Hand of Fate
53 Achievements
1,330
71-90h
Lord of War
Complete all Warlord encounters.
30
0.11%
How to unlock the Lord of War achievement in Hand of Fate - Definitive Guide
I recommend playing Jack of Skulls for these tokens with the exception of Warlords 2 and 3 (which require more cards to help you obtain the necessary items before finding the encounter). This affords a good chance of finding them without having to slog through the more challenging levels later on.
Questchain
Warlord 1: No requirements, merely land on this encounter for the token.
Warning Signs: Select "A) Attempt to cross the valley floor." You will then need to pick a card 3 times. It does not matter whether you pick Success, Failure or Huge Failure* for the purposes of acquiring this token. Once you have survived this you will receive the token.
*Failure will incur 3 Health Pain cards and Huge Failure will incur 6 (Success causes nothing to happen) so approach this with reasonable health if you can to avoid dying.
Warlord 2: You will need the Disciple's Ring in your inventory when you find this encounter to obtain the token.
Best way to increase your chance of this happening is to remove all other rings from your deck and place in encounters such as "The Lovers" (demand a reward and they will nearly always give you rings) as well as other equipment-orientated cards such as Treasure Chest/Cursed Treasure. I played the King of Dust level for this one.
Captain's Woes: Select "Yes, help him get his crew back". You will then need to defeat 1 Lich and 1 random skeleton card.
The Curse of Davey Jones: Pick a success card (2/4).
(Huge) failure is not an option! Dashboard quit if you fail and reload, otherwise it is instant death.
Warlord 3: You will need the full Skeleton King set (Skeleton King Sword, Skeleton King Shield and the Skeleton King Helm) in your inventory upon reaching this encounter, after which the achievement will be yours.
The most effective method for acquiring the set is to remove all other weapons, shields and helms from your deck and refill the deck with additional rings and artefacts. This way certain encounter cards guarantee you a skeleton armour piece. For example Twisted Canyon will guarantee you the Skeleton Sword.
You can also leave and re-enter shops (or if low on food reload the game) to refresh the stock and allow you more chances at purchasing any items you're missing. Credit to DarkLordRaptor for reminding me to include this.
I also obtained this particular token on King of Plague, although most of the later bosses should give you sufficient extra cards. I would not recommend Endless as it could get very frustrating.
At this point you can also obtain the King of the Undead achievement from the main game's achievement list if you make sure the items are equipped
Additional Notes:
You can forfeit as soon as you have the token if the above tokens are the only ones you are going for in a given run. Also, if necessary, you can always exploit the dashboard quit at any time which will, upon reloading the game, return you to the point before your last encounter.
If there is anything I have missed or hints I could include, please let me know in the comments and I will edit the solution.
I changed my deck a few times whilst trying to go for this achievement too. I did end up taking out all the shields but the SK one, but left the weapons and a couple of other helms to help me survive. Eventually I took all of them out, but I think I just got lucky as I didn’t run into any encounter cards that would have given me a specific equipment type on my final run. That’s what this all was, luck.
I also tried going back to the same shop, without restarting, and it seemed to only refresh when I bought something (that item was replaced). This time I restarted my game on a shop and got the last item, so I suppose restarting must work a lot better.
King of Dust and Jack of Scales were the two bosses I attempted this on, due to the dungeon size and managable curses.
Thanks. So relieved to get this one now, it’s been too long.
(Difficulty)
You get this trophy by playing on Warlord difficulty.
Collecting all Blue tokens in a selected difficulty will get you the trophy of that difficulty so collect for all blue tokens in the Warlord difficulty range. When you finish a Blue encounter, it unlocks the next blue encounter and so on until all are done. You can change the difficulty in the "Deck Edit" menu.
Encounters and triggers:
Warlord 1
The token will be yours (nothing to do for it)
The token unlocks warning signs
warning signs
A) Attempt to Cross the Valley floor
Success (x1 dealt): Nothing happens.
Failure (x1 dealt): Draw 3 health Pain Cards.
Huge Failure (x2 dealt): Draw 6 Health Pain Cards.
This process is repeated three times, at which point the player will reach the treasure if they have managed to survive. If successful: Draw 3 Gold Gain Cards. Acquire card's token.
B) Find another way around: End encounter
The token unlocks Warlord 2
Warlord 2
You need the Disciple's Ring to obtain the token. If you don’t have it the encounter simply ends.
Token unlocks Captain's Woes
Captain's Woes
a) Yes, help him get his crew back.= Draw 1 lich and 1 skeleton monster card.
Win = Gain card's token + Draw 3 equipment cards.
b) No, leave him to mourn his lost crew = Draw 1 curse card.
Token unlocks The Curse of Davey Jones
The Curse of Davey Jones
2 Success = card's token is now yours.
2 huge fails = instant death
Token unlocks; Warlord 3 & Captain Boccanera
Warlord 3
You need to visit this card with a full skeleton king set to obtain the token.
Token unlocks; Skeleton King Ring & Blacksmith
Finishing this Encounter will get you the Lord of War trophy.
You’ll still need to continue unlocking all other encounters for the Well Travelled trophy.
There are only 3 stages:
- 1 is the easiest, it doesn't require anything.
- 2 - "Adept's Ring" required.
- 3 - the entire Skeleton King set is required.