Disciples 2 - The Demons (All Cutscenes/Objectives/Bosses with Rod Planter) (Very Hard) (4K)

Disciples II: Dark Prophecy is a 2002 turn-based strategy game by Strategy First for Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to the 1999 game Disciples: Sacred Lands, and has become significantly more successful in terms of both sales and popularity than its predecessor. A collector's edition version of the game was released, which included a card game based upon the story and five extra quests.
Four expansion packs were released: Guardians of the Light, Servants of the Dark, Rise of the Elves, and Gallean's Return.
Disciples II is a fantasy strategy game, set in a fictional kingdom called Nevendaar (also referred to as 'The Sacred Lands'). The main focus of the story revolves around four dominant races in a state of almost constant war. These four factions are the human Empire, the dwarven Mountain Clans, the demonic Legions of the Damned, and the skeletal Undead Hordes. There are also several other 'neutral' races such as Merfolk, Greenskins and Elves (the Elves became a full-fledged playable race with the addition of the expansion pack 'Rise of the Elves').
The gameplay is divided into three main parts; building up the Capital City of your race so that you can research new Warriors and spells, and building up new armies (this involves careful resource management); using heroes (leading small squads) to explore the surroundings, procure resources and attack the enemy; and finally the battles themselves.
Each playable race's Capital City is protected by an extremely powerful guardian, who is nearly impossible to defeat except with a very strong hero. The Capital City is the only city capable of building structures. Other cities may only upgrade themselves to allow them to mount larger defense forces.
Battles consist of confrontations between a hero's squad (which can take up to five other Warriors, bearing in mind that some large creatures such as dragons take up the space of two units) and an enemy squad. High praise is given to the excellent graphics and animations in these battles. At the end of the battle, the winning side receives experience points. All surviving units receive the same amount of XP. If sufficient XP is accumulated by a unit, it may then upgrade to another, determined by the type of structures in the Capital. If no next-level structures have been built, the unit does not level up and does not receive any more experience until the structure is built. The only exception is if the unit is at the end of the "upgrade tree", in which case it will remain the same unit but gain small increases to health, attack damage, and accuracy stats.
At the beginning of a campaign, the player may select his or her class (warrior, mage, or guildmaster). Each class has advantages and disadvantages. For example, a mage player may cast the same spell twice in a single turn, while a guildmaster has the ability to carry out more types of spying/assassination assignments. Besides player classes, the game also features five types of heroes (or leaders): Warrior, Mage, Ranger, Rod Bearer, and Thief. The first three differ only slightly, as they are all combat leaders. The Rod Bearers are the only leaders capable of claiming resources on the map. Thieves may perform special actions on enemy armies and cities.
Spellcasting may only be done outside of battles and requires the use of mana to both research and cast a spell. There are four types of mana (life, runic, death, and infernal) with the fifth type (grove) added for the Rise of the Elves expansion. Each race's spells are mainly reliant on their corresponding mana type (e.g. Empire - life mana), although other mana types are required for higher-level spells. Grove mana is only required for Elven spells. Only one spell may be researched per turn, and a spell may only be cast once per turn (twice if the player is a mage class). Also, a mage player researches spells at half the normal cost.
During the single-player campaigns, the player may transfer one leader and five artifacts (including potions and one-shot spells) to the next level. At the end of a campaign, an option is given to save the player's top leader in a file for use in custom or multiplayer games.
Turn-Based Strategy Playlist:
• Turn-Based Strategy
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy
00:00 - Intro
02:25 - Chapter 01: The Broken Seal
06:00 - Chapter 02: Bethrezen's Retreat
08:58 - Chapter 03: The Dark Alliance
12:32 - Chapter 04: The Salty Dungeon
16:25 - Chapter 05: Darkness and Light
19:06 - Chapter 06: The Ambush
22:12 - Chapter 07: The Prince of Hell
Disciples II: Servants of the Dark
26:36 - Chapter 08: Beggar's Banquet
34:06 - Chapter 09: Deals and Devils
38:02 - Chapter 10: Breaking of the Three

[@akojulius3777]

Turn-Based Strategy Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PL-2TkApaMiz3cdllF5S514j_QXMHVK5rO Disciples II: Dark Prophecy 00:00 - Intro 02:25 - Chapter 01: The Broken Seal 06:00 - Chapter 02: Bethrezen's Retreat 08:58 - Chapter 03: The Dark Alliance 12:32 - Chapter 04: The Salty Dungeon 16:25 - Chapter 05: Darkness and Light 19:06 - Chapter 06: The Ambush 22:12 - Chapter 07: The Prince of Hell Disciples II: Servants of the Dark 26:36 - Chapter 08: Beggar's Banquet 34:06 - Chapter 09: Deals and Devils 38:02 - Chapter 10: Breaking of the Three

[@justincase5002]

I'm so used to mods, when I saw a Demon Lord's turn ended without his second attack, I jumped. And I like how in chapter 6 the Incubus stands before the Baroness as if saying to Asteroth: nuh-uh, you shall not pass.

[@Fernoll]

This game is such a gem. Only way they could ever make it better would be keeping Patrick Lambert's art.

[@akojulius3777]

... and cumulative experience, let you export an entire party not only the heroes... and fix some bugs.

[@Fernoll]

@@akojulius3777 I disagree. Exporting a high level party will allow you to steamroll entire levels. That would make for a very dull experience.

[@akojulius3777]

@@Fernoll Not if you have the option to choose the difficulty of the neutral enemies in that saga or quests. Like for example: units have levels between 10-15, 15-20, 20-25, 25-30 and so on. Wait... no one implemented this option. :(

[@akojulius3777]

What is your opinion of the 3rd Disciples game and Liberation?

[@Fernoll]

@@akojulius3777 Havn't played the 3rd one, nor am I planning to. They have strayed too far from the original design and aesthetics.

[@davidburnett5049]

I didn't know the rod planters were able to get 3rd and 4th levels of leadership perk. I've wanted to play through with the archangel and now I'll give it a go. Thanks.

[@akojulius3777]

In Disciples 2 they can.

[@davidburnett5049]

@@akojulius3777 Do you have a guide or anything? I am not good at these sorts of games... actually just had to cheat or start over the mission against Asteroth..

[@akojulius3777]

@@davidburnett5049 The only guide... lots of saves and loads. I had to cheat too. To eliminate all the enemies to get max level from the respective maps... otherwise i would have wasted a lot of time.

[@davidburnett5049]

@@akojulius3777 I see. That makes me feel a bit better, actually. The timed missions especially are quite difficult imo. I'm gonna try a run the Empire. A healing hero isn't too bad. Not as good as the maxed out healer unit, certainly, but should be somewhat useful.

[@akojulius3777]

@@davidburnett5049 :D :)

[@L10Garcia]

Image is unnaturally stretched wide.

[@akojulius3777]

It's the normal game without any mods.

[@L10Garcia]

@@akojulius3777 But you stretched original ratio (4:3) to panoramic (16:9) and it looks just bad.

[@akojulius3777]

@@L10Garcia :(

[@akojulius3777]

@@L10Garcia I played the game on 800x600. I can't change the resolution because it goes on slow mo on win10. There are some problems with the game on win10.