Rank 15 feels like it's not in a good place.

[lolstar64]

I wanted to beat every rank with every gun which I've accomplished recently. Since then I've been playing Rank 15 with all the guns and have beaten it with all guns multiple times but the more and more I play it the less and less I'm liking it. My main issue is that the detriments has increased to such an extent that even beating the first level it too heavily dependent on RNG and replaying the first level over and over again is not fun.

The 25 extra spread in combination with the large number of starting pieces makes going for a quick king assassination very unlikely. On average it takes 4 perfect shots to kill him which is not really viable with the number of enemy pieces. However since most guns can no longer OHKO you basically need to weaken pieces at a range but again, thanks to the extra 25 spread this becomes a die roll. Then, even if you successfully manage this, some pawns will often break through and promote and you have to pray that not too many promote to Rooks/Queens or else it's game over. As a result, most of my time playing is on the first and if I'm lucky, 2nd levels without really having upgrades. This is not an enjoyable experience. While I think that a change is needed and there are several I could suggest, I think the least intrusive one is make it so pawns cannot promote to Queens until you take the Queen card.

Just to be clear some guns have it much worse than others. By far the two best guns for Rank 15 have been the Victoria and (surprisingly) Richard III. Solomon is fine and Ramses II is worse than Solomon. Lastly the Nakeda is is just pure misery. While some of the other guns feel like they are spending 50% of their time in level 1, for the Nakeda it's closer to 90%. I'm not going to go into full detail in this post due to length but if someone wants a followup post talking about the different guns and how Rank 15 affects them I'll do it.

[mraye55]

Agreed. I envy that you've finished it at all. Something in me, I think, savors the failure of it.

Idk. Idk idk. idk. surely I could see what I need to see in 5 turns' time. Surely. But I don't

[phantom]

Ramses ll I would have figured was not worse than soloman because the inconsistent knockback is actually useful for stopping pawns from promoting. That said I beat it with victoria and then never did past ranked 1 again.

Well a lot of time is spent on round 1 and 2 I would figure it would still be later rounds most losses are on. It is basically rng that you get fire power to deal with the pawns at all without something that makes them even worse.