For SpellForce: Conquest of Eo players who are looking for tips and tricks, this guide will show you a list of general tips about the game.
Intro
Hey, just listing a bunch of things to remember about the game
Art is cover of LoveCrafted by Ravensdagger.
Two girls cast a summon spell for a familiar because magic school requires summoned familiars to join, but one sneaks out an older version of the typical summon spell for her best friend to use to get something special. They summon cthulhu, which decides to have some fun while there
Art is cover of LoveCrafted by Ravensdagger.
Two girls cast a summon spell for a familiar because magic school requires summoned familiars to join, but one sneaks out an older version of the typical summon spell for her best friend to use to get something special. They summon cthulhu, which decides to have some fun while there
List
1. some masters are livable, some are helpful, some must perish in divine fire. All of them are a nuisance.
So far I met:
-monstrologist sits in a corner but can give a quest either for +20 relations or -20mana either a tier 3 orc brute (best melee unit in the game once you give him a vampire glyph) or random orc unit, i don’t know maybe I got lucky so far. Mostly ignore
-golddigger asks you for money in exchange for relations, has random events as you travel that spawns outpost which spread domain, also mine gold everywhere. ♥♥♥♥ this guy, but his army is strong and it’s easy to keep him friendly
-healer sits in a corner and randomly gives you blessing, very easy to be friends with. Mostly ignore
-demonologist and necromancer
Kill them. They send out stacks and trigger events which straight up destroy locations, including permament income locations.
Necromancer has undead only and his tower deals 5 death damage a turn on your troops,
Demonologist has demons and early game some humans (arsonists) his tower weakens non demon units.
Both are hard countered by guardian spells righteous and holy weapons. Righteous deals 6 more damage to undead and demons, holy weapons adds 3 damage and changes it to white, undead take 100% more damage from white damage, while demons can have 30% resistance to it, but they can also have 50% physical, 30-50% death, 50-100% elemental. Both these spells cost 12 mana to cast, and 1 mana to upkeep
2. Plonk a lodge down on sevenkeep. So far it always spawned with two inns (1 gold, 2 relations per turn) in single lodge distance, if you get lodge radius increased you might also fit the landmark there.
It’s questline also spawns additional locations for some mana and crystals, and at tier 4 you are allowed to occupy a landmark that lets you recruit keepers, a very good unit.
In sevenkeep you can recruit militias (weak unit but zero upkeep) and buy guardian spells. Those two spells to hard counter TWO circle mages? 50 gold each on a random week in tiara’s temple.
Place a militia on sleep and recheck the stock each week
Bonus points for mentalists who can take gold out of a city for relations, or death mages who can create undead or harvest souls out of them
3. Human and elf units hard counter new purity fanatics, they mostly deal white damage, and humans can easily get 70% resistance to that.
4. Elven rangers are really good and can be recruited at alluvyan. They start expensive, squishy and not very damage-y but can learn to give ALL your units ignore forest penalties and can swim
They can also learn rooting shot which lets you divide enemy forces and volley which is an aoe and therefore perfect for breaking enemy morale. Later there is a promotion that gives them +2 range +2 vision, and there is a building upgrade for +2 range, and there is a glyph for +2 range. So casual 11 range basic shot.
5. Units in alluvyan have swim, use that on workers to get those sunken ruins and magic water (also I sometimes got artifacts from harvesting magic water)
6. Lyraine at tier 4 gives human barracks it’s mostly good for it’s upgrades, like weekly potions, more exp, longer lasting minable locations, and most important phalanx for all human units, once you get that depending on unit composition you can add +4 or even +8 armor on all units, which is a little good.
7. East of Lyraine is AUDALE it gives you warrior hall, just building it gives you +1 stackslot to your armies, ever wonder how come other circle mages have 8 unit stacks? That’s how, I cannot begin to explain how valuable this is. It has two upgrade slots and three choices:
recruit crossbowmen and +2 range on all range abilities, like meteor, but not lasers or fire breaths, it also works on abilities gained from arifacts
recruit soldiers and all units get shield (which beats the point of soldiers who start with shield) this is a pretty basic but really powerful buff since even when flanked only one attack will be a flanking attack, effectively giving all your units 2 armor.
recruit scouts and +2 vision +2 SPEED for all your units, speed is how far units can move in a fight, and armies can move on the map in a turn. This is a must have
8.Some adventures can give you grimoirepages, these are must have but to many can screw over you research. I finished the game without getting hero revive or teleport because I got 4 death books randomly and it clogged up. Hovewer if you want to you can reload start of turn save when you finish research since new research projects are randomised.
I should make a list of adventures that can result in pages.
9. One notable adventure is the conclave, for me it so far spawns northwest of sevenkeep, walk in keep asking questions, 1 free adamantite ingot for your tower quest.
10. speaking of tower quests:
have 2 workers, build 5 different rooms, have a construction site in your domain, meet two city-factions, invest an adamantite ingot, do a quest
11. Landmarks are good but some are better than others and some are more difficult to get, they also usually are pretty remote of note are:
statue of Niethalf which is guarded by some dwarves and that’s it, 50% itemfind
castle Meldec, short quest, a lot of undead, 20% soulfind (souls can be sold for mana and in some adventures traded for with demons, or used for crafting)
necromancers should get crypt of revenants, all undead units revive after battle.
12. Gold ingots are actually kinda useless for craftitng (as are all other items that give +1 all essence) but can be sold pretty well.
13. you can craft items, for use in later crafting it seems like all crafted items have essence point needed to make them +1, so if you make a glyph/potion out of 3 life, 3 arcane , it will have 1 life, 1 arcane, 1 of either of the two, so 1 life 2 arcane for pathfinder which is 3 life 3 arcane, this also helps discover recipies for items you found but didn’t make. It also works on artifacts.
14.graverobber and soul cage items can generate wealth for you even if you don’t use it.
As an alchemist/artificer souls are mostly ♥♥♥♥ since they make bad ingredients. BUT you can sell them for mana, and transmute mana into gold on a 2-1 ratio or as a mentalist steal 200 gold for -5 relations and 9 mana (remember sevenkeeps with its two inns? infinite money), remains are one gold each.
15. Speaking of mentalist, while grimoire pages and quests giving them need a separate playthrough/section/guide Sevenkeeps tier 3 quest (library) might have a guaranteed mentalist grimoirepage, if you give books back to magistrate you get random page, if you keep them, it might be guaranteed mentalist page.
16. Earthmagic is king magic, fight me
While I may gush over mentalists money making options I still think earth magic is better. All schools have some good ♥♥♥♥ to them but earthmagic takes the cake,
-earth lore turns harvestable locations into minable locations based on region. Uram Gor has a bunch of adamantite veins guarded by demons and a buch of harvestable locations that are entirely unguarded, walk in, check if there is treasure in a location to be picked up, pick it up, 9 mana, roll dice for either adamantium (non-corrupted) or crystal.
-heal completely heals a unit including undead, constructs, and 300+health tier 4 behemoths
-elemental weapon makes units deal elemental damage and apply burn, it works even when overwritten by other buffs
-dwarven vault is a tower building that can give your units greedy, that is +1 gold per battle, per unit, which is up to +8 per battle. Also loot
-shape golem is expensive, but remember free adamantium in Uram Gor? it gives shaper golems, they are really strong, and will be even stronger when devs make them not be susceptible to bleeding which I presume is an oversight, their only weakness is inability to level up
So far I met:
-monstrologist sits in a corner but can give a quest either for +20 relations or -20mana either a tier 3 orc brute (best melee unit in the game once you give him a vampire glyph) or random orc unit, i don’t know maybe I got lucky so far. Mostly ignore
-golddigger asks you for money in exchange for relations, has random events as you travel that spawns outpost which spread domain, also mine gold everywhere. ♥♥♥♥ this guy, but his army is strong and it’s easy to keep him friendly
-healer sits in a corner and randomly gives you blessing, very easy to be friends with. Mostly ignore
-demonologist and necromancer
Kill them. They send out stacks and trigger events which straight up destroy locations, including permament income locations.
Necromancer has undead only and his tower deals 5 death damage a turn on your troops,
Demonologist has demons and early game some humans (arsonists) his tower weakens non demon units.
Both are hard countered by guardian spells righteous and holy weapons. Righteous deals 6 more damage to undead and demons, holy weapons adds 3 damage and changes it to white, undead take 100% more damage from white damage, while demons can have 30% resistance to it, but they can also have 50% physical, 30-50% death, 50-100% elemental. Both these spells cost 12 mana to cast, and 1 mana to upkeep
2. Plonk a lodge down on sevenkeep. So far it always spawned with two inns (1 gold, 2 relations per turn) in single lodge distance, if you get lodge radius increased you might also fit the landmark there.
It’s questline also spawns additional locations for some mana and crystals, and at tier 4 you are allowed to occupy a landmark that lets you recruit keepers, a very good unit.
In sevenkeep you can recruit militias (weak unit but zero upkeep) and buy guardian spells. Those two spells to hard counter TWO circle mages? 50 gold each on a random week in tiara’s temple.
Place a militia on sleep and recheck the stock each week
Bonus points for mentalists who can take gold out of a city for relations, or death mages who can create undead or harvest souls out of them
3. Human and elf units hard counter new purity fanatics, they mostly deal white damage, and humans can easily get 70% resistance to that.
4. Elven rangers are really good and can be recruited at alluvyan. They start expensive, squishy and not very damage-y but can learn to give ALL your units ignore forest penalties and can swim
They can also learn rooting shot which lets you divide enemy forces and volley which is an aoe and therefore perfect for breaking enemy morale. Later there is a promotion that gives them +2 range +2 vision, and there is a building upgrade for +2 range, and there is a glyph for +2 range. So casual 11 range basic shot.
5. Units in alluvyan have swim, use that on workers to get those sunken ruins and magic water (also I sometimes got artifacts from harvesting magic water)
6. Lyraine at tier 4 gives human barracks it’s mostly good for it’s upgrades, like weekly potions, more exp, longer lasting minable locations, and most important phalanx for all human units, once you get that depending on unit composition you can add +4 or even +8 armor on all units, which is a little good.
7. East of Lyraine is AUDALE it gives you warrior hall, just building it gives you +1 stackslot to your armies, ever wonder how come other circle mages have 8 unit stacks? That’s how, I cannot begin to explain how valuable this is. It has two upgrade slots and three choices:
recruit crossbowmen and +2 range on all range abilities, like meteor, but not lasers or fire breaths, it also works on abilities gained from arifacts
recruit soldiers and all units get shield (which beats the point of soldiers who start with shield) this is a pretty basic but really powerful buff since even when flanked only one attack will be a flanking attack, effectively giving all your units 2 armor.
recruit scouts and +2 vision +2 SPEED for all your units, speed is how far units can move in a fight, and armies can move on the map in a turn. This is a must have
8.Some adventures can give you grimoirepages, these are must have but to many can screw over you research. I finished the game without getting hero revive or teleport because I got 4 death books randomly and it clogged up. Hovewer if you want to you can reload start of turn save when you finish research since new research projects are randomised.
I should make a list of adventures that can result in pages.
9. One notable adventure is the conclave, for me it so far spawns northwest of sevenkeep, walk in keep asking questions, 1 free adamantite ingot for your tower quest.
10. speaking of tower quests:
have 2 workers, build 5 different rooms, have a construction site in your domain, meet two city-factions, invest an adamantite ingot, do a quest
11. Landmarks are good but some are better than others and some are more difficult to get, they also usually are pretty remote of note are:
statue of Niethalf which is guarded by some dwarves and that’s it, 50% itemfind
castle Meldec, short quest, a lot of undead, 20% soulfind (souls can be sold for mana and in some adventures traded for with demons, or used for crafting)
necromancers should get crypt of revenants, all undead units revive after battle.
12. Gold ingots are actually kinda useless for craftitng (as are all other items that give +1 all essence) but can be sold pretty well.
13. you can craft items, for use in later crafting it seems like all crafted items have essence point needed to make them +1, so if you make a glyph/potion out of 3 life, 3 arcane , it will have 1 life, 1 arcane, 1 of either of the two, so 1 life 2 arcane for pathfinder which is 3 life 3 arcane, this also helps discover recipies for items you found but didn’t make. It also works on artifacts.
14.graverobber and soul cage items can generate wealth for you even if you don’t use it.
As an alchemist/artificer souls are mostly ♥♥♥♥ since they make bad ingredients. BUT you can sell them for mana, and transmute mana into gold on a 2-1 ratio or as a mentalist steal 200 gold for -5 relations and 9 mana (remember sevenkeeps with its two inns? infinite money), remains are one gold each.
15. Speaking of mentalist, while grimoire pages and quests giving them need a separate playthrough/section/guide Sevenkeeps tier 3 quest (library) might have a guaranteed mentalist grimoirepage, if you give books back to magistrate you get random page, if you keep them, it might be guaranteed mentalist page.
16. Earthmagic is king magic, fight me
While I may gush over mentalists money making options I still think earth magic is better. All schools have some good ♥♥♥♥ to them but earthmagic takes the cake,
-earth lore turns harvestable locations into minable locations based on region. Uram Gor has a bunch of adamantite veins guarded by demons and a buch of harvestable locations that are entirely unguarded, walk in, check if there is treasure in a location to be picked up, pick it up, 9 mana, roll dice for either adamantium (non-corrupted) or crystal.
-heal completely heals a unit including undead, constructs, and 300+health tier 4 behemoths
-elemental weapon makes units deal elemental damage and apply burn, it works even when overwritten by other buffs
-dwarven vault is a tower building that can give your units greedy, that is +1 gold per battle, per unit, which is up to +8 per battle. Also loot
-shape golem is expensive, but remember free adamantium in Uram Gor? it gives shaper golems, they are really strong, and will be even stronger when devs make them not be susceptible to bleeding which I presume is an oversight, their only weakness is inability to level up
List 2
-instant castle might seem useless at first, 4 mana/turn for 1 radius domain?
Hovewer it may or may not be affected by might amplifier (needs testing) and it can lock down landmarks without using logdes (they tend to be poorly placed)
Each landmark gives more than 4 proficiency which means you can distibute allfire into mana rather than proficiency and still come on top
also some areas can have enough to justify them like a 2 gold bridge, 3 mana + 3 research tomb I found in uram gor
-Shaper secrets spawns a shaper ruin which is +1 grimoirepage
Spawns not reveals (enchanter can reveal)
17. DEMONS ARE STRONGER THAN TIER OR POWER LEVEL SUGGEST, FIGHT AT YOUR UNITS RISK
18. as the game progresses other circle mages will grow stronger both in army stacks, tower guards and number of spires. This means their domains will start taking up more and more space, it might be smart to remove one or two, it results in no penalties from other mages and can get you a grimoire page. If you want to do that it’s best to find the main spire since killing it removes the mage (and mage related events) from the map, hovewer their armies and other spires stay under “Circle” faction but these can be removed over time. Main spire will have medusae guard enchant, spawns a medusa warrior and a medusae, they both can stun your units, so units with immune to stun, or an earthmage with summon barrier can help
19. Your starting apprentice will be an earthmage he can learn earth armor, 2 focus, 1 action point, doesn’t end turn, which means you can cast this on 3 units per turn, it lasts until end of combat and gives 50% physical resistance, it’s really good
20. enchantments can stack, if you have a unit, and cast elemental weapon than holy weapon, it will deal +3 white damage, deal white damage, and be able to apply burn, hovewer if you do reverse it will deal elemental damage and apply burn.
21. This is because damage buffs are different, +2 melee dmg is that, +2 white dmg is all forms of dmg (including abilities) that deal white dmg, so if a unit has a promotion that gives them +1 white damage (say goblin alchemist) and you make them deal white damage the promotion bonus damage won’t apply. this can still be worth it, for fighting enemies with resistances
22. Some quests have more options to solve them or make them easier with the right units/spells,
I found elves most commonly helping, usually in some scouting, magic or beastly thing, but orcs and goblins can help too (very rare) so can dwarves. Once you unlock a grimoire page for a spell school (or maybe you need two?) you can use these magics to help out.
Death magic can deal damage to undead units before the battle even starts,
Your crafting type can also help
23. Supposedly kennels from second page of nature can give upkeep free tier 2 beasts, to be confirmed, absurdly broken if true.
Hovewer it may or may not be affected by might amplifier (needs testing) and it can lock down landmarks without using logdes (they tend to be poorly placed)
Each landmark gives more than 4 proficiency which means you can distibute allfire into mana rather than proficiency and still come on top
also some areas can have enough to justify them like a 2 gold bridge, 3 mana + 3 research tomb I found in uram gor
-Shaper secrets spawns a shaper ruin which is +1 grimoirepage
Spawns not reveals (enchanter can reveal)
17. DEMONS ARE STRONGER THAN TIER OR POWER LEVEL SUGGEST, FIGHT AT YOUR UNITS RISK
18. as the game progresses other circle mages will grow stronger both in army stacks, tower guards and number of spires. This means their domains will start taking up more and more space, it might be smart to remove one or two, it results in no penalties from other mages and can get you a grimoire page. If you want to do that it’s best to find the main spire since killing it removes the mage (and mage related events) from the map, hovewer their armies and other spires stay under “Circle” faction but these can be removed over time. Main spire will have medusae guard enchant, spawns a medusa warrior and a medusae, they both can stun your units, so units with immune to stun, or an earthmage with summon barrier can help
19. Your starting apprentice will be an earthmage he can learn earth armor, 2 focus, 1 action point, doesn’t end turn, which means you can cast this on 3 units per turn, it lasts until end of combat and gives 50% physical resistance, it’s really good
20. enchantments can stack, if you have a unit, and cast elemental weapon than holy weapon, it will deal +3 white damage, deal white damage, and be able to apply burn, hovewer if you do reverse it will deal elemental damage and apply burn.
21. This is because damage buffs are different, +2 melee dmg is that, +2 white dmg is all forms of dmg (including abilities) that deal white dmg, so if a unit has a promotion that gives them +1 white damage (say goblin alchemist) and you make them deal white damage the promotion bonus damage won’t apply. this can still be worth it, for fighting enemies with resistances
22. Some quests have more options to solve them or make them easier with the right units/spells,
I found elves most commonly helping, usually in some scouting, magic or beastly thing, but orcs and goblins can help too (very rare) so can dwarves. Once you unlock a grimoire page for a spell school (or maybe you need two?) you can use these magics to help out.
Death magic can deal damage to undead units before the battle even starts,
Your crafting type can also help
23. Supposedly kennels from second page of nature can give upkeep free tier 2 beasts, to be confirmed, absurdly broken if true.
grimoire pages
Places/quests/spells with potential to get grimoire pages
-Shaper ruins,
-test of courage + wishing well
-Connach tier 3 quest
-Seven Keeps tier 3 quest (confirm if guaranteed mentalist page for refusing to hand over books)
-Earthmaster page 3 shaper secrets
… more to be added
Honorable mention to alluvyan where you can learn primordial forest from quest (mostly useless but if there is a place in your domain that will always be your domain, like melded allfire nodes you can cast it for +1 allfire generation, 25 mana so over 3 weeks to recup cost) and Seven Keeps which can sell guardian spells
-Shaper ruins,
-test of courage + wishing well
-Connach tier 3 quest
-Seven Keeps tier 3 quest (confirm if guaranteed mentalist page for refusing to hand over books)
-Earthmaster page 3 shaper secrets
… more to be added
Honorable mention to alluvyan where you can learn primordial forest from quest (mostly useless but if there is a place in your domain that will always be your domain, like melded allfire nodes you can cast it for +1 allfire generation, 25 mana so over 3 weeks to recup cost) and Seven Keeps which can sell guardian spells
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