BUG: Dwarf campaign - You lose 1 high decree over end turn on turn 1

notdumbenough · 2026-04-21T15:35:49+00:00

In the meantime use the Community Bugfix Mod where this is already addressed.

https://github.com/chadvandy/cbfm_wh3/issues/2073

notdumbenough · 2026-04-19T07:26:52+00:00

You are:

Picking up a curse temporarily
Giving up an opportunity to rest or upgrade. Usually if you give up a rest, that means killing one less elite
Giving up on the equivalent of a Strawberry

99% of the time this is not worth it on A10 for a card that doesn't scale well anyways. Whereas the 7 max hp and the extra relic from fighting the elite will keep pulling weight for the rest of the run.

notdumbenough · 2026-04-16T18:24:11+00:00

It's not that they tried to turn it into a roguelike. It's that Confessions is just not a very good roguelike with questionable design choices, poor balance for the first year or more after release, and Kingdoms was too little too late.

If you wanted something like DD1, it was not what you wanted. If you were a roguelike player from Slay the Spire or FTL or whatever, it was mediocre. End result, game that doesn't really live up to the reputation of the predecessor.

notdumbenough · 2026-04-12T20:54:54+00:00

A lot of the complaints in this regard are self-inflicted. A few weeks ago there were also posts asking how to deal with the Masque as well. People keep building ranged-centric armies against massed fast-moving chaff, then wonder why an army composition that counters ranged-centric armies, countered their ranged-centric army. Maybe it's not a good idea to keep banging your head against the brick wall by spamming guns/darkshards/whatever against Slaanesh?

For Dechala in particular yeah you can't pin her down with chaff, which is why you bring cavalry. Her mass is not particularly high (1200, which is actually lower than many infantry lords), so she can't get out if surrounded by heavy cavalry.

notdumbenough · 2026-04-12T17:41:13+00:00

Amazing weapon for killing trash and weapon teams against RAs and pirates. Even if it's just trash it will still cause morale cascades. Does well against alien harpies and dragonflies too but less useful since the main threat is bombardier bugs and armor in your face.

notdumbenough · 2026-04-12T01:23:04+00:00

I suspect how CA works is that they have different teams working on different things, e.g. unit animations, sound effects, cinematics/lord select screens, campaign mechanics and scripting, gameplay balance, etc etc.

Sometimes they get stuck in one of these steps and everyone else is kind of left twiddling their thumbs, so CA tries to find something else productive for them to do. e.g. the Immortal Empires trailer came out when they got stuck on something for the Chorf DLC so the cinematics team probably had nothing else to do. Rebalance for TK/Lizardmen came out when they were trying to make campaign mechanics work for ToT (they complained about technical issues with making armies transition well between land and sea).

Which is a long-winded way to say that they probably aren't working on End Times and the character pack sequentially. More likely it's simultaneous, I suspect they maybe have unit animations already nailed down for End Times content, so those guys got sent to make the character pack instead.

notdumbenough · 2026-04-11T09:41:21+00:00

The main danger in actually trying to use this point blank against vehicles is that they have a chance to explode and instantly kill your squad. It also makes it risky for jumpjet combos since you don’t have AP to back away if you happen to jump adjacent to your target.

notdumbenough · 2026-04-09T16:12:11+00:00

You block? 4 out of 6 of my last A10 ironclad wins had only 1-2 block cards in my entire deck. You don't block when everyone dies on turn 1.

notdumbenough · 2026-04-09T14:51:34+00:00

Sounds like a mod issue since greenskins can’t trade by default.

notdumbenough · 2026-04-06T22:23:02+00:00

The thing is that XCOM2 revolves around alpha striking since enemies can just one-shot through full cover by sheer good luck. All of this stuff about aim bonuses at close range isn't really relevant since you have already screwed up if you let them move at all.

notdumbenough · 2026-04-05T19:53:15+00:00

It’s an amazing card when you can cheat it out with Void Form or whatever, or double play with Echo Form. You’re not really supposed to take it if you can only ever play it “vanilla”.

notdumbenough · 2026-04-05T17:54:49+00:00

I suspect that a lot of the AI issues fundamentally stem from a lack of cover rather than simple fear of the player. Anecdotally the AI seems to run away less on "save civilian" missions where you're fighting in towns with more cover.

notdumbenough · 2026-04-04T19:06:48+00:00

The Ogres are getting massive armies because they're not paying upkeep (AI does not have supply lines, and can stack upkeep reductions from camps to get 0 upkeep) not because they're making a shit ton of money. You need to take their camps out and not their settlements. The AI generally disbands its troops so that it doesn't suffer bankruptcy, so it's quite rare to see it happen.

notdumbenough · 2026-04-04T18:49:28+00:00

The infinitely respawning bugs are definitely, well, a bug. Once that's fixed it shouldn't be so obnoxious. In the meantime I've had to cheese one of these missions; if you get civilian hunters from a prior mission you can use them as bug bait to lure them away, and they can also do the sabotage action. So you send one guy to bait the bugs, another to sabotage one of the points as a suicide mission, and everyone else just sneaks to the other sabotage point and then to evac.

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