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[Rolan7]

It's a hard section.  I save-scummed a lot, but couldn't save the sawmill... in fact most times I'm left with just 1 or 2 outposts.  I found the final outpost relatively easy to defend, there seemed to be less hunters guarding the striders.  Still, I had to kill a lot of hunters.  If you didn't know, the AR2 alt-fire is a semi-secret silver bullet against them.

[Graknorke]

It's a hard section.  I save-scummed a lot, but couldn't save the sawmill... in fact most times I'm left with just 1 or 2 outposts.  I found the final outpost relatively easy to defend, there seemed to be less hunters guarding the striders.  Still, I had to kill a lot of hunters.  If you didn't know, the AR2 alt-fire is a semi-secret silver bullet against them.

It's not exactly a secret. There's someone talking about it on the way in.
Still though, combine balls are not the most common of things.

[USEC_OFFICER]

It's a hard section.  I save-scummed a lot, but couldn't save the sawmill... in fact most times I'm left with just 1 or 2 outposts.  I found the final outpost relatively easy to defend, there seemed to be less hunters guarding the striders.  Still, I had to kill a lot of hunters.  If you didn't know, the AR2 alt-fire is a semi-secret silver bullet against them.

It's not exactly a secret. There's someone talking about it on the way in.
Still though, combine balls are not the most common of things.

RPG rounds are common and just as effective against Hunters. Plus, what else are you going to use them for? [/joke]

[lionstar]

A centaur with a venomous demonic trident turned around the corner while i was eating and poked me just before i killed it. Of course I was out of potions of curing and the poison was VERY persistent.

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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. That was the farthest I had gotten as a pure magic user, and right after I found 2 good spellbooks sitting right next to each other, too.

[pisskop]

So I think the zombies no longer fall for the 'this sign is totally a walkable block and that lavafall isnt going to incinerate you' trap . . .
  is this a thing?  or is my entrance trap flawed?

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minecraft

[Corai]

So I think the zombies no longer fall for the 'this sign is totally a walkable block and that lavafall isnt going to incinerate you' trap . . .
  is this a thing?  or is my entrance trap flawed?

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minecraft

I think zombies can pathfind around holes and lava.

[pisskop]

sigh.  well I didnt like my miners guild Idea anywho...  Too dwarfy [/end lie]

[MonkeyHead]

The mission is seemingly impossible; guide your force of elves to fight their way past a large group of trolls taking their ease in a mountain pass, with precious little forest to provide haven. Fortunately, there are dwarves on the other side of the river, and while they are jerks who won't let you cross to avoid the trolls, they are sufficiently jerky to get pissed off at any troll who crosses the river and will charge across the map to kill the whole tribe, putting their sharp axes to good use and providing a welcome distraction.

Except, by some quirk of the AI pathfinding, not a single troll unit tried to take the shortcut through dwarf land.

Cue a slow grinding retreat back down the pass while those asshole dwarves get drunk off their asses. The dwarves do eventually enter the fray... with about four turns left in the mission, so there was no way to beat the time limit anyway. I didn't even last that long, sadly, as a plot-critical unit died in desperate defense of my home base.

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Battle for Wesnoth: Legend of Wesmere campaign. Still doing the "Nuzlocke" permadeath campaign reselect thing, but it's frustrating to lose an early mission for such a stupid reason. I think what happened was I took a village on a little island too soon, so the trolls didn't clog the river trying to get to it, since that's how they usually stumble into dorf land. But yeah, no way to win that mission without getting dorf aid, unless you're lucky as hell sneaking the leader past the army (and are okay with something on the order of EVERYONE dying.)

Guess I'll see if I can get past the stupid stealth mission in the Liberty campaign now.

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I never actually found that mission too hard tbh, and until my 3rd or so playthrough never knew about the troll/dwarf attack trigger. I didnt bother trying to ohld the forests and instead made sure to keep the trolls in the water where they are pretty useless - didnt take too long to force a wedge through them and pour my own units through it.

[monk12]

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I never actually found that mission too hard tbh, and until my 3rd or so playthrough never knew about the troll/dwarf attack trigger. I didnt bother trying to ohld the forests and instead made sure to keep the trolls in the water where they are pretty useless - didnt take too long to force a wedge through them and pour my own units through it.

That's honestly pretty much how it usually goes; this is the first time I've ever actually failed this mission. Prior to this, I had thought that the troll stepping on dorf land was scripted so it would happen every time. Thinking back, I think I might still have won if the trolls hadn't gotten lucky beating down the archer at the bottom of that island, which let them get a troll on dry land. 70% evasion my ass.

[Tiruin]

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Battle for Wesnoth: Legend of Wesmere campaign.
Guess I'll see if I can get past the stupid stealth mission in the Liberty campaign now.

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Stealth missions are fairly easy--their sight range is exactly equal to their movement range. And faster units see farther than slower units. :p

Now as for your predicament...here's a tip:
> The AI ALWAYS attacks the nearest, weakest enemy, or the more experienced yet non-full health creature they can reach. Divert those trolls.

[monk12]

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Battle for Wesnoth: Legend of Wesmere campaign.
Guess I'll see if I can get past the stupid stealth mission in the Liberty campaign now.

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Stealth missions are fairly easy--their sight range is exactly equal to their movement range. And faster units see farther than slower units. :p

Now as for your predicament...here's a tip:
> The AI ALWAYS attacks the nearest, weakest enemy, or the more experienced yet non-full health creature they can reach. Divert those trolls.

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That's what I thought, but I drew aggro at movement range +1 ! Which is... problematic.

Good tip on the ai strategy though, thank you!

[itisnotlogical]

All of my units died just outside the first gate. Every last one.

Command and Conquer. Why does Nod have to have a prison break mission in every single C&C game?

[Lightningfalcon]

All of my units died just outside the first gate. Every last one.

Command and Conquer. Why does Nod have to have a prison break mission in every single C&C game?

Because they wouldn't be proper "Freedom Fighters" without one.  Can't remember the first game's or the third game's mission very well, but I remember taking several tries to beat Tiberium Sun's. 

[hops]

Apparently the Genie is invincible, and there's a secret method to killing him I haven't figured out.

It also turns out destroying his host is useless. I died getting scorched to death by him while a hippie beetle engulf me in lethal acid.

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100 Rogues

[SealyStar]

Dam. Helicopter. Swimmy thing. Damn.

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Half-Life