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[Toady Two]

Go with Charnel. IIRC it's in this mission that you get the awesome Raise Dead spell from him.

[FuzzyZergling]

I vote James.

[Ahra]

I vote James.

i.. feal kinda bad for him actually.

[Iituem]

Stick with Charnel, because Raise Dead is such a game-changing spell - especially if you use it to resurrect Sirocco should she die.

Ultimately, though, we want to end up with Stratos - but the game may give us the opportunity to proceed along that path in due course.

[Firelordsky]

I vote Charnel

[Happerry]

I vote Persephone, because I prefer being a relatively good wizard and rainbow is a drat good healing spell. Besides, Firefists already give us a strong melee unit, we don't need another one, and gnomes are pretty good ranged support.

[GreatJustice]

Charnel

[Delta Foxtrot]

Update #4, Mission 4

Another day, another update. This time with raise dead spell.

Spoiler: Mission #4 Charnel (click to show/hide)

vonHavsvik: Pyro sent Empress Sorcha to help fight the Ashur cultists. But she arrived far too soon and with scant forces.
Mithras: He was punishing her, I've heard the Empress refused to gather slaves for his new doomsday device.
vonHavsvik: Ah, at the time I only knew it had gravely endangered our purpose.

Charnel: You must hurry. Your minions have gone ahead to aid the Empress, but they have not fared well. This Jadugarr is maginificent.



vonHavsvik: I could scarcely describe the horror of what came next.
vonHavsvik: It cannot be! Marduk.



Marduk: Greetings, old friend, but they call me Ashur here.
vonHavsvik: Why have you come?
Marduk: Our bargain is incomplete. Your rivals have fallen, but our reckoning is not yet fulfilled.
vonHavsvik: My rivals? You destroyed everything! The very earth was crumbling beneath my feet.



Marduk: Do not blame yourself overmuch. The doom of Jhera was pre-ordained. Content yourself that you were but a pawn... as you will be again. As for you, little imp. I will not forget your role in all of this.



Zyzyx: Is he gone? Oh... master, there are other worlds. Other places we could go.
vonHavsvik: Nay. We will do something to stop him this time.

That's Marduk. He's bad. Few steps forward and we see Sorcha and Jadugarr fighting in the open field.





Sorcha: Not all the locals are sympathetic to Jadugarr. Perhaps you can win their aid where I have failed.
Zyzyx: There's Jadugarr, last of the centaurs. He abandoned Stratos after his people were slaughtered. I think he's still a bit... bitter about it



Jadugarr is the guy surrounded by mist. The larger white unit in the middle of the screen is a storm giant. Stratos' equivelant of firefist/netherfiend.









Sirocco beats up Jadugarr.



I have my units stand guard while I quickly build a shrine next to Sorcha's altar. Shrines function much like your altar, allowing you to convert souls there.



Jadugarr attacks Sorcha while I'm securing a manalith.



Thanks to that minor hill, my lightning hits the ground instead of Jadugarr's manahoars. No biggie.



Jadugarr does his best to keep Sirocco out of the fight with his freezing spells. Futile effort, of course.



Sorcha's spitfires spit their flames at Jadugarr while firefists and Sirocco give him a royal beating.



Jadugarr has a well defended Manalith in that valley.



But first we will find those locals Sorcha talked about. On the way over I summon two basilisks. Afterall, I can't just steamroll with Sirocco, even she would get shot down sooner or later without support.



Two gnomes and a ranger. Persephone units. Surely they will aid us against Jadugarr.

Ranger: What is your purpose here?
vonHavsvik: I am hunting those who have declared themselves for Ashur. They are the enemies of all gods.
Ranger: No greater enemy to us than the minions of Charnel and Pyro. Get out of my sight.



I see. Sirocco, basilisks, would you please?



Thanks.



I get the manalith up just in time to support Sorcha repel another attack by Jadugarr.



Jadugarr's sac doctor is trying to hike away with my Netherfiend's soul. LIGHTNING STRIIIIKE!



With Jadugarr repelled, I prepare a counter attack. Sirocco will spearhead the assault while 6 sylphs and 2 basilisks will provide ranged support.







Raise dead spell in action. The purple lights fill the resurrected unit while it hovers in place for some seconds before being as good as new.









Sirocco's tanking does wonders.



Looks like we have another fight like that in our hands. If I was smart I would summon some more beasties. But that would take time. I order my units to attack the hilltop.



On closer inspection I see the manalith is guarded by several brainiacs and squalls. Squalls are Stratos equivelant of a basilisk, only they do damage + knockback effect.

Sirocco has trouble getting past my archers, while they take heavy damage from enemy fire. Squalls don't do much damage, but sylphs are pretty much the weakest unit in the game. Also both brainiacs and squalls have a knocback effect in their attacks. My sylphs get thrown downhill and often take some damage from falling down.











I ended up resurrecting more sylphs than I fielded in the first place. Luckily Sorcha charged with her firefists. The combined sylph-Sirocco-firefist assault made short work of Jadugarr's defences.



There. One final leg and we will have secured Jadugarr's altar.





I sacrifice a frostwolf at the altar while sending my forces with Sorcha to take out Jadugarr's last manalith.



That lightbeam from the skies is pointing at Jadugarr. When a wizard's altar is being descecrated, the wizard in question turns into a divine lightpost.



FIRE FIRE FIREEE.

Jadugarr: Another time...

Mithras: You defeated Marduk's champion, a favourable sign.
vonHavsvik: He was outnumbered and we had caught him by surprise. Even then I knew...
Mithras: Wh... what?
vonHavsvik: The worst was yet to come.

Spoiler: The Wanderer's Tale (click to show/hide)

vonHavsvik: I returned to the gods with new purpose.
Mithras: Stop, stop, stop! I will hear no more until you tell something of substance of this Marduk. What do you know of him, why does he seem to know you?
vonHavsvik: I was getting to that.

vonHavsvik: In Jhera, I had been a man of substance.
Mithras: A lord? Or perhaps a king?



vonHavsvik: A tyrant more like. You would have thought me an evil man.
Zyzyx: Most people did.
vonHavsvik: There were others. Some good, some bad, some indifferent. I vied with them for power.





Mithras: What was that? Perhaps it would be best if we set out.
Zyzyx: We were headed further south anyway.
Mithras: Please continue your tale; I will follow the sound of your voice.
vonHavsvik: As you wish. I had labored all my life to build another man's empire. When he died, too young, far too young, authority fell to me alone. But I was not as well loved as he had been.
Zyzyx: Despised is more like it.
vonHavsvik: Foreign powers and internal conspirators plotted to tear the empire apart. My own people turned against me. After all I had done for them. But their dull-witted prejudice would not destroy what I had labored so long to build. Yet, th armies of my enemies grew too strong, and I was forced to turn into dark, dark forces.
Mithras: So... you summoned Marduk.
vonHavsvik: Aye, but the demon was too powerful. I could not control it.
Mithras: And then?
vonHavsvik: The rest I need hardly tell, for it is happening around us. It was the end of the world.

Spoiler: Allegiance (click to show/hide)

Mithras: What did you tell the gods of Marduk?
vonHavsvik: What I knew. He was a demon of untold power. A being who seemed to feed off th worlds to which he was summoned... a being of infinite appetite.

Charnel: The best way to fight a demon is with a demon.
Pyro: Ridiculous! My Pyrodraulic Dynamo™ is nearly complete. No demon can hope to withstand it's might.
Charnel: You place too much confidence in the Gnome's designs, my dear Pyro.
Pyro: What I place confidence in, Charnel -my friend- is that I am the only one who recognizes the need for the ruthless application of superior firepower.

vonHavsvik: Hearing this animosity, I began to question the choices that had brought me here.
Mithras: What did you do?

Spoiler: Recruitment Office (click to show/hide)

That's it, none of the gods is holding any punches. This is war. This also means that we have to make a choice. Option one is to stay with the Pyro-Charnel train, turning our back at the "good" gods. Alternative is to pledge our allegiance to the forces of justice, ie. Persephone and James. Pyro and Charnel will of course scoff at this and likewise refuse employing us. At least for the next mission Stratos will be unavailable for us no matter what you choose.

[Toady Two]

We've already gotten the best out of Charnel so it is an opportune moment to stab him in the back and side with the good guys.

[USEC_OFFICER]

We've already gotten the best out of Charnel so it is an opportune moment to stab him in the back and side with the good guys.

Aye. Go with James again, since Stratos isn't available and Persephone is far too self-righteous.

Also, a quick question: Does your selection of the different missions actually influence the plot, or will Pyro/Charnel always join together?

[Delta Foxtrot]

We've already gotten the best out of Charnel so it is an opportune moment to stab him in the back and side with the good guys.

Aye. Go with James again, since Stratos isn't available and Persephone is far too self-righteous.

Also, a quick question: Does your selection of the different missions actually influence the plot, or will Pyro/Charnel always join together?

Righteous.

The plot is largely the same. Good gods vs. bad gods. There's no game path you can take that would make Charnel and Persephone make out in the moonlight. The events are largely the same, but the angle from which you look at it differs quite a bit depending on which god you serve. Consider that I learned something completely new stuff on my 3rd playthrough that I had missed on earlier runs. I'd like to compare it to Pulp Fiction or something similar. You have the same central thing but everyone buggers around and through it in their own unique way.

[FuzzyZergling]

You know what this game reminds me of for some reason? Giants: Citizen Kabuto.

Anyway, I vote we backstab Charnel now that we've taken his necromantic secrets be going with James.

[Ahra]

James

[Xeron]

Pyro

[Delta Foxtrot]

You know what this game reminds me of for some reason? Giants: Citizen Kabuto.

They're both definitely on the fringe, or how ever you like to say it. Both gave me the feeling of playing something different from the usual fare. It doesn't hurt that both Giants and Sacrifice are bloody awesome games. Sacrifice and Giants are different games though. Giants is a lot more light hearted and tongue in the cheek while Sacrifice is fairly dark (if brightly coloured) overall. It has a few chuckles to break the tension but I never was falling from my seat like I was with Giants.

Speaking of Giants, Armed and Dangerous is a game made by the people who did Giants. The humour is the same and the action is simply gorgeous. You have fully automated weaponry, explosives and plain wierd weapons like the shark gun. If you like your shooters to give you awesome power and not to take themselves too seriously, do yourself a favour and get A&D.