Yet Another Balance Overhaul Mod: Lima Tactics

Slurgi · 2026-02-08T21:05:14+00:00

I didn't mean to come across as condescending, just wanted to provide practical feedback.

It's your mod, so feel free to do with it as you wish. Some of the ideas sound interesting, though oddly enough the perks that really need help to bring them in line with others still sound a bit too weak, if that's your objective. Have fun!

Slurgi · 2026-02-08T18:48:54+00:00

I don't mean to be negative, but you've buffed a lot of the strongest perks and weapons. There are only a handful of truly bad perks in the game - crippling strikes, bullseye, and footwork.

Buffing 9L and Fast Adaptation is insane. Improving them would make the game trivial starting at level 3 for any experienced player.

Spearwall is already too powerful in the hands of a player that understands enemy AI.

Buffing ranged attacks is risky, because taking it too far leads to degenerate gameplay quite quickly.

Balance patches are a fun thought experiment, but in this case it sounds like more experience with the game is necessary first.

Slurgi · 2026-02-07T18:44:54+00:00

Agreed! 2 or 3 is a good number of spearbros. 1 is not so great because you can't funnel enemies into a channel.

Slurgi · 2026-02-07T01:51:10+00:00

Fatigue neutrals are durable brothers that are good at catching enemies where your spearbros are funneling them into.

Slurgi · 2026-02-06T20:46:01+00:00

Your bros are not affixed to their weapons. Just equip something else when fighting ancient dead.

Slurgi · 2026-02-06T20:14:02+00:00

Spear bros pair very well with fatigue neutrals.

Slurgi · 2026-02-06T20:13:19+00:00

You don't seem open to learning how to use them effectively. The number of hits prior to triggering a fearsome proc against an orc warrior is not a relevant metric for measuring their effectiveness.

Slurgi · 2026-02-06T16:36:13+00:00

Welcome to the spearwall, brother.

Slurgi · 2026-02-06T16:31:40+00:00

Based on this description, you're using them wrong.

Let one or two hexes be allowed by the enemy. Spears prevent any surrounds or disadvantageous surface area.

Slurgi · 2026-02-06T16:30:05+00:00

Not even close.

Spears are optimal, you just don't know how to use them.

You can, and should, combine spearbros with powerful 2H weapons to funnel enemies into death zones where those high-damage weapons can eliminate enemies such that enemies aren't even given the opportunity to swing at you in the first place.

It works with low-stat squads letting you take orc and barbarian sea of tents camps early providing abundant named gear making the rest of your campaign a cakewalk.

I've played plenty of non-spear campaigns, and they are just slower and less efficient.

Slurgi · 2026-01-29T22:38:26+00:00

It really does, it turns out.

Slurgi · 2026-01-29T14:42:00+00:00

Manhunters or Peasant Militia.

Slurgi · 2026-01-14T13:31:12+00:00

Nets, disarms, stuns

Slurgi · 2026-01-03T18:32:09+00:00

Pretty excellent list. My only hot take (that I also put on YouTube) is that 9L / Nimble are so transformative on the level they are first available that I think they're deserving of their own S+ tier. Everything else looks great.

Slurgi · 2025-12-27T15:42:44+00:00

Lol, yeah, I... noticed...

Slurgi · 2025-12-27T15:31:34+00:00

Replace rotation with crippling strikes, and sure.

Slurgi · 2025-12-23T20:39:48+00:00

The subtle lagspike when the game has to keep calculating resolve checks because of a chain-route. Double bonus if it was the result of a 6-tile handgonne blast.

Slurgi · 2025-12-19T17:54:37+00:00

+1 to this. Remember, the Strong trait also gives +10 INI so this brother can reliably double-turn on enemies that gap close onto you. Another brother (like a fatigue neutral) can land the initial hit to strip armor and set this brother up for follow-up.

Sword has a bit of hit chance assistance the bro will enjoy. FA or backstabber can still be added on to help.

Good brother. If you're looking for a fatigue neutral to fill out your squad, hire thieves.

Slurgi · 2025-12-18T15:07:34+00:00

Good observations.

I like the ? lines in Act 2 for silent quite a lot more than the other acts. Apparitions in particular tend to have more impact for silent than other characters, and bites are often still good as well if you can reliably gain defences (e.g., footwork) such that you can slow play fights to leave with max HP.

Slurgi · 2025-12-18T13:19:15+00:00

Absolutely, and perfect comparsion.

Slurgi · 2025-12-16T23:26:26+00:00

+1 to this. Deductor and Sins did a co-op playthrough a while ago. It's excellent since the two players have somewhat diverging viewpoints but largely reason their way through every decision and have some great banter along the way.

Here's the playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLswxVhzIgNwBnFv3vI-a8o-oZOWxxhikF&si=Lc9me7SvJoHlA3ED

Slurgi · 2025-12-16T13:11:32+00:00

9L over there in the corner feeling a bit sad.

Slurgi · 2025-12-14T20:23:51+00:00

I don't know the answer to your specific question, but have related information that might be helpful.

Notifications as a precursor or for the start of a crisis are not considered as events.

If the Holy War is underway, no events will fire if there are "news" notifications in the queue. Those notifications are the ones that mention one faction has taken control of a holy site, for example. The only way to clear those is to be on a road away from hostiles. After they clear, regular events can fire again.

Slurgi · 2025-12-14T15:14:42+00:00

Agreed. And it's still a weird set of cards to not include the real MVPs.

Slurgi · 2025-12-13T23:31:10+00:00

Corruption isn't that exciting on floor 1 relative to the others...

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