If you don’t kill Captain Qerth after a few waves, it may be difficult or nigh impossible to hold out after the long battle. There are several waves of reinforcements that come in regardless, but it appears that additional waves will just keep coming as long as Qerth is alive, with smaller numbers of ridiculously elite guards. Qerth can be very tough, because you have to kill him quickly. If you see the yellow light start spinning, fall back until it passes (except for your tank, they can usually ignore it). Finally, he has a whirlwind ability that does a lot of damage.

Don’t let anyone engage the captain with low health. This stuns them for a while and leaves them badly hurt. He can also do a version of the pommel strike, in which he’ll punch one of your men after setting down his sword. He will do a buff fairly often that greatly heals the men on the floor. Archers will try to hold the steps while the fighters will flood the floor.Ĭaptain Qerth is a brutal enemy. The battle with the bandits takes place entirely in the main room of the mansion. The battle is an absolute nightmare on hard, and incredibly easy on normal. Taking out their fake barracks is quite easy…conceptually. Night Lies - The False Barracks and Captain Qerth Take out the archers quickly and watch the two waves of reinforcements to keep your mage out of trouble.

The tank can easily shrug off the attacks of the toughest men while your rogue and fighter stab the rest repeatedly. As a rule, you seem to be in good shape with a rogue and a warrior along with a tank and a healer/assault mage. Just check the big courtyards for groups of them. You may have to leave Hightown and come back to rack up 4 kills. The third wave can be very tough if you don’t watch your stamina, and you will probably blow most of the reward on potions. In general, they seem to have more health and armor. Note that the guardsmen seem to be the toughest of the three bandits. Regardless, once you take out four groups you can take out their hideout. As usual, they assume that the hardened mercenaries are good for easy money for reasons unclear to me. If you go into Hightown at night, you’ll find that there are groups of false guardsmen (guardsmen pretenders) setting up ambushes. This is one of the toughest fights for cleaning up the streets.

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