Havens represent a liberated region of the geoscape and is the hub of information for both XCom's and Advent's strength in the region.

== Personnel ==
Resistance personnel can be assigned jobs from either the geoscape tower icon or the commander's quarters of the Avenger. Personnel represent resistance members and are not soldiers. they will only fight in specific types of battles involving the haven. The personnel can be assigned one of four jobs:
* Intel: generate a small amount of the intel resource and discover missions in the region. Intel will reveal advent activities, they are always here, you just do not know about them yet
* Supplies: generate supplies resources which will be delivered at the end of the month in the supply drop.
* Recruit: attempt to find new resistance personnel with a rare chance to find soldiers, engineers, or scientists.
* Hidden: perform no production but this can help reduce the Advent strength in the region and avoid haven raids.
You can have up to 12 haven personnel actively assigned, any more personnel in the haven will automatically be hidden an cannot be assigned. They can be used as a buffer for retaliation

Resistance personnel can also be acquired as mission rewards. Personnel can gain up to two ranks indicated by zero, one, or two stars next to their names. They are more effective at their task and gain random soldier perks.

== Advent Strength ==
The Advent strength stat describes the number of troops in this region and will increase the baseline enemy strength of missions in the region. Any personnel action besides hidden will cause this to rise. Advent strength is retroactive for missions currently being infiltrated, thus you may notice changes in enemy strength between discovery and execution of a mission.

== XCom Liaison ==
One XCom soldier, scientist, or engineer can be assigned as an liaisonto a region by clicking the box in the upper left of the management screen.
* Soldiers: boost the recruitment action and are the only way to discover Advent infiltrators. The soldier will also be available on any mission in which the resistance personnel take up arms.
* Scientists: boosts intel jobs.
* Engineer: boosts supply jobs.
Soldier rank increases their effectiveness and any equipment the soldier had equipped before assignment will be available to them on haven missions.

== Advent Infiltrators ==
New resistance personnel can be Advent infiltrators, the only indication that this is the case is an "unknown cause" penalty to your monthly supply reward. Assigning a soldier liaison to a haven will eventually reveal the infiltrators and initiate a haven mission to eliminate them.

== Advent Strength Transfer ==

== Facilities ==

[[Category: Long War 2]]

Guerrilla Tactics School (LW2)

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The Guerrilla Tactics School, GTS, functions similarly to the XCom 2 Vanilla version by providing rookie training and squad-wide perks. It now also provides training for squad leaders. Up to two training pods can be built to train [[Officers_(LW2)|officers]].

[[Category: Long War 2]]

Guerrilla Tactics School (LW2)

2017-01-25T19:14:06Z

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Advanced Warfare Center (LW2)

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Adamzl:

The Advanced Warefare Center, AWC, continues to provide the ability for soldiers to acquire perks from other classes but the process is highly changed in Long War 2. Every soldier now has an AWC skills tree, which will feature 3 offensive, 3 defensive, and 7 pistol perks. The pistol perks are always the same 7 though their order of unlock is random, the four offensive and defensive skills are a random subset from other classes. Soldiers may train all 13 perks with enough time and must train in a pod at the AWC, they will not be awarded perks by ranking up.

[[Category: Long War 2]]

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== Sword ==
Swords are used only by the [[Shinobi (LW2)|Shinobi]] class.

== Combat Knife ==
The Combat Knife is a melee weapon carried by [[Gunner (LW2)|Gunner]]s.

== SMG ==
The Submachine Gun can be used by most classes. It does lower damage than assault rifles, has a smaller clip and has more falloff at range, but increases mobility. It also slightly decreases infiltration time for the soldier carrying it.

All SMGs provide 3 mobility and reduced detection radius
{|class="wikitable"
|+Weapon Tiers
!Tier !! Damage !! Crit Damage !! Aim Bonus !! Supplies !! Alloys !! Crystals !! Cores
|-
|Balistic || 2.00-4.00 || +2 || || || || ||
|-
|Laser || 3.25-5.25 || +2 || +5 || 20 || 1 || 1 ||
|-
|Magnetic || 4.75-6.75 || +3 || || 40 || 2 || 2 ||
|-
|Coil || 5.25-9.25 || +3 || || 55 || 3 || 5 ||
|-
|Plasma || 6.50-10.50 || +4 || || 65 || 4 || 10 || 1
|-
|}

== Shotgun ==
Shotguns can be equipped by most soldiers in Long War (though [[Assault (LW2)|Assault]]s are the iconic carriers of this weapon, and have several perks specialising in them).

{|class="wikitable"
|+Weapon Tiers
!Tier !! Damage !! Bonus Damage Chance !! Crit Damage !! Aim Bonus !! Supplies !! Alloys !! Crystals !! Cores
|-
|Balistic || 3-7 || 75% || +3 || || || || ||
|-
|Laser || 4-10 || 50% || +3 || +5 || 25 || 1 || 1 ||
|-
|Magnetic || 6-12 || 25% || +4 || || 45 || 2 || 2 ||
|-
|Coil || 6-16 || || +5 || || 60 || 3 || 5 ||
|-
|Plasma || 8-16 || 75% || +8 || || 80 || 4 || 10 || 1
|-
|}

{|class="wikitable"
|+Weapon Range Bonus
|Range ||1 ||2 ||3 ||4 ||5 ||6 ||7 ||8 ||9 ||10 ||11 ||12 ||13 ||14 ||15 ||16 ||17 ||18 ||...
|-
|Aim Bonus ||40 ||32 ||24 ||16 ||8 ||4 ||0 ||0 || -4 || -8 || -16 || -32 || -40 || -48 || -60 || -70 || -80 || -90 || -100
|}

== Assault Rifle ==
Assault rifles are the default primary weapon of most soldiers. Middle of the road in every way.

{|class="wikitable"
|+Weapon Tiers
!Tier !! Damage !! Bonus Damage Chance !! Crit Damage !! Aim Bonus !! Supplies !! Alloys !! Crystals !! Cores
|-
|Balistic || 3-5 || || +2 || || || || ||
|-
|Laser || 4-6 || 50% || +2 || +5 || 20 || 1 || 1 ||
|-
|Magnetic || 5-9 || || +3 || || 35 || 2 || 2 ||
|-
|Coil || 6-10 || 50% || +4 || +5 || 50 || 3 || 5 ||
|-
|Plasma || 7-13 || || +5 || || 60 || 4 || 10 || 1
|-
|}

{|class="wikitable"
|+Weapon Range Bonus
|Range ||1 ||2 ||3 ||4 ||5 ||6 ||7 ||8 ||9 ||10 ||11-19 ||20 ||21 ||22 ||23 ||24 ||...
|-
|Aim Bonus ||20 ||18 ||16 ||14 ||12 ||10 ||8 ||6 ||4 ||2 ||0 || -5 || -10 || -15 || -20 || -25 || -30
|}

== Cannon ==
Cannons can only be carried by [[Gunner (LW2)|Gunner]]s.

{|class="wikitable"
|Range
|1
|2
|3
|4
|5
|6
|7
|8
|9
|...
|-
|Aim Bonus
| -10
| -5
|0
|5
|10
|8
|6
|4
|2
|0
|}

== Sniper Rifle ==
Sniper Rifles can only be carried by [[Sharpshooter (LW2)|Sharpshooter]]s.

{|class="wikitable"
|Range
|1
|2
|3
|4
|5
|6
|7
|8
|9
|10
|11-20
|22
|23
|24
|25
|26
|27
|28
|29
|30
|31
|32
|33
|34
|35
|36
|37
|38
|39
|40
|...
|-
|Aim Bonus
| -30
| -27
| -24
| -21
| -18
| -15
| -12
| -9
| -6
| -3
|0
| -1
| -2
| -3
| -4
| -5
| -6
| -7
| -8
| -9
| -10
| -11
| -12
| -13
| -14
| -15
| -16
| -17
| -18
| -19
| -20
|}

== Pistol ==
The pistol is now a utility slot item and can be equipped on any soldier.

== Arc Thrower ==
The Arc Thrower is the secondary weapon of the [[Assault (LW2)|Assault]] class. They do no damage, but will stun organic enemies if it hits. Importantly, it has normal range penalties, giving a shotgun equipped Assault an option to use at range.

== Sawed-off Shotgun ==
The Sawed-off shotgun is the close range secondary weapon of the [[Ranger (LW2)|Ranger]] class. It can do colossal damage, especially if both barrels are used at once, but has extreme accuracy penalties beyond a few tiles. These shotguns cannot be reloaded.

[[Category: Long War 2]]

Weapons (LW2)

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== Sword ==
Swords are used only by the [[Shinobi (LW2)|Shinobi]] class.

== Combat Knife ==
The Combat Knife is a melee weapon carried by [[Gunner (LW2)|Gunner]]s.

== SMG ==
The Submachine Gun can be used by most classes. It does lower damage than assault rifles, has a smaller clip and has more falloff at range, but increases mobility. It also slightly decreases infiltration time for the soldier carrying it.

All SMGs provide 3 mobility and reduced detection radius
{|class="wikitable"
|+Weapon Tiers
!Tier !! Damage !! Bonus Damage Chance !! Crit Damage !! Aim Bonus !! Supplies !! Alloys !! Crystals !! Cores
|-
|Balistic || 2-4 || || +2 || || || || ||
|-
|Laser || 3-5 || 25% || +2 || +5 || 20 || 1 || 1 ||
|-
|Magnetic || 4-6 || 75% || +3 || || 40 || 2 || 2 ||
|-
|Coil || 5-9 || 25% || +3 || || 55 || 3 || 5 ||
|-
|Plasma || 6-10 || 50% || +4 || || 65 || 4 || 10 || 1
|-
|}

== Shotgun ==
Shotguns can be equipped by most soldiers in Long War (though [[Assault (LW2)|Assault]]s are the iconic carriers of this weapon, and have several perks specialising in them).

{|class="wikitable"
|+Weapon Tiers
!Tier !! Damage !! Bonus Damage Chance !! Crit Damage !! Aim Bonus !! Supplies !! Alloys !! Crystals !! Cores
|-
|Balistic || 3-7 || 75% || +3 || || || || ||
|-
|Laser || 4-10 || 50% || +3 || +5 || 25 || 1 || 1 ||
|-
|Magnetic || 6-12 || 25% || +4 || || 45 || 2 || 2 ||
|-
|Coil || 6-16 || || +5 || || 60 || 3 || 5 ||
|-
|Plasma || 8-16 || 75% || +8 || || 80 || 4 || 10 || 1
|-
|}

{|class="wikitable"
|+Weapon Range Bonus
|Range ||1 ||2 ||3 ||4 ||5 ||6 ||7 ||8 ||9 ||10 ||11 ||12 ||13 ||14 ||15 ||16 ||17 ||18 ||...
|-
|Aim Bonus ||40 ||32 ||24 ||16 ||8 ||4 ||0 ||0 || -4 || -8 || -16 || -32 || -40 || -48 || -60 || -70 || -80 || -90 || -100
|}

== Assault Rifle ==
Assault rifles are the default primary weapon of most soldiers. Middle of the road in every way.

{|class="wikitable"
|+Weapon Tiers
!Tier !! Damage !! Bonus Damage Chance !! Crit Damage !! Aim Bonus !! Supplies !! Alloys !! Crystals !! Cores
|-
|Balistic || 3-5 || || +2 || || || || ||
|-
|Laser || 4-6 || 50% || +2 || +5 || 20 || 1 || 1 ||
|-
|Magnetic || 5-9 || || +3 || || 35 || 2 || 2 ||
|-
|Coil || 6-10 || 50% || +4 || +5 || 50 || 3 || 5 ||
|-
|Plasma || 7-13 || || +5 || || 60 || 4 || 10 || 1
|-
|}

{|class="wikitable"
|+Weapon Range Bonus
|Range ||1 ||2 ||3 ||4 ||5 ||6 ||7 ||8 ||9 ||10 ||11-19 ||20 ||21 ||22 ||23 ||24 ||...
|-
|Aim Bonus ||20 ||18 ||16 ||14 ||12 ||10 ||8 ||6 ||4 ||2 ||0 || -5 || -10 || -15 || -20 || -25 || -30
|}

== Cannon ==
Cannons can only be carried by [[Gunner (LW2)|Gunner]]s.

{|class="wikitable"
|Range
|1
|2
|3
|4
|5
|6
|7
|8
|9
|...
|-
|Aim Bonus
| -10
| -5
|0
|5
|10
|8
|6
|4
|2
|0
|}

== Sniper Rifle ==
Sniper Rifles can only be carried by [[Sharpshooter (LW2)|Sharpshooter]]s.

{|class="wikitable"
|Range
|1
|2
|3
|4
|5
|6
|7
|8
|9
|10
|11-20
|22
|23
|24
|25
|26
|27
|28
|29
|30
|31
|32
|33
|34
|35
|36
|37
|38
|39
|40
|...
|-
|Aim Bonus
| -30
| -27
| -24
| -21
| -18
| -15
| -12
| -9
| -6
| -3
|0
| -1
| -2
| -3
| -4
| -5
| -6
| -7
| -8
| -9
| -10
| -11
| -12
| -13
| -14
| -15
| -16
| -17
| -18
| -19
| -20
|}

== Pistol ==
The pistol is now a utility slot item and can be equipped on any soldier.

== Arc Thrower ==
The Arc Thrower is the secondary weapon of the [[Assault (LW2)|Assault]] class. They do no damage, but will stun organic enemies if it hits. Importantly, it has normal range penalties, giving a shotgun equipped Assault an option to use at range.

== Sawed-off Shotgun ==
The Sawed-off shotgun is the close range secondary weapon of the [[Ranger (LW2)|Ranger]] class. It can do colossal damage, especially if both barrels are used at once, but has extreme accuracy penalties beyond a few tiles. These shotguns cannot be reloaded.

[[Category: Long War 2]]

Weapons (LW2)

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Weapons (LW2)

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Missions (LW2)

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== Generating Missions ==

Missions in LW2 are generated on a regional level by collecting intel. You collect intel by assigning resistance cell members to the intel job at each resistance haven. As resistance members rank up, a rebel of rank 1 will collect intel at 150% the rate of an unranked rebel, and a rank 2 rebel collects at 200% rate. In addition, scanning with the avenger adds another 4 (unranked) rebels worth of intel gathering.

== Types of Missions ==

Jailbreak – XCOM must infiltrate an ADVENT jail and rescue key Resistance members. Success increases the strength of the Resistance in that region.

Haven Defense – A variation on Retaliation missions where XCOM must defend Resistance members against an onslaught of ADVENT forces until the Skyranger can get into position for extraction.

ADVENT Base Assault – XCOM must deploy to and overtake a well-defended regional military headquarters.

Invasion – ADVENT attempts to retake a liberated region by assaulting a city center. XCOM must destroy a psionic relay that summons continuous reinforcements, then eliminate any remaining forces.

Rendezvous – A Faceless disguised as a member of the Resistance is detected as it goes to meet with its ADVENT handlers and XCOM must hunt it down.

ADVENT Supply Raid – XCOM must defend a supply convoy and its Resistance personnel from ADVENT attacks.

ADVENT Intel Raid – ADVENT attacks a Resistance listening post and XCOM must repel the attack.

ADVENT Recruiting Raid – ADVENT forces attack Resistance recruiters within a region. XCOM must extract those Resistance members.

== Collecting Enemy Corpses ==
Long War 2 uses the correct term for military equipment and supplies: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materiel materiel].

Most missions in Long War 2 require you to evacuate and you do not keep the bodies '''(need to test, do you get timed loot on the ground?)''' of fallen Advent or Aliens. As corpses are much more valuable in Long War 2 players should make special consideration for missions which do allow them to keep the corpses of fallen foes. There are a few ways to determine a mission will allow you to keep corpses:
* There is no mission timer.
* The mission lists the reward of "enemy materiel".

The following mission types allow collection of enemy materiel:
* Ambush troop column
* Supply raid
* Intel raid
* Haven defense
* Invasion

===Strategy===
As Vahlen has taught us, explosives destroy all recoverable materiel when delivering the killing blow as both a possible loot drop and the corpse will be destroyed. Flamethrowers also destroy corpses if the initial hit kills the target, though burning damage will leave a collectible corpse and drop timed loot if carried. Consider using the Needle Grenades perk for grenadiers if you are in need of explosives use.

It may be beneficial to sabotage your infiltration percentage to increase the enemy presence if you feel you will be victorious. You are allowed to start any infiltration mission early from the geoscape. Note that enemy readiness will also be boosted if you do this which will increase their detection range, evac delay, and reinforcements strength.

[[Category: Long War 2]]

Missions (LW2)

2017-01-23T18:08:27Z

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Evac (LW2)

2017-01-23T16:35:46Z

Adamzl:

In Long War 2, evacuating a mission via skyranger will be a common occurrence due to some missions having infinite alien reinforcements. A few things have changed about the way EVAC works that the savvy commander should know.

:1. Throwing the evac flare will break concealment, ''and'' enemy forces will actively converge on the evac zone.
:2. Evac is no longer immediate, you will have to wait several turns for the skyranger to arrive based on the following factors:

=== Skyranger Evac Delay ===
'''Base Delay'''
* Rookie: 1 turn
* Veteran: 3 turns
* Commander: 3 turns
* Legend: 4 turns

'''Squad Size'''
* 1-3 soldiers: -1 turn
* 4-7 soldiers: no change
* 8 soldiers: +1 turn
* 9-10 soldiers: +2 turns
* 11-12 soldiers: +3 turns

'''Infiltration'''
* 0-29%: +3 turns
* 30-59%: +2 turns
* 60-99%: +1 turn
* 100-149%: no change
* 150-189%: -1 turn
* 190-200%: -2 turns

'''Active Infiltrations'''

7 or more infiltration missions including the current mission: +1 turn.

[[Category: Long War 2]]

ADVENT's Agenda (LW2)

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== Advent's Global Agenda ==

'''There is an Advent strategic AI that plays against the Commander on the strategy layer.'''

Each region has a 'strength' value that represents how many troops they have there. This value determines the baseline mission difficulty in each region. The aliens will move around troops from one region to another in response to XCOM activity. The AI also makes other decisions based on XCOM activity and strength in a given region.

Regions can become liberated by XCOM. If it's liberated there are very few things Advent can do there, plus you get resource bonuses.

== Avatar Project ==

The Avatar project's progress is unknown to the player initially but has been increased to 20 'pips' before it's game over.

[[Category: Long War 2]]

Strategy (LW2)

2017-01-23T16:35:05Z

Adamzl:

== Random Tips from xwynns' Let's Play ==
* Dark events are easy to detect but happen in many regions, contacting new regions is the best way to stop dark events.
* Doing missions in a region builds up "vigilance" in a region which is the hidden variable that garners Advent's attention and causes them to send supply raids and such to increase Advent Strength in a region.
* Increases to Advent Strength is retroactive to missions that are being infiltrated, thus you may get higher enemy strength by the time the mission launches than you had planned for.

[[Category: Long War 2]]

Strategy (LW2)

2017-01-23T16:33:20Z

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Squad Management (LW2)

2017-01-22T20:56:08Z

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== Wounds ==
The amount of time a soldier will be out of action is based how much damage they took over a battle and what percentage of their maximum health this accounted for. Soldiers can take over 100% of their health in damage if they receive healing or are overkilled by damage and but enter a bleed out state and are saved.

The config files list recovery time in "points", we don't know what these points mean so this table is only to illustrate the ratios of wound time to damage. All values are in hundreds of points.
{| class="wikitable"
!Damage!!Recovery Points
|-
|0-10% || 10-75
|-
|10-20% || 50-125
|-
|20-30% || 100-175
|-
|30-40% || 150-225
|-
|40-50% || 200-275
|-
|50-60% || 250-325
|-
|60-70% || 300-375
|-
|70-80% || 350-425
|-
|80-90% || 400-475
|-
|90-100% || 450-750
|}

Adamzl:

Long War 2 adds the sounds mechanic to tactical combat which affects advent pods. As described in [[Mechanics_(LW2)#Enemy_Patrol_Behavior|Enemy Patrol Behavior section of Mechanics]] pods will become aware of XCom's presence on the map when they are within the radius of a sound. Once aware they will patrol towards the sound.

The following are sound ranges different sources with typical soldier vision range at 18 tiles:
:0 tiles
::grenade launchers
::holo targetters

:4 tiles
::combat knives

:6 tiles
::swords
::hunter's axe
::shadowkeeper

:9 tiles
::smoke and flashbang grenades

:13 tiles
::technical flamethrower

:17 tiles
::pistols

:18 tiles
::SMGs
::bolt casters
::civilian yelling

:20 tiles
::rifles, sniper rifles, and shotguns.
::gas grenades
::frost bombs
::sawed off shotguns
::arc throwers

:24 tiles
::cannons/LMGs
::heavy weapons
::SPARK autocannons
::frag, alien, acid, and fire grenades

:26 tiles
::technical rockets