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What do you mean drain shard? is that the tyrants abilty to destroy a shard?

Reply to Can't open gates to attack sorcerer king despite having both keys from lieutenants in Sorcerer King Support SorcererKing Forums

happened to me too. you got to declare war on sorc king get him to 5/5 threat. easiest way to do it is research tower of mastery. that always kicks him off. or wait for him to threaten you with something like a juggernaught and declare then I guess.

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So I just tried again, I played commander so I could get access to knights if I couldn't get crystals fast enough for palis. reloaded until I got a good starting city spot ended up at level 9 with 10 essence. Spammed it with bountiful harvest then at lev 9 switched, 6 slots for hammers and 2 spots for 2 unit enhance spells. left 2 open for when i get last 2 unit enhance spells. Didnt build store house (no need) other then that didnt bother with fluff buildings

How to win insane? in Sorcerer King SorcererKing Forums

Hi, I want to finish the game on insane difficulty, but Im having serious issues. My normal strategy is to turtle in my fortress until I have most things built then go out with 4 pike man and 4 archers and basically zerg down ignoring casualties/replacing until i wear away mobs around local crystal/metal. then use that to make a stack of 6-9 paladins. I take 8 enchant books so I am guarenteed crusade. get the stack upto level 20 while it wanders around killing stu

Reply to 1.1 campaign bug in Sorcerer King SorcererKing Forums

I don't play the campaign anyway, but thanks for the heads up

Reply to Sorcerer King: Your wishlist in Sorcerer King SorcererKing Forums

My wish list would be more emphasis on the explore part of the game, with cool stuff to find and being able to talk to stuff you encounter. Inns are cool and so are warlock towers, treasure chests are boring and so are bandit camps. Could we interact with the bandits maybe try to bribe them to move or try to hire them? I think more could be done here (its already great!) and it would benefit me as this is what I spend most of my time doing. Yes Im aware there is already tons of stuff. Moar ca

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I played ALOT last night. The best thing I found was using hypnosis with the kelsen heros shadow bolt resist debuff to steal drakes. Made myself a small army of dragons and thats fun rolling over things. I given them all chain mail coifs and gloves which makes me giggle just thinking about it but I digress. Is there any guide or data anywhere for what strength an army should be to handle medium/strong/deadly encounters? or are we all just learning by trial and error? &n

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Ok well I watched all the stardock videos. The 40min long wizard guide was most helpful. If you ever consider making a real tutorial (you probably should) I would base it on this. I just spent an hour playing wizard on beginner. Keep being wiped out by monsters. Am I supposed to be considering all units disposable? because with the limit on building new ones it makes it really hard Just had my double hero and leveled up bonus units wiped out by 2 "meduim o

new player help in Sorcerer King SorcererKing Forums

Hi I bought the game, gave it a go and lost on beginner difficulty. I never played "4x" games before. (what is 4x anyway?). I went looking for a strat guide (oh how i miss prima strategy guides) and I can't find very much at all. Which is the best soveriegn to chose for a new player? what are their differences? all those intial choices at the start like do we have a nice city or more lore how does that help? Has anyone done/can do any youtube walkthrough