In Progress Let's play Disciples of Steel

[kofeur]

Another outpost?

Thanks for the feedback!

And let's continue:

Before going on to the next mission, let's equip ourselves a bit better

I got perfect weapons for everybody apart the ranger who gets a terrific heavy crossbow (couldn't find the highest quality for missile weapons yet)

Ok, we're in Hollengard (city of dwarves), let's drop by the ruler who will only speak with skilled fighters.

We actually get experience for that!

Anyway our (next) mission...

...involves another outpost

Yep! sounds right!

Orcs are quite sophisticated about their hobbies...

While some orcs have fun, others are slaving away

My first skeletons!

They're not tough...

This outpost has quite a variety in term of enemies

Yep they're supposed to be tough for my team

But that's if we forget about my monk...

This game is full of secret doors...

I wonder what's the point of hiding this part

I couldn't find anything, maybe it's for later?

As we explore the outpost we find a door...

We'll answer with the force!!

...Or maybe it was a bad idea

This fight is impossible for my current party

The walls are quite flat...

Interesting... I like these small descriptions that add a bit of credibility to these outposts

oh? This is the sound of bats

It managed to survive the full attacks of my knight armed with a good weapon!

No wonder I had trouble before with the 'clean the tower' mission!

We meet some new enemies...

These guys are well equipped... They carry 'terrific' weapons the level of quality just below 'perfection' which is the best. Thankfully my warriors are well equipped and make short work of them. This outpost is starting to feel a bit too high in level for a second mission... Well, maybe because it's for the dwarves...

Ouch!

Need to increase my perception and disarm/pick skills!

hmm... who can that be?

What is that? A golem?

It was a frost giant. I only managed to kill him because I managed to stun him with my monk! That was a tricky fight!

And we find a key

We will avenge you brother!

The other one didn't survive that long...

...but left us a nice shield

Ok we have the password

This door leads to stairs that lead to a lower floor where we find a lot of locked doors

Let's kill the traitors!

This trap is inescapable. One way to cheat and limit damage is to dismiss all the characters and leave the one with the best body development and dodge skills to take the damage

Yep he handled it well!

What's behind that door?

Ah ok...

Let's try our luck with this fight

A good way to get an idea on enemies is their attitudes: the fire giant is definitely superior to my team

The Ettin is at a level close to my party

And if the enemies are apprehensive like orcs are to my party, that means they're under-leveled and easy to kill

Clearly over-leveled...

The fire giant basically killed all my characters in one hit and I couldn't even touch him. This dungeon is definitely too difficult for my party... Will need to come back later.

I wonder if I was in the right dungeon... Even though it is to the north of Hollengard like the king said... I take a look around...

...and find another entrance very close to the dungeon that just destroyed my party!

Yet another outpost

This one seems to be the right one

Is it the right one? I don't know yet for sure, but I'll explore it when I get the chance!

 

[lightbane]

So, is there some sort of main quest around, or are you supposed to ask every city ruler for quests until you complete the game?

Since when are orks intelligent enough to play power??

 

[Crooked Bee]

Good going!

My, he's quite a sight!

 

[kofeur]

So, is there some sort of main quest around, or are you supposed to ask every city ruler for quests until you complete the game?

Since when are orks intelligent enough to play power??

The main quest is to get all the countries united against the dark forces and win the upcoming war. You can either do quests to get a good reputation with the rulers or you can attempt to overthrow them. You can also try to conquer them once you control a country yourself. At least that's what I know so far.

My, he's quite a sight!

Yeah, he's definitely the most impressive enemy I've encountered so far, much better looking that his frost cousin

 

[lightbane]

So, is there some sort of main quest around, or are you supposed to ask every city ruler for quests until you complete the game?

Since when are orks intelligent enough to play power??

The main quest is to get all the countries united against the dark forces and win the upcoming war. You can either do quests to get a good reputation with the rulers or you can attempt to overthrow them. You can also try to conquer them once you control a country yourself. At least that's what I know so far.

Well, you know what you have to do sooner or later...

 

[MMXI]

Nice update! Much better. Hopefully you are in the right dungeon now. I thought you were updating at the weekends so I only checked on Sunday evening.

 

[kofeur]

Well, you know what you have to do sooner or later...

Probably later, you really need to be at a high level to pull off something like that

Nice update! Much better. Hopefully you are in the right dungeon now. I thought you were updating at the weekends so I only checked on Sunday evening.

Yeah I play mainly on the weekends, but my update is not always ready on time, so I sometimes finish it during the week

 

[Yeesh]

Very

Now let's get some updates.

 

[kofeur]

Yet another outpost

Good to be back in yet another outpost. The orcs take their role seriously

Weird entrance layout

It was an entrance to the dining hall, how... delightful

Let's look at how our ennemies feel, he doesn't feel superior anymore?

Ok let's start the battle!

Our magician packs a mean punch!

Not bad punk!

Seems that a few hits shaked this guys motivation

This is a fun part in this game. The ennemies are subject to morale as opposed to my party. As more and more of their numbers fall, they start being nervous. And the weaker ennemies freeze or just run away.

And they should run away...

I think I should add some minimal armor skill to my monk... I think it combines with dodging

Didn't even finish bandaging everybody when I get assaulted!

Never fight with a cornered monk

The game remembers you were trying to heal and the menu pops automatically after the battle is finished

Behind a secret door

yet more bats

They were carrying gold and silver... I didn't know bats were attracted to shiny things...

Wow this outpost is crawling with orcs!

Remember what I was saying about morale?

At the end of the corridor another secret door

Found another secrtet door yet by mistake!

My party is quite scary it seems!

Back to square one... I wonder what the architect was thinking when he made 2 parallel corridors...

Oh, new ennemies. I like the amount of poison they use

He may seems alone, but there was another one hiding. Monsters and characters hiding are completely invisible

Oh, there is a huge army guarding this door

And one of them starts the battle in the middle of my party!

Oups

Found out later that if I have the money on 'autopool', nobody can carry anymore coins. So I needed to switch off autopool to be able to carry more money. Autopool automatically switches all the party's money to the character that is selected.

There are a bunch of rooms behind the door

Oh a room for jabberlings, but the leader is a wolfwarrior...

Interesting...

But the door is locked

I've searched but haven't found anything...

Not even a secret door

On the other side there is a treasure it appeared automatically when I stepped on the tile. I wonder if the search function has any use

I wonder what that is for... It might be a quest item.

hmm... interesting description of the ennemy

ah! it's these guys!

Another interesting description

I miss text descriptions in games...

With all this entrance he didn't even handle my monks full attacks

My monk has now 4 attacks. If I remember correctly, you can have up to 5 attacks

oh rats! I like their design

They didn't last long...

And going back to the dining hall's last door, we find

Yeah, even the cook is armed! I guess he must need some heavy equipment to cut, smash and burn whatever the troups eat

Ok, let's go to that door I forgot and we find

That fight was quickly finished... he didnt have a fire giant helping him... Anyway in a corner of the room we find:

This looks interesting

It adds 10 points to perception when you equip it, cool!

This is all good, but I didn't find the hammer... yet

 

[kofeur]

Sorry for the long wait, but I'm finally back. There is another update that I need to write, which I'll try to post by tomorrow. I've played these section some time ago so the flow suffered a bit from it. Hope you can still follow it well enough

 

[kofeur]

Before we go on chasing that hammer, let's tie a few loose ends:

My monk has a personal battle to fight, so he goes back to the dungeon where we found that beast that reaked of death. First obstacle

Ok it was only a random encounter...

Yep, they were easy let's move on...

Fun dungeon design!

Here we are again

This is my monks quest! To fight death in the eyes with only his fists!

That wasn't so much of a challenge... yet the smell still clings to the place

While we're in this interlude, let's go kill these giant bat that gave us trouble it the island at the beginning of the game:

With my improved team, it went quite fast... But still the gargantuan bats pack a mean punch

Still let's report our success

Next mission

But we'll leave that for much later as I plan to find that hammer and continue with the quest line in Hollengard for now.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Hey this LP is back!

 

[MMXI]

Awesome! I thought this would be abandoned. A great couple of updates. More please!

 

[kofeur]

Crooked Bee

Yes it's back! Sorry for the delays!

MMXI

Never abandoned... just delayed

I have actually a few update to write as I'm abit further ahead, next one in a few hours!

 

[kofeur]

The Fleeting Hammer

Ok, having explored the area a bit further north, I find another dungeon... is it the the one I've been looking for?

Hmm... interesting

Seems like Poker is a popular activity among orcs

While some were having fun, others were suffering in the next room

And further down...

It seems the more you go up in the ranks the more well spoken you become

Unfortunately our disciples are not that refined

Targeted face smashing

Not all rooms are well maintained

And in these places you find

But even an extraordinary number wasn't enough...

And we find

Oh... a backstabbing dagger!!

This is possibly the best weapon in the whole game, it certainly is much more powerful than what I have now...

In another room near here...

And when you smell something...

Fun, and who thought that bugbears were undisciplined?

Not as well spoken as his other colleague...

That's what he was guarding... nice!

I really love how I find all of these creature doing different things!
I really miss these simple little descriptions...

Oh well he didn't stay awake for long

And that concludes this dungeon, there was no major boss fight that I could think of, but I did find a very nice weapon.In that case, I need to go try to kill the Fire Giant, as I don't see any other options.
But first I need to train my characters as I can't even touch him now

 

[Crooked Bee]

Lookin' good!

 

[kofeur]

Thanks!

BTW, do you know how to get the 'in progress' tag in front of the thread?

Hoping to have the next update up later tonight

 

[lightbane]

Ask a certain moderator (Jarlfrank, to be precise). Also, cool updates, but it lacks emotionally challenging content to be considered a true rpg

 

[kofeur]

Thanks! will PM him now

Ask a certain moderator (Jarlfrank, to be precise). Also, cool updates, but it lacks emotionally challenging content to be considered a true rpg

This game is not welcoming enough for that

 

[CappenVarra]

This game looks interesting... Watching LP

 

[kofeur]

The Fire Giant

So I trained my party... and it was actually fun!
The way I did it, is that I sent every character on a training expedition on his own and that way I could see the potential of each class, but that will be for another post, let's go tackle that Fire giant!

Here we are again

This time the Fire giant is just next to the monk, how convenient!

My monk has now 400 in open hand and 5 attacks and he barely damages the giant but he manages to stun him! It's over...

Just as a note, the enemies don't always have the same starting position, it is randomly generated at each fight

Our rogue has worked on his hide skill

Our Priest tries to damage an Ettin

But the damage wasn't very high... didn't get the chance to take a picture as the text zaps quickly

Our magician casts a Annihilation

And that spell almost killed the Ettin

Aiming...

... can really hurt!

My team really got stronger

And the Fire Giant still hasn't moved...

... which is a good thing. He's able to kill any of my characters in one or two strikes. So I had to attack him first and stun him before he could do anything.

Let's take a souvenir from that battle

And in one corner of the room... Is the hammer here?!

Yeah!!!

Finally!!! So the first dungeon was the right one... Didn't expect that the first mission would have such a high level boss to kill.

So let's go see what's behind the closed doors

Didn't know Gargoyles originated from Hungary...

After a Fire Giant, that's a walk in the park

And the other door

wow

huh?

Huge amounts money, a treasure screen... but nothing

Going further we find

What's behind that door?

Oh... that was what that small room was...

Oh well, I guess that everybody has the same physiological needs...

Back to Hollengard

And next mission...

Going to the city to the south, we go to the palace. But first let's ask what's the first mission they have to give me

Ok... it's the same thing. Well here you go

And back to Hollengard we go to the next mission

AH AH! That is the mission about the ogre I could never find!

Here he is, just east of Hollengard, and he is called a Weart not an Ogre on the screen

We take the remains

And indeed

In the old version I played years ago, the Weart remains weren't recognised and I couldn't finish the mission. This time it worked!

So what is the next mission?

So in next update we will go mining!

 

[Yeesh]

 

[Crooked Bee]

I sent every character on a training expedition on his own and that way I could see the potential of each class, but that will be for another post

Sounds interesting!

These wacky old games.

 

[CappenVarra]

Didn't know Gargoyles originated from Hungary...

Well, the gargoyle's face does have a certain Bela Lugosi vibe, so I guess it's true

 

[kofeur]

These wacky old games.

Yeah this game has a lot of quirky stuff like the orcs playing poker

CappenVarra

Ah yeah! It does have that vibe