Melee or Ranged Koschei?

[jnericsonx]

I've done one playthrough of each, not sure which has more viability IMHO. Thoughts?

[Chigen Atomic]

Honestly, Koschei works either way. I played strongly melee last time and it did great. Not until late game did it get heavily damaged. With it's deathless ability, it's covered for getting in close.

[frdnwsm]

Ranged; you can open fire on the enemy while staying under cover.

[Lord Of Dorkness]

I personally found the low to-hit of Koshei's melee very frustrating, but I haven't tried the ranged tree yet.

[Chigen Atomic]

I will admit, his hit chance during melee was pretty low, but you can buff. He'd still miss quite a bit, but not too many times.

[chaosbringer42]

For melee he is heavy damage low chance to hit. For ranged he is high damage high chance to hit.

[steelcoresoviet]

Both. An overclocked Koschei is the best fire support buddy in the game. Use melee to knock guys out of cover, then shoot them. The laser in particular is too insane not to take.

EDIT: I should specify I take all ranged upgrades, except the rotary saw. Accuracy and pierce> Bleed

[Chigen Atomic]

that seems to be a game thing except where lasers are common. If given the opportunity, choose the laser.

[Yolomancer]

I found melee to be almost invaluable through the game as a good tank. Since he was deathless he would soak up so much firepower. The best part of the robot is the armor shred ability. If you can stun+armorshred,even spidertanks go down quickly.

[cityofgolem]

I've found Koschei's ranged weapons to be so much more effective than his melee ones, that even if I'm using him almost exclusively in melee, running him up next to the target and then shooting them point-blank works better than actually using melee weapons enough to be worth upgrading them.

[Duuvian]

I went ranged. Koschei can move really far and take cover from a different angle than the rest of the team on the first turn.

[dwarfpcfan]

ranged