As we are getting closer to the launch date of the Alien Hunters DLC, May 12 (May 13), more content is revealed from the upcoming update for XCOM 2. I just downloaded Alien Hunters, and tried it on an Ironman run on Commander difficulty. Things were going great - a series of perfect missions, etc. until the rulers started messing up my strategies. I did manage to kill the Viper King fairly quickly - though his very last move prevented me from accomplishing a covert op, resulting in a 'major breakthrough', which sent me scrambling to.

This is my first run-through on WOTC, and it was going pretty well. I was doing light save-scumming, but hadn't had a single unit die from anything other than my own impatience (which required me to save-scum.) Then things changed. Then came the Archon King.I can't remember if I had this DLC when I played the first time through.

I'm pretty certain that I remember the Beserker Queen, and the armor that comes from her, but I'm only like 85% certain. Even more, I have no recollection of the Archon King.

So this was one big, unhealthy surprise.He was the first royal I encountered (the only to date, as well.) I came across him in an assault, and just kept having my team destroyed. I had magnetic weapons and no armor, and he was cutting through everyone like butter. After three reloads, I just finished the mission without activating his pod.I should have been better prepared the next time I found him.

Still no armor (well, one unit had armor), but plasma now. But I didn't expect him.

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I should have listened to Central's 'we have satellite surveillance, so there will be no surprises' with a grain of salt. The first surprise was the first Andromedon of the game. No big deal, I'd set up a really nice ambush for him. Took his team out, and he ran back to another pod of aliens (visible with the satellite.) They didn't activate, and a few turns later he came back and I destroyed him.Only then did I see the Archon King in the distance. I tried everything. Send a concealed unit up for squadsight, but I only had one sniper and she couldn't do much.

I had no explosives left (used'm on robots), nor did I have special ammo. All I could do was pick at him.

With his armor, I was doing about 3-4 damage per shot. I kept reloading whenever I was down to 2 units, and never managed to take him down below 72 damage, or kill more than 1 of his Archon followers. I couldn't believe that the frost grenade only lasted one action, especially since it was on my grenadier, which meant I was giving up a strong attack on him to freeze him then take off 3-4 damage.I said screw it, and just reloaded back to when I returned from the prior mission. This time, instead of a the vanilla supply raid, it was a WOTC supply raid, with the Advent trying to rescue the crates. Lots of lost.

Which worked out well. I cleared out the Advent and set up a big kill zone. Basically, my guys were all up in the windows of 3 buildings surrounding a courtyard to draw the stupid King into. I had rounds that did damage over time, and had saved all my explosives.

I was ready.Didn't need to be, though. I triggered the Archon King with my brand new SPARK, which they immediately took down, but at least I shredded half his armor.

One of the plain Archons got loose and took out one of my top 5 soldiers. But the King? He grabbed a Lost and shot up into the sky. But he was underneath the elevated train, and got stuck in it. Stuck, or cheesed, because he couldn't move, or use a turn. Lost only spawned on that elevated, so about 1 out of every 10 or so would run down the train and to him.

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The rest were overwatched by my team. First, a Lost ran in and smacked him, making him drop the other Lost. Now there were two. Each turn, they'd smack him, maybe he got 1 damage, maybe 2. 30+ turns later, he had 6 or 7 surrounding him, slapping him every turn. When he got to 15 damage I figured it was safe and sent two soldiers to finish him off.Yes, I lost my shiny new SPARK, and yes, I lost a great soldier, I killed nearly 200 Lost in the process, and don't have to deal with that jerk again. Normally I might call such a strategy cheap, but I really, really, absolutely DESPISE the Archon King.

I restarted an entire game in the past just so I could disable the alien hunters DLC after he wiped my squad. So I support killing that bastard in any way.While it couldn’t save me from the Archon King, I was able to one-shot the Beserker Queen with a specialist using a repeater on her assault rifle. I would especially recommend giving repeaters to soldiers with abilities that let them fire more than once a turn. 5-20% chance to instakill may seem like it’s not worth it, but using them has saved me from at least a couple of squad wipes.