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Muton

Nov 21, 2023 @ 5:07am

Is Tex any good?

I wanted to try a different merc than Ice or Raven from last time and I picked Tex.. But he's stuck with dual pistols.. Ive never really used pistols before.. Is he worth it or should I pick a different marksman

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SirHawk

Nov 21, 2023 @ 5:13am

You can play this game indefinitely and with no restrictions, simply do whatever you want and try everyone.

Nox Eterna has Jagged Alliance 3

Nov 21, 2023 @ 5:54am

imo this guy is literally the worst merc in the game. But maybe that's just my experience.

Keyboard Cowboy has Jagged Alliance 3

Nov 21, 2023 @ 6:51am

Originally posted by Nox Eterna:
imo this guy is literally the worst merc in the game. But maybe that's just my experience.

Perhaps that's just your experience. But I've played JA3 for 130 hours (or more) and I still haven't tried him in my squad.
And since you've gone through most of the roster, I would say you have a pretty good grasp when comparing mercs (at least without training).

Nox Eterna has Jagged Alliance 3

Nov 21, 2023 @ 7:02am

Modded guns are really powerful in this game, and you can't do that for his 'six-shooters' and you can't switch them out either. Moreover, his stats are very weak, especially his wisdom, which is arguably the most important stat since he won't get much better as you progress through the game. Add in his lack of specialist skills, and that makes you wonder why would you ever want him on your squad, and that's not even considering his higher-than-average salary that is completely unjustified.

Muton

Nov 21, 2023 @ 7:09am

Ok thanks.. I'll dump him when his contract expires

Anea

Nov 21, 2023 @ 7:12am

in my opinion, he an above average shooter and thats all he is. so, yes, the price is not justified.
yes, the shooters could use an upgrade later on, but some of his lines and dialoges are really funny, caught myself laughing on his remarks.
But since i attempted a "Western Playtrough" (only six shooters, winchesters, timed tnt and double barreled shotguns) i came to like him,

RPS 12324

Nov 21, 2023 @ 10:16pm

The only annoying part is that his first weapon slot is locked and you cannot replace his default guns, leaving you only with the one slot to play with. I think his unique skill works best with double Uzi. He is able to 2 shot enemies by aiming for the head even with his default guns, but for the most part I use him as an overwatch character like most dual wielders. You want to get his Dex to 90.

Red Bat

Nov 21, 2023 @ 10:49pm

Not really. I'd consider him bottom tier, down there with Kalyna and Steroid. In fact he might actually be the least useful character in the game overall. Although compared to the second game, there really isn't a giant difference between bottom and top tier mercs so you can use whoever you like.

His ability is fairly good, albeit not as game changing as say, Ice's. He also doesn't give a relationship morale bonus to anyone, although he gets them with both Fox and Larry. He can't unequip his pistols, but he can still use other weapons in his second weapon set, and his ability works with other weapons. His six shooters also aren't particularly great and they use an ammo type you don't tend to get a lot of till much later, so you'll want to have him mostly use something else such as an assault rifle. His wisdom is bad and his leadership is terrible, which combined with no specialty skills means he's completely useless during downtime unlike Kalyna and Smiley who can at least train militia effectively. He's also hilariously overpriced, but that becomes less of a problem later on when you have a lot of money.

He's not even "terrible" to start with on the easiest difficulty, even if he isn't ideal. His ability is useful throughout all the Ernie fights, and his six shooters are at least decent early on. At his price I'd prefer to have someone like Raven or Ice though. He's a bad character whose stats and ability are a little better than other bad characters, but for a variety of reasons he tends to be less useful. He just doesn't fit on a team very well and what he contributes is nowhere near enough to either justify his price or not using a different character.

That said... His ability applies overwatch, which can be used for a few strategies. Notably this means he works well with Raider. I'd still prefer Raven over him, but it's something. You can take all 3 on the same team, but keep in mind this makes Tex a bit superfluous. He's just going to end up being a worse Raven.

Concerned West Virginia Resident has Jagged Alliance 3

Nov 22, 2023 @ 2:47pm

He's not very good because the weapons he's good with aren't very good especially past the very first few areas. Pistols in general and dual pistols are just awful.

[SCZ]Celestrian has Jagged Alliance 3

Nov 22, 2023 @ 3:14pm

i´d just give him a sniperrifle. if his marksmanship sucks, he gets a bipod earlier.
this pretty much fixes every single merc immediatly and MM only becomes relevant if you want to get off a second unaimed hit from your +3aim-scope-1st shot leveraction.
after that only more AP or bonusmove is interesting.
while prepping for the military invasion, there´s enough time to train MM, making all mercs who can realistically reach 14AP to get 2 shots off a 7AP sniperrifle, bipoded, unaimed.

that said, losing a weaponslot for grenades is a huge strategical disadvantage, especially if you plan to not lose a single town/fort/mine to the military, bc your squads get thinned out pretty fast, even if ivan takes out 6 military squads in turn and solo holds the whole eastern front.

no idea what his special ability is, but since training is (or was, dunno) so strong, wisdom mercs with a primary non-body skill quickly outclass everyone else, are usually cheaper and are must-picks, but that´s bc i run 3 squads covering all bases (except medical 80+, that´s for squad one). however, every squad has room for 1 or 2 wildcards like tex or even smiley and since character interactions are the main reason to play the game in the first place, there´s no reason not to put tex in squad 2 or 3. the only real downside to this is that you won´t get any early tex dialoges and tex can´t be everyone at the same time, so it´s very unlikely that you capture every single tex dialog in one go, even if you would knew were they are. but even this isnt a big problem, since hopefully we get JA4 in less than 20 years, but 10 is obviously better. not sure if there´s a bet somewhere that JA4 is released within 5 years after someone completes a full solo tex-run but i can wait 3 years for that to happen. not sure why the start of JA4 development isnt announced yet. they only got 3 years from now... or maybe less.

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