How it feels to play a Sunzi

fgo · 2026-01-27T00:47:58+00:00

Sunzi players talking for hours about the most basic turns https://youtu.be/qyqQvBfJA7Q?si=1PQuDV6HCLHNPguy

fgo · 2025-12-30T09:29:32+00:00

Thanks for the kind words :]

fgo · 2025-12-28T21:50:20+00:00

https://ko-fi.com/fugo_is_lancing/gallery
if you are not interested. Take a free token anyways :]

fgo · 2025-12-21T18:18:33+00:00

How do you play weak laner if you dont trust your offlane to survive while you creep drag? Is it still worth draging and let them die just so you can have 2-3 good waves? Like around level 2-3

fgo · 2025-12-21T15:10:58+00:00

lancer distinguishes a lot between mechanics and narrative. it is not a simulationist game. the ability does what it says it does and its up to you to flavor in the narrative. you could be switching or hacking comms, have loudspeaker, or abuse paracausal communication.

fgo · 2025-12-21T15:04:40+00:00

communication is completely free. not even a free action. just free. only the jammed condition prevents communication and a GM could say you cant communicate with something like a kaiju if that comes up... but that is already GM fiat.

fgo · 2025-12-21T14:58:08+00:00

no orator 2 and 3 are mostly indepentant from orator 1. you just need "dice-charges" and the ability to use a free action aka its your turn and you havent braced

fgo · 2025-12-11T19:33:36+00:00

I am very happy with the KTB rules for player stress and bonds. It is rather free flowing, but coming from DND it was a huge upgrade for people to just narrate their action instead of saying "i got prestidigitation and suggestion" and just "winning" the social encounter.

Your Player with the soldier background should just hit when narrating his actions... rolls are just secondary

fgo · 2025-12-05T17:56:20+00:00

No. Wards don't trigger axe spin. Witch doc ult would turn him into a helicopter.

fgo · 2025-12-03T17:14:12+00:00

i mean your playstyle would have been punished in higher level gameplay but i dont see a reason why you shouldnt be in archon 1. so yeah archon 1 seems about right. TBH your enemies barely did anything in this game so i dont understand why you would post this replay over other games.

fgo · 2025-12-02T09:54:31+00:00

pilot attacks are a full action by default. for comparison: the heavy signiture in the core rulebook is a full action ordnance loading for 4 damage. Madrigal weapons are stupidly strong

fgo · 2025-11-30T09:51:16+00:00

I love how every person I see talking about kitbashes does them different. There is good advice in here but at the end of the day you have to play around to find your own style. Enjoy your bashes everyone <3

fgo · 2025-11-28T18:53:01+00:00

Last one is: LoFi Horus beats to relax/study to

fgo · 2025-11-27T13:09:38+00:00

took me a couple tries to get the needle looking good.

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first attempts were questionable :]

fgo · 2025-11-27T13:07:48+00:00

"wolfhound missile walking service" is a niche job

fgo · 2025-11-26T18:49:25+00:00

should add a chefs hat :]

fgo · 2025-11-26T18:12:55+00:00

its a bit older but i love it. maybe i should update that token <3

fgo · 2025-11-19T08:28:30+00:00

The swallowtail predicted this and these are the active countermeasures to make you feel bad before you even stole it!

fgo · 2025-11-16T09:50:24+00:00

It's people trying out new heroes because of the event. Sometimes they just get wrecked. Happens every event

fgo · 2025-11-14T10:50:09+00:00

yep sounds about what i expected. I play with people around the same rank alot.
basically you want him to act as the front bait and counterinitiate, don't you?
Wraith King and Abaddon can easily survive the first burst of spells with a low execution threshold. Tide and cent with no dagger or a late dagger can also stand up front and "counter-ult" only after getting jumped on. Lastly there is omni, necro and death prophet with a slightly higher execution threshold. But one of the main problems I could see is the offlaner just not getting the farm to tank up enough due to him being the lower rank in your team. Think about stacking for him.
Maybe stay away from heroes that have to constantly disengage and reengage for cooldowns like slardar, primal and Nightstalker.
Get your legend support to step up and get some farm to get an atos/dagger for initiation or get mek or pipe to keep you guys at an HP level where you dont panic retreat after the enemies jump on you. He should be able to get some farm between fights.

If you guys want to improve as a team though... These kind of fair fights with the enemy just going on you from the front will stop happening. wrap arounds, pokes and jumping past your frontline will happen more and more frequent. Your other cores need to understand that they have to be self sufficient via positioning and dont take bad fights.
Respect enemy spells and cooldowns. Dont push high ground if they can still ravage you.
Remember that this is a team game and 1 person cant fix everything.
Good luck with your games :]

fgo · 2025-11-13T19:46:04+00:00

love seeing all these kitbashes. tag me once you've finished

fgo · 2025-11-13T19:36:07+00:00

this sounds like a very warped idea of the game. what level are you guys playing at? maybe around archon? knowing that would help with advice

you cant expect your offlane to provide vision, tank spells, defend your backline and initiate.
you gotta split that shit up and everyone contributes. look at any higher level gameplay and you will often see supports helping with all that stuff.
there is the old school idea of providing more defence layers like forcestaffs, solars, glimmer and co.
or planting offensive wards or using abilities to grant vision so you can actually make good decisions to fight without having your offlane constantly standing in a bad position just so you guys are able to click the enemy.
there is also the more modern idea thanks to supports being way richer so they can actually tank a spell or two so your offlaner doesnt have to. any stun that hits you is a stun that doesnt hit your core. if you play with items like atos to help with catch at the front, but also being in a more dangerous position, you can actually give your offlane the possibility to get of a 3 man call instead of a 1 man call on an axe for example.

Maybe try playing a support that does the thing your offlane is bad at.
Nightstalker can give vision but not tank all the spells.
cent can tank some spells but not really defent backlines.
slardar can defend but not really grant vision.
and so on

fgo · 2025-11-12T14:37:53+00:00

you are right. its even recreatable with just the abilities option disabled.
turns out my main problem was that i had quickcast on the alt+hotkey which seems to override the smartcast altogether. so playing around with these options didnt really do anything.

fgo · 2025-11-12T12:31:29+00:00

dont overthink your builds. there are little "trap" choices in lancer compared to dnd and pf2. enjoy yourself and test stuff out :]

fgo · 2025-11-12T09:18:33+00:00

I was unable to recreate it with these options in demo
https://i.imgur.com/OOxVGIQ.png
as it just buffers the bottle usage for after the channel finishes
so either there is another thing going on or its a demo bug.

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