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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   3170 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 20, 2026

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I had to keep backing my vehicle away from the hive queen so that she wouldn't explode the damn thing in one attack. Killed her on my second try. :D

I bought two dossiers in one go, which seemed to let me get the second one for 60 instead of 100. But the new SLs have really low current hp. Do I need to hire them and then let them rest for a long time to get them up to a useful hp??

Buying multiple dossiers at once for the discount is a good trick.

Which SLs? Some SLs are just crap (Wentworth, Ivy). The low supply cost doesn't make up for the fact that growth potential is useless. They'll never catch up with the heavy hitters till it's irrelevant.

That being said, I'm far from overly concerned with HP. AP and accuracy are far more important (and the 1 star SLs are subpar on both fronts). Most missions, my soldiers never even get hit.

I got Jean Sy and The Yaz (Fedor).

Oh, the 'hp bar' was only relevant during a mission or something? I saw it being down quite a bit on my vehicle commander during the last part of a 3 part mission. But now it's back to full. I assumed this was something that had to recharge for everyone, but the green part is actually the squad member counter on every non-vehicular SL!

All infantry heal back to full between missions. That's not the case for vehicles, you need dedicated vehicle repair bays for that (within an operation) and they're repaired to full between operations.

You are a brave man for going into the game completely blind, I've played the demo and read the guides voraciously before EA. But you seem to be doing fine and figuring these things out is half the fun!

I sure do love the 'dilemmas' that show up at the end of each operation, before you can save your game. My SLs are degenerate gamblers? And I have to pay their debts, using OCI for some reason? Very cool. o7

My vehicle (the one you start with) seems OP at this point with a heavy MG and armor plating and +50% ammo. It absolutely slaughters whatever I've come up against so far, and I have a perk that lets it shoot for 30 AP after moving. In fact I probably don't need the armor plating, which slows it down. Might try out the camo net I just picked as a reward.

The audio track you linked to at some point (Steelrot Shanty) is pretty cool, but I prefer the one that plays during mission planning (Counter-Insurgency).

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