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Hi everybody! Love this game.

I have a question. I have seen it mentioned in the forum at least once but there wasn't agreement what would happen. Perhaps this question has been answered and I failed to find it.

Here is a scenario:

* A war hero (alone) attacks an outpost with 20 drillers and 20 shields.
* war hero's ability activates, 20 drillers die
* battle ends 0 for attacker 0 (???) for defender 20 shields remain
* Tie breaker???? (tie breaker? or defender wins?) specialists break tie war hero wins?

So my question is, am I correct in assuming that the war hero would take the outpost in the scenario that I described? Or do shields remaining affect the outcome of the battle and that the warhero will remain captured.

Thanks.

I ran a simulation in the Time Machine in one of my games. You do not capture the outpost:



It appears as though the shields are part of the "power" and prevent a driller-less sub from capturing a base in this scenario.

Edit: note that I also tried with outposts that had drillers (and they did die from the War Hero's ability), but those outposts also were not captured.

Great question. I"m curious too.

therealben wrote:I ran a simulation in the Time Machine in one of my games. You do not capture the outpost:

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It appears as though the shields are part of the "power" and prevent a driller-less sub from capturing a base in this scenario.

Edit: note that I also tried with outposts that had drillers (and they did die from the War Hero's ability), but those outposts also were not captured.

Thanks!!! That clears things up quite nicely! I suppose that this increases the value of an infiltrator. Otherwise a war hero/general set up would be able to capture many outposts without issue.