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Il video illustra in particolare la classe del Thocrat, in azione in ben 19 minuti di gameplay commentati, tra impostazioni, statistiche, battaglie tra creature varie e approfondimenti in particolare su questa classe di personaggi.
Il video illustra in particolare la classe del Thocrat, in azione in ben 19 minuti di gameplay commentati, tra impostazioni, statistiche, battaglie tra creature varie e approfondimenti in particolare su questa classe di personaggi.
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00:05Hello, today we're going to be having a look at the Theocrat class, as represented here
00:10today by Nomlik Trismegistus, a goblin in the clouds. You see him here in his capital city
00:17of Rames, in the little blighted mushroom swamps, and over here to the right we see
00:22our foe, Larissa Mirabilis, a sorcerer, a witch no less. We're going to break into her city
00:30and burn her at the stake for heresy. Now, this is a scenario that we've set up, so that
00:36you can sort of see what the end game will look like, and right, let's have a look at
00:43what kind of spells we can cast. Now, as a Theocrat, our spells are all religiously themed,
00:48we can mark people as heretics, we can summon cherubs, little flying demon baby monsters,
00:54we can have a beacon of faith set up in our city so that it grows faster, we can pay
00:58the
00:59absolution, we can force the citizens to pay us for the privilege of being members of our
01:03religion, stuff like that. Let's start off, let's mark Larissa as a heretic, always a good
01:08place to start, so that means that we'll be able to do more damage to her units. Now, we're
01:13going to be mostly focusing on battle today, so I'm going to bring my army over here.
01:18and engage. Now, we have a thing called the adjacent hex rule, so not only is the stack
01:23we're attacking engaged in battle, but all of the surrounding stacks are going to be
01:27engaged as well, so you can see that it's actually going to be our 12 units versus her
01:3310. There could be up to 42 units in a battle, if every single hex is filled. So, let's enter
01:39battle and see what happens. Here we are, Nomlectfismegistus attacked Larissa Mirablis, I don't know who
01:47came up with these names. Anyway, so she's a defender so she gets to go first, see what
01:52she does. We're all starting out of range, there's not much you can do so she's going to
01:55to go first. It costs haste on this fella over here. Now, this is, oh, it's my turn.
02:02Okay, sorry about that. Okay, this is an Eldritch Horror. This is the most powerful unit that a
02:10sorcerer can summon and it's a nightmare. It is a heretic, since Mark is a heretic we just
02:16of course, but it also has haste, meaning it can move twice as far. It has shock breath,
02:20so it's essentially a dragon breath weapon attack, but with lightning. It does spirit
02:25damage and blight damage, and worst of all, it's immune to both blight, prick damage, and
02:31spirit damage, which is a problem since goblins do blight damage and theocrats do spirit damage.
02:35But we'll sort it out somehow. She's also got some apprentices here. They are the normal
02:44sorcerer unit, little mini wizards. You can have fairy fire, throw lightning bolts at us from
02:51their walls. You can dispel magic. She's also got some archers, and these guys, phantasm warriors.
02:59They're a mid-level sorcerer summon. They're very tough, doing fairly nice amount of damage. They have
03:06the chance to shock the target, so that when they hit people, the target is stunned and doesn't move as
03:12fast. Okay, now what are we going to do? What have we got? Okay, we have these guys, goblin crusaders.
03:20They're the best. Look at them, hiding behind the little shields. These are tier 2 infantry. Then we
03:27have these guys, flying goblins, the exalted. They're tier 3. They can sweep over the walls and
03:31hopefully get into the enemy's face before their arrows can do too much damage to us.
03:35We've also got martyrs. Martyrs are a low-tier unit whose main gimmick is this ability, absorb
03:43pain, which I'm actually going to use on these swarm darters. What that means is if somebody
03:49tries to damage the swarm darters, and someone is going to try and damage the swarm darters,
03:53then the damage will actually be transferred to the martyrs instead. So hopefully that will
03:57give these swarm darters a chance to actually shoot a bit before they get torn to pieces by the defenders.
04:03And we've also got this bad boy over here, the Shrine of Smiting. This is the tier 4 Theocrat
04:09unit. It's basically a great big box of pain. It has this ability, Smiting Prayer Bolts, which
04:18does more damage depending on the more devout units we have on the field. Since we have a lot of
04:24devout
04:24units, hopefully it'll hit pretty hard. It also has Divine Vengeance, a huge AoE that we can use once per
04:30battle. Now, first things first, let's do some magic. Now, this spell here, Holy War, poor old
04:40Trimagistus, what is his name? Nomlik. He isn't on the field, so that means this spell is much more
04:44expensive than it would usually be, but we're going to cast it anywhere. Holy War gives plus 10 damage to
04:49all the melee attacks of our units, so hopefully that'll really give us a bit of an itch. There
04:54it goes. Things all sort of glowing and golden. The glowing glow of impending doom for Larissa.
05:02So right, let's advance. These guys are going to stand here, hide behind here. I don't think they can get
05:07into attack range yet, so have to wait for next turn. These guys are martyrs. Let's bring them over.
05:16So what would be nice is we could use them to protect these exalted guys. So fly just goes over
05:22here. Now, if you want to speed things up, you can right click. Makes the current action run a bit
05:27faster. Use absorb pain on them, so hopefully they'll last a bit longer as well. Our catapult can try and
05:36begin to work on the front door. Knock it down. Catapults are very tough. Like all war machines,
05:43they have resist resilience, which means they take less damage from projectiles. So hopefully it'll be
05:49relatively safe sat there. And we have our evangelists. Evangelists are fearcraft support units.
05:59Among the tricks they can do is healing and touch of faith. Touch of faith boosts the unit's resistance,
06:07which makes it take less damage from elemental attacks. So once again, we'll cast it on these
06:12guys. Let's have a feeling the AI is going to try and pick on them. Who else have we got?
06:17The exalted.
06:18Okay, we're waiting over there for now. More exalted. Now these guys are flying, so they can just fly
06:24over the walls. They can hide over here and hopefully sweep over the walls without taking too much arrow fire.
06:32Now goblin crusaders over here. We've got another... Take another camera view so we can actually see them.
06:40Martyr here. He's going to use his absorb pain on these crusaders. Now crusaders are infantry.
06:47What that means is they have little ladders so they can scale the walls. They're very vulnerable when
06:53they're doing so but hopefully some of them will survive enough to actually get off an attack. Move these
07:00guys forward. We've moved everyone that we want to move. Is that right? Yep. Okay. Over to you Larissa.
07:06Do your worst. What's he gonna do? Chain lightning. Ouch. Oh, where are you going? He's gonna...
07:15What are you shooting at? Can't even see what you hit. Oh, you're just shooting at my trebuchet. Didn't
07:21do very much. And they're taking pot shots at my priests. Will we be okay? I suppose, yeah,
07:28I suppose one way of absorbing pain is to stand next to the unit and get shot instead of the
07:33unit.
07:33Not quite how I intended it, but we live and learn. Doesn't look like my trebuchet is going to last
07:38much longer either. Poor crusaders.
07:48Fortunate day of protected by the martyrs. Now, hopefully, I will have just enough time to knock
07:55the wall down before my trebuchet gets taunt a bit. Oh, not quite yet. Well, we'll have to hope for
08:01the
08:01best there. This guy's going to fly over here so next turn he'll be able to get across. Swarm
08:07Darters are finally in attack range, I believe. Let's just stand here. Can we shoot now? Yes.
08:13Now, Swarm Darters actually fire little tiny mosquitoes so they home in. That means they've
08:18got no range penalty and no line of sight penalty from shooting over the walls. You can see they do
08:24quite a hefty amount of damage and hopefully they'll survive next turn to do some more damage again.
08:30In fact, since I have a feeling, let's cast Dispel. Instant Wrath means anyone attacking the Swarm
08:36Darters will actually take some of the damage reflected back onto them. So hopefully it'll help
08:42them at least punish people who try and pick on my poor defenseless little mosquito shooting friends.
08:47Right. These guys are going to run forwards over here, try and climb up onto those walls and you
08:53come up onto here. Keep climbing onto their little ladders ready for action. Unfortunately now,
08:58because they're stood on the walls, their defense has been reduced quite heavily. Which, yeah, is a bit
09:06of a problem, but that's the risk you take if you try and climb up onto the wall of an
09:09enemy held castle.
09:10These guys are going to fly right over here, getting ready to
09:17to attack. And these guys, can we, are we already martyring? We're already martyred. You guys can just
09:22hide at the back and probably going to die anyway because of absorb pain. And this, can we get into
09:28range and do anything fun? Right, we're in shooty range. I don't think this is our big area of effect
09:34attack, but we're not quite in range to do it yet. We could hit the Eldritch Horror. It looks like
09:38we'd
09:38also blow apart our own trebuchet and we don't really want to do that. We do have these smiting prayer
09:43bolts though. So, can we hit anyone with those? Let's kill these archers, so we can get there. Yep, there
09:50they go.
09:51And who else have we got? The evangelists, poor guys. Priest, healer, heal thyself.
10:00And the martyrs. There we go. And you guys fly over and come in to start picking on the
10:10on the artists over here. Okay, over to you again, Larissa. Ouch.
10:18Okay, now these are tier 1 archers against tier 3 units, so they're quite tough. Hopefully they'll
10:23survive a bit. Also our Shrine of Smiting. Pretty tough unit as well. Hopefully won't die.
10:29But they are pouring a lot of fire into it. Maybe I should have cast Instant Wrath on that instead.
10:34Probably should have. Oh well. Yep. The side effect is the AI does understand things like Instant Wrath,
10:42so it knows that if it attacks the Swarm Darters, it's going to take damage itself. So it's not.
10:48So I guess the spell is kind of working. What are you up to Mr. Eldritch Horror? Slowly floating now.
10:55Normally he wouldn't be able to move that fast, but Larissa did cast Haste on him. So yeah,
10:59he's quite a mobile demonic entity from beyond the grave. Now, these guys are flying over here.
11:08And the Trebuchet finally gets to knock the door down. Hurrah.
11:14Leaving the way open. What is this door made of? It's tough, isn't it?
11:18How many hit points have they got there? Three. Oh well. Time for our next trick.
11:25The Shrine of Smiting has Divine Vengeance. 10 fire and 20 lightning damage to everyone within range,
11:30who's not devout. So let's use it to blast these guys apart.
11:37Gotcha.
11:41Unfortunately, it's only used once per battle, but you can see it's always a very effective attack.
11:44Swarm Darters, who miraculously are still alive, can start dishing out more pain over here to these
11:53apprentices, who are also quite tough units. Crusaders are climbing up onto the walls. What's going on over
12:00here? Now, here we have a bit of a problem. The Exalted have blocked off Crusaders. The Crusaders
12:09can't get off the wall because the Exalted are in the way. Not very good planning on my part.
12:14Unfortunately, that means these guys are going to have to take an attack of opportunity
12:19from these Phantasm Warriors. But I don't really see a where... Oh, I do. I can flank them.
12:24Now, the Phantasm Warriors can only do an attack of opportunity on these guys if they're facing them.
12:30if we run up behind them and make them turn around like we're doing. Oh, or we could just kill
12:35them.
12:36That works too. Anyway, we'll fly over here. Start hitting these guys.
12:45I was trying to be all clever there. It shows me. Might as well just kill things. This is what
12:51we get.
12:51Anyway, okay, so the Crusaders can hopefully finish off these guys. Nope. Yeah, Phantasm Warriors
12:58have the Ethereal ability, I believe. No, Incorporeal. That's how it's called.
13:02Gives them 60% physical protection, making them very tough to kill. So they're the tanks
13:06that are in the Sorcerer's army. What are our Martyrs doing? Martyrs are kind of over here,
13:11so they can kind of run forwards. Can you hit anyone with a rock? David and Goliath? No? Okay.
13:16Let's hide here. What else have we got? These guys might as well try and bring in some fire support.
13:22Can they do anything over here in range to maybe convert the enemy? Nope. Nothing in range.
13:29So yeah, just block. We've got more Martyrs, more rocks. And yep, we're out of your nets.
13:37Can we only spells we can cast? Nope, route casting points as well. So, over to you, Larissa.
13:42Let's see what she's going to do.
13:45Oof. There goes my Trebuchet. And here comes this guy. It's not going to be pretty. Ouch.
13:51Aha! Instant Wrath. Got 11 damage back. Oh, and it gets healed by the Apprentice.
13:57The Apprentice, for the Sorcerer, one of his main jobs is to follow the Sorcerer's armies
14:02around and use healing abilities. His healing ability only works on the summoned units, but
14:07Sorcerer armies tend to have a lot of summoned units, so they tend to synergize quite well with
14:14each other. But yeah, we're getting there. We're getting there. Right. Now, this guy is still a
14:21very big problem. We've got a bunch of units, but the Eldritch Horror is a terrifying, terrifying beast.
14:27And really, the safest thing to do is to shoot it with ranged attacks. Ranged attacks that we don't
14:33really have. So, okay. First things first. Let's kill the Apprentices. Get those out of our faces.
14:42You're dead. Right. They're quite squishy units, so it doesn't take much to take them down.
14:49Right. Should we shoot Larissa or should we rainfire? We really can't do much damage. Maybe we can
14:55and do a bit more damage to those Apprentices. Trying to shoot through the walls, never that
15:01good an idea. But yeah, so we can attack with the Crusaders, but the Crusaders, yeah,
15:10aren't going to be doing much back. Eldritch Horrors, immune to blight damage. Thanks. At
15:15least we can kill the Apprentices. Yep, kill the Apprentices. And what can we do?
15:24Tier 4 units are the most powerful units in the game and these Eldritch Horrors are certainly living
15:29up to their reputation. And yeah, this poor old Crusader. Is he going to be sacrificed for the
15:35cause? Don't really see any other option for the poor guy. So I hit him. I do 8 to 12
15:42damage.
15:44He takes me back, does 10 to 14 damage. And he has the Fearswim ability, which means I have to
15:50roll a save,
15:51otherwise I'll panic and run away like a little girl. Oh, or I'll just die. Okay, anything else? Can we
16:00throw a rock at him? Nope. We're not even in range to throw rocks. Are you in range to throw
16:05rocks? Yay!
16:08Suck a rock. David and Goliath. Ha! Two damage. And Crusaders, you can finish with units moved.
16:18Everyone's moved. So Larissa's last stand. Just her and her Eldritch Abomination. She's chucking
16:25lightning bolts. Because of the test scenario, she's still... Oh, she's leveled up. She's level 2 now. Oh,
16:31and Larissa has officially decided there's no point in staying behind the walls anymore. The Ao's decided this
16:36because she's realized that, well, I'm entirely behind the walls and there's no defensive advantage
16:42to using it anymore. So she's decided to come out and play. Now, goodbye Larissa. It's time for your
16:51wicked heretical ways to you to finally pay the price. Off you go. Blasted off into orbit. And then,
16:58Shrine of Smiting versus Eldritch Horror. Who will win? I'll give you a clue. It's the Eldritch Horror.
17:06The Shrine of Smiting's main damage is spirit. And unfortunately, the Eldritch Horror is immune
17:10to that. So... Anything else we can do? We just have to close it down and like... In the best
17:18tradition of religious fanatics, we are simply going to have to drown it in the blood of the
17:23righteous warriors and hope that in the end, we win. We'll get them in the end, somehow. More rocks?
17:29We have more rocks? Who are you? You're a martyr. More rocks! Flanking attack with rocks? Oh, wow.
17:35Actually, quite a heavy hitter if it's not hiding behind the walls. It really is becoming a day within
17:43glass moment. Maybe we should have just brought martyrs, left everyone else behind. Just drown
17:46the enemy in a sea of pebbles. Okay. Let's see what this guy can do.
17:55Ouch. Oh! They got my martyrs! Well, they... They at least had a go before they got blown to
18:04bits by the electrical spewing demon monster thing. Oh, and he's put himself in a spot where I can only
18:11melee attack him from one place at once. I think... Ah, this guy is way more hassle than he's worth.
18:19Kill him! Okay. How much damage has he got left? He's got 23 hit points.
18:26Trine of smiting. Smite! Two hit points. Ugh. This is not pretty. Okay. I'm not supposed to show you
18:34this, but... Trine of smiting can float, which means they can float over walls. Now, this isn't the final
18:40animation, so I appreciate... I apologize for how ugly this looks. Plop! Right! Point blank range. Die!
18:47Nope. Goblin Exalted. Can't get to him because he's hiding on top of the walls and there's nowhere to
18:52stand. I can't hit him. Damn you AI. I've been outsmarted by my own AI. Okay. Uh... He's too clever
19:03for me.
19:03I think we're gonna get him now. We're gonna get him. Yes! Lone Crusader. Stabs him, takes him down,
19:09and that was the end of Larissa Mirabilis.
19:15and that was the end of Larissa Mirabilis.
19:16And that was the end of Larissa Mirabilis.
19:17And that was the end of Larissa Mirabilis.
19:18And that was the end of Larissa Mirabilis.
19:20And that was the end of Larissa Mirabilis.
19:20And that was the end of Larissa Mirabilis.
19:21And that was the end of Larissa Mirabilis.
19:21And that was the end of Larissa Mirabilis.
19:22And that was the end of Larissa Mirabilis.
19:24And that was the end of Larissa Mirabilis.
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