Bender's Guide I just finished the game on Heroic . Figured I'd make a quick guide since I enjoyed this game so much. Standard Playthrough: Main Tip: Level up your accuracy FIRST. You're base accuracy + the weapon modifier gives the total accuracy. As you attain better weapons that do more damage (which you will need), the weapon accuracy modifier is much, much lower. If you don't pump 10 - 15 points into accuracy, you won't be able to hit anything with your new fancy weapons. - You can spend some points on critical hit accuracy. - Don't spend ANY points on health. You die so fast later on that these points are negligible and wasted. - Once you have decent accuracy, focus on the first wargear slot and some of the more important abilities. Second Tip: Use your best marines. If you get a new tier 3 or 4 drop, put him in the squad ASAP. His starting stats are much higher, so he'll catch up quickly. Tier 2 marines will be obsolete by the end of the veteran campaign. Tier 3 and 4 marines will be needed for Heroic. Third Tip: Make a balanced squad and sell the rest of your gear/ marines for more packs. Use your best marines with the following guidelines: Tactical Marines: 2-3 Assault Marines: 0-2 Devastator marines: 1-2 (Needed to take down larger Monstrous Creatures) Apothecary: 0-1 - Every marine needs to have a role (anti infantry for most of them and then 1 - 2 anti monstrous creatures). - Plasma Cannons and Powerfists are your best friend for monstrous creatures, although they are hard to come by. Veteran Playthrough: Everything is tougher. Good wargear and high tier weapons/ marines are very important. You receive more credits for winning battles, so farming is more practical at this stage (I like Act One, Mission 4, but any of the defensive missions gain a lot of XP for your guys). If you want to farm packs, then go to missions where you can 1 shot a carnifex or hive tyrant to gain the extra coins (Ambush on Act 8 is the best for this, just run over to the hive Tyrant entrance point and pop him the turn he arrives). Additionally, you can get tier 4 weapon drops from completing missions. Every mission has a different Tier 4 drop (but the percentages are low), so you can replay missions to get the best gear. Tactical marines with tier 4 weapons can still bring down some of the biggest enemies, but this won't last on heroic (they'll mostly be crowd controlling the enemy Gaunts). Start working towards an Assault Marine with a tier 4 Powerfist, and/or one or two tier 2-4 Plasma Cannon devastators. Trust me, you'll need these guys on Heroic. I only had a tier 2 Plasma Cannon for a long time, but it got me through most of the game. Heroic Playthrough: Hopefully you have 3 - 5 tier 4 marines and some good gear to start. I strongly recommend 2 marines that can deal with larger enemies (i.e. Plasma Cannon devastators/ Tier 4 Powerfist AM's). You'll need all of your abilities and tons of wargear to make it through. (critical hit boosts/ guaranteed accuracy for your Plasma Cannons are important). Use your synergy from team buffs and good luck
Nice guide in the post above. I'm liking the new update. Have not seen any over watch bug so far on several rounds of Veteran 7.1 using a team of T4 UMs and SWs. Like the fast AI turn option. Thanks for the 5 free packs. Most fun I've had for a $5 game so far.
Anybody else having problems with their (t4) stimpacks, since the update? At times i just cant use it: it's greyed out as if i already used it (which ofc, i didnt...)
So I was grinding A7M3, hoping for the Medusa as per your info, no luck.. Then it just drops from a normal 3 pack! Woohoo! Only been playing for months.. Just need that UM T4 Assault & T4 litany of something now.. That's one nasty plasma pistol
I myself am still looking for the T4 UM dev, and then i *ONLY* need to farm the T4 UM plasma Ow and some sagas of ironwolf would be sweet as well... And yeah that medusa IS nasty... Need some advice: Have a Lone Wolf and i'm undecided which powerfist to use: the "generic" T4 Xenos Crusher, or the SW only T4 Frostskull's Strength. Which would be better? TiA for input!
I got a bunch of Medusas in packs over the months. Can't recall it ever dropping for me from the mission despite farming it hard!
One of my Lone Wolves uses the SW only power fist as I prefer the double chance to gain APs. The Xenos Crusher plus 20% damage if your marine takes damage isn't much use to me. I don't plan on getting damaged! And now that he has the Medusa, he saves the power fist for only the fattest of bugs At heroic levels, the to hit & to crit chances are negligible. And with other bonuses targeted at specific enemies, the 200% vs 300% crit is also not that important for me. The other Lone Wolf has the long range high crit bolter & Fenrisian Frost Axe for rapid movement and certain crit-kills. Although just dropped a third Lone Wolf yesterday.. What to do!
Yep, I farmed that mission for Saga too & no Medusa, was hoping it was a 'feature' of the new version. And now on to the last two drops... In the words of Ellen Ripley "Who do I have to f*** to get a IV Litany of Endurance & IV Ultramarine Assault Chap?"
As i recall health, crit and accuracy are all capped at 50. However, i highly doubt even your grandchildren will max them out)
Finally got a wolf guard! Now I just need a decent bolter to equip him with! I'd really like a tier 4 UM tactical or apothecary, but until then I'm using two T4 assaults, two T4 tacticals, and a T4 UM devastator.
Yeah you either want to get the T4 SW Flamer - Kraken's Breath or the T4 SW Bolter - Frostbite for maximum effect.
Meltagun sucks blood angel tier4sucks The stern guard&the apothecary are just wasted in heroic ,the tier 3 champion deals about 600-700damge yet still sucks compares to wolfguards almost1000 hit points plus less traits and abilities and an inferior ability of multiple shots
The flamer just dropped for me! Though I'm struggling to deploy it effectively. Still can't seem to find a decent bolter above tier 2. I'll try to make it work. Just starting act 9 on veteran Also: do the bonuses from passive traits and wargear stack? Ie: passive 15% melee dmg + melee purity seal = 30% melee damage? Is this even a good use of my wargear slots?
Afaik it does stack, but it's not +30% --> it's 100*1.15=115*1.15=132 --> +32% Note that with 3 first company relics (=+100% vs big units) even the nastiest beasts go down in a hurry --> 3 FCR + Beastslayer = 100*2*2*2*1.2= 960, so a whopping +860% damage. Then throw in a critical hit with an team-wide auspex, and no Carnifex, Hyve Tyrant or whatever biggie you come up against is gonna live to tell the tale... Same with damagereduction: a -15% (trait) + another -15% damage (from weapon)= 100*.85=85*.15=72 --> so -28% damage For a good bolter, replay/farm A3M2 or A9M2 on at least veteranmode for Moloc's Gift resp. Wrath of Damocles. Yes, Frostbite would be better, but can't drop, you can only get it in a pack. FWIW, i finished heroic with my tow tacticals with Moloc's gift +crit can defo get higher then +50% --> have 1 with +66 and 1 with +68
Rodeo's Ben Murch on his favorite marines (in Russian): https://appy.gy/entertainment/tsvet-kosmodesanta-v-warhammer-40000-deathwatch He adores War Veteran )
