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Ice Army Caves
The Ice Army Caves (IAC) are caves containing a network of depots, several castles and platinum mines. Here you are able, with some ancient magic, to create artificial creatures, which can be used as workers or fighters.
Islena's lieutenants are trying to gain control over these castles and mines. If they succeed they will make an army of these creatures and overrun the defenses around Aston.
Your mission is to find out how to use the castles, the mines and the workers to raise an army at your own, and to defeat Islena's lieutenants.
You are not able to die in IAC. Its your workers/fighters that do all the work you just have to guide them.

Level experience or Military experience
After solving a mission you get to choose between getting level experience or military experience. My suggestion is to only do IAC to get military experience, especially on a main character, because this is one of the best placed to improove on that area.

Making workers
Make workers by shift+left clicking the lever at your castle. Each worker costs 300 platinum.

Commands outside a IAC

/mission to get a list of the caves, and the missions currently available. You should always take the one on top, and always do every mission 3 times.

/enter <number> to start any of the missions listed. The missions can be occupied, which means that you will be queued and have to wait until its your turn.

/info Youll be able to get some information about your understanding og the castles magic

/raise <number> You can choose to research one of the topics listed with /info. Raise each time after you finished a mission to be even better at the next mission.

commands inside a IAC

/surrender to end the mission you are on before you are done.

/list to see a list of your how much platinum you have in each castle or depot.

/eguard <depotnumber> to put a Eguard at the depot you selected. You have to stand close and facing to the depot to make this work. Using these Eguards if mostly for the last IACs, and beware of not using too many since you have maximum total on Eguards. Number of Eguards increase as you solve missions.

/jp <depot or castle number> jump to a location. Use list or shift+right-click on depot/castle to get the numbers.

/take takes control of a depot.

transfer to get a worker to transfer platinum from either a castle or a depot. You have to stand close to the depot/castle you want to transfer from and you must face in the direction you want the worker to transfer.

mine to get a worker to mine platinum from a mine. You have to face the mine and stand close to it to make this work.

guard to get a worker to guard a depot/castle

fight to order the workers to fight enemy creatures. This works on the workers close enough to hear you. Once you engage in a fight near their castle all of their workers will come and fight you.

follow to get the workers to follow you. This works on the workers close enough to hear you.

train to get the workers to train. Makes them increase in levels, thus getting stronger. You have to stand inside the castle area and it only works on the workers close enough to hear you.

Bonus info. You are able to use the commands for the workers on a specific worker. example: 386 transfer (386 being the number of the worker) which makes only worker 386 to respond.

Tips & Tricks
Make aliases of the different commands you use in the IAC, which will make everyting much more efficient.

When enemy worker comes to scout where you are, kill it before it runs away again. Makes you fight one less in the big battle at the end.



Block the backs of your workers when fighting, since that is where they are most vulnerable.



Attacking with all your workers at the same time means that they all use their warcry (wc) together too. If you attack in waves you are more likely to win big, because you have a much better change of keeping the enemy wc'd. A good way to make this work is to say "fight" from a distance that mean that its not all your workers that hear it, thus some will not fight the enemy unless you stand to close to the battle. Another way is to command them to fight one by one by using their worker numbers, but this is a longer process.


Pick your battles away from their Eguards as much as possible. Always a good thing if you can kill some workers before getting in fights with their Eguards, who are stronger then their workers.



Efficiency are the main key. A good arrangement of alts speeds up the whole process, thus giving your opponent lesser time to make more workers. Make sure no workers ever stand still!!


The first missions:

IAC A

What i had after this IAC:
5 workers, 15 wc, 10 end

What to do:
Mine all platinum. Train all workers. Attack your enemy.

IAC B

What i had after this IAC:
7 workers, 50 wc, 20 end, 10 speed bonus, 2 training speed

What to do:
Mine the first mine dry. Make 5 workers. Attack your enemy.

IAC C

What i had after this IAC:
8 workers, 75 wc, 55 end, 20 speed bonus, 4 training speed

What to do:
Make 5 workers. Leave the last 100 platinum in the castle. Go kill the first enemy. Use your 5 workers and mine with all of them so they carry 50 platinum each and make them follow you back to your castle, where you get them to transfer the platinum to the castle (stand at a depot and say "transfer"). Do this twice. Now you have platinum for two more workers. Take all 7 workers with you to the first enemies castle and mine. Transfer all platinum to the enemy castle. Use that castle to train your workers to level 60. Go kill second enemy.

IAC D

What i had after this IAC:
10 workers, 100 wc, 70 end, 35 speed bonus, 5 training speed

What to do:
Mine the platinum from both mines close to your castle. A good idea is to mine from both mines at the same time. Start with the mine to the North-East. Then go kill the enemy to the vest from your castle. After you kill the first enemy take whatever platinum he has and go back to your castle and train your workers. Go kill the second enemy.

[kirke]

The advice that helped me finally succeed in IAC 14


1: Bring 2500 gu with you

2: The moment you enter create ONE worker and run like hell to the enemy up left. You have to get there before he creates an E-guard.

3: When the fighting has begun you type /jp 61 which brings you back to your spawner and you place the 2500 gu in the storage and create all the workers you can (3 if i remember right).

4: Run back and send them into the battle ONE BY ONE.

5: When the enemy is defeated you take your workers to his storage and let them use his platinum to train. When they are done you say "follow" and then type /jp 61.

6: run to the mine up left and let your arriving workers mine. Let one of them put 50 plat in depot 82 and create at least 1 e-guard there. (/eguard 82). Empty the mine and get more workers as fast as you can

7: Run to the mine right of your storage (close to depot 82) and help your eguard, that will by now most likely have been attacked already. Mine while fighting the attacks that will now and then occur.

[kerstyn]

i save all my eguards till iac 14, have them at 115.

when dont use your platinum, let it sit in depot, as long as you have 300+ you cant die.

no need to fight at all, let the other 2 fight over who gets your platinum.

once both have almost killed each other off you clean up the rest by summoning 12 or so eguards (only need like 3, but hey, wth?)

i usually do iac for whoever askes me to, iac is one of the very few things i love about astonia.... if anyone ever needs help just ask for kerst, i have strategies for all missions