How do you get Olynna to join your rebellion if you save her life at the start? Do you need to have Linus proclaim you eclect? I proclaimed myself eclect and she doesn’t seem to have shown up during ch3.
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Does Elery gets better as she leads Barn raids
Giving Elery (or anyone) more responsibilities doesn’t necessarily increase her skills, but it does increase her stature and influence over the rebellion. If you don’t like her, be careful that you don’t make her too much of a hero.
Yeah she complains about her losses due to having to change tactics from woodland to open fields. However, she does do a good job.
I don’t believe she does join you. She’s either pyre’d or carted off to Shayard City to answer for heresy (I believe). The only people who join your rebellion from the prologue is Carles the Jongler (if your Homelander is high enough, though he’s a Laconnier supposedly), and the Helot you save from the Plektos.
Has anyone figured out all the ways to steal the tagmatarchs sword. The only Wayne’s I’ve found involves getting your people captured.
From what I can see in the code, there’s no other way to get it except getting captured and making an Accounting.
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Im sure this has been asked before but can anyone say who the traitor is? I have a guess but Id like to know for sure. Also, can anyone give me tips on beating the army? Or how to recruit alot of people? Im going a generally good campaign only raiding karagond stuff. I saw someone up there say he had like 600 people, which blew my mind cause the most ive gotten is like…200 lol thanx
To beat the army, you need to keep your Theurgy (or Wisdary) a secret until chapter 4. If you do so then you have the option of attacking the Theurges or the supply caravan. Attack the Theurges, kill them with a single dramatic blow using Theurgy with your own blood then attack the supply caravan without using Theurgy. Then you’ll have to retreat into the caves which you need to scout out when Horian shows up in Chapter 3 (meaning send Elery to go pick Horian and Linos up and bring them to the camp while you go scout out the caves.) Once the first plektos attacks, use Theurgy by cutting your hand, fight back with all of your will. You’ll face the 2nd plekto, get yourself to cover, use the outside mountain side to your advantage, the bees will take care of the plekto and the Theurge. Then finally the last plekto will attack, use Theurgy with an aether blood phial (you’ll be too exhausted to cut your hand again). Then before the rest of the army tries to attack you again, tell your rebels to regroup and destroy them. Once you’re under attack again, use Theurgy with your own blood to throw back the assault. And you beat the army.
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Anyone have an advice on how to maintain somewhat good relations with everyone as a 2 INT, 1 CHAR helot and get through the winter having stopped the harrowing? Also, how to get Zvad to ensure that Breden has an accident?
@Ramidel has a great walkthrough posted just for that kind of character.
I used his walkthrough for my char 2 int 1 as well. Most of it anyway.
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Yes, thank you. I’m keeping my eye on it. Any ideas on running a Helot skeptic?
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Does anyone know if there is a way to have my followers to believe in Kenon without 2 Char?
There isn’t, people who have grown up years believing the priests will not budge easily to a character who doesn’t have above-average wits and charisma. But, even you have CHA2, having a bad relationship with Breden will also make the whole kenon experiment fail.
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How can u have an marriage/alliance with your cousins?
What’re some of the key differences between a 2 INT and 2 CHA MC?
The INT2 character can, most of all, use Theurgy against the Hegemony, to varying effects. If you decide to go to the Brecks in Chapter 3, they’ll also be able to succefully dodge the Theurges patrolling the area. During the winter, INT2 guarantees an alliance with Alaine Leybridge and her merchants, I think.
On the other hand, CHA2 is very useful when it comes to swaying the rebels, convincing them to raid priests or calming them after tragic events. You can even convince to take part in things they’d usually not support, like supporting the MC’s kenon experiment and agreeing to spare the de Merre. A CHA2 character can also leave Rim Square peacefully after the fourth Harrowing.
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I’ve never gotten 600 but my cap is usually around 550 bandits basically what you have to do is set up a system to where you can get enough food your band. And then after your band has enough food send any left over outlaws to recruit. Remember th more bandits you have the more food you’ll need every week. And if you plan on fighting the Archon Army you’ll need weapons for each of them.
I recommend doing some of the following raids that will help to feed your band.
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Repeated Owlscap Pass raids lead Byblos’s elery. This will allow you to extort grain from Alaine around week Six.
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Smuggle Food into Whendward for this You need either Zvad as deputy or an int 2 character. But you can’t raid any merchants or they won’t do business with you.
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Rob the Architelone. This gives you a lot of grain towards the end of winter which will come in handy if you need have a lot of bandits.
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If your COM 2 you can raid noble grain stores and get all the grain you need with a minimal amount of outlaws. But you’ll need to raise morale first or suffer heavy losses.
Basically just find a way to get as much grain as possible with as few outlaws as possible and the use your remaining outlaws to recruit. Also keep in mind if you steal from yeomanry then you can’t recruit from them.
Hope this helps
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Well, the nobility aren’t a monolithic group. Some are enthusiastic Hegemony proponents, some are Laconnier conspirators, some are mildly supportive of the Thaumatarch, some are disaffected but inert (for now), and other nobles have yet more positions and motivations.
I’ll assume that in the next few games, a Noble player character on a low-anarchy playthrough will have options of strategic marriages…after all, that was how statecraft was conducted back then.
Reposted from the Steam Forums for more visibility:
How do you beat the Archon’s army? I’ve tried strategies focused on soldier amassment and preservation, but even then, the best I can do is ~250-300 armed rebels. Obviously, that’s not enough to beat Phalangites and Theurges.
This playthrough was on 2COM/1INT Helot, Ruthless/Devout/Homelander, High Anarchy.
I can’t imagine it’s profitable to beat the army, it’s easier to just run away. But I was just wondering how you would do it. Do you have to go with a particular build?
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I beat the army with a 2 INT, 1 CHA noble MC who was compassionate, devout (I had Linos declare me the Chosen of the Angels and believed in it) and cosmopolitan with low anarchy level that knows Theurgy but kept it a secret. It’s tough to sway your band to fight back because the majority is for either evading or going back to the helot camps. Basically what I did in my playthroughs that I kept my Theurgy (Wisdary is what I chose to be known as) a secret until I had the option of attacking the Theurges and the supply caravans. I killed all five Theurges in a single dramatic blow then attacked the supply caravan without using Wisdary, that ended up paralyzing the army for two weeks while my rebels was retreating to the caves that I found with Zvad during chapter 3. Unfortunately, that’s when they sent 3 more Theurges with their Plektoi so what I did was to kill the first one by using my own blood to fuel my Wisdary and fought back with all of my will. Tricked the 2nd Plektoi and the Theurge by having them run into the bees after I ran for cover and killed the last Plektoi and Theurge by using a blood phial to swipe them off the mountain. Told my rebels to regroup and that we’ll destroy them so when the enemy tried to ambush my rebels, I used Wisdary with my blood again and threw back their assault. And it was discovered by my scouts that they gave up on trying to catch me and the rebels.
Also, I’d recommend that when Hector attacks your people, just send a message to Calea to meet alone. Said that I was there to save her life if she works with me and it would only work if she gets Hector to stop attacking my people first before I did anything for her. She realized that I was her only hope of survival if my rebellion was to succeed so she told me the exact amount of troops that the Archon was sending after me with precise locations of where they would enter the woods to attack.
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