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But Vigilance =/= ADVENT Strength. Your 0% SR is still going to bump off one ADVENT Strength but, if it spikes Vigilance by 5 points, ADVENT is going to flood that region with more legions. Therefore forcing you to cheese more supply raids to keep AS down, thereby spiking Vigilance farther and so o...

Why not just spike Vigilance? Detecting those Supply Raids is going to be hard after one or two full Retaliations. Because they're supposed to be a means of reducing ADVENT strength, not making it skyrocket. But Vigilance =/= ADVENT Strength. Your 0% SR is still going to bump off one ADVENT Strengt...

Everyone knows intelligence operatives play Galaga at work, not Pokémon.

Yeah, in vanilla you basically always got a PoI after a successful mission. In LW2 you get them when the mission says you do. Now I fully get it. So basically it's not a bug anyway right? It's just me and others being unlucky and not getting packages that lead to rulers. Is there a list of all the ...

Yeah, in vanilla you basically always got a PoI after a successful mission. In LW2 you get them when the mission says you do.

NoDebate wrote:Why not just spike Vigilance?

Detecting those Supply Raids is going to be hard after one or two full Retaliations.

Because they're supposed to be a means of reducing ADVENT strength, not making it skyrocket.

Afaik, with 1.1 the possible appearance of the Nest POI is tied to Forcelevel 12, which means roughly November. But you still need an Intel Package to have a chance to spawn it. Is there another bug i'm not aware of? force 12 ? 8-9 is the max I managed to get. What about other rulers ? Force Level ...

It just modifies smokes you bring.

Dense smoke is very strong if you need to dig in. Flashbangs are better for a moving fight.

Yeah, whenever you lose a dashing rookie in dense smoke to an overwatch shot from a disoriented Sectoid with 1 HP, it's because someone asked about a release date.

Please think of the rookies.

I've got a similar playtime, and I agree with a lot of this. Stealth really is the answer to almost everything. I also love the idea of a stealth mission, but lately I will send a single, speedy soldier to any extraction regardless of remaining time just to see if I can pull it off. Sometimes all th...

I've never had missing civs, so it could be a bug, maybe a modded map that has a glitch in it.

Make contact with as many adjacent regions as you can early, IMO. Set them to Recruit. You can get all the missions you need from your starting region, and the other areas will be "leveing up" for you. Once ADVENT strength starts to go up in your main region, start running missions in the ...

I find it's not valuable on its own, but it's a great component in armor stacking. I would only take it on front line troops, but if you put the Tac Vest and Predator together with it you start to get good results. An Iron Skin PCS or Will to Survive in the AWC pushes it all into seriously reliable ...

Hail of bullets is going up to 5 ammo, and I don't understand the obsession with center mass. 1 damage gets pretty irrelevant when the enemy starts fielding 20 hp units, but grazing fire hits for like 9 damage in the late game and is essentially equivalent to a passive Walk Fire if you're shooting ...

You get one shot at stopping it, but if you do, it's gone for good. Most of them can be countered by equipment. Hazmat vests to deal with Venom Rounds for instance. But overall they're a semi-random way for the aliens to tech up in varied ways from campaign to campaign. They aren't a regional thing,...

Ultimately you need to liberate the region, as that's the only way to actually win. If you leave the region disputed, ADVENT will win eventually, especially if they wear down the haven with mini-retaliations, and eventually when you are unable to mount an effective offense they will start spamming ...

I decided to wait near the extraction point in a overwatch trap to gain some experience I read that experience comes from winning missions, not from kills, in LW2. (On a failed mission kills award experience, but not more than half what success would be.) You can farm for loot drops though, I guess...

Supply raids are a part of the game. They're how you keep ADVENT strength in check. If you don't do them, you make every mission harder. Red Fog is actually good on missions with lots of enemies because you can use explosives to do damage to a whole pod (6-8 guys generally) have debuffs all over eve...

When I did the HQ assault I brought a ShinobI for scouting, three Grenadiers, two Technicals, two Rangers, an Assault, and a Sharpshooter. I used a grenade to open the first major pod, Javalin rockets for the next two, mop up with the Rangers and Assaults, flashbang anything that lives. The command ...

concussion rockets in general are bad and unrewarding. If LongWar didn't mess with melee accuracy so badly then there could possibly be a great use for them. I've used 100% accuracy swords mod for awhile now which with LongWar doesn't even assure its 100% accuracy xD I still get 68% and that's with...

As far as I understand it, it's the distance as the attack is activated. Wether that's a blue move or a yellow move is not relevant. If you're standing right next to the guy there's no bonus. If you blue move 8 tiles away, then target, you get +2. If the guy was 16 tiles away when you targeted you g...

I very much like the rocket side of the tree. I will agree that the Concussion Rocket is terible at doing its stated job, but it's fantastic as a general demolition tool, and you get it long before your grenadiers could get the job done. I've used them to inform Firebrand that I disagree with her ch...

Question to those using the Musashi mods? Since they are not made for LW2 but work with LW2, do they come with the right techs, are built LW style (1 at a time), how are their damage compared to the (stronger) swords? Do you have to ini-edit the stats to make them more in line with the rest of the ...

I have similar problems, but less about keeping my squads alive and more about trying to get the enemy pods to fight ME and not focus exclusively on the resistance members. Seems no matter how suppressed, overwatched and flashbanged the enemy is, they still somehow always find a way to butcher half...

Traps are missions that are very easy to find and seem really good. Long timers, high rewards. Especially beware of great missions you find in areas with low Intel. They're quite literally traps set by ADVENT, hoping you'll take the bait, and then they hit you with everything they've got. Some ways ...