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~Dragon's Breath
Playing guide supplied by The ST Adventurer's PD Library.
Solution should be of use to anybody playing the game on the PC.
Start off by selecting to play with Ametrin (the green dude!),
since his castle is in a good position and you get to meet some
superb traders.
~MONTH ONE
Send your Dragon (Estor) to conquer and keep the village of morlic
on the West of the map. Your dragon should take this with ease.
~MONTH TWO
Now put the tax rate up to 'FULL' and leave your dragon in the
village.
~MONTH THREE
You should now have more than 100 Gelds in your coffers. Spend the
lot on the Trader who willingly sells you Celatis - or the one at
the top of the list - for ten Gelds. Now go to your village on the
map and cast a spell on it. Turn the condenser on to ONE COAL,
HEAT on ONE. Now add TEN of the Celatis at 'NORMAL'. Add Churl
(Normal, condenser 'OFF', heat ONE), until the mixture grows
vicious (about 8 or 9). Click on the arrow and sit back in awe!
Your village should now be virtually invincible (apart from
plagues), and the uprising should be at about zero. Immediately
put four eggs on the boil set to about half-heat - or however much
you can afford, remembering that one egg costs you 9 Gelds a month.
Leave your dragon there for now.
Go ahead and advance a month and you find that villages keep
on being established and instantly give themselves to you.
Advance about four months with your egg heat on 'FULL' and you
should be getting your hands on about 200 Gelds a month. Be sure
to check your map regularly. Also check the Trader each month
and buy as much of the following chemicals as possible:
RASGON, AROLIG, ILEGE, CELATIS, DLEGA, CHURL, ULIN and OEGENESE.
As soon as your four dragons have hatched, put on three more and
put up your babies' EYESIGHT, WISDOM and SPEED. Don't worry about
strength - that comes naturally. You can afford to turn a blind
eye to village rebellions because at any point you can send in a
good dragon to make them succumb. But be sure to put up Estor's
wisdom to 'FULL'; otherwise he becomes very thick!
By now you should have advanced many months and be getting at
least 400 Gelds per month. If you've played carefully you
should have many more territories than the enemy and after just a
few years, you should be able to get your hands on about 70,000
Gelds.
Be sure to watch out for the time when one of your opponents sends
dragons out to search the land because this means the hunt for the
Talisman in on!
At this point you have two options. The first is to destroy
the enemy completely, casting chronic plague spells on all the
enemy villages and constantly attacking them with dragons.
Employing the callous method, you should soon wipe out your enemy
and all you then have to do is repeatedly search the countryside
for the three Talisman pieces. If you find them, well done! Sit
back and enjoy the end sequence.
The other option is to search the area without killing the enemy.
Save your game onto at least three different disks at
different months, making certain that these are all within the last
five months. In this way, if the enemy should find all three pieces,
you still have a good position saved on disk. You can tell if the
enemy has found a piece because either he won't move his dragon
or there are constant battles going on for just a single piece of
land.
If you find a piece of the Talisman, look over the place
indicated by it and load up your last saved game. Now capture the
same place - there's less chance of the enemy realising that
you've found a piece. Eventually, you can track down all the pieces
and you've won the game!
~SPELLS TO TRY
~-------------
There are many useful spells, but these are some of the more
effective.
DRAGON DIRECTOR
Rasgon x 2 (or 3 for Mega Power), 1 heat (grind).
VILLAGE DIRECTOR
Celatis x 10 (very strong), heat 1, condenser 1 (normal).
STRENGTH
Ulin x 3, 1 heat, normal.
HEALTH
Oregense x 3, 1 heat, normal.
EYESIGHT
Ilege x 4, 1 heat, normal.
WISDOM
Arolig x 5, 1 heat, 1 cool, normal OR Dlega x 8, 1 heat, 1 cool, cut.
SPEED
Arolig x 5 (or less), 1 heat, normal.
VILLAGE GROWTH
Charl x 9, 1 heat, normal.
VILLAGE DISEASE
Sadiel x 8, normal, 1 heat (or variations).
Be sure to remember the following points:
(1) Never attack a village with a Barbarian in it. There's a high
risk that you'll die!
(2) Remember to INCREASE wisdom - it can become very important.
(3) You won't find any Talisman unless your dragon has FULL EYESIGHT.
(4) Speed is essential!
(5) With all your dragon's faculties set on 'FULL', your dragon can
usually conquer a village with a population of as many as 2,000
people.
(6) Wisdom is vital for your success.
(7) If the village has a high population, there's no need to guard
it with a dragon.
(8) It's a good strategy to improve the population to full in as
many villages as you can manage.
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Contributed by John R.Barnsley.