Peasants and armour choices (Feedback and a personal taste suggestion)

[Ethereal_Medic]

So you decided to be Stalin and waste a squad of rookies in a human wave assault which was completely optional.

It's fine, but why are you blaming game balance for something you decided?

Player wants to discourage excess use of 'human life'. Just byraising the score-penalty for dead peasants. Investment for payoff (even for a freelance-pogrom) reads good enough to consider the sacrifices well spent. Comparing the strat with RL-stuff stretches the connection a bit much. Optional or not, kevlar for guerilla outfits and other spartan guns pays off for research.
I'm just curious how a slug-slow expedition can reach a time-critical pogrom before it vanish? That's some top-level RNG to get it spawned right next to your starting hideout.

[legionof1]

I know the post mutant alliance pogroms expire. is the same true for the early versions?

[wolfreal]

I'm not pretty sure, but I think they do not expire when targeted.

[Dioxine]

1. Bah if they started to expire now, I have nothing to do with it. Maybe vanilla behaviour changed...? Are you sure they expire?
2. I have no influence on the negative score for getting your soldiers killed. It is hardcoded. And a rookie peasant is worth exactly as much points as any rookie.

[sanyaskillpro]

No, early game pogroms do not expire when targeted. You can send an expedition across the globe.

It's fine, but why are you blaming game balance for something you decided?

To clarify i mentioned the exact changes that pushed peasants into relavancy, the addition of extremely good and cheap camo armor and increasing hand cost from 25k to 50.

[legionof1]

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2. I have no influence on the negative score for getting your soldiers killed. It is hardcoded. And a rookie peasant is worth exactly as much points as any rookie.

troop point loss is negligible compared to losing experience/the cost to replace in most cases. Peasants are just the extreme bottom of the scale, dirt cheap to replace at 1/10th a hand. If you want to brute force something with warm bodies peasants are the way to go.

That said i dont see a real reason to do it for anything but pogroms where speed is pretty key to saveing civvies. More troops=stuff dies faster=more civvies saved.

[wolfreal]

1. Bah if they started to expire now, I have nothing to do with it. Maybe vanilla behaviour changed...? Are you sure they expire?
2. I have no influence on the negative score for getting your soldiers killed. It is hardcoded. And a rookie peasant is worth exactly as much points as any rookie.

At least I´m pretty sure they not...