Lets plunder in XPiratez 0.99J6b

[lightbane]

Actually it's even worse since you have to sacrifice 1 of the live traitors in the research project too and they take up scarce prison space in the meantime. You get infamy back sure but I think I'd rather have the tokens.

IIRC you can get the research topic of traitor muties from other sources, so having them live is not necessary. It's the one called "Mutant origins" I think. It also introduces stats for all other mutie types.

 

[Slavegal]

Why aren't you using your belt slots?

I am. There is a lite in it, and a place for a weapon switch. Thats it. Thats like the first time I had a pirate armor on since I got barb shield gear.

Sleeping units in your inventory automatically leave next to the carrier

But they have 0 TU, I believe. Restun. That was the point. I figured if it wakes up, it wont drop its lazor. :>

Why do you want it alive though?

y not? game is screaming at me to capture everything...

IT's very good for training reactions and using pistols with lots of shots.

Dont think so. Every melee weapon trains melee and reactions. Id rather melee than sit around and hope not to get a double barreled blast to the face and die cause I have 20 armor and 0 evasion.

To prevent you from making a viable economy for a long time, duh.

The manuf. econ is separate?
I mean, you pay monthly upkeep but all of it is compensated by research infamy. More brains, more upkeep, but also more research. Its zero sum. Basically, there is no upkeep. From what I see.
You only pay the 200k upfront, thats it.

Why not have everyone go naked?

Cause Savage hits morale harder. And barb armor is already made and Savage is better than naked...

why are your units slightly lit?

Good question. Ive seen it happen with barb armor too but less illumination. Lites on the belt? Gotta check.


Question: is there a way to boost the number of brains or am I stuck with ~16 for the rest of the game?

 

[lightbane]

y not? game is screaming at me to capture everything...

This time it's the exception. Also, I think I'll take some notes from your lp regarding stuff such as outfits rather than the stuff said in the Piratez forums, as you have hands-on experience in comparison. For my future playthrough.

The manuf. econ is separate?
I mean, you pay monthly upkeep but all of it is compensated by research infamy. More brains, more upkeep, but also more research. Its zero sum. Basically, there is no upkeep. From what I see.
You only pay the 200k upfront, thats it.

The few dollaros you get from infamy that's not eaten by scientists are meant to be used to buy stuff, assuming you cannot get enough by pirating. Later on you will be able to produce stuff of high quality that will quickly turn end-of-the-month pay redundant. As for scientists, there are research topics that unlock buildings that let you have more scientists, but the game forces you to prioritize, so you'll have to eventually turn your main base into a research one, and have a secondary base for the same thing, if only to avoid the game taking forever to complete.

Lastly, free tip: Stuff researched across labs from different bases don't stack, so don't try to have the same thing researched twice as it will do nothing. Also, try adding 2 scientists at least per research than just one. Some research topics take tons of time to unlock, while others take so little they're unlocked automatically even by having 0 scientists working on it (ie: Newspaper stuff, special messages). So try having some unused research stuff just in case.

 

[orcinator]

Good question. Ive seen it happen with barb armor too but less illumination. Lites on the belt? Gotta check.

Probably suit lights, press L to turn em on or off.

 

[Slavegal]

A small step for a gal, but a yuge jump for gal'ity

How many codexis do we want?

Snubby, our best ammo, turns out not be sold by '''merchants'''

Tac vest basically

Bonus, check your pviligege, cishet oppressor! Gals will rule this world

Bow before your God ess

Gsec gets us aqua plastics

Diablo slayer, I cant see the stat though

But I can see the bonus to melee and a big reaction minus

loot and fame got me

We lose a ship just as we were to catch up, note the time of appearance

And find it, it seems radar pickup is every 10 minutes

ooh, i want

too fast

ignored

i started to rapidly cycle ships, not waiting till one runs out of fuel, just send it back and out again, as soon as it catches up, sent the other one back, so i have the ability to respond to something else quickly

8 hours in the air

fuuuuuuuuuuuuug, it seems to have disappeared in water...

i anchor the aircar and it appears again!

ignored

meanwhile research finishes, 25 armor, no decent stat boni, no pierce resist, shit

where are the tites cutie?

she tells us story about tentacle grass

f a l l o u t is good

big tiddied pistolero

nice glasses

sectoid weeeeeeed bro

the emergency car btw, still following it......... next day at 4

lost hope, cant land in water, cant reach aus
24 hours of bullshit ship cycling for nothing......

fug u ship

gtl

we cant even shoot down pasenger ships..

trolling outzoners with handles

highly interesting gold transports! again, we cant shoot anything down...

shambler teeth

ah and red codex missiles, i thought our car would be able to carry it, nope

our rockets are just improved spikes

sea ops gear we dont have, but swimming is available
10 stun per turn is about 9 turns for best gals, and another 10 with an oxygen tank, doable but tense

Monster teetch amke for decent dagger, the clue is that it has a x20 morale dmg multiplier
as I understand it, 5 points of cutting dmg past armor will then panic a unit? thats insane
best gals have 55 dmg per strike with it

medics have a bit of armor and night vision

Gsec have that 70 daze resist

our mission count is at 25... wow? i dont remember them........

finally, some reachable terrah

and this shit is back, ignored

and this shit is back, later

geared out to the gills for terrah

we instantly spot some roffles

oh dangerous weapons

Windowless entry into the house is a great way to camp back to back,
optimally one would stand to the side of the door but if they started shooting the other gal might get hit in the back and we'd rather face it frontally

Checking back is important

niiiiiice, but she blocks our way

Second entry into the house is a narrow corridor, its like its made for shields

And a campable 2doors

And there is a closet the gals can come out of

oh boy

Some slug action

Lots of new weapons

Boogiegals storm out of the closet like handle-monsters out for raep

And go back inside xD

Another campable place, windows face only safe directions

First time I remember being actually reaction fired at, it missed but the lesson is, dont shoot at enemies... at their range

Infact I forgot that we are melee zerkers and just should have waited for them to come and get handled

Safe from shooting but not safe from spoting

A dying snakewoman and a hitler,
note the window on oasis' left, can get shot through it, so we cant camp the door, but we cant go further either, too many windows and the hitler might walk into us, so waht do?
I decide to grab the snake, carry it behind the door and face the shootable window sitting

cleared

Having carried the snake and acutally managed to apply bandages, she wakes up........
On enemy turn, we get shot at from behind but luck prevails

lightbane and panda continue shooting hitlers on base floor

an instructor wants some snakeass but agentf is present and hides in a niche there afterwards, facing the stairs

the snake will prolly die now, should have left her bleeding...

hitler checks a closet and gets ghosted xD

next target is the small cottage left

map is colorful as fug

We have enought TU to reach the next protected place

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck, blocks the door
and the instructor in blue carries an arr pee gee

We can reach him but what if he fires pointblank?

After a lot of thinking, I decide to go into a corner, the rpg guy needs a LOF so he'd have to run alot to get it, slim chances

And I block AvrM's back with a shield, though the rpg guy can reach us now maybe.......

cqc with an unarmed instructor, brave

AvrM makes it out alive and unshot at, we hide them back in the closet to recover energy
Our shotty slugs through need moar range

VaultDweller comes calling

Disregarding reaction fire, he survives and doesnt hit us either

Even better campable spot

And the building has some view

Second attempt

Ahah goddamn lol, this means back in the closet

We dont go there, chances are its empty and getting out of there would take ages, we rather shuffle back safe space, to safe space

An instructor beelines to our craft for like 3 turns, we let him for reaction free catpure

But it gets very close, two gals barely bring him down, yuge evasion this guy has

The Haunting continues taking little hitlers xD
An evil hitler also disturbs our house on the second floor

3rd attempt to cross!

The other 2 gals take teh center

3rd time a charm, and we meet VD again

Different layout and a smaller closet :<

Second floor still offers safe spaces

Having made the realization on our 3 crossing attempts that the gals dont stop on spotting enemies, I now dash in parts since there is no starting penalty, and it helps with this blue guy

We find the RPG, its good to know where he is , I was stressing about it

AgentF got shot through the window, I must have had a blackout to place him in that closet, no dmg, walked out, faced the door, and a friend came to check up

Having no good exit for melee on the second floor, except for the shot through hole, we go down to surprise them with a shorter dash, closing doors on the way, high action and energy is running to 0

AvrM jumps down from the 2nd floor and has a problem, there is no good route to hide,
not pictured in this update is a second guy with an RPG, whom we've seen pretty early but have no idea where he is

we hide like so, even exposing our back, but are not shot at

Its been a long tedious mission and this yuge mistake happens
facing the wall, execution style...

We manage to bring down this hitlerino

But the RPG guy...

Literally was covering the second rpg guy. Cant reach him. Either oasis or AgentF take it up the ass.
I slow down firing speed in settings...

nooooooooooooooooo

sexual assault, nasty gropings from behind

sweet

New gunz, and ransomed nazi foot soldiers earn us almost 300k, the unsold leader goes for 100k alone

Now back to barn burning xD

Wheat glows...

1

2

3

Great mission to earn infamy points if not anything else

Our first appropriate ship weapon
they cost a chems and take ages to finish

tired of the constant prison shuffle, i place a barrack and prison

A warehouse wars mission spawns

and this thing again

We lose it over Canada

is this real life? 3 mission in like a day, plus the ambulance

Reachable with the car now

Shitty start but with chainmail I feel safe

pew

we spot the MYSTIC WRENCH

And haunt the garage for it

GO is camping in a window in a mansion

panda carries a pickaxe to enter the mansion safely sideways instead of teh front doors

Hello

Ill save you several mindnumbing turns of clearing this shithole mansion, it was empty

We get shot from somewher here, xcom LOS in action... the guy gets hammered

a hostess is flanked

we find a lone gsec and hide...

running from safety to safety

the mongrels rush us, the ai prolly sees us already

Hiding from Gsec results in AvrM getting shot in back cleanly, but with a pistol, no damage
And Gsec is still around...

Gsec opens the door, wastes a lot of AgentF energy on evading his shots, we get sprayed a bit from distance, no damage

For half the game this Gsec would go in and out of our sight but remain in this place
Im convinced the game has actual campers, though this one, is the one we spotted earlier next to the mansion

Its time to grab him

the warehouse

has an empty office
I like the realizm appoarch on the maps
i m m e r s i o n

gsec is gone the moment i start looking for him

wtf

AF can only evade a single shot with his remaining 8 energy, no matter, we have armor, its only an UAC rifle

wat?!
I have forgotten to take the screen, but in soldier stats you can see our new armor values without research and it says 60! frontal
How does a 20 something UAC rifle go through it?!

ANother 200k from prisoners

I shouldnt have sold the guild sec guys back then, could have had armor earlier
Than again, without wrench, no workshop, no chainmail in prod.

And the last one, tired

Aside from manstoppers, these fuckers should have nothing to punk us, we go relatively aggro

First reaction fire on oasis in chainmail which dumps our reactions by 20
I looked up the formula and reactions happen when our effective reaction, which is
eff react = reaction * tu percentage
is below the enemies
So at the begining of a turn we have 100 eff react, but after spending half our TU, we have 50 eff react, and so on
It didnt happen before cause we were rarely in below 50% TU when anyone was still standing

Sheena, the freak gal, panics for some reason... I think its intentional with freaks
She is great in chain though, lots of stamina

mofo is still camping

reaper got reacto chopped at in melee... new hands suck cock

dude doesnt have enough TU to drain our energy

hoes go for 7k, tough guy for 20k, moneypurse yay, rest is shit
the gal is 100k+ though

Traitor smoothie tells us about newfangled peashooter with ATROCIOUS damage

we kill her for it

australasia...

 

[Slavegal]

That was 4 missions in basically 1 day. Busy. I have the next update on the ready.

 

[Slavegal]

But would prefer next page

 

[Slavegal]

Snipe

 

[Slavegal]

151-126

 

[Zdzisiu]

Its the next page already, give update for more melee rape.

 

[lightbane]

How many codexis do we want?

I hope you didn't accidentally sell the stuff given, it is priceless.

Snubby, our best ammo, turns out not be sold by '''merchants'''

There are better, but ammor for these will be hard to come by.

f a l l o u t is good

Was good. Then Bethesduh happened. The rape didn't stop since then.

h and red codex missiles, i thought our car would be able to carry it, nope

Airbikes do! Use them to hunt police cars to scavenge cannons from these! Aircars can use the latter.

our rockets are just improved spikes

Original spikes suck.

we instantly spot some roffles

Note that you're not meant to capture many people in a Terror Mission/Progrom. Instead, kill as many as you can while capturing VIPs and such, so that the others lose morale and surrender.

We can reach him but what if he fires pointblank?

That does happen, so watch out.

Even better campable spot

Despite having the most aggressive Codex, your way of playing is very taking things safe. Dio wouldn't approve.

Our first appropriate ship weapon
they cost a chems and take ages to finish

Not worth making it. I can confirm.

we spot the MYSTIC WRENCH

The RNG smiles upon yuo!

Sheena, the freak gal, panics for some reason... I think its intentional with freaks

Remember that Gals don't like being shot and freaks have uneven stats, including Bravery. Also, the white SMG that sometimes enemies carry set targets on fire, a great way to destroy morale even if little damage is taken.

 

[Slavegal]

This updates theme

ost

Spoiler

Shift stick pl0x

Gone in 60 minutes

Dang! 45 dmg?

The good missions dont stop, and we send some new hands to education runs

Its hot, chainmail is taking 10 stun/turn
Now was the time to decide - abort or play hide and seek with 2 new hands in barb gear...
I took the 3rd option - rush b and sandbags

Its a small map, they dont seem to have anything that could punch through 60 front armor

But we dont have time either

The key are the sandbags
They drop piercing dmg by half and the rest takes the 30 armor barb shield, so it is as if we have 60 front
The problem is that Lina moves at 10 TU per turn and we have to hope that the AI aggros her only

A neophyt with a machete chips Lina

And when the Priest gets close Pefect Reaper whams him

The key is to maintain front rotation on Lina

And cover her back

Sweetheart keeps squirting us full of bullits

Earned stats, and 250k in captures

Striped Lina
The truth is though that I would have reloaded if both somehow got killed and we'd lost 4 of our original hands

I somehow missed the early game fundamential Expeditions research, it was buried with items

They are expensive and I dont know what they do, and frankly I dont care...

New version J7 mission type

First enemy spotted is a pushover

And they seem to fighting local dogs :>

Vengeance for all dogos

ooh, new gear

We are at some kind of a farm

And I think the ruffians would have been killed by the locals without us...

cutie

The highwayman walks forward without shooting, we stun the cat and him

We now have a Black Cat ^^ stuffies and thingies

Fresh mission types keep on coming

Young ubers that got stunned on the Mutant Pogrom can now join us!

Hm, is our dodge affected by being underwater?

Ambo is back, proper like at the same time as a mission

Infested cellar is rats......... i shit you not

tiny map

T E S T U D O

DIABLO

This was horrible, we might have captured a cat

Meager pay

At least we get some payoff

The first converted young hand arrives, its nice and young

The CHurch killed Jill, eternal blood feud!

350 sick days............

Now Im gonna down that ambo

Academy nurse turned servant

Where XCOM failed, we will succeed

This opens up lotsa info

some of it semi funny like monotheism

the niggers of xpir

*blush*

20 night vision... mortal enemy

16 night vision...

sunglasses at night

xD

ooh, maos daughters, daze and cut resist

brude

miss all shots on ambo..........

u suck

waste of time and money?

banal shit boring

I rush to workshop

Biggest thing we got

Finally, sabers for everyone!

But damn are they a bithc to make

2nd young uber

We collected a bunch of purses by now, I sell some to get dollaros for underwater Blowfish

A beautiful garage, plantation needs to do, i dunno what its doing if anything...

Another strange thing, 150 max speed is crawling... its for like sending 24 dogs to enemy base? :>

work my durathread

Interesting for enemies with very high armor (due to 0.65 armor mult) and very high evasion (3 tiles reach drops evasion to 0)
... like us.....

expensive to use, but best throwing weapon now

charm resist, we havent met much charm, besides the hoes

erm, this might be the young uber and the previous one was the rescued castaway

rats /s spider hunt

well, its not true that you cant acquire cats... we acquired one...
whats spot 6/6?

what a funny description... no? hunters danger, no?

Well, spiders go down easy enough.

Aaaaa, wtf? Uber half dead from 2 of these things!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, cant reach craft!

Raygun sets one on fire

T E S T U D O !

saves us, oasis gets chewed on with a single hit, evasion tanks the rest

At this point I didnt understand yet, that they cant open doors

But they cant, whole game is open door - shoot - end turn
Sheena is great with the Silenced P

Revenge

Lotsa bodies

want one live

last ones are hiding

Horrible mission, melee suicide, the spiders have too much accuracy, and obviously not cutting dmg

Promo

Only one gal earns it, orc prolly, with most missions

Bane of the Beast

Sheena pistoleroed most of them

avrm and oasis out

oh man, shit after shit after shit, new hands all aboard!

pistoling

the balls on this dude

we spot one with a new accurate gun

The thinking here is that the roof blocks LOF on a kneeling Juddge and the door as well
it works

i discover a new idiosyncracy of openxcom - cannot shoot through fence standing, but can sitting... ??? profit

camper with a rifle

dogo spotted, kill mode engaged

moar camper

run out of energy and make self a target, its ok thouhg - chainmail shields

some parkour and another dog spotted

camper shoots us in the side and is unreachable - fug

baited the dog out and trying to capture it

not pictured the reaction fire of reaper, whom i completly forgot, killing the camper we couldnt reach
hilarious circumstances

Dog evades everything, blocks path...
At 80 max dmg but 1.25 effective armor and our shield having 60*1.25=75 armor and some cutting resists, we are safe

We are not safe from flintlocks though, maddening that the last fucker actually hits Dumb Panther in melee with a flintlock rifle....

Dang

potato and wheat gone, no more vodka for us

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

last resort combat drugs

new bounty

Elfman Bro$,. xD cant wait

Pirate is good

Small map, we rush on 1st turn

and find the doublecrosser

i am lazy and rush even moar

8 valueable coins

And Sheenas friend who evades all her attacks, she now has to suck his cock

Reaper eats a shotgun blast instead

Again, no pierce resist, losing evasion to gain a second hand, into the bin it goes

workers of the world unite!

speedy gonzales

educational

CuStOm aRt

dagger needs a bit of poison

I think the Church Maid dropped money purse research instead of turning into A FREAK

armor damage, is this age of decadence?

stamina as a power bonus fits our freak sheena, she has 160 of it, throwing though...

I find this strange, 200% stun but 100% tu? So he gets ZZZ before stopping, what is da point? marginally dropping tu from someone - pointless

Bio damage type, ~50 dmg per attack, nasty

Guild dudes, no good guns on em

Eh, maybe dangerous

I consider grabbing the magical Sandbags...

But instead we just walk em down

interesting

Now this thing

The interesting part is that it has no aimRange on it, which means, it does not drop accuracy/distance at all!
Classic Xcom snipers are back in style, across the map!
Some other rifles as well. Though its not that super great when the ballista already has great range and damage with 26 tiles and 66 damage

Nice unlock, sickbay pls

I want this because it sounds retarded

Ah some mutant torphy points

ehhhhhhhhhhh

we sorta rush em, knowing they all are in the lab

even forgot about this thing

we cannot shoot through the blue windows outside

but they certainly can inside

monk relaxation techniques from behind

shieldbash! nani!?

I scare

phew, no dmg is being dealt

Id like to shoot them all

But we sneak

And ninja dash into reaction fire, teh fuck was the medic holding to damage Sheena?

Mm, grav unit for the hunting rifle sniper...

I discover the shakeup ceremony

shy rat is our worst hand, and i still would not waste 10 moonshine and 20 days on her, to get 20 stamina tbh...

I also forgot to rob the Integrated Devices previously from researchers or medics, now its here

B.I.G B 0 S S
tis was a nasty month

oh look, an old acquaintance, he doesnt wanna samlltalk

 

[Slavegal]

I hope you didn't accidentally sell the stuff given, it is priceless.

I am tempted to sell slave ais and ship engines...

Note that you're not meant to capture many people in a Terror Mission/Progrom

lel anything that walks is mine by divine right

Despite having the most aggressive Codex,

our symbol

 

[Slavegal]

Its the next page already, give update for more melee rape.

I was raped yesterday on my way home (it took ages...) and had to shower first, so update got delayed. Sry plx

 

[Slavegal]

I also was ronk on the Brainers upkeep, their research infamy is not enough to cover upkeep. Our upkeep gets compensated by mission scores, which gain infamy. I didnt realize that.

 

[Slavegal]

Poison knife jumps right to the top of 1H melee picks because it also has x1 toStun and halves the enemy armor. Without even considering resists.
Its within 20% range so even a meager 80% resist vs cutting makes it our best weapon for stun-able targets.

 

[Slavegal]

Public question: should I be able to use/exploit the sandbags?
0.5 to pierce/concussive dmg is a monster resist. A gal in chainmail can tank 120 max pierce dmg (the assault mg is 35 mean, 70 max) without a scratch if shot from the front... It feels very exploity... The AI doesnt handle it very well...

Cause right now I have a mission in the cold that I reloaded cause cold damage... But also used sandbags to fuck with the AI.
The question is: should I abort or use the sandbags to win?

 

[lightbane]

Gone in 60 minutes

Doable with the right pilot and an aircar/bike, if you're lucky.

First things first: Are you listening/paying attention to my hint and advice, or not? If not, I'll abstain from saying anything else to save time. Also, please use spoilers for such YUGE updates.

Dang! 45 dmg?

Harpoons are better used as ranged capture tools with the Daze ammo, which you should have a bunch.

They are expensive and I dont know what they do, and frankly I dont care...

Regular expedition "vehicle" works for enemy bases, as these are stationary and require all the guns you have. The other type of Expedition sounds interesting, but never tried it. Didn't have these when I played the game.

Ambo is back, proper like at the same time as a mission

Some advice: Fear not, they shall come to you, soon...

Another strange thing, 150 max speed is crawling... its for like sending 24 dogs to enemy base? :>

I suppose they're like Expedition, but with more vehicles.

what a funny description... no? hunters danger, no?

First rule of monster hunts IMO: Don't.
Until you have flying armor, such as the one getting from investigating these grav disks.

potato and wheat gone, no more vodka for us

You should be producing Chateau by now, it should give you lots of money if you have enough runts producing it.

stamina as a power bonus fits our freak sheena, she has 160 of it, throwing though...

These are better endgame.

I find this strange, 200% stun but 100% tu? So he gets ZZZ before stopping, what is da point? marginally dropping tu from someone - pointless

It's to avoid the enemy from using reaction shots against you, as these require spare TU. Also, do the special arrows work with the combat bow?

shy rat is our worst hand, and i still would not waste 10 moonshine and 20 days on her, to get 20 stamina tbh...

Eh, moonshine is cheap and having a weak gal become slightly stronger is worth the time.

I am tempted to sell slave ais and ship engines...

Slave AIs are very useful so hold on these. Small engines are valuable and easy to acquire.
Also, I meant the stuff from the Codex like the rocket launcher.

l anything that walks is mine by divine right

Animals are usually not worth capturing with some exceptions, and so do enemies in progroms, as you want them to break and stunning them doesn't affect their morale (nor yours, so be careful with the combat stress).

Public question: should I be able to use/exploit the sandbags?
0.5 to pierce/concussive dmg is a monster resist. A gal in chainmail can tank 120 max pierce dmg (the assault mg is 35 mean, 70 max) without a scratch if shot from the front... It feels very exploity... The AI doesnt handle it very well...

I didn't expect you would use these sandbags straight, I thought they were meant to be deployed or something. In any case, a honorable player wouldn't abuse this trick, as it's scummy and mean... But you're playing as a pirate, playing fair is for idiots!

Either way, it wont' work against more advanced weapons anyway. Or melee monsters.

 

[Slavegal]

Are you listening/paying attention to my hint and advice, or not?

Sure, but what can act upon?
I'd like to make Chateau but I dont have it unlocked. I dont wanna use the research tree viewer.
Bike for a car race? But I dont have a hangar anymore.
Its obvious that Harpoonies are for dazin.
I disagree about pogroms and monster hunts. A live humanist soldier is 20k. I want 20k. Some minor risk and a variable amount of tedium.

Dont spoiler my future discoveries/experience through, breh.
Most fun I had with the game was the first Shambler Hunt...
Its your fault that all spider hunts are all trivial now. They cant path through blocked doors and cant open them. And its your fault that I know this :> Otherwise I would have been at least a bit scared camping in the bus...

 

[Slavegal]

It's to avoid the enemy from using reaction shots against you, as these require spare TU. Also, do the special arrows work with the combat bow?

This is great tip. I didnt think about reaction fire.
And I still cant act on it. If a gal has 2 hands free, she'll use a hunting rifle or battle rifle, both having unlimited range and very high accuracy. While the bow requires grinding throwing, which I'm probably not gonna do...
Fire and poison arrows dont seem to work combat bow though, which sucks.

 

[lightbane]

You pretty much HAVE to use the tech viewer at higher difficulty levels though, it's your call. Let us see how far you can go. You should be able to unlock Chateau early at least.

Also, shame on the combat bow not working with arrow variants, makes it pointless.

Lastly, farms are weird: You should be warned once they are ready to be used, moment which you sell them to reuse the soil and get the harvest.

 

[Slavegal]

If we had to melee a stun-able 100 armor and 50 evasion enemy right nao, with default resists
Spiked mace is damn future proof... oasis alone delivering ~100 hp+stun dmg in half a turn.

 

[lightbane]

I disagree about pogroms and monster hunts. A live humanist soldier is 20k. I want 20k. Some minor risk and a variable amount of tedium.

IMO it's not worth the tedium, as these missions take long and unless you don't mind repeating the same missions over and over, it will burn you out.

Dont spoiler my future discoveries/experience through, breh.

My bad, I wanted to make things easier for you and avoid getting fed up with the repetition.

Its your fault that all spider hunts are all trivial now. They cant path through blocked doors and cant open them. And its your fault that I know this :> Otherwise I would have been at least a bit scared camping in the bus...

To be fair I wasn't aware it was this effective, I didn't get to try this, for not to mention that IIRC Chrysalids in vanilla xcom were capable of opening doors.

By the way, Cats' sense let you spot hidden units, making them good scouts and little else. Speaking of: It seems you're a long-time lurker or an alt, if you know about Black Cat's "thingies".

Oh, and cats are civies that will join you automatically if they survive, no idea why you stunned them (unless if it was to save them).

 

[Slavegal]

I liek heavies

and I liek Hanna

Spoiler

And finally, I liek wokshops
The prize though...

I am willing to bet that these are as shit as hands, for double the price

bombastic

I fence some shit and put down a shoppe, we have about 1mil in resevers though, if push came to shove

nooooooo

Ill try to make this short, xcom LOS is retarded as evdent here

We are taking 10 stun/turn and have only 2 canteens, I am also retarded and share it among 4 gals in chain, should have pumped only 1 up, to block 3 doors...

some fire to try and clear our view

lots of turns of peeking and shooting

*brave*

last chainmail goes down at about turn 15?

now its pretty tense, i counted 13 spiders down, last mission was 22, so thats a lot remaining for 2 shitty gals

but we luck out

acc acc acc akk

baldurs gay, arent these sword spiders? ought to be cutting dmg..........................
but its 40 bio, their bodies give us silk

oh sweet, they are back

our aircar ran out of fuel and only the bus with second team lands
long range weaps are only 1 ballista and 1 hunting rifle, and we have 2 hand that can use em too
its freezing and we only have an ushanka, a shawl and a bra, meaning 1 gal is going to take 1hp damage per turn no matter what

dirty trick
sandbags, I just right now realize are from the newest J7 update, give us 0.5 pierce and concussive resist
MM is gonna pray to hellerium charms and bait the heavy fire onto her shield

And the setup looks as such
MM has about 20 TU per turn due to overload, she will stay next to the bus to protect one of her flanks
ballista in the bus, hunting sniper on the hill, 2 gals with grenades outside, one with raygun inside

kekship

flying cunts swarm out! and get nasty ballista fire and sniper bullits

the dangerous gangers get spotted, the other dudes sport arms that cant take MotherM at all

bombardment continues, 2 magnalite guide our way

maybe dangerous

their big bass
sportting a double barrelled peashoota

B L A M

but who gives a fuck, not MM

eat plasma cunt

geez, rayguns obliterate stones and set em on fire

guy has a shotty and cant do shit in melee
eats a ballista bold to the face

catch a nade bitch

go away, raider scum

the boss is kept alive for last, wont come closer either...

raider scout is running away :>

i rearm with some lighter guns, to not kill the fucker
but we are under time pressure, 1 gal is taking 1hp dmg per turn

tanking

and finally! booty

seagull aircraft weapon

magnificent bullet magnet, this goes up to EMPRESS if you let them shoot at you for as long as tehy have ammo
and they actually do run out of ammo! raiders wtih the assault mg just stop shooting at some point

mother m took some damage from diagonal fire and splosions and garganta is out 19 days with srs frostbite

5 smelly rags is a third of an ARMORED SHIP HULL

aye ... not again, young crew, training camp

i got some rocks previously to train some THROW, since rocks are the cheapest option to get anything throwable
they kill well enough :> but crappy acc

leadar has an uzi

can even throw over fences

what a camper

long story short, about here a ratman ambushes and drops one of our new hands into ZZZ, and a dog chews on AgentF a little bit

last rat in the corner almost got missed

+1 throwing, 70 training missions to go!

yeah, striped lina almost got got

i buy one warriour for research

i wish i could buy more of these research...

oy vey, first medium?

50th anniversary with a speedy fllyby

returns!

HELLO OLD FRIEND

fundamental research

and the path to moar better shipz

word is, we can play even without a codex, our armored hull can prolly be replaced with the old figher hull

the 100k warrior arrives, her melee sucks donkey cock, but is our best thrower :>
i guess id rather buy these than hands for 50k who need 20 missions to get into usable shape

 

[Slavegal]

Btw, I fixed the autistic fucking modder font! It feels like a gained 2 dioptres at least