Is campaign actually meant to be totally impossible?

[killakanz]

Every time I've tried a new campaign, a 300G ant army appears at turn 10 and wipes out everything.

I gave it my best shot just now and it ate through 6 entire armies, which included supply trucks and sappers as well as the light infantry, which is all I have to use since you only start with 150 exp and capturing rooms doesn't gain any. I only managed to grind the ants down to 260G...

The campaign actually seems impossible. Completely impossible.

Or am I just doing it wrong?

[Insane Dreamers]

Hi, thanks for your post.
the new update lowers the first ant swarm from 300 to 100 as you can read on News page.
probably this link can help you :)
http://steamcommunity.com/games/homewars/announcements/detail/2633891887906061238

[killakanz]

Ok, update installed... and this is still stupidly impossible. Managed to get the 100G ant army down to 19G, losing 7 entire armies which were similar to before, but I got some machine gunners in there and even using sappers to build up as much defenses as I could before the swarm arrived and I still get wiped out. Then another 100G ant army turned up, that's not even counting the other 130G+ bug armies that were conquering the rest of my rooms. Base room lost in 13 turns.

THIS. IS. IMPOSSIBLE.
Seriously guys, there's hard, insane then there's this game. What's the point?

[Glorwyn]

Have you tried turning down the difficulty?

[killakanz]

I've looked for difficulty settings. They seem well hidden, if there is any...

[Funky Monk]

Hey i've always killed the 300G ants but i dont like them running through everything though maybe its the army you raise and btw try changing the days per turn. It helps with exp.

[Insane Dreamers]

do you read the text in the above link?

[Glorwyn]

Also one more thing, I went without unlocking the supply truck right off.... I unlocked machinegunners and would put a line of light rifles in front of them and set them to fire at will. Chews through the armies fairly well...

[Atlantika]

I never have any issue killing the 300g ant swarm ( really sad it got nerfed myself ) only bad thing is theres so many of the ants it usually takes about 2 battles to kill the swarm off.

also the wierd part is I kinda wish they did but the swarm / normal army of bugs never attack the same area at same time...

[Beatty]

50/50 dificulty guys, the developers are gonna go mad if no one has any common sense here.

[Arc]

Never had a problem with those ants (i play at 50%, maybe 75% health and 100% damage), acctually never took any losses to them.
Howizer + heavy rifleman FTW

[LV100egg]

Originally posted by Beatty:

50/50 dificulty guys, the developers are gonna go mad if no one has any common sense here.

and if we ARE on 50/50 difficulty and still struggling with the stupid difficulty? I was on the easiest settings I could get(including minimum units on screen for a better soldier to bug ratio) and a glitch happened that caused me to get +70 XP per turn, I still couldn't get past the first swarm of ants and had only won one or two battles before that point.
Edit: I guess the xp was because I had it set to 3 days per turn

[Glorwyn]

Machineguns are super powerful too.

[Insane Dreamers]

good :)
but too powerful?

[Glorwyn]

Ehh, super op when hp is at 50%, but not too powerful. I would reduce their damage a bit though and increase their fire rate. (Keep them just as effective... but a bit more expensive to keep them firing.) Becuase right now my current strategy is small group of heavy rifles in front of a big line of machinegunners followed by artillery. Chews threw everything at 50% hp, but I am upping it soon because its too easy.

[Insane Dreamers]

good strategy!