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Divide and Conquer achievement in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Divide and Conquer

Eliminate the bodyguards of two Warchiefs, then draw them out and kill them.

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How to unlock the Divide and Conquer achievement

  • Elite1111111111Elite1111111111
    05 Oct 2014 06 Oct 2014 28 Jan 2015
    Once you have progressed far enough in the story, you will be able to fight warchiefs. Warchiefs are essentially stronger captains. They make up the fourth row in the "Sauron's Army" page. If you highlight the warchiefs, there will be a blue line showing which captains are their bodyguards. This means that if you go to fight this warchief, this (or these) captain(s) will be with him.
    To earn this achievement, there are 2 options.
    Option 1 - Take out his bodyguard(s) before you go to fight him, by getting intel on them and killing them.
    or
    Option 2 - I'm assuming I did it this way, since I just went straight after every warchief. You COULD just go straight after the warchief, and kill him and his bodyguards at the same time (killing bodyguards first obviously). This will obviously be a lot harder, and unless you're skilled at the combat at this game I wouldn't recommend it. Not to say it isn't doable, but depending on what combination of abilities they have it could be annoying.
    (Example, I went after one and got killed when he had one bodyguard. I managed to beat him though when he had 2.)
    I can't really confirm this option since I've already earned the achievement, so if anyone else could confirm it I'd appreciate it.

    Another thing to add - I pretty much went around murdering every captain in the beginning of the game, so by the time warchiefs showed up, only like one had a guard. This leads me to believe that while you can't highlight the warchiefs in the beginning or see their links to the captains, the links are already there.

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    UndoingDuckI can confirm that you can complete this by first dominating a Warchief and this two bodyguard. Then start the Warchief mission when it displays to call out the dominated Warchief, once they appear just kill them while they friendly in any way you prefer.
    Posted by UndoingDuck on 26 Dec 20 at 07:05
    JimmieWorldSo as it turned out I had the same glitched achievement as @Jehugasm. I deleted my local save file, and since I didn't wanted to lose all my progress I played the game offline. After I got my achievement I deleted the local save again, and went online and let it syncronize with the current save.
    Posted by JimmieWorld on 04 May 23 at 01:02
    BertusKilled every captain in Udun and after that every warchief and it just will not unlock for me..
    Posted by Bertus on 03 Aug 23 at 07:49
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  • Dr RubdyDr Rubdy
    02 Oct 2014 06 Oct 2014
    The Lord and Master achievement and also Power Vacuum achievement goes well with this achievement. I posted a video guide to get all 3 of these achievements under the Lord and Master achievement if you want to check it out, if not ill explain how I did it.

    You want to start by branding all of the body guards of each Warchief. If a Warchief does not have a body guard its ok. After branding each one of the body guards, go fight each of the Warchiefs, if they DO have body guard, kill them. One of the branded body guards will become the new Warchief. If the Warchief does not have a body guard you need to make sure you brand him by weakening him then doing a combat brand.

    Next if you need/want the "Divide and Conquer" achievement then simply go to the missions on the map which say " 'Insert Warchief name here' awaits your command". Find two Chiefs with at least 2 body guards then take out his two body guards ,which should be branded, simply by dominating them, then getting intel, then killing them. Or you can simply shank them to death. Then take out the Chief. Do this twice and you should get the Divide and Conquer achievement.

    Finally keep killing the Chiefs in this manner and you should get the "Power Vacuum" achievement.
  • AaronDrunkGamesAaronDrunkGames
    08 Oct 2014 08 Oct 2014
    Here is a decent video that will help you gain this achievement. It is very short and can is very simple to follow, check it out here. You're welcome.
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