[Squad] Treeherders

[Das Keifer]

"One with the forests, these mechs harness nature's power to defend earth from the Vek onslaught"

Current Version: 3.0.0

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This mod balanced for experienced players and it will take a few runs to learn their unique style of play. True to their nature, they are slow to start but can really get rolling by the end of a mission. The battle will turn from repositioning and strategic blocking to total annihilation!

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v3.0 Release Notes:

Entborg is now the cyborg Ironbough - Can be switched back to prime in mod options

Added a new single use weapon, Summon Ancients, to flatten early mission difficulty curve

Added Ancient Forest custom tile for Summon Ancients. Vek that move on it are trapped for a turn, will take 1 damage, and will have their attack flipped. Forest Armor is super powered! Anything other than insta-kill does 0 damage

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v2.0 Release Notes:

Finally lumbering into AE just in time for Christmas, the Treeherders are holding true to their motto of "Don't be hasty". Inspired by ents, this squad focuses on using forest tiles to literally grow their power. The flagship entborg mech gets stronger as the forests get destroyed while the other mechs get stronger the more forest tiles there are.

This is the 2.0 release complete with a full set of achievements and features a total rehaul of most of the weapons to take advantage of two click mechanics and to simplify and give more control to the player.

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[isla]

Super cool

[stylesrj]

I've done a run with this squad. It's really good. If you want to see it in action, here's Part 1. Part 2 is also up and Part 3 will be up tomorrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcEKRgAPNYM

[Robert Scythe]

Ok, so I tried these guys a couple of times and had some problems. Didn't make it out of the 1st level Volcano. Then I waited a bit and played them again completing a perfect 4 island hard victory! I think the most difficult occurence was figuring out the attack pattern of the tree launcher mech. I can never tell when it can fire the full length of the map and when it is forced to use the limited range or when it has the ability to target an offset tile. Do not see the rhyme or reason for the way this works. Have to check its attack pattern on every tile to get it to do what I want. I eventually, at the end of the 4th isle, replaced the Arbiformer's Violent Growth weapon for a push tank and an Attraction Pulse because I was using the modded pilot Binah in it and did not need the additional forest tiles. I had already moved their passive equipment to the Entborg and was creating up to 5 forests a turn and I did not miss the attack options. The Attraction Pulse actually helped big time twice in the Volcano isle. Everything was fully upgraded, even had the Force Amp and had a tight but well fought and earned victorious outcome after losing 4 grid on the first level. I really did enjoy the play with these mechs, well balanced and thought provoking. Good job, and thanks for the work you put in! Plus the sprites were top-notch, especially the Entborg.

[ItIsToad]

The link to the Google Drive is broken, so this mod is impossible to download.

[Das Keifer]

Put out a official AE v2.0 of the Treeherders!
Linked to the github release directly this time so it should stay around