If the stars align, you’ll be able to sit out the battle and let, say, invading lizardmen duke it out with the local barbarians while you slip past. The opponents you face will change constantly. The Onslaught campaign can branch in major ways and take you to wild places. The only way to replenish your army is by end-of-mission reward units (and hoping for volunteers instead of treasure), so be careful and let the mercs die for you. Moreover, he can only hire mercenaries, who don’t stay with you after the mission. Thus he only has a handful of loyal followers. He has slipped out to follow the dreams without Falirson’s knowledge. Relkar comes from the Clan Misneach – the same ones you beat up in the campaign. Odds are, you may get not gold or artefacts, but permanent units!
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The fog of war will still hide the enemies, but knowing where the ruins, burial grounds and altars are helps to loot the most locations along the way. Meanwhile, spiders and their all-terrain ability meshes well with the fact that Alisa already knows the layout of every map.
#FANTASY GENERAL 2 CLAN MEET UPGRADE#
Trolls make up your beefy, reliable bulwark, with each upgrade making them even more deadly. The way animals can get upgraded into higher forms just like your regular troops makes little sense how do you turn a bear into an owl bear? but they offer interesting options. Her army will be made up of trolls as well as animals ranging from ravens to bears and spiders. His sister Alisa the Blind is a shaman and a seer, having traded her sight for a closer connection to nature. Be careful with your troops and don’t be careless with their lives. You’ll be able to use him as a slightly-magical vanguard and battering ram while also having access to hiring Barbarian units. Falirson, the Barbarian chieftain protagonist of the main campaign, offers gameplay that is the closest to vanilla FGII experience. The real treat is in how they’ll impact the way you fight. The hero you choose will only minimally impact the story of the campaign. It also helps that you’ll almost always have at least two different missions to choose from, with a very topline idea of what rewards you’ll get at the end (on top of what you can find and loot along the way). Sure, your mission may often be to simply get across from one end of the map to the other with your hero, but having freshly generated challenges and treasures keeps it entertaining. In this situation, the procedurally generated maps help. And if you play on Iron Man, you will have to re-run it time and time again. The campaign map will always be the same, but the battlefields will change every time you run it.
#FANTASY GENERAL 2 CLAN MEET SERIES#
It is a series of linked missions on procedurally generated maps.
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However, ‘Onslaught’ is closer to a game mode rather than a campaign. In it, you take control of one of the three heroes of the main FG II campaign and strike out for the lands of the war-torn Empire, guided by your mysterious dreams. This isn’t Total War where you can just jam them into the grand campaign and be done! Instead, we get the Onslaught campaign. Seeing how the real beauty of FGII is in the story campaign a real, scripted and branching one, not a Risk-like travesty a new faction would be hard to implement. Unfortunately, the first expansion does not bring a new faction like we all would have wanted although it is not hard to understand why. Unsurprisingly, Fantasy General II hits the mark again with the Onslaught DLC. Somehow, transporting those game mechanics into a fantasy world made the game feel both fresh and even possessing verisimilitude.
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The quality of the game surprised me, as I never held much love for Panzer General and its’ sequels, imitators and clones. It’s one of the few sequels to cross the gulf of decades and arrive intact. Fantasy General II – Invasion is a veritable blast from the past.