XCOM: Long War - The Goliath Tanks Everything!
This is a mission in the extreme late game of our Long War campaign, December of Year 2! We're playing on Brutal (Community vote on Twitch) Ironman and set out on a relatively routine abductor recovery. The Hyperwave Relay indicated a few Mechtoids, but not much else that should pose an excessive risk, so we sent some soldiers along who could still rank up some. Being so late in the campaign our roster is packed with high tier MSGT's, but we wanted to give some other folks a chance to reach that rank as well! What followed on this "routine" recovery was far from routine!
This Goliath is basically the highest tank unit XCOM can field in Long War. The soldier rolled High HP to start, got an HP at every single level up, got exceptionally high Will Rolls (a Theme in this campaign for me) and his build is simply the central line on the Goliath tree, AKA, all the tanky stuff! He is equipped in a MEC-5 Devastator armor with 24 base HP, +4 for Extra conditioning, and 2.5 base DR. He has Alloy Carbide Plating on for 4 more HP, and Core Armoring, making him immune to crits.
Arguably the tank could be improved a little more with either Tactical Sensors, or a Battle computer, both of which would increase his defense, but increasing defense can have the opposite effect of intended for this unit, and make the aliens shoot other targets if the Goliath is too hard to hit!
This mission illustrated the excessive strengths, and glaring weaknesses of the Goliath, but was a ton of fun either way. Though admittedly, it was quite stressful as well!
*SPOILER BELOW FOR MISSION OUTCOME*
For anyone curious who didn't want to do the counting themselves, I added up all the attacks made against the Goliath, and these were the numbers:
35 total attacks.
8 of those 35 missed.
3 Mindfrays (1 damage each).
221 total damage was taken, or mitigated by DR (Damage Reduction).
That means that the Goliath tanked a total amount of damage that was over 400% more than the 52 he entered the battle with. Yes, he got healed some, but that is just an absurd amount of tank!
To be fair, none of the aliens on this mission fielded HEAT ammo, so that helped, but that demonstrates how powerful the tank can be when fielded against the right targets.
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