Unicorn Overlord | DON'T Steal These Squads | Bad Squad Build Examples 

Ngl, a demonstration of builds that are poor is an unusual path but certainly you can learn from. I like it.

I like forcing myself to come up with builds so don't really watch build vids but...this one I will watch from knowing the pain of getting your behind handed to you with setups so bad that makes one later think, "why the hell did I think that would work"?

You asked and you shall receive. First your three musketeers.^^ As much as it makes sense on paper, it suffers from overspecialization. Two swordmasters are more than enough. Also the Galecutter should go to the front line swordmaster, Swordmasters on the front can get insanely dodgy with the right equipment. And then you just fire off Double Blast at fliers or if no fliers are present into the back line since it is a ranged attack. Add a fighter to protect your dodgetank from arrows and fliers and your survival chance increases dramatically. The swordmaster in the back already has a good idea with Dancers Delight, but you can utilize Leaping Slash to the fullest, if you equip Dancers anklet (a Drakenhold treasure) to counter act Leaping Slashs downsides. Swap the Carnelian Pendant with a Lapis or Saphire Pendant and basically use only Leaping Slash until an enemy is in killing range, then use Sidewinder to finish them off and restore a PP and get some additional crit. And if you set Charged Impetus to only activate if you have 0 AP, it can serve as a last chance at rolling the crit-dice. And the best friend of a Swordmaster is not a Viking, but a Breaker. You don`t need War Horn, if the Breaker simply removes the armored frontline instead. And the Leaping Slash/Swords Dance combo can go on for a surprisingly long time. Now to your bows. Ironically i would trade off the Thief for an Elven Archer. You have your Shieldshooter already set to Medical Aid the backrow and if you set the Elvenbows passives to only be used until 1 PP remains, you have the same result as Great Aid Kit. Also you then can give your Feathersword Mystic Saber, so she can slice Armored Units with her Honed Slash. Then let the Elven Archer use Ice Arrow to prioritize Backline and non-frozen units, so she can take the backline out of the equation until it is time for Arrow Rain. And if you are afraid of the Elven Archer getting hit, a Thieves Mantle and Lapis Pendant can give her one Evade for a guaranteed dodge. Just my two thoughts at 3 am in the morning, since i live in Germany and so your videos come out that late for me.^^

I also did a swordmaster squad, but I went all in on the glass cannon deal. 3x SM with pursuit and max pp for parry, shaman to delete guard which makes them lethal to basically anything, and an elven archer to prevent debuffs and freeze the back row while the sword masters murder the front. It worked well on anything except the final dungeon gimmick fights.

Weird video but I keep thinking about the Swordmaster squad, if the Viking had plumes to reach 50 initiative he'd debuff before the Swordmasters, as you mentioned. But I'd also change the Featherstaff for a Sorceress with 4 PP to grant Magick Conferral to the Viking's AOE (!) as well as each Swordmaster's attack, making it VERY difficult for frontlines to tank the hits. Hell I might even try this myself and see how it does.

I have a 5 Archer Squad (The game conveniently gives you 5 different archers, how about that) and it's a fun squad, it can hold the frontline really well, the tanks are a Shield-Shooter and the Angel Archer, because blinding enemies before they get to attack is OP

I feel personally attacked by the first squad. lol

This explains why one of the squads i thought woukd bd good does 0 damage against everything lol

I like this vid because it is different from what people produce. Great work.

I love your videos my guy 😊

Squad setups can be tricky depending if you want them to counter certain enemies or be a general attacker. In regards to Dimitri, your priority 3 passive steal will never trigger for lowest HP. The priority 2 for Most PP is a sort condition, so even with 0 PP a list will be created. You'd want to utilize something like 1 or more PP as a condition instead, which would fail if no enemies have PP left. This then would look at the priority 3 Passive Steal condition.

Honestly, this is a cool video concept

One thing that the TZ might give you to reconfigure Units, is the unique classes; they might just be needed to optimise a squad or two due to their specialisations. If not then, then whoever still lives by the end might give you an extra of a class - cases like Soldiers, Wizards, Arbalists who only have one unique character might be enabled by a casualty or two, just the sheer chance of it. We shall see of course; we’re going all in after all, and whoever is available will form them. Just in a different way to the first run…

I'm going to try something similar to your archer squad. But i think I'm going to put an elven archer on the backline and move the rogue to the frontline. Try mystic conferral for the arrow rain and ice arrow to deal with high initiative enemies. Maybe replace the arrow rain archer with Yunifi for her glacial rain and mystic arrows? Honestly a team of each different kind of archer souns like a pretty neat combo. Will have to see how it actually works though.

For a double Swordmaster squad I have: Milesandre Aramis Gilbert Nina Galadmir Gilbert does initiative buff plus attack buff at round start. Galadmir gives magic potency buff to Nina. Nine uses Hawk Eye to auto true strike auto crit double buffed sweep the front row. Swordmasters clean up the backline if it's wiped, or they finish it off. Gilbert has Gambler's coin for extra crit damage. The team is extremely fast and wipes most enemy units before they get to do anything.

The issues with the swordmaster squad actually hit on something I really wish UO had: gambit conditions relating to timing. Something like, "X actions have been taken." Being able to defer actions until later in a combat sequence would be really helpful for certain kinds of units, and it's something you see in other games with programmable squad behaviors like Dominions 5.

Since it’s pretty easy to recruit all of the unique units, could you briefly go through them and give best unit position and best comrades? There’s no real difference in promotion track, so I’m just curious about the rest for all of these units. Thanks!

For the first squad, I would place all 3 swordmaster in the front as they probably have better chance to avoid attacks. I also would use pursuit on 2 or 3 of your swordmaster and so when anyone go for an attack, someone will go and do a follow up attack. This might be slightly better I guess. Basically I will would just rework on all the gears in your 1st squad. 2nd squad, I would change the position of the thief and your feather sword. Next, since you going to use arrow rain, I will definitely improve on that as your ultimate to kill the enemies fast. I would use impetus and also gambler coin paired with a sniper amber lens. This is something that just pop up in my mind so I haven't actually fine tune how to make it work but the base of it is to increase the damage by 30% and crit damage by 50% and sure crit with truestrike and impetus to reduce the charge time to 1 turn to try to kill asap. 2nd team is not built for a drawn out battle.

When I see my squad ☠️☠️

Lol the sword master build was something I just got done with I have 2 in the back with a werewolf in the middle providing the attack boost in the front a bulky Viking with ear horn and the Lumaneous ring to prevent blind and acracy ment for evasive enemy’s and a bulky vanguard with enduring gaurd and affliction immunity

Ok, so this is my sword master squad (currently at the end of albion) Frontline: Backline: Aramis Primm Melisandre Govil Leah Primm is equipped with a dancers bracelet, so she's used in my squad for healing/atk buffing my sword masters, sword masters are only here for offense/parrying, and govil is mainly here to finish off enemies, sword masters dont do too a ton of damage by themselves, but with primm's support they either usually kill their target or leave them barely alive, which is where govil comes in with killing pursuit to continuously build AP and do more damage This is obviously a specialized squad and not a solution to every opponent, but even at endgame i still find it gets the job done fine and swordmasters arent as squishy as you think, when they do get hit, they often survive 1 good hit and primm full heals afterwards

On Sabine there is CON1 Flying Enemies Present / CON2 Prioritize Flying. Could I just use CON1 Flying (exclusive) and be done with it?

Squishy *I poked the mini Viking unit although they are yelling and swinging their axe in the air*

These teams need one thing...Bears! 😂😂

I got stuck in the habit of making teams and never really moving the characters around. I really have to sit back and remake like all my teams cause aside from a few of them they'll usually have trouble with 75% of enemy teams

Do you have a video that explains how to build? I find myself struggling to build properly.

Wth, you got a Wyvern Lord named Aleksandra, just like mine! XD

Here is an idea - make the strongest possible unit with the best characters and best gear. Then try to defeat that unit with what ever chargers and weapons you have left in mock battle.

My alain squad is so strong it carry the entire run. My others squad is useless lol. Its alain and one great knight in front, bernice, scarlett, and breaker in back.

The main reason why does your first squad suck so hard is this one -> Swordmaster sucks as a class. Too squishy, damage isn't so good, no aoe, no mechanic to normally refill your AP

Examples of bad squads: anything with lex/colm in it.

I def had two squads that also were not great. Then I had at least one or two more squads that were great against specific squads/types of enemies but overall were not really well balanced.

Think you could do a squad on Yunifi? She is the biggest fucking mystery. No matter how many formations or builds I try with her, she always sucks! But the thing is, on paper she seems insane but I just can't put it into practice. Thoughts?

you should have steal my swordmaster squad I posted on Discord Tom Note: the build I named is Yone build

Swordmaster requires magic attack. Front line is too risky with them. I don't like them at end of game

This video came after two hours of me trying to make Lex/vanguard useful. Some classes in this game are poor in whatever setup you put them in.

I have good success with using a dancer's delight swordmaster with Rosalinde with a sorcerer on the back, with a great knight and sainted knight in the front. Sometimes elemental roar does not kill everything and the rest clean things up.

Swordmasters are trash. Featherswords are trash. Dodge tanking overall is trash. Elf units are mostly trash too. Also Lex/vanguards are op af, no idea why people are having a hard time making them useful.