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My highest is also 12, but it's 11 Reaper 1 axe throw ;) And yeah the bonus damage is great, 3 pods active, 20 movement shinobi, by the end he's slicing dudes 40 tiles from his starting spot. Also when I first got the t2 axe and it was a bit ahead of Advent's progression, I went into a Swarming supp...

Good opener from stealth if you get into the right position. Can be extremely good when you get a flank on multiple guys. I found this happened a decent amount of the time, and killing even 2 guys is pretty nice, so I think it's worth it. You certainly can't go wrong with Close and Personal though (...

I don't think they care about your flare.

Infiltration boost isn't worth it to go from 100 to 150 IMO. It can be worthwhile to go from 67% to 100% because it saves a lot of time, if you need your A team for other stuff or ADVENT strength in the region is rising.

I've done a ton of missions and I have seen them 3 times: 2 HQs and a Black Site. The 2 HQs I was set up to deal with them. The Black Site I had to restart because I found out you really needed to stealth for as long as possible, so I skipped the ruler (also it was the Archon guy who is ridiculous a...

Reaper + sword spec is just the best cleanup tool IMO. Should give the Shinobis a mop rather than sword! ;-) 100% agree. I still take Shadowstep and Conceal so they can function as a scout, but when you get that big pull, you sow the field with AoE and then Reap :twisted: With Reaper on cooldown, I...

Three suits of armor? I thought you could build as many as you wanted.

The Axes are definitely good. I love my blade shinobi with them, he's up to 150 kills now. So much easier to sustain Reaper chains and get Implacable procs with the improved damage.

The Alien Hunters axe helps a lot is is maybe nearer to what the sword damage should be.

I really like Airdrop because I want Combat Engineer on my damage grenadiers and I actually need those extra grenades on big combat missions. Field Medic just doesn't come into play most of the time. Suppression is nice but Specs are my officers so I have other important actions to end my turn with ...

Gunners are a class that's easy to take more than one of, so it would be a waste to only have one build. I don't think you need 2 Ruptures on a mission. You don't need 2 suppression gunners, you really don't want to give up Hail for 2 Shredder gunners. If I only get to bring one gunner, I use them a...

I almost never detect supply raids with enough time to infiltrate. 9 guys on the intel job? Have some 3 day supply raids with Heavy base activity. Pretty much no point in infiltration at all. To me it's really all about finding a good defensive position. Yellow alerts aren't too bad when everyone is...

Blacksite: I fondly remember the times in vanilla, when the blacksite mission was usually the first drawn out slogfest, where I had to carry my stabilized troops to the evac point and make it out barely alive. Not so in LW2. It seems like the LW2 blacksite was deliberately designed to be a stealth ...

More havens will help, because it means more troop ambushes and supply raids. I just built all my coil weps with no troubles and I have plenty of elerium to spare with 8 havens (2 lib). Also you can a bit from the black market. I am running super low on cores though.

All good points. You also delay Predator Armor by rushing mags (though I didn't feel like I needed it with how effectively aliens were getting cleared). I don't remember my campaign in enough detail to know what I did with the extra supplies/alloys I eventually had from not building lasers, though I...

Both towers I've done really did not seem stealthable with a full squad, (though who knows maybe if I'd waited 50 turns something might have opened up). So I just tried to delay contact and then move fast once I went loud. You have some time before really getting the reinforcement flood so I just fo...

I did it on Legend, it seemed fine. It's only 1 more tech to research than lasers. It saves you resources that are much needed midgame (unless you were going to skip mags but I cannot imagine dealing with August aliens using laser weapons). The damage upgrade is significant, mathematically 5 aim is ...

1.1, PC. Other mods: Grimys Hotkeys, Numeric Health Display, Gotcha I skulljacked a Codex and killed the Avatar spawn on a successful Avenger defense mission. Afterwards there was no reduction of the doom counter, though I did get quest completion and advanced the story. I'm told this is supposed to...