Volume 4: The Swan Song (Remastered) Chapter 3: The Development of the Territory
Sassarian alone is not enough to meet the defense needs of the entire territory. As the saying goes, one fence has three piles, and one hero has three gangs, even if he is arrogant, in addition to the loyal Digoxia (9) maid group, there are thousands of cannon fodder to pretend to be forced, not to mention the world where war breaks out at every turn.
Due to the previous attack on the underground mausoleum, the troops that Yu Bin had worked so hard to accumulate some time ago suffered heavy losses, and they have not yet recovered to the highest level in history. What's more, in that battle, a series of problems of the skeleton class were exposed, especially the low combat effectiveness, which made Yu Bin hate it deeply, and it really deserved to be the most rubbish cannon fodder class.
Although there are many races in the world of Entagre, players can freely choose the race and faction they belong to when entering this world. But that's just the player's role, and once the player grows to the point where he can own territory, he will find that there aren't many options for him. This is because if you want to build a territory, the most important and core thing is the territory core. The territorial core is not only the foundation of the existence of the territory, but also the source of energy that supports the various functional buildings in the territory, and the territorial core of different races can only power the functional buildings of the race to which they belong, and it is impossible for an undead death core to be able to activate the elven's recruitment building.
The manufacture of each territorial core requires a large amount of materials, and for some small races, it is not even possible to build their own territorial core independently. And even for beings like orcs or dwarves, crafting a territory core is a very high-end technology.
In addition to this, functional buildings within a territory are also important reasons for limiting the territorial expansion of most races. If the core of the territory is regarded as the engine of an aircraft, then the various functional buildings are the various subsystems of the aircraft, the recruiting building is the weapon system, the energy barrier is the shell of the aircraft, the magic tower, the magic core, the training center and other facilities are the avionics, communications and other important components of the aircraft, all of which are indispensable.
Except for the four major races of humans, elves, undead, and demons, each of which has a complete functional building system from level 0 to level 7, the functional buildings of other races are incomplete, such as the lack of several types of soldiers, or the lack of important facilities such as magic towers. And this deficiency will make the lords of these races face various problems in the war.
As a result, lord players in previous lives rarely put their limited energy into the territory of small and medium-sized races, and players will often see a dwarf lord player with a human soldier, or an orc lord player with a demon soldier. This is not to say that they are unwilling to lead the armies of their own race, but for various reasons, they have to do so to ensure that they have enough strength on the battlefield to avoid falling prey to others because of certain flaws.
And the soldiers of these four major races also have a difference between strength and weakness under the same rank.
Among them, the undead are particularly at a loss, because lord players with undead must wait until they can build a level 4 recruiting building before they can start to have the strength to fight with lord players of other races.
The Tier 0 Skeleton of the Undead Clan, although it is the most powerful of the Tier 0 troops of the 4 races, is unfortunate that it is actually useless except for being easy to recruit and a large number. The Tier 0 Farmer of the human race can help the lord farm and increase food production, which is a rare logistics weapon. The Demon Baby, a Tier 0 class of demons, can evolve into high-level troops of other demon clans through special evolution conditions, which in disguise allows Demon Lord players to have the opportunity to obtain mid-to-high-level troops in the early stage. The Jungle Elf, the Elf's Tier 0 class, is the only Tier 0 class that can release spells, and if there are enough of them, it can even replace the role of some mage players. In contrast, skeletons, which are brittle to death and cannot evolve into high-level troops, can really be said to be useless except to be cannon fodder.
And here for the Tier 1 class, the tragedy of the undead is even greater. The 1st order of human beings is a spearman, although it is said to be a lucky E, but after all, they are long weapons, in addition to having a damage bonus to cavalry, once upgraded to a high-grade halberd, there is also the characteristic of hatred of the enemy, and the number of 1st order troops is very easy to accumulate. Therefore, in the later stage, when facing the lord with human soldiers, players have to think about it, those halberds rely on the characteristic of hatred and hatred, the more people, the greater the damage, although there is a certain upper limit, but as long as there are more than a hundred, then the damage of a single halberd soldier is almost comparable to that of a 3rd order class, except that the blood volume is a little thinner, it can be said to be perfect low-level cannon fodder.
The elves' first-order troops are centaurs, these are not the centaurs that Yu Bin met in the backwater oasis at the beginning, but the centaurs evolved by the elves after tens of thousands of years, through domestication and cultivation, this kind of centaurs in addition to completely obeying the orders of the elves, also have the advantages of fast movement and great impact, as long as the number comes up, it is equivalent to a cavalry force, rolling forward.
The Demon's Tier 1 class is the Horned Demon, these Ugly Eight Monsters with four limbs on the ground, like a big frog, with a short bulge on their heads, although the movement speed is slow, and the attack damage is also low, except for the thick amount of blood, there is no advantage, but the problem is that the thick limbs of the Horned Demon can provide them with enough bounce power, coupled with the unstable fire element in the Horned Demon's body, this kind of cannon fodder is often used as a human bomb by the Demon Lords, jumping into the enemy in piles to self-detonate attacks.
As for the undead's Tier 1 class zombies, I really don't want to say anything. The movement speed is slower than that of a turtle, and the attack power is even lower to death, and the blood volume is the thickest of the 1st order troops of the 4 races, and it can even exceed the 2nd order troops of elves and humans, but the problem is that on the battlefield, which idiot will be stupid to accompany these flesh sandbags to box, and when the time comes, as long as you bypass these zombies, you can directly ignore these waste like turtle crawls.
Therefore, unless the Undead Lord player finds the right terrain and forces the opponent to face their zombies, this class will always be the last to fall on the battlefield, as the rest of the Undead's troops have already been wiped out.
Even when it comes to the second-order class, the undead don't have much of an advantage. Humans and elves have been able to begin training archers at this stage, forming the first long-range strike force. Demons are also able to possess Cerberus at this time. And what about the undead?
Phantom!
The only advantage of the fluttering ghost, commonly known as the fluttering ghost, is that it can greatly resist physical attacks, and can restrain human and elven archers to a certain extent, but don't forget, the outbreak of war between player lords cannot rely on these soldiers alone to fight, more are other players hired by the player lords, and even some player lords themselves are high-level personnel of a guild, and a large group of guild members can be found to help fight in a word. In the face of players with endless skills, Piao Piao is simply a target floating in the air, which is useless compared to skeletons.
The only advantage may be the special ability after the high evolution, there are many evolved forms of ghosts, most of which have very practical and powerful abilities, such as the soul messenger who can directly control the enemy, and the yin soul that can absorb the enemy's magic power, and the soul that brings fear to the enemy, etc., but these evolved forms not only require a lot of military merit, but cultivating a high-level Piao Piao also requires players to put in a lot of effort, which is very low in terms of cost performance.
So Yu Bin made up his mind from the beginning and didn't want to waste time and resources on this kind of waste troops, fortunately, in addition to these most common troops, each race has a lot of substitutes, after all, in these tens of thousands of years of camp warfare, it is impossible for various races to rely on fixed arms from beginning to end, and the emergence of a class of troops will inevitably make the enemy study how to restrain them, and this kind of competition between them has led to the emergence of a large number of special arms.
However, these special classes are either difficult to train or costly, for those small and medium-sized races, these special classes can still be tried in small batches, but for large races that require a large number of soldiers, the main force in the army has been systematically formed from Tier 0 to Tier 7.
Previously, Yu Bin used the relationship of the ghost lady Farina in the Psychic Academy to acquire some special architectural drawings of the undead clan, including two special classes of undead troops.
The first is the Bone Guard, which belongs to the same Tier 0 as the Skeleton. Unlike skeletons, the Bone Guardians are not part of the skeleton class, but are like zombies, and they still have a lot of flesh on their bodies, which gives them higher protection and health. In addition, the Bone Guardian is also much larger than the skeleton in terms of size, and the individual strength is also between the Tier 0 and Tier 1 troops.
The second is ghouls. This is a true Tier 1 class, and is often used by Undead Lords to replace zombies, using it in warfare on a large scale. Compared to the slow-moving zombies, the Ghouls have been reduced in size and increased in agility, and the Necromancers have retained the ghoul's strong hind limb strength after many experiments, allowing the class to jump and grapple over short distances. This allowed the Ghoul to shed his identity as cannon fodder and become the vanguard of large-scale attacks by the undead, often mixed with ghost troops, as the main force to storm the enemy and attack the city.
In fact, Yu Bin originally wanted to obtain the recruitment building blueprint of the Crypt Spider, a second-order troop class, from the Psychic Academy. This special class is unique to the Psychic Academy, and Kel'thugad has obtained this semi-undead creature after using his shadow power and death sorcery to transform and cultivate some large spiders. In addition to retaining the ability to spit spider silk and toxins, the Crypt Spider can also create small flying insects in its body to attack enemies. The half-undead, half-creature nature allows them to increase their numbers by laying eggs, rather than having to transform them one by one.
In the previous life, it was precisely because of the existence of this crypt spider that the Psychic Academy became a nightmare for players, and I don't know how many player lords tried their best to obtain the recruitment qualifications or architectural drawings of this special class.
It's a pity that Kel'thugad didn't agree to Yu Bin's request and refused to give him the architectural drawings of the crypt spider. However, in order to get Yu Bin to agree to deliver the Book of your to the city of Kodila, Kel'thugad promised to give this drawing as a reward to Yu Bin, who successfully completed the task, and met Yu Bin's request to a certain extent.
The Bone Guardian and the Ghoul can well meet Yu Bin's requirements at this stage. It's not that Yu Bin doesn't want to get more powerful troops, but the current Naxxramas can't support the soldiers who are too high-level, regardless of the energy supply required by the recruiting building, just providing enough weapons and supplies for these soldiers is a big problem. Although the undead do not have a high demand for supplies, they must at least meet the minimum standards, and it is impossible for Yu Bin to let these soldiers fight the enemy with their bare hands, right?
Providing them with equipment requires raw materials, craftsmen, and time, the former requires Yu Bin to control more field resources and obtain the materials he needs, while the latter requires Naxxramas to have a sufficient number of craftsmen, which is determined by the number of civilians in the territory, and Yu Bin can't help even if he wants to pull out the seedlings.
If a territory wants to develop healthily, it needs to be gradual. The increasing number of civilians provides better logistical support, allowing the liege to support more soldiers, which in turn gives the liege more control over the field resources and thus better logistical support, and the absence of either can be a serious problem.
Of course, those players who had the support of the guild in the previous life will have a much less need for these two aspects. Guild players can largely replace civilians, providing logistical support to their lords, while also being able to fight as a soldier when needed. But after all, players are independent individuals, everyone has their own different needs, they have joys and sorrows, ideals and pursuits, and the only way to make them obey the orders of the lord like the aborigines is to pay enough price, which often makes the lord players love and hate.
Yu Bin didn't have such a foundation, and it was already exhausting for him to be able to do it to this extent from scratch, so he could only find a way to dig deep into the potential, based on the aborigines, and let the development of Naxxramas rise as smoothly as possible.