Attack
in order to swap out a heavily wounded character with absolutely no penalty to nobility. It helps having about two characters in each group moving on the map so the damage can be distributed amongst them evenly.A Saxon force is building up in "Colchester" to the east that will eventually lay siege to "London". Defeating them can be done easily by gathering the forces from the north, "Lincoln" and "Lichester" and sending them down to "London" as well as defeating a fell beast for "Palomides" in "Dover". The fight is a no-brainer and even without having to fall back to the walls, victory is very much assured.
The second sequence, after defeating the Saxons from the east, involves "Melehan" who is advancing a massive force from the mountains to the north and will eventually besiege "Camelot" laying waste to all the towns in his path. There is just one single way to boil the egg here since the game is designed for the player to seek out "Lancelot". Without finding "Lancelot", "Melehan"'s troops are just too much even for the combined yet weakened forces in "London".
The secret to finding "Lancelot" lies between "Glastonbury", "Cardiff" and "Caerwent":
Request
from "Grud" in order to obtain a golden key. Similarly, instead of heading north as "Grud" would imply, the next destination is, in fact, "Cardiff" again.After "Lancelot" is freed, a bunch of knights will appear on the map whose forces can be joined together to defeat "Melehan".
It is possible to defeat "Melehan" without even finding "Lancelot". The trick relies on using Fyrd's Stone
(one of the items in "Camelot" up the stairs behind the locked door) repetitively once the fight starts to deal the maximum damage to "Melehan". Using the Flank
option for the knights and the Charge
option for soldiers and with a bit of luck of the roll, "Melehan" has a chance to die off during the fight. The chances are slim and there are lots of reloads ahead for this to work. Nevertheless, opposing heroes can be damaged in battle just like the player heroes and the Fyrd's Stone
makes sure that just one single blow is necessary for "Melehan" to fall.
Completing the second season this way seems to carry no penalty to the game overall since "Lancelot" will happily appear in season three as if he had already been rescued.