seems barrack positioning sometimes forces exiting units to insta-die. hear the typical shouts of death from rangers but none of those i run with to clear the forest was in danger.

Only one complaint about the whole series. Whatever you did to mod the game, you broke the "your soldiers are in trouble" alert. Sometimes it says it, sometimes it says it .1 seconds before your unit dies but usually it just doesn't say it. I've lost 100's of rangers this way. Slightly annoying.

found an exploit. after clearing the wood workshop an repairing all stuff your buildings get attacked by a zombie whos next to iron. buildings fallen to the infected can be passed like they are in a ghost mode which made it possible to go through them right to the iron without going the way arround.
2nd: although you dont have access to comand center you could get lucky (like I was the first run, but lost, cause mc cullen died) and get a mayor who realy boosts you. in my case i got 40 iron right from the beginning. But there are others possible as well, like less gold for troops, more hp, better range, faster heal. That makes the difficulty a bit random.

@lpoignonnec - there is no way to use these rewards you get from mayors since you do not control the Command Center. Sorry, I wish I could turn the mayors off as it just seems like I'm trolling the player! But as it is the idea of the map is to take care of what you have since it can't be replaced. If you are struggling: go to the far north east if you want a Lucifer...

Hi when I select the majors (example free walls & lucifer) I cannot use these rewards. Any idea why? Thanks

@[R+] RobsenOo - the objective is to find the secret base. There should be an area which looks like this to the east of the map...walk towards the parking lot and go to the cave by the pylons...

When does it end in the easy version? I cleared the map at 40, no hordes anymore. nothing.

And they say that lucifers are weak.

@Fishtail - yes there is a bug with the mechanics used in this map which the game devs are fixing. In the meantime please read this on a work-around:

If you kill the Shaman, when you train a ranger the soldier center might train one with a red health bar instead of green. This is causing the crashes. If this happens don't use the red health bar ranger, or exit the map back to the main menu, then Continue the map where you left off and this should change the red health bar ranger back to green.

Alternatively don't kill the Shaman. Use your ranger and sniper or a solider to push her to safety in the base. This seems to stop the red health bar ranger later spawning which is causing the crash.

Not sure what's happening, but when I play this map only, my game keeps crashing. Has happened 5 times now, can't even get to the first wave. Could you look into this please?

@POBMaestro Thank you. I will try it.

@Ginger - thanks and glad you got it to work ok.

@europa_from_marketing - not you don't get the Command Center. If you need help: Get to the wood workshop as soon as possible. To the right/east of that is iron and to the right/east of that is an army who will make defending easier. Hope this helps.

Will I ever get access to the command center? I keep losing walls to hordes and cannot replace them. Please advise.

@pobmaestro great level i had 2 crashes but i got passed it with your suggestions keep up the good work

@棋痴·中神通 - find and get to the secret base. There is a parking garage with trucks and pylons - an event should trigger when you get there. Might be hard to play without understanding the English text, sorry, but I will do a Chinese translation when the maps are complete.

what is the objective need to finish?

No bugs in my gameplay. I lost my Lucifer and it was really hard to kill the waves. I used a line of soldiers as a wall.

This map was fun. It took me a try or two to figure out the route the herds took. After that it was much easier to plan when and WHERE to retreat to, until the herd passed. Getting the Lucifer was a must to survive the herds, was down to my final gate when I got him to the base.

I never encountered problems with the map crashing. I did not kill the Shaman, I left her alone and let the attacking herds kill her. When the next trained ranger appeared with a red health bar, I put them in a corner of the city and never touched them again. I was able to train soldiers, rangers and snipers with no problem.

An interesting map, mechanically. I was using my offensive group of Soldiers and Snipers to push constantly between waves, but rather than retreating back to base i would find a side path to hide in to let the waves sail past. I would have liked more reward for true exploration, though; other than three or four groups of units and the reveal map trigger, there wasnt much to find.
Problem with this map is the crashing. You are aware of the issue, i can see from other comments, but that was extremely frustrating. Eventually i got around the issue by simply never building rangers - the free units were more than enough to clear the map on their own, while the Lucifer was enough to tank all the waves with the Ballista towers. Will do Part 2 tomorrow.

@フロリアン - thanks for the feedback! Good spot that Phase 9 was going to be peaceful lowlands but I later decided to make it desolated wasteland. There isn't supposed to be the infected attacking where you said, but the infected behaviour is random! I saw this happen to Kensei when he was streaming the map - was quite a cool side-effect having to react to that :)

Great map again, being already a little sad because it will be over soon.
2 things i stumbled across:
- In your chapter overview here in the workshop, phase 9 is listed as peaceful lowlands, although it turned out as desolate wastelands map :)
- i had a zombie approaching the Wood Workshop from the right side . It was no big deal because i had a ranger stationed there and soon afterwards cleaned the right side. Just wanted to let you know in case this wasn't intended or shouldn't happen :)

Can't wait to play the last 2 maps.

@POBmaestro - haven't tried that, I killed the Shaman every single runs I had been through so far.

You can use my post on the bug reporting, am fine with that.

@dylu_1991 - thanks for all the info. Very strange bug that I've not heard before. I will report it to the devs as a game bug, but they have a lot on so this issue might not be fixed soon, but I'm glad you made it through in the end.

I just tried not to point Ava to run straight into some inactive buildings (she died mostly when she was near a tent or smthng and she tried to run into it). After some 3 tries I just carefully run around the city with her trying not to point her straight into inactive buildings. And yeah, I killed the Shaman every time. Similar thing with Ava happened to me once on map 5 (Kirkwall) - I took time to destroy every house on the map before meeting with McKenzie (this way almost no Zombies spawned) and later, when Ava passed near some fishing hut she also died.

@dylu_1991 - very strange, thanks for reporting it. Might be something to do with the Independent Shaman unit which is causing problems for others. Did you kill the Shaman? How did you finish the map - did you just not use Ava to take the buildings?

@Rexus - you are awesome! This is exactly the info I was after and I think you have found what is causing the crash. Before this map was released the devs fixed a bug where the Shaman was respawning from the soldier center, so it sounds like there is still a similar issue causing the crash.

If you don't mind I will re-post what you have said in the bug reporting section for the game devs to fix? There is perhaps another way to fix the problem in the short-term...

You don't have to kill the Shaman - you can just walk past (the dialog will change). The Shaman will still probably be killed by the waves of infected causing the same problem, however you can 'push' the Shaman to safety by using Ava and the soldier to walk through her and push her into the colony. If the Shaman doesn't die I don't think the Ranger red health bar will happen?

1) Save and Exit the game, in the Main Menu UI, just Continue the game from there and walla, the Ranger with red color health bar will be back to green and you can enjoy your game.

2) Get the red color health bar Ranger into the Wooden Tower, unload it and the Ranger health bar will be turned into green and the game CRASHED!

Hopefully this help! And keep up the good work!

(PS: I posted as 2 separate comments because there's this 1k words restriction)

My game crashed once and am not particularly sure what the cause of it, but I guess it had something to do with the Ranger (Shaman) health bar color?

After you killed the Ranger (Shaman) to enter the city, and take control of the city, I trained a couples of Ranger to boost my expanding squad, and it always happened that 1 of the newly trained Ranger health bar will always shown as Red color (same as the Shaman health bar color).

So to avoid confusion (I always pressed 'ALT' button when pushing against the zombies), I tried to reverse the effect of the health bar color of one of my Ranger, and hence I discovered there's 2 possible ways to do it,

Hi, I finished the map today and it's great! However something weird was happening - several times Ava died on me while taking control of the colony (walking by inactive buildings). Nobody else was near, no threat, so probably some bug of the game in general? Never before a unit died on me when trying to activate a building - maybe an issue just with 'essential' units?

@Saro - sorry you are still having crashes, but please can you look in the crash report discussion above ^

I need more to go on...there are questions in the discussion above to help me detect the reason for the crash as currently it appears random. @EdyLane said re-installing Steam fixed it for them...I don't know how much of a pain this would be for you @Saro but that might fix it for you? I know other maps work for you but this map was made in the same way.

@POBmaestro - unluckily crashes keep going, now it crashed right when the first wave of infected almost reached the base. Too bad cos this map is rly cool, i could say this is the Campaign mode all players have been waiting and Numantian has been avoiding so far. Your job is highly appreciated and is giving this game an awesome contribution. Try now to detected the reason of these crashes ;) THX!

@god_smaka - sorry you are having crashes. It seems a few people are having issues with game crashing, but I and others don't which makes it hard to tell what the problem is. I've created a discussion thread above which asks some questions about the crashes - if you or anyone else who has crashes could please comment there with some more detail then I can try and get it fixed :)

Very fun map so far, I cant seem to finish it with multiple crashes happening on this map. Not sure if its They Are Billions in general though, i'll try some other maps in the meantime.

@GIR - Thanks so much for the kind words! This personally is my favourite map that I've made so far. The map, mechanics and story just all worked out pretty well.

@EdyLane - oh thank you for this quick reply! Glad you got it fixed...very odd that re-installing Steam fixed it but great that you could play the map without crashing now. Enjoy Phase 10 :)

@Saro - thanks for the feedback. Hard to know still what is causing the crash. Do you get any crash log or anything? Is it exactly the same day/hour or doing a particular action that you can reproduce? Any more info you can provide will help me try and fix this for you :)

@POBmaestro I reinstalled steam and after that i could play Level 9 in normal and X without a problem anymore ;) so i think thats fixed it for me. But thx very much for your quick answer. The mission was great like the once bevore :) plz keep up your awesome work!!
Best wishes to you :)

Same here, games Crashes right 1 day after you take control over the colony. I reached from the top Robin Hood and once returned to base game crashed for the 2nd time.

Damn, what can I say. The way you use the in-game mechanics to create such an amazing story is pretty ingenious. Absolutely great this campaign!

@EdyLane - also if you could let me know if it crashes at any exact day/time or event, such as someone dying etc. ? Thank you.

@EdyLane - it is difficult for me to fix when it does not do it for me! Do you get any error codes or anything you could share? There is only normal waves that start then. Would you mind trying Phase 9X and letting me know if that crashes as well? It only gets more difficult from day 5 so don't worry about it being too hard, it's just to test to see if it crashes on both maps. Then I will try a few things to try and fix it for you, but it will be trial and error :)

Game crashes every time I try to play this map after about 3-5 ingame-days (round about the first wave); I could play the game and all your custom maps without problems until now, so Im sure its not my system ^^ please fix!! I need to move one with this awesome campain :)
Greetings from germany ;)