You'll need at least 2 playthroughs to get everything: besides difficulty achievements, there are separate achievements for reaching the last chapter with Rook and Alette.

While achievement hunting may be quite fun, I still strongly suggest going in blind for your first run. You won't be surprised by the same turn of events more than once, you know.

This is the last warning you'll get. Every achievement will be described below, spoilers or not.

You get these simply by going through the story, one godstone per chapter.

Most of these are going to be kill achievements. They are not difficult to get at all, but remember two things if you have some trouble:

• Rule of thumb is to leave enemies at extremely low strength (1-2): this will remove an enemy as a threat for those few turns than you ignore him to land a killing blow with a specific character;
  
• Kills made in the training camp count! They also count towards promotion score.

Okay, I consider this the most difficult achievement in the game, so I'll describe this one more thoroughly.

This boils down to this: you need to get 510+ renown on your Skogr party. With a very specific list of characters. With a time limit. Yeah.

Bolverk? Forget him, he is not going to help you with this one.

First about the time limit. There's only one deadline set in stone: meeting camp in Arberrang, but your character roster may bring it closer. If a character leaves earlier than you get this achievement, your renown on that character was basically wasted. For example, choosing Ludin and Yrsa for your "elite 6" sets your deadline to right before arrival to Arberrang instead of the meeting camp. Choosing Eyvind and Iver brings that down even earlier - to arrival to the fishing village, and so on.

Then the renown itself. How to maximize your renown? Battles, of course! Almost every main-plot related (set in stone) map event has a way to start a battle, and battles give a lot of renown. In battles, you should let summonner dredge (big dredge with fork-like weapons and small dredge slingers that throw black crystals) do their thing, more corpses = more renown. In battles with a specific win condition (usually kill specific minion), kill all other enemies first. Spend renown only on "elite 6" units and units from Bolvark party. Do not buy items or supplies as Skogr party. Try to get renown from random events if possible.

Note that you don't have to play on Hard to get this achievement, you can just switch to Hard before clicking on the training tent.

There are some tricks that may make this easier.

- first playthrough bonus;
- suboptimal party bonus;
- horseborn solution;
- import solution;


So, the idea is simple: you get this achievement on your very first playthrough. Why? Well, you get significantly more renown during your first run, because every achievement you get will award you some renown (usually 5). Trust me, this can make a huge difference, without the other methods on my first run I came short on ~40 renown before the character split.


So, Eyvind, Iver, Ludin and Yrsa leave early? Mogun, Bersi and Krumr leave after the first chapter? Well, this means one thing: you don't use them! Well, at least do not promote them, Eyvind is too good even at rank 5 to pass him up. Make your "elite 6" from all other characters. This will yield you a couple more renown-events and 2 battles at most. Not much, but can still give you an edge.


You abuse the game. Hard.

The reward is limited only by your determination.

In the woods there's yet another town assaulted by horseborn. You may intervene or you may go forward. Obviously, you should check it out.

Prerequisite: 1 character with very high strength and at least moderate armour; item with 1 strength damage resistance or better; item with 1 will per turn OR item with 3 will on rest.

Resistance item goes to your damage dealer, will item goes to Eyvind.

The battle is a bunch of horseborn with a huge horseborn leader. The battle ends when you finish off the leader. What happens if you kill all other horseborn before that? More arrive. Do they end? No. Endless horseborn. Endless XP. PETA will want to kill you, though. Oddleif also would not approve if it was scripted.

You get 3 other horseborn in your party by default. Just throw them on the big guy, you need to get him on low strength so he wouldn't be able to do anything to your main fighter. They have low armour, so other enemies will target them first, and for the better. Once they're all dead, there will only two of your units left: your fighter in the front and Eyvind in the back. Fighter kills horseborn. Eyvind mends his armour. You need str resistance item because enemies have at least 2 skills that do direct strength damage: javelin throw and stampede. They do just 1, so resist basically negates all str damage. And Eyvind repairs the break damage.

Repeat until you are satisfied. If you want to calculate how many kills you need beforehand, every kill gives 2 renown.

Any unit with high stregth will do for the job. Tempest ability does wonders, but be careful: characters with tempest usually have "damage adjacent units for 1" passive, so you should be careful not to kill the chieftain earlier than you want.


It turns out "free" renown is also rolled over when you import the save from TBS1, so another easy solution would be to stockpile it in the first game to import the save and have no renown problems in the second one.

These are "secret" in-game achievements, they show as usual achievements in-game and provide renown when you first get them, but do not have their Steam counterpart. Feel free to ignore.


There may be more, if you find them, leave a comment, I'll add them to the list.