First to praise the Emperor in this glorious test of fortitude against the BLOOMING forces!

My tactic is: 3 justicar and culexus.

The plague is psychic so culexus is immunne.

I got a knight with immune to plague armor. They both stay near the hive weeding the reinforcements., very close to each other, at max 2 or 3 squares in distance.

Other 2 knights go around killing the germs with 5 to 10 squares in diference.

The germ rain only happens on the culexus and justicar pair. They take no damage and can hold well the reinforcements.

Might take this bugger on where I'm a bit more abilitied-up. To think, I thought he looked silly when first appeared as a mini. Now ... run for the ship.

This is bugged right? The hive should not count as an enemy which blocks us from regaining AP upon clearing all visible enemies. You need to adjust this, this can't be correct.

I seriously just save-scum to skip hive missions because they are just awful and way too difficult compared to missions around them.

Originally posted by Static:

This is bugged right? The hive should not count as an enemy which blocks us from regaining AP upon clearing all visible enemies. You need to adjust this, this can't be correct.

I seriously just save-scum to skip hive missions because they are just awful and way too difficult compared to missions around them.

Perhaps 5-6 slots for Knights/Dready/Assassin might help. Never going to happen, but it would be such a welcome and necessary upgrade. The Techmarine, for instance I think should be an assist with his build and fragility.

"In dedicato imperatum ultra articulo mortis..." I wish to see Legion of the Damned next as a DLC. When all hope is lost, they would help you turn the tide of battle randomly, of course. High RNG factor would take place.

Wargaming for the love of God Emperor!!! unlock the 5th Grey knight slot for mission.
Look at X-Com 2 for clues.

Originally posted by rafacasper:

My tactic is: 3 justicar and culexus.

The plague is psychic so culexus is immunne.

I got a knight with immune to plague armor. They both stay near the hive weeding the reinforcements., very close to each other, at max 2 or 3 squares in distance.

Other 2 knights go around killing the germs with 5 to 10 squares in diference.

The germ rain only happens on the culexus and justicar pair. They take no damage and can hold well the reinforcements.

Your tip was extremely helpful.

I was in the first 0.1% to complete this mission. Just doing my second one right now as well. Wondering if we get hit with the same spell each time or not. I have went with Plagued resistant gear and high res characters this time, just in case.

Originally posted by rafacasper:

My tactic is: 3 justicar and culexus.

The plague is psychic so culexus is immunne.

I got a knight with immune to plague armor. They both stay near the hive weeding the reinforcements., very close to each other, at max 2 or 3 squares in distance.

Other 2 knights go around killing the germs with 5 to 10 squares in difference.

The germ rain only happens on the culexus and justicar pair. They take no damage and can hold well the reinforcements.

similar to what I;m doing, only I don't have the Cullexus yet. I have my Callidus and Vindicare that I can set to 90% res (for general resistance) and then I have a strat that gives us 100% res for 3 turns.

Hoping this will help. The first time I did it I just healed, but now I'm coming back better armed to deal with it. Hopefully can get through without needing heals.

I'll definitely trey out your strat next time, as will have Cullexus by then, and I already have the Terminator armour with the Plagues res on it.

EDIT: This was game ending for me. Trying to reach all five germs, while passing the spreader that had so many plague marines defending it it left my squad dead or out of commission, was impossible.
Got four germs but having to circle around the spreader to get the fifth was impossible. Didn't even get close, with heal strategems, Crowe, a Cullexus assassin (tried many squad make-ups). As I said, it was "Game over, man".

Some find it easy, but bugger me I found it a terribly designed mission, with raining plague, buffed enemies that took 5 hits to go down, plague marines that moved in between my moves, killing a knight trying to heal, and my Knights in their paper-thin Aegis armour.
This is where my campaign ended, after many, many tries. Didn't expect an impossible mission on Merciful.

Originally posted by Herodotus:

EDIT: This was game ending for me. Trying to reach all five germs, while passing the spreader that had so many plague marines defending it it left my squad dead or out of commission, was impossible.
Got four germs but having to circle around the spreader to get the fifth was impossible. Didn't even get close, with heal strategems, Crowe, a Cullexus assassin (tried many squad make-ups). As I said, it was "Game over, man".

Some find it easy, but bugger me I found it a terribly designed mission, with raining plague, buffed enemies that took 5 hits to go down, plague marines that moved in between my moves, killing a knight trying to heal, and my Knights in their paper-thin Aegis armour.
This is where my campaign ended, after many, many tries. Didn't expect an impossible mission on Merciful.

AoE got to you? Have you considered a Paladin? With a proper Armor(say, "Venerable") and a good Shield(say, "Guardian of Mankind" or "Soulguard" are both very good here), you can tank ARMIES(no, really, I once tanked like 4 late game groups with him, oh and one Technophage reinforcement, for a good measure!). Or you can go for full damage and use Ranged(Psycannon?) + Fury. Really amazing.

It's the one class everyone sleeps on.

edit: On Merciful? This is where a Paladin ABSOLUTELY SHINES!

With a GK with the Terminator armor that makes it immune to Plague and Culexus that is immune and can close the rifts on the Spreader, this mission on Merciful is relatively pleasant to handle.

Immune GK and Culexus stay close to the Spreader and the other two take care of the rest. Last time I took an Interceptor and Callidus for this.

Originally posted by Gorwe:

Originally posted by Herodotus:

EDIT: This was game ending for me. Trying to reach all five germs, while passing the spreader that had so many plague marines defending it it left my squad dead or out of commission, was impossible.
Got four germs but having to circle around the spreader to get the fifth was impossible. Didn't even get close, with heal strategems, Crowe, a Cullexus assassin (tried many squad make-ups). As I said, it was "Game over, man".

Some find it easy, but bugger me I found it a terribly designed mission, with raining plague, buffed enemies that took 5 hits to go down, plague marines that moved in between my moves, killing a knight trying to heal, and my Knights in their paper-thin Aegis armour.
This is where my campaign ended, after many, many tries. Didn't expect an impossible mission on Merciful.

AoE got to you? Have you considered a Paladin? With a proper Armor(say, "Venerable") and a good Shield(say, "Guardian of Mankind" or "Soulguard" are both very good here), you can tank ARMIES(no, really, I once tanked like 4 late game groups with him, oh and one Technophage reinforcement, for a good measure!). Or you can go for full damage and use Ranged(Psycannon?) + Fury. Really amazing.

It's the one class everyone sleeps on.

edit: On Merciful? This is where a Paladin ABSOLUTELY SHINES!

Forgot to mention my Paladin. He was part of the squad make-up. Only got him back in the last fifth of the game, and only ever had the dreadnought twice in the 500 Day run, he was a beast bit even he was worn down by constant attacks every turn. I also focused more on research than strategems, and I think this is where the game gets confusing. What route do you follow> by the time objective of researching the, whatever the hell the inquisitor is after there are no more green and yellow seeds to be had. Research or strategems ... you can't have both. Not if you want to survive the Hive Spreader and stop the Morbus from reaching 5.
For me, there is too much of this game left for the player to discover, much of it too late in the game.

I know many of you play Legendary, Grand Master and all that super high level stuff, and I used to too...35 years ago. So Merciful is the hardest for me, as the game is not friendly to the new player and the Knights are far too weak compared with the lore.

well my game is all screwed up. and i did not get the dlc either.