#XCOM LONG WAR CLASSES MOD#

You still want to keep an eye on missions in high-strength areas as there will likely be troop-convoys going there to increase itвЂ™s strength hitting those will both decrease the strength and give you some nice materiel to use for research.

You can use the overview to see the Advent strength in as region As vigilance ramps up and the strength of the forces increases you move onto another area. This is another good reason to expand quickly you ideally want to be doing missions in areas where the strength is low. Under the hood, thereвЂ™s another score called вЂњVigilanceвЂќ which represents how much attention a region has from Advent.Дo a lot of missions in an area and the vigilance will spike and Advent will start moving forces to the area over the next few days / weeks increasing the strength score. Advent has a limited number of forces and will move these forces around the globe in response to XCOM. Advent StrengthД®very region has a strength score, which represents both how strong and how advanced the forces are in the area. You can boost infiltration by spending Intel (the resource) as well and there are various bits of equipment and technology that will help. So with a few exceptions, putting your guys on Intel duty in a region is a good way to go.ДЇinding the missions early and over-infiltrating (where you can) is key.

You can increase the odds more by using more experienced rebels, stationing a scientist in the region or scanning with your ship but the core chance is determined by the numbers. Getting the missions spotted early is the key and that is directly down to how many rebels in the territory you have on вЂњIntelвЂќ.ДЇor every tick of time that passes, you get a chance to find each mission that is in a region for each rebel on the Intel task. Conversely, if you infiltrate for longer youвЂ™ll get weaker aliens and an easier mission. The quoted strength of Advent for that mission assumes you get infiltration to 100% if you donвЂ™t, the strength will go up sharply. This represents the team getting into position covertly before the strike. When you discover a mission you need to send a team to infiltrate it. You need manage the rebels working in each region to best advance your strategy, expand to new regions, destroy key facilities, liberate areas and eventually deal the aliens a knock-out punch. This is one of the coolest things about LW2 you really feel like the aliens have their own agenda which you can (try to) disrupt during the course of the game. So remember, you canвЂ™t win every mission.

If you sat there and passed time, all these things would happily go on under the hood until you eventually lost the game and got carted away to be turned into Advent burger. The important thing to remember is that Advent are running their campaign irrespective of what the player does missions are being generated throughout the world, troops are being moved around and the Avatar project is being researched. This where the meat of the changes occur, with the infiltration mechanics especially being a key to getting winnable missions. So hereвЂ™s a dump of all my hard-won experience it might help you survive a few months longerвЂ¦. There were loads of things IвЂ™d wish IвЂ™d known before I started that would either have made it easier or made some of the choices I was making clearer. Lots of failure and knuckle-biting near misses meant itвЂ™s taken me a while to win a campaign.

#XCOM LONG WAR CLASSES MOD#

All that experience didnвЂ™t make winning at Long War 2 (a semi-official full-conversion mod for the game) any easier though. I love XCOM 2 and have got pretty good at it over the years.

Xcom long war classes