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gr'Uman, Lieutenant of the Archers and Hero of the Legion, and his scouting party has been killed. You are to search the area to find his Bow of Lightning and bring it back.
This is a pretty straight forward level. You go in, find the bow and return with it to the place where you started. Obviously you can not finish this level without an Archer to carry the bow out. There aren't realy any paths to follow or tricks. In cooperative play, the bow is not always in the same place as the last time you played. This level changes each time you play it. There are around three different places that the bow could be, and it's defenses change as well. The bow is at the culdesack of the river in the North East most of the time though. The method that I use is I usually do not follow the blood trail.
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Move in toward the middle of the map, slowly so you don't end up standing your Archers in the middle of a bunch of Thrall that sprout out of the ground at various places on the map. Just look at the terrain and think to yourself "if I designed this map, where would I burry the ambushing Thrall". That's usually where you'll find them. While you're moving your troops in, scan the map pushing your view as far as you can until you find the bow. Troops do not show up if they are out of your range of sight but artifacts do. Then move to the bow. No matter where the bow is, as soon as you grab it you'll trigger a bunch of Thrall to sprout around you. Thrall are pretty slow though and you can usually just dodge them and walk out with the bow, or sacrifice your Warriors to facilitate the Archers escape. Then just head for home making sure you keep to the low ground. If you go up the ramp and across on the higher ground, you'll get stuck with no way down to where you want to be but to go back the way you came; which will be filled with bad guys by that time. Although it is best to avoid or outrun any enemy you encounter, you've got enough fire power with the bow to blast your way out if you need to. Just be careful because there will be sprouting Thrall along your exit path to ambush you. If you bow carrier dies, he'll drop the bow. Pick it up with any remaining Archer and head for the end zone. When you reach the area where you started, your troops will go blue and the game will end.
