Templar Treasure, secret hunters anonymous.

[johndramey]

Hail, brothers! Recently forums superstar contributor posted a thread asking about the hidden goodies in the Templar Assault universe here and it got me thinking... Why not have an organized secret hunt! If we collect information as we play, we might be able to find everything. Sharing is caring, and this might give new players the extra incentive they need to finally work their way up to Narvidian Dawn! So..... without further ado, let's get this train rolling.

As some of you may know, there are hidden secrets scattered around in the campaigns that we run. If you just focus on the objectives, which is generally hard enough, you will never really find them. If, however, you are willing to do a little snooping around you can sometimes be rewarded with extra honor, some items, or maybe just a blurb or story that makes the campaign come alive that much more.

Let's track them all down! What I'm suggesting is that we simply point people to the secrets, maybe take a snapshot of the briefing screen and circle the areas you've found some secrets? I dunno, have fun with it! But let's try to compile a list of all of the secrets in the Templar Assault universe!

When posting a secret, please remember to post the campaign and mission that the secret can be found in!

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Links to the secrets, I'll list them by campaign and in order from first to last mission.

Moons of Nachot-ugo

• Gatecrasher - 3 secrets, thanks slayernz!
• Last Squad - 3 secrets, thanks slayernz!

Tour of Duty

• Familiar Ground - 3 secrets, thanks slayernz!

Infernus System Rescue

• First mission - None
• Extraction Point Beta - 1 secret
• Third mission - None
• Hold Position - None
• Taking the Bridge - None
• Rubicon Run - None

Stardock Raid

• First mission - None
• Make a Path - 3 secrets, thanks slayernz!
• Third mission - None
• Forth mission - None

Vengeance of the Templar

• Duct and Dive - 2 secrets, thanks contributor!
• Gates of Oblivion - 3 secrets, thanks contributor!

Secrets of the Dark Age

• Rough Landing - None
• Hold the Entrance - None
• Mission 3 - None
• Surface Elevator - 1 secret
• Drop Zone - None
• Secrets of Envidius - 1 Secret

Siege of Roavin

• Mission 1 - None
• Mission 2 - None
• Mission 3 - None
• Mission 4 - None
• Mission 5 - None
• Mission 6 - None

Reller's Relief

• Mission 1 - 3 secrets, thanks contributor!

Vestmarch Siege Isolation

• Mission 1 - 1 secret, thanks contributor!

Xenos Headhunt

• Mission 1 - None
• Mission 2 - None
• Mission 3 - None
• Mission 4 - 2 secrets, thanks contributor!

Narvidian Dawn

• Narvidian Dawn - 2 secrets, thanks contributor!
• Retrieve Artifact - 2 secrets, thanks contributor!
• Squad Rendezvous - 6 secrets, thanks Cyrus!
• Supply Drop - 2 secrets, thanks Cyrus!
• Patrol Alpha - 2 secrets, thanks Cyrus!

[johndramey]

Here is a secret to start the fun!

Campaign Infernus System Rescue
Mission Mission 2 "Extraction Point Beta"

Map


Description of Secret This one is just a flavor secret. No bonus of any kind, just a little extra story to an already story-filled campaign. Relatively easy to get to, so I'd say grab it!

Difficulty Easy! You can simply secure the North and South entrances and spend the two or three turns necessary to get to the end of the airlock.

[slayernz]

Actually, there are a couple of bonus things on that campaign ... I'm juggling up whether I want to get more prestige (more complete campaigns), or go treasure hunting. Damn you TA ... too many good options!

[johndramey]

Aug 26, 2013 18:52:39 GMT -5 slayernz said:

Actually, there are a couple of bonus things on that campaign ... I'm juggling up whether I want to get more prestige (more complete campaigns), or go treasure hunting. Damn you TA ... too many good options!

Well then, help me find them! I've been using my "no restart" squad so I've gotta balance looking for secrets with my slower soldiers/hydras with survivability. Regardless, have fun with it. Don't view this as a challenge or anything like that, just thought it would be a cool little diversion for those of us that have been through the campaigns a couple times

[slayernz]

No no no ... it IS a challenge. Must Do ... Must Play ...

I Torp have my Neptune specialist riddle you with rounds you for not realizing that playing TA IS having fun

[Cyrus]

I'll probably join in the fun after I manage to survive Narvidian Dawn. I'm going to train some new recruits, so I might as well map out the secrets then. Narvidian Dawn is full of secrets btw, I'll record the bigger ones.

[slayernz]

There are at least 2-3 secrets for each level of Narv dawn ... usually +1 weapon/armor, +1 honor and usually +1XP

[Cyrus]

Yeah, I've found relic Neptune and Incinerators so far and two armors, though I think one didn't actually get added to my inventory

[contributor]

I think I'm up for helping out on this. It's sort of a new way to play. I'm just wondering though if we could get some tips from fallen or Cory Trese about what levels have yet to be updated with goodies. No sense going around mapping it out if there isn't anything, or it's going to change.

[contributor]

Here's two from Vengence of the Templar. They're just extra flavor text on the Gates of Oblivion and Duct and Dive missions. John you forced me to download a photo editor so I could mark these up on my tablet. So far so good though.
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[johndramey]

Awesome contributor! Do you happen to remember which missions those were, I've played through the campaign but I can't remember the exact order . Either way, I'll link to them in the OP and credit you for finding them.

[johndramey]

I've been hunting for secrets as well, brothers. Unfortunately, none found. I went through all of Infernus System Rescue and couldn't really find anything of note, even went all around on the last couple missions because I could depend on my Hydra to hold off the xenos all by himself. Starting up Secrets of the Dark Age, so maybe I'll find some there?

[slayernz]

Campaign: Stardock Raid
Mission: #02 - Make a Path

Have 3 on one level (Make a Path) ... doing the screen grabs and writing it up properly


Here are the three in question. two are +100 Honor, and one is +1XP.

[johndramey]

Aug 27, 2013 18:42:30 GMT -5 slayernz said:

Have 3 on one level (Make a Path) ... doing the screen grabs and writing it up properly
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Here are the three in question. two are +100 Honor, and one is +1XP.

I can't remember what the campaign is called, but I'll document it accordingly once I have the details

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that's Stardock Raid. Or it could be Moons? Shoot, I can't remember either. I've found those secrets and meant to go back and document them. They are definitely in one of the campaigns we did for our recent challenge.

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I've got a new one!

Campaign Secrets of the Dark Age
Mission Mission 4 - Surface Elevator

Map


Description of Secret Just a little story blurb, gives you a little teaser of what to expect in later missions
Difficulty Relatively easy, if you have a squad capable of going through the campaign without taking too many losses then you should be able to run over and trigger the event. There are a lot of xenos in this map though, so be careful!

[Cyrus]

Here are three maps from Narvidian Dawn. I was going to mark them with +XP / +H / Wpn / Arm, but I've played about 4 missions on the same map now, so I forgot which one is which. Now it's just orange markers where the secrets are.

Squad Rendezvous                       Supply Drop                              Patrol Alpha
             

Squad Rendezvous has an incredible 6 valuable secrets, Supply Drop has plenty of "Empty cargo pod" blurbs, but only 2 secrets that I could find.