Round Table of Arkain

[Shar Dundred]

By the way, what are the Mog'Thar's origins? I mean we know they have red skin, like to lord over other orcs and can work with Demons, but beyond that...

There are rumors that you may find out more about that at some point.

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That looks scary. Luckily we have the cyclops legion! But unfortunately it lost half of its best troops to Edoarus earlier in the story... Well at least Lokar may show up.

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You mean Ogres.
Arkain has both.

 

[lekxman22]

Well that look scary if u ask me
P.S rangul and vanessa only hmmmm not bad but siege is gonna take hella long

 

[Shar Dundred]

Ladies and gentlemen,

today it is time to do something I have not done in a loooong time. POLLS!
Check out the strawpoll & share your thoughts in the thread!

 

[badest]

how to beat the hard difficulty of the second orcs book ch4?even worse than ch4 of the second human book!

Surrouned by three humans,attack continously without the break,
Orcs hero and the orcs troops are fucking weak!!!No means of the second goldmine and no means of hp regeneration.
Especially, the grey human enemies are unstoppable,3 fully upgraded elites each waves.and others include 2 level 6 enermy heros
i even tried to manipulated the computers with placing single barricks on the external area,aims that they will dismiss after detoyed the target,but it is useless!

the optional quest also is a trap that lead more demon to attack you at the same time!

who can pass without cheat?

 

[Shar Dundred]

I am not sure why you decided to post this here (in the pack section), especially since the Second Orc Book is not
even in the pack yet, but you know that the northern and southern base (Red & Teal) COMPLETELY
ignore you unless you attack them first? Blue is passive all the time.
So there are only 3 enemies attacking you if you are not messing around.

The optional quest, btw, at least the one about Red and Teal unleash Demons ON YOUR ENEMIES,
not on you unless you take their bases.

 

[badest]

I am not sure why you decided to post this here, especially since the Second Orc Book is not
even in the pack yet, but you know that the northern and southern base (Red & Teal) COMPLETELY
ignore you unless you attack them first? Blue is passive all the time.
So there are only 3 enemies attacking you if you are not messing around.

The optional quest, btw, at least the one about Red and Teal unleash Demons ON YOUR ENEMIES,
not on you unless you take their bases.

Now there are no thread yet for second orc book.
if you keep defendsive with one gold mine,three bases combined attack waves cant be stopped by one gold mine.
the old meathod of tower spams are useless to the elies and the footmans with shield.
if you attack blue,red or teal for gaining gold mine or releasing demon,your primary stronghold home will be crashed without any means to save it while siegeing any three bases on right.
If you want to exchange home with right side base,like what you did in second human book ch.10,it get worse that the left hand side enemies keep chase you even you move your ass to avoid them,
Defend ,die slow.Attack,die fast.

 

[Kasrkin]

You need to make a decision on what you want to do when the mission starts. Smash and grab or fighting retreat. The bases in the east can hold indefinitely unless otherwise attacked by you and it is best to leave the Royal base alone until you have less threats to deal with. If you do attack an eastern base you must make sure it dies the first time you attack it or they will send soldiers to attack you while also fighting the demons. You're mainly attacking these side bases for items/tomes or the relief of pressure on your own base. Getting rid of the bulwark preventing the demons from attacking the bases in the west. Setting up a base in these locations is not the safest thing to do unless you have time to clear some trees or set up more defenses.

As for base defense you'll need a mixture of towers and burrows to alleviate the pressure along with a support group of no more than three to five units.

On the latter part you can dedicate everything you have to base defense and slow buildup dedicated to taking out purp and only purp. Doing this the mission should only take 20-35 minutes. Please note doing this likely means you will eventually have your base overrun as you complete the objective but it shouldn't matter since you've won by this point.

Taking on light blue is a bit of a juggle if you want to do it, purp is a very dangerous enemy if left alone but perhaps you just want that tome. Destroy the base covering the south east flank against the demons if you want to have extra help, at least a little bit in between attack waves.

 

[Daffa]

I'm not sure since my FOB data is lost, does item passes from one book to another? I recall it didn't but I might be wrong.

 

[Shar Dundred]

It is possible to have items transfer between campaign, but I did not do that for balance reasons.

 

[Paul Emirique Ibanez]

Man I just finished the second orc book, will it be continued? The alliance is just getting started, can't wait for the tribal of the dominion to be formed since the ogres are the last of the alliance

 

[Shar Dundred]

@Paul Emirique Ibanez: There is more on the way, yes!

Chapter Nine has been completed and is currently being tested by @Kasrkin.
However, I am not going to release it until Chapter Ten and the Interlude following the two are both done.

 

[Paul Emirique Ibanez]

thanks

 

[Daffa]

So, we are seeing the Duke soon? About damn time
All hail the tyrant!

 

[Shar Dundred]

Soon, Daffa, soon.

 

[Daffa]

There are rumors that a redclad power might appear in the red dawn but only because the future lies in shadows, there is no proof for such claims!

Hmm... Redclad seems an interesting word here. I presume this is where choice cumulation begins?

 

[Shar Dundred]

Not yet. :>

 

[Shar Dundred]

Hey look, horrors!

 

[Hardric62]

Hey look, horrors!

Hidden

My money is on Rangul being captured to be delivered to Duke Redfist for personal execution.

 

[Championfighter25]

Hey look, horrors!

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While it indeed looks horrible, sometimes you just have to accept that Redfist's army doesn't burn everything to the ground.

 

[Shar Dundred]

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While it indeed looks horrible, sometimes you just have to accept that Redfist's army doesn't burn everything to the ground.

Spoiler

Perhaps they wait for something before burning everything?

 

[Daffa]

Soon. Soon.

This will be reddish blood.

 

[lekxman22]

Soon we will se the end of Arkhain perhaps???

 

[Shar Dundred]

The what? o.o

 

[San]

Legend says Arkain outlives even the One Piece anime series.

 

[Kasrkin]

@Shar Dundred

 

[Shar Dundred]

I hope everyone had fun with the bugs of the Race Mechanic, they are all about to be fixed. X)

 

[renegade]

A devastating loss for the Orcs, truly.


But the question remains:


Will we get the Scepter of Healing back?

 

[Klaus-47]

Orge Overlords cost too much food. Its a tenth of your total food for a lvl 1 command aura.

 

[Lord Aiden]

Damn I was completely right with my conjecture...

 

[LickMyEyeBall]

Orge Overlords cost too much food. Its a tenth of your total food for a lvl 1 command aura.

Yeah, while shieldbearer reside at 5 food.

 

[Championfighter25]

Command aura can be replaced. Not sure about the food cost. It could be reduced to 9 or 8, but I thought it was fine, considering they had quicker attack speed, dealt a lot more damage per hit and had more HP when compared to the shieldbearer.

 

[Paul Emirique Ibanez]

I was wondering Shar, what courage did it give you to continue the arkain series?

 

[Shar Dundred]

My dedication, my insanity, my madness, Redfist.. .
I dunno, I just can't stay away from Arkain.

 

[Paul Emirique Ibanez]

My dedication, my insanity, my madness, Redfist.. .
I dunno, I just can't stay away from Arkain.

Sounds like Gardon would say

 

[bdbxwz]

It's a shame that Rangul died, but then reform and new ideas will be easier for orcs to accept when elder generations are gone. I wonder what would happen to Vanessa and Sas now since Rangul is died.

 

[Shar Dundred]

If things had been different...

Who knows what would have happened

 

[Kuras2003]

Is this what would happend if you didn't do specific side quest?

 

[Championfighter25]

I chose most of the worse choices concerning Vanessa and it didn't happen, so probably no. Though it could happen later.

 

[Kuras2003]

I chose most of the worse choices concerning Vanessa and it didn't happen, so probably no. Though it could happen later.

u also did that choices in first book?

 

[Championfighter25]

u also did that choices in first book?

Yes. The only positive choice I made concerning her was not supporting to kill all humans.

 

[Kuras2003]

okay then

 

[Shar Dundred]

Since we are reaching the final stages of development (already!), I am going through all
of the existing chapters to make adjustments.
Some of them may have an impact on the overall difficulty of said chapter while others are
mere adjustments.

An example would be Chapter Four that is going to have more powerful Demon waves and an
actually active Royal Army for both north and south.

 

[renegade]

I also suggest having more dialogues between chapters, such as in chapter 10 when you meet the bronze dragons, its kinda bland to only have minimal dialogue on both sides' part, terrain improvements and maybe add more side quests?

 

[Shar Dundred]

For clarification, are you saying that you want MORE dialogue like this or you want the dialogue,
like the one in your example, to be longer?

 

[renegade]

I worded that wrong, im saying that there are some encounters which are kinda lacking in dialogues such as the encounter with bronze dragons, when you find those burning homes of the bearmen, when you find the cyclops, etc.

 

[Shar Dundred]

Ah that is what you meant. Don't worry, I am already working on that.

 

[Shar Dundred]

Don't mind me, just sharing another WIP...

Hidden

 

[Klaus-47]

Its weird that the darkmind clan uses a horse mounted orc as its heavy melee when the Darkmind is supposed to be about the wolf riders.

 

[Jayborino]

I am trying hard to avoid reading too much about the new Orc book before playing it when it's released besides the faction system, which looks fun, but also possibly tedious to use on really long maps, we'll see.

In any case, looks like progress is quite quick, I'm looking forward to playing!

 

[Shar Dundred]

@Jayborino Looking forward to your LP.
I think the race mechanic is much less tedious now since the WC engine forced me to change it so that units can still switch unit types but do no longer upgrade into new ones.
Takes away a part of its personality, but the upgrading was bugged by the engine, sadly, and more tedious than it needed to be.