Goblin Stone!!
My first party wipeout! Yeeehhaa!
Fun parts of the game:
1. No grind. Hacking money+all resources (wood, stones, leather, etc...) was fun, since the game handles these in stacks of 20! So I didn't have to grind for just to survive.
NEGATIVE reviewers on Steam complained about the game being boring because so many similar GRINDING fights.. I completely bypassed that swamp-of-boredom hehe..
I maxed out my base early, my guilds got the max LVL 3 enhancements, which empowered my mighty Goblins, so always selected the best fighters and brought them into battle!
2. Hacked Soul Stones as well - these you receive when losing a Goblin or you retire / kick them out of HQ -, which soul stones are needed to maximize level of all Guilds and so, with everything hacked, I pushed all rooms to MAX. This resulted in strongest empowered Goblins for me in the dungeons! The only thing I didn't hack was Goblins Main Stats!
3. Life & battles were all fun - map shows where the hardest monster parties are and I always chose those paths.. - and all was good until past mid-game, me usually massacring the enemy and I rarely lost 1 Goblin adventurer per raid: mage or priest or fighter type.. All this played out IN NATURE, when there I always found plenty of FOOD! Eating these Goblins regain HP!
4. Bosses were also somewhat fun to kill this way.
5.
However, when I reached the SEWERS toward endgame, I encountered the WYVERNS! They loved to chew my mighty Goblins to bits! Also in the sickening Sewers there is almost NO FOOD! Or very serious food-scarcity!! So I couldn't heal my goblins much. Previously I also hacked FOOD and GOLD until midgame, so my Goblins were always stuffed and adventured close to max health.
But I found such empowerment boring, so I stopped hacking food and ATE only what I found. This was all good on the dungeons in Mother Nature. But not anymore in the sewers! No food = no healing. And Deadly Sewer MonsterZ! AAAAAAAAHHHAHAHAHAA!
I always wanted my stupid maxed out goblin heroes to die dramatically.
And finally, in the Sewers, starving, thus low on HP after gory battles, I adventured further with just one Fatally INJURED GOBLIN REMAINING (out of a party of six) AND HE HAD ONLY 1 HIT POINT LEFT!!.... OMG The DRAMA!!
6. Although I maxed out my Goblins via BREEDING, so I had the
main stat of 10 maxed out in any mage or priest or fighter class, and because I hacked gold as well, I was able to always buy the strongest weapons.. but still..
The SEWERS monsters finally managed to tear my mighty Goblin party to bits & pieces. My wiped out party consisted of (the allowed max of) three Mystics = mages, Two Shamans = mage-priests and one Acolyte = high attack priest class. So all magic users..
I completely neglected to bring any fighter type, like Guard, Raider, Hunter or Bandit, because I noticed that mages and priests had amazing AOE attacks. Although fighter types could also make critical hits.. But the magic user AOE finally won. So this is probably why my magic-focused party was wiped out!
Anyway, since I maxed out my XCOM-base like abode - Zero grind necessary and I stopped building my HQ, since no more enhancements can be built -, I can now concentrate on ALL OUT WARFARE + CONQUEST and breed unlimited number of maxed out main-stat Goblins.
Also I might have lost all the Top Quality gear with that party wipe?
But I was able to buy out all the new inventory of the merchant camping at my headquarters, I still have lots of weapons left!
I now just have to assemble a new SUICIDE GOBLIN KAMIKAZE SQUAD and storm the SEWERS again! AAAAAAAHHHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAA! I also love the scream of my mighty Goblins when they die! What an Awesome DRAMA!
Tremble, mighty Sewer-WYVERNS, for here I come!!! again.
The Big Showdown
So I assembled a new goblin horde and went back and fought the amazing Sewers dungeon Boss!! I had to save two times between turns - just to be sure I don't waste time. Naturally the game works in IronMan mode, but copy&pasting the save files completely circumvents this restriction, so I made myself able to reload from any time of the game, in order to save time. Only one of my top-quality goblins was massacred. Since I can easily replace him with another strong goblin, I left the results as is. His weapons we carried back to HQ and I filled the place of the died hero with an exceptionally skilled newbie.
This Sewers Boss fight was the best FUN so far!
