Diplomacy is Not an Option: 100% Achievement Guide

This game will require you to play through the full campaign at least three times to earn all achievements. You must complete the game once, choosing to swear loyalty to the King, the Resistance, and Sarranga. Some achievements can be earned if you replay missions, but others will require you to earn them on the first playthrough of that campaign.

These are achievements that can be earned by playing the game at anytime, regardless of campaign, level, or mode.

Is it an option?

Change the ‘Diplomacy’ option

Go to the main menu, click settings, in the game section, the last item will be the diplomacy settings. Change to what you like. Get an achievement.

We have food at home

Fill your Granary or Townhall with food

Start any mission, put a couple of berry pickers’ houses and fishermen’s huts. Wait until the food is 100 out of 100.

Where is the buffet menu?

Provide your settlement with a food diversity

Upgrade the Town Hall to level 2. Build a farm with wheat, place a berry picker, and a fishermen’s hut. Wait for all of them to bring food.

Quartermasters approve

Build Barracks I

Build a barracks.

Now, that’s what I call a Town Hall!

Upgrade your Townhall to the 3rd level

Upgrade your Townhall to the 3rd level

Player M.D.

Cure someone who is sick

When any of your people die do not have them buried. Let their corpse rot and eventually your citizens will get sick if they’re in proximity. Then place down either a hospital or field tent.

RIP

Bury a dead man

When a soldier or citizen dies have a mortician bury them in a cemetery.

No country for dead

Destroy your cemetery with someone buried in it

After burying someone in the cemetery. Dismantle it right after.

Killer instinct

Kill 150 enemies on a single map

Kill 150 enemies on a single map.

My first time

Repulse an enemy attack

Successfully defend against a wave of enemies.

300

That’s how many men your army counts

Assemble an army of 300. I recommend waiting until the last level. You will need a massive army to complete it.

Million dollar trooper

Earn 50 gold in a single mission

Pretty simple to do. Just trade all of your resources until you get 50 gold. You can also research the upgrade for the market to earn more gold for your trades.

We have the technology…

Complete each research during a single mission

Do this during a mission that doesn’t have you just defend against waves. You will most likely not have enough time to research everything.

Straight flush

You’ve got soldiers for all occasions

Recruit every type of unit from the barracks, stable, and engineer’s guild.

Really dark knights

Cast Summon spell

You have this spell available immediately in every mission.

Astral channel

Cast Astral Ray spell

Build the monument and make sure you have 5 soul crystals.

Nobody dies on my watch!

Cast Healing spell

Upgrade the monument and have 2 soul crystals to cast the spell.

This is where the fun begins

Cast Meteor spell

Max upgrade the monument and have 10 soul crystals to cast the spell.

Achievements that can be earned only in the campaign, but aren’t exclusive to only one side of the campaign.

Salty dog

Build a ship

Will be unlocked during the fourth mission once you’ve completed all stages of the ship.

We come in peace

Kill your first enemy on the Unwelcoming Continent

Kill a Sarragan during the first mission on the Unwelcoming Continent.

Tower Offence

Destroy an enemy Tower on the Unwelcoming Continent

Will also be earned during the first mission on the Unwelcoming Continent.

No more spawning

Also found during the first mission on the Unwelcoming Continent.

Now it’s dead?

Kill someone (or something) from the Undead faction on the Unwelcoming Continent

Just as the description says.

Goodnight, sweet Prince

Kill Ozzy

Best strategy I recommend is to gather 100+ Horse archers and micro them around Ozzy until he’s dead. He will only target the one unit that’s closest to him so try to find that unit and have it run circles around him while the other archers are shooting him.

Debugging

Kill a Bug Queen on the Unwelcoming Continent

Can be earned during the King or resistance campaigns. Choose the mission that leads through the mountains after reaching the Sarragan capital.

Greenpeace

Let a Heffalump scratch his back on the Townhall

Choose the other mission at the fork after the Sarragan capital. When the mission first starts there will be a heffalump next to your townhall and will begin attacking it shortly after. Disband your troops and let the heffalump reduce the townhall’s health to ~10%. Then a cutscene will play and the mission will end. I believe you need to do this on the first attempt at this mission and you cannot replay it to earn the achievement.

The bigger they are…

Kill an Ancient Heffalump on the Unwelcoming Continent

Alongside the regular teal heffalumps. There is a bigger more yellow heffalump called an Ancient Heffalump on the map that you can find it’s bigger and stronger than the regular ones, but is no match against horse archers and ballista.

Dad-a-chum?

Kill an Emperor Crab on the Unwelcoming Continent

Can be found during the last mission on the Unwelcoming Continent. Horse archers and ballista are the answer.

People die for metal

When storming Abberlore, get your hands on the King’s gold

During the mission in Abberlore there will be gold stockpiles in smaller forts outside of Abberlore and in the docks of the city. You acquire them just like any other stockpiles during the campaign.

Stock market crash

Undermine enemy’s economy

Once you’ve breached the walls of Abberlore and start attacking the city. Target the docks and any other market looking buildings. They are all located along the southern edge of the city.

I’ll be back!

When storming Abberlore, break the Machine

These machines aren’t actually in the city but start appearing in the second attack wave. They are the giant trebuchet-like units.

Staunch technophobe

Take Abberlore without using machines

The hardest achievement in the game. You are not able to build a single unit from the engineers guild, not even for defense purposes. Mass up foot knights, mounted knights, and soul crystals. Crossbowmen and horse archers will be annihilated by enemy artillery so don’t bother using them for attacking. Get all applicable upgrades for them and storm the castle. When enemies spawn from the chapel. Pull your units back and use meteor strikes when a mass of enemy reinforcements forms. Be sure not to use too close to your units or else you will kill them with the strike. Additionally, use astral ray for surgical strikes, healing when they’re close to death, and summon to draw enemy forces away.

Achievements that can only be earned by staying loyal to the King.

Dead anarchist

Kill Scott the Bloody in the story campaign

Will unlock when you kill Scott the Bloody in the mission.

All that glitters

Pick up a precious figurine

Pick up the figurines during the second mission on the Unwelcoming Continent.

World’s wonder

Complete the Temple of Joy in 50 days

During the fourth mission on the Unwelcoming Continent. Build the temple and its wards within 50 days. You should be able to gather enough resources to complete it within 20-30 days.

Sinked it

Sink a Samreignian warship

On the last mission on the Unwelcoming Continent. There will be a camp with a handful of royal ships docked to the south of your settlement. Mass either horse archers or ballista and take them down to destroy one of the ships.

Long live the King

Complete the story campaign without switching sides

Earned once you beat the final level at Abberlore.

Achievements that can only be earned while pledging loyalty to the resistance.

Champion of the rabble

Side with the Rebels before it becomes mainstream

READ CAREFULLY. You need to start a brand new campaign and profile to earn this achievement. Once you’ve started the first mission, disband your troops and wait for the first wave of rebels to attack. Shortly after they start attacking your townhall a cutscene will play and give you the option to join the rebels or stay loyal to the King. Choose the rebels, the mission will end, and the achievement will unlock.

Rebel! Rebel!

Side with the Rebels

Will unlock after siding with the rebels

Revenant

Fourdoor survives in the Children of the revolution mission

You will have a giant unit named Fourdoor, just keep him out of combat or have healers escort him everywhere and you will easily unlock this.

Grand theft horse

Free Scott from prison in 50 days

Scott will be kept in the top left corner of the map and fortified. You can blitz the prison to free him quickly to earn the achievement then reload to give yourself plenty of time to properly prepare for the counterattack.

Damsel in distress

Rescue the princess from captivity in 50 days

Use the same technique above with Scott to free the princess. She will be in the top left corner of the map and guarded by the dragon. The dragon is very easy to kill actually so don’t worry about assembling a large army to kill it.

The triumph of the Resistance

Complete the story campaign for the Resistance

Will be earned once completing the final mission after Abberlore.

Achievements that can only be earned when pledging loyalty to Sarranga. Make sure that you do not pledge loyalty to the resistance during this campaign. You will only get the option to switch to Saranaga if you remain loyal to the King.

Almost like in Pocahontas

Side with Sarranga

During the first mission on the Unwelcoming Continent. You can use the same strategy with the rebels by disbanding your troops and letting the Sarrangans approach your town hall, but ONLY IF YOU HAVE MAINTAINED LOYALTY TOWARDS THE KING. Once they arrive a cutscene will start and allow you to choose sides.

Respect is everything

Complete a Sarranga ritual

During the first mission for Sarranga. There will be a day when your workers are not working and the ritual takes place. At this time, a mob will appear in the ritual circle, you will need to induce damage towards it. At the end of the day, the ritual ends, and the achievement is earned.

Cockroach race

The Pequod’s health never dropped below 50% in the Long Walk mission

During this mission send your units ahead of the pequod to kill all enemies and prepositioned for the wave attacks. Have healers around to heal if it does take damage. Reload if the health ever drops below 50% or you suspect it does.

One rabbit stew comin’ right up!

Kill Just a harmless little bunny

On the same mission with the Pequod there will be a narrow path that leads through the canyon to the left of the last turn towards the village. Send your troops in there to find and fight the bunny. The bunny does a lot of damage, but does not have a lot of health so it shouldn’t be too hard to kill if you have a large army.

Big city lights

Beat the Hazy Shade of Winter mission in 43 days

For this one I recommend that you slowly increase your population to about 200 and sustain it. Then gather enough resources to mass build enough houses and fountains to launch your population to 500.

A hunting we shall go

Kill Defiled Father of Heffalumps

Mass horse archers/ballista and cheese the heffalump with the horseman. Be ready for the massive attack from the undead and the heffalumps once it is dead.

I want it Sarranga way

Complete the story campaign for Sarranga

Will be earned after completing the final mission.

Beginner Wave Breaker

Repulse the 10th attacking wave in the Endless Mode

Amateur Wave Breaker

Repulse the 15th attacking wave in the Endless Mode

Master Wave Breaker

Repulse the 20th attacking wave in the Endless Mode