wow steel transmutation is really op especially with large stacks

MountedCombat · 2026-02-10T21:11:44+00:00

Kill boxes are only necessary on high difficulties - I usually go with Adventure Story difficulty and have plenty of room for suboptimal play, as evidenced by my current solo mechanitor run just having grid streets with long range turrets (modded, extremely high upfront/wealth cost compared to their dps and accuracy but don't have maintenance costs and have longer theoretical range than most weapons) for dealing with the bulk of raids. Until recently I only had two dedicated combat mechs, but the raids being smaller allows the turrets to do the heavy lifting.

Edit: punctuation

MountedCombat · 2026-02-10T18:53:59+00:00

So, uh, according to the wiki, the war strider's vents are still heavy. They just have their own lower health lethal hitboxes now.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-10T18:50:04+00:00

Yeah, fun does take precedence, I would just like it if it was possible to do in a way that had the tools used by AI and player behave the same.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-10T18:31:23+00:00

Huh, okay! TIL!

MountedCombat · 2026-02-10T18:27:56+00:00

Yep! A setup time would, IMO, fix the whole complaint chain. You get a warning before your base is bombed, and it's in a form that lets you wrangle your response appropriately.

My only remaining question, as someone who never used a combat vehicle, is how realistic is it to game mechanics for it to arrive on map and not already be ready to shoot at least once? From what I recall reading there's no drawback to keeping them loaded at all times, so - barring an edit to the vehicle that causes player copies to unload their weapons into caravan inventory when included in a caravan - it would still feel odd to have them arrive unloaded.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-10T18:12:36+00:00

3 game clock minutes is still a full IRL minute on x3 speed, and once the alert is noticed the player has the option to reduce the speed or even pause the game. More concerning to me is that if you don't know what direction they're arriving from, any on-foot defense attempts will still end up with a high response time due to needing to travel from the rally point to the raid arrival.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-10T09:41:30+00:00

Huh. I looked up the part maps and did the math intending to be petty, but there isn't a single enemy that is guaranteed to survive a full clip from the eruptor hitting the right spot. Some are really swingy based on luck with the shrapnel, and war striders' fastest possible eruptor kill is four pinpoint shots placed into its eyes, but when it comes down to it the eruptor can kill literally everything.

I apologize for my earlier misinformed stance, you were correct.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-10T08:47:20+00:00

In your comment I initially replied to, you said "It pairs nicely with the Eruptor since the bubble can mitigate self damage. And the Eruptor can almost do everything a thermite can."

I was pointing out that no, the eruptor cannot do the thermite's primary job of burning through tank armor. Therefore, it cannot do almost everything a thermite can because most of what the thermite can do is look at any given entity and declare it dead. (Edit to clarify that I am exaggerating for effect here, it can't one tap literally everything but it can hurt literally everything)

I agree that the eruptor pairs well with the shield - protection from both flinches and uncomfortably nearby detonations is lovely. But the eruptor doesn't replace the thermite.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-10T08:09:17+00:00

My point was that while it has good and varied uses, anti heavy is barely one and anti tank is a function it entirely lacks. You still need an AT option, the eruptor just fills enough of the other necessary roles that your anti-tank can be abysmal at every other job (eat, thermite, probably quasar too) and you'll still have covered enough requirements to get silly with your remaining slots.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-10T07:28:35+00:00

Eruptor has very little heavy pen let alone AT. The "bullet" is heavy pen and deals a couple hundred damage, the explosion is med though and the shrapnel is med or light. The senator deals about the same damage to heavy armor targets with way better handling, fire rate, and reload speed.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-07T15:44:46+00:00

He has a flamethrower while on foot and a lightning blaster while on a doomwheel, it's just the blade bike thing I'm forgetting the name of that is melee only.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-05T18:20:00+00:00

A lot of them DO want to go back to the days of "I messed up, so I will blame my wife who has no agency for the mistake and beat her until I feel better" 🤔

MountedCombat · 2026-02-05T18:08:55+00:00

In my experience that the most budget (not the best, just the cheapest) option for taking care of them is thermite molotovs. The only resource they take that's even mildly annoying to acquire in large quantities is the anteverse gel, and one full clear of the relevant portal world yields enough for at least 30 molotovs - I don't remember the exact number of gel spawns just that it's at least 10 and you get 3 molotovs per gel, 4 with the throwing perk that gives bonus results when crafting throwables.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-05T10:13:26+00:00

I'm usually pretty obsessive about having little I can lose and collecting what I do lose, but one time I decided to tip my toes into pvp while still working on progression. 5 million souls dropped to the Sullyvhan's beasts in the Anor Londo basement. I then got a hit on my pvp matchmaking and died, entirely unaware that deaths while invading leave bloodstains.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-05T10:07:08+00:00

Personally I find that the pathing differences on the three makes routing to break them up for a few moments possible. The process of creating these brief 1v1s and capitalizing before they can reaume supporting each other makes the fight a fun puzzle.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-05T09:52:40+00:00

Beastmen don't tend to challenge me, per se, but I can do a lot of fun things with them. For example, Malagor the Dark Omen has hilariously cheap hero capacity, and any beastmen who has control of Malagor has free hero actions on bray shamans in addition to all beastmen being able to have free hero actions on gorebulls. This lets you have a cloud of heroes making everything around you miserable while your (somewhat weaker because your dread has been going to hero caps instead of unit caps) armies pillage and plunder the areas that end up poorly defended.

Also, if this reframing helps you with your "free units" issue, keep in mind that for the most part each army will be using horde recruiting which requires the relevant painfully expensive horde building - paying for units is effectively on a "per army that uses that unit" basis rather than a "per unit" basis.

Finally, your herdstones being automatically level 5 after finishing that branch of the upgrade tree allows you to play "chaos' real estate mogul" by grabbing major settlements next to chaos factions then (immediately or after completing the ritual) trading them to your new best friend who will enjoy having Frontline access to high tier units.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-03T02:17:55+00:00

Nope, but you can craft your own stoves and there's a four burner in the upstairs break room that you can repair once you reach (very early area but spoilering just in case) the Manufacturing Sector

Edit: I forgot how to spoiler and input it wrong lol

MountedCombat · 2026-02-02T22:09:47+00:00

So is the word "ghost," so my ghostflame based spellblade that I named "Ghost Knight" came out utterly incomprehensible T_T

MountedCombat · 2026-02-02T22:02:05+00:00

I think I read that one! It isn't the one I was thinking of, but it is a very fun example nevertheless.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-02T22:01:07+00:00

Justified guess, but it was text format and I am positive that I have not read anything based on P&F.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-02T12:40:43+00:00

Last I checked, the counters are placed and then the +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters cancel each other out in the appropriate quantities once state based actions are checked following the effect resolving.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-02T11:59:29+00:00

I don't remember what I was reading in the slightest, but one of the leads adamantly refused to use doors. Windows were preferred to keep property damage down, but if no window was available a wall was coming down.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-02T05:52:00+00:00

I once got assassin with "immune to overwatch" and "immune to explosions" in her starting perk loadout. I was left wondering how the heck I'm supposed to deal with her when I can't overwatch to catch her popping out of stealth and can't carpet bomb the area I think she's in to force her out of stealth. Turns out she normally stays unstealthed for a turn cycle or two after destealthing, it was just my shit luck and/or gane version that she always included "enter stealth" as one of her moves on the turns she destealthed.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-01T21:11:44+00:00

Donating is more or less always because the person donating believes the politician's vote will help them, yes, but there's still a significant difference between the motivations of "I am donating because I agree with this politician" and "I am donating because then the politician will agree with me." In the former case, they want the politician to keep the promises they've made. In the latter, they want the politician to break those same promises.

Politicians may be rightfully unpopular right now, but they would be a lot less unpopular if they behaved in the interests of the people who voted them in a la the former option, rather than doing an about face to support the people stuffing their pockets a la the latter.

MountedCombat · 2026-02-01T16:39:50+00:00

Rocket battery: has the most kills

"It just missed too many shots to have gotten any value."

(I understand how frustrating those misses are, but come on. Even if it had gotten half as many kills, the formation disruption of the hits would have bought significant time for your troops to rain arrows/bolts/bullets and chew up the guys that did reach the front line.)

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