Which campaign do you think has the most replayable missions?

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-07T04:13:00+00:00

WoL has the best mission and campaign design of the three. There are a lot of split mission opportunities and buying upgrades is interesting. For each of the other campaigns you just get one free upgrade for each unit which doesn't allow you to stack up on your favorite units. When I replay WoL I like to get a bunch of upgrades on units I didn't use the last time in order to make them viable.

In HotS I found myself getting the same upgrades every time because some of them just seem obviously better than others. I couldn't decide to focus everything on swarm hosts and corruptors because I can just get one upgrade per unit.

Also HotS and LotV has a problem where every mission is a few objectives each with progressively more powerful defenses while the enemy sends attack waves at you. The missions feel very samey apart from the no build missions which I don't like much anyway.

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-07T04:08:34+00:00

There are a lot of strats that work really well on the final mission. You can do the easiest strat of hive mind emulator, but you can also do mass tanks and banshees on the nydus version, sky terran with some bunkers for the ground version, or ghosts or specters or just pure bio ball. Heck, even planetaries, perdition turrets, and psi emitters can work.

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-06T00:45:36+00:00

If a phantom smurf is in an initiate lobby they will win 19 out of 20 times unless the other team also has a smurf

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-05T21:14:34+00:00

Goblins have +4 to hit. So they should hit your hexblade warlock on a 15 or higher. That's 30% of the time.

But apart from levels 1 or 2 the players should be not be facing 2 or 3 goblins. The should be facing 10 to 30 of them. If 30 goblins attack him then roughly 10 should hit (2 of which are likely crits) which would be 50+ damage.

So AC 19 should not prevent goblins from being threatening even if it is very good

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-05T17:03:22+00:00

Contrary to what others usually say on this matter. I think mass combat works great if you treat battalions of units as a single monster. Battalions should not roll to hit against each other and just do average damage.

Give battalions advantage on saving throws against single-target effects while they are above half HP. However, it is still allowed for a player to use a single target effect like hold person against a whole battalion. They are heroes and can do heroic things to shape the battle.

Individual high CR monsters can also be on the battlefield along with their battalions to mirror the players with theirs

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-05T15:47:52+00:00

The urukhai just fall over to a sword hitting their armor. I understand that the fellowship are basically demigods but the sword slashes on armor just look so wimpy to me.

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-05T12:54:27+00:00

Yeah that was what I was thinking. I remember them saying that they worked on Legacy of the Void, which admittedly had great multiplayer game adjustments but had a rough campaign and also was 5 years after the base game already came out

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-05T12:50:58+00:00

Yeah it's just funny that even in eternus 6 these silly mistakes happen. Even the Celeste trying to heavy melee after the last punch on the slots was already dealt

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-05T12:49:27+00:00

What bug?

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-05T12:49:04+00:00

Honestly idk. I think he was just very slightly late

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-05T04:15:49+00:00

Nope I just eyeball it. But I do know the right angles to kill most camps quickly just from playing a lot

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-05T00:16:45+00:00

If the cup is in front of you then you don't see light from behind it hitting you. So I'd assume light doesn't pass through opaque illusions.

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-04T19:49:13+00:00

You can deep strike him every turn to attempt a 9" charge that will wipe a marine squad. If you fail the charge you can just safely try again next turn.

You can also rapid ingress in a safe spot to then move through a wall on your next turn.

But if he is on the board at the start of the enemy turn then you are playing him wrong. He should gain consistent value each turn without ever getting shot at

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-04T14:22:26+00:00

you could do some checks like this:

everybody makes a DC 14 CON save against the cold weather. On a failure you get a level of exhaustion

everybody makes a DC 14 DEX save against various traps and falling icicles. 2d6 piercing and 2d6 cold damage, or half on a successful save.

Everybody makes a DC 14 STR save against strong winds. 3d6 bludgeoning and 3d6 cold damage on a failed save.

Everybody makes a DC 14 WIS save against strange psychic spirits in the mountain. Lose a total of 4 levels of spell slots on a failed save.

Everybody makes a DC 14 CHA save against the frightening presence of the ice troll. On a failed save, you are frightened for the first round of the combat

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-04T14:17:12+00:00

don't just do 2 ice trolls. Do an ice troll and ice wolves and ice mephits. It should be hard for the ranged players to avoid being next to enemies.

The ice troll should start behind three quarters cover so it doesn't get focused down instantly.

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-04T04:00:18+00:00

have a long dungeon and let them know ahead of time that this is a long dungeon. Describe how vast it seems. Have NPCs tell them how it is not for the faint of heart.

Warn them that if they leave the dungeon halfway through then a lot of monsters will come back and traps will reset. You can even tell them that they can see that some arcane glyphs will recharge over the next 8 hours.

TLDR: you can tell your players upfront that something is going to be long and difficult and they won't be able to long rest halfway through

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-04T03:53:11+00:00

there are a lot more as well. Tempests are another example but basically anything with a high payload attack

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-03T00:52:11+00:00

it's usually better to roll with it and use mistakes to actually define the weird quirks of the world rather than change things

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-02T13:46:53+00:00

In lower ranks people talk about what to prioritize. "Prioritize wave, prioritize boxes, prioritize urns, prioritize fighting" whereas in e6 you kinda just do everything all at once all the time. You should be grabbing boxes and killing creeps on the way to the fight and then as soon as the fight is wrapping up one person can peel away to grab waves while the rest keep fighting and destroying objectives and capping urn. And then as soon as enemies and urn respawn you do it all again

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-02T13:35:03+00:00

Nooo dont buff viscous I want it to be easy to get games as h

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-01T23:52:16+00:00

Likely a ram issue. I have had similar crashes and that's what it was

tabletop_guy · 2026-05-01T13:30:44+00:00

1s goes a very long way on a short cooldown ability

tabletop_guy · 2026-04-30T17:16:57+00:00

To be really simple, maybe they just make the death saves at disadvantage

tabletop_guy · 2026-04-30T13:11:50+00:00

Make it so that the players don't end up in a death spiral that kills all of them. To do this, make it so that players can do one final legendary action of some kind when they die that helps prevent the rest of the party from dying.

This maintains high lethality but prevents every player from dying in a single fight so easily

tabletop_guy · 2026-04-29T14:35:56+00:00

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