An excellent vehicle to keep on your exploration ship is a chaos buggy. Now that you've done the last chaos mission, you can buy them for as cheap as 400 hexes. With spiked armor, they do massive damage to anything that runs up and hits it and they have enough ammo to last the battle while they go around activating troops. There's a lot of things you can do with them on defend missions. Oh, and they can't be poisoned or mind controlled.
@@HoosfoosMcCave I only use them for exploration ships and base defense because they take up 3 slots and 3 troops have a lot more killing power than 1 vehicle but you can decide what's best.
That one Siren with mind control messed the whole mission up for you. Very bad luck. You tried. AND, that mission wasn't a failure. If you learned anything from it that helps you plan in the future, call it a half success.
I definitely learned a quite a bit about mutoids and some amount about Priests, and I will also now be better prepared for sirens. Clearly a win. I mean, not for Fodder, but you can’t please all the people all the time. 🤪
It may have been a "weird" or odd episode to you, but it was thoroughly entertaining to me! I'm excited that my namesake leveled again while taking KeeperRL classes at Phoenix University. Truly looking forward to more episodes soon! No slacking, Commander McCave! The world needs you!
@@HoosfoosMcCave You're very welcome, good sir! And thank you for introducing me to Phoenix Point! I picked up the Complete Edition on Steam when it was on sale last week for the Turn-Based Games Sale. :D I am playing on Hero and having a ball!
@JustEdHarris Totally awesome. If you are not too far in, consider installing the Terror From The Void mod. It will require a restart, but it is apparently so good that the devs of the game recommend it. I certainly wish I’d installed it before it was too late.
@@HoosfoosMcCave You can always make a Season 2! I'd watch and be tickled pink doing so! It would be interesting to hear your perspective on what's different and whether you enjoyed the changes or not from the seasoned player's angle. You can even make different story choices for a different ending and play on a higher difficulty. At least I think this game has multiple endings; it has multiple paths to victory I gather, at least. I plan on doing another playthrough where I side with Anu and their craziness. In my current playthrough I'm mostly siding with the other two factions and not getting involved in Anu. I even stole one of Anu's aircraft early on, but it's so easy to please everyone it didn't matter really. I hear the mod made aligning with factions more difficult to manage and juggle, which is how it should be in my most humble of opinions. Anyway, I could talk your ear off about this game. Be thankful you don't have a Discord server where I can run my mouth all hours of the day and night!
I’m glad you are having such a great time. I will eventually turn up a Discord server, because much of the reason I am producing content is to build a community. I’m holding off until a few things on the personal front settle down. Keep me posted about your progress in your PP play through.
A very brilliant idea when taking on the haven-defence mission. Unfortunately, the execution were a bit... unfortunate. It happens. Maybe it is too weak to start with a rookie Mutoid only? Yes, you have a bit too few aircraft. If the goal is to cover the globe I think at least two craft (for each continent) with appropriate numbers of good fighting troops is a goal to strive towards. How to afford all of that? Ten words: Trade, Trade, Trade, Trade, Trade, Trade, Trade, Trade, Rewards and Lootmissions. PS! daddykon seems to know his vehicles. He's probably played around with them a lot more than me. My general thought is that (good) soldiers is better for killing, vehicles better for not getting killed on the battlefield (you can hide inside them with the wounded) and driving around looking for stuff. Vehicles are not undestructable, but they do have a lot of HP. Much like a huge, dangerous pandoran enemy.
Those 10 words *do* feel spot-on to me. I have been trading at every opportunity, but I cut it out when editing. I do feel I continue to struggle to determine how to best spend resources. I always feel like I’m playing catch-up. Thinking about it, though, maybe that’s how the game *should* feel. I will definitely get on manufacturing another airship of some sort.
An excellent vehicle to keep on your exploration ship is a chaos buggy. Now that you've done the last chaos mission, you can buy them for as cheap as 400 hexes. With spiked armor, they do massive damage to anything that runs up and hits it and they have enough ammo to last the battle while they go around activating troops. There's a lot of things you can do with them on defend missions. Oh, and they can't be poisoned or mind controlled.
This sounds like a great suggestion. Now that we have two Technicians, I expect vehicles will become part of our normal rotation.
@@HoosfoosMcCave I only use them for exploration ships and base defense because they take up 3 slots and 3 troops have a lot more killing power than 1 vehicle but you can decide what's best.
That one Siren with mind control messed the whole mission up for you. Very bad luck. You tried. AND, that mission wasn't a failure. If you learned anything from it that helps you plan in the future, call it a half success.
I definitely learned a quite a bit about mutoids and some amount about Priests, and I will also now be better prepared for sirens. Clearly a win. I mean, not for Fodder, but you can’t please all the people all the time. 🤪
Good vid.
It may have been a "weird" or odd episode to you, but it was thoroughly entertaining to me! I'm excited that my namesake leveled again while taking KeeperRL classes at Phoenix University.
Truly looking forward to more episodes soon! No slacking, Commander McCave! The world needs you!
You are too kind, Ed. Thanks so much for watching and dropping in these great comments.
@@HoosfoosMcCave You're very welcome, good sir! And thank you for introducing me to Phoenix Point! I picked up the Complete Edition on Steam when it was on sale last week for the Turn-Based Games Sale. :D I am playing on Hero and having a ball!
@JustEdHarris Totally awesome. If you are not too far in, consider installing the Terror From The Void mod. It will require a restart, but it is apparently so good that the devs of the game recommend it. I certainly wish I’d installed it before it was too late.
@@HoosfoosMcCave You can always make a Season 2! I'd watch and be tickled pink doing so! It would be interesting to hear your perspective on what's different and whether you enjoyed the changes or not from the seasoned player's angle. You can even make different story choices for a different ending and play on a higher difficulty. At least I think this game has multiple endings; it has multiple paths to victory I gather, at least.
I plan on doing another playthrough where I side with Anu and their craziness. In my current playthrough I'm mostly siding with the other two factions and not getting involved in Anu. I even stole one of Anu's aircraft early on, but it's so easy to please everyone it didn't matter really. I hear the mod made aligning with factions more difficult to manage and juggle, which is how it should be in my most humble of opinions.
Anyway, I could talk your ear off about this game. Be thankful you don't have a Discord server where I can run my mouth all hours of the day and night!
I’m glad you are having such a great time. I will eventually turn up a Discord server, because much of the reason I am producing content is to build a community. I’m holding off until a few things on the personal front settle down.
Keep me posted about your progress in your PP play through.
A very brilliant idea when taking on the haven-defence mission. Unfortunately, the execution were a bit... unfortunate. It happens. Maybe it is too weak to start with a rookie Mutoid only?
Yes, you have a bit too few aircraft. If the goal is to cover the globe I think at least two craft (for each continent) with appropriate numbers of good fighting troops is a goal to strive towards. How to afford all of that? Ten words: Trade, Trade, Trade, Trade, Trade, Trade, Trade, Trade, Rewards and Lootmissions.
PS!
daddykon seems to know his vehicles. He's probably played around with them a lot more than me. My general thought is that (good) soldiers is better for killing, vehicles better for not getting killed on the battlefield (you can hide inside them with the wounded) and driving around looking for stuff. Vehicles are not undestructable, but they do have a lot of HP. Much like a huge, dangerous pandoran enemy.
Those 10 words *do* feel spot-on to me. I have been trading at every opportunity, but I cut it out when editing. I do feel I continue to struggle to determine how to best spend resources. I always feel like I’m playing catch-up. Thinking about it, though, maybe that’s how the game *should* feel.
I will definitely get on manufacturing another airship of some sort.