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But if you're not using the gauntlet, why bother with a Technical? Personally I don't bother with retaliations, either I blitz the liberation chain, or I keep a low profile in the region so that I never get retaliated against. If an invasion is immanent, and you can see them coming by watching ADVEN...

I personally never use Techs for advisors because the big thing about the Rendezvous mission is easy access to corpses and loot, all of which is destroyed by most of the Technical's weaponry. I don't build anything special for advisors, I find that a general purpose killing-oriented trooper does jus...

If you are using the Nexus, yes, remove and replace the entire folder.

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Yeah, the new Iron Skin seems like garbage because the melee AI on Stunlancers doesn't just beeline the closest thing like a Chryssalid, they look for vulnerable targets. Chryssies are too uncommon and easy to kill to tech against, IMO.

Yeah, it gives you benefits, but they're kinda pointless given the nature of the mission. You're going to drop the flare after the first pod and there's over a dozen turns of combat after that. You can't stealth the mission so concealment range is meaningless. 5-7 fewer enemies is pointless since th...

I've gone on a mission before, in a city center, that I'm pretty sure was some kind of faceless "trap". I think it was 9 or 10 civilians turned into goop monsters while I was trying to work my way to the objective, and I'm pretty sure this was *before* I got the dark event that puts facel...

Hi guys. Technicians are defintely the class I liked the least in LW2. They lack of personality. What does give personality to a class? Well its gear of course. And technicians are all about these gloves which personally I don't particularly love. Since you made an awesome design work creating lase...

Hi guys. Technicians are defintely the class I liked the least in LW2. They lack of personality. What does give personality to a class? Well its gear of course. And technicians are all about these gloves which personally I don't particularly love. Since you made an awesome design work creating lase...

so, VIP extracts? You don't send an actual squad, what do you do? You aren't in conceal? Hack Mission how did you stand around after coming out of concealment once you popped the evac flare... ? Troops with Phantom are always concealed to start. If the only people on the mission have Phantom, you h...

The way Graze works is that anything within 10 of the target number is a graze. 65 aim will give you a shot breakdown of 55% to hit, 20% to graze, 25% to miss. It has equal odds of giving you a hit that you should have missed by vanilla rules as it does to steal half your damage on what would have b...

My approach has been not to train a "best" squad. Sure, when there's something important to do, I may throw all the best together to tackle it, but I try to maintain four functioning squads who are all "good". Got some new blood? Have them tag along with a veteran squad whenever ...

I've gone on a mission before, in a city center, that I'm pretty sure was some kind of faceless "trap". I think it was 9 or 10 civilians turned into goop monsters while I was trying to work my way to the objective, and I'm pretty sure this was *before* I got the dark event that puts facel...

Heh, half of that list are the ones I never take. :) Stack aim on a Sharpshooter, get on some damn good ground, steady your stock, take aim through your scope and enjoy 100% to hit. On everything. I never take Long Watch, and I never take Sharpahooters on run and gun engagements. Rangers with Center...

3tamatulg wrote:

Devon_v wrote:Some troops are going to become Technicals all on their own, you might as well make use of them.

They make good haven advisors.

They tend to destroy all your freebie loot though.

It's just something that can happen on Lib 3. The Faceless is/are an "undercover" bodyguard for the VIP.

I honestly feel that extraction cheese is the only good use of Oscar Mike because Focus Fire is way too good as a counter to those insane innate defense + Tac Sense guys who like to show up later on. I kinda feel like anything else vs. Focus Fire becomes a wasted perk, while Oscar Mike at least has ...

*shrug* 4 tiles off center still destroys what I'm aiming at. Demolition is mutually exclusive with Iron Curtain which, IMO, is a far superior perk because it actually hurts things and scales up as pod sizes increase, unlike destroying one tile of cover. I use rockets to level buildings. I use them ...

Vanilla cheats in your favor sometimes. Long War doesn't. In order to get a different result from save scumming you need to take your actions in a different order so that the seed numbers are used for different results. The game is not meant to be save scummed, which is why Firaxis used a fixed seed...

Give them 100% offensive actions on activation. Advantage gone. That actually might be an interesting solution, if a very brute-force one. I suggest it is implemented into a new difficulty above Legendary called "Very Very Butthurt" I don't mean in general, I mean as a consequence of 0%in...

I guess if you're crazy enough to plan to use Commisar you'd be carying the pistol around.

Can you explain to me why you would make Techs over Grenadiers? The rocket scatter is terrible. If you want to burn stuff take a flame grenade and you're guaranteed to actually burn them, without cover getting in the way. Not saying you're wrong - maybe I'm doing something wrong? I know that I prob...

ADVENT actually is supposed to advance on the extraction zone, but I think they're programmed specifically not to on VIP extractions. Which is probably the only mission they really should. Guards are another thing that the game is seemingly supposed to have, but they rarely seem to spawn. I had to a...

Current metagame very often means that summoning pods to the player will make the mission much easier for the player. Instead of harder (and the root of this problem is the fact that it's extremely favorable to activate enemies on their own turn rather than yours, even with "yellow alert"...

Abusing squadsight/conceal or just strong defensive setups (without squadsight) on these maps really well but is tedious and not super fun, but way too effective not to do. No concrete suggestions for how to fix. I'd add a global map alert that triggers a set number of turns after breaking concealm...

I'm waiting for 1.2 to come out before I start a new run. I hope there's some serious balance changes in there, because otherwise next run I'm skipping Psi, skipping technicals and making half my team hail of bullets gunners. You mean other than Hail requiring five ammo and Psis being reworked? Tec...