How to pass QUEST "A Pact With The Devil"

[yasaha]

Can you please tell me how to complete the "Pact with the Devil" quest?
The objective of this mission is "Survive the onslaught of the orcs and their armies."
How long does it take to survive? I have destroyed the enemy capital and enemy armies, but the orc armies come again and again.

[QWEEDDY2]

Are you talk about The Alliance Crusade second (of 3) mission for Elves or about separate skirmish map for 4 player?
It took from campaign and didnt changes. Factions do not have proper win condition.

[Selesta]

There's gonna be a long run, mate!
There are a few conditions to meet to finally pass the saga. It took me 128 days in Disciples world.

1) Conquer all Orc cities (all cities where orcs appear). To be 100% sure, better to take all the cities)
2) Go to the down corner of the map (near Clan's capital), there will be an Undead horde territory. Take the city. You will see 4 elves blocked in the mountains. These are not your friends :) Wait for a few days and mountains will disappear to release Angus the Elve and his warrior. Angus has Uther's blood.
3) Conquer Angus and all this minions, take Uther's blood.
4) Make a treat (union) with Clans. Fastest way is to ruin Deamon's capital+ send money.
5) When all of above is met, Dwarf king will appear and you need to escort him to the Altair. You will find one on the right side from the Minions capital guarded by red dragon.
6) When Dwarf king in near the Altar, the Nebul..something something will appear. This beast has 4500 HP, Immune to all elements, so make sure to bring as much forces as possible. Learn spells to decrees chances to hit and damage. + Buy Mind ward spell and Fire Ward spell. As close to altar, there will be a lot of this spells used against you.
7) Dwarf King is near the Altar, you standing there also with Uther's blood--> mission is complete.

Good luck!

[Ivastrid]

I take the city, wait about 100 days and nothing happend! Please help :(

[QWEEDDY2]

no proper win conditions there. For everyone except Elves.
Originally it is Elves 2nd (of 3) campaign mission scenario.

[Anonymusx]

impossible make this campaign quest.
The enemy spamming arround 100 units...

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[feral.diana]

Originally posted by Selesta:

There's gonna be a long run, mate!
There are a few conditions to meet to finally pass the saga. It took me 128 days in Disciples world.

1) Conquer all Orc cities (all cities where orcs appear). To be 100% sure, better to take all the cities)
2) Go to the down corner of the map (near Clan's capital), there will be an Undead horde territory. Take the city. You will see 4 elves blocked in the mountains. These are not your friends :) Wait for a few days and mountains will disappear to release Angus the Elve and his warrior. Angus has Uther's blood.
3) Conquer Angus and all this minions, take Uther's blood.
4) Make a treat (union) with Clans. Fastest way is to ruin Deamon's capital+ send money.
5) When all of above is met, Dwarf king will appear and you need to escort him to the Altair. You will find one on the right side from the Minions capital guarded by red dragon.
6) When Dwarf king in near the Altar, the Nebul..something something will appear. This beast has 4500 HP, Immune to all elements, so make sure to bring as much forces as possible. Learn spells to decrees chances to hit and damage. + Buy Mind ward spell and Fire Ward spell. As close to altar, there will be a lot of this spells used against you.
7) Dwarf King is near the Altar, you standing there also with Uther's blood--> mission is complete.

Good luck!

I took Uther's blood, ruined Deamon's capatal, made a teat with Clans but stiill no king

[Cmelda]

I ve got different kind of problem. When i finish this mission, the window for exporting hero appear and then the saga ends. I cant get to third mission of this saga. Somebody know how to fix it?

[QWEEDDY2]

Which version you have? Steam clear version as is probably has such issue too, since exe here are 3.0. Half-clear not as is entirely- VPK extracted and original non-Valve version restored - are better yet require DRM-free exe's and without them still be same issues-possible build.

If you find DRMfree 3.01 exe's (i share them from GOG) - so clear original 3.01 with 2006 DLC installed in result (rest files here on Steam are 2006 Gold unlike else alived digita versions) - there is NO such issues. If someone told you this is game engine bug - that would be a lie (there is russians said that).

Issue most likely doe to incorrectly intalled 3.01 and DLC updates;
localisation;
localisatio incorrectly updates or extracted and applied to ENG;
make official sagas as custom saga or sigke scenarios in such incorrectly updated Editor's, make some mistakes during process, wrong Edtor, non-English editor. Applied motly for localised versons.

It is common issue for russian players, since there is no proper localised files and kinda broken localisation initially. Especially localisation before Akella's in 2005.
If you re russian - use Akella localisation (which only one who did localise 2006 DLC in entire World)

[QWEEDDY2]

And all of this applied only to custom sagas, custom sagas made from original's, or originl extractes as separate scenrios. Subj thread was about a bit alternate Skirmish Scenario A Pact with the Devil - scenario of sjust sngle map (which alternate not enough to be fully playable for non-Elves map from 2nd scenario of The Alliance Crusade campaign you asked about, also called "A Pact with the Devil" indeed).

[Cmelda]

Yeah, I should have specified. I had the English GOG Gold version. Before I read some posts on the GOG forum and found this link there: https :// disk.yandex .ru/d/ M0XF6vcYZLLm4/ Disciples

I imported some maps from it, and I believe I also copied the Alliance Crusade.csg file from it. Then I installed Disciples_TRotE_Gold_Upgrade.exe, and that's all. Everything works fine until this error occurs.

So right now, I have the English GOG version, 3.0.1. So the GOG DRM-free executables dont make sense for my version.

EDIT: I did some testing. I loaded my oldest save of this mission, which is from day 14, and forced a win... same result, it didn’t work. Then I loaded the last save from the previous mission, finished it, and on turn 1 of A Pact With The Devil, I forced a win—and it worked. The third mission loaded. But I still don’t know what happened in the first 14 days that broke my saves.

[QWEEDDY2]

thats my link, files from Steam mostly, one PDF manual from GOG (backup from SF support site file, which GOG preserved but Steam not).

This setup on GOG forum seems official one. At least there was such file on SF own store as +0.00$ bonus for purchase.
This setup equal to Steam version for files.

You can just apply that setup. Else ldr and sg files in Export folders are forward/backward compatible between GR<->ROTE you able to do yourself. Plus Impire.sg present in Steam and omitted in GOG whatever patches you would install.

GOG-GALAXY build from Galaxy client get updated in suppose to match Steam but som files and folders missed.

So, yeah. You already have properly patched 3.01+DLC version. Odd that happen for you in English version. I doubt install DLC did "hurt" otherwise should patch game properly to 3.01 made exactly for same half-3.01 build GOG used as base. This setup did not only include The Alliance Crusade but also make it working.

That happens for me only in Russian versions. Nor Steam(extracted+GOG exe's), nor GOG+DLC, nor Retail 2005 4 CD Gold (2CD for ROTE)(from Redump PC set on Internet Archive). I did patch Retail 2005 Gold by this DLC setup first - and only then i applied previous 3.01 patch. For GOG i did opposite, install DLC setup in last. IDK proper order, i believe not matter and GOG or 2005 Retail should be patched just by DLC setup - one and only.

IDK why. But still same and only solution applied (for any version):
You can export your main hero during mission. Which is better way to export them, although original game exporting (at Complete) bug was fixed in old 1.2a, i still believe exporting at Quest Complete screen can be bugged.
Start new game for The Alliance Crusade and import your exported hero. Then use Victory cheat. You wont lose any progress in such way.

[Cmelda]

Yes, I already exported my hero and continuing with him in the last mission. Anyway, thank you QWEEDDY2 for your help, insight, and for being active in English-speaking sites/community for so long.