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[adwarf]

Oh, on another note, our melee minions are behind the rockfall traps, right?

They are considered so, but I don't actually 'place' units until invaders arrive. Basically you I roughly follow how you want them placed until invaders arrive since there isn't much point to tracking their placement unless something is there that they'll have to fight.

And disable/reactivate traps at will or move minions past them without issue, right?

You can't disable the mechanical/physical traps, but generally speaking your minions know where the traps are so they won't trigger them. Magical traps can be disabled at will.

[Angle]

Excellent...

[adwarf]

Day 16 to Day 17, Part 1

You spend the rest of the day, and part of the next gathering power to raise three zombies and one more sword wielding skeleton in order to prepare for what is to come. Your planned schedule that would've fully flesh out your forces is cut short though as you sense a large number of intruders entering your Domain from the direction that the humans previously came from. Casting your senses to observe these intruders you are startled to find a group of eighteen soldiers stalking through the graveyard in an orderly fashion with the melee soldiers gathered around a handful of ranged soldiers.

Observing them you find that the group is made up of ten spearmen, two swordsmen who feel of a similar power level as the Guard Captain your minions slayed, four archers, and two crossbowmen. It seems that today's battle might prove rather dangerous ...

Spoiler: Dungeon Stats (click to show/hide)

Dungeon Rank: 2
Dungeon Type: Catacombs

Experience: 5
Dungeon Points: 0 DP

Dungeon Heart:
Incomplete Lich King's Vessel - Safe

Dungeon Powers:
Defy Death - When one of your minions fall you may use the power of the goblet to bring it back from death though currently this power can only be used once per day.
Surpass Death - With your Heart's growth in power it has begun to regain some of its former powers, and now the Lich King's vessel is capable of planting a seed of its glory in one of your minions. When the seed is granted to a minion if they would've died they are instead healed completely and continue to fight long after their death was supposed to occur.

First Seed of Power - After acquiring Surpass Death a small seed of dark energies has become able to form inside of the incomplete Lich King's Vessel. This Seed of Power contains endless possibilities.

Dungeon Skills:
Dungeon Point Generation III - Using your accumulated power you increase your connection to the world's mana flow increasing your daily Dungeon Point Generation by 15.
Undead Minions I - Some of the innate knowledge of Dungeons has been imparted onto you revealing the method to create undead minions of a new, and more powerful tier to you.
Trap Creation I - You have managed to learn some of a Dungeon's supposedly innate knowledge on the creation of fitting traps. While these traps might be basic they are more than enough to make your danger far more dangerous to invaders.
Undead Spellcasters - After your minions slayed a magic user you've come to understand how to create undead beings capable of using magic, and can now mold vessels who can generate their own pool of mana.
Batroom Bears ... is that a Bat? - The creation of the Batroom has gained you some insight into the creation of a rather curious being.
Item Analysis - One of the lower tiers of a Dungeon's Innate Powers this allows you identify items, and gain some information on their stats though items of superior craftsmanship will surpass your ability to identify.
Dungeon Creation - You have obtained the knowledge of how to further develop your domain, expanding it down into the depths of the earth, or up into the reaches of of the sky as you please. Floor by floor, and room by room you can give birth to a vast labyrinth.

Spoiler: Guardians, and Dungeon Layout (click to show/hide)

Graveyard Area
Outside (Leads into the Mausoleum)
No one.

Mausoleum (Leads Outside or Down to B1 Entrance Hall)
No one.

Floor B1
Stairwell Hallway (Leads up to the Mausoleum or down to the Entrance Hall)
No one.
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Rockfall Trap

Entrance Hall (Leads up to Stairwell Hallway, and to Hallway 1)
4x Giant Bat
3x Zombies
Captain Bones [Iron Sword, Kite Shield, Leather Armor, Surpass Death, Inspiring]
Skeleton [Rusty Sword, Rotting Buckler]
Skeleton [Short Spear, Rotting Buckler, Leather Armor]
Skeleton [Short Spear, Rotting Buckler, Leather Armor]
Skeleton [Greatsword, Leather Armor]
3x Skeleton Archers [Bone Shortbows, Leather Armor, Skilled Archers]
Skeleton [Bone Shortbow]
Skeletal Elementalist [Fire Staff, Enchanted Robe, Beginner Elementalist]
Skeletal Illusionist [Twin Daggers, Beginner Illusionist]
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3x Rockfall Traps (Stretch from one supporting pillar to the next in front of the coffin platform)
Coffin Platform (A hastily formed platform made from stone coffins for ranged units to use)

Hallway 1 (Leads to Entrance Hall, and the Batroom)
No one.
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Spike Pit

The Batroom (Leads to Hallway 1, and Hallway 2)
Giant Bat Emperor
4 Giant Bats

Hallway 2
No one.

Heart Chamber (Leads to Hallway 2)
No one.

Spoiler: Dungeon Management (click to show/hide)

Create another Floor - Using your accumulated power you add another floor to your Domain expanding it down to make it harder to reach your precious Heart.
Cost: 75 DP


Add a Room - With some work you expand one of your floors by adding a room, and connecting it to other chambers.
Cost: 15 DP [Small Room], 30 DP [Medium Room], 45 DP [Large Room]

Add a Hallway - You use your power to carve out a hallway between rooms instead of creating directly adjacent connections.
Cost: 5 DP [Small Hallway], 10 DP [Medium Hallway], 15 DP [Large Hallway]

Spoiler: Minions, Items, Traps, and More (click to show/hide)

Minions:
Skeleton - The weakest of minions available to you, they are the remnants of human corpses raised to protect you from those who would seek to steal away your Heart. Though they are weak they hold great potential for advancement.
Cost: 5 DP

Captain Bones - A skeleton whose purpose is to lead, and coordinate other skeletons in battle. They're about as competent in battle as any other skeleton, but their presence and the deathly aura they give off makes other nearby skeletons more efficient at killing their foes.
Cost: 15 DP

Zombie - Much more robust than skeletons your zombies, but somewhat slower and less agile these zombies are useful for taking a few hits while your stronger minions take care of any real threats. Can only equip armor.
Cost: 5 DP

Giant Bat - A small, and unassuming bat. Not the most powerful of creatures that might one day serve you, but given the chance they can prove just as lethal as any old bag of bones you bring forth from the ground.
Cost: 10 DP

Skeletal Mage - While most skeletons are incapable of wielding magical power this particular one has been carefully crafted by you to store magical energy in its very bones allowing it to wield the magic that commonly only mortals are capable of using.
Cost: 20 DP for Elemental; 25 DP for Illusion; 40 DP for Conjuration; 50 DP for Necromancy; 100 DP for Death Magic

Giant Bat Emperor - A being that is likely unique in this world born seemingly from your will, and that of some strange foreign entity. Unlike normal Giant Bats this one is nearly ten times as large and is much bigger than a human being. The Giant Bat Emperor is a fearsome beast with golden fur that feels almost like steel, and claws that rend metal and stone. Oddly enough there is a strange red symbol on its chest that looks like a somewhat simplified bat.
Cost: 75 DP; Can only create one.

Items:
Rusty Sword - Its an old, rusty sword. What did you expect? [Damage 2]
Cost: 5 DP

Bone Shortbow - A weapon carved from the bones of some animal with its bowstring made from its sinew. A powerful if somewhat unimpressive looking weapon. [Damage 2, Medium Range, Shortbow]
Cost: 10 DP

Rotting Buckler - This shield is about as old as the corpses you summon to guard yourself, while not the most reliable thing it is better than nothing. [Block: 10%]
Cost: 5 DP

Traps:
Pitfall Trap - A trap typically placed in hallways. This trap covers an area big enough to fit two people, and is fairly easy to detect for those trained to find traps. However, the trap is cheap and can be of significant use in cornering less prepared intruders.
Cost: 10 DP
Spike Pit - An advanced form of the Pitfall Trap meant to severely wound, or kill. This trap covers an area big enough to fit two people, and is somewhat easy to detect for the trained eye.
Cost: 20 DP
Rockfall Trap - The rockfall trap is a trap triggered by a tripwire. Those unsuspecting enough to break the tripwire trigger a mechanism that releases the net full of rocks that lays above their head.
Cost: 20 DP

[crazyabe]

Send a giant bat high above with a bone, and have it drop the bone on one of the crossbowmen

[Angle]

Start by havig our archers focus fire on their archers and crossbowmen, while our swordskellies wait behind the rockfall traps. If necessary, deploy the bats.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I think it is good that we moved our forces from outside... Yet I am worried that they will not rush underground and just camp here

Anyway, time to setup a defensive formation in the entrance hall

1) Put 3 zombies and the sword\buckler skeleton to delay the enemy near the staircase
2) 4 bats fly at the ceiling of the entrance hall, ready to strike from above
3) From the second line of defence from melee skeletons and illusionist mage staying right behind rockfall traps.
4) Archers and elementalist stay behind ready to provide fire support
5) Batroom force does nothing
6) Wait for the enemy to enter the dungeon

[Detoxicated]

I think it is good that we moved our forces from outside... Yet I am worried that they will not rush underground and just camp here

Anyway, time to setup a defensive formation in the entrance hall

1) Put 3 zombies and the sword\buckler skeleton to delay the enemy near the staircase
2) 4 bats fly at the ceiling of the entrance hall, ready to strike from above
3) From the second line of defence from melee skeletons and illusionist mage staying right behind rockfall traps.
4) Archers and elementalist stay behind ready to provide fire support
5) Batroom force does nothing
6) Wait for the enemy to enter the dungeon

+1

[Tomcost]

So, which spells should our mages cast? I say that the elementalist should cast fire sparkle on the frontline troops (if it explodes, it does area damage) and that the illusionist should create an illusion between the crossbowmen and the archers. Preferably one between the ranged units and the melee ones, so that they fire at them from behind.

The bats should stay hidden and strike at the archers when they are distracted.
The elementalist could cast earth needle in case there is a really good formation and it proves difficult to break. It will force the troops to disperse somewhat.

[pikorge]

So, which spells should our mages cast? I say that the elementalist should cast fire sparkle on the frontline troops (if it explodes, it does area damage) and that the illusionist should create an illusion between the crossbowmen and the archers. Preferably one between the ranged units and the melee ones, so that they fire at them from behind.

The bats should stay hidden and strike at the archers when they are distracted.
The elementalist could cast earth needle in case there is a really good formation and it proves difficult to break. It will force the troops to disperse somewhat.

or heat up the ground they're standing on.

[Ozarck]

So, which spells should our mages cast? I say that the elementalist should cast fire sparkle on the frontline troops (if it explodes, it does area damage) and that the illusionist should create an illusion between the crossbowmen and the archers. Preferably one between the ranged units and the melee ones, so that they fire at them from behind.

The bats should stay hidden and strike at the archers when they are distracted.
The elementalist could cast earth needle in case there is a really good formation and it proves difficult to break. It will force the troops to disperse somewhat.

or heat up the ground they're standing on.

nah, their boots would protect them from any level of heat we could likely get out of the ground at this point. They are level 0 magic users, after all.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Some thoughts about the future:

Should we win we will get a large pile of weapons and armor loot...

I want to create an armoury room to store weapons for future use and then populate the armoury with weaponless skeletons who will have a standing order to use whatever weapons stored in the armoury while better weapons will go to elite units.

 

[Tomcost]

Which should be our priority target? I say that we should kill both captains first, with plenty of arrows and magic.

[Detoxicated]

Which should be our priority target? I say that we should kill both captains first, with plenty of arrows and magic.

+1

[crazyabe]

Which should be our priority target? I say that we should kill both captains first, with plenty of arrows and magic.

+1

+1

[pikorge]

So, which spells should our mages cast? I say that the elementalist should cast fire sparkle on the frontline troops (if it explodes, it does area damage) and that the illusionist should create an illusion between the crossbowmen and the archers. Preferably one between the ranged units and the melee ones, so that they fire at them from behind.

The bats should stay hidden and strike at the archers when they are distracted.
The elementalist could cast earth needle in case there is a really good formation and it proves difficult to break. It will force the troops to disperse somewhat.

or heat up the ground they're standing on.

nah, their boots would protect them from any level of heat we could likely get out of the ground at this point. They are level 0 magic users, after all.

Even magma heat?