17b. All-In

[Content Feedback]

(1) What difficulty levels and game versions have you played the scenario on?
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
(3) How clear did you find the scenario objectives?
(4) How clear and interesting did you find the dialog and storyline of the scenario?
(5) What were your major challenges in meeting the objectives of the scenario?
(6) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)
(7) What, if any, are changes you would have made to the scenario to make it more fun?

[bobpanda]

(1) What difficulty levels and game versions have you played the scenario on?
normal(incursion)
(2) How difficult did you find the scenario? (1-10)
10
this is a very very difficult scenario, especially no save and load.
(3) How clear did you find the scenario objectives?
clear
(4) How clear and interesting did you find the dialog and storyline of the scenario?
7
(5) What were your major challenges in meeting the objectives of the scenario?
i only played this scenario on normal(no save and load), the enemy undead swarm is totally endless and powerful, the most deadly units among them are chocobone, dark adepts and dark sorcerers, they may take out one L3 royal guard in one turn at night. Moreover, player's forces are limited, but AI's undead swarm never stops recruiting, so player cannot waste too much time and suffer too many units lost. If player did not save all 3 generals in the last(the eleventh hour)scenario(all three are absolute necessary) and have 10+ high level undead-killing units in recall lists, I would not suggest playing this scenario. Only in normal difficulty, I lost 20 L3 units and killed 15000g enemy units totally to win, which is even much more than the scenarios of the NR campaign. I cannot imagine how difficult the scenario would be on hard.
(6) How fun do you think the scenario is? (1-10)
9
(7) What, if any, are changes you would have made to the scenario to make it more fun?
This scenario is too difficult, i think the difficulty should be reduced by a little bit....
And the achievement of this scenario is almost impossible, because Mal-Ravanal will attack you very actively after he shows up.

[Vendrick]

(1) Incursion, 1.18 (reduced difficulty from Invasion)
(2) 8
(3) Clear
(4) Excellent
(5) Difficult to pull out specific points because the whole thing is fairly difficult. Chocobones, Dark Sorcerors and L2 Ghosts are obviously the most dangerous units so I killed those Liches first which had the added benefit of securing half of the map.
(6) 8
(7) This is a pretty good large-scale field battle: the multiple fronts, distinct AI recruit lists and AI modifications (massing for attacks at night) keep it interesting.

On the replay:

Spoiler:

I popped open the staus table on Hard and saw the AI was packing a truly obscene amount of infintely recycling gold and decided to try my hand at Normal and maybe get the Warmonger achievement.

This was easier than playing straight through on Normal, because of the extra experience from playing the rest of the campaign on Invasion / Hard.

I skipped Turn 1 then reloaded so I could see what units each AI leader was recruiting.

I was overly cautious with gold, since I had a bunch of mercenary (+30% damage while gold > 0, else -30% damage) units on the field and I didn't know how long the scenario would last or what would happen when Mal-Ravanal appeared.

I was keeping one of the southern Liches alive but blocked from its keep so the gold refund was less than <100% efficient. This wasn't actually very relevant because by that time I was killing more units than the AI could replace from its 3 hex keeps. (The Liches seem to be capped at Level 2 units only.)
In a similar vein, I was planning to keep one of the west Dark Adepts alive, but it would have been much better to just kill 2/3 of them early (unless they can gain the ability to recruit Level 2 units with a large enough gold reserve).

At time of writing, there's a bug where achievements can be earned by watching replays so I also reloaded the scenario to save a replay after earning the achievement to hopefully avoid that.

During the day, with a Holy Amulet, max adjacent units and multiple +damage AMLAs Owaec can deal 117 damage and one-shot Mal-Ravanal. It's beautiful...

I'll have a try on Hard and attach the replay here later, but the scenario takes quite a long time even on Incursion / Normal.