How to beat XCOM 2 Legendary Ironman like a pro 

Dude because of your tips I went from having trouble with commander, to stomping out legendary. Thanks!

"if you take shots from anyone who isn't a basic trooper, it's a misplay" ain't that the truth. I had a perfect campaign, zero soldier deaths going when I first met Shieldbearers. One of them sniped a veteran grenadier straight in the face and killed him on the first turn he was revealed. I've never even seen a Shieldbearer fire its weapon on the first turn it was revealed before! Full cover! Every other enemy on the map dead! That's XCOM baby

the transition between each point is perfect

Nice description.

Must say your play through meant I finally completed on Legend.

I was thinking of quitting the game until I found your vids. Thanks you!

"Advent kill 1 per turn" I played a mission once with Chryssalids. They killed 4 in a turn and were teleporting across the map to attack my soldiers and all my soldiers were missing. It was a horribly glitched and completely unwinnable fight. Thankfully I wasn't in Ironman so could reload. But even on normal (not glitched) fights, I've played missions where I would lose 4-5 in a single round. Every enemy pod had a go. It was completely impossible to win against. So RNG isn't just about shooting accuracy, it's also about your chance of the game deciding to be a prick.

How do you deal with the psionic device mission type? (The one where you get 4 turns, plus destroying nodes adds a turn)

WOTC from my experience is a lot easier than the base game, especially if you don't tick the additional content, because I had to fight 2 ADVENT MECs on my 2nd mission. Vipers and Viper King on my 3nd mission. Mutons and Berserker Queen already on 5th mission. Like wtf? At least in WOTC you get a hero unit to carry early game. Chosen aren't even that strong so the only thing that could possibly make WOTC harder is that troops get tired but that's a minor inconvenience. I rather fight the chosen on my 3rd mission than the Viper King. Ruler's reaction easily most OP enemy ability in the game hands down.

It's really surprising you dont have more subs considering the level of detail in your explanations.

This video is much appreciated after I set my veteran campaign down to recruit.

34:29 The problem with this strat (although a minor one) is that unlike LWotC, in vanilla WotC you actually get the vast majority of exp on soldiers from their kills; successful missions themselves grant pitiful amounts of experience points. Anyway, 2 nitpicky comments from me is already more than enough, so just wanted to say that this is a *really* awesome guide and a fantastic addition to your already pretty detailed walkthrough of WotC on L/I. Despite already having beaten the mode with the help of your series (although on honestman, to not end up like your run did, lol), you mentioned quite a few interesting facts and strategies that I'll try to incorporate into my play! Knowing how to kite multiple faceless, proper spacing against alien rulers, alien turn order going from last activated and from leader first as well as the fact that (apparently) only pod leaders will attack xcom soldiers on retalations is all really cool and useful info. Really good editing job as well, but if I were to nitpick just one more time (it's the last one, I swear!), some of the cuts that are on the same mission (especially gatecrasher) feel like they lack a little continuity, leaving us wondering "how the hell did Ronar activate the entire map on gatecrasher?!"

Great video. I feel like I know the game well but I also really enjoy the discussion here

5:58 That's the Long War of the Chosen full cover bonus, in vanilla War of the Chosen it's 20 defense for half cover and 40 for full cover (as opposed to 30/45).

Something has changed in the sectoid not taking a shot if it cannot flank, at least in WOTC. Recently I had a sectoid one-shot kill a soldier with a crit, in a retaliation mission, and the soldier was in cover, not flanked.

The mental intensity of ironman mode was described to me as chess with guns.

Boy, that was one passive aggresive entry to the video xD

Ronar is there any other games that would you love to play in the future? I would love to see you play other games.

I don't know if anyone already mentioned this but in Legendary the most important thing to understand is that sometimes it's best to avoid a mission, abort the mission and/or do the bare minimum of completion then get out. After all, even if the game is RNG, it's predetermined RNG meaning that unless your unit's aim is 100%, it's likely when your unit is standing on a tile to take a shot, that tile predetermines the unit will miss their shots even if it's a 99% shot. What that usually translates to is that there are in fact missions where you are predetermined to lose. The AI, occasionally even makes that obvious either by adding enemies your team is not ready for or just adding a civilian just out of sight so you break concealment on turn 1, though that trap can be avoided at least.

I noticed that some of these tips dont apply in pure vanilla XCOM 2 (without WOTC). For example the options at 13:30 and some game mechanics you showed in your playthrough. Any advice on these differences (since you don't have special units and some other stuff)?

I know this video is a bit old, but I was completing legendary ironman and I finally got out of early game, but got unlucky rolls with chosen and died at the mission with the cannon. Basically how do you deal with Chosen and things which are technically only once per run like the final mission?

Ronar going joker mode in this video

Very helpful. I learned a lot from this. Thank you

Hey I know this is pretty off topic, but what keyboard are you using? It sounds way nicer than what I am used to hearing. Also thank you for the tips video! I've been watching your videos lately to try and win legendary and it's been helping a lot!

finally! realistic ironman guide.

Vanilla in my book always sounds like "without DLC" and not "without mods" but maybe that's just me

Is there a reason why the Lost just didnt attack your guy? They were literally like 2 tiles away from your soldier and just walked up to them and did nothing

Do you know the aoe range of the Warlock’s psi zombie when spectral rupture is activated? Can a psi zombie dash and still explode on the same turn?

I just lost my ironman legend run 3 months in due to council VIP rescue mission. 3 pods ('officer+mech' and 2x 'viper + 2 stun lancers' hugged the truck the VIP was in for like 4 turns and I had to skip a turn to trigger only 2 which led me to running out of time and it was a squad wipe. It was super unlucky pod spawn and super unlucky distance, the extraction point was literally 2 entire yellow moves from the VIP and the VIP itself was like 3 yellow turns from the starting spawn. I guess I should have just backed out of the other group's ranges and try to trigger the first group and then it would have gone completely different, but at least now I know. Trying to get value from the group concealment can be deadly on these time limited missions.

Whats that outro them tho? Its fire

bro you open my mind lmao

Dude I'm doing normal Ironman and getting my ass kicked the first month hopefully I can pull through alot of times I'll think their safe and the floor gets shot out from under em and other stuff I didn't know about lol

based PS just be yourself

wish i knew that that about crits. Woulda really changed up my tactics.

The wtf am i doing is annoying af, man. Besides that, thanks for the video

24:35 and 24:55 ... huh?

seems like what other ppl say really bothers you

Now if aliens don't get aim bonuses, do they get the negatives like being to far?

It's really not that hard. You've got so many tactical options in Xcom2 that it's pretty straightforward compared to Enemy Within.

i wish the game gave us MORE INFO ... like i died mostly because of lack of info, like that 25% chance to roll 4 dmg with grenade and such... MORE INFO PLZ or that some actions reveal repaer or dont... or that enemies can go this far or attack even when yellow moving... and such or that enemies dont have distance aim bonuses ( or disadventages ) l-l-l-l- like WTF why doesnt it tell oyu ? Aslo, tfw ALL THE PEOPLE get spawned at the other side of the map and your side is full of faceless... and aliens are on the other side of the map killing people in retaliation... and then Chosen appears... and they keep killing people.... *ANGY*

Basically been doing what's in this video anyway, so none of this was helpful. I am just super unlucky... Nice to know about target previews, but still probably get rekt...

Some of the salt in these comments is hilarious 😂😂 lucky lucky lucky. Git Gud.

to much talk

Very condescending tbh.

Not doubting your skill but it would prove a lot more if you didn't have mods installed to make the combat easier....