The Dark Priests

The Dark Priests

Rumour has it that a couple of dark priests are performing dark rituals. Very dark rituals. There have even been several cats reported missing recently. Understandably, your citizens are more than a little concerned about this. They have turned to you for help and are willing to give what they have in order to compensate you for your efforts.

General Information Type: Experience Players: 2 Difficulty: 3 Duration: 2 days XP: 5,975

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Description

A fairly easy map that requires moving your camps right from the start to give direct attack routes to the Leaders Camp and avoid a lot of costly battles.

Along with Witch of The Swamp it should be a staple XP farming map for any player. You will find this map rather often when you do short adventure searches and is fairly cheap to purchase from the trade system. 

Requirements

General Type	Requirements
								Total
Normal General (200 troops)	525	-	11	194	176	173	-	1,079
Master of Martial Arts (220 troops)	303	30	-	219	-	203	145	900
Veteran General (250 troops)	388	-	-	232	40	183	120	963

Achievements

Name	Requirements	Trophies	Reward
Fast Ritual	Complete "The Dark Priests" in less than 8 hours	40
Hex of Speed	Complete "The Dark Priests" in less than 2 hours	100	150
Incorruptible Minds	Complete "The Dark Priests" while only losing Recruits	100
Close-Up Blessings	Complete "The Dark Priests" without using any ranged units	80

Guide

Sector	Enemy	Attack With	Expected Losses
Sector 1	Move immediately to the entrance of Sector 3.  You can take out both Sector 1 Leader and start the assault on Sector 3 from here (see map).			Block
	20 10 (Can be blocked)	18 40	15
		20 200	15
		90 160	15
	Skunk 20 20 20	40 160	33
		20 200	20
		90 160	32
Sector 3 (Optional)	60 20	16 1 183	15
		7 1 212	7
		12 18 220	11
Sector 2	Move as far NWW as possible so your general is near the entrance to Sector 2. Note: You can skip the second camp (30 Priest + 30 Shadowsneaker) and just send 60 Recruits + 140 Soldiers against the third camp (30 Cultists + 20 Shadowsneaker + 10 Firedancer). This will take out both camps, saving you a few minutes for no extra loss.
	30 40	5 1 194	4
		1 219	0
		1 249	0
	30 30	32 168	32
		17 203	17
		32 168	32
	30 20 10	27 173	26
		17 203	17
		27 173	26
	Church Witch 40 30 20	80 11 1 58 50	80 6 14
		65 10 145	58 6
		W1: 92 W2: 44 176	W1: 92 W2: 44
		50 100 40 60	45 12
		W1: 92 W2: 121 129	W1: 92 W2: 121
Sector 3 (Optional)	Defeating the two leader camps to the left and right of the dark castle is not required to complete the adventure. But defeat them for maximum XP reward.
	25 25 10 30 545 xp	55 145	52
		39 181	39
		70 180	52
	30 10 50 620 xp	80 120	57
		47 173	47
		90 160	57
	30 40 500 xp	5 1 194	4
		1 219	0
		1 249	0
Dark Castle	Dark High Priest 40 40 40	W1: 134 W2: 23 1 176	W1: 134 W2: 23
		71 20 1 128	71 17
		110 20 120	83 11
Total Expected Losses			475 6 14
			291 23
			353 11 12

Video Guides

The Dark Priest lvl36+, 1 BH General, 2 Blocks 

The Dark Priest lvl36 , 1 BH General, 2 Blocks

Blocks

• Note: A player can use the blocking technique on the first camp (either type A or B) to allow second general to kill leader camp. By doing so, you will save between 14R-15R (using block A and B respectively):

Block A) - You will need to place your generals as can be seen in the picture. Once both generals are ready to attack (units assigned: general A with 1R and general B with 40R+160S or 200R), attack camp A (20thug and 10 Dogs) with general A. Wait for 5 - 7 seconds and then immediately send general B to attack camp B (Skunk, 20 Thug, 20 Ranger, 20 Dog).

Block B) - Use the same placement as block A, but you MUST' use a normal general as general A, 'and veteran general as general B. Unit assignments are:

General A: 18R 40S -> camp A 20 Thug, 10 Dog

General B: 90R 160S -> Skunk, 20 Thug, 20 Ranger, 20 Dog

Send general A to camp A, wait 5- 7 seconds and then immediately send general B. What should happen is that your general A will battle camp A before general B get intercepted. This will allow general B (your veteran general) to attack directly to leader camp, and destroy the camp before general A kills camp A. The result would be both camps will be destroyed and sector 1 cleared, with general A and his units left untouched. (No unit lost nor injured general).

Other Guides

Minion79's Crossbow Map Minion79 has created a great map which shows troop numbers to use for each camp when using a Veteran with Crossbows.

Bandits

The following bandits are found in The Island of the Pirates adventure.

Rewards