Corpse Farming Tips

[Samseng Yik]

Trying to win all maps with A3 now.
Recently see some topic about corpse strategy.
Got some questions
1) what should I pay attention
2) What building become entirely useless
3) What building become much more useful
4) Still build seer and repel fog or not?
5) Elderlitch, try to put out all ghost flame ASAP ?
6) Any video of some pro using this strategy on high difficulty ?

[Bumc]

Honestly don't overthink it.

Just don't build outer walls, surround the circle with ballistas and don't build too many buildings until you upgrade them.
Houses, temple and mana wells, maybe scavenging camps are fine. Your workers will be busy digging corpses anyway.

Even if you ♥♥♥♥ up something and drop panic levels, amount of corpses makes up for the loss of economy.

Imo seer is still relevant on most maps, but you can build it really late.

As for ghosts you generally can either tank or kite most of them.
Pop buffing mages asap, rest can be ignored, as long as you have healing or immunity potions (which you should anyway).

[sandman25dcsss]

Start with Gildenberg to see how it works. I did apoc 4 yesterday, didn't have any mines or item buildings, most of 12 workers were working on high quality corpses.
Check Aldenpotamus videos, he is an expert in corpse strategy.

[Samseng Yik]

What is the meaning of pop buffing mage?
Edit : oh I think it mean put out the flame that summon wand mage

[Bumc]

yeah wand mage that one, buffs enemies movement speed and damage, no bueno.

[Samseng Yik]

Since the flame is at outer part of the city.
If I don't use seer push fog at all.
The flame will surely only spawn at that few spots nearest to town?

[Bumc]

Yeah, but if that bothers you remember that elderlitch is a very long map.
You can afford to build seer and push fog and still be full build by the end of it,

[Ichthyic]

seems like there is a strategy to maximizing your chances to produce corpse piles with items in them, but I can't quite figure it. Is it doing a LOT of target damage in a single turn? is it killing enemies as close to the town as possible? Am I imaging things and it's just all random? because I only get one or two piles with items in them per run. seems like it should be higher?

[Bumc]

Close to town and in a same spot. Ideally make a death zone inside a town.

[sandman25dcsss]

Here is an example from my current game, apoc 5, Gildenberg.
Basically I skipped first 5 turns until enemies were inside haven. Usually you can soften with ranged and magic weapons, but I had cannon which could kill enemies despite no bonuses so I tried once and then used just magic weapon. Note how I used my heroes to minimize damage to ruins.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3236219926
Next turn:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3236219948
Next (and final) turn:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3236219980
Rewards: 2 mountains of corpses, 3 piles of corpses, the rest are just corpses, no ruins lost, no income lost due to panic.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3236220005
Who needs mines on Gildenberg :)

[Bumc]

you can also punch enemies to soften them up but yeah lure them is the name of the game.

[sandman25dcsss]

Originally posted by Bumc:

you can also punch enemies to soften them up but yeah lure them is the name of the game.

True. I was lucky to have 2 heroes with extra AP, but 2 heroes had just 6 MP (I was lazy to remove body armor).
War shield was great, 29 block on Night 1 without any relevant omens felt invincible.

[Ichthyic]

Originally posted by Bumc:

Close to town and in a same spot. Ideally make a death zone inside a town.

ah. thanks.

How do you not get panic if you let enemies stay in the town area?

[Dagungus]

Some people destroy all their buildings and just make 32 ballista's and then group up enemies into singular areas so they can form massive piles. It's an okay strategy, but it makes your heroes disposable and prone to dying.

If you are trying an apoc run, try to take the omen that gives you starting gold.
Don't under-estimate how a few extra gold at the start causes you to steamroll.

[Bumc]

Originally posted by Ichthyic:

Originally posted by Bumc:

Close to town and in a same spot. Ideally make a death zone inside a town.

ah. thanks.

How do you not get panic if you let enemies stay in the town area?

Ideally you don't let them stay and mop them up immediately, but even if you just sack panic starting night 5 its still likely better economy-wise than a regular play.