Farming troop columns?(rants included)
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 8:37 pm
TL:DR version:How can you force spawn/farm troop column in lw2?
After comfortably finishing a veteran campaign,i decided it would be a good idea to put on my big boy pants,and start a commander campaign.
However,things were very very grim...
i starved for supplies continuously for months,and managed to get 1 troop column and 1 supply raid before august.
That's right,2 enemy material missions in 5 months(excluding smash and grabs)...
As a result i had 2 mag rifles,3 laser rifles,3 laser cannons,1 laser shotgun and 2 laser snipers at late july,and not even a single muton/mec/stun lancer corpse/fire grenade.
Yes,you will inevitably ask,why i did not do any liberation missions.
Thing is,in this 5 months, not a single lib 2 spawned with more than 96 hours of infil. time(all rebels on intel), in any freaking region.
So,even with boosting,progressing through that path was not an option for me.
Almost 60% of every mission i did was gop missions;some smash and grabs,and only 3 rescue rebel mission,which granted me a whopping 4 rebels in total in 6 regions+a fuck ton of useless rookies.
So,obviously when i finally found a 4 days supply raid,i jumped at it,boosted it,took my best squad of ssgts with the best gear i could sum up,and faced 3 pods(2 pods of 8,1 pod of 6) consisting of multiple berserkers,centurions and m2 mecs; and i knew my campaign was over.No amount of save scumming was gonna save me this time.
So,i started again,this time boosted both lib2 and 3,unlocked network tower,and will attack it+hq in 5 more days with all laser weps(its mid april btw).
However,as vigilance in the region inevitably spiked i thought it would be a good idea to put a scientist as a brief adviser on temporary duty to detect forthcoming troop columns. Things did not work out that way.i did get a supply raid with a whopping 12 hours infil time,which boosted strength from 3 to 4.
So, questions...
1. Is it likely that a troop column will spawn any time soon?Should i remove my scientist?(i am aware that it is extremely ill advised early game,i will remove him very soon anyway)
I think i read somewhere that troop columns require a min strength of 4.
Some additional info for you.
current region is str:4,alert:7
adjacent regions have strength 1 and 2
the str 1 region is alert 5(just did a get attention mission there)
2. will troop columns only spawn when troops are moved from a high strnegth region to a low strength region(like from str 8 to str 3)? OR can it happen either way?
TIA...
After comfortably finishing a veteran campaign,i decided it would be a good idea to put on my big boy pants,and start a commander campaign.
However,things were very very grim...
i starved for supplies continuously for months,and managed to get 1 troop column and 1 supply raid before august.
That's right,2 enemy material missions in 5 months(excluding smash and grabs)...
As a result i had 2 mag rifles,3 laser rifles,3 laser cannons,1 laser shotgun and 2 laser snipers at late july,and not even a single muton/mec/stun lancer corpse/fire grenade.
Yes,you will inevitably ask,why i did not do any liberation missions.
Thing is,in this 5 months, not a single lib 2 spawned with more than 96 hours of infil. time(all rebels on intel), in any freaking region.
So,even with boosting,progressing through that path was not an option for me.
Almost 60% of every mission i did was gop missions;some smash and grabs,and only 3 rescue rebel mission,which granted me a whopping 4 rebels in total in 6 regions+a fuck ton of useless rookies.
So,obviously when i finally found a 4 days supply raid,i jumped at it,boosted it,took my best squad of ssgts with the best gear i could sum up,and faced 3 pods(2 pods of 8,1 pod of 6) consisting of multiple berserkers,centurions and m2 mecs; and i knew my campaign was over.No amount of save scumming was gonna save me this time.
So,i started again,this time boosted both lib2 and 3,unlocked network tower,and will attack it+hq in 5 more days with all laser weps(its mid april btw).
However,as vigilance in the region inevitably spiked i thought it would be a good idea to put a scientist as a brief adviser on temporary duty to detect forthcoming troop columns. Things did not work out that way.i did get a supply raid with a whopping 12 hours infil time,which boosted strength from 3 to 4.
So, questions...
1. Is it likely that a troop column will spawn any time soon?Should i remove my scientist?(i am aware that it is extremely ill advised early game,i will remove him very soon anyway)
I think i read somewhere that troop columns require a min strength of 4.
Some additional info for you.
current region is str:4,alert:7
adjacent regions have strength 1 and 2
the str 1 region is alert 5(just did a get attention mission there)
2. will troop columns only spawn when troops are moved from a high strnegth region to a low strength region(like from str 8 to str 3)? OR can it happen either way?
TIA...