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With the bags and belts perk you get 4 slots, so your merc’s gear’d look like this: xbow+xbow+spear+shield.Eh?
EH.
Gosh, it’s been awhile since I’ve played this game. Forgot ammunition has its own dedicated inventory slot, lol. Just to confirm since everyone keeps bringing it up: you did try this tactic against the big fat orcs, right?
Thanks for the thoughtful comment! I just wanna note that the bags and pelts perk completely solves the shield problem…7 of your guys can start the battle with shields in their hands so that the formation is solid and nobody gets a lucky(unlucky?) goblin poison arrow to the knee on the first round
The amazing thing is that those 7 guys can still fire 2 bolts on the first round!
You start out holding a shield: 0 AP for quick hand switch to 1st xbow + 2 AP to fire + 4 AP to switch to 2nd xbow + 2 AP to fire = 8 AP in total, which can be done since everyone has 9 AP (but not sure if this will change in future game versions)
SO yeah, grab fast adaptation ASAP and then go straight for quick hand and bags and pelts.
Though I do wish there’ll be an easier way to switch weapons. It’s a hassle as of now. XCOM 2 handles this part quite well, so maybe implement something similar?
If you do that, as soon as they’re caught in melee they’ll have to punch their way out as they don’t have a melee weapon. But goblins tend not to rush in so I suppose that’s less of an issue with them anyway.
Quick question: how have you been distributing your stat points? Because to make this team effective you’d generally have points put into both melee combat and ranged combat. Which means some other combat statistic has to give. The third is probably going into stamina… or health?
Hi, it usually depends on the individual brother that you’re leveling up. If he’s too low on health, focus on bringing it up to 60 first. If he’s too low on fatigue, bring it up to at least 80 (with 110 basic chain mail equipped). But yeah, the basic idea is to level up melee and range attack on every level, and then focus on leveling up melee defense after health and fatigue are sufficiently leveled up. (Farmhand, Wildman and Hunter brothers are awesome)
Personally I think fatigue isn’t that important in this build as the battles are usually over by the time your 80 fatigue guys get tired in melee. Don’t try to use crazy orc weapons though
Interesting. I’ve considered leveling up ranged as well as melee for my peeps because I wanted them to use javelins. I hesitated for this reason as I was afraid my troops were too fragile due to lack of melee defence. The range of your crossbows and the fact that you use two sets takes care of this quite well. I guess your team can be considered an aggressive build that counts on crushing the main bulk of enemy forces before their lack of defences becomes an issue. Especially since they all use two-handed weapons once the stragglers close in.
I may give this a try to see how it compares to a more balanced team (which I should note also has no problem winning battles without casualties). I’m a little worried about enemy fire due to lack of shields, but goblins tend not to use much shields themselves and your team simply out DPS-es them.