Any love for Strategist Ranger?

[Khalunka]

Its always either cutthroat or Poisoner. But I find Strategist to be really great. It not only generates another attacks from your heavy hitters, they also generate more valour points from your tanks. If you are aiming to finish enemies asap, I found Strategist to be superb. Why It isnt mentioned often?

I am quite curious.

[Nanashi]

If I had to guess, probably because in hardest mode you want to kill fast and safe, so either assasin spec (4th one) which doens't need much set up to get kills (and valor points), or poisoner who is able to delete a distant wave by himself before they reach your guys.

The strategist is nice though, but you need to build around his skill, and it's the same for the cutthroat. They need to play after others are engaged, and this increase the chances of having to repear armors or take wounds, imho.

[Slavo]

Someone once told me, people like to play in small partys around 10-12 Mercs and the killing need to be done fast. So no place in the "meta setup". If you dont tank with Swordsmen/Burte/Warrior u dont get VP either. But hes great with Archer or Bears too, just a bit of setup needed.

[drake_hound]

Strategist is one of those awesome GEM, sadly there is a issue, that it cannot solo kill anything.

Now Strategist should have gotten Mail Armor to make them more attractive (not that mail armor helps, but it would convince people to take them more).
Since it's gameplay is quite fun. infact in any other TBS games, it would have gotten much more love.

Cutthroat on the other hand is infact one of the best finishers and cleaner of maps.
Especially later on. while the Strategist falls way behind, the poisoner has it's uses especially cause one legendary is dedicated to it. and another Active Option later on.

But the strategist has none.

[ShepherdOfCats]

It is really good if you can keep your strategist from being engaged until your heavy hitters are engaged. I'm doing a bandit run with "opportunist" buff to the strategy table and it's kinda fun. Gives a nice ambush feel and it is awesome when your team simultaneously deletes a handful of enemies back to back.. Plus the disengage has saved someone in my party from being killed, quite a few times.

[goober shmoober]

Strategist is fun, got one in my party on my expert playthrough. I picked up taunt on everyone, even my archers (lol) and just slap it on enemies that already had their turn so they are engaged and setup for the strategist. I believe they work well with a heavy meele line-up which can take a hit or two.

[rurka3]

About strategist, it's a great supporter, if you build him properly. I often use him, especially against brotherhood with their rivarly passive, since he's the only one, who can cancel their protection without wasting allies turns. The main issue is for sure, that we cannot let him, to bound him with fight, since his skill cannot be used, if this happen.

[funkmonster7]

Strategist is only useful at the beginning of the game. Later on you simply have better options.

[ColorsFade]

I've been running two Strategists in my party. They're awesome. They're ideal roles for Captain & Lieutenants. You can't think of them as killers by themselves. Their role is to make everyone else get more attacks and VP.

The smoke bomb is awesome. It synergizes really well with the melee fighters I use: Swordsman with Valorous Duel & Riposte. Engage earns VP. Enemy attacks, Riposte for free. Then the Strategist ducks into the center of them all and pops a smoke grenade giving everyone a free attack on disengagement. Captain rocks the Galvanize Troops to bring the team's VP back up, and if the enemy is still alive to engage the Swordsmen again, everyone earns VP and Riposte readies again. It's a deadly cycle. On two attacks, the Swordsmen have Laceration ready for finishers.

[Khalunka]

Originally posted by ColorsFade:

I've been running two Strategists in my party. They're awesome. They're ideal roles for Captain & Lieutenants. You can't think of them as killers by themselves. Their role is to make everyone else get more attacks and VP.

The smoke bomb is awesome. It synergizes really well with the melee fighters I use: Swordsman with Valorous Duel & Riposte. Engage earns VP. Enemy attacks, Riposte for free. Then the Strategist ducks into the center of them all and pops a smoke grenade giving everyone a free attack on disengagement. Captain rocks the Galvanize Troops to bring the team's VP back up, and if the enemy is still alive to engage the Swordsmen again, everyone earns VP and Riposte readies again. It's a deadly cycle. On two attacks, the Swordsmen have Laceration ready for finishers.

That's what I am talking about! :D

But...

Originally posted by funkmonster7:

Strategist is only useful at the beginning of the game. Later on you simply have better options.

I agree when you reach a point which the idea is to insta-kill everything, Strategist becomes more situational.