This is my campaign roadmap and collection of tips and information gathered through the web as well as my previous Long War of the Chosen campaigns. I hope they can be useful to you for your own campaign!
I am playing on on Legend / Honestman. The game is too buggy to count on an Ironman save not being corrupted. Honestman means you make saves but you don’t use them.
Long War can be tricky to get into because of how many mechanics it introduces and how unforgiving it can be. Compiling info in one place has helped me enormously.
These are my notes, but they are heavily based on Casey Wills’s fantastic guides. I tend to adopt a control-oriented approach and Casey’s tactics guides are perfect for players like me.
I link to his posts all over the place here. In many ways, this guide is a collection of my notes about putting his strategy into practice.
I primarily wrote this for myself as I tend to only play once a year or less. I want to be able to jump back in and take advantage of everything I’ve learned.
This guide was updated after I played a campaign using LWotC 1.2. The biggest change is in the class trees which got some very major shakeups.
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LWotC is a total conversion mod for XCom 2 that combines the brilliant Long War 2 mod with the features added in the War of the Chosen expansion.
XCom 2 is a great game. Pavonis Interactive made it even better with their Long War 2 overhaul mod. Most of what is in LWotC is directly from that mod, including the 8 core soldier classes, a ton of new enemies, and some major additions to the strategy layer such as infiltration and haven management. The LWotC team has combined Long War 2 with the content of the War of the Chosen expansion and put their own mark on the project, providing a clever and and sprawling game.
The mod is somewhat famous for being very difficult, and this is true, but it’s not just hard for the sake of being hard. Long War is worth your time because of the amount of depth and nuance it adds to both the tactical and strategy layers of the game. The mod rewards careful thought and provides a lot of room for virtuosity from the player by providing a deep but balanced tool box.