One of the other new bits is that information will play a role in the game so you can interrogate prisoners at camp or send spies out to particular areas. There you can talk with them, hear what they have to say, look around, visit special merchants, and more. You can spend more time with your core group though at your camp that you can set up in most places. Nor are they just auto-replenished - you have to hire them on contracts or do special jobs rescuing or helping them to get them for your side. Mercenaries are a varied lot with fighters, mages, assassins and more making up the ranks you can find. You can have 9 of them and can deploy them as you want in start zones at the beginning of a fight. Of course, Marwyn is going to step up his defenses there - he knows you want it so its going to be harder for you to take back in the future.Īs a game featuring war though, having only 4 characters would be an issue and that introduces mercenary's to the field. If you do lose the fight though, this isn't a game over situation - Marwyn just reconquers it and you lose access to its quests, shops, and such. The troops who are there - not your main heroes who are off elsewhere - but the troops can take some basic orders to defend a location or such to help fight it off. The only thing more disgusting than their rotting, decaying flesh is their decaying moral fibers. In this situation you'll get to set up the map with traps like the opponent has done to annoy you in the past - man traps, crates all set up in the way you think it should be. Decayed Blackguards are Undead Draconians who defend the door that leads towards Malistaire on the right side of the Chamber. Which brings us to the second new addition - in Blackguards 2, you will sometimes be on the defense.

Blackguards 2 hang prisoners