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With Patch 1.1 this has been changed and now Leadership only provides the movement speed in a way that the tooltip suggests. Meaning with Leadership 85 you are now actually 60% faster and not reducing traveling time by 60%. For very low leadership it will now take slightly longer to travel, between 20-50 Leadership barely anything changes. Beyond that the impact gets bigger. 100 leadership will now take more than twice as long than before.
I naturally went for 85 IMP leadership when i noticed that there are no alternatives aside from Raider. I was swimming in cash the whole game and was actually taking last cities when the first mine started running out. Now i know exactly why - thanks!
Didn't take me long to notice Raider was the most important merc in the game. Btw, one of the best uses of Raider is actually training leadership on idle times, since not only is he the best trainer in the game, his leadership is at a ridiculous level (compared to his other above average values that most trainees reach pretty early) and can easily bring the initially weak, but smart 90+ wis team up to speed, who can then start spreading the love around
Yeah, definitely. I am doing training sessions on MD to fully utilize him. Fox is still in my main team though, so...maybe she can learn when they dont have anything better to do. With Fox in the Team Buns is out unfortunately. And with Raider in the Team Hitman is also out. ^^
Ive been doing fourier analysis the last couple of days for an exam, and your introduction of "careful, there is complicated math here" led to a a/(b+c)*2.... wow...
And you didn't even go into detail about using LDR to level up your squad which can be ludicrously strong (if given the right teacher). Some testing I did: Teaching leadership with a character that had 98 Leadership (this simplifies it, because it usually takes into account both LDR and the stat you want to teach). For students, 20 points of wisdom equated to about 60% more learning with all else being the same. The distribution is pretty much a rational function, though the rounding errors make it impossible to pin down. Most crucial: Even at an extremely high level, a high WSD student will learn 8 points. This means that a perfect teacher can get a perfect student from 0 to 91 in 7 steps (14 days). Since there is no limit on the amount of students, this also means that a good IMP character that has been fed magazines can take a bunch of recruits from ~70 in AGI/DEX/MMS to 91 in 4 steps each.
Ah, I didnt test with that. Well, just to increase leadership to values for militia testing. So even after 80, that's 8 points per 48 hours? That's quite a lot. But on the other hand 4 Steps, or 8 days is still a long time which you pay your squad for just the training.
@@KordanorsGamingLair For example, Barry who was sitting at 99 wisdom (found a lot of mines) and starting with 30 leadership at my final save before the final battle. He went 30 -> 46 -> 58 -> 68 -> 77 -> 85 -> 91 (learning cap). The other extreme for me was Mouse (75 wisdom) who went 12 -> 28 -> 38 -> 46 -> 53 -> 59 -> 64 -> 69 -> 74 -> 78 -> 82 -> 86 -> 90 which is admittedly less impressive. As for the money, it pays of in the long run if you do it right. Think of a high wisdom/low cost squad (Barry, MD, Livewire, Buns) - they cost $30k for a 14-day stretch. If you train them to 91 Dex/Agi/Mms it will take 20 days (4 times agi because of MD, 2 times dex because of MD, 4 times mms because of Livewire). Now you suddenly have 4 mercs with the fighting stats of Ivan who TOGETHER cost less than him (side note: Their cost will go up, but not by that much - although I would have to run further tests how much it actually increases. Right now I believe that their level is the bigger issue than their skills, but I might be wrong here and it's hard to test.) which saves you money in the long run. Obviously, there are some caveats - for one, your IMP merc starts with 85, so they're not quite ready for that strategy out of the gate, yet it's certainly something that is most useful if done after you capture your first mine. On the other hand, later in the game it gets even more efficient because you can train so many mercs at the same time. To be honest, I did play with the infinite mines mod, so I can't reliably state how big an issue money would be, but when you control diamond couriers, you can control the economy quite a bit.
@@DrZaius3141 Yeah, but you would also need to get to a point where you can afford that first. I am playing on MI which also comes with less starting money and without getting 2 mines running, you would run out of money if you spent that much time training. Once that is going you might be fine to do so. But then again I feel like in 20-30 days I can probably conquer half the world already. ^^ Ofc it also comes down to playstyle.
@@KordanorsGamingLair 30k for 14 days is a bit over 2k per day, so it's really not that bad and certainly not 2-mine-territory. As for the game time, it's again an investment - you put in 20 days early on (which can be as little as 5 real-life minutes, which is also crucial for some) and in turn you have a much easier time at fighting meaning fewer wounds. So when it comes to real time, it should save you quite a bit, with in-game time you're probably right that those saved wounds won't add up to 20 days. To me, it makes the game less annoying when your mercs can actually hit stuff and not just function as utility bots.
@@KordanorsGamingLair I train up "unemployed" mercs when militia are being trained. If you don't have to heal or repair, you have 4 mercs with nothing to do. However, I do have a slow play style.
Good to know! It would be amazing to get your insights when the game is inevitably patched and rebalanced. I hope JA3 holds your attention for that long. :)
@@KordanorsGamingLair I see you say in another video that you could update sticky posts going forward instead, which is a great idea too! Really enjoying the content, thank you!
My Dirty Dozen consist of two teams, one is led by Raider and the other one by my I.M.P merc who started with 85 and is now at over 90 leadership. I did not know about the travel speed, but i smelled something is important about leadership. Glad it worked out for me xd Money was never an issue in my game on commando difficulty ;)
Nice! Yeah, you basically rob yourself of ever having a second party I guess by not having a high leadership IMP. Unless ofc you invest the time to train another character (which ofc also locks in the trainer for a while).
I can tell you, on "Mission Impossible" by a 100% walkthrough YOU NEED to calculate the costs for Milita + you need the travel speed. If you dont do it, you have to be very fast otherwise you will run out of Money in lategame - which will result in just having one full squad. You wont be able to support two.
Yeah, lots of different factors playing together here. Also like how often you rest, heal and repair...thats all "wasted" time which can accumulate quickly. But not using full traveling speed is basically making it twice as bad.
This is super useful info! And since I don't want to recruit Raider (annoying voice and personality), it means I need a high wisdom and leadership IMP merc.
Oh man yes! I also look at it in RP aspect of the game. You are the fixer between client and Mercs so high Leadership fits that role IMO, and (I could be wrong) LOL
@@cameronsabin8950 Kinda, but actually the IMP test also tells you, that you can have a friend or your wife fill out the test or something like that ^^
@@KordanorsGamingLair For the record my I.M.P. custom always comes with Mechanical, Explosives and Medical at ZERO (since these are the roles covered by my specialized hires) and everything else except STR at 85. It never failed me since JA2.
Yep, 85 Leadership IMP when I saw no one had decent leadership, also added training. With the time saved from training ops and traveling, money is a minor issue.
Yeah, I initially didnt take high leadership as I was like "I dont want to have my IMP to stay behind training" but yeah...would have needed that in the field. But well...now I got Raider ^^
Thank you! Please note that (as mentioned in the sticky note) the Travelling speed had been adjusted after the video. So thats now doing as expected and no longer like in this video (I also made a video about the 1.1.0 Changes)
@@KordanorsGamingLair Thank you. I did read that comment and am aware of the change in V1.1.x. I watched your other video about the patch well, and really liked your work. Keep up the good work.
If MD can get that high leadership by being trained by Raider, I wonder how much Buns can get. The teacher trait also stacks, so using both MD and Buns, with them trained can be really great. Get your IMP to train them, so that your IMP can take your main squad around the map.
Yeah, you can just add the values together essentially. As its just doubling it, it means that basically Buns+MD are as good as 4 other people with the same leadership value without the trait.
Also it's great to have this job for MD once you have Inspiring Strike and such taking care of morale, so his trait is no longer useful. Because I like the guy.... he just needs some confidence in his abilities. :D
Thank you! I also put quite some effort into my Reviews though. Like this one (Phoenix Point): ua-cam.com/video/DpKB5kJS-DY/v-deo.html Issue is just that I usually wait till I finish the game, which is past the time people are really interested to watch these ^^
This video is an eye-opener for me. I didn't know that with high leadership, a squad could travel that fast. So, if I want a decent travel speed, I should pick leadership at least multiplied by 25, starting from 50 ? (50 or 75 and not 48 or 66 for example ?).
The Traveling speed and the gains you get from that are actually kinda exponentially and snowballing. So the more you have, the better. Personally I would not take anything for the main group below the 85 Leadership of the main character - or hire Raider. The thing is, that tons of things also scale with time. Like, with more leadership, you can basically play without mines, as you are going from sector to sector so quickly, you can basically survive via hacking and diamond shipments. If you don't rest, repair, heal often, combined with high speed, you can also avoid high merc costs, because they will only ask for more money after certain time thresholds. So my characters at the moment which already got 4-5 Level ups didnt ask for a single wage increase yet. However, you can also argue that you have enough money anyways. Secondly, it's not unlikely that this will be patched with the "big patch" mid August, so I wouldn't rely on focus the whole playstyle on it.
Great video!! Grunty's twin LOL Still laughing at That! I did notice the movement thing on my second try but couldn't for the life of me figure out how?
Piggybacking off what you mentioned at the end about being "forced" to take Raider; the game sorely needs more mercs so you can have more options in creating your squads. I feel like there are far too many "soldier/sniper" options, and not enough specialists (mechanic/explosives/medic). Add to that merc relationships, dislikes, and flat out refusals to join your team, playthroughs can feel quite constricted as far as your choices go. I recently started a playthrough trying to use mercs I didn't use on my last game just for variety, and I literally limped through the first half just because I didn't take optimal choices. Still fun, but the way the game is set up now, there aren't many good options for game start. Basically means if you aren't taking Livewire, Barry, and MD at game start, you're more or less giving yourself problems on purpose.
Well, there are alternatives, but basically...ONE alternative which isn't as optimal. You don't need MD at all, medicine is the least of the problems. If you don't take Barry you need to take Red though, and if you don't take Livewire you basically need to take Steroid... or you need to create an IMP with these strengths. The issue is, that JA3 barely meets the critical mass of mercs to make it work. With its amount "it just works", but it doesnt leave you much choices like JA1/2 did. I mean think of Smoke or Kaboom or Skitz as explosive experts ^^
Ah, one more thing: I brought the leadership issue up in a dev stream and they said they are going to look into. I do expect a change mid August, maybe a bit later.
@@KordanorsGamingLair Agreed generally, and you definitely get the point. Still, MD is so cheap and has so much potential because of his WIS, its kinda like "why not?" In JA2 you had so many other options, I can remember Gasket being a popular choice for a cheap starter mechanic, and for a bit more investment Danny as day 1 medic with outstanding potential. We just need more choices.
you put your leaderschip at 85 and hire for 1 week, raider, if you get the first part of the eiland, let him train your leadership to 91.. take his gear and then kick him out of the team...
Yeah, there are multiple ways to make use of it. Due to the lack of time pressure in JA3 you can heavily abuse training operations. If you really want to.
Great breakdown on leadership and training militia! But any thoughts on how it works for training other mercs, and how does the teaching perk effect it?
Yes, its very similar there. But I am already working on a video on Training, Experience Points, Field Experience and whatnot. Hopefully ready during the next week :)
Yeah...also have to have Raider now...and Livewire...I will only train Barry with Livewire now and then will probably get rid of her again in case she demands more money to endure it ^^
Haha, I wanted to represent a length of what I described and thought "lets just show that distance on a map"...well...that didnt quite turn out as initially planned :D
Well, Math rules the Universe so why not a sim of tactical combat! AaHh, wait the multiverse also. OK down the rabbit hole not a blackhole that would be dangerous!
@@crewex-br4cyDanke dir! Sei dir nur darüber bewusst, dass die Reisegeschwindigkeit mit 1.1 angepasst wurde (siehe Sticky Post). Also nicht mehr ganz so imba ^^
@@KordanorsGamingSessions Ja, danke. Habe ich schon in deinem angepinntem Konmentar gelesen. Ich denke für den Start ist es am besten, wenn man sich seinen eigenen Söldner zusammenstellt und diesen, dann auf jeden Fall mit 85 leadership. So kann man auf den ziemlich teuren Raider verzichten.
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That’s crazy good info. My IMP character has 85 leadership solely for training I didn’t realize it has such a large impact!
Thank you! Yeah...I wished I did that as well...but that means I got to play with Raider now ^^
@@KordanorsGamingLair Use Raider to teach your main character leadership.^^
It also helps train other mercenerys faster
🤣 Your accent fits perfectly with JA, I feel like I'm still in the game! I find it easier to comprehend as a non-native English speaker.
Haha, well, as long as it helps and doesn't bother I am fine with that ^^
With Patch 1.1 this has been changed and now Leadership only provides the movement speed in a way that the tooltip suggests. Meaning with Leadership 85 you are now actually 60% faster and not reducing traveling time by 60%. For very low leadership it will now take slightly longer to travel, between 20-50 Leadership barely anything changes. Beyond that the impact gets bigger. 100 leadership will now take more than twice as long than before.
I naturally went for 85 IMP leadership when i noticed that there are no alternatives aside from Raider. I was swimming in cash the whole game and was actually taking last cities when the first mine started running out. Now i know exactly why - thanks!
Ah, also interesting to hear from it the other way around. ^^
Didn't take me long to notice Raider was the most important merc in the game. Btw, one of the best uses of Raider is actually training leadership on idle times, since not only is he the best trainer in the game, his leadership is at a ridiculous level (compared to his other above average values that most trainees reach pretty early) and can easily bring the initially weak, but smart 90+ wis team up to speed, who can then start spreading the love around
Yeah, definitely. I am doing training sessions on MD to fully utilize him. Fox is still in my main team though, so...maybe she can learn when they dont have anything better to do. With Fox in the Team Buns is out unfortunately. And with Raider in the Team Hitman is also out. ^^
LOVE the detailed breakdown digging into the mechanics. Awesome and thank you.
Thank you! Hope it helped! :)
Ive been doing fourier analysis the last couple of days for an exam,
and your introduction of "careful, there is complicated math here" led to a a/(b+c)*2.... wow...
Haha, well, I wanted to avoid that people just give up prematurely :P
And you didn't even go into detail about using LDR to level up your squad which can be ludicrously strong (if given the right teacher).
Some testing I did: Teaching leadership with a character that had 98 Leadership (this simplifies it, because it usually takes into account both LDR and the stat you want to teach).
For students, 20 points of wisdom equated to about 60% more learning with all else being the same.
The distribution is pretty much a rational function, though the rounding errors make it impossible to pin down.
Most crucial: Even at an extremely high level, a high WSD student will learn 8 points. This means that a perfect teacher can get a perfect student from 0 to 91 in 7 steps (14 days). Since there is no limit on the amount of students, this also means that a good IMP character that has been fed magazines can take a bunch of recruits from ~70 in AGI/DEX/MMS to 91 in 4 steps each.
Ah, I didnt test with that. Well, just to increase leadership to values for militia testing. So even after 80, that's 8 points per 48 hours? That's quite a lot. But on the other hand 4 Steps, or 8 days is still a long time which you pay your squad for just the training.
@@KordanorsGamingLair For example, Barry who was sitting at 99 wisdom (found a lot of mines) and starting with 30 leadership at my final save before the final battle. He went 30 -> 46 -> 58 -> 68 -> 77 -> 85 -> 91 (learning cap).
The other extreme for me was Mouse (75 wisdom) who went 12 -> 28 -> 38 -> 46 -> 53 -> 59 -> 64 -> 69 -> 74 -> 78 -> 82 -> 86 -> 90 which is admittedly less impressive.
As for the money, it pays of in the long run if you do it right. Think of a high wisdom/low cost squad (Barry, MD, Livewire, Buns) - they cost $30k for a 14-day stretch. If you train them to 91 Dex/Agi/Mms it will take 20 days (4 times agi because of MD, 2 times dex because of MD, 4 times mms because of Livewire). Now you suddenly have 4 mercs with the fighting stats of Ivan who TOGETHER cost less than him (side note: Their cost will go up, but not by that much - although I would have to run further tests how much it actually increases. Right now I believe that their level is the bigger issue than their skills, but I might be wrong here and it's hard to test.) which saves you money in the long run. Obviously, there are some caveats - for one, your IMP merc starts with 85, so they're not quite ready for that strategy out of the gate, yet it's certainly something that is most useful if done after you capture your first mine. On the other hand, later in the game it gets even more efficient because you can train so many mercs at the same time.
To be honest, I did play with the infinite mines mod, so I can't reliably state how big an issue money would be, but when you control diamond couriers, you can control the economy quite a bit.
@@DrZaius3141 Yeah, but you would also need to get to a point where you can afford that first. I am playing on MI which also comes with less starting money and without getting 2 mines running, you would run out of money if you spent that much time training. Once that is going you might be fine to do so. But then again I feel like in 20-30 days I can probably conquer half the world already. ^^
Ofc it also comes down to playstyle.
@@KordanorsGamingLair 30k for 14 days is a bit over 2k per day, so it's really not that bad and certainly not 2-mine-territory. As for the game time, it's again an investment - you put in 20 days early on (which can be as little as 5 real-life minutes, which is also crucial for some) and in turn you have a much easier time at fighting meaning fewer wounds. So when it comes to real time, it should save you quite a bit, with in-game time you're probably right that those saved wounds won't add up to 20 days. To me, it makes the game less annoying when your mercs can actually hit stuff and not just function as utility bots.
@@KordanorsGamingLair I train up "unemployed" mercs when militia are being trained. If you don't have to heal or repair, you have 4 mercs with nothing to do. However, I do have a slow play style.
I knew that Raider was putting in work in my playthrough but damn, a team with him and Fox is crazy.
Absolutely!
Well explained, excellent content!
Thank you! Much appreciated! :)
I wish they added a few more mercs to start with. Especially for leadership only sensible choice is Raider.
Yeah, though the Patch 1.1 nerfed the travelling speed (see sticky post). So it's not as overpowered anymore ^^
Super helpful tests and info 💚
Thank you! Glad it helped! :)
Good to know! It would be amazing to get your insights when the game is inevitably patched and rebalanced. I hope JA3 holds your attention for that long. :)
Haha, we'll see. Looking forward to the next patch. But it also needs to be like "talkworthy" as I don't just want to read the patchnotes :D
@@KordanorsGamingLair I see you say in another video that you could update sticky posts going forward instead, which is a great idea too! Really enjoying the content, thank you!
My Dirty Dozen consist of two teams, one is led by Raider and the other one by my I.M.P merc who started with 85 and is now at over 90 leadership. I did not know about the travel speed, but i smelled something is important about leadership. Glad it worked out for me xd Money was never an issue in my game on commando difficulty ;)
Nice! Yeah, you basically rob yourself of ever having a second party I guess by not having a high leadership IMP. Unless ofc you invest the time to train another character (which ofc also locks in the trainer for a while).
Outstanding! This is good to know! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! Glad it helps! :)
I can tell you, on "Mission Impossible" by a 100% walkthrough YOU NEED to calculate the costs for Milita + you need the travel speed. If you dont do it, you have to be very fast otherwise you will run out of Money in lategame - which will result in just having one full squad. You wont be able to support two.
Yeah, lots of different factors playing together here. Also like how often you rest, heal and repair...thats all "wasted" time which can accumulate quickly. But not using full traveling speed is basically making it twice as bad.
That travel time reduction is insane.
Yep, it is. A bit too insane ^^
Amazing analysis! Very helpful.
Thank you! :)
Really appreciate such detailed analysis
Thanks a lot! :)
This is super useful info! And since I don't want to recruit Raider (annoying voice and personality), it means I need a high wisdom and leadership IMP merc.
Yep, definitely go for a high leadership IMP then! Its too powerful to not use it.
I guess that's why I wasn't struggling with money as much as other people lamented. My custom merc always comes with 85 Leadership.
Yeah, I mean it's probably not "just" that. But you probably need to compensate with maximizing other stuff if you are playing with less.
Oh man yes! I also look at it in RP aspect of the game. You are the fixer between client and Mercs so high Leadership fits that role IMO, and (I could be wrong) LOL
@@cameronsabin8950 Kinda, but actually the IMP test also tells you, that you can have a friend or your wife fill out the test or something like that ^^
@@KordanorsGamingLair For the record my I.M.P. custom always comes with Mechanical, Explosives and Medical at ZERO (since these are the roles covered by my specialized hires) and everything else except STR at 85. It never failed me since JA2.
@@KordanorsGamingLair LOL, those I.M.P. Bas***s! Letting someone else fill out the forms. Most likely in triplite.
What hex-based game is shown at ca. 06:18?
Oh, for that I just used a Civilization 6 map. ^^
And assets from Jagged Alliance 2
Great video. Thank you
Thanks for checking by! :)
Yep, 85 Leadership IMP when I saw no one had decent leadership, also added training. With the time saved from training ops and traveling, money is a minor issue.
Yeah, I initially didnt take high leadership as I was like "I dont want to have my IMP to stay behind training" but yeah...would have needed that in the field. But well...now I got Raider ^^
Great Video.
Thank you! Please note that (as mentioned in the sticky note) the Travelling speed had been adjusted after the video. So thats now doing as expected and no longer like in this video (I also made a video about the 1.1.0 Changes)
@@KordanorsGamingLair Thank you. I did read that comment and am aware of the change in V1.1.x. I watched your other video about the patch well, and really liked your work. Keep up the good work.
If MD can get that high leadership by being trained by Raider, I wonder how much Buns can get. The teacher trait also stacks, so using both MD and Buns, with them trained can be really great. Get your IMP to train them, so that your IMP can take your main squad around the map.
Yeah, you can just add the values together essentially. As its just doubling it, it means that basically Buns+MD are as good as 4 other people with the same leadership value without the trait.
Also it's great to have this job for MD once you have Inspiring Strike and such taking care of morale, so his trait is no longer useful.
Because I like the guy.... he just needs some confidence in his abilities. :D
Great work for such a small YT Channel! Props for that
Thank you! I also put quite some effort into my Reviews though. Like this one (Phoenix Point): ua-cam.com/video/DpKB5kJS-DY/v-deo.html
Issue is just that I usually wait till I finish the game, which is past the time people are really interested to watch these ^^
Very good info!
Thanks a lot! :)
Thanks. Very helpful and great presentation!
Thanks a lot! :)
This video is an eye-opener for me. I didn't know that with high leadership, a squad could travel that fast. So, if I want a decent travel speed, I should pick leadership at least multiplied by 25, starting from 50 ? (50 or 75 and not 48 or 66 for example ?).
The Traveling speed and the gains you get from that are actually kinda exponentially and snowballing. So the more you have, the better. Personally I would not take anything for the main group below the 85 Leadership of the main character - or hire Raider. The thing is, that tons of things also scale with time. Like, with more leadership, you can basically play without mines, as you are going from sector to sector so quickly, you can basically survive via hacking and diamond shipments. If you don't rest, repair, heal often, combined with high speed, you can also avoid high merc costs, because they will only ask for more money after certain time thresholds. So my characters at the moment which already got 4-5 Level ups didnt ask for a single wage increase yet.
However, you can also argue that you have enough money anyways. Secondly, it's not unlikely that this will be patched with the "big patch" mid August, so I wouldn't rely on focus the whole playstyle on it.
Great video!! Grunty's twin LOL Still laughing at That! I did notice the movement thing on my second try but couldn't for the life of me figure out how?
Thank you! :P
Great work!
Hiring Fox to train militia is a waste of money TBH =)))
Thank you! Yeah, ofc also Fox also makes a great merc on the field with her powerful talent...and she is a funny character as well ^^
That outro though.
Haha, had a lot of fun with that one :D
@@KordanorsGamingLair It's killing me bro 😂
Great work!! Thanx
Thanks a lot! :)
Piggybacking off what you mentioned at the end about being "forced" to take Raider; the game sorely needs more mercs so you can have more options in creating your squads. I feel like there are far too many "soldier/sniper" options, and not enough specialists (mechanic/explosives/medic). Add to that merc relationships, dislikes, and flat out refusals to join your team, playthroughs can feel quite constricted as far as your choices go. I recently started a playthrough trying to use mercs I didn't use on my last game just for variety, and I literally limped through the first half just because I didn't take optimal choices. Still fun, but the way the game is set up now, there aren't many good options for game start. Basically means if you aren't taking Livewire, Barry, and MD at game start, you're more or less giving yourself problems on purpose.
Well, there are alternatives, but basically...ONE alternative which isn't as optimal. You don't need MD at all, medicine is the least of the problems. If you don't take Barry you need to take Red though, and if you don't take Livewire you basically need to take Steroid... or you need to create an IMP with these strengths. The issue is, that JA3 barely meets the critical mass of mercs to make it work. With its amount "it just works", but it doesnt leave you much choices like JA1/2 did. I mean think of Smoke or Kaboom or Skitz as explosive experts ^^
Ah, one more thing: I brought the leadership issue up in a dev stream and they said they are going to look into. I do expect a change mid August, maybe a bit later.
@@KordanorsGamingLair Agreed generally, and you definitely get the point. Still, MD is so cheap and has so much potential because of his WIS, its kinda like "why not?" In JA2 you had so many other options, I can remember Gasket being a popular choice for a cheap starter mechanic, and for a bit more investment Danny as day 1 medic with outstanding potential. We just need more choices.
you put your leaderschip at 85 and hire for 1 week, raider, if you get the first part of the eiland, let him train your leadership to 91.. take his gear and then kick him out of the team...
Yeah, there are multiple ways to make use of it.
Due to the lack of time pressure in JA3 you can heavily abuse training operations. If you really want to.
Great breakdown on leadership and training militia! But any thoughts on how it works for training other mercs, and how does the teaching perk effect it?
Yes, its very similar there. But I am already working on a video on Training, Experience Points, Field Experience and whatnot. Hopefully ready during the next week :)
@@KordanorsGamingLair Well, I guess I'd better subscribe then! Looking forward to it
@@RS43210 Thank you ^^
Thenks for the info!
You're welcome! :)
wow bro! That's a fucking good job u just made. Awesome info!
Thank you! :)
I had Raider (and Raven to keep him happy) just for fast travel... only to realise Livewire hates them lol
Yeah...also have to have Raider now...and Livewire...I will only train Barry with Livewire now and then will probably get rid of her again in case she demands more money to endure it ^^
The civilization map lol
Haha, I wanted to represent a length of what I described and thought "lets just show that distance on a map"...well...that didnt quite turn out as initially planned :D
@@KordanorsGamingLair no worries, I actually understand completely what u mean in the video🤣
I have no idea what's going on. Should I put high leadership on all my mercs?
Haha, nono. Just rewatch the video then. 1 Char with high leadership in your active party is kinda mandatory, but also totally enough. ^^
@@KordanorsGamingLair Oh okay. I'll just do this, because mathematics, mate...
How to recruit the major do i need leadership above 95 influence check?
Sorry, have no info on that. Maybe someone else can answer
I feel a bit stupid since I didn't noticed that I watched your English and German videos without noticing it first 😂😂😂
Haha! Hopefully you still learnt something new the second time around :D
Leave it to a German to engineer out the formula. Thank you good sir!
Haha, you're welcome! :)
You stole my comment. That fabled Teutonic engineering has revealed itself! ;-)
Math! How to kill more effectively
More like not getting poor while doing so ^^
Well, Math rules the Universe so why not a sim of tactical combat! AaHh, wait the multiverse also. OK down the rabbit hole not a blackhole that would be dangerous!
Thank you. So this is why I lost my first campaign.
Thank you! At least you know why now. But I also kinda hope that the difference is being adjusted. It's just too extreme.
der deutscheste Akzent, den ich je gehört habe 🙂
...sagen immer nur Deutsche :P
Das Video auf Deutsch gibts übrigens auch auf meinem Deutschen Kanal "Kordanors Reviews"
@@KordanorsGamingLair aber sehr gutes Video, muss ich sagen
@@crewex-br4cyDanke dir! Sei dir nur darüber bewusst, dass die Reisegeschwindigkeit mit 1.1 angepasst wurde (siehe Sticky Post). Also nicht mehr ganz so imba ^^
@@KordanorsGamingSessions Ja, danke. Habe ich schon in deinem angepinntem Konmentar gelesen.
Ich denke für den Start ist es am besten, wenn man sich seinen eigenen Söldner zusammenstellt und diesen, dann auf jeden Fall mit 85 leadership. So kann man auf den ziemlich teuren Raider verzichten.
.. dont waste high leadership on militia.. Use it to train your imp char , who has high wisdom.. during that time, use other mercs
That's also an option. Personally I will now just go with Raider instead for my current run as the "leader" of the active party.
I used to have 6mil $man bed sheets 😂
Haha, good times :D
More math!
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hat icecream truck looks familiar....JA2?
Yeah, thought, what better car models could I use than these from JA2 :D
@@KordanorsGamingLair Good ol Hamous was hoping he would be in Jagged alliance 3 as our driver...
@@gespenjaeger2370 Hopefully he will still be added via DLC :D
Thank you for sharing this valuable info, very helpful in the game. ❤️🫰🏻
Thanks! Glad it helps! :)