Groo Tries To Grow As A Gamer

[Kersus]

Attached an Archon Ruler.

Oh. My. Goodness. What fresh hell is this!? That thing looks like a monster... what advantages do you get from taking it out, other than nightmare-free sleep? I will have to somehow find some monies to get this DLC... could be a while though.

I think they're just super-tough. Perhaps the missions you initially encounter them are DLC however if you do a decent amount of damage but don't kill them, they summon a gate and flee only to pop up in a later encounter making it much tougher than expected. As far as I know, there are a limited amount (one of each kind, Beserker, Viper, Archon - so far). They really change your tactics since every time you move or shoot, they move AND shoot. Even Overwatch sets them off, BUT Lightning Hands does not.

Well, I'm a little astonished. I took a side mission just before attacking an alien outpost, y'know, just to get a little experience for some newbies and maybe have a Psi-capable soldier actually survive an encounter. I got the imprisoned VIP out but lost every single soldier. The attached photo shows that at least one lost was a game-glitch but the rest, man oh man they died well. Killed a Sectopod, Archon and numerous ADVENT peoples but in the end there were two of the suped up Meccs, and maybe 5 more troopers/officers rushing the escape route.

Yup, things can go south pretty quickly, especially in these VIP recovery missions.

What difficulty are you playing?

Normally I play Veteran or Impossible, however this was in a new Easy-Ironman campaign. It was glorious except for the guy stuck on the roof of a gas station. He couldn't move anywhere, jump down, nothing. Just stuck and captured. The VIP was an old soldier I mistakenly left behind because I thought he was dead, but he was just knocked out. Smacked my forehead after that mission but losing everyone in a glorious battle (minus the glitched guy) was pretty fun.

What made that specific mission interesting from the big picture is that I thought it would be a milk run and had left the Avatar Project at full bars ticking down to about 4 days. I needed those 4 days to acquire some Supplies and hire recruits to attack an alien outpost to slow the Avatar project down.

So the whole milk run turned massacre altered the whole way I approached the rest of the campaign. It also allowed a few other soldiers that had been support to shine on the frontlines.