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by guypapyrus
Fri Feb 09, 2018 1:06 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Can you destroy a facility by liberation
Replies: 2
Views: 5355

Re: Can you destroy a facility by liberation

Pretty sure the answer is no, but just as sure you'd get the infiltration bonus for going all the way to fully liberating. So it'd help.

I believe the relevant Find A Lead missions are more likely to spawn in regions where the related facility is, so that would be a downside to liberating.
by guypapyrus
Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:02 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Strange Rookie Stats
Replies: 3
Views: 7221

Re: Strange Rookie Stats

Well, it seems just fresh installing the game did the trick. It also seems to have resolved some Avenger undercarriage bugs that had never plagued me until this latest campaign. Though it WAS kind of nice having all those high HP soldiers. They just had trouble hitting stuff frequently enough.
by guypapyrus
Mon Jan 22, 2018 1:05 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Strange Rookie Stats
Replies: 3
Views: 7221

Re: Strange Rookie Stats

I've only ever made a couple of ini edits: show all awc perks, and set awc retrain time to zero days. Here's my mods in use. Uniforms Manager was the only new addition to that last campaign... though I DID have Alien Hunters installed by accident (I had done a fresh install of Windows recently and r...
by guypapyrus
Mon Jan 22, 2018 12:20 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Strange Rookie Stats
Replies: 3
Views: 7221

Strange Rookie Stats

In my current commander campaign (Nov 35), I've had an odd occurrence of rookie stats skewing heavily towards health: as in, at least half my troops having 7 health as rookies. This means a dearth of high anything else (most painfully aim and/or mobility, though I also like high mobility high defens...
by guypapyrus
Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:22 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: That advent assault on liberated region
Replies: 11
Views: 23882

Re: That advent assault on liberated region

I'm really banking on sword shinobis more than OW rangers; but between those two classes, I feel like the action economy is so ridiculously high and scales up to a 10 person squad really well, in spite of their weaknesses.

Unless the Iron Skin DE is active, then I just start over :P
by guypapyrus
Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:42 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Troop Column in pre-Liberated Region
Replies: 2
Views: 4899

Re: Troop Column in pre-Liberated Region

Ok, yeah I preferred to run the troop column at lower strength because I was short on gear and supplies. It ended up working out, though it was a challenge because it was on a fairly cramped urban map and my sniper was visible. Any other setup than the place I chose would have meant contending with ...
by guypapyrus
Sun Jan 21, 2018 1:09 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Troop Column in pre-Liberated Region
Replies: 2
Views: 4899

Troop Column in pre-Liberated Region

I'm infiltrating a strength 6 region HQ when a troop column (moderate) spawned with 9 days (7 1/2 days to go on the HQ). Do I understand correctly that if I infiltrate the troop column it will: 1. Force me to run the mission or abort, adding 50% to whatever infiltration percentage I have when the li...
by guypapyrus
Sat Jan 20, 2018 7:16 pm
Forum: Long War 2: Strategy
Topic: That advent assault on liberated region
Replies: 11
Views: 23882

Re: That advent assault on liberated region

2 or 3 rapid reaction rangers, 1 rapid fire ranger with shredder ammo, one chain lightning assault, and the rest sword shinobis. Maybe a psiop: MCing/dominating a greater archon or hive queen can be very handy. Spider/wraith suits for everyone but the OWers. Make sure the shinobis have medkits or ha...
by guypapyrus
Mon Jan 15, 2018 4:04 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Complete and utter Long War 2 domination looks like...
Replies: 10
Views: 17582

Re: Complete and utter Long War 2 domination looks like...

What difficulty was this? I just set aside a Veteran campaign that's in kind of a similar state, currently xmas 2036. I've got more troops in the barracks (~170), but only about half MSGTs. 3 doom pips, 120%+ Avatar slowdown. I just started a Commander campaign to see how well I can do there. Yeah, ...
by guypapyrus
Sat Apr 15, 2017 8:33 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: Rebel Movement & Promotion
Replies: 15
Views: 22309

Re: Rebel Movement & Promotion

I've thought a little about this and wondered if being able to transfer only promoted rebels while losing their promotions; and/or, being able to transfer soldiers to rebel duty, but only squaddies or lcpls or something. Doable, but hardly costless.
by guypapyrus
Sat Apr 15, 2017 8:06 pm
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: What is the idea behind Crit Rangers?
Replies: 17
Views: 23999

Re: What is the idea behind Crit Rangers?

A little tangential but since we're talking about how hit, crit and graze interact: can crit upgrade Grazing Fire grazes to hits? Because all of a sudden Covering Fire seems a lot better even without the 1.3 buff.
by guypapyrus
Sat Feb 18, 2017 12:43 am
Forum: Long War 2
Topic: [General Feedback] Strategic layer and class balance
Replies: 71
Views: 81717

Re: [General Feedback] Strategic layer and class balance

It's kinda hard to talk about class balance without talking about the enormous role some lucky off/def perks can have in offsetting things. Like, I agree with the OP for the most part; but a decent defensive AWC perk on an assault (tac sense, deep cover, low profile, etc.) can really make a differen...