Help with Orc2 - Path of Glory

[Ken_Hill]

OK, another night - another scenario I can't seem to figure out.

I'm not a big fan of the "limited resource" scenarios.

Anyone have tips on this one? Splitting my forces to try to quickly expand seems to invite destruction but using 2nd wind is supposed to the be big advantage to Orcs....

Confused,
Ken

[Hiro_Antagonist]

Orc2 is tricky because you won't be able to buy reinforcements at any point.

One thing that will help is occupying cities whenever possible to conquer them sooner and prevent enemy income/production (though not necessarily at the cost of losing a unit.)

You start off with significant critical mass in this mission, meaning you have enough troops to overwhelm enemy forces while taking minimal damage. If I remember correctly, it helps to keep most of your forces concentrated together while taking over once city at a time with overwhelming force. And if you can move a unit onto another city to block production, even if just for a turn before retreating, that will generally improve your safety and buy you some time.

One of the most important things is to try not to lose any units. Each unit you lose has a severe impact on your critical mass, until you no longer have the edge. So if you're going to take damage, try to soak it with your wyvern riders, who have good armor and can fly over difficult terrain to escape further damage while they heal.

I honestly forget the opening I used to win on this map, but I think I sent one second-winded raider to one city (to the right?) while moving the rest of my forces south. Or maybe it was the other way around.

I hope that helps!

-Hiro_Antagonist

[Hugh Manatee]

I got crushed first round, I let the enemy get like 3 or 4 angels, baaaad plan.

IIRC I sent 1 raider, 1 dragon rider and 1 mystic south, the rest to the east, using the mystics to get the raiders onto the cities as fast as I could. When 1 raider wouldget hit I'd move it off the city and put a fresh unit on(the rider or ogre, I used the mystics to move the raiders up). The raiders are kinda expendable unless they are choking a city and unless you let evil get a lot of high power units out of the gate, they(the raider) should barely survive with 1 or 2 hp while on a city during evil's turn(also when you body block it account for the fact that the knights have an attack range of 2, thats what killed me first go round). use these half dead guys to poison, then put another thing on the city. If an angel shows up it must die before it can move.

The key is to choke every city you can while using the ogre and riders to kill things and using the mystics to get the guys onto the cities.

[Sammas]

Hehe, it's fun remembering all of these old missions. I tried this one again, and managed to beat the comp by splitting my forces - a capturing force (mystic+wyvern+raider) down south, and the rest to the east. I think the key is to take those undefended cities asap - after that it's simple. Victory in 9 turns with that strategy.

[PhilD]

Wow - I tried to duplicate the 9 turns, but I didn't manage anything better than 10 - losing all Raiders.

[Ken_Hill]

Thanks for all for your help. I finally got through it but it was a struggle. I think it took more than 10 attempts even with the tips.

[Hugh Manatee]

Qustion, for orc campaign 3, I can just "zerg" the ogres right? Everything else either doesn't seem to dent other units fast enough or gets ganged up on by smiths and tanks.

EDIT: yup that works

[Hiro_Antagonist]

Yeah, enjoy that. I think that's the only mission I made that gives the player a chance to build up an insane critical mass at the beginning of the map.

If you're clever, you could even use a mystic to speed up your ogre production. =)

-Hiro_Antagonist