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Level 2: Night Falls
So after the nice first level, we move onto something a little more challenging. You will realise that you are in quite a strategic location and the flyby will show the main areas of interest.

Start first by selecting your idle braves and getting them to start building a warrior hut near to the reincarnation site. In order to increase the population, place a few plans for huts around the reincarnation site and the warrior hut. The huts will attack as a natural barrier to the warrior hut and thereby, keeping it safe!

Try your utmost to avoid placing plans over trees. Trees can be pretty scarce at times so it's best not to build on top of them.

People in the fully upgraded house are the best to start training into warriors. Train around four and get one to pray at the totem pole, leaving the other three to stand at the entrance to the settlement.

They will act as guards in case an enemy should happen to stroll in. The totem pole will grant a landbridge to the stone head. Select the totem-pole warrior and your Shaman to go worship the head. This will result in three tornado spells which are lethal weapons when used, having the power to uproot houses and training huts in one go.

Now it's time to start building up the army. Train more idle braves as you gear yourself up for attack. It's not best to train all your braves - leave at least one brave per house and that way the houses can upgrade. When you get to a five-man house, its best to train all of them. Remember: a trained person creates more mana than a brave!

I recommend having around ten warriors for the attack, along with your Shaman (don't forget to leave two to guard the entrance, just in case). Firstly attack the guard tower by force, that is not by any magical intervention, and then attack the hut, clearing up any braves that may want to attack you. Head towards the Vault of Knowledge and claim the swarm spell for your tribe. Keep your warriors stationed by your Shaman in case she falls under attack.

Use your tornado spell to remove the warrior hut and attack the nearby huts. Keep your eye out for the enemy Shaman. As soon as you get near, expect a swarm spell. Leave one tornado spell left - I'll explain what we're going to do with that in a moment.

Just a note about huts: they are your (and the enemies) primary source of mana. All you need to do to stop this flow of mana, and thereby finish the tribe off, is naturally tear down the houses. But you don't need to level them completely if you don't want to. Just merely 'disabling' them, that is tearing a bit off them, is sufficient enough.

Use your last tornado spell on the Shaman guard tower and clear up the remaining stragglers. Don't forget to keep your warriors busy and help them with swarms and blasts if they need it!

Estimated time for completion: 10 minutes