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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #5535 on: February 19, 2016, 09:47:26 pm »

You know what, I don't think I died once in the entire playthrough. Came very close, but not died.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #5536 on: February 19, 2016, 10:29:23 pm »

Not quite a combat-related owning, but:

A dealer was willing to buy ecstasy at an extra-high price.

Another dealer, not too far away, had 96 units of ecstasy.

Easy money, and didn't even run into a drug bust!

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #5537 on: February 20, 2016, 09:46:22 am »

An early legendary/ironman mission went perfectly, in a way that just doesn't happen.

To start off with, the first mission of the game had a death and two gravely wounded.  The only advanced soldier I had was a specialist, and it was a destroy the relay mission meaning her hacking doesn't help.  I decided to stealth the objective, which never works.  Got in range to complete the objective without being spotted by a patrol or encircled by more than one.  Eliminated one patrol only to find one hiding in a back corner of the objective building; engaged them at close range with the help of a flashbang, and no one died.  Took out a sectoid by surrounding it from one tile away and shooting repeatedly.  Completed objective with one turn left, got loot with one turn left.  Reinforcements come.  Take out two troopers quickly, rookie panics, flanks officer and takes him down to one health.  Specialist runs to roof to flank officer, sees yet another patrol hiding in the objective building.  Specialist kills a trooper in said pod and then tactically evacs, leaving rookies to fend for themselves.  This is when things get dicey, and I make some decisions that are honestly leaving people out to die (because I see no other alternative).  Two of the rookies are wounded but don't die; one of them is pinned in overwatch and flanked by an officer.  He shoots the overwatching trooper, killing them but leaving himself still flanked.  With the last move of the turn a rookie takes the officer out with a 33% shot.  No casualties, all enemies eliminated.

When the dust clears, I have a new record hit rate: 100%
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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #5538 on: February 20, 2016, 12:46:51 pm »

Standing exposed on a plinth overlooking enemy territory. I rain short range fully automatic fire down on two approaching enemy who stop and swim for cover. One pops out from cover firing inkzooka rounds at me, with the second offering covering fire from a heavy weapon. I swim away and leap from the platform to a walkway beneath to avoid the incoming fire. As I land, an airstrike incoming warning lets me know I am in real trouble. I spray ink up a nearby wall, swim up it, and balance on the narrow wall top to avoid the ink strike. Heavy fire from my 2 engaged enemies is flying all around me when a third enemy (probably the one who called in the airstrike) joins in the firing at me from behind cover further along the walkway. I leap down to the walkway again to hide behind a small box, laying ink while in mid air with the intent of swimming back a long way along the walkway back to better cover. Upon landing my own inkzooka fully charges. This instantly changes the balance of power and as such changes my plans. I turn to face my pursuers and whip out the inkzooka, then fire off two rounds in quick succession - both are direct hits splatting the 2 enemies pursuing me from the plinth as they leap down to the walkway. The third rather sensibly stays in cover, probably out of ink. His weapon will out range mine if I choose to trade fire, but if I get in close while he is out of ink he is a dead squid. I swim up to and on top of the box he is hiding behind, jump and turn a quick 180, landing neatly behind him. A short burst of ink from my Aerospray later and he too is splatted. About 15 seconds of instinctive and reactionary combat, and I am left with 3 dead enemies and a whole load of unprotected turf to claim. This secures the win for my team, as there is not long left on the match clock.

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« Reply #5539 on: February 20, 2016, 05:30:25 pm »

Me and Steven were going fairly even, despite the fact I had a 10-15 level advantage(almost 20 with Mawile - she hit Lv70 during the battle). By the time I had whittled his team down to Metagross, I had just Mawile and Blaziken left. For the most part, my team was hammered by his fossils, Armaldo and Cradily. My strategy was to soften Mega Metagross up with Mawile, then Mega-Evolve Blaziken and deliver a Blaze Kick right to Metagross' face.

You know what they say... no battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

You see, Steel no longer resists Dark, Metagross is Steel/Psychic and Mawile knows Crunch. Despite not doing much damage still, and despite the fact that Metagross knows Earthquake, Mawile kept fighting. Through The Power of Love, she ninja-dodged the first Earthquake, kept attacking despite Steven using a Full Restore, had about 25 hitpoints after taking a second Earthquake full force, then Endured the third Earthquake through The Power of Love, and again with TPoL struck a final critical hit that brought the Mega-Evolved Metagross down. Since I intended Blaziken to do it, I never bothered to Mega-Evolve Mawile, she did everything Badass Normal(well, Baddass Steel/Fairy, but you get the idea).

My only regret is that I feel bad about intending her as cannon fodder.

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You know what, I don't think I died once in the entire playthrough. Came very close, but not died.

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Really? I rather enjoyed it. I'm sure there's another you in another realm of possibility that really does enjoy it.
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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #5540 on: February 21, 2016, 04:40:52 am »

I pulled off a miracle tonight.

I had just captured one of three dwarven cities with my armies. They had the city surrounded, so I figured we'd be completely safe for a few turns while wounded units heal up. Oh-ho-ho, how wrong I was!
I clicked the End Turn button, and then watched in puzzlement as a small dwarven army approached my forces. Then another one joined up with the first. And then another army arrived. And another. And another. And so on and so forth. Until four full stacks of units, including the dwarven leader and a hero unit, assaulted my new city. I had three less-than-full stacks to fight them with, and many units in said stacks were wounded. The pre-battle screen gives me a verdict of "likely defeat". To make matters worse, one of *my* units was a mission-critical hero. If he dies, and I lose the battle, it's game over.

Just three key factors allowed me to post this story here, rather than in the "how did you die" thread.
First, one of my three stacks was the siege stack. I had four trebuchets and a builder who could repair machinery, and all of them were manning the city walls
Second, most of the enemy force were tier-1 units. They had some nasty surprises, such as hellhounds and musketeers, but for the most part the dwarves were armed with simple axes and crossbows.
And finally, they didn't bring a single siege unit of their own.

While the dwarves were able to keep up a punishing rate of ranged fire each turn, they were unable to engage my own units in melee and bring their numbers to bear until they could smash the gates down. Which they did, eventually. But between my trebuchets raining stones down on their most dangerous units, my goblin untouchables spitting toxic projectiles, and my spellcasting, I was able to keep them at bay for several turns until a great mass of prospectors and crossbow dwarves managed to break into the city. My hero fell after drawing fire for a couple of turns. My builder served as a human shield, keeping angry dwarves from destroying my trebuchets. And when the last dwarf fell, only three trebuchets remained intact. The rest of my units were all killed.

However, it was all worth it! The enemy leader had fallen, and his remaining two cities were left completely unguarded. He had thrown everything he had at me in one final assault, and it had failed. I swiftly captured the cities in question and proceeded to win the scenario.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #5541 on: February 21, 2016, 09:17:04 am »

Celt mass siege is possibly the most insanely satisfying strat I've ever played. 4v4 Black Forest (if you don't play, black forest is a very closed map that favours the late game and range-based strategies), and I was one of the pocket players (i.e. not on the flank), so I boomed pretty hard and pretty greedily. Massed up scorpions, fronted them with a few pikemen, and started busting down some walls with five or six mangonels.

Lost the pikemen to a castle, so I thought I'd cut my losses and spat out a few siege rams and trebuchets. Burned down about five castles in quick succession, smashing through each successive wallup, until eventually all the enemies resigned.

In the mean time, stronghold castles (20% faster firing) were doing a very good job of holding the line against the Mongol pressuring my base. Then my Indian ally swept in with fifty imperial camels, which was... not pretty for the mongols.

So yeah, I didn't use anything except siege and a few defensive woad raiders to take out the mongol siege. I had about fifty or sixty skirmishers banked for when the castles fell, but they never saw use.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #5542 on: February 21, 2016, 08:55:09 pm »

I can't remember exactly who, as it was hours ago and I never bothered to post, but I was fighting Say'ri at the Wellspring of Truth. I'm fairly certain it was Panne, in any case.
This person proceeded to Dual Guard all five hits of Astra and then evidcerate Say'ri immediately afterwards.
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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #5543 on: February 22, 2016, 08:18:25 am »

Shot a Reaper in the eye. Repeatedly. With an anti-materiel sniper rifle - one specifically rated to shatter the user's arm from recoil(unless you're [a cybernetic badass like Shepard or a robot like Legion]) .

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #5544 on: February 22, 2016, 03:51:59 pm »

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« Reply #5545 on: February 22, 2016, 03:56:11 pm »

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #5546 on: February 22, 2016, 03:58:18 pm »

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« Reply #5547 on: February 22, 2016, 04:33:56 pm »

Held the Germans at  the border for three years, then managed to evac 98% of the French army to the UK when resources finally started running out. Then I liberated Poland using partasins for a while three months.

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Re: How did you last *own*?
« Reply #5548 on: February 22, 2016, 05:13:03 pm »

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« Reply #5549 on: February 22, 2016, 05:16:38 pm »

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