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Lockback posted:requesting Jagged Alliance 2 -Try to get at least one "marksman" before you start. Lynx, Scope, Ivan and Shadow are good mercenaries. I personally prefer Lynx because he has almost top stats\lvl\cost ratio in the game. Seriously give him any single action sniper rifle and aim for the head. Plus he is a decent medic(at least can stop bleeding without turning people into mummies). -Making your own merc with high medical, mechanic, explosives stats saves you from hassle of hiring useless or just plain annoying (Trevor) for a day or two. Not advised personally since having your merc a combat monster is much more satisfying than having a heal\repair bot. -Flo might seem, and in fact is, useless. Though the flavor text of her being an arms dealer actually works in game. Trade using her and get %10 discount on everything you buy and get %10 more for everything you sell. Works only with weapons. -Some mercs start "meh" but due to their high wisdom they can improve way better than you expect from them. Danny is the prime example for this. He is a good medic but with his ridiculous wisdom he learns practically at lightning speed. He has almost maxed out agi and dex so he became a monster with medium range assault rifles later on. -Don't loot anything on the hospital that doesn't drop from enemies(especially the warehouse full of good stuff). The doctors might refuse treating you if you do so. -A knife toss to the head usually insta kill anyone provided that they are not aware of you. -Lots of Guns option on starting screen doesn't provide more gun drops. It just increases the variety of things you can use. You can end up having a dozen different rifles using ammo you may never see until raiding sam sites or shows up on Bobby Ray's. Always play with Tons of Guns for maximum fun. Dynasty Warriors 4 -Zhou Tai. He has short range,unreliable when crowd control needed(lunges forward instead of 360 attack like many other) and probably have one of the smallest aoe musou. On the other hand he is probably one of the best anti officer\hero chracter (if not the top one). His musou, if the first hit lands lifts the opponent a little bit therefore eliminating any risk of missing or getting blocked if the consecutive hits are delayed(usually happens with spear using heroes). Carefully keeping him at red health level, spamming his basic chain and finishing with musou usually means one shotting any officer you came across. With his lvl 4 sword it is not even funny to run around and finish the whole level in 5 odd minutes. Panzer General 2 -First, it is old but play the drat game. -You gain influence by holding objectives each turn. So if you manage to bumrush your enemy and have few spare turns before brilliant victory just encircle the last objective and wait for "last turn" warning. -Each faction has at least one strong point. German mobile artillery especially shines. An army full of tanks and mobile artillery usually steamrolls anything because of return fire. Russian tanks are superior and their infantry is dirt cheap. Americans have the best bombers in the right from the beginning. Brits have the best defensive stats and best fighters (seriously, spitfires will wreck your face). -Don't reinforce your units unless it is crucial for Brillant Victory. Just retreat them back. Keep in mind that you have to spend one full turn to resupply. -Don't bother with anti air guns. AI simply cheats by traveling around their range and still be effective. Only exception is 88's that can't fire on their own but gets incredibly powerful when attacked. Garrison 88's and other "passive" AA guns on chokepoints and force computer to attack them. Maintain air superiority by having a screen of fighters followed by bombers. -Seriously, play the game it is awesome. Medieval Total War 2 -If you are playing with a faction that can recruit horse archer units (Turks, Egypt to some extent Hungary) make an almost full stack of horse archers with one or two generals. Having a full cavalry army allows you to jet around the world map and pick the place you want to fight or just avoid anything you can't handle with your superior speed. On the combat screen just kite enemy army until a-)enemy troops start to break from massive losses b-)ran out of arrows. Charge in with your cavalry and bodyguards, the enemy will break. Chase them around with your fast horse archers and let none survive. Walk around with couple of spies(they can match your army speed) to open the city gates or just hire some basic infantry to siege. Increase the fun by landing on far to reach areas like Spain or England and raze every city. Since they can't practically invade you rack up experience and cash. -If you are playing with Turks(or any faction that can call Jihads) you have a 5 piety imam from the start. Call for a Jihad against a neutral\poorly defended city you are about to invade(Smyrna for instance)at the first turn and have all your commanders stack in same army before joining the Jihad. Recruit anything you can on the way, invade the city and voila! You have a full stack of experienced troops, Holy Warrior stat on your commanders, Chivalrous Knight retuine for everyone participates, over 4000 cash from successful jihad plus the gains from city. -Around somewhere in Eastern Anatolia you can recruit Elephants and War Elephants as mercenaries. I'll even go there with my British faction no matter what. PS: Never managed to play the game with Kingdoms expansion so things above might be fixed or changed.
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Centipeed posted:My main character is a mage, and I've taken him down an ice/lightning/healing spell route. You can respec into something else if you want some challenge because having a Mage PC is borderline cheating (yes, you will become that powerful no matter what your spec is). Also Ice tree has one of the best damage&cc spell in game, namely Cone of Cold, and single target dd+group buff+unwieldy AoE. Galewolf fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Sep 30, 2011 |
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