If we can change the soldier slots that offer those rewards to have a maximum rank (which goes up slowly as Force Level increases) then you have a way of boosting the power of lower-rank soldiers that are filling in for your dead and wounded as the campaign progresses. Some of these are probably better for early or late game, I'm sort of just spitballing.Īs far as the promotions and skill rewards, I think this is an opportunity to create a catch-up system. Boost rebel XP gain or rebel equipment tier in missions.
Reduce detection minimum for incoming reinforcement missions and/or troop maneuvers, or reveal where the next ones will be. Generate some of the WOTC missions Paledbrook was mentioning. Ideas for covert action rewards affecting the strat layer: Really love the idea of re-doing these to more closely mesh with the Long War strategic layer and had some initial thoughts here: #116 (comment) Taking cue again from Covert Action missions, how about spawning a Force reduction mission in a random region?. I do like the idea of covert actions to recover corpses. Because vanilla blankets out the inventory upgrades and LW2 doesn't, this is an obvious area we can expand greatly into. Can we gate covert actions behind research tech? Covert action to recover 2 mag rifles, covert action to salvage 1 coil sniper rifle, covert action to find a suit of Warden Armor, etc. Generic recover alien loot is fine, but could be expanded upon. 
At least in vanilla WOTC, this became high priority based on which action the Chosen was undertaking.
Counterintelligence is -always- a high risk activity, which is warranted given its value at endgame. I see no issue with Tactical Advances or New Orders. I see no issue with Tactical Education, Combat Preparedness or Teamwork Training. I like the idea of Engineer/Scientist missions spawning a VIP recovery, ala Covert Action Missions. Signal Boost - instead of increasing available number of contacts, what about changing to reduce contact cost?. Remove intel, supply collection and region income missions. Going from the Covert Action list, were the choice mine: The sabotage mission to reduce the avatar project by 1 / 2 points should be removed. This ensures that Chosen actually remain viable threats through the entirety of a campaign.Ĥ. Progressing through faction influence and the stronghold quests requires that you progress through the story influence 2 and the mission to find the stronghold needs the black site complete / codex killed, and influence 3 and the stronghold raid need the forge complete / psi gate mission. A lieutenant sharpshooter with 70 aim isn't a liability in a fight (or a military discharge) when you can spend a few months sending him out for training 2 or 3 times.Īlso see Plot Gated Chosen Missions you cannot max out a hero faction influence or 'rush' the chosen at Tech 1 while they still have only troopers and officers. I don't see the stat increases making super soldiers, so much as trying to bandaid weaknesses. 
To my awareness, this is the only realistic way to improve a soldier's Will, as well, so rolling soldiers with 35 willpower is not as crippling. In vanilla they are particularly strong because you field like 6-8 soldiers, but rosters in LW2 are substantially larger and subsequently stat increases end up being much more spread around. I'd be happy to see promotions dropped, but I have a soft spot for the stat increases. They also are not guaranteed to be in the pool, as opposed to added to it: exception being rescue a captured soldier, which appears the month after the capture occurs. When sending soldiers out on these, the duration is long - ~12-14 days with engineer - and the risks are notably higher. See Covert Action Missions I've been using it in my current test and so far it has functioned without issue (only a supply raid at this point).
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