You cannot retreat while playing as Antares. Unfortunately, his army is actually vulnerable to morale loss from War Drums due to bug in game and additionally you can't boost morale of your troops with Leadership. Every squad in his army has Fanatical morale, so they are immune to Fear Spell and they won't desert (the enemy troops will flee instead). It actually heals EVERY unit in your army (including your Colossus), which it's really handy while you have only one giant knight.Įmperor Antares's Death Imperium is actually one of the best factions in the game. Starting skills: Defensive Tactics, Heal Armyĭefensive Tactics applies only to non-colossus units and increases the likehood that they will evade the strike, but his second spell is really important. The advantage while playing with this faction is that you don't have to worry about War Drums, because only Beast Force has this spell as starting one (in Survival mode you can't fight with the same faction as you play with) Keep in mind that this unit is the most valuable one during hard mode gameplay. The most important thing here is Colossus Mastery, which increases stats of your colossus.
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Morale reduction is purely cosmetic for enemies, because their squads with low morale can still attack ferociously anyway.
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War Drums allows him to drain enemy's command points, which sometimes it makes them impossible to cast a spell. Starting skills: War Drums, Colossus Mastery
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There are 8 playable factions in the game, but if it comes to hard mode of Survival, I recommend to play with one of these three factions (Baron Wolfgang's Free States and Lord Celen's Iron Republic are quite useless here):