Middle-earth: Shadow of War

Middle-earth: Shadow of War

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No Orc Left Behind

No Orc Left Behind

Rescue a Follower who's been captured.

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How to unlock the No Orc Left Behind achievement in Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Definitive Guide

This achievement requires a bit of preparation, a bit of time, a bit of luck, and then a bit of skill, mostly in that order. Once you get to Act II, you can start dominating enemies, including captains. You can do this achievement any time after that. Here's how it works:

Step 1 - Preparation: Dominate a whole bunch of captains. I recruited about half of the available captains in the Seregost region when I did this achievement. Do not dominate all the captains in a region, because you need allied captains to fight against enemy captains in Nemesis missions. If you've dominated all the captains in a region, either go to a different region or shun some from your army. Warchiefs and Overlords don't count.

Step 2 - Time: Specifically, advancing time. Once you own as many captains as you like (preferably around half of the captains in a region), go to one of the fast travel beacons and hit cn_X to advance time. Just like in Shadow of Mordor, there are Nemesis missions where the various captains fight against each other. You want one of your captains to fight against one of the enemy captains. Do not join any of the missions. Just let them time out by advancing time. From the Army menu, you can command a captain to attack an enemy captain using cn_Y if you want.

Step 3 - Luck: Just like in the previous game, there are different ways for Nemesis missions to end. The outcome you want is for the enemy captain to capture your allied captain. For me, this happened during a Chase mission when the enemy captured my ally. The first time this happens for you, you'll get a pop-up tutorial telling you that you have to save your guy, so let's go do that.

Step 4 - Skill: Go to your map and find the rescue mission. Head to the starting point and begin the mission. A short cutscene will play with each captain doing a one-liner, and then you get control of Talion again. What you have to do is free your captain by going behind him and pressing cn_RB to cut him free, and then you have to kill, dominate, or shame the enemy captain to complete the rescue mission. Be careful not to let your captain die, because that will fail the mission and void the achievement. Kill or pin any enemies in the area to give yourself enough time to cut your guy free, then go wild on everyone in the area. The achievement will pop after you've dealt with the enemy captain and ended the mission.

Side Note: I have no idea how much a captain's level plays into whether they're captured or if they're killed or if they succeed. For this achievement, my level 51 captain was captured by a level 48 enemy, and while I was advancing time, one of my level 8 captains straight-up murdered a level 25 enemy captain. Either way, you have no control over which captain gets which role in which Nemesis mission, so just keep advancing time. It only took my about 5-10 minutes of advancing time for my captain to get captured, but it may vary from Gravewalker to Gravewalker.
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25 Oct 2017 04:04

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I know this game came out a while (thanks ever-growing backlog), but I was just advancing time waiting for the capture mission to appear and suddenly on the army screen the achievement popped and it said one of my Captains had escaped. So you don't technically have to do the rescue mission because I wasn't paying attention and was just passing the time and still got this. I know that's not as reliable since the captain could still die but just for disclosure.
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By TAC14SPECOPS on 08 Jul 2018 00:49
done this 3 times now, no dice. no chievo.
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By Phoenix C64 on 28 Jan 2022 15:23
Putting trash orcs in a citadel you own before its siege defense mission and then failing that mission is definitely a much easier and quicker method than this. The trash overlord you put in the citadel will be captured. And putting trash orcs is recommended in case any of them die.
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By Yusuf Rok on 30 Nov 2022 19:14
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An easy way to get a rescue mission is to wait for Act IV. For one of the siege defenses that you need to do just let it fail. After the mission has failed your overlord will be captured and you will have a nemesis mission in the region to rescue them.

Go to the mission start point, free your captain then kill/recruit the enemy. It's important to stay near your captain and continuously attempt to cut them free. If you go too far away another orc will slit their throat while they are tied up and the rescue mission will end.
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11 Nov 2017 08:51

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The easiest way to rescue your captured overlord/captain is to make sure you have your Might fully charged before you start the rescue mission. After it starts, run right next to your captured comrade and use "Elvin Light" (preferably with the 'Winter's Breath' add on) to freeze everyone and this will easily allow you enough time to cut your comrade free and then he can defend himself so you don't have to babysit him so he doesn't die while trying to kill the other orcs.
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By THE HAY K1NG on 17 Nov 2017 19:57
Awesome! I have complete the achievements just right the first defense. Just like suggest you, I lost the assault, then i rescue my warchief and kill the fucking enemy!!! Easy!! Thanks again headspin
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By DAC Prussia 86 on 14 Sep 2018 09:42
This is how I did it, I needed to let it fail anyway for the It Came From Within Achievement.
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By Myths Armada on 01 Jan 2021 11:53
Quick and easy. Thanks for the help!
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By SilentStucho on 10 Aug 2021 21:55
Just a quick tip you don't have to cut your guy free for the achievement. You can leave him tied up which I found much easier then having him run around.
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By ZaveGaming87 on 30 Dec 2021 19:16
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The best way to attempt this is by recruiting a few low level captains and repeatedly advancing time on a Haedir Tower using so that your orcs will keep partaking in missions fighting against enemy orcs. By having low level orcs there is a decent chance one of them will be captured which will then spawn a Rescue Mission.

Rescue Missions appear on the map with a blue icon, play the mission and rescue your captured captain to unlock the trophy.
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For the first time one of the captains you have dominated is captured, you will get a notification screen. You can also spot a captured captain on the army page by a special sign above their heads (they will be standing on their knees).

If you want to enforce a rescue mission, dominate a bunch of captains and send them to kill others. Keep advancing time and eventually, one of them will be captured. You may have a higher chance of getting a rescue mission if you send a low-level captain to kill a high-level one.

When you start the rescue mission, you can try to go stealth and cut the rope from behind the captured captain. In my experience, this is not that easy and I failed on my first try. On the second try, I went berserk and killed all the enemies as fast as possible which luckily worked. Note that, you need to kill the enemy captain in both approaches in order to get the achievement.
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01 Dec 2018 12:07

To unlock this achievement you need to rescue one of your captured followers. There are multiple ways to go about this however the way I got it seemed a guaranteed way of making it happen. During the end game Shadow Wars missions you will be attacked at all of your fortresses in turn and need to defend them. If you let yourself lose the fortress your Overlord will be captured and you will get a mission to free them. Go to the mission and as soon as it starts head straight to your captured follower and press to release him. You may be hit a few times and interrupted but you should free them as soon as you can or else they risk being killed by one of the Orcs that are guarding him.

If you fail to do it this way and have finished all of the Shadow War missions, you can still unlock this achievement, it just will take a lot more work. You need to have one of your followers captured by another Orc Captain and you have no control over this, it will happen by chance during a mission between one of your Captains and an enemy Captain. You can go to any such missions and watch them play out without intervening and hope that your Orc loses and is captured, or else you can keep advancing time and the current missions in a region will complete themselves and you will be given a random outcome. One of these outcomes can be that one of your Orcs is captured, at which point a mission to rescue them will appear and you can complete it in the same way as the previous method.

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Hey guys there's a Grûz questline called Missing and at the very end of the mission you can save a guy that has a boss near him and when the mission ends the achievement will pop

Thumbs Up would be appreciated if it helps ofc if not then tell me what i did wrong anyway happy hunting everybody
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01 Apr 2024 02:51

The other solution is great but I had an issue getting my captains to get captured...they either won or died. The way I achieved this was to lose a fortress defense during the shadow wars. I lost one cuz I'm terrible and my overlord was captured. I then lost the next one on purpose to see if it was a fluke but it wasn't. My overlord was captured again. Then I completed the rescue mission and the trophy unlocked.

Hope this helps.
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16 Dec 2018 14:52

This trophy is easy to get in Act 3, just lose the defense of your fortress. As soon as the defense is lost, the Orc/Uruk who led the fortress is captured, and a task to free him appears on the map of the territory.
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18 Oct 2017 10:59

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The trophy is not necessarily associated with defeat during the defense of the fortress. Your captain can be captured during any of his missions (they sent him to kill/ambush an enemy captain). He could simply be killed or captured.
The main problem is to save your captain before he is killed, as he dies with one poke.
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By KrizMax on 21 Oct 2017 10:22
The "Nemesis" system forces orcs from armies to live their own lives, so by moving between locations or speeding up time on movement towers, you can automatically get to the Execution or Rescue quests, where they are going to execute some orc from your army. Let's go, save, get a trophy. You need a little patience, this quest will appear on its own.
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By Resonator84 on 17 Jul 2018 05:50
I received this trophy in the second act after capturing the fortress!
Sent Orc on a vendetta mission and he was captured)
I had to save it)
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22 May 2018 09:35

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It really helped with the vendetta task, thanks man. I tried rewinding 20 times or more and they killed me all the time. By the way, I combined the trophy with the “ruined party”
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By Balthazar on 24 Jan 2021 19:13