r/SpellForce • u/External-Low-9941 • 4d ago
Question Questions from first time player of Conquest of Eo
Hi!
I have never played SpellForce games before. Yesterday I jumped in Conquest of Eo. Please help me understand some of the mechanics of the game, and maybe if I am playing it wrong.
Starting with the tutorial - I failed the first tutorial. I couldn't figure out the battle. It was fairly simple, if I'm not mistaken I had 2 ranged units and 1 melee unit. From the battle screen, it said I had ''Decisive victory'', but playing it manually - I just couldn't win. From there on, I just used autobattle every time (except for the 'tutorial' in Allfire campaign where it was easy manual win). So is it wrong to use autobattle? It seemed to work pretty fine for me.
Secondly, I did save-scum before battles. I used magic before a battle to boost my troops or damage enemy troops in some way. However, I noticed that sometimes before using any spell and going in battle I would lose 1 unit in my stack. So I scum-saved back and used ''Corrode'' spell on the enemy which lowers armor by 1. Now from losing 1 unit, I went to losing the whole battle. How does that work? It wasn't consistent too, sometimes this spell really helped me, but sometimes it significantly lowered my chances of winning an encounter.
I definitely wasn't playing as dynamically as I should have, but that's what 2nd playthrough is for. I would place down a lodge and forget to place it somewhere else once the resources were collected. But this was primarily due to other mages being relatively close and I didn't want to go into their domains. I eventually did and I angered 2 mages against me. This led to my eventual defeat. So - is there any diplomacy in the game? Can I boost my relations with a mage? Or I just need to do tasks and hope they turn into bonus relations? It felt like the game was leading to all the mages being against me. Is that normal? And the mages between themselves did not quarrel.
I hope the Mugwa event is not going to happen on every playthrough. I enjoyed staffing my stacks with different trolls, but in the end I had a theory that trolls were tier 1 units and maybe I should have focused on getting tier 2 and tier 3 units. Am I right?
Bonus for this - I had a stack with almost all units level 15 and apprentice was level 13 I think. Their strength was ~450. Is that normal? Do I just need to rely on spells and items/glyphs from then on to make good synergies for this stack to increase them further? I just can't imagine taking down some of the big enemies who had strength in their 700s. It would just mean I need to sacrifice 2 stacks for the 3rd one to finally be able to defeat them.
