Northern Rebirth

[revi]

OK, I guess I am not that good at this yet.

I have played lots of the campaigns.. only on easy so far.. but have made it through a few.

I dl'd the above.. and I cannot get through the first scenario Breaking the chains.. maybe this one is too much for me.. and I am on easy again.

I have tried rushing.. sitting back.. just building and waiting.. the AI wants to seem to come after me even though the scenario would say the orcs want to attack each other..

Can someone give me a hint as to how to win this with my pitchforks??

Thanks

[thespaceinvader]

Use your bows and arrows... The woodsmen have much greater survivability on this level than the peasants. Get a few peasants to spread out and capture the outlying villages, and get killing blows to level to spearmen, but recruit mostly woodsmen IMHO. And, like the walkthrough says, keep them together en masse and don't expose them during the night. The peasant is only slightly less powerful than the grunt during the day, use groups of them and woodsmen to kill them off one by one. And do try to level some units, you'll need them to kill the leaders. Also, try to jump on damaged units before the enemy can kill them, particularly if you can go up a level...

Keep plugging. On easy, this is eminently winnable. It's MUCH more difficult on medium.

EDIT: finally, if you get the opportunity, move tallin up to the forward base with the two recruit squares beside it, keeping him shielded all the way, preferably once you've got a couple of level one units. It'll be MUCH easier to keep recruits coming into the battle if they don't have to spend 3 turns getting there.

And try your hardest to level Tallin if you can - getting him to high levels early on is a great boon later.

[revi]

WOODSMEN??
I have never had woodsmen in the recruit pool.. only peasents..

Do I have a version with an error?

[IB]

In the latest version, 1.3.9, you get woodsmen as well.

[revi]

ok, so 2 things then.. in 1.2.6 did no one get past this scenario??

and why would a newer version of the game engine effect the layout of a user written scenario?? seems odd.

I am downloading 1.3.9 now.

[revi]

unreal how different this plays in 1.3.9 ...

I won this my first try in the new version. 1.2.6 is not playable in this scenario.. if you did win in 1.2.6 please tell me how.. I would love to hear about it.

[Angry Andersen]

I played through all of Northern Rebirth in 1.2.6 on medium. I can't remember the exact strategy in scenario 1, but I think it was mostly about capturing remote villages, avoiding battle at night and building a solid army in the northern forest before starting an attack on the orcish castle.

[Jozrael]

So starting this on nightmare is [censored]?
=(

[thespaceinvader]

I can't even beat the second mission on medium.

And i struggle to beat the first. I was lucky the first time i guess...

[Jozrael]

Wow that was gay.

I saved at 11 and 18 turns and loaded from there everytime I lost. I won at last second

[Jozrael]

Ok, how the hell do u beat the second mission? I debugged it and set all units to my side just so I would know where the dwarves are...there aren't any [censored] dwarves in the whole map :l

[Kestenvarn]

The dwarven fortress was in the middle of a spiral in the southeastern corner of the map last I played... the second mission was a horribly designed labyrinth.

[Dragonchampion]

I finally got sick of it and edited it so you could produce spearmen and bowman.... lol, Im a cheater.... but its still a major challenge! I cant get past the second level either!

Man, I hte playing as outlaws. Theyre weak.

[BIG_LIZARD_PWNZ]

Man, I hte playing as outlaws. Theyre weak.

u pr0v0k3 HODOR w1th ur w0rd5.

[Dragonchampion]

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