Messy Siege of Drezen in Turn Based Mode

[The Konrad]

So I'm attacking Dresden finally.
And the game clearly didn't acount for my Party of 10 (including my petting zoo of Wenduag, 2 large Smilidons, a Mastodon and a Horse)

While hilarious to see a full grown Mammoth on the rooftops doing an athletics perfomance to gracefully jump from roof to roof the result is not as fun:
half of my party turns downstairs, because there simply wasn't enough room. Of course I get instantly attacked after a successful athletics check and can't do much about it because my party is split up an needs several turns to run into some semblance of a strategic position.

Moving on I get hit by suppression fire during my turn, fireballs and other AOE spells are hitting my group during my turn in turnbased combat. That's foulplay and absolutely inexcusable.
I have to wait for each unit to move, but the enemy continues to shot fireballs at me from off screen during my turn?
Preposterous.

[The Konrad]

I'm not having fun anymore.
The siege is to noisy I can't even hear myself think. Turnbased combat doesn't work because of above mentioned problem.
I shouldn't be constantly bombarded by sounds, spells and arrowfire while I'm planning my turns and yell at the incompetent companions for not doing what they are supposed to.
I have no clue how to defeat the giants and units appear out of thin air that I see but can't attack on the same turn. Meanwhile I'm distracted by fireballs and messy chunks of gore that sometimes are just decor, sometimes they damage my party.
The Half Orc Milf was right, this is futile, I'm out of here.

[Planeforger]

I had a similar problem when I was working through the...south-east corner of that map?

It got significantly better as I got closer to the centre of Drezen. Wider areas, less AOE, and the giants were too dead to hit me with siege weapons.

You're right about it being buggy though.

[Hathur]

That fight was such a pain in turn based I just slapped on real time and let it go on auto. Won that, had half the party wipe but didn't matter, was just glad that infuriating fight was done with. Took 2 minutes in real time mode... whereas my 10+ attempts in turn based took over 15 minutes each before I had to reload a save.. Ugh.

[The Konrad]

I rather restart my campaign and romance Neenio than switching on real time though.

[Hathur]

Originally posted by Gottkanzler Konrad:

I rather restart my campaign and romance Neenio than switching on real time though.

I get it, I've played 90% of the game in turn based. But for that battle I had to go real time, it just refused to co-operate in turn based. It was becoming pure agony and I just wanted to get past it. Fortunately most battles play well in turn based (tho granted turn based in this game is a bit glitchy at times, whereas real time runs flawless). You might want to run it in real time just to get past it and then go back to turn based after that.

[The Konrad]

How do I get rid of the giants? There is no ladder or anything.

That idiot Gnome just told me to assist, but not how?
No wonder I'm a god tier mythic if every single being around me is utterly incompetent and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ crazy.

[Thrax]

Originally posted by Gottkanzler Konrad:

I rather restart my campaign and romance Neenio than switching on real time though.

I would advise restarting, and killing Neinio, rather than switch to real time.

[Mauman]

Take out the giants first before you do anything. That takes care of the weird damage you take from off screen.

[The Konrad]

Honestly though, I feel bad for just sending her away. She should have been murdered.

[The Konrad]

Originally posted by Mauman:

Take out the giants first before you do anything. That takes care of the weird damage you take from off screen.

How?

[Mauman]

Originally posted by Gottkanzler Konrad:

Originally posted by Mauman:

Take out the giants first before you do anything. That takes care of the weird damage you take from off screen.

How?

Start with the Hellknights. Go through the first few 2 fights. At this point the giants shouldn't be hitting you at all.

At this point point, approach the wall. There's an athletic check to climb the wall. Do it and the 2nd one. Now go up the ramparts and just keep killing till you get to the first giant. Go in the door, disarm the trap (you can ignore the switch if you want, it just opens the gate and I find you get more xp by killing the monsters that spawn when you batter the gates down). Now go through the other door and kill the giant there and his buddies.

ALTERNATIVELY, if you have the vascavor goo and don't mind being a bit of a ♥♥♥♥, you can do that and then only have to deal with the first giant. Not really worth it though unless you want to eventually...well....do some bad things.

[Planeforger]

Originally posted by Gottkanzler Konrad:

Originally posted by Mauman:

Take out the giants first before you do anything. That takes care of the weird damage you take from off screen.

How?

There are a bunch of different ways to get up on the inner walls. I found a ramp. There are also a bunch of athletic checks, etc., to climb up there.