Puukko
Arcane
Dabbled in some Thracia 776. The first couple missions were smooth sailing, and then Chapter 2X came around. It's the first one with fog of war, which isn't too bad, but getting to the end still takes a solid 45 minutes. There are two recruitable dudes at the end, a myrmidon and thief, sitting on forts. The idea is to capture them and finish the chapter. The way you capture is by using the capture command on a unit with superior CON which deals a weak attack, and that's how you get them to 0HP. Obviously, them being on forts, they have high defense, regenerate, and the myrmidon has a killing edge so you don't want anyone but your strong units near him. Naturally, one of my axe dudes gets a lucky crit and kills the myrmidon from low health. Anticipating this, I had made a save state, which had somehow already been corrupted, which has never happened to me before. To be clear, I don't intend to make use of those to make the game easier, since the advertised difficulty is a major draw, but I definitely wanted to capture this guy. I restart, make it to the end, and it goes even worse, because I lose one of my axe dudes to him and then manage to crit again. At that point I make peace with the fact I won't be able to recruit everyone. Oddly enough the thief is unarmed which enabled instant capture, so it wasn't all for nothing. But man, what a spree of terrible luck.
Yeah, well, you could have been more cooperative.
Yeah, well, you could have been more cooperative.
