Impossible challenge : "Last Man Taschman"

(Cobaalt) #1

Ok, I can’t get to past this last challenge, the one where you have 3 engies facing 5 soldiers.
I tried 50 configurations, and It seems impossible to score the 3 ticks.
The best I could was to kill 3 or 4 soldiers, but the last ones standing are always heavies that camp the zone, out of reach, and if 90 turns in the game I decide to attack, even by proceeding VERY CAREFULLY, they manage to take half of any of your character’s energy in one turn. And ultimately kill him before he can do some serious damage.

If you’re given turrets to balance the game, but then he won’t attack… well you can’t either and the game is broken.
I had no trouble finishing every other challenge… this one drives me crazy!

I guess there must be some glitch in the IA or a very special configuration that you could exploit to win this challenge… has anyone managed to gold it yet?

(Bwade) #2

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Cant remember how i beat it though lol srry

(Sandpuppy) #3

I put up the rocket turret on the long side of the starting position, behind the low cover, the other turret at my back facing down blocking the way behind me
I ran forward and backwards with megan putting up mines on the way to the turrets
and waited behind the corner for the computer to advance and get nice short distance reaction shots and take some active shots if I they were close enough for me to get back into cover afterwards
the rocket turret got destroyed rather soon but dealt some damage, took the fire and gave me opportunities to use my shotguns (the non standard one does rather good damage over 2-3 tiles too)
only one guy tried to come the other way around but I kept him on distance with the other turret
at some point the AI retreated and it was easy going afterwards
hope that helps, maybe I was just lucky with the AI :slight_smile:

(badman) #4

[QUOTE=Sandpuppy;419965]I put up the rocket turret on the long side of the starting position, behind the low cover, the other turret at my back facing down blocking the way behind me
I ran forward and backwards with megan putting up mines on the way to the turrets
and waited behind the corner for the computer to advance and get nice short distance reaction shots and take some active shots if I they were close enough for me to get back into cover afterwards
the rocket turret got destroyed rather soon but dealt some damage, took the fire and gave me opportunities to use my shotguns (the non standard one does rather good damage over 2-3 tiles too)
only one guy tried to come the other way around but I kept him on distance with the other turret
at some point the AI retreated and it was easy going afterwards
hope that helps, maybe I was just lucky with the AI :)[/QUOTE]
This is good advice. Take advantage of Megan’s speed to get the mines in great positions that damage more than 1 character. You can then set up defenses with your turrets and keep using Megan for hit and run attacks.

(Hot-Wire) #5

I put the turret on the top left corner of the house at the center and a whole bunch of mines at the bottom right. When 1 guy is about to die, I retreat them. Took me a good 6 tries, but the AI eventually got dumb lol… or I got smarter.

(Desparado) #6

Lol.
Still trying myself.

(ChaosPinhead) #7

I beat 75% of the challenges on the first try. I’ll have to go do this one again see what all the fuss is about and share how I do it. AI is easily manipulated…

(Desparado) #8

I know… Its just some of us aren’t as strategically minded. I think I am, but then again, some of you have this game down too well.

(ChaosPinhead) #9

Yea I went back and checked that one out. It took me a couple tries I remember. Get your mines deployed early but make sure to get megan back behind cover before they come around the corner or shes toast. Deploy turrets on the other side of the house behind street barriers so they take 50% less damage from the AI enemies and can shoot their full range. Keep your powerful shotgun guy close by around the corner but not in range of the enemies. If you keep all 3 engineers out of reach but drop them out to repair turrets and then hide again, and peek out and take a shot also once in awhile. You can succeed. Just make sure you focus all fire on one AI unit at a time. Once an AI unit takes like 75% damage, they retreat out of the rocket area and hide. Once all enemies are wounded and you start gaining occupation points eventually they will walk out to try and stop you and you can pick them off because they won’t fire most of the time until the round after they get back to the middle.