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Rebels can be a real pain in the ass in Central Asia, because the provinces are so large that it takes months to move between them. I've learned the hard way to up all my forts in that region to level 2 or even 3 if possible, so that they can hold out long enough for my troops to arrive.

And somehow, I knew about the Hunt Rebels button, but not the Seize Colony button. Thank you.

You have 40k goddam manpower. When they declared war why didn't you just spam out 40 units? That's probably your problem.

Third, metal is your friend, although there are viable tactics if you don't have it.  The advanced equipment uses metal, so if you want your troops to have the best of everything, you want a metal mine.  Otherwise, go for groups of troops (create squads instead of single soldiers, thus creating an entity miltiple times as good as the default) that are highly trained (training boosts hitpoints only, but it's worth it), and you should still be fine.

I realised that I am going to have to unlock all the classes and races I unlocked ALL OVER AGAIN.

This makes me unhappy.

My Cursed dwarf seems pretty strong to me. I've got an artifact shield, ring, 1h ax and body armor though, along with some other decent stuff. On anything except for bosses he hardly takes damage due to all the armor and defense and the Gloom makes it easy to kill crowds of stuff while regenerating health from Dark Form. My infusions are: 1 200+ hp regen, 1 status cure/resistance, and 1 instant heal (which used to be a second health regen until I found the instant heal with as much health restoring power as the previous regen infusion)

The start as a cursed dwarf was very tough, I relied on Norgan to do most of the work on the escape from Reznor and I had to start over several times as the boss in that kept killing Norgan and then quickly myself.

I'm at level 18 and just killed the giant minotaur in the Maze. I had to use the stairs once to beat him.

I've put a lot of general skill points into the cursing of items, but due to finding so many artifacts and my reluctance to switch from them it hasn't been as useful as I had hoped.

Quote from: lemon10 on September 20, 2011, 11:53:43 am

I could easily be wrong, but it explicitly states how blade hands scales by str+dex, where it doesn't state how anything else does, this leads me to two possible conclusions: Blade Hands gets a additional scaling bonus over anything else, or it is the only unarmed attack that does scale with your strength and dexterity. No matter what the case, Blade Hands is best for unarmed damage.
Or I suppose its possible they explicitly state its scaling for no reason, while not stating it for anything else, but I think that's unlikely.

The base damage of unarmed combat scales with unarmed combat skill level. Blade Hands also increases that same base damage by a factor proportional to your strength and dex. Other effects related to stats or skills are applied afterward; there is no dex/strength bonus to unarmed combat base damage in general. In other words, Blade Hands increases base damage proportional to strength/dex and claws doesn't. Claws increases your base damage by a flat amount per mutation level.