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The Banner Saga 2 (2016)

Duration: 10:01

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This was a really tricky map that forced me to rethink how I approached Rook's chapters. The chapter ends when you kill Canary, but she's an extremely strong ranged unit standing behind waves of horseborn and she won't move until you enter her range. She's flanked by two other horseborn Cantref that similarly won't move- so your only option to lure her out is to place a unit in range of all three Cantref. I played a few times with Mogr but it was miserable- if you clear out the units before them then it's really hard to pressure Canary without your lure being overwhelmed.

The unlikely solution was: Hogun! I'd not thought of the guy since he got dropped back in BS1, but without Egil he's the only unit on the team with Shield Wall. Hogun's low stats make him ideal for Shield Wall- the enemy preferentially targets weak units. Shield Wall lets him completely negate the damage from the Cantrefs and take just a scratch from Canary. With hindsight, maybe this was obvious- the reason Egil got ditched in BS1 was because I got Eyvind and no longer needed his services, so it makes sense that after losing Eyvind Shield Wall became useful again. But it blindsided me because I couldn't imagine Hogun, of all people, would be of use. Hogun goes on to become one of the most important units on the team.

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