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[SOLDIER First]

Oh, I thought that was an acronym for the name of the game.

In that case, what game was it?

[pikachu17]

Oh, sorry. changed my post.

[Jopax]

Got blapped by the donut boss one turn before the billion poison stacks would've killed it. I was like 6 HP short too. Entirely down to my dumb ass getting excited and not paying proper attention to my health and armor gains.

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Slay the Spire

[Eschar]

My first even moderately successful game, raiding the city at night and crafting during the day; had a nice stash of random tools from the houses and even a bit of medications. Then I decided to travel to the nearby power substation and hope that something simultaneously wandered up for me to kill and butcher.

Cougars, as it turns out, should not be hunted. Especially when more than one show up.

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Cataclysm

[Xantalos]

Decided to join the Companions since they'll help me level my heavy armor skill, which is pretty dang important. Initiation, blah blah blah, first quest okay. Go kill some Falmer that have been causing trouble, no worries I can stomp some gollums.

I get to Shimmermist Grotto and by the gods is this a hell of a time. Falmer and Chaurus and deaths oh my. Sure am glad for that quicksave button, I used it a lot. Eventually make my way to the last room after many deaths, using up all my health potions in the process.

And the last boss fucks me. He's a Falmer mage spamming ice spells, sapping all my stamina, and he has a pet dwarven centurion (giant brass steampowered robot). He's killed me so, so many times.

Something to understand here, I'm currently level 4, playing an unarmed build. I'm not expecting easy modo but at the same time I am very far from being able to properly buff up my damage at all.

Skyrim

[Akura]

Decided to switch from Cutter back to Hammer, using what I learned about the bosses' attack patterns to get through battles with little damage.

Fighting (what I thought was) the final phase of the final battle of the True Arena. I'm down to the tiniest bit of health possible and not dead, like literally the health bar is empty. So is the boss. Unfortunately, this phase of the fight is a countdown sequence, and the countdown ran out. Naturally, I could not kill the boss before he killed me.

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Kirby: Planet Robobot. Also, that's not the final phase. There's one more phase after that. Thankfully it's not particularly hard. I only have 90% completion on the save however, I guess the other 10% is stickers?

[Mathel]

Shot down a supply ship to a Mixed Crew alien base.
Then went to raid the UFO.

It turns out that BlackOPS Smartrifles are almost useless against gazers. I killed in total
1 Muton officer (I know it was not grunt, but do not know rank)
1 Ethereal
5 Gazers,

but they knocked 3 of my soldiers out and killed the remaining 13.

-587 score, including loss of Skymarshall. Also 16 Jump Armors.

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The X-COM files

[Jopax]

Teleport into the base of the last enemy alive. Lasor his nuke defence and start to teleport out (while at the same time launching my nuke). A swarm of restorers murders me halfway trough the teleportation, luckily the nuke connects and gibs his commander so we win

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Supreme Commander Forged Alliance Forever

[DeKaFu]

Boss fight with a monster named Xel.

My usual way of dealing with bosses is using a swarm deck based around Deathwatch. It's a keyword that triggers whenever any minions on either team die, and has different effects depending on the card. The two main minions that form the basis of this deck are Shadow Watcher (gains +1 attack and +1 health when anything dies) and Shadowdancer (damages the enemy general for 1 and heals your general for 1 when anything dies).

They're effective against bosses because the AI is kind of dumb and will keep killing your minions until your Shadowdancer kills them or your Shadow Watcher gets so strong it can one-shot them.

Well, they finally added a boss that uses Deathwatch itself. Specifically, it has the Shadowdancer's ability built-in, and also damages your general every turn based on how many minions you have on the board. The boss fight also helpfully starts you with two weak minions on YOUR side that respawn whenever they're killed, so unless you find a way to get rid of them they're a massive liability since the enemy can kill them over and over to damage you.

So I tried my usual Deathwatch swarm deck and got obliterated.
Then I tried all my other decks and got obliterated. It turns out my deck-building style always tends towards swarm tactics, which is suicide here.

I eventually made a bizarre custom deck devoted entirely to winning this fight and managed to beat it. But that's the first time I've been forced to do that, so my pride is still a bit wounded...

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Duelyst.
It turns out the secret to winning was to out-Deathwatch it with MORE Deathwatch.

[EnigmaticHat]

The Sealnado fucking annihilated me.

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Don't Starve: Shipwrecked.  Thankfully I had a touchstone

[SOLDIER First]

you got Shipwrecked by it

[GiglameshDespair]

Shiprekted

[AzyWng]

At least it wasn't a Sharknado.Who knows what you're supposed to do about those, eh?

[EnigmaticHat]

you got Shipwrecked by it

Shiprekted

I fucking did tho.  Like I was killing all the other enemies in the game with ease, I never went below 120 health for the entirety of the first 30 days.  Then this thing comes over and lays down the most one sided curb stomp you've ever seen.  It was terrible.  Half my inventory was getting thrown all over the island.  I think it may have demolished some of my buildings and then thrown their components into the ocean.

[Telgin]

Died to Arich in Donkey Kong Country 3.  About 20 times, I think.

I'm not sure if I'm just an idiot or if this boss is a noob check, but I died exactly twice before getting to him.  Getting the barrel from the little ledge, then getting it down safely and keeping it in one piece to hit him with was shockingly challenging.  Never mind that if you lost Dixie you might as well give up, because Kiddy Kong was useless as far as throwing it up at the spider's face.  I'm going to get used to using him as an ablative meat shield.