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They will move units in such a way as to deny their side opportunities for attacks. They will use area of effect attacks that they know will cause more harm to their side than the player's.
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They will walk through tiles they know are trapped. Enemies will continuously pile attacks onto a character that they know is immune to damage for that round. Artificial Stupidity: Enemy AI follow predictable patterns of decision-making that are probably deliberately designed to be exploited.An Axe to Grind: Rook has one as his melee weapon, with a bow for ranged attacks.There is at least one occasion where the player is forced to choose which main character(s) live and which die. Anyone Can Die: The majority of the cast can be killed in some way or other, depending on the player's choices.
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As pretty much all Dredge have heavy armor, this is essentially a requirement to do significant damage. You can attack armor instead of health, making it easier to damage their health.
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It caused the mutant apocalypse, and the Dredge homeworld was ground zero. Unfortunately, one of their number went rogue and attempted an unstable experiment with the black sun. And then utterly subverted in 3, when it's revealed by Juno that the Valka are indirectly responsible for their angry suicide rage against the other races: At the climax of the second Great War, when the Valka learned that the Dredge's homeworld was powered by a miniature black sun that supercharged weaving, they went behind the alliance's back and forged a peace treaty with the Dredge, teaching them weaving and creating females for their race to reproduce in exchange for access to the black sun.However, it is revealed that Dredge weren't invading the kingdoms of Varl and men - they were running, trying to save themselves from the Darkness. They murdered thousands during the second Great War third one put Varl on the brink of extinction and reduced human civilization to a single desperate holdout in Arberrang. Always Chaotic Evil: The Dredge, silent and alien.There's also a lot of information only accessible at the godstones. All There in the Manual: There's a lot of lore and worldbuilding on the in-game map, and characters' pages on the roster contain their backgrounds.It's only when they realize some of them have children strapped to them that they realize the Dredge army comprises both sexes and are actually Invading Refugees. Alien Gender Confusion: The stone-like Dredge have such incomprehensible biology compared to the setting's other, mammalian races that they initially assume every combatant they encounter is male.Action Girl: All of the female characters, of course.This video game provides examples of the following tropes: