Elemental: FE BETA 3 Preview: Magnar vs. Gilden - To the Death

The setup

Ladies…and gentlemen…

I give you the battle of the afternoon…

In this corner, we have the latest incarnation of the Quendar ruler, Mangar. This slave powered Empire seeks to bring the rest of the world under their domination.

And…

In this corner, we have Markin, leader of the Kingdom of Gilden. The blood of the Ironeers make them hardy and enduring. Their love of metal and resistance to magic make them the ideal counter to the dark sorcery of Magnar.

Magar: The world’s only hope for justice, order, security

The propaganda game, War of Magic failed for one simple reason: The good people recognize it for what it was, a slander on the honor of the Quendar, the mightiest, most noble and most far sighted race in the world. Other weak excuses have been given, but these are lies given by Men looking to hide their unearned superiority complex. Wise and perceptive beings can easily recognize the inherent unfairness in labeling other races as “Fallen”.

There is nothing “Fallen” about the Quendar – particularly as they manifest themselves in the Empire of Magnar.  Led by an unbroken chain of Quendar emperors since the time of Curgen, the vigorous enforcement of order in a post-cataclysm world makes the wisdom of the Empire more important than ever.

Today, we will discuss the destruction of the wretched Ironeers who make up the so-called Kingdom of Gilden.

By the 50th season of the war…

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Two cities have been founded and Magnar leads his mighty army of champions and slaves across the world.

Tactical battle: Mangar vs. Gilden

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A key battle in the war, Magnar’s heroic army against the Ironeer scum.

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The leader of the Gilden army has 8 spells but only Flame Wave and Gift of Iron concern Magnar.

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By contrast, Magnar has many options available.

And now…

A late game battle…

The Ironeer chiefton himself has come out…

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versus Jenna, champion of Magnar.

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Some flame wave action..

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As powerful as the warriors are, the fate, especially this late, comes in the form of spells and counter-spells.

Unexpectedly, their cowardly three “heroes” were able to combine their spells to overwhelm the the forces of order this time.

It was time to bring up a more powerful army…

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Slaves make the best soldiers. Their lives are expendable allowing pure-Quendar to focus on more important things.

To subdue Gilden, Magnar sent his mightiest lieutenant, Vasim.

 

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At last, we will have revenge.

The last Gasp of the Ironeers…

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The foolish sovereign of Gilden thinks to attempt a rear action by personally assaulting our magnificent capital.

Little does he know he has walked into a trap.

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Turn about

To be fair, I turned around and played as Gilden…

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Reply #1 Top
Thanks for the preview, I love it when you give us the play-by-play for test games. Looking forward to trying out beta 3! The days seem to be passing so slowly...
Reply #2 Top

Please tell me theres a slave trade o.o

Reply #3 Top

Looks like some cool new spells are in the future.  And the big battle against Gilden seems to have about 26 units in it, so the cap must have been raised.   Yay for no 3 turn fireball!  And the roads are actually visible, though that may be because of higher trade tech.  It looks like spell mastery has been seriously bumped.  Markin has 99!  I bet you he can cast Slow on a trained unit and have it actually work.  I am interested to see how accumulating unique spells by hiring champions will work.

Reply #4 Top

This is a pretty cool brief walkthrough of the game... but I would love to see more videos...  :dur:

Reply #5 Top

Very nice. What difficulty level was this?

Reply #6 Top

Quoting OMG_blackmage, reply 2
It looks like spell mastery has been seriously bumped. Markin has 99!

I hope this is because they changed the numbers to balance better with dmg resistance not just a bug. Also seems unbalanced when a lv 3 champion with no SM traits/items has 69 SM and a lv 7 mage has 81.

Reply #7 Top

Way to find more bugs for Derek and Company: Bug- You can't tell what spell an enemy unit is casting.

Great play-through!

 

Reply #10 Top

Magnar look AWESOME!!!! :D

 

Like really cool dragon/dinosaur/people.

 

Really like the contrast between the Magnar and their Slaves ;)

 

:thumbsup:

Reply #11 Top

Quoting sirmathmansir, reply 8
o "Mangar", the liege of many names!

lol maybe he should be renamed Mangog.

I'm outraged, we get bare chested slaves but they are all male! :X !

Reply #12 Top

 I don't see strength, constitution, intelligence or dexerity. That must be what they meant by redoing the stat system.


 

Reply #13 Top

Having primary attributes and derived attributes is silly... it makes sense to combine them.

Reply #14 Top

Wow, this game is really becoming fantastic.  Keep up the great work.

 

Cheers,

Sword

Reply #15 Top

Champions/Sovereigns seem to use Faction crest to tell you their race. Considering that each faction has a different race, that would seem the best option but I would prefer races having a different "crest" than that of the factions (think of poor custom factions and such). Nice touch anyway.

Similar idea for faction in addition to race?

Mangar = (slang) Steal.

Reply #16 Top

I like how magnar looks, will the other races get different looks as well?

Reply #17 Top

Am i right, when i think that Gilden and Magnar are the first two "overhauled" factions and the others will be introduced with the following Beta3 updates ?

Reply #18 Top

Yes, that is what they said.

Reply #19 Top

I like the new magnar face. I'd like it better if it's fully customizable. I don't know if it is or not.

Reply #20 Top

I like how the pathfinding in one part of the video showed the units going around the forest to the destination. Maybe pathfinding has been improved!

Reply #21 Top

Thanks for posting this Brad, Beta 3 looks like it will be great and I'm keen to try it out. I've been very busy these past couple of weeks so I havent had any time to set aside for elemental but I will definitely squeeze in some time for Beta 3 when you let us try it out.

 

BTW some of these new spells look seriously badass - flamewave and the tsunami both look awesome :)

Reply #22 Top

Darth Maul lives!!!

Reply #23 Top

Loot: 15 population.

 B)

Reply #24 Top

I like the general style of Magnar's face but think his facial features could use some tweaking, especially his mouth. It is too flat and might look better with a more bestial curve. The human style lips don't work very well.

Reply #25 Top

On the other hand, Gilden seems to be run by a scared little boy clinching to his club.