Overall Guide, Tips and Mechanics

1. Quite an obvious one, but make sure you go in with your guys at the highest level you can. You might as well maximise efficiency. A few pit fights should it.2. Always equip the Spoils of War booster if you intend to go on a session of attacking. The Spoil of War Chests always guarantees a Legendary Orc.3. Bodyguards of your Orcs will not join you. Just your assault leaders.4. In the preview screen, don't be afraid of weird levels of orcs. Check them out and see if they have any weaknesses you can exploit. When you start the game they'll be back down to level 65.5. Prepare for the siege, check out the enemies weaknesses. If they bring beasts, take Hunters. If they use Fire Archers/Flaming Captains/Spouts, don't bring your vulnerable to fire captains.6. Overpower is a lot better than Inspiring Banners when going for Gold. If you're up against a fortyou're just happy to win against, then Inspiring Banners will come in useful.7. If they're not using Spiked Walls, be warned you're more likely to lose a captain(s) to a wall falling down so in slots 4-6 use ones you're not so worried about or don't use sappers/Olag-Hai. You can also use mounted captains so they get over the wall a lot quicker.Yes, if an orc dies in attack they will die in your main game (same does not apply for the defense).8. Berserker savages are probably the best option for attacking. They get enraged by a lot, and their rabid/thrice attacks demolish opposing orcs. Tanks, Slayers, and Demolisher's are pretty useful to.9. Use a Graug to smash down the door, a normal door will take 3 hits, while an Iron Door will take 5 but it makes getting your Captains in so much quicker. You can also hit the walls (metal takes 5, not sure on the others).You have multiple ways of doing this to; summon your own and mount, equip one as part of the siege or dominate one of the Graugs shooting at you.10. When you're fighting enemy captains, brand them and get them to fight for you. The more you have, the quicker you take the zones, the quicker you win.11. Use the enemy captains vulnerabilities against them, again if you can terrify them or just out right brand/kill them, it increases your chances of getting the gold.12. Poison/Dark Set seems to do an insane amount of DPS to captains. I recommend it highly to anything not poison-proof. Couple it with the Warmonger Cloak/Armor for some balefire shenanigans to. Don't forget you can get your sword to level 65 by dying to a Olag-Hai Captain as they'll break your sword.13. Some forts have some very useful features, e.g. you can loot the treasure in marauder forts / feral forts have bait hanging around / dark have alchemy tables that are explosive.14. When you enter the Overlord's chamber and are stuck just walking, pause, and unpause the game while pressing the button to sprint. Saves a few precious seconds.15. Fancy a one-on-one with the Overlord? If he's not Arrow-Proof get on top of the ledges and use the Shadow Pull ability (under Ranged) to get him up there with you for easy dispatching.16. Graugs are your friends. As well as bashing down doors, you can summon them in the throne room to bash down on the Overlord.17. As well as summoning a Graug in the throne room, you can also summon your own bodyguard to do your dirty work.