Tag: Tacticus

Unlocked Kut from “guaranteed” requisition. This isn’t great, as he’s a cheap character, but also not too bad, as he’s useful in Fall of Cadia Mirror campaign.

And from guaranteed milestone reward also unlocked Azrael. Epic character sounds great, but I’m investing into characters needed for the campaigns.

Unlocked Sybill from grinding her encounter. Now I need just Thadeous for the Fall of Cadia Mirror, but it’s a big “just”, as we are talking 100 shards there.

Finally, unlocked Eldryon. This is a huge one, as he’s considered one of the most useful characters in the game, amplifying damage for other characters, and unlocks the Eldar campaign.

I’m making slow progress. Unlocked Snappawrecka from the arena battles. This means I have just one more orc character to open for their campaign.

Unlocked Tutmose from slowly grinding his battle. The character is supposed to be extremely bad, but it’s 4th Necron character, so battles that allow up to 5 should be easier.

In a last ditch effort in a event I also managed to unlock Nicodemus. I already have 5 Imperial characters, but Ultramarines Apothecary isn’t very good, and Nicodemus is available to unlock only once in a while.

Unlocked Snotflogga from Salvage Run. This isn’t as good as I thought it to be, because Snotflogga isn’t a campaign character for Orcs, so I’m still missing Boss Gulgortz, and missing it by some 125/250 shards.

Unlocked Tsonji in an Incursion event. As I mentioned, Machines of War are not very useful, but I still use every opportunity to unlock new characters. And I love Tau. Who doesn’t love huge mechs?

And I finally completed Indominus campaign, with 3 stars, unlocking Indominus Elite.

I opened both Maleus Rocket and Dreaudnough a couple of days from each other. Both aren’t very useful, as you can’t deploy them in campaigns, only Arena or Guild Raids.

But from Guild Raids I got my 3rd mandatory Chaos character, Archimatos. So now the Fall of Cadia campaign is open.
This is good, because campaigns are the best way to open new characters.

Paywall hits on Mission 70 of the first campaign and Mission 12 of the First Mirror Campaign. Enemies that previously wouldn’t do much start one-shoting your characters suddenly. And all you can do is grind. The game turns into a “clicker”. To level up your characters you need 6 pieces of equipment for each. Some of those pieces are also broken into separate subpieces, spread across different missions. You can just roll for the equipment if you completed the mission at least once, 10 rolls per day. You roll, then you roll some more.
A week at that pace, and I’ve opened my second Chaos character and second Eldar character:

Now I have just Makotep from the Indominus campaign to beat:

I also started working towards first support character, either the Maleus Rocket Launcher or Dreadnought.

In a way, W40K is ideal for mobile games. You already have some fabulous character designs that are distinct and easily recognizable. And they all speak in cliche phrases anyway, so nobody will notice your lack of writing skills. Speaking of which, your story can be “space marines are fighting xenos because crashed and artifact”, and everyone would be perfectly happy.

The gameplay is rather solid: hexes, different terraint types, one move one action per turn, one unique skill per character that can be used once per battle. Where it all breaks, of course, is the monetisation and the “numbers game”. No matter how good a tactian you are, you won’t be able to progress if your units are damaging enemies for 1HP. To level them, you need not only EXP, but also coins, which you get by completing missions. And to do missions there is another resource, which I don’t even care what it’s called, that recovers with real time, but also can be bought with very real money. Then the new characters are farmes through a gacha system.