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 1.2.2. The biggest change is in the class trees which got some very major shakeups. 1.2.3 is the current version. It launched as I was finishing my most recent campaign. Looking at the changelog, nearly all of this guide is still relevant. SPARKs are the only thing that got a major rework.
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published 2026-01-29
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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.