I managed to pip you for just a little more damage when he summoned on the first turn. When he comes down on the first turn, however, i lose about 200k worth of damage. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaHbao19l7tprK8si=x9d-zUKf1Lsx7_8o

Link to my brief(ish) notes for this video here if you'd rather just look at that: docs.google.com/document/d/1zezh8jBxLtC69SHFLkUg52kWBSiVsBWt_tcvSUl5i5g Only the first roughly half hour of this video is dedicated to the general principles of baiting, then I also look at when you might want to use the Biovore's active on a boss summon and how to tell which one of Sho'syl's drones may be despawned first

Can't stand it. Do it only to support my guild. I view it with extreme skepticism because it has massive potential for burning out team members.

I put in the survey that "war is a boring slog" . It just drags on for far to many days.

Spot on - Too much time for too little reward , causes friction amongst guild members. I wince every time it comes around. Seen at least one guild sign up and not bother actually playing because hey there’s not a fat lot of difference between winning and just signing up

I've actually had the opposite journey. I hated it when it first came out and voted for my guild not to take part. (Un)fortunately i got outvoted, so i had to do my bit for the guild. We downsized our expectations for it, however, so we play at level three. That means less need for a full D3 lineup and more emphasis on using your roster at uncommon, rare or epic, which is just much more feasible for the majority of us. It also puts the onus on synergy rather than stats, so we can be a lot more adventurous in our team competitions. And once I get into theory crafting land, I'm a happy bunny.

So hope that guild war Will be improved

Couldn't agree more. I'd already filled in the survey when I watched this, but I basically said exactly what you're suggesting. I play guild wars more to support my guild than because I enjoy it. If it didn't affect the rest of the guild, I'd probably just skip it completely.

From Nandi's SP visit video, I was surprised to hear someone at SP going on the record as being happy with GW. Because almost no player seems to be. The biggest problem is the schedule. The actual wars are condensed into 15 days out of 35. Why? It seems to me the season should start when the BP starts and end when the BP ends and then you could squeeze 6 wars at 5 days each and still have the dead time cushion at the beginning/end of the season. That's just an idea, but 60 tokens in 15 days is too much right now. The other big problem with it is the store. The last time they touched it was May 2024 and it was to replace Ulf with Njal...Rotbone should stay but the other two characters need to be rotated and that should have happened already. Further, I think they should add books and badges, and perhaps Legendary Orbs, as purchase options.

I tried what you described in the last paragraph (Eldy+mine+scarab down south) and he did choose to target them instead of Tan+Actus, but it worked only with all 3 units as far as I remember

Didn't linger too long on the replay because the contents aren't much different to my previous replay from this battle. The main differences are that I have changed my moves slightly in turn 2 to reduce the number of spore mines required to bait Morty to the correct position. Also, I sacrificed Aleph going into the final round so that she could heal the Scarab Swarm adjacent to her with her passive and keep it alive, which prevents Morty from being able to fly up onto the high ground to his North in his final turn. What's interesting here is that I fully expected him to kill Eldryon in the final turn, which is what I wanted to keep Tan and the summons adjacent to him from being killed by Reaping Scythe. Morty, however, despite his preference for targeting psykers, still went for the group of characters and summons. There is obviously some level of preference for him to use Reaping Scythe on groups, but I think his behaviour may go so far as to not attack single targets with it at all. So I think that Eldryon on his own is actually pretty safe going into the final round, as Morty really likes to use his Reaping Scythe in his final turn and Eldryon either won't be hit with it or will be hit with Morty's normal melee attack, which he can tank at least one of. It would be interesting to put Eldy in the same position in the penultimate round and see if Morty uses Reaping Scythe against him if Eldy has a spore mine adjacent to him.

The deal came out well by referring to the video. Thank you

An improvement on my previous method, I realised that it wasn't necessary to use Rho's active early on, so I saved it for the final two turns. I also changed up the positioning of Rho and Re'vas a little in the 4th turn to be able to get 4 extra hits out of Conqueror mode in the last 2 turns, which added up to quite a lot more damage in total. I forgot that I had already used Actus' active in the final turn, so gathering Re'vas and Rho around him was pointless and cost about 500 damage from Re'vas in giving up high ground. I could maybe try to not use Actus's active early on in the battle, but that might leave me unable to finish off both Terminators quickly enough. It might be possible with stronger spore mines and a better Re'vas, but for now it is too risky, at least at this level.

Not sure if spore mine placement could be improved to reduce the second boss spawn further, might be worth looking at.

I think this will be the last replay I share from this map for a while, it's pretty formulaic up to a point and then you just have to go along with whatever RNG nightmare you get served up. I'd never be able to collect a replay for every possible eventuality, so understanding the boss is a must. Once I unlock Helbrecht that will provide at least a little variety and could be worth it as a comparison to Aleph's performance. My average damage against Magnus this season has been around 480k, which isn't as good as what a multi-hit team can do but isn't totally useless either.

Cool

Hey Unappreciated, great video, learned a lot! One thing: I don't think barbed wire for Rho is all that bad?Arch contaminator is not influenced by any modifiers so it will do the same damage. So Rho should be able to safely stand on the barbed wire if needed as long as he isn't attacked directly by mortarion.

Curious why you guys killed the right prime.

Great game bro! Thanks for the insightfull play!

Thank you for developing & sharing this knowledge; it is very insightful! I noticed you did not use Executioner on the final round. Was there a reason for this?

Cool 😎 Yo bro, you can replay on normal speed then just speed it on 2x times on video redactor And could you please, turn off the "shakes" Thanks for replay, it's very helpful ❤

Did you left corrodius alive here?

Great job man!

Impressive!! 😮

you're great. keep up the content. I shared with my guild

I had a big pause before the second wave of Harlequins emerged because I was trying to figure out a way for Tan to no die. I put him in conqueror mode to prevent him from spawning a Skitarius, which would have prompted the emerging Harlequins to use their actives on the two clumped-up targets and almost certainly killed Tan. Burchard was sent forward as a sacrifice to keep some of the heat off of Tan as well. Vindicta could have been stone 1 and done her job here as long as she had a good crit item equipped, and her killing so many Harlequins with splash damage was enough to win me the battle. When there are 4 Skitarii out on the battlefield at the start of my turn, I like to attack with Tan but heal one of the Skitarii if possible, as an extra attack with Tan does not give me extra Skitarii and I'd rather have my meat shields as healthy as possible.

The bait tactic used at the start here will only work with spore mines that are strong enough to not be killed by Szarekh's ranged attack

Nice commentary, nice Video. Deserves more likes. Hope SP is going to push you in the future.

Ok, that was tedious but it worked! Thanks

appreciate this man

Hey man! Was this pre- or post- Mortarion AI changes?

Question for you on the mechanics here, I just tried this and my actus trigger attack didn't kill the thrid rubric marine. He then copied my actus across the map messing up the setup for the run. Is the trigger for that linked to the number of adds he has on grid?

Fantastic video dude thank you! This one has honestly been a gigantic pain to work through. Their doesn't seem to be a lot of videos that deep dive mechanics and movements. Great info.

Just thought I would add a couple of extra things here because there's always stuff I forget: It wasn't the case in this replay, but you can find yourself in situations where you have many Scarab swarms crowding around Magnus. I mentioned that they can be a false friend, in that when they are hit by Tzeentch's Firestorm they are liable to allow Magnus to move unless you also place a character in the area. Of course, summons move before characters, so you may find yourself screened out from being able to move a character to a blocking position by your own, overly-numerous Scarab swarms. Beware of this and try to pre-empt it by moving characters before they are stopped from going where you want them to. Also, for some reason I had a brainfart and couldn't remember that when I was talking about the potential of the Scarab swarm moving to high ground and blocking Rho, the hex directly North of the Terminator is not adjacent to it due to there being a cliff between them. With regards to scarabs targeting Terminators in preference to Magnus, this only seems to happen when Magnus is at low health and the Terminator is uninjured, but you'll be surprised at how frequent and annoying this is.

How did nobody get pushed back on T3?

Cheers Unapp - your thinking process is always useful - appreciate the time you put into explaining your rationale

Unfortunately not guaranteed repeatable - the opening positioning of the Chaos was different to the replay - Falx

Thank you for creating this video. I was able to clear Gamma 14 with the same characters by following your advice. It took forever as you patiently demonstrated! One point I would mention is that I needed to swap Bellator and Burchard's positions in the turtle, so the latter could benefit from the long grass. I'm not sure if you mention this in the video as I didn't watch it all but flying units do not qualify for the hit reduction.

When you're using Sho'syl, getting Sniper drones out ASAP and keeping them alive is vital to LRE success. Having 3 summons that can each kill an enemy per turn is invaluable, but their fragility means you have to go to great lengths to protect them. Chaos Guardsmen, with their high damage, are particularly annoying as they are easily able to overcome the drones' low armour stat and kill them in one shot. The more drones you lose, the more enemies survive from spawning, the more they press you and the harder it is to build up your drone swarm again. Take care of them, and they'll take care of you.

Fantastic hit!!

Won't pretend I had much of a clue of what I was doing here, but it's something to build on.

I appreciate you doing this and I love the play by play and color alongside the replay. You and Caoryn are the only two Tacticus CCs that routinely do this and there's a lot to learn from it. I was able to just battle ball turtle this with D2 Isabella/Ragnar and D1 Bellator/Burchard. I also brought D1 Thad but he didn't last long. I used the bottom left side of the map but I imagine either side would work. The harlequins are super annoying.

Thanks for the tips and putting yourself through this torture for our viewing pleasure 😆

!LONG VIDEO ALERT - READ ME! Only took me 5 seconds of video to make a mistake; it's the gamma track! I run out of useful, highly relevant things to say about this particular LRE track at around the 17 minute mark (if I ever started in the first place), so feel free to leave the video there unless you want to hear me ramble about more general LRE stuff whilst playing the most boring battle in Tacticus history.

Slight optimisation of my previous method, manipulating spawn locations of Skitarii to prevent any from dying to the Tank's Pound Them to Dust ability. With the positioning of the characters used in the first round, this strategy would not be possible if Actus were to be suppressed by the mortar team, so in future I will place him one hex to the NW of where I did. I also missed out on up to 12k damage by forgetting to use Actus' active whilst Rho still had his online, so I reckon with a maxed team I might just be able to scrape 700k damage here.

This has been hard for me to duplicate. My guys are getting suppressed.

Doubt this is the optimal way to tackle this fight but it keeps Sho's drones from being killed, can't be screwed by RNG in the opening turn, should work the same regardless of which side the boss spawns on and allows me to put my garbage Galatian to some use, so I'm okay with it. If my Galatian didn't suck so hard, I'd drop him next to Tan to activate him twice per turn for better damage than a Skitarius can put out.

Seamless. This must take incredible foresight to constantly have exitor in place at the beginning of each round to take advantage of the summons. Nice one doesnt really cover it.

Well done!

Thank you!