Best Tactic Against Fogmen?

[NotFox]

Anything?

[The Sign of 33]

Run.. Run like hell..

[Springwiesel87]

have a very good Squad, high stats... and nothing in your way while you running like the "Roadrunner"

[Slinger]

You can take groups of 30 Fogmen with a 10 man squad with combat skills in the 30+ range.

[NotFox]

1st comment: Funny
2nd Comment: Sorta helpful
3rd Comment: Much more helpful

But I was thinking along the lines of: A certain weapon and skill that is more effective.

I feel like since their main advantage is numbers, a big fellow with a lot of strength and a large axe that can strike three people at a time would be really preferable against them.

[Springwiesel87]

Plank or Fragment-axe...

[NotFox]

Originally posted by Springwiesel87:

Plank or Fragment-axe...

Thats what I figured I just wanted to get other opinions as well.

[My What]

You'd need more people just to keep them off your plank guy, there'll be a good amount of tarpitting because of that but if you're working with low-mid guys, like 20-35, fast weapons with good reach is pretty good, they don't wear armor, so high cut weapons work pretty good although they don't bleed much
Anyways back to the tarpitting, you're gonna take a fair amount of group damage because of that so try to spread your guys out, while your heavy weapon get some pot shots in, luckily he'll one shot most of them while they're getting damaged from your other guys
You gotta finish off these guys fast, or else there'll be more and more groups piling ontop of you, and sometimes these groups will be exclusively heavies and princes which makes your heavy weapons less effective because of the extra health
If you have one or two high skilled guys, giving them a high damage fast weapon will do wonders, while the rest of the guys ensure that the all-stars don't get swarmed, while they go to each group and kill the fogmen, then a sweeping advance to other groups or to intercept incoming fogmen groups
*Although... really good clubs may actually work well with the mostly blunt heavy weapons

[Aviticus Dragon]

Originally posted by Verrater:

You can take groups of 30 Fogmen with a 10 man squad with combat skills in the 30+ range.

The problem isn't taking out the first group, it's the 2nd, 3rd and 4th group that comes. Honestly I believe there's some hidden "trigger' that happens - once you engage the fogmen more of them are alerted and come. At least that's been my experience so far with them.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

high speed character extreamly proficiant with katans., i can ussualy solo large groups of frogmen just because of high weapon and other skills, i can get in about 6 to 8 hits in before they retaliate, and by then thats 4 frogmen down on average.

alos know when to pause and order your character to retreat to get some breathing room.
rince and repeat and you should mow throu frogmen like you was after there legs for dinner.

[Slinger]

Originally posted by Aviticus Dragon:

Originally posted by Verrater:

You can take groups of 30 Fogmen with a 10 man squad with combat skills in the 30+ range.

The problem isn't taking out the first group, it's the 2nd, 3rd and 4th group that comes. Honestly I believe there's some hidden "trigger' that happens - once you engage the fogmen more of them are alerted and come. At least that's been my experience so far with them.

They do seem to come all at once sometimes.

My current make-up in this playthrough isn't ideal. I just made my way to Mongrel to see if any blueprients that I hadn't already bought were available (another waster trip to Mongrel). So I'm relatively late game, all workshops and labs have been looted.

Squad (10-man):

Weapons: 3x Katana's (1 Topper, 2 Noda'), 2xPaladin's Cross, 1xFlesh Cleaver, and 3 Desert Sabres.

Armor: All specialist/masterwork Samaurai Armor and Blackened Chainmail Shirts

Average Stats: Str: 30, Tough: 35, Dex: 30, Combat O: 32, Combat D: 35

This group was able to wade through groups (30) of Fogmen, like no big deal. The rediculous armor helped, this is the first time I've lucked out with the Samurai BP's.

[bz_siege_01]

Early game, I made the mistake of going to mongrel. I got absurdly lucky and only ran into a small group on my way in. I thought the danger had been exaggerated by others. I set up shop then tried to leave with my 8 guys... like 5 times in different directions. Basically I was mauled over and over. I tried the aforementioned strategy of 4 guys mining and 4 kiting. Here is what I noticed:

My squad of martial artists did better in the early stages, level 15-25ish. The katana squad always went down, but the monks tended to dodge. The monks had lower damage output, but they survived better. Once I hit about 25, it started to flip. By level 25 the group of 8 started to manage the fogmen swarms without needing guards to rescue and even my katana group stayed on their feet. But the katana guys got better at blocking then developed that skill where they step in and get 2-3 attacks in... that drops the fogmen (not Heavies) pretty quickly.

Oh... the dog leveled up to Elder status and he is a friggin wrecking ball to fogmen. I hear a snarl and a bark and then there are like 5 columns of green numbers in the 100's. Granted, this poor dog has been brawling since a pup.

Once your levels are all upper 30's you can pretty much run end-to-end through the fog islands without a loss. The heavies still put a couple guys in splints now and then.

Frankly, Mongrel is still my favorite town so far.

[NotFox]

Thanks for all the input guys!

[My What]

Yeah you don't leave Mongrel until you become the very monsters you have spent the better part of a week fighting lol

[Al Capwn]

Personally I have found that a small, elite squad of heavily armored fighters can reliably weather hordes of fogmen. Because the fogmen like to swarm you, weapons with long reach tend to be very effective; polearms, fragment axes etc.

On a sidenote I have found that fogmen offer an opportunity to make some pretty good money.
1: Find a fogman camp.
2: Strap a squad member you don't like to one of the feeding poles.
3: Cut down the fogmen as they rush in to eat your 'bait'.
I have personally harvested over 100k worth of Fog Prince heads from one single camp using this strategy.

[Shidan]

Originally posted by Al Capwn:

Personally I have found that a small, elite squad of heavily armored fighters can reliably weather hordes of fogmen. Because the fogmen like to swarm you, weapons with long reach tend to be very effective; polearms, fragment axes etc.

This works especially well because of their low HP, plus they're naked. High damage, long reach, weapons are like a hot knife through butter.

Originally posted by Al Capwn:

2: Strap a squad member you don't like to one of the feeding poles.

I'd suggest using some other npc instead. Less risky, and you get to use everybody. Putting another Fogman on the pole works as well. They still show up to "eat" him, but he takes no damage from it. So you can't lose your bait. ;)