Sons of Myrgard
The Dwarves are determined to take back their homeland from the Ghols. You are the Pathfinder Balin and need to sneak in to the enemy camp, call for reinforcments then clear the caves of all their Ghols.
This is a difficult level to get started. If you get caught outside the enclosure, you're a dead Dwarf. Once inside, there are enough Soulless to turn you into a pincusion. But first things first. Lets get inside.
You are invisible, but Ghols can smell and hear very well, especially Legendary Ghols. There is no secret path to take, just stay out of the water. Sometimes, if a Ghol gets close you can stop by hitting the space bar. The Ghol will decide he was hearing things and he'll move on. However, this can allow the Ghol to pinpoint a stationary target, so it's a judgement call. Just be sneaky, take you time and don't feel you need to stick to a given path of entrance. Once you are past the gates you are relatively safe as long as you remain invisible.
Before you call in your troops, however, it would be best to clear the area of most of the bad guys. Soulless are your number one concern. When you get past the last pair of Soulless guards, head North and up onto the second ramp, the first one you come to that does not have Soulless on it. This is the best place to start from because the Soulless have to dip down into the valley between the two ramps to get to you. This will give you the needed hight advantage and a little bit of cover. Watch the film and you see what I'm talking about. Throw a bottle to make yourself visible and kill all the Soulless that come after you. Now, just North West of you are a bunch of Soulless and Target Dummies. You do not have to kill these to win the game, so don't even go near them. Head back South to the Ghols and their Target Dummies, killing Ghols along the way. Kill those Ghols then head for the hill in front of the Wight corral. Kill the Ghols that come at you, then lob a bottle into the Wights. Boom! Now go North to the Pus Pit. Kill the Ghol guarding it and then put a bottle into the middle of it. This usually pusses the Ghols inside the pit to death. Now kill the Ghols guarding the entrance to the Ghol barracks. It is now safe to call in your reinforcments, just do it far enough away from the Soulless up North not to trigger them and far enough into the center of the field as to keep from losing any guys who land off the map.

Get all your troops together, except for Balin, and drop your satchels. You don't need them and you'll live longer without them. Enter the compound and use Balin to escort the other Dwarves by killing the roving Ghols. Use a number two line for your Dwarves in font of each cave with Balin as a backup for surviving Ghols. Take the firs cave in front of you by seting up a bit North of it with Balin watching the cave South of you. A couple of Ghols will come out of this cave as well but Balin can handle it. Then clear the cave that the few Ghols came out of, the one just South of the entrance. Now head North and clear the caves one by one clockwise. The first bunch of loitering Ghols you come across will attack you after you hurt one of them or get too close. The second bunch have pus and will play hard to get with you. They are guarding the entrance to the secret level, the South East cave. When you move to clear the South West cave, leave Balin to guard the South East one you just left. A Wight will come out of it. Once you've cleared all the caves, go back the the South East one. Set up in front of it and run Balin, or any Dwarf, a tad North of it to trigger the last pack of Ghols to finish this level.

Hints:

  • If a Ghol keeps running just out of your reach, turn your back on it and throw when he gets into range.
  • Finishing the Secret Level without Balin on Legendary is going to be just about impossible, if not completely impossible.
  • To finish the level, clear all the caves.
  • To go to the secret level, enter the South East cave after you have killed the Ghols that come out of it.
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