Hi,



During the Chinese New Year Steam Sales, I bought the expansion pack for Endless Legend. I used to play to Vanilla for months, and I wanted to add the Guardians and the Shadows to spice it up a bit.



I then started a new game, with the Vaulters. I tried to go past the 20 turns carefully, as I noticed there was a Shadow clan near my capital. I had like 3 cities around turn 35, 2 heroes and 3 T1 units (quite enough for a start in Vanilla).



Then an cooperation event occured in the game, something like "Brutality Epidemy" (not sure of the name, I play on the French version, and it's called "épidémie de brutalité" in it), that granted bonuses to minor factions. The event is ever going until someone destroyed the Kanzji village.



But:







As you can see, the Kanjzi village is in my territory, and the other factions around me aren't really thrilled about sending help to me. In fact, the Necrophages are crawling up to me from the south in a very aggressive way, and as the Shadows are spying on my capital (and reducing the population and industry btw), I feel alone against this problem.



I decided during turn 60 to build 2 squads of 4 units + hero to end this, but as soon as the squads left the cities (and I packed them), they were attacked by 2 silics with really high attack and defense (140/110) compared to my units (70/30), the following turn by 2 hydras, and enventually by 3 Kanzjis. I couldn't make it to the village and as the necrophages were attacking my capital I left the game.



I don't mind loosing in a 4X game, it's part of the pleasure, but during every turn since the event I felt nearly persecuted by the game. The event was supposed to be cooperative, but the AI didn't even mind the 700 dust reward. I didn't know what to do at this point. Is there a strategy against that kind of situation? Could I do better than what I did?



Every point of view accepted



Thank you in advance!

It sounds like you're behind on tech (which would be weird as the Vaulters), not gearing your units with even current basic gear, not using heroes well, misrepresenting the numbers, or some combination thereof. I've never had any problems with a single hero and a six unit army smashing through the minor factions when that buff is active.



I don't suppose you happen to have any save files from that game still? Maybe even just the most recent autosaves?



P.S. Regarding the Forgotten, you need to use Round-ups and then keep them from getting LoS on your cities with Closed Borders and Watch Towers.



P.P.S. The AI just completely ignores cooperative events as far as I can tell.

Destroy (or pacify) minor villages and roaming armies in and close to your regions as early as possible. If the event occurs, the minors are really strong...



Good luck