eklektyk
Erudite
ghosts 
fuuuuuuu moments when 5ofem goes for my units in one go .....
fuuuuuuu moments when 5ofem goes for my units in one go ..... 
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Let's Play Spellcross! Update #8
- Thread starter chzr
- Start date
laclongquan
Arcane
I volunteer for a mortar unit.
chzr
Scholar
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Well, I'm back @ LPing and that means a new update!
This is our new BS, obviously. Alliance is trying to hold against attacking monsters.
Our experienced commandos now leads Lightbane! Welcome and good luck!
Some new units to buy, including an artillery and real tanks, not those 'i haz a turret' cars, i immediately bought one of each tanks and upgrading one of our m106s to that artillery. Also bought new AA gun that finally looked at least little useful...
And right after that jumped on a mission. Looks like some swamps.
Default opening here. Leveled TAM was finally quite effective against enemy heavy units.
This map was heavily covered with trees, making quite a narrow snake-like passage for vehicles. Small attack force tried to catch me undefended but it wasn't strong enough.
With infantry taking shortcut and some scout gargoyles taken out, our army reached next crossing where was prepared an ambush. Dark elves are weak in open battle, however.
Progress was quite slow but at least enemy wasn't doing anything.
After Gondolin spotted a large force on the east, it was time to dig in and lure them.
This one was quite easy, however, there was another army coming from north.
Fortunately, that bridge made stuff a lot easier.
Anyway, finally our first tank officer, DramaticPopcorn and his M1 Abrams. Lacking experience, he will catch up quickly for sure. Good luck!
After few enemy attacks, which weren't hard even in small numbers thanks to well placed hill, it was time to conquer.
Bald description. Let's see...
Well, simple layout. River in the middle, 2 bridges, 1 wade so blowing bridges seemed like a good idea.
And then facing quite a lot of enemy units, but always like 2-3 units at once...
And this guy... Of course just by stats it's clear that this is far most dangerous units out there. But there are more things. First, the heavy attack is ridiculous itself, especially when the game offers only better heavy vehicles at this point. But it's also a light unit, making all those tanks really ineffective and 24 defense is too much even for our anti-light (AL) units. Oh and by the way, our best AL unit - flamethrowers actually HEALS it. Which is not a big deal unless AI decides that it's a good idea to 'opponent fire' them with flamers. And finally, it teleports instead of normal movement.
Fortunately, they appear only as single units so far, so it's not that difficult to deal with them. More filler combat here...
With everything that moved down, our army captured a hill nearby.
Eat that, notice EXTREME range of our new artillery thanks to high ground.
Didn't stand a chance against rain of mortars shells.
Rare occasion in Spellcross - 1v1 combat.
And last monsters...
So that was it. The last mission was much more frustrating than it looks like but it's finally over. Anyway, here are our new recruits, awaiting for next assignment!
This is our new BS, obviously. Alliance is trying to hold against attacking monsters.
Our experienced commandos now leads Lightbane! Welcome and good luck!
Some new units to buy, including an artillery and real tanks, not those 'i haz a turret' cars, i immediately bought one of each tanks and upgrading one of our m106s to that artillery. Also bought new AA gun that finally looked at least little useful...
And right after that jumped on a mission. Looks like some swamps.
Default opening here. Leveled TAM was finally quite effective against enemy heavy units.
This map was heavily covered with trees, making quite a narrow snake-like passage for vehicles. Small attack force tried to catch me undefended but it wasn't strong enough.
With infantry taking shortcut and some scout gargoyles taken out, our army reached next crossing where was prepared an ambush. Dark elves are weak in open battle, however.
Progress was quite slow but at least enemy wasn't doing anything.
After Gondolin spotted a large force on the east, it was time to dig in and lure them.
This one was quite easy, however, there was another army coming from north.
Fortunately, that bridge made stuff a lot easier.
Anyway, finally our first tank officer, DramaticPopcorn and his M1 Abrams. Lacking experience, he will catch up quickly for sure. Good luck!
After few enemy attacks, which weren't hard even in small numbers thanks to well placed hill, it was time to conquer.
Bald description. Let's see...
Well, simple layout. River in the middle, 2 bridges, 1 wade so blowing bridges seemed like a good idea.
And then facing quite a lot of enemy units, but always like 2-3 units at once...
And this guy... Of course just by stats it's clear that this is far most dangerous units out there. But there are more things. First, the heavy attack is ridiculous itself, especially when the game offers only better heavy vehicles at this point. But it's also a light unit, making all those tanks really ineffective and 24 defense is too much even for our anti-light (AL) units. Oh and by the way, our best AL unit - flamethrowers actually HEALS it. Which is not a big deal unless AI decides that it's a good idea to 'opponent fire' them with flamers. And finally, it teleports instead of normal movement.
Fortunately, they appear only as single units so far, so it's not that difficult to deal with them. More filler combat here...
With everything that moved down, our army captured a hill nearby.
Eat that, notice EXTREME range of our new artillery thanks to high ground.
Didn't stand a chance against rain of mortars shells.
Rare occasion in Spellcross - 1v1 combat.
And last monsters...
So that was it. The last mission was much more frustrating than it looks like but it's finally over. Anyway, here are our new recruits, awaiting for next assignment!
Nice update! Will we be getting anything similar to these hell-riders? I mean, beast-riding, teleporting, armor-raping motherfuckers?
I nominate Kingcomrade for one of those units then.
I nominate Kingcomrade for one of those units then.
Twinkle
Liturgist
Trust me, endgame Human Technology will shit all over that fantasy stuff.
Gondolin
Arcane
Yay! Update!
Twinkle said:
Trust me, endgame Human Technology will shit all over that fantasy stuff.
Wow. Will we be getting power-armor wearing, gauss-rifle wielding, teleporting strike commandos with majickal abilities? If so, I'd like to lead one of those..
Twinkle
Liturgist
Azira said:Twinkle said:
Trust me, endgame Human Technology will shit all over that fantasy stuff.
Wow. Will we be getting power-armor wearing, gauss-rifle wielding, teleporting strike commandos with majickal abilities? If so, I'd like to lead one of those..
Well, you'll have jetpacks instead of teleporters, but power armor and gauss guns are in.
lightbane
Arcane
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I have good and bad news, the good news is that I found a link with the supposed full game (including videos), here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FY5NF58T
The bad news: I have not checked yet if it works, so try it yourself if you want.
The bad news: I have not checked yet if it works, so try it yourself if you want.
chzr
Scholar
- Joined
- Jun 26, 2010
- Messages
- 1,238
Time to finally finish this BS. ^^
Let's start with wall of text.
Obvious ambush is obvious.
Notice how that road ends.
Combined Renegades and Dark forces here. I have to say that leveled tanks are very effective vs heavy units.
Here's new enemy unit, unfortunately it was dead before my turn.
Here is how our army regains morale dropped by long camping - few steps back and forth
After enemies stopped coming, it was time to move out.
And capture that high ground.
Our target.
High ground and tanks solved this p. well. That was their last 'army', and started coming remaining units and some renegades that were no problem at all.
When all cleared, it was only about destroying that portal.
After that, enemy attacked again, showing a new unit, ghosts. Seems like it 'levitates' - it's a ground unit but can cross water. While melee and not that powerful, notice the defense rating (it's not fully leveled though). Seems high? It's way too high, considering it is light unit and our light counters haven't really progressed since flamers.
This is from another defense an it's that mysterious unit killed in interrupt. It's not that powerful, it can have summoned 1 undead at time though. One of less dangerous enemies.
Moar filler text.
Walls of text here.
This map isquite tricky fucking retarded. It's small with mountain in the middle, of course occupied by enemies.
To make it little easier, i took only long range units and sniped some enemy units, then retreated.
After that, i took all those units that Alliance gave us because high losses are ensured here.
I could kill most of the units on the top in first turn, but more were coming.
Meatshield tactic did the job quite well, minimizing damage to our own army.
Some golems camping right below the top but tanks can usually destroy them in few shots. All orcs managed to do was killing one more meatshield.
There wasn't any time to fortify and our army had to move forward to reach those towers anyway.
Operation meatshield has been successful!
Enemy captured one mined out sector but wasn't attacking now so i was researching stuff. Here is moar filler text:
Research yielded some new nice upgrades and units. Upgrading M1 and Artillery with armor, engine and guns, Piranha was upgraded to new APC with flamer against those annoying ghosts (bought only one because while it is most powerful AL unit, it has only 6 range which is outdated at this point.) and finally some paranormal infantry. By stats, it's comparable to mortars teams with better defense. Of course, i had to test it out:
While recapturing sector, new unit have been spotted. It can attack but so far, enemy used it only as a scout like gargoyles.
When everything researched and healed, time to secure this BS.
Ghosts... Even if flamers are more effective against them like against undead, it is still far from win.
Same pattern, everything dies except ghosts.
Not far to the north, there was entrance to enemy camp with palisade around.
Artillery units worked there but i had to move front line because without fortifying, corners can be deadly if you don't get interrupt.
Then it was about luring and killing scattered enemies...
And killing portal. It actually really ports enemies, almost lost hummer when gargoyle jumped from it.
Another BS secured, this one being definitely the most annoying mainly because frequent attacks from enemy.
Let's start with wall of text.
Obvious ambush is obvious.
Notice how that road ends.
Combined Renegades and Dark forces here. I have to say that leveled tanks are very effective vs heavy units.
Here's new enemy unit, unfortunately it was dead before my turn.
Here is how our army regains morale dropped by long camping - few steps back and forth
After enemies stopped coming, it was time to move out.
And capture that high ground.
Our target.
High ground and tanks solved this p. well. That was their last 'army', and started coming remaining units and some renegades that were no problem at all.
When all cleared, it was only about destroying that portal.
After that, enemy attacked again, showing a new unit, ghosts. Seems like it 'levitates' - it's a ground unit but can cross water. While melee and not that powerful, notice the defense rating (it's not fully leveled though). Seems high? It's way too high, considering it is light unit and our light counters haven't really progressed since flamers.
This is from another defense an it's that mysterious unit killed in interrupt. It's not that powerful, it can have summoned 1 undead at time though. One of less dangerous enemies.
Moar filler text.
Walls of text here.
This map is
To make it little easier, i took only long range units and sniped some enemy units, then retreated.
After that, i took all those units that Alliance gave us because high losses are ensured here.
I could kill most of the units on the top in first turn, but more were coming.
Meatshield tactic did the job quite well, minimizing damage to our own army.
Some golems camping right below the top but tanks can usually destroy them in few shots. All orcs managed to do was killing one more meatshield.
There wasn't any time to fortify and our army had to move forward to reach those towers anyway.
Operation meatshield has been successful!
Enemy captured one mined out sector but wasn't attacking now so i was researching stuff. Here is moar filler text:
Research yielded some new nice upgrades and units. Upgrading M1 and Artillery with armor, engine and guns, Piranha was upgraded to new APC with flamer against those annoying ghosts (bought only one because while it is most powerful AL unit, it has only 6 range which is outdated at this point.) and finally some paranormal infantry. By stats, it's comparable to mortars teams with better defense. Of course, i had to test it out:
While recapturing sector, new unit have been spotted. It can attack but so far, enemy used it only as a scout like gargoyles.
When everything researched and healed, time to secure this BS.
Ghosts... Even if flamers are more effective against them like against undead, it is still far from win.
Same pattern, everything dies except ghosts.
Not far to the north, there was entrance to enemy camp with palisade around.
Artillery units worked there but i had to move front line because without fortifying, corners can be deadly if you don't get interrupt.
Then it was about luring and killing scattered enemies...
And killing portal. It actually really ports enemies, almost lost hummer when gargoyle jumped from it.
Another BS secured, this one being definitely the most annoying mainly because frequent attacks from enemy.
Luzur
Good Sir
so its basically AD&D in modern day post-apocalypse Poland?
chzr said:Research yielded some new nice upgrades and units. Upgrading M1 and Artillery with armor, engine and guns, Piranha was upgraded to new APC with flamer against those annoying ghosts (bought only one because while it is most powerful AL unit, it has only 6 range which is outdated at this point.) and finally some paranormal infantry. By stats, it's comparable to mortars teams with better defense. Of course, i had to test it out:
Ohyeah! Burn baby burn!
Yeesh
Magister
lightbane said:
If you don't quit questioning science, psychic assassins are going to boil your cat... with their MINDS. And besides, didn't we all see Scanners?
Gondolin
Arcane
Push back the horde! For mankind!
Silly superstition. Like I could really read their minds and make them do my biddings unwittingly..
"Here's your orange sherbert sir."
Why, thank you.
"Here's your orange sherbert sir."
Why, thank you.
*wiggles eyebrows*
Update this magnificent LP, chzr..
*wiggles eyebrows some more*
Update this magnificent LP, chzr..
*wiggles eyebrows some more*
eklektyk
Erudite
[Necro check : Success ]
MOAR???
MOAR???
Norfleet
Moderator
- Joined
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- Messages
- 12,250
This is the game you were suggesting? It looks interesting, albeit someone seems to have done this...and also, it looks awfully strategery. If I were gonna take this on, I'd probably want to make sure it's something I don't turn into a borefest like I do with every other strategy game.
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