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Infiltration time make it even less manageable, one example, you have wounded in a squad so you allocate some soldiers to another squad needing someone, fine. But when first squad is ready again ooops multiple soldiers are in infiltration with another team. So you recruit soldier from another squad...

LordYanaek wrote:it's not MTG!

Lmao

Thrombozyt wrote:It seems to me, that once insanity lands, it's quite random what effect will be triggered. Is there a table for the odds of panic/MC out there?

Iirc it's determined by your degree of success

To tell the truth, I haven't met a more helpful forum than this one. Cudos for you guys. ^^ this. I must extend my thanks to the creators of this great (again) mod. ^^ & this. I'm not sure how easy they will be after the early-mid game I'm now (just unlocked magnetics). My experience (Veteran) ...

Awesome. Thanks for the perspective!

stefan3iii wrote:Shredder cannon is much more powerful than a rocket, it does more damage, shreds 4 armor, and has a massive AOE and range.

I was not aware that it was so badass. Thanks! It definitely will go on the priority list.

Interesting. I was considering trying to liberate a couple more along the way for the towers. Bad idea? Of my 4 non-liberated regions, 2-3 now have high vigilance (15-17). Does that change anything? Means they're useless for generating certain missions. But they're excellent for keeping Advent stre...

Coil by August is the first threshold and you've met it. Nifty. The advice I hear is "Kubikiri snipers for when Sectopod/Gatekeeper is part of everyday GOp missions" which is November-ish. Working on that already. Thanks! 4 squads feels slightly on the low side but not fundamentally bad. ...

Looks like you're on your way to winning. You have more regions than I did at that point, I only had 4. I wouldn't bother contacting any more, except to reach facilities and golden path missions. Interesting. I was considering trying to liberate a couple more along the way for the towers. Bad idea?...

I am playing my second-ever (veteran) long war game now. (Played eu/ew on console.) My first lw game I quit 2/3 through because it looked like I had set myself up for a long ugly slog to the end. So now the clendar's about to flip to august, and I feel like things are going fairly well, but I'm gonn...

Clibanarius wrote:

orion_winterfire wrote:

SamXjones wrote: 2) jigsaw puzzles have no randomness.

They most certainly do! Whether all the damn pieces fall out facing upward or not is a big hitch in my strategy.

thx you made my morning

Since many features in the game: not only shoot/miss/map layout, but also including (but not limited) flashbang/flame/combative/dodging a 100% hit/finding a mission with enough time for infiltration/do you get a starting engineer or Scientist etc. are based on RNG roll, why bother not naming this m...

Revival protocol is really good But combat protocol is just too good. I've heard more than one person say this, but at the same time, my experience is that (using all 3 options in different squads) I say "$#!+ I wish I had revival" 2x as often as I say that re: combat protocol. But I have...

Support=non-damaging (flash, smoke, frost, . . . Ghost?)

So much gunner hate! Yeah, they're not often superstars, but with good aim they can dish out pretty good damage just with standard shots. And h.o.b. is serious business.

Rookies. Yummy.

Another potential factor to consider is xp overflow. By default, a soldier can earn any amount of xp on a mission but can only rank up once. Some of those soldiers could be going into a mission already having enough xp to level.

I try to deal with it by preventing it. Keep a phantom soldier scouting, keeping an eye on whatever seems like the most likely (or scariest) direction the next pod may charge in from. It's not nearly so bad when you see it coming in time to position for it.

pingpong wrote:YAY! Thx for your prompt response!

So I'll pre-order WOTC immediately and then come back here everyday to see if you guys will announce LW 2 support for the new expansion!

Lol be nice now. I'm fairly sure PI didn't get a heads-up anywhere near early enough to get changes made soon.

My opinion: you desperately need to contact more regions and get story missions done.

It will/should. If you're worried, there's a mod . . . LW2 Info, maybe? That will show you vigilance for each region. Since advent moves troops to regions with high vigilance, you can more easily watch for it.
I'd imagine, though, that any time now you'll get some additional strength roll in.

Oh damn that would piss me off royally!

Icarus wrote:Huh. How much aim would you guys consider necessary on a sharpshooter holo officer?

I don't have a hard target for that, but the lower the better (kinda lol), for an officer.

I like the randomness of sending the early rookies to learn the hard way. I'll use the gts to pick once it's up and running, but by that time I'm out of rookies until recruitment gets going.

shinobi, technical, grenadier, sharpshooter
Any of the above with >average speed and <average aim. Most other troops' actions are too valuable imo.