Time to Save the World Again - Open X-Com: X-Files

 It so so amazing, how this game from the 1994 is so awesome, deep and interesting and smiles bringing :) With tons of content, and mind bugging references, this piece of art needs months(real ones) to explore all its mysteries.

The medals are insanely interesting and desired. I'll make a post with all medals and conditions to achieve, but first I'm eager to play...

 Open X-Com: X-Files 80 enemies on mission!

 The battleship level 2. All battleships may have different level structure.

Recorded adventure archive: 01.12.2019 - 01.01.2020

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Fantasy General 2 - Summoning

If you have enough mana you can summon a creature with the magic support infantry - Wolf Mother. But she can summon only dire wolfs. To be able to summon other beasts she needs to tame them first. The big spiders and the eaglebears are great. The Harpies though can not be tamed :)

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Fantasy General 2 - The Extractor Staff by Dolos

This is the Extractor staff created by Dolos. If you do not get rid of him and let go the liquid mana he is stealing, he will finally create this item. The Extractor Staff gives 2 mana on unit destruction. Needles to say how important is this for summoners.

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Fantasy General 2 - Unit Upgrades

Fantasy General 2 - Younglings  Upgrades

Fantasy General 2 - Maidens Upgrades

Fantasy General 2 - Lizard Upgrades

Fantasy General 2 - Centaurs Upgrades

Fantasy General 2 - Trolls Upgrades

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Fantasy General 2 - Best Item Drops

Here is my collection of rare items. 

The water boots and forest boots comes very handy and very often. This is another item you may want to get from ruins.  

The Statue of Handola gives +30 regeneration. There is one certain place to get it. The rest comes from random drops.

 The Plague Doctor Mask is another item to get from ruins and city raiding. It gives +100 health - excellent for single entities.

Archers and support units should carry the war banners. The effect of them is cumulative!

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Fighting the Emperor | Fantasy General 2

Here is the Emperor in the mission before the last one. He is tough one and need a lot of fighting.

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The Last Battle | Fantasy General 2

The Last Battle screenshot from Fantasy General 2 game.

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Blood Oak Bow Location Screenshot - Fantasy General 2: Invasion

Needless to say this is the best item in the game... well, one of the best. The Blood Oak Bow works on mages too, so they can fire 3 hex away and get rid of those nasty machines of the empire. It is found in Kanthas mission in one of those strange blood oaks and they are 3 of them, one is found at the end of the scenario. But there is a catch. If you take the bows all trolls and some heroes will get a negative trait  -1 to morale.

So this is the map location of the Kanthas mission. When inside, take a small squad and continue to the east while the main army fights the centaurs and the empire forces to the south. When you pass the river, there is an ambush in the woods and just beside it is the oak, as unexplored location. There you will find a transmuter doing some bad rituals. If you let him live, he will give you 2 bows and tell you about the 3rd one. If you decide to fight it, you still get the bows, but they are not enchanted and are +0.

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Fantasy General 2 Review

Being a great fan of the original Fantasy General game, I had quite the expectations about the next sequence, though at some point in the 10's I stopped to expect any sequence for this game at all. And strange enough I liked it! for a game released after 2015 it is really a progress for me. What is most amazing is that they have kept most of the base concept from the original FG game. The only thing I dislike is the heavy graphic. I have always thought that this types of games need a clear 2D graphic with some beautiful sprites, where we can plan our strategy in a most focused way. For example, I did not take the dragon mount from the Dragon Island, because it was too annoying, weaving those mighty wing over my screen. Some times I had to bend my head aside to look for the unit under the dragon :). Other from that, there are some minor things that are bearable or fixable, compared with the original game.

Story. The story of FG2 take place on one continent. Again, some missions will lock others so we can take different paths. We lead a noble barbarian tribe against the corrupted empire to save the world. Also the mission turn limit now only affects the spoils we get from the mission and is not a loose mission timer.

Experience. In the original FG, the unit with the final blow takes all the all experience. In FG2 all units 3 hex away from the target gets the experience. Except if a unit 4-5 hex away makes the final blow - it also get the XP. 

Units. There are 4 main types of units, though they have very different race varieties, like human archers or centaur archers. The upgrade tree is more like Heroes style and we use 3 main resources to upgrade our unis in the path we choose. I just miss the concept about not knowing what is next unit upgrade from FG. One motivation was to reach all units max upgrade and see what is it :)

Items. Items are endless, not like in FG1. There are also rare(purple) items that make which of which more wonderous things. Heroes can carry 3 items and most single entity units can carrry 2 items.

Ruins. There are 5 types of ruins. The real ruins, caves, camps and settlements. The ruins and settlements may drop rare items. The caves I farm for boots (Water walking boots are so so  so needed). The camps may drop some mana or health potion. But what is most not good is that there is no some type of shop to sell the unnecessary items at least. I believe this should be considered.

Terrain. Like the loading screens says, the terrain is a major part of the game. There are deep water, where only lizards can go, water, plains, roads, rough, woods and mountains.

Resources. Beside the 3 main resources to upgrade our units, there is an interesting concept with mana nodes on some maps where we get mana to cast spells and summon creatures. 

Game Data:
Name: Fantasy General 2
Type: Turn Based Tactic (TBS), Turn Based Strategy (TBS),
Genre: Fantasy. (1 continent)
Year of Release: 2019
Platform: PC/Windows 7/8/10/ - More Info

Recorded adventure archive 25.10.2019 - 07.11.2019.

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