You also still get melee overwatch even when you sprint (go into red movement).Īs a general overall strategy you need to learn different positioning and its hard to write a guide on that. Your melee unit effectively just got two solid hits in and negated two of your target's AP that turn. During their turn they shoot your Frenzied, they get one shot, you melee overwatch, they lose their last action point. A simple example: Run up a Frenzied to a Trooper. They are now staggered and under melee overwatch, meaning when they act on their turn your unit will hit them again, and also stagger an action point off them. Run up to an enemy, hit them with a melee attack. Melee is a different beast from the usual play. Here is a copy and paste of a post I made on the official forum.

A lot of folks get it wrong because some intuitive things you'd do with ranged you do not do with melee. You might not be very good at playing melee though. I'm sure it helps a lot.Īs for the strength of Pustules. I do have the doctrine of increased chance to spawn/grow if a hero is present. I have been fighting to keep my energy positive because of the upkeep of all the free units, lol. This has been an especially prolific game, I have even lost some pustules: Here is a game I am playing that is on turn 26.

Getting a spawn and an upgrade is actually really good for a single battle but 8 units would be about right for pulling that off. The spawn is an escalating chance for every kill that resets when you get it (one roll per battle). I don't see how you could be having trouble tho. But the biochemical will help against the Quartzite monsters.Įnsuring you are spreading the plague is the key. You will still rely on firearms, melee and explosives. Lastly, Xenoplague gives Dvar a third damage channel. Even if the pustules don't spawn, the ability to stagger just about every land-bound unit early on should be used and abused. The parasite gives HP and immunity to negative morale and mind control, while the muscles give massive impact to melee units and parasitic infection which increases the likelihood of post-battle pustules. If you're not making use of them extensively then it's no wonder you're complaining. The Xenoplague mods are good, especially the early ones. Since they were free to begin with, use them like the expendable units they are and keep production of Dvar faction units up to keep the expansion pace on track. Pustules are weak and don't spawn often, but they take damage which your Dvar units should be taking. Dvar and Xenoplague is an unorthodox combination, so you'll have to work with what you have.

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