Mission 3 - The Quiet Stone

The Quiet Stone

Story mission
Mission	3
Chapter	1: The Age of Iron
Played	3rd
Map	Forest, Small
In the demo	Yes
Estimated time	35-55 min (estimate)
Starting resources	Standard
Teaches	Control groups, holding a border, exploring the fog, attacking an enemy camp
Objectives
Story spoilers: Mission 3 Assign a control group. Hold the border. Explore the valley. March on the Corvane camp. Destroy the Corvane hall.
Campaign
Previous	Mission 2 - Before the Snow
Next	Mission 4 - What the Scholars Carried

The Quiet Stone is the third mission of the Story campaign, in Chapter 1, The Age of Iron. The foothold has become a walled town, and for the first time you command a real army: you group your soldiers, hold the border, scout the valley and take the fight to Corvane's camp.

Overview

• You start with a town, its wall and gate, and a standing army that arrives at the start of the mission.
• The economy is not taught again; this mission is about commanding soldiers.
• Mage buildings and units are still hidden, as are siege engines, ships, stone defences and the Stronghold.
• This is the last mission in the demo. In the demo, winning it ends the demo.

Story

Story spoilers: Mission 3

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The foothold is a town now, with sword, spear and bow to defend it, and Corvane's camp across the valley has grown too. Corvane probes the border with a patrol first, and the Captain drives it off with losses.

Hale wants to know what the fog hides before Corvane does. Scouts sent toward the river find a stone pillar, cut with carvings nobody can read. Hale looks at it and moves on:

"Stone that no one carved. The scholars have three names for it and no use. Leave it." (Commander Hale)

The army marches on the Corvane camp and brings down its hall. Hale expects Corvane to shrug it off and return in greater numbers. The valley is Ashmere's, and the stone in it is still cold.

Objectives

Story spoilers: Mission 3

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1. Arrival. Six Swordsmen, four Spearmen and four Shortbowmen join you by the hall. Select soldiers and press Ctrl+1 to make them a control group; press 1 to select them again.
2. Hold the border. About 20 seconds in, a Corvane patrol of three Spearmen appears. Put your soldiers between it and the hall. The step completes about two minutes after it began.
3. Explore. A checkpoint is saved. Select a unit and right-click into the fog toward the river. The step completes when your scouts uncover the Pillar.
4. March. A checkpoint is saved. Select your army and right-click at the marker by the Corvane camp. The step completes when your units reach the camp's hall.
5. Destroy the hall. Select soldiers and right-click the Corvane hall. The mission is won when it falls.

Characters met

Story spoilers: Mission 3

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• Commander Aldric Hale.
• Corvane: a border patrol, then its camp.

Notes

Story spoilers: Mission 3

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• Corvane's attacks are held to three soldiers at a time, and they never target your Town Hall.
• The Pillar is dormant: it is found, named and dismissed, and it cannot be charged. The mission is meant to make you remember it.
• From this mission on, the Mystic Calling is no longer locked.

Campaign

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