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It's a good point on the interaction between roust and Napalm-X. My issue with taking Napalm-X is you miss out on Fortify. And to me Fortify has fantastic synergy with Burnout that lets you just stand in the open to flame. That makes your positioning a lot more flexible such that you are more likely...

Thanks SonnyWiFiHr. In practice does that mean that you park a scientist in any haven you are serious about running missions in? Do you wait until 2nd month, which I understand is the earliest Lib1 can spawn on Legend? I do generally expand when I can. Certainly at the start I do resistance comms fi...

True. At SSGT. If they hit. Which they probably won't before CuP at TSGT.

I agree once you get to that level they become good but I find it such a slog getting them there.

First serious Legend ironman attempt ended in September. Code black on regular GOp. Triple activation on alien turn. First time encountering majority M3s + 1st andromedon. Just did not have the firepower: one coil weapon per squad and the rest mag (laser on non-shooty classes). I could carry on but ...

As I think about it, I think I should have a place for non-rocket techs in my roster. I reason thusly: Technicals are good, so you want lots of them. Technicals can be built around pretty much any stats, so you are more likely to choose to buy/rescue them. Low ranked technicals are more effective co...

Yeah but Bastion is super late game if at all. And it has some buggy interactions, possibly with hazmat cancelling it out.

Loving the Simpsons soldiers running through these threads. I decided I like roust but not as much as I like being able to use my rocket. Without FitH the rocket just becomes so situational, like when there are enemies clumped on a car, but that's about it. And roust's forced move effect is almost a...

It's probably like everything else: if the AI can't see any of your soldiers it'll do something silly. But if anything can see any of your soldiers it'll act like it can see everything. However I think moving reduces the range for an advent rocketeer (cos they don't have scatter). So flanking one is...

To Dwarfling's question, probably no-one is the officer in that team, which is admittedly suboptimal in itself! And if you rely on suppression for CC then yes things that run it become the priority for the sniper and ranger. So flanky snakes and scouts notably. For lancers I'll probably get some dam...

I would bring a FK grenadier on a supply raid, a troop column, avenger defence, even a facility. Late game having a couple of EMP bombs is great on those missions. I like to take Formidable so I have the option for longer missions to lose the plating, go all grenades and still have a couple of ablat...

Yeah... Though IME lamp posts are often tactical rewards and/or the odds aren't great vs having rnfs dropped on you. It's the odd bonus here and there. And in battles I don't value OW shots nearly as much as shots I control. And those shots are bad until CuP at TSGT. Yes yellow alert on the odd pod ...

Thanks. I pretty much do Redshirt4life's build. I get that but still find them so so except on hack missions. They just don't get enough kills to rank up fast enough to stay relevant. Also I never seem to lib very early so MkII gremlin comes quite late. And skullmining is later still because it's ex...

Also sentinels and commandos are such spoilsports with their insane detection radius. Even with incinerator and stealth perks from AWC, you usually can't proactively stealth burn.

More broadly, the technical tree offers probably the most flexibility of any class. While I find it really hard to suppress my min-maxing instincts, technicals are probably best mixing it up. E.g. in joinrbs' class video I think he took 2 rocket perks, 2 flame perks and the rest centre column. I hav...

Thanks all. I saw the redscreen on the wiki but not the others so appreciate it. I like putting redscreen on pistol users: lots of shots but you don't ding up your target that badly. And then if the pistol user is not on a mission with a decent hacker he can take shredder rounds instead. If only fan...

Thanks faket. Do you have the actual debuff numbers? As in bluescreen is -X hack defence, redscreen -Y and arc pulser -Z? Also does arc pulser debuff change with higher tier arc pulsers? UFOpaedia appears to be down at the moment but in any case I'm 98.764% certain that information is not on there a...

For all that everyone raves about how great hacking is, I find the odds are always terrible on anything beyond a basic drone. If I hack to capture it's as a desperate Hail Mary. Which can be great sometimes, but I'm not going to build my squad around it. I find specialists the weakest class. OW spec...

Heat only affects frags / plasma. Tandem affects all damaging grenades. Just not that much. Ordinarily minimum damage falls off with radius, but not maximum. Don't know how the formula works exactly, but clearly expected damage is affected. That does mean on those occasions when you hit more than on...

If you look at the bottom of the mission screen when it pops it actually tells you how many faceless there are so you can decide whether to take on the mission.

I believe you don't have to do the mission. The faceless will still be gone from your haven. You just miss out on some loot/corpses and xp on your adviser. Which is no biggie in the late game.

Don't know the answer to your actual question though.

I always forget that sting can stun mechanicals. Which it can even without bluescreen. Feels so wrong.

Thoughts on that. LCPL: Agreed. Has to be RD. CPL: If you're going to use any damage grenades then heavy ordnance is better than protector. An extra incendiary grenade early is very valuable as they are expensive and very useful. Later incendiary bombs ditto. I also really like EMP bombs in late gam...

No cheating in favour of aliens.

Perfect Information isn't always perfect information.

On Commander I got through the ballistics phase of mag rush with no deaths. Might have been a bit lucky but I was mostly in control of missions. And then mag rifles allowed me to dominate the next phase in the game. I found that coincided with a phase I find challenging and lots of big missions in i...

Having watch it, I think there was quite a number of issues. It was a Light. Those are no joke at this stage in the game. Frankly the enemy composition could have been even worse. There was a muton elite but no other top tier enemies. I've had some dicey ex lights at this stage of the game with simi...