Statue of Liberty's Torch

[Aotrs Commander]

I didn't get Eli until fairly late (I recruited about three henchmen back to back), I thought as soon as I could. I'm currently on A Moment's Respite - have I missed his loot quest? I really only grabbed him so I could get that, so if I have, I'll bump him off for someone else.

(Not going to be getting all the henchmen this playthrough anyway, since I didn't twig and quest-killed Deep Six and Janet and had gotten a fair bit on before I had second thoughts about it...)

[MaceX]

It sounds like you missed it. Some of the side quest will go away as you progress through the story. I believe that is one of the earlier ones that appear only if you have him. It is one of those that disappear as you progress further in the story. So getting him late would mean that you missed it.

[Aotrs Commander]

Darn. Thanks. It's annoying, since when I first saw the "some sidequests go away" warning, I stopped dead, went back and did all of them before going through the main quest. I must just have pushed through the main quests maybe on instance too far in thinking "tier V must be soon!", I guess, then, since I'm pretty sure I started on the henchmen quests when the recruitment popped up, but apparently not quite soon enough. (It was, like, maybe 35 hours in and I had reached the point I had everything except the final tier and it was starting to drag, since I really needed that last mining tier to do any more useful expansion...)

I'll fricking bet you it is the ONLY one I've missed, since I seem to have managed to get all the others so far.

(Given how long a playthrough this game seems to be - up to 80 hours so far - I'm not in a huge hurry to do a new one, but I think unlike EG1, there is a fair chance I might revisit it without a nearly 20-year period in between. (I played EG1 for the second time immediatel before this one, to compare and contrast...)

Well, at least I can cap Eli now and replace him with someone a bit more useful, since unlike Jubei, he is nowhere near as useful than his Dad was at this point.

(Natutally, I'd mission killed Deep Xix and Janet before it occurred to me I should have recutietd and THEN killed them, so no "all henchme" this time either...")

[MaceX]

DLC henchmen are not required for that achievement. So Janet would have been the only one to have effect. Unlike EG1, at least the main story for each Genius is different.

[Aotrs Commander]

That presumably means brainwashed super-agents don't count, either.

Yes, I definitely think that I will be likely to do another playthrough at some point with at least one of the others (I mean, BRIAN BLESSED is voicing one, that's encouragement in itself!), but I think likely a second likely 100-hour run right after the first might be a bit too much. I tend to be somewhat ADD with games - heck many games only get the one playthrough, and those get get more than two are VERY rare - but at the least, I think EG2 is going to be worth a second, to apply the things I have learned. (And like Rimworld, the second playthrough might be a while down the line, but it's something to look forward to, which is something of a backhanded compliment, I suspect.)

EG2 has, at least certainly been worth its pennies, which is for example more than I can say for Paradox's Imperator, for instance.