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= Getting started: Let us die for the king! (This page is still in work!) =

While many things in For The King are quite self-explanatory and the game has enough information brought to the player throughout the game, it is still not unusual to have your group die early if you don´t know the tricks and mechanics of the game. This guide will introduce you to some basics of For The King and make it easier for you to save the land from Chaos. However, you still have to be a hero yourself.

Creating a party: Choosing your heroes
The first step of saving the land is of course to choose the heroes which will do so. You have a basic selection of characters available to play and can unlock more in the lore store. Here are some informations about the characters and how you can play/use them.

The hunter
The hunter is your basic damage dealer class with focus on evasion in defensive stats. His main attributes are awareness and speed. He has the Abilites Elite Sneak, Elite Trap Evasion, Energy Boost and Called Shot. The latter offers a small chance to automatically succeed on all attack rolls and land a critical hit on an enemy if you used no focus for the attack and are also not stunned. Energy Boost offers a small chance to be able to move another hex field on the map at the end of your turn.

The hunter´s strenghts lie clearly in dealing high amounts of damage as well as being very fast on the game board. However, the hunter does not have very much HP and will also not collect any high damage resistances, so he is always playing with the luck of the players as his only real means to avoid damage is evasion. Cut that away with an enemy spell and the hunter will die very fast. Also, the hunter has little variation in the kind of damage he deals, so he will be weak against armored enemies. Fortunately, many awareness-scaled weapons have the ability to pierce.

The blacksmith
The blacksmith is a typical warrior which can deal high amounts of damage as well as take quite a few hits before falling down. However, the blacksmith is also not the fastest character class which makes him vulnerable to fast foes as well as quite slow on the game board. His only ability is Steadfast which completely ignores the damage taken by an enemy attack and is randomly triggered. However, to be able to benefit from this ability, the blacksmith has to have a shield equipped.

While the blacksmith can certainly deal good amounts of damage, his true strenghts lie in durability. You should equip the blacksmith with high resistance items which often also give a boost to Strength or Vitality, increasing the blacksmith´s potential even further. The Steadfast ability is a very powerful skill which is why the blacksmith always should have a shield and a onehanded weapon equipped. However, as said before, the blacksmith is quite vulnerable to fast foes as well as disabling effects which strip him of his defences or slow him down even further.

The scholar
The scholar is the classic mage class of this game. He can deal very high amounts of damage and can defend himself against enemy magic as well as buff the party with some spells (if you choose to use tomes as your weapon), he however has little health and is very vulnerable to physical attacks. His ability Refocus gives him a chance to regain focus at the end of his turn.

The scholar is a very powerful damage dealer as he can spend focus most of the time to empower his attacks. He is also immune to curses if you choose to play him as a typical mage (and thus equipping him with robes), however while he does have a good dodge chance he is very vulnerable to physical attacks and everything which pierces resistances since his Vitality is quite low. It is always good to have a scholar in your party since you can play him in various ways, however you should always be sure to protect him. His main contribution to the group is a high amount of magical damage.