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I run my high advent strength regions (Veteran/Ironman - your mileage on Legend will vary) - with 11+ rebels: 4 intel, all others on supply - with 8-10 rebels: 4 recruit, 4 intel, 0-2 supply - with 0-7 rebels: 4 recruit, the rest in hiding The rationale: 1) I don't care about supply retaliations, a...

I think I like the idea of red fog, but it can really screw a mission up... ] Red Fog is a love-it or hate-it feature. I think it makes the game interesting because it makes every hit point important (rather than just the last one) and makes the otherwise rarely used medic build an option that's on...

I can only hope that the reinf timer will run a lot slower when it starts on turn 1.

How does it decide where to drop when you are in concealment?
By dropping near the place where you were last turn?

Maybe I missunderstood the mod a bit. I like to grow in power and not just preventing from drowning. Then this may not be a suitable mod for you. Long War 2 is very tough even at Veteran. You need to read most of this forum to understand how infiltration, stealth, haven management, research and a f...

The missions with no time limits and/or enemy reinforcements (supply raids, troop movements): use patience and overwatch a lot. Because you have all the time in the world, you can patiently whittle enemy troops down. These are easy and more profitable if there are many enemies. The missions with tim...

Just had a supply raid that started out with a big fire on a chokepoint, out of LOS from my squad.

About 10 aliens burned themselves to death and another 10 or so got burn wounds, as they persisted in running through the flames.

chrisb wrote:That also gives me an idea for how to use info leaks to find faceless. Not exactly which rebels are, but if the haven has some. The recruit time should be predictable, there's no RNG.

After reading this, I suspect it will be random in 1.4, maybe already in 1.3

In the description for Advanced Coil Guns "catostrophic" -> "catastrophic" And (but now I'm really picking nits) "this style of weaponry" is singular, and then "they" is used twice to refer to it. Probably better to replace "this style of weaponry" t...

I run my high advent strength regions (Veteran/Ironman - your mileage on Legend will vary) - with 11+ rebels: 4 intel, all others on supply - with 8-10 rebels: 4 recruit, 4 intel, 0-2 supply - with 0-7 rebels: 4 recruit, the rest in hiding Seems like a decent strategy. In a 7 rebel region what's th...

All I can offer is that you shouldn't build Power Plant on coils anyway, as it will give you only 7 free power
- The upgraded Shadow Chamber costs 14 power
- A fully upgraded Laboratory costs 9 power
you will need both in the end, and you only have 2 coils.

I run my high advent strength regions (Veteran/Ironman - your mileage on Legend will vary) - with 11+ rebels: 4 intel, all others on supply - with 8-10 rebels: 4 recruit, 4 intel, 0-2 supply - with 0-7 rebels: 4 recruit, the rest in hiding The rationale: 1) I don't care about supply retaliations, as...

Jobs in new regions: depends on how much stomach you have for missions popping up in your face constantly :D I just went intel everywhere in an effort to stop as many DEs as possible, with maybe one token recruiter and recruiting from the haven advisor. So I did find a pretty good amount of DEs and...

Rookies are expenable, especially later on. Good for one man suicide missions (kill VIP). :o do you know I never though about that ? I guess you never played the original X-com, where you would use rookies carrying a live grenade in each hand to open The UFO Door of Unavoidable Death. The rookie wa...

Having an uncompleted Network Tower mission spikes vigilance as well.

I was too slow with research in my first game (and did not understand Advent strength) and both my open Network Towers spiked to 10. This made the missions impossible to do for me.

Grenadier with - Aggression (+5% crit per enemy in sight) - Bring 'Em On (+1 crit damage per 2 enemies) - Deadshot (+10% crit) Currently in Training for Low Profile, with 2 more defensive perks to come. Still needs to level up to Tech Sergeant for Biggest Booms (50% crit, +2 damage), and would be te...

You are a platoon on a flying ship, backed by countless fleshy civilians with crap guns vs a well equipped planetary defense force that can replenish itself at a whim and is backed up by superior alien forces. You aren't supposed to get the upper hand. Agree: it is much more like the Taliban: they ...

When I research Magnetic Weapons (and skip lasers), my resistance fighters sometimes are armed with laser weaponry when hunting Faceless.
Seems odd.

In the mission text for "Rescue VIP from Advent Cell" it uses the word "imprisioned", which should be imprisoned.

After some experimenting I now use the following: 1) Grab 1 extra area at start 2) Set both areas at 1 recruiting, the rest intel 3) Once most of your soldiers are infiltrating, set all intel guys to supplies instead 4) Once most of your soldiers are back in the ship, go to 2) This gives me all the ...

Thx!

Guess I will have to run even more missions.

After having done some missions in my starting province, I finally got the Tower mission on the path to liberation. As I was rushing Magnetic Weapons (instead of Lasers), I have not yet completed this mission, so it is still "open". Unfortunately, the Advent Strength in this province has g...