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by Dwarfling
Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:31 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Repair times on mech troopers..balanced?
Replies: 4
Views: 7359

Re: Repair times on mech troopers..balanced?

It's balanced around the fact that you can field damaged SPARKs, and that they have 5 ablative HP they also get back. Backed up with incredibly high armor values you can get depending on your spec (C.Awareness, Bulwark, Formidable, Damage Control, Sacrifice, A point of armor for every armor tier). R...
by Dwarfling
Thu Mar 09, 2017 6:03 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How does it work the Advent Strength?
Replies: 15
Views: 24122

Re: How does it work the Advent Strength?

gimrah wrote:I hope they tone down the vigilance spike from Liberation in 1.3. It seems overly punishing right now if you don't manage to complete Lib 2 and Lib 3 the first time they come up.
Actually, it's great: set everyone to Intel and catch the incoming Supply Raids. Nom nom nom.
by Dwarfling
Thu Mar 09, 2017 5:58 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Long War2 is Short War?
Replies: 5
Views: 11429

Re: Long War2 is Short War?

On my current campaign I've managed to counter a fair deal or Dark Events by having 4 intel + scientist (rest hiding) in my high strenght havens instead of supply rebels. Off the top of my head I managed to stop Tactical: Shredder. And a bunch of Hidden events.
by Dwarfling
Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:53 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: What classes/starting stats should choose for officers?
Replies: 8
Views: 12840

Re: What classes/starting stats should choose for officers?

Shinobis, Specialists, Rapid Targeting Sharpshooters, in that order. I do have an Assault officer tho, but I mostly did it to see if they get extra faceless detection.
by Dwarfling
Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:23 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Panic change suggesiton
Replies: 7
Views: 11523

Re: Panic change suggesiton

What, you think getting hit with a bullet that doesn't go thru your bulletproof vest doesn't make weak-minded people question their own mortality? :D
by Dwarfling
Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:21 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: duplicate shen last gift tower mission [spoilers]
Replies: 7
Views: 10851

Re: duplicate shen last gift tower mission [spoilers]

If I leave the mission up but never complete it will another Lead give me another tower mission? Because I want other stuff (like facility leads) and while free SPARK (and experience cuz the mission is super easy after mag weapons) is nice, I don't want to abuse a bug.
by Dwarfling
Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:04 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: DFA vs. Rapid Targeting
Replies: 33
Views: 38660

Re: DFA vs. Rapid Targeting

DFA and Rapid Targeting are for different specs of Sharpshooters. DFA is for the nest sniper you bring on non-timed missions (or 12-turns missions if you want to gamble on terrain) and Rapid Target is for Sharpshooters that came with low NCE aim, and you use them as a replacement for Shinobi scouts ...
by Dwarfling
Thu Mar 09, 2017 1:37 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: AWC ??? Perks don't fit the Role
Replies: 6
Views: 13286

Re: AWC ??? Perks don't fit the Role

Don't try to apply logic to it. The whole point of the AWC perks is to make every soldier different from each other, instead of just clones of the same spec like on Vanilla. Doesn't work your way half of the times, but when it works, works great. (Rapid deployment Smoker Specialist, Shredder Ranger ...
by Dwarfling
Tue Mar 07, 2017 7:12 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Switching haven job penalty
Replies: 3
Views: 6119

Re: Switching haven job penalty

AFAIK the rebels take a day to start adding recruit/intel/supply points after a switch.
by Dwarfling
Tue Mar 07, 2017 7:11 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Datatap Missions
Replies: 19
Views: 24581

Re: Datatap Missions

I'd give you advice but the mission tends to be fairly RNG heavy: even if you don't activate a pod by the beacon right away, they might come at you with yellow alert from an exposed side and blast one of your rebels with a reaction. I mean, a fairly number of datatap retals turn easy enough, but on ...
by Dwarfling
Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:55 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How are people liberating regions so fast?
Replies: 45
Views: 88368

Re: How are people liberating regions so fast?

The earlier you do the mission the easier enemies you'll find. So if you manage to do the Network Tower by late April or early May, the worst you'll find there are snakes and a MEC. A bit later and you'll find a Muton at the console pod. So basically what you do is you put your starting region's hav...
by Dwarfling
Tue Mar 07, 2017 12:32 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: How many are attempting "Light" Guerrilla Ops with 6-ish soldiers?
Replies: 10
Views: 17401

Re: How many are attempting "Light" Guerrilla Ops with 6-ish soldiers?

I'm usually bringing 4 or 5 soldiers whenever I can afford it to these missions. - It's fun. - Less things that can go wrong if you can fight it out. Say, when you choose your stealth path wrong and end up stuck unable to keep concealment. - You keep more people leveled up. Those 3 day missions are ...
by Dwarfling
Mon Mar 06, 2017 6:52 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Advent Tower vs HQ Assault
Replies: 5
Views: 9077

Re: Advent Tower vs HQ Assault

I always dread the HQ Tower because of the two it's the one where RNG can screw you the most. You can get blocked by a building without a ladder and only a window, there can be static pods, you can get screwed by a patrol doing an unexpected 180º while you're trying to sneak past, etc. On HQ Assault...
by Dwarfling
Mon Mar 06, 2017 12:41 am
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Help with a 10 advent strength region
Replies: 4
Views: 9389

Re: Help with a 10 advent strength region

The solution is finishing the game regardless if they invade it or not.
by Dwarfling
Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:43 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Bug Reports
Topic: Clown Car Cell full of Aliens
Replies: 4
Views: 7421

Re: Clown Car Cell full of Aliens

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ADVENT Strenght: 2
Number of enemies: Light
4/18/2035 (Early game)

This can't be the trap mission. That guy outside the cell was inside, at the door. I moved the VIP out, he was surrounded by the pod.
by Dwarfling
Thu Mar 02, 2017 7:15 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Haven Advisor Soldiers
Replies: 17
Views: 21158

Re: Haven Advisor Soldiers

My favorite advisor is the Assault: you can Trench Gun the roaming pod (or just sit really close in a beaglerush maneuver), then when the faceless come, Stun works wonders since they're in the open. Plus you don't have to worry about revealing pods when using R&G. Still decent on the retaliations.
by Dwarfling
Thu Mar 02, 2017 4:26 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Viability of delayed Liberation
Replies: 7
Views: 13346

Viability of delayed Liberation

Ok so I've done several Liberation rushes by now, most of them successful, but one thing in common with all of them is that the first liberated region will spike in vigilance because of all the missions, resulting in a severe increase of ADVENT strenght, resulting in the region's Haven requiring mos...
by Dwarfling
Thu Mar 02, 2017 1:48 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Single class squads?
Replies: 3
Views: 7200

Re: Single class squads?

I once did a 4 Gunners, DFA Sharpshooter, Support Grenadier Troop Column. 3 Saturation Fire, a Shredder and 4 Hail of Bullets made the mission trivial, specially since no timer allowed me to refresh the cooldowns. Would repeat with 6 gunners if I had them. However what I really want to try is having...
by Dwarfling
Thu Mar 02, 2017 12:21 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Retaliation fail
Replies: 3
Views: 6308

Re: Retaliation fail

Well, you can still do the HQ Raid for the bodies, loot and experience. But otherwise... :?
by Dwarfling
Thu Mar 02, 2017 12:11 am
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Value of stealth?
Replies: 12
Views: 15799

Re: Value of stealth?

Well if I had 6 days to infiltrate I'd go with a fighting squad and duke it out for loot but since half of the missions seem to pop with 4 days, which usually means 3, maybe 4 soldiers, you gotta do at least part of the mission from stealth (until you reach objective), otherwise between the 3+ pods ...
by Dwarfling
Wed Mar 01, 2017 3:45 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Why doesn't just XCOM-
Replies: 2
Views: 5404

Re: Why doesn't just XCOM-

Probably in the next expansion?
by Dwarfling
Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:57 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: SPARKS worth it?
Replies: 31
Views: 51944

Re: SPARKS worth it?

I love SPARKs. If only they were a little easier to train, but you can have them do all sort of Retaliations and get exp that way. This is what I did with mine: 1. Combat Awareness 2. Bulwark 3. Cool Under Pressure 4. Intimidate 5. Holo-Targeting 6. Hunter Protocol 7. Sacrifice So you have a decent ...
by Dwarfling
Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:39 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: First supply raid: How many people to bring?
Replies: 10
Views: 16593

Re: First supply raid: How many people to bring?

I've yet to discover the first Supply Raid with any decent time left, so I always go with 10-soldiers 0% infiltration, trying really hard to have a team trained and ready for it since it regularly hits mid-late 2nd month.
by Dwarfling
Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:33 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Best single class team
Replies: 18
Views: 28163

Re: Best single class team

I recently did a troop colum... I think Light-Moderate, with 4 Gunners, a DFA Sharpshooter and a Support Grenadier. Here's how it went down: Saturation, Saturation, Saturation, Hail of Bullets, camp, camp, camp, camp, Saturation... They never stood a chance, even with Archons.
by Dwarfling
Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:01 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Bug Reports
Topic: Small sneks on nest mission defense gives + to hit
Replies: 2
Views: 5057

Re: Small sneks on nest mission defense gives + to hit

Ain't that just having negative defense like with your NCE soldiers?