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I tend to like to keep my distance from enemies and force them into longer range slug fests. Getting close for melee often makes me have to risk some damage that can be catastrophic if it lands.

It's a mod by misterslack. It may be a bit wonky though since updates have broken parts of it, but we got it working with minimal effort for this run.

It's been hard to coordinate a season 4 with all the other things we've been doing in life and also recording. KDM is a great game, and we still have one last episode to make for this series (or maybe two). We'll try to get to it in January if we can. After that, we'll talk about a season 4.

It was a great fight. I had some hope for a turnaround victory, but it just wasn't meant to be.

Thanks!~ I love how dynamic it is, and I'm really looking forward to the future updates and planes as they come out.

I'm enjoying it, even though it's still in Early Access. The plans for it are exciting too. They are talking about adding in more planes, such as bombers and fighter variants. More videos are on the way!

@@DrObsidia Yeah I can already imagine taking part in a bomber interception with other AI friendlies against fighters defending their bombers. That would be a very cool scenario, but probably still far away from being made

I've seen some of their videos about what they're planning. It looks ambitious and quite exciting if you take the existing framework as a model for what is to come. As it stands, the game is still really fun.

Jim and I talked about it. There is no multiplayer yet, so we'll have to wait and see.

I wish I could make more. My current save isn't loading though, so enjoy the ones that are posted.

Nice strategy!

@@DrObsidia battering ram is overrated, if it is on the field, there I will always be troops waiting at the door courtyard. This may not always work to 100% if the castle/town layout is hard and/or there is a noble positioning those troops

It's called the "Quality Crafted Two-Handed Axe". I got it through crafting. The name might have given that away. Heheh.

Unfortunately, the save was broken due to an update. Check out the co-op ones we did, especially season 3 that's ongoing, though we're in a holding pattern due to work-related delays.

@@DrObsidia Uff, sorry to hear it. I'll check out the co-op!

You're talking about ground fighting, right? Whenever you try to use an activation (i.e. action) near the grounded lion, you have to resolve the card first. You can move in and out of the zone without any problem. It's only when you use an activation that the lion gets to act first.

@@DrObsidia Thanks for the answer!

@@feliix88 I think so... check the card for a small A in the corner which denotes what kind of card it is.

Great points. I'm enjoying your comments! Makes me really want to try to fix the mod to see if I can salvage the save. Win7 was an epic OS, so I don't blame you for wanting to stick with it.

@@DrObsidia Haha, glad I'm inspiring you, because you and The Edmon have broken me. I dropped a fat wad of cash I shouldn't have on a new laptop running W10 (the battery was gone in my old one and it was too dang slow anyway) so I can hopefully play this. Just have to find a mod I like. I kinda liked this one, but since you said it doesn't work anymore I guess it's out. Thus far, I'm not real keen on the Roguetech, BT Revised, or the XLRP mods. RT & BTR have a bunch of weird one-off weapons that use hard to find ammo and all of them have the full-send geek mode mech bay where you can swap out engines and whatnot and if your internals get blown apart you have to source replacements for them. I love reconfiguring mechs, probably more than the battles, but that's way more in depth than I want to go. In the meantime, I highly recommend watching The Edmon's campaigns, if you haven't already. Like I said, he's a surgeon when it comes to mech battles and you can really learn a lot watching him precisely disassemble the enemy forces, even if you're just a casual player like us.

@@DrObsidia So...I finished the story campaign. The first time I tried the final showdown, I got mauled badly. The first part of it went easy, but the duel was pretty horrifying when I was woefully under-prepared for it. To be honest, it sort of traumatized me, lol. I got my butt kicked so hard, that once I confirmed that there was no way I was going to be able to pull out a win and resigned myself to going back to before taking the final mission to grind my pilots skills up and get some better mechs, I kind of built up Vicky's mech up to be some uber-buffed juggernaut equipped with super-weapons, which in a lot of ways it was. It definitely had more armor than the standard variant and the AC20s were cranking out 120 dmg shots on a bulwarked mech while the plasma flamers could barbecue a mech from halfway across the map. I ended up so reluctant to think I was ready to face that again that the game essentially forced me into it when the missions dried up. I was really trying to get a King Crab, before I tried it again because someone said they made good missile platforms (they don't, BTW, all the missile hardpoints are on one side of the torso, and while you can get a 50 LRM volley out of it, you pretty much have to lose everything else--armor, backup weapons, mobility, etc...) Stalkers make much better missile platforms. I've got mine setup with a pair of LRM15s, and a pair of LRM10s supported with six tons of ammo and a TTS++protected by 1240 points of armor with two medium lasers as backup. A 50 LRM volley is no joke. It effectively washes smaller mechs off the map. Granted, the Stalker lacks the the Missilery Suite the Archer has, so even with the TTS, it doesn't cluster the LRMs as tightly. I don't think you can beat the Archer for precision missile fire, but you also can't get a 50 LRM volley out of an Archer--well you could with the variant that has 4 missile hardpoints, but you have to drop so much armor and any other weapons to be able to carry enough ammo to have any sort of endurance, that a Locust might be more heavily armored. My Stalker also has jump jets so it can get up on high places to rain down hate on the enemy with indirect fire while the enemy can't fire back. It rarely ever takes a hit, frankly. So, yeah, the Archer is better at focusing the damage, but the Stalker can sustain a missile volley almost as long as an LRM carrier vehicle can and quantity has a quality all it's own. The Longbow might be able to match it, but I don't have any experience with the Longbow, so I'm not sure what it's limitations are in terms of ammo, heatsinking, and mobility. Anyway, after being underwhelmed by the King Crab, which it seems like I always am by 100 ton mechs, and loosing C-bills once the contracts started drying up to the point it was only giving me about one contract per planet which given the travel time between planets, wasn't paying the bills, I decided to bite the bullet and try my luck again with the final mission. I was, after all, much better equipped, with a full lance of Assault Mechs and topped out pilots. I ended up taking my SL-era Highlander 732B, my Highlander 733, and my Stalker along with Kamea to the final showdown. It was night and day difference. I parked my Stalker up on the top of a mountain, so far up the OpFor couldn't even see it, and then parked my 732B up on the arena stands, where the OpFor couldn't get a good close range shot at it. I had Kamea over on the opposite side of the arena taking their fire support mech under fire, while I had my 733 positioned near the entrance until Vicky started getting too close, after which I moved it over to Kamea's side and continued to hammer away at Vicky with LRMs, Gauss cannon rounds, and AC10 rounds. When Vicky lost her left torso, I knew this time was going to be a lot different. Finally, she screwed up and stepped away from the arena wall she had been hugging, to try to close with Kamea and it was then that my 732B fired a Gauss cannon shot right up her arse and ended her. It was a thing of beauty. Vicky's last remaining lancemate did manage to take off the 733's left arm and torso before the 732B jumped down from the stands and ended it with a Gauss canon shot followed by an LRM15/SRM6/SRM4/ER Mlaser/2 Mlasers/Llaser strike (not the full Alpha--wasn't close enough for the machine guns), but other than that, everyone was pretty unscathed. It felt easy, actually. Amazing how much difference Elite pilots in mechs kicking out over a hundred points more DPS makes, lol. I do feel like the Stalker was the key to the whole thing. It softened up the targets nicely for the 732B and 733 to drive in those ballistics. On a different note, is it just me, or did you notice how easy Highlander's are to head-cap? At one point I had seven 733Ps and two 733s to go with my 732B and most of them were taken outright by head shots. I'm a huge fan of the Highlander now, as well as the Stalker, which in other games seemed kinda blah, but having even lost a pilot or two from head hits, it does seem like they are abnormally easy to head-cap. Then again, one of my pilots did deliberately head-cap two Warhammers in a row with an AC10 once, I'm talking the second one was on the immediate next shot--bang-bang, two down the hard way, so maybe Warhammers are more susceptible to head shots as well. I guess I have to say there aren't many mechs in the game I can say I appreciate. Of the lights, only the Firestarter really stands out. In the mediums, go Griffin or go home. Accept no substitute (coughwolverinecough). Honestly though, the Centurion is okay too. Heavies...the Archer is really the only one that comes to mind as a stand-out. As far as Assaults go, obviously the Highlander and the Stalker are the clear stand outs. The Awesome isn't terrible either if you use it in a fire support role and ditch the PPCs in favor of jump jets, armor, and ammo. The rest, including the 100 tonners are all pretty much hot garbage, although, I guess I could try to do something with the King Crab besides make it a missile platform before I pass judgement on it. For instance, if you switched the AC20s out for AC10s or LB10Xs, switched the LRMs for four SRM6s you could maybe get something more sustainable.

Some really good points. I was playing around with various ideas throughout this series. I haven't been able to get it to work the last time I tried to launch it following the discontinuing of the mod and an update to my PC. If I ever can get the save to work again, I'd like to continue the series. If you keep watching, you'll see the usefulness and weakness of my attempt with the Firestarter.

@@DrObsidia Yours isn't the first Firestarter pugilist I've seen. The Edmon, another TH-camr that has put his game play up had one he called the Fightstarter. He had it up to Mk 3 as far as I know in his series "4 Lights"--only scene bits of thar series though, specifically him taking apart two heavy/assault lances, with base turret support with only 4 light mechs by using LOS control and the ability to jump in behind the heavies and jump back out before they could get a shot by fully using the light mech initiative bonus to move twice per round. The dude is a freakin' surgeon the way he takes the enemy apart using his deep knowledge of the game mechanics. He likes to play with the difficulty set to "frustrating as hell" though, meaning a shot with a 90% chance to hit only actually hits about 10% of the time, and his progression is glacial slow.

Update to TTS broke the save. Co-Op season 1 had a similar problem. Co-Op season 2 was a surrender. Co-Op season 3 is still ongoing.

Since we're both casual gamers that play a bunch of different things, we're bound to make mistakes. We have a house rule that we tend to mess up as often against us as we do for us, so if we both miss something, we just chalk it up as a learning experience, accept the mistake as a past reality, and update our future play styles to patch the hole in our understanding. But, thanks for posting. It's good to have extra eyes on our games, and it's helped us in other playthroughs that we did after this series.

We played a lot prior to the pandemic, but it's been years, so we forgot almost all of everything. Breaking it out again has been like rewatching a TV series where you've forgotten most of the story in the years since you've seen it, but remember the highlights. So by turning away from that script display, it was a way of sort of reliving the surprise of the game all over again. (Plus, hiding the information from people who may not have owned or played the game before.)

We'll release an episode a week, and we're looking into a second season as well.

@@DrObsidia cool. I don't know if you want people pointing out overlooked rules or not... When you use an action card with "Assignment" you resolve it immediately during the assignment phase. Jim should have resolved Temporary Alliance anytime during his assignment phase, then you should have resolved Brilliant Administrator anytime during your mission assignments. The leader is place on the board during the assignment phase, and will block movement, etc. Also, Even though Tarkin has no spec ops, he still opposes the mission (he was present). This means Jim would still have to roll and get at least 1 success. If there are zero opposing leaders present the mission auto-succeeds, but if there are opposing leaders present, even without the right symbol, the player attempting the mission still has to roll at least 1 success (more successes then their opponent, as ties go to the defender).

For this mod of SWR, the minimap show the imperial symbol on the starting imperial systems because they can never be the rebel base (the cards were removed from the game). The stormtrooper symbol means you checked the system without the probe card. The probe symbol means you currently have the probe card. After the base if relocated by the rebel player. Any system that was marked with a stormtrooper (checked, but don't have the probe card) will become a TIE Advanced symbol meaning, you previously checked, but the rebels could have moved there. You can quickly change the icon on the minimap by pressing 1 through 6 while hovering over the icon.

@@KC-xd3ro - We very much welcome feedback and corrections to rules we miss. Having somebody watching that isn't actively discussing and playing is a huge help to catch things we miss, and it helps us out a lot. I didn't realize that he still had to get one success for opposed missions where I have no icon. p9 in reference rules is where that explanation is that we missed. Currently, this series is all recorded and scheduled for weekly releases, so we'll miss these issues throughout the game. (We play a bunch and record several episodes at once, then release slowly to keep the channel alive and moving.) We'll definitely be using your feedback on our next series. We're thinking of trying a series with Rise of the Empire expansion next.

I'm glad you're enjoying it. Currently, it's on hold though due to some issues with reinstalling it and the mod on my new computer. I'll hopefully revisit it if I can sort out why it won't launch.

Watch our latest playthrough (Season 3 Co-Op for KDM on my channel to see the more recent version.) The short answer is under the player cards is a Surviviors card now. You just click "+ New Survivor" on that card to add survivors. If you can't see it, just zoom out farther. If you still can't see it, make sure you using the same version of the mod that we are (even though it's slightly buggy now due to no updates) and watch our settlement phase to see how we add.

@@DrObsidia thank you! Almost bought kds just cuz I can't find the add survivor tab after doing the prologue white lion showdown

Didn't know that. Thanks for mentioning it. We'll have to watch out if we go up against the Flower Knight again.

Will do

It says that according the p83 - step 9 : the resource decks don't get reset until the end of the settlement phase (or when cards are 'archived' and are then returned to the deck they came from).

Oops... We forgot about the romantic principle. Our plan for a single lantern year per episode still holds if we can keep the total time under two hours hours, otherwise we split it up. I'm sure the Butcher episode will include the settlement phase.

We haven't checked out the other campaigns yet, but that's definitely something we'll consider for a Season 4.

@@DrObsidia okay thanks for the info there really interesting and do provide quite the change to the gameplay each one does in there own way but thanks for answering was just curious about it

We're hoping for a weekly release until the campaign is over.

There are a lot of episodes. I set up a new computer, and I haven't figured out how to get the mod to work again yet. If I can figure it out eventually, I'll pick the series back up again.