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WARLOCK

WARLOCK MASTER OF THE ARCANE

Developer: Ino-Co Plus Publisher: Paradox Interactive Paradox Interactive. Trademarks belong to their respective owners. All rights reserved. Ino-Co Plus. Trademarks belong to their respective owners. All rights reserved.

WARLOCK MASTER OF THE ARCANE

PLAYERS GUIDE Table of content: What was before Getting started (Main menu, select Great Mage, customize) Main game window Building Magic and spell researching Moving and fighting, seizing cities Quests Diplomacy Types of victory

WHAT WAS BEFORE

Soon after the mutiny of the Conclave of High Priests was suppressed and the Great King of Ardania had returned His throne (the events of Majesty 2: Monster Kingdom), he along with his faithful Royal Adviser gathered the greatest army of men and monsters, and lead it to the North to reclaim it for the Kingdom. Many heads of guilds, high priests and lords went with the King, and all with Him disappeared not long after they had crossed the Northern mountains. After the missing of the King his Deputy managed to keep the rightful rule in Ardania for some time, but he cant do that forever the tensions between new Conclave and Council of mages along with the influence of King Rrat XIX and King Lich broke the peace and civil war was started. Those time are now known as the Troubles Time. After the seventy four years of war there arent any traces of the central power many Guilds were reformed, temples forgotten, the capitol of Great Kings lies in ruins and there is no news about the fate of the Great King. The only ones who still keep any kind of order on their lands are the Great Mages (as they call themselves). The Council of Great mages includes the most powerful magicians of Ardania and now they are its rightful rulers. Once not long ago gods of Ardania have came to Great mages with the proposal that cannot be refused. Gods have decided that they forgot about mortals for too long and that faith in them suffers from the constant war, so the war should be ended and there must be again only one ruler in Ardania. But as gods themselves know no unity and constantly challenge each other, they would let the Great mages to decide, who will be that ruler. The Council of Great mages was gathered and Great mages were arguing almost for two months about who of them will be named the most worthy and given the title of Warlock Master of the Arcane, and at last have decided to make it clear in a challenge. So the ruinous war of Troubles Time has ended and the glorious challenge for the Warlock title has begun.

GETTING STARTED

Main menu:

Continue proceed the game from the last save New game start a new game Load select the game to load from the saved games list Options change video, sound and game settings Credits creators of the game Quit - quit to desktop

New game
By pressing New game button you will enter the difficulty selection menu. The lower is the difficulty level the lower will be enemy resistance and the weaker economy they will have.

If you are an experienced strategy gamer you can choose Challenging or Impossible level. If you like strategy games ,and are confident in your ability select Normal level. If you didnt play strategy games before or simply want to play easy select Relaxing or Casual level. When you have chose the difficulty level press Next button. You will see the screen with game world settings.

Here you can choose: Map size, Size of seas and lakes Type of the map (flat or cylindrical) Number of enemy Great mages (the bigger is the map the bigger is the maximum number of enemies) After the world is set, press Next button. You will see a Great mage selecting screen.

Here you can choose the Great mage who will command your armies. There are some pregenerated candidates, but you always can change their abilities as you need to.

Press Customise to enter Great mage customization screen.

On that screen you can: Select the race to be under the command of your Great mage Change the name of the Mage Change abilities of the Mage by reallocating ability points and selecting starting perks and spells. After youve select your Great mage press Next to start the game!

Main game screen

On the main game screen you can see all basic interface elements. 1. Information panel here are the indicators for all available domain resources (gold, food, mana, research points) 2. Magic panel buttons on this panel open the research and cast windows, where you can select a new spell to research or casts an already known spell. 3. Selected unit panel shows: a. Unit class (shooter, melee etc.), b. Unit perks, c. Type and strength of attack, d. Type and speed of movement, e. Number of hitpoints, f. Current experience level, g. Unit name. 4. Opens other worlds menu. Allows switching between the known worlds. To open another world a player has to find a special Plane portal and enter it with any unit. Another worlds are strange, often almost abandoned or inhabited by terrible creatures, but always full of valuable resources and lot of trophies. 5. Mini-map and the universal advice button a. You can see the revealed part of the world on the mini-map. b. Universal button ends turn or tells what should be done during current turn.

A turn also can be ended by pressing Enter

6. Game news. These buttons appear during the game and show important game news end of a buildings construction, end of a spell research, new quest added etc. Pressing this button will move the camera to the center of the news source (when its possible). 7. Diplomacy window this button open the diplomacy window where you can start negotiations with known Great mages and see the relationship of Great mages with the gods of Ardania. 8. Quest window - here you can see number, the progress and the goals of your current quests.

Building
By left-clicking on the central castle of any of your cities (in the very beginning you have just one city your capital) or by left-clicking on a city banner you will open the city view. In the city view you can give new names to your cities, switch between them, select a building to construct and a unit(s) to recruit.

1. Name of the city and arrows keys to switch between your cities. 2. List of units recruiting. In order to hire a unit you need the sertain buildings to be built already, and also you need enough resources. Which resources are required for a unit is shown in the hint near the cursor (move it over a units icon). 3. Close city view button.

4. Information about city resources: gold, food, mana, and research points production, population growth. 5. List of buildings. To start a construction you should select an available building from the list and point to the free hex on the map. a. You can only build inside city borders! When population growths the city boundaries expand giving new place for construction. b. Some buildings also require other building to be built first or a local resources like gold or donkeys. These prerequisites are shown in the hint near cursor. c. If all building in the list are unavailable it could be because of: i. Construction is already in progress, ii. There is not enough population, iii. There are no free places for new buildings. d. Temples to gods can be built only on special landscape type - Holy Grounds. Note that holy ground should be inside the city borders.

Spell casting and spell research

In the spell book window you can choose a spell to cast. The indicator near the spell shows the time required of casting. Note that abilities of your Great mage are improving during the game so the time of casting will decrease. In the spell research window you can choose new spell for research. The spell and its effects are described in the hint near the cursor (move it over a spells icon).
Spells could be aimed and global. Some global spells act right after the casting, but mostly spells need to be aimed at a target.

Units moving, fighting and city capturing

The selected unit can move over the map. Number of hexes a unit can pass during one turn depends on: Its movement type, The number of movement points and The movement cost. Every landscape has its own movement cost.
Flying units can cross almost any landscape types without penalties.

Most land units can cross the seas on ships automatically, just make sure you have built a harbor in any of your cities.
Moving and fighting animations can be skipped by left-click of a mouse.

If a unit spends all its movement points, it cant attack during the current turn. If a unit attacked an enemy, it cant move that turn (burns all movement points).

The attacks burn any remaining movement points.

A unit can attack if an enemy unit is at the attack distance. For the ranged attacks this distance may be 1 hex or more, for melee attacks an enemy unit should be on the neighboring hex. By moving a mouse cursor over the possible target you will activate "battle prediction" window that allows to see a most possible outcome of the attack. If you delay a bit the cursor over the target unit you will see the full battle prediction information with shown influence of additional factors - the landscape and special abilities of units. Note that the actual results of the battle may differ from the supposed ones (there is small randomization of damage, and also chances to make a critical hit).

If the melee attack was made and it ended in victory (an enemy is eliminated or retreats), the attacking unit takes the hex of the defender. If there was range attack or the defender repels melee attack than both units stay on their places. To capture a city you have to defeat a unit in the city's castle, defeat the castle itself and then enter it with one of your units. Any castle or fort can attack enemies with range attack and defend itself even if there is no unit in it.
By capturing an enemy city of other race you will be able to use that race technologies and recruit its' unit, but note that some buildings can be razed during the capture.

Quests
From time to time you will receive quests. By completing those you may receive awards in gold, mana points, spells or units.

A new quest generates news about it. A received quest will be shown in upper-right part of the main screen so you can follow its progress. Then the quest is completed you will receive the message about it.

Diplomacy Screen

From here you can start negotiations with known Great mages in order to trade, make peace or non-agression pact, declare war and so on. Also here is the Circle of gods that shows the relations between gods and Great mages. To improve the relationship with a god you have to complete his or her quests. Improving relationship allows to get new spells of the god and hire his or her servants..

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The game is designed based on the TheEngine technology Copyright Skyfallen Entertainment, 2002-2007 Autodesk Scaleform FMOD Sound System, copyright Firelight Technologies Pty, Ltd., 1994-2010. zlib software copyright 1995-2010 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler. Lua language Copyright 19942011 Lua.org, PUC-Rio. libogg, libtheora, libvorbis Copyright 2002-2011 Xiph.org Foundation LuaBind Copyright 2003 Daniel Wallin and Arvid Norberg Boost C++ libraries (boost.org) _________________________________________________________________

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