Acquiring Death Knights

[Boulis]

Hello everyone,

New to the forums and I'd like to say hello to everyone. This is, I suppose, a standard noob question but I did a search and could not quite find the answer though I did get 179 hits for "death knights." Simply put, how do I acquire them in-game? I played through Descent into Darkness and also played the AI on multiplayer a few times but I've never been able to figure out how to recruit/create these guys (and for that matter the Chocobone or the Skeletal Dragon). I do apologize once again for the noobish question.

Boulis

[Anonymissimus]

All of these are not normally acquirable via recruiting or leveling.
A campaign author could allow you to get them but afaik there are no such campaigns (even among user made ones).
You could add
[campaign]
extra_defines=ENABLE_DEATH_KNIGHT

to DiD's _main.cfg to get Death Knights.

[silent]

All of these are not normally acquirable via recruiting or leveling.
A campaign author could allow you to get them but afaik there are no such campaigns (even among user made ones).
You could add
[campaign]
extra_defines=ENABLE_DEATH_KNIGHT

to DiD's _main.cfg to get Death Knights.

Invasion from the unknown does allow you to obtain death knights via leveling skeleton's

There may be other campaigns too that allow this.

[Kymille]

I think you can get Death Knights/Death Barons in the User-Made Campaign "Invasion from the Unknown." Though I haven't played it in a long time. No Chocobones or Skeletal Dragons though.

[Boulis]

Thanks everyone for the prompt and informative replies! I was actually hoping to trot them out in multiplayer against a friend but, alas, it's not to be. Probably would not get to Level 3 anyway in a quick 1v1 I would imagine.

[Mugumbo]

Heroes 3...

[joshudson]

That's OK, Death Knight is rather overpowered in MP anyway. WCs get a 75% boost from its leadership.

[Astoria]

That's OK, Death Knight is rather overpowered in MP anyway. WCs get a 75% boost from its leadership.

NECROMANCER!
You'll almost never reach lv. 3 in MP, and if you do, you won't be using any WC at all.

[PeterPorty]

That's OK, Death Knight is rather overpowered in MP anyway. WCs get a 75% boost from its leadership.

NECROMANCER!
You'll almost never reach lv. 3 in MP, and if you do, you won't be using any WC at all.

utter crap. A lot of people get several units to level 3 in big maps and WC are REALLY useful.

[Just_end_turn]

NECROMANCER!
You'll almost never reach lv. 3 in MP, and if you do, you won't be using any WC at all.

utter crap. A lot of people get several units to level 3 in big maps and WC are REALLY useful.

A lot is probably not right, at least not on the "balanced" maps with "balanced" settings. Sometimes you see one or two l3 in long games, but it doesn't happen that often. (Or else, there would have been more talk about the ghoul getting a l3...)

About WC, you're right.

[Hulavuta]

Yeah, to reiterate, basically multiplayer is considered balanced and throwing in even one unit would change the balance completely.

But IF you REALLY want a lot of lvl 3's, just set it to 30% EXP, which can get pretty hectic..

[Ferox]

That's OK, Death Knight is rather overpowered in MP anyway. WCs get a 75% boost from its leadership.

NECROMANCER!
You'll almost never reach lv. 3 in MP, and if you do, you won't be using any WC at all.

Bah. By turn 5 in one MP game, I already had a level 3 and three level 2s (3 more to follow over the next 4 turns). This was also on a rather large map.

[Araja]

Introducing 30% exp

[PeterPorty]

There should be a 10% experience...

[Just_end_turn]

NECROMANCER!
You'll almost never reach lv. 3 in MP, and if you do, you won't be using any WC at all.

Bah. By turn 5 in one MP game, I already had a level 3 and three level 2s (3 more to follow over the next 4 turns). This was also on a rather large map.

I guess that was with 70% exp and your ennemy used is whole gold to suicide thieves on your units ?