Chapter 10: Enter the Eternals

Objective: Survive for 8 turns

Approach 1: Hold all the paths

The top single tile gap is a great place for a duelist to to hold. The left side is all physical: ideal for a defender and another physical tank like inquisitor. The right and bottom are mixed, but mostly magic so put your high fortitude and mixed bulk units there. I’d recommend taking out the defenders and archers quickly so you can focus on defending against magic only after that. Rotate those clerics around as needed to keep everyone alive. This approach requires two front line units left, right and bottom but only one top .. plus ranged attackers and clerics, so it can spread you a little thin. You can also retreat towards the center over time to consolidate. Particularly on the right side, you can retreat past the one tile gap and hold six squares instead of seven.

Approach 2: Hold the center

Holding the center at the smaller gaps will reduce the number of tiles defended from 7 to 4: two for the bottom and one for the left and right. However, the left and right may also spill around to attack the bottom & flank your units that have pushed down. You can avoid pushing down, but then you’ll have extremely limited space (8 tiles) and will need to deploy fewer characters.

Approach 3: Hold the left hallway

Hold the far end of the left hallway with two heavy defense units and retreat everyone else into this hallway, leaving a single center space to defend against both physical and magical attacks. This approach also gives you more space to operate in than trying to hold the center. The biggest downside is that you won’t kill as many enemies for xp & likely won’t get all the item drops. You could defend the right hallway, but that would require defending both sides against both physical and magical attackers.