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I got a big laugh out of Nota Infiltrator so I vote for him. And the Archon King is real loving nasty, Jade is lucky he doesn't have to deal with it.
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zyxophoj posted:... "Hey! Get a load of this rear end in a top hat!"
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Dec 13, 2016 19:34
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I knew what was coming. I just wasn't prepared for it.
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Dec 13, 2016 19:36
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Green Intern posted:I have never seen the Archon King do that level of bullshit. What the hell? For probably obvious reasons I left out the mission summery and mechanics part of post. I'll get to it tonight and edit it in but the core thing here is that if you end your turn with soldiers having unused actions then the rulers get to react to them at the end of your turn. This is kind of finicky because I ended my turn with 5 soldiers having not moved but the ruler was frozen and that resulted in the ruler doing nothing and not even thawing. After it thawed I ended my turn again with five soldiers unmoved and the ruler thawed and that lead to it getting a lot of actions all at once. I wasn't expecting it to take so many drat actions at once because this wasn't a situation I'd ever tested out before. It seems like another Jake brand anti-fun ruler mechanic. Or at least maybe a counter to just skipping turns to get skills to refresh or something. If you got rid of a rulers armor and had a marksman with lightning hands you could theoretically sit next to a ruler and lightning hands it over and over if you could just mash end turn forever.
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Dec 13, 2016 20:08
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Man that ending, I feel both pleased to see the archon king get destroyed and annoyed that Jade got off so light since that jerk as been responsible for more of my squad member deaths than any other unit in the game. Also I do love that the viper armor is basically a Serpentor costume from GI Joe.
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Grapplejack posted:I got a big laugh out of Nota Infiltrator so I vote for him. And the Archon King is real loving nasty, Jade is lucky he doesn't have to deal with it. My vote also goes to Nota Infiltrator I also cannot wait until Nuffle comes back to bite you in the rear end due to all that luck you spent on that instakill.
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Dec 13, 2016 20:25
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Hey, Jade's legendary dwarf team is loving retiring. This is the least the concepts of luck & fairness can do for him.
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Dec 13, 2016 20:33
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Well, screw you too, Jade!  But, in truth, the Archon King was the one who gave me the least trouble as I only found him after my guys were all equipped with their top gear. Between a Grenadier that could pop two Frost Bombs, a high-crit Plasma shotgun and rather accurate Chain Shots (which I, admittedly, savescummed once because I was sick of the Rulers), I managed to get it to run off quickly and missing about 60-70% of its HP. Was easily pick off when it next showed up. The one who gave me the most hell was the Zerker Queen, who first emerged in an VIP rescue mission. She was hiding just behind the van holding the hostage (a scant FOUR spaces for it to huddle in) and only activated when I sent my scout over to get the door. In perfect position to quake all my troops. I was not a happy camper.
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Nalesh posted:My vote also goes to Nota Infiltrator I should have put in my favorite custom character, then. Meet Chris! 
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Lunethex posted:Hey, Jade's legendary dwarf team is loving retiring. This is the least the concepts of luck & fairness can do for him. For reference, in Cyanide's Bloodbowl 2 after a player on a team has been in a little over a hundred games, they'll start getting random chances to retire. This is because Cyanide For more information look up another great BB2 addition, the Bank Rule.
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Brainamp posted:For reference, in Cyanide's Bloodbowl 2 after a player on a team has been in a little over a hundred games, they'll start getting random chances to retire. This is because Cyanide Blood
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I suppose the R.A.G.E. stands for "Rraaaagh Ahm Gonna Eatchya!".
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Soooooooooo what happened?
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Aces High posted:Soooooooooo what happened? Jade had a Repeater equipped and the 5% chance to insta-kill the target triggered.
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Here's a video for Guava, I think he shall enjoy it immensly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQDYHMjDj88 Honestly, the end of that video was amazing, From the Hail Mary Repeater to Guava's reaction, I had such a grin on my face.
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DivisionPost posted:...I don't remember why you guys chose to call him "Gift Horse," and I feel just awful about that, but if we're talking about a new nickname for Siobhan, I think Ciaphas Cain needs a new nickname too. My crappy suggestions: Filthy Lucker
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To be fair, I didn't understand ruler mechanics until the Berserker Queen the first time I went through the DLC only because the overwatch trap I had set for the Viper King executed him on the first turn. He didn't get any actions beyond coming on screen and then getting blasted.
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Come on, Cain's new nickname must obviously be "Bullshot"
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I think I've figured it out. Ciaphas Cain is an alias. His real name is actually...Tony "Kill Steal" White. And he just dropped a massive "IT WAS ME, Also, voting for Nota Infiltrator as our new Grenadier, and Ciaphas' new nickname to be "Lucky Sunuvabitch".
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Ciaphas "Cut it Out" Cain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i9Fa2UrDAk
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Ciaphas "Five Aces" Cain. Also I vote we recruit the Jade Star soldier and get him murdered immediately as a tribute to Lady Luck.
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I still remember my best execution. Kiefer "Big Boss" Sutherland, who got recruited toward the end of my first campaign as a colonel Ranger from a scan site, I took him the full stealth-tree perks because Big Boss. Handed him a shotgun with a repeater on it, and took him into the field. His first ever *SHOT* of his entire career under my leadership... was to Execute a full-health Sectopod, out of phantom-Concealment. It was *perfect*.
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Lunethex posted:Come on, Cain's new nickname must obviously be "Bullshot" I'm throwing my support behind this.
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Gift Horseshit
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Greek Fire was invented by the Byzantines, who considered themselves Romans, so the mission name is historically appropriate. And if Ciaphas Cain is going to get a new nickname I'd suggest Eversor since it also comes from WH40k and I doubt "Hero of The Imperium" would fit.
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You weren't kidding that episode 22 was going to be something else.
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Ciaphas "HERO OF THE XCOM" Cain. Or just Hero Siohban "Trauma Gosling" - since she's a dwarf now. I am both mad that the Archon didn't get to poo poo all over your team some more (That was even odds of a squad wipe) and happy that you showed off repeaters in all their glory. Sure they're about as reliable as Going For Its, but when they work, they can solve a lot of trouble.
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ah yes THIS rear end in a top hat, he is deadly as gently caress even in babby mode. Be thankful you didn't roll your first encounter with him on a convoy supply raid. what with all the highly explosive trucks and all.  Edit: and then jade insta-kills it somehow with 100 more HP to go. 
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My first encounter with the Flying oval office happened during a base defence mission. So many casualties.
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Twelve Elves posted:My first encounter with the Flying oval office happened during a base defence mission. So many casualties. Hey, at least they patched it so that he can't force a game over in turn one on those any more.
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My first encounter with that rear end in a top hat was on a hack objective map. Thankfully I had the objective done. I had a serpent suit, frost bomb with 2 uses, and basically my whole A-Team bedecked in Warden Armor/RAGE/Wraith/Serpent suits with plasma weaponry. No deaths but it ended with everyone gravely woundedly (2-3 health apiece) and him down about 75 health. Devastate is horseshit. Fabricated fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Dec 14, 2016 |
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Way back in the thread someone suggested the third Ruler would either be a Jack of Chrysalids or a Sectopod Prince. I imagined the latter as a jet-propelled rocket firing monsterbot with a little crown on its head, but I realised that firstly we'd already seen a boss Sectopod (who was kind of a chump), and secondly that it'd be robotic, which isn't Vahlen's department. And then this thing turned up which was somehow worse than I thought a mega-Sectopod would be. I'd still like to see a Boss Chrysalid though.
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TheDarkFlame posted:Way back in the thread someone suggested the third Ruler would either be a Jack of Chrysalids or a Sectopod Prince. I imagined the latter as a jet-propelled rocket firing monsterbot with a little crown on its head, but I realised that firstly we'd already seen a boss Sectopod (who was kind of a chump), and secondly that it'd be robotic, which isn't Vahlen's department. And then this thing turned up which was somehow worse than I thought a mega-Sectopod would be. Sectopod Prime. Instead of elevating legs it turns into a truck.
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As the old saying goes, it's better to be lucky than good. And Jade, I have to congratulate you on that lucky killshot.  I'm honestly happy we didn't have to deal with any more of that dude's bullshit than we saw there, because that looked terminally unfun.
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I must have gotten lucky. My first time fighting this guy, he sat on a rooftop the entire time and we had a long distance sniper battle which eventually resulted in him retreating. He didn't even use any abilities outside of 'shoot' and 'reload.' The second time was pretty bs though, he picked my grenadier up from the other side of a wall and carted her into the air. Except apparently because he was on the other side of a wall, nobody could see him to shoot at him so she was just standing in midair like nothing was wrong and I just had to grit my teeth and deal with the damage. He then set of devastation a couple actions later, but died before the grenades could land... leaving glowing marks on the ground and absolutely no explosions for the rest of the mission. I was able to mop up the last archon and get out of there without explosions.
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In my first playthrough, I encountered this guy before I had actually killed the Berserker Queen. I had a bit of a panic attack thinking that I had permanently missed my chance at killing the Queen, but she returned once I had killed the Archon King.
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Long Live the Arch-King! Suddenly a repeater The Arch-king is dead! Shinarato fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Dec 14, 2016 |
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Really Angry Guy/Girl Enabler
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Was no one, not even the guy who got slammed into the ground, shaken? That's quite impressive on top of everything else.
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sincx posted:Was no one, not even the guy who got slammed into the ground, shaken? That's quite impressive on top of everything else. I think soldiers can only get shaken once and all of them had already shook it off.
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