_dates.html
Repository with many DK downloads (official editor/patch and such)
http://dungeon-keeper.net/
Game patch (fixes narration disorder, and bonus levels)
http://yaworg.googlepages.com/dungeonkeeper
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