Wow, whats wrong with the Felix quest?

[Tothmetres]

I have done this battle before playing as Empire. Gotrek and Felix didnt automatically die in the first minute of the battle. Did the latest patch completely destroy this quest mission? I have tried it 3 times in the last half hour. They just instantly die. I have Thorek, his searg, and his engineer charging right up into the fray, to soak up damage. To no avail. Something isnt right

[zefyris]

nothing changed. The enemy lord has an enrage ability and he'll use it on the first enemy in range usually. If it's gotrek or felix, they'll probably die running into the enemy with the enemy lord pumelling them on the way.

[path2power]

Only Empire and Miao Ying can actually finish the quest right now because of Life wizards. They definitely should have picked Nurgle instead of Slaanesh if they didn't want Gotrek to die so quickly.

[Dregora]

Use units to bodyblock the units protecting them. Not single entity chars. Won't work as well. Rush it real fast, use melee infantry so you can blob up around them while your ranged units do the damage.

Originally posted by path2power:

Only Empire and Miao Ying can actually finish the quest right now because of Life wizards. They definitely should have picked Nurgle instead of Slaanesh if they didn't want Gotrek to die so quickly.

Not entirely true although the quest is 100% hard. I've done it as dwarves, with Grombrindal. Got a few slayer units as they're fast, used them to bodyblock while the rest came into position.

They still nearly died, but I managed eventually. It's possible, you just have to put some thought into it, as story quests are usually super easy.

[Siodog]

Originally posted by Dregora:

Use units to bodyblock the units protecting them. Not single entity chars. Won't work as well. Rush it real fast, use melee infantry so you can blob up around them while your ranged units do the damage.

This, is not so hard you just gotta pull your frontline forward let them do the damage

[BiteSizeCenter]

Yeah it's basically required to throw some of your infantry into the grinder to keep them alive. Even with a life wizard I had to retry it 2 or 3 times until I realized that my typical passive style wasn't going to cut it. Finally I just zerg rushed it and accepted that I'd have some casualties and that got it done.

[zefyris]

Originally posted by path2power:

Only Empire and Miao Ying can actually finish the quest right now because of Life wizards. They definitely should have picked Nurgle instead of Slaanesh if they didn't want Gotrek to die so quickly.

You certainly don't need a life wizard to do it.

[endurstonehelm]

Don't bring missile troops/artillery, you are probably the one killing Gotrek or Felix if you do. Instead, bring cavalry or fast infantry. Put the troops around Gotrek and Felix as an escort. If you can bring troops that have "guardian" or a life caster with a heal spell, even better.

[shadowlurker]

Did it first try on my Elspeth campaign, with a mostly ranged army. Don't know why there's so much fuss on this one. Gotrek survived at 70% or so health and Felix around 50%. No heals were needed (not that I had any).

[Human bean]

I would like to help but because of the hotfixes I cant. Sorry. I take full responsibility for this!

[Zefar]

Originally posted by endurstonehelm:

Don't bring missile troops/artillery, you are probably the one killing Gotrek or Felix if you do. Instead, bring cavalry or fast infantry. Put the troops around Gotrek and Felix as an escort. If you can bring troops that have "guardian" or a life caster with a heal spell, even better.

Rocket artillery will do fine to help them because explosives doesn't do much damage to single entity units.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by shadowlurker:

Did it first try on my Elspeth campaign, with a mostly ranged army. Don't know why there's so much fuss on this one. Gotrek survived at 70% or so health and Felix around 50%. No heals were needed (not that I had any).

What was this ranged army you speak of? Because I highly doubt it was just missile infantry. If you had a rocket arty doomstack then I can see why it's so easy for you.

Not just that, Elsbeth herself is insane.

[pascal.difolco]

This battle made me mad, after 8 tries with different Gelt armies those idiots always die
I wonder how anyone can do this with a basic sub turn 30 army, and after that getting those heroes at level 1 is more of a liability than an help, so even if I could get them with the AR I gave up, I eventually finished my campaign without them...
You fight against the horrible design much more than against the enemy army, needs a rework definitely