Ah, Lord of Verminion.Final Fantasy 14’svery own in-game RTS (real-time strategy game).
Exit Chocobo Square, run down the hall, and you’ll soon find yourself inMinion Square.
Here’s where the fun begins.
You’ll need at least three separate Minions to get to qualify to play Lord of Verminion.
If you’ve only just gotten past the envoy missions, this might actually be an issue.
Fortunately,it’s possible for you to purchase several Minions from the nearby attendantshere.
The board itself will seem far larger during matches.
Minion Categories
Every Minion belongs to one offour categories.
That’s a lot of options to choose between.)
Complete neutrality can be a proanda con.
It would be a free-for-all, simple to a fault, and finished within seconds.
(Again, think of all that coding involved.
It’s a shame relatively few players will ever notice.)
Some Special Actions castdebuffson enemy units.
Some are capable of wide-scale carnage in the form ofarea-of-effect attacks.
There aretrap-basedSpecial Attacks,single-targetpowerhouse assaults, and more.
Here, you will choose your first batch of Minions.
Technically, there’s no cap to the number of Minions you select in the Briefing phase.
Instead, there’s a hard cost cap of60.
The total cost cannot exceed this under any circumstances.
It’s not a bad idea to get going with the further Minion-summoning right off the bat here.
Structural Integrity
There are threeArcana Stonesassigned to each player.
These represent the players’total HP pool.
Summoned Minions spawn fromGates.
Like Arcana Stones, each player has three Gates.
Destroying Gates grants you multiple temporary strategic advantages that should seldom be overlooked.
For one, Minions regenerate health whilst in proximity to a Gate.
Even better or worse, if it happens to you players cannot summon Minions to any destroyed Gates.
That isquitethe crippling blow.
Shieldsprovide added defense to a player’s Arcana Stones.
Destroying one causes a “fog of war” state in that sector of the map.
Verminion Challenge is Lord of Verminion’s single-player mode.
It consists of24increasingly difficult stages against an AI that scales in strength to suit each level.
We’ll reiterate it in a bit, but beating Verminion Challenge will award you the otherwise-unavailableClockwork Twintania Minion.
Of these 24 stages, the initial round is nothing more than a tutorial.
14 more stages will pit you against armies in a fairly conventional setting.
Later on, Nero loses his edge.
Using him is stilldoable, but far frompreferable.
The following achievements unlock Lord of Verminion goodies:
Win 300 Lord of Verminion matches against human players.
Achievement
Requirements
Reward
Challenge Accepted
Complete all 24 Verminion Challenge stages.
Clockwork Twintania Minion
A Load of Verminion II
Win 50 Lord of Verminion matches against human players.
Shadoweye Minion
A Load of Verminion III
Win 100 Lord of Verminion matches against human players.
Play Lord of Verminion five times.
Log Title
MGP Reward
Come Play Lord I
Play Lord of Verminion once.
5,000
Come Play Lord II
Play Lord of Verminion thrice.
10,000
Come Play Lord III
12,000
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