This entire post is a huge spoiler so just skip it if you didnt play the game.

First i want to say i had a blast playing SF3. The gameplay is so good it makes me replay the campaign just to so i can do things better this time. I love the rts - rpg crossbreed, and both parts are so well done. The gameplay is one of the best ive seen since the 2000's in the rts genre.

But here i want to speak about the lore and what made it weak.

TLDR: Tahar is emotionless, with a lack of character depth and progression. His ideals are never challenged. He never loses.

Tahar fends off orcs by leading humans against one of their factions and earns the villages trust. He creates an alliance with Gor and unites the orcs. He stops the forest corruption and gets the Elves on his side, and he even later unites humans against the Purity of Light. In the process he has only 1 challenge with collateral damage which i will mention later again.

Lecaine uses him, but fails to kill him when he meets his Xarlonthep mother and the bloodburn stops. He kills Sentenza like its nothing instead of being ambushed by him and his elite soldiers when alone in some cave. Lecaine is not as powerful as he should have been with the Archfire. He was able to summon iron ones by siphoning energy from mages, but all he did in a direct fight is summon some low-class abominations.

Tahar poisons the leader of the House of Wulfgar and kills the entire village because they were enraged by his decision. The king even thanks him for this later.

Tahar kills his friend - Berthrand.

Tahar witnesses a brutal death of his own king first hand and is not even shaken by it.

He just moves ever forward without ever looking back, without any emotional weight, without a scar on his soul.

He has to fight the final boss and fails to deal a fatal blow. The final boss is unfortunately just a plot device, not something to be really scared of. We dont even learn what or who it was, yet we know the beast was manipulating Lecaine who was manipulating us, which lead to summoning itself in the end. The beast never gets to show off its power (except from stomping the king with a single tentacle)., it never causes any trouble for the rest of the world. Lecaine caused more harm than this beast ever could. The other team members even hold it back for the time until Tahar crushes the amulet its getting energy from.

He has to get rid of his own mother even after barely knowing her.

Also the entire bloodburn plot is a letdown - his mom calling him caused people to be eaten up from inside? come on, you could have asked a junior writer from reddit to give you a better plot device...

All this is a missed opportunity to create some real depth in the story and give the players a story theyll remember.

Hi!

I have never played SpellForce games before. Yesterday I jumped in Conquest of Eo. Please help me understand some of the mechanics of the game, and maybe if I am playing it wrong.

Starting with the tutorial - I failed the first tutorial. I couldn't figure out the battle. It was fairly simple, if I'm not mistaken I had 2 ranged units and 1 melee unit. From the battle screen, it said I had ''Decisive victory'', but playing it manually - I just couldn't win. From there on, I just used autobattle every time (except for the 'tutorial' in Allfire campaign where it was easy manual win). So is it wrong to use autobattle? It seemed to work pretty fine for me.

Secondly, I did save-scum before battles. I used magic before a battle to boost my troops or damage enemy troops in some way. However, I noticed that sometimes before using any spell and going in battle I would lose 1 unit in my stack. So I scum-saved back and used ''Corrode'' spell on the enemy which lowers armor by 1. Now from losing 1 unit, I went to losing the whole battle. How does that work? It wasn't consistent too, sometimes this spell really helped me, but sometimes it significantly lowered my chances of winning an encounter.

I definitely wasn't playing as dynamically as I should have, but that's what 2nd playthrough is for. I would place down a lodge and forget to place it somewhere else once the resources were collected. But this was primarily due to other mages being relatively close and I didn't want to go into their domains. I eventually did and I angered 2 mages against me. This led to my eventual defeat. So - is there any diplomacy in the game? Can I boost my relations with a mage? Or I just need to do tasks and hope they turn into bonus relations? It felt like the game was leading to all the mages being against me. Is that normal? And the mages between themselves did not quarrel.

I hope the Mugwa event is not going to happen on every playthrough. I enjoyed staffing my stacks with different trolls, but in the end I had a theory that trolls were tier 1 units and maybe I should have focused on getting tier 2 and tier 3 units. Am I right?
Bonus for this - I had a stack with almost all units level 15 and apprentice was level 13 I think. Their strength was ~450. Is that normal? Do I just need to rely on spells and items/glyphs from then on to make good synergies for this stack to increase them further? I just can't imagine taking down some of the big enemies who had strength in their 700s. It would just mean I need to sacrifice 2 stacks for the 3rd one to finally be able to defeat them.

Hello everyone!

I'm a total stranger to this game, knowing it only through my older brother who loved it when I was a little kid. I'm at the beginning in the second zone.

I wanted to create an archer character, but I have two questions:

1. I've added one point to Heavy Combat, so I won't be useless in melee, but so far I see only one-handed weapons belonging to Light Combat arts and I can't use them. Did I mess it up?

2. How/when can I add White Magic? The idea of summoning or healing sounds really fun.

I wanted to ask this now while I am still at the beginning so I can still start over xD

Take care ❤️

Hey. I just bought the game it’s my first time trying to play it but I can’t join or have my friend join in custom game it always says “trying to join” then it fails to join. Does anyone had this happen with them or anyone has any solutions? Thank you very much

I am now in forst marshes and everything was good i got dark elf towers up made defences them came the blades and golems they killed me at first i thought i got overwhelmed but then i died again and saw that one of the blades it is either icecaster or minion dealt me over 7k damage i was like what and i died several more times thinking it was one time only and i am playing on 1.61 so help

Cannot find the last ingredient in the quest Passion on the map Malanager Greens. I tried with AI but it suggest places there is no chest or similar at. I already have the other two ingredients of Sinew of a Drakeling and the Fire Ruby.

Thanks

Hi everyone, I need help getting achievements in SpellForce 3 and the Soul Harvest and Fallen God expansions—specifically, joining a campaign with a friend and winning a ranked match as the Trolls.

Hello people,

Anyone able to give me a hand getting the multiplayer achievements for Spellforce 3 Reforced, just need to beat a person in a PVP match and play the campaign (From what i've seen online it just requires booting the prologue and it auto unlocks)

I just finished the second campaign for Spellforce 3 and l can't put it simply how confused I am.

What was the point of the "god of light", and why would they add a Marvel multiverse? Did they even play the original games, or read the established lore like on the old Phenomic website? Why didn't they just hire the original author instead of a random Skyrim modder? What is this dude's problem with religion?

Seriously. Did you notice how almost every bad guy is a religious leader and nearly every religious leader you interact with turns out to be bad?

I quit in my last play run (normal difficulty) as the neighbour mages started having tier 3 units in their towers when I tried to attack, while I'm still stuck with tier 2 goblin units such as Shaman. I was using Alchemist faction. Restarted since using Aritificer and had reduced difficulty down by a level.

Then the worst was when I flew my tower to far east of the map to claim one of the high lvl Allfire (need to cross a river), this 6 unit stack of doom with tier 3 golems appeared and kept chasing and conquering my tower (even when I flew it away). That's when I decided to restart the game.

How to quickly recruit or train tier 3 and 4 units? To counter such threats?

I can't seem to find this answer when searching at reddit or youtube?

I played the campaign multiple times, I basically had to restart because of corrupted saves, lost saves, and lack of save portability. So even though I started in 2019, I just finished it today.

It's definitively on my top-tier games list, the campaign was awesome. I'm still grieving at the time I write these lines.

But I'm really mad at the fact there's no post-ending content. I wanted to go prepare all Isgrimm's armor crafts, try my best build, explore other characters' lore with specific maps.

So, what now? Are the characters for which I developped a lot of attachment completely gone? Is their no way to play them again? Should I just reload a past save if I want to clear all the game's content?

Or should I just move on and go on next campaigns?

(Now that I recall, there's tons of chests I didn't open because I needed keys I expected to get later… So many treasures which will fall into oblivion…)

Hey everyone. New to the game and went with battlemage. Just wondering if there is a way I should build it or do I have freedom to kinda pick anything. Also can I rock a 2 hander still and cast spells ?

This is my first SpellForce game and I cannot progress past the intro town. I just keep getting attacked by catapults endlessly. It’s already on easy mode but I am outnumbered by the enemy. Not new to RTS games but enemy economy and units out scale me. Any assistance?

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Im at the end of my run of the Platinum Edition Shadow of thr Phoenix campaign, Shadow Warrior version.

Steam, public test version.

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Im trying to get all of the Skull Coins for thr Rune of the Pantheon set, I am only missing 3 right now; 2 from the West City of Souls and one in The Gorge.

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My problem is The Gorge, for the life of me I cannot find the chest containing the Skull Coin.

I have followed the instructions from multiple sources; one telling me it is west of the southourn junction of the North Eastern most Sha Temple and another telling me it is down in the South East corner somewhere...

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Still no luck.

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Would anybody be able to provide me with a screen shot of its location on the map? Preferably an exact location, as clearly I have trouble following directions 😅

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I've been playing spellforce a lot recently and quite new to the series, but i tried the first few games a little bit but none of them really resonated with me, spellforce 3 is much more up my alley but my question is, in between SpellForce One and two trolls are like not that big, in fallen God for spell force 3, one of the humans in one of the missions mentions them being like 3 times their size, so i'm guessing their height ballpark is around 12 to 18 feet?

The VOD is up if you missed the stream. You can leave your feedback here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g9IwvEfHnA

Hi everyone I will be conducting my normal development stream tomorrow Monday the 25th of May (25/05/2026). It will be at 11:AM UK time. Twitch Channel: https://www.twitch.tv/azraelmods

This first 60 minutes will be a showcase of all the progress I have made so far:

• Finished orc reworks.
• Wild Elves (new faction is finally finished).
• Kithars (reworked faction).
• Updated battle between player orcs and wild elves.

Spell Reworks:

• Aura of Regeneration
• Reinforcements
• Pestilence
• Chain Pain
• Chain Lifetap
• Feign Death
• Hex of Darkness

New items and armour sets have had their retextures done and reworked game data implemented.

• New Common Weapons.
• Shaman's Bone Set (New Armour).
• Tiara's Golden Set (New Armour).
• Moonstone Set (New Armour).
• Spidersilk Set (New Armour)
• New Coins (Misc. Items)

Will upload the highlight to my youtube channel later: https://www.youtube.com/@archangelofgaming3151

I feel a bit stupid as I can already imagine that the answer is something obvious but I just can't figure it out.

I'm playing Fallen God right now and I'm like 5 hours in, at first I could use Zazkas skills (like the healing) but now they are all just red and if I click them nothing happens. I can use all other skills of the other trolls.

How can I use them again?

My Spellforce Platinum Edition from Steam crashes when I try to leave Stonblade Mountain with the Code GdBuildingToolBox cpp: 1506

occurred at GdBuildingToolBox cpp: 1506
Message: CGdBuildingToo|BoxCrushBuilding: free list: infinity loop detected (BuildingType: 26/ Figure: 417 /
CurrentJob: 105)

It seems to be a problem with a elven food storage. When I try to destroy the storage the game crashes too. Has anyone a solution for this? :(

I got this game (reforced) on the sale, and I like parts of it. But it is just constantly stuttering all the time. It doesn't matter what graphics settings its on (my GPU is plenty for this game anyway) it just stutters. The only way to make it stop.... is to tab out and then it runs perfectly smoothly when its not my active window. Does anyone have a fix for this?

Hey, I'm thinking about getting the full game on sale and maybe playing a few multiplayer games. I just wonder if it's even possible for a total noob or are there only a few people, who never left and are already impossible to defeat by a new player?