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by Darvon
Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:04 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Whats your plans?
Replies: 9
Views: 14028

Re: Whats your plans?

Trihero is the man.
by Darvon
Wed Feb 15, 2017 9:46 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Close combat assaults and sword shinobis seem useless
Replies: 26
Views: 39957

Re: Close combat assaults and sword shinobis seem useless

bingo12345 wrote:2. use shinobi before assault class flank.
That's the big one, your shinobi should always be stealthed behind the enemies so you know the exact result of a running-and-gunning before you do it.
by Darvon
Wed Feb 15, 2017 9:41 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Suggested fix to supply raid, troop column, HQ 0% infiltration abuse
Replies: 116
Views: 130807

Re: Suggested fix to supply raid, troop column, HQ 0% infiltration abuse

I've been doing legendary bronzeman 0% raids with ballistics with only a few wounds and no death. With a bit more practice I Ironman shouldn't be a problem: I'll just need to spend twice as long during the initial positioning stage and waste my life hovering the cursor over fog to look for hidden en...
by Darvon
Thu Feb 09, 2017 9:35 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: 7 months in and no Network Tower mission
Replies: 6
Views: 9973

Re: 7 months in and no Network Tower mission

If you go to Haven Management, do any of your regions have dots to the right of their names? Those dots are how you manage the liberation chain. You say you've stopped doing all rescue missions - are you checking to see if any of those rescue missions are liberation missions (says Liberation below ...
by Darvon
Thu Jan 26, 2017 7:15 pm
Forum: Modding Long War 2
Topic: Is the development branch in-house only?
Replies: 3
Views: 5969

Is the development branch in-house only?

Regarding (for example) the upcoming v1.1, is there access for people to start playing around with it via a repository pull or something, or is it only available to pavonis members? I've seen some streamers using the development build so I'm not sure if they're a special case or I'm just not looking...
by Darvon
Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:48 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: How to use Ranger secondary?
Replies: 27
Views: 34053

Re: How to use Ranger secondary?

Did you ever play xcom2 vanilla? Using shotguns at range 1 was the best way to faceroll legendary. When I saw the LW2 let every class use shotguns I actually laughed.

So, yeah, you're meant to use the double barrel secondary like a normal shotgun: at range 1.
by Darvon
Tue Jan 24, 2017 9:16 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: Defence Stat
Replies: 8
Views: 13342

Re: Defence Stat

GavinRuneblade wrote:my (Russian) roomie would make commissars. They only went into battle with pistols and NEVER shot aliens. Their job was to solve panic and mind control by killing the affected soldiers.
This story made me so happy
by Darvon
Tue Jan 24, 2017 8:53 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Would be nice if you could carry stunned troops
Replies: 24
Views: 31738

Re: Would be nice if you could carry stunned troops

johnnylump wrote:I'm all in favor, but it's not a trivial thing to put in place.
johnnylump wrote:I've got a "sedate" ability for a medikit kind of working
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSrTnWDTdwI