How to do the aurora battle at the starport?

[TEA-90]

That world bearer just promptly kill one or two of my guys than proceed to destroy the space ships. It has more than 300 wound, 6 deflection and other ridiculous stats, plus a bunch of cultist.
I am fairly sure that i suppose to escape somehow but dont know how.

[Sparhawk122]

No escaping from that fight. You have to kill him and all his minions.

[TEA-90]

Welp okay.

[RipperDoc]

you need to kill the minios before and the electric priest...

[Omicronus]

yeah I died on my first try, second try is easy once you get rid of that damn sniper in the corner, then just grenade the minions while your tanks and heavy hitters hit Aurora

[ColdSteel5a]

Spread out, leave 2 to deal with cultists and 4 to deal with marine. Use free turns from officers on Argenta to kill cultist to get momentum. Get someone next to Marine (abelard) to make him run into the cover of the shuttle. Then, once it's your turn and you have full momentum. Cassia - Debuff with fear thing. That lowers health to around 200. Then, debuff with pascal and use Abelard to repeatedly attack. Use Argenta to farm momentum. The CSM was a 2 turn fight for me.
I also have a hired officer and main character is officer. That and Cassia give me 3 free rounds of shooting with Argenta - which generally starts out with full (ish) momentum, so that on my first turn, I'm able to move Abelard into contact w/biggest threat and pop heroic action in 1st round.

[VelesWorshipper]

I defeated him without problems. I concentrated on him, the cultists were not a problem. I was constantly buffing Abelard, and he basically killed him alone in three, four turns. The rest was then easy.

[talemore]

Leave and shoot the planet from space.

[His Divine Shadow]

With a bolter and chain sword

[Rainnd]

With 2 or more officers you can win that fight in 1 turn phase. Have officers with seize the moment talent, give some extra turns to Argenta equiped with sniper rifle and have her take down sniper on the platform. Debuff Boss with Cassia, and then finish off everything with giving officers heroic action to Argenta.

[Warhunter]

do you have tactical advantage on either of your operatives?
you want them spamming exploits on a single target and using tactical advantage (try to make sure you only hit 1 enemy with it to turn all their exploit into tactical advantage stacks)
then use your officer to give your operatives more turns
once you get your operative alot of stacks use the officer's heroic action on them to allow them multiple high damage shots

analyze enemies (gives exploit on the target) scales of int. so pascal is a good choice to focus on. if you got no respite (officer talent) and cassia with the staff that gives +5 stats on target everytime you use navigator power on them you can stack pascal stats quite high

each tactical advantage stack gives 2% armor to everyone and +1 damage to the operative
i had pascal hitting around 60 damage or 120 for crit. killed the boss on round 2

[Daleorn]

Another aspec here might be the broken buffs some characters get that will make the game easy no matter what difficulty. And I mean literally broken buffs where youre getting insane stat increases. So if you chose certain talents you might be cruising through the game thinking youre amazing at it, like I was, when its really just broken.

This comes online super early too so Im pretty sure my multiple officer Aurora fight was cheesed and I didnt even realize it.

This is from a different random battle but I did not get 26 extra turns for all this willpower or over 100 extra action points for no respite.

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[TEA-90]

Wow tnx for all the tips, but after i realized that i have to kill him i just hopped back killed him. Its intresting to see how other solved this problem, cause i just simply sniped his ass while i sacrificed my melee characters, minions were dealt with shotgun and grenades after that.

[Shadowkire]

If you have Pascal with the talent that gives 1 AP every time he uses a plasma weapon and a plasma pistol, then use the Officer heroic ability on him so he can step into melee with Aurora and shoot 11 times in a row. Unfortunately is stops at 11 for some reason, maybe its a bug, but you can then pass the rest on the herioc on to a Warrior(Abelard, Heinrix, MC, etc.) and get 3 hits in with them.

That would do a lot of damage and leave the boss in melee with 2 of you characters.

[Froggo]

i dont get it how ppl win this fight
he kills conistantly, even if i put my ppl in cover away from him at least one of my members
highest i had was 4
i dont corner aurora? just runs to the shuttles, destroys´them fully ignoring me ends the fight in 3-4 turns
i try to corner him? barrage kills 1-3 of my ppl
and thats with ignoring the bs minions and the even more bs 3 hit tanking sniper
im going into that fight blindly first run of the game so no "uh acctually why diddnt u build this exact counter build DUH everyone knows this bs"

that fight is utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

edit im on attempt 28

[Shadowkire]

Originally posted by Froggo:

i dont get it how ppl win this fight
he kills conistantly, even if i put my ppl in cover away from him at least one of my members
highest i had was 4
i dont corner aurora? just runs to the shuttles, destroys´them fully ignoring me ends the fight in 3-4 turns
i try to corner him? barrage kills 1-3 of my ppl
and thats with ignoring the bs minions and the even more bs 3 hit tanking sniper
im going into that fight blindly first run of the game so no "uh acctually why diddnt u build this exact counter build DUH everyone knows this bs"

that fight is utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

edit im on attempt 28

Get the talent Seize the Initiative on any officers you have in your party. it allows the character a free turn with 2 AP at the beginning of combat where they can only use officer abilities. This will allow you some actions before Aurora even acts.

Try to get 4 people with melee weapons to surround him. He won't be able to shoot when adjacent to a melee weapon-equipped character. He will try to Kick one of your people away and then shoot but you will be able to get plenty of attacks of opportunity.

Have Argentia try to burst shot away most of the minions and take care of the sniper.