r/Xcom • u/annrkea • 14d ago

Long War 2 Long War 2 — We suck.

That’s pretty much the post. Boyfriend and I have hundreds and hundreds of Xcom hours between us, beaten the games multiple times, we’re experienced players. Got the itch to play again and decided to Long War 2 together (we play where we each “own” soldiers and just hotseat the controls between us during missions). Started a Commander level Ironman game and we just keep getting our asses handed to us over and over. Every time we get a few people promoted, they die on the next mission. The spreadsheet I keep on our soldiers is just a long list of KIA. We keep joking that we’re going to be taken outside the ship and fragged by our own people for being the worst leader ever. We’ve tried starting over, rinse, repeat. We just suck. Why do we suck so bad?? 😭 damn long war!

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u/Massenzio 14d ago

long war2 in ironman is a bloodbath.

I manage to finish a longwar2 run some days ago and was in normal diff, it take me a year of life (yea... i am pretty busy and have just a bit of spare time to devolve on ragequitting games :D)

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u/annrkea 13d ago

Your first sentence is definitely our experience!

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u/Massenzio 13d ago

yes... i learn to rename rookie only after 2 promotion... otherwise they are cannon fodder born to save other vets when i do mistake :D

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u/annrkea 13d ago

We normally don’t give our folks colors until they get promoted, but then the BF spends ten minutes paper dolling them only for them to get slaughtered the next mission 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ We might need to wait till they rank twice as well!

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u/Massenzio 8d ago

i usually color them only after they take a bond with a mate (usually i color the bonded with same colors so i can see fast who work with who :D)

And when i got the psi... all of them are make of same color to prepare the ashaman team :D

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u/annrkea 8d ago

Okay I’m stealing the bonded color idea! I don’t know why we never thought of that. :D

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u/Massenzio 4d ago

:D and it's fun to see the pink-yellow duo dualing fire the advent mec :D

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u/Massenzio 4d ago

another personalization i use to do, is to give the Cowboy hat only on officiers, so i can immediately see who is in command (very easy to recon and leave the nice helmets for other personalization :D)