Who's your favorite character and why

(Nooby.) #1

I’m still kind of new to the game but I love it but let me ask you guys or girls who is your favorite character mine would have to be dee hatlacker him just run behind the shield robot just mad funny will the other team run in fear as I pull my shotgun of doom lol but those character with range counter him pretty good btw who’s you favorite character and why

(Sandman77) #2

So far I enjoy the guy with the handgrenade. He just runs and shoots and well its lots of fun!

(Nooby.) #3

You mean the Dave the hippy yeah he is pretty cool guy I think one of best soldiers

(Genacide) #4

Hard to say, the game is well balanced. I like textbook Kate due to her poison grenade, but she can’t do much weapon wise.
All around I’d say Juan is my favorite. Has the most versatility for me.

Personally I can’t stand the Melee weapons, to hard to get close and have the energy left to do any dammage.

(Sandman77) #5

Genacid true and im considering getting a 2nd Dave :wink:

(Catnadian) #6

[QUOTE=Genacide;417876]Hard to say, the game is well balanced. I like textbook Kate due to her poison grenade, but she can’t do much weapon wise.
All around I’d say Juan is my favorite. Has the most versatility for me.

Personally I can’t stand the Melee weapons, to hard to get close and have the energy left to do any dammage.[/QUOTE]

Disagree. Melee weapons used to have a cost of 2AP/use, and were the weapons with the absolute highest damage output in the game. What’d you’d get as a result is teams consisting of nothing but Lights with melees and a commander with Less-Harma Pharma or Team Spirit, or worse, a team of three Madame LaHacques with the fireaxe/other high-damage melee weapon. Right now the Stumpington (rather beautifully) fills the role of “useless ranged weapon with ridiculous adjacent-square damage capability”, and is part of the reason Dee Hatlacker is such a good choice for those who like to stick their group together and overwhelm the enemy.

I usually use a Kate with the Knife, she’s an excellent deterrent to rushing (Sniper Agents in particular) and can do about 60~90 damage on her own. The SMGs, while a decent ranged option sometimes, are way too low-damage at range and don’t do as much to prevent the enemy from heading in any one direction. Before they changed around melee weapons to be more centered around what you’re going to do with them in the next turn, I had Kate with the Katana, who could do up to 200 damage, which was a little more than ridiculous. Incidentally, Kate’s my favorite character.

(Boomzilla) #7

I read the earlier posts on melee weapons, so I understand there were substantial changes. I like the knife, it has very good damage potential for a 4 star weapon. What happened to the katana? It does just barely more damage than the knife but costs another star. Haven’t had time to try the higher cost melee weapons yet, but requiring 5 AP to use seems limiting. A ghosted Juan could potentially make for a nasty surprise, but due to his lack of speed I think the Botherer is a better option.

I like Juan at the moment, but Dave is pretty great too.

(Catnadian) #8

Technically speaking, the Katana has a much higher damage potential than the Knife if a Light has it and is four squares away from whatever it wants to attack (~100 damage for 8AP vs ~60 for 6), but unless you’re guaranteed to not get slaughtered in the next turn the Knife has a few more retreat options. I’ve used the post-change Katana on Angela before, she’s a pretty good soldier for it when your team is focused on sticking together and moving as a group.

I find the higher-damage sniper rifles limit Juan’s already limited movement options, and while he can get a really damaging three shots in with the Botherer and is the only soldier who can theoretically fire the Avenger twice, I find giving him the Semi-Auto adds quite a bit of flexibility, and if he can get all 4 shots in with it, he can do about 160 damage in his turn, which is nothing to scoff at.

(Dman9494) #9

I like Gus Marx and Tim Taschman. Gus is my favorite though because he has a lot of health, a healing kit, and a fire mans hose.

(Nooby.) #10

Gus became my new fav he just a boss he can deal ton of damage cause how many time he can attack o yeah plus he looks mad boss

(Profit) #11

Once you buy Kate you’ll never regret it. Juan has the highest damage potential (ok, maybe Ivan does straight out of the box, but Juan will get to really unload much more often), but my favorite is still the Commander. I typically just give her the Cold Auto and spam abilities all game, but it’s the best 4pts I ever spend, especially in a 26pt game!

(Doom-Xx) #12

Gus Marx because I can blast people outta cover with the Squhurter and I can use him as an ultra tank