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Those little bastards bring down 4 legions at once, and I finally got one last night. It showed up a VIP jailbreak, but I'm tuned into the details enough that I immediately knew what it really was. The tip off was light to moderate baseline activity in a region where all the other missions were ligh...

Faket 15's post that details reinforcement machanics is also something that I am factoring in here. Leaving the regions with facilities and golden path sites undisturbed will cause them to stop asking for reinforcements at deterministic strength levels. Once that happens the chance of UFOs being dir...

Thanks for checking that out for me.

Now I'm wondering if there might be a flaw in my plan. The UFO drops reinforcements in the province it lands and also an adjacent province. But if all connected areas are liberated it becomes impossible to place half of thr reinforcements. Does anyone know if this will prevent the UFO mission from b...

I'm aware that there is no sure thing. I'll leave that HQ there with a continuous small chance of attracting UFOs until liberating it fits in with my global strategy. The point I was trying to make is that timing the final liberation mission is a critical factor in managing both vigilence and global...

Remember also that vigilence in a given region can be increased by things you do in other regions. Liberating a province generates a big vigilence boost in connected areas and a small boost globally. I'm pretty sure that destroying a troop column can also increase vigilence in nearby areas. The LW2 ...

I just got a Chryssalid in July on a UFO mission.

My only real complaint is that the game is preventing me from doing useful things with my free time. Nobody should have any gripe about anything because the mod is fully modable. If you don't like something then change it. I'm a wimpy flesh man so I gave myself back the reinforcement flare on comman...

Thank you.

Hello SonnyWiFiHr.

I don't intend this to be mean or rude, but have serious doubts that you actually understand what vigilence is in LW2.

It is not any value that has a visual representation in the game, so I am curious to know how you determined what the minimum value is?

I'm pretty sure force level 1 UFOs or troop columns are impossible since they can't be generated until the second month, but strange things happen sometimes. My current Commander game started with a global strength of 29 legions instead of the 30 I was expecting, and in my previous game it was sendi...

What is the minimum regional vigilence?

Is it 0 or 1?

Hello SonnyWifiHR. Your posts in this thread lead me to believe you do not understand the difference between mission generation and mission detection. Mission generation is completely invisible. You will not determine when it happens by saving your game at a certain time. Once a mission has been gen...

I've played around a bit with my World War I squad that is based on the combined use of machineguns and poison gas.

The conclusion is that gas grenades need to be combined with salvo.

That way you can poison them and run away.

What will happen if I try to run LW2 as a mod with WOTC?

I've been thinking about giving it a try and attempting to resolve any conflicts as they crop up.

My modding skills are currently limited to text edit butchery of .ini files, but I am willing to learn.

I always buy the one in the Black Market. You can get 2 in March that way. Go full intel + scientist + scan in your starting region to get the Liberation missions with good infiltration time. Boost if necessary. Get a scientist from Liberation 2 and you will have 3 by the end of March, which is enou...

Fearless and captivating Arch Angel just ran up and skull mined an advent general.

Got hit by 3 points of feedback damage on the failed hack and the bastard acually survived.

He's crumpled on the ground with 1 HP left as I type this.

I've been getting through my boring commute by thinking up thematic squads. When I get home tonight I will give the Advent a history lesson about World War I with machineguns and gas grenades. I just got the MKII launcher and the +1 radius on a gas grenade should make a nice big cloud. 4 grenadiers ...

Hi Aedn. Playing on Legend is a perfect example of a self-imposed style, and one that necessarily narrows your options. Beating this game on L/I is s tremendous accomplishment, but once you've proven you can do it then maybe it would be ok to experiment with sub-optimal strategies. One possibility i...

Just because there is an optimized path doesn't mean you have to take it. Mag rush, psi rush, win the game in predator armor...what's the hurry? The doom clock can be delayed by liberating havens, destroying facilities, story line missions, or building vigilance, so you have plenty of time. Try maki...

So....

Nothing to report seems like a bit of a tease.

Is there nothing because there's nothing or nothing because there's something that your not reporting?

It's less of a problem now that I have 100+ hours in, but when I first started playing the game trained me to think of the right mouse button like the "go back" arrow on a web browser. This works on every menu in the game and all the places in the Avenger. Sometimes also in the tactical ma...

If you take over the whole planet the aliens will invade from space. If I can actually accomplish this i will declare victory on my goal and try to win the game. Something strange just occured in a new game I started on Veteran that is relevant to this thread. I completed Liberation I in my starting...

One of the best things about this mod is that there are so many different ways to play it. I grew up playing Avalon Hill war games with cardboard pieces and hex map boards. The main attraction of LW2 over vanilla for me is the fact that I can play it as a global war game, so my goal is planetary lib...

Hi everybody. I am playing on veteran with the goal of liberating the planet and am trying to understand all of the ways that legions are added or destroyed. For one thing, what is the difference between the supply and transport missions? I won a supply mission but the global number of legions was n...