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Perhaps you misread? We're *not* forcing you to handle logistics; all those resources are drawn from a common pool. Ah, I read too much into "extracted from asteroids and planets and catapulted to manufacturing stations and habs". Thank you for the swift clarification, good expectation ma...

There is value in removing the rest of a pod while the Big Scary is stunned. It makes things much more predictable with who the OW shots will go off on. Pods scamper when first activated, but if that's a whole turn before they see the squad, they'll converge again. Hence the value of sniper activati...

space-based resources, which must be extracted from asteroids and planets and catapulted to manufacturing stations and habs to build ships and hab components -- without the use of boost. Hmm, a top bar UI would imply it shows all resources you have in some pool. But you mention the logistics of del...

I noticed that Robotic enemies will reposition with flush, even though fire doesn't hurt them Note that if they decide to move 1 tile, kill zone or any other reaction fire won't trigger. Relying on forced retreats to trigger suppression must consider if the enemy will be happy with moving exactly 1...

you switch it to Supply and move along to one of your quiet regions that should have less vigilance and streght. You'll get Supply raids there but those are easy and give free exp Just to clarify, Dwarfling meant Supply mini-retals. Not to be confused with intercepting a supply train that's moving ...

Search for posts authored by "faket15" with keyword "Vigilance" in this subforum. That'll get you more accurate information than what I'm writing below. Vig increases from successful missions. In most cases, Vig is only increased in the region where you did the mission but interc...

Corporate attitude towards giving status updates to outsiders errs heavily on the side of caution. The obvious (to today's people) reason is because setting up unrealistic expectations is shooting yourself in the foot. The slightly less obvious reason is that anything made public is fair game for co...

A technical in an early liberation... can't see that being useful unless he takes Shredder and has a laser rifle. Then he'd have some use as the anti-armour. I find he usually just runs suppression. Hence why Dwarfling said double-suppression. IIRC, each suppression has a 25% chance of being ran. Wi...

I've had to do a "fighting retreat" to take out the General's pod before. The squad constantly keeps the pod just out of sight (except to a concealed spotter) at the end of each turn for about 3 turns. Snipers remove everything dangerous, LR assaults clear the inevitable OW spam while movi...

It was a recruit mini-retal that taught me the importance of having Coilgun by the time M3 dudes show up. After spending a week of save scumming against a single recruit mini-retal, I ended my first LW2 campaign (that got off the ground). It's a DPS check - not as hardcore as Invasion but it really ...

I feel for the general, you either need complete CC (stun or fire), or you need to be able to destroy his cover and focus him down. Assuming you've killed the rest of his pod, the General can be cheesed: - A shadowstep shinobi hunkers behind high cover in his sight with Aid Prot = 95 Def (assuming ...

How are you putting havens on supply and having enough intel to discover lib chain missions? I don't think he meant putting havens on supply. Also note he doesn't care how much time is left when missions are detected. I at least waited until June to break the infiltration game, he's doing it from M...

That is indeed our theory. Note that Aid Prot and Smoke give +Def not +Dodge. To really guarantee Combatitives is doing its job, wear Nanoweave (-25 enemy crit) or learn Resilience at AWC (-50) if available.

If you're doing a Mag rush, there is merit in considering 1~2 respec Snipers (before they become Sgt). They get fed kill XP to Cpl, then are denied kill XP to minimise waste XP while they await the Sgt promotion. That period when you have Mag rifles but ballistic sniper rifles? What's a sniper going...

As per the advice here I took a supply raid at 40% infiltration and pulled it off thanks to combatives, smoke, and aid protocol. It was pretty hairy, but I think I can handle more of these in the future. The payoff was sure nice. Do note underinfiltrated supply raids are going to have a boss pod. C...

what squad compositions were successful for GOPs and for untimed missions like supply raids during either campaign. I'm about to try out a commander mag rush myself. A Commander Mag Rush write-up with way too much detail. It kinda got ridiculous by August when I abandoned it. Discussion of the ridi...

I'm not using that strategy. I'm not under-infiltrating, nor running 8-man squads. I imagine PSI wouldn't work so hot with that since only 2 psi operatives can be trained at a time. Giving up lasers for a splash of psi in a large roster doesn't sound great. Most would be stuck underranked waiting t...

Back in my Commander 8-man "EXP rushes", I was fitting in a "squaddie Psi" into A-teams running around with 7 other GSGT+ veterans kitted with cutting edge equipment for July. Psi can hold their weight with very little EXP. They can't carry the entire squad on their own, but if t...

The test for whether Psi was worth it is around August in Commander. When M3 dudes start showing up and you don't have Coilgun deployed, Psi will be asked "were you worth it when we could have had good guns?" The answer to that will depend on what you've been doing with early Psi.

Very much playstyle, yeah. A 72 Aim rookie would become a sniper if I had my way.

no troop columns (regions were mostly <4 strength) I'm not sure why strength stayed low. I usually had 3 teams in the field and sometimes 4. I got to 3 regions quickly and stayed there for a while as I didn't get any contacts as Intel packages. 3 havens gives you quite a choice of missions so I gue...

Making a Sapper guide is a 2 step process: a bunch of cropped screenshots (or just a long list of object descriptions) and then some caption under each to describe what happens. Someone else could do the former.

The danger of yellow-alert is when you don't know if/where it will come. Get rid of that uncertainty and it's not so dangerous - they still need to aim.

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 ...

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 i...