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Pathway Enemies Almanac

By BlackjackGT

Guide to Pathway's enemies, including name, health, shielding (if applicable), weapons, special abilities and general notes and tips.

Eventually i'd like to include details on enemy movement ranges and attack ranges. i'm still determining the best way to communicate those, whether it's by a simple "number of tiles," and/or through screenshots. It's a little tricky since environmental obstacles seem to often alter the movement and attack ranges, so one simple number might not be the best way to communicate it here.

5/4/2019 Update

Added note to Infected entry that the "III" variant's explosion on death damages targets (foe or friend) up to 2 tiles away, not just 1 tile away.

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Category: Characters, Gameplay Basics

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4 May, 2019 @ 2:12pm

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Overview

"Nazis. I hate these guys!"

"Mola Ram! Sola Ram!" (Occultists)

"They're coming to get you... Barbara!" (Zombies)

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"Nazis. I hate these guys!"

Attack Dog

Health: 23 (variant I); 34 (variant II);
46 (variant III)
Armor: 0
Movement Range: 12 tiles
Weapon: Bites for around
10-23 damage (variant I). That's a large range -- maybe 23 is a Critical Hit bite?
Notes: Annoying 12-tile movement range.
If you think you're out of reach of an Attack Dog, you're probably wrong!

You may want to skip this enemy initially, in favor of taking down enemies that do higher damage; however, if you have characters with light armor, or wounded characters near the dog(s), then you may want to take them out first.

A Sniper's Ambush (overwatch) can also stop a dog in its tracks, even if he misses.

Battle Hound

Health: 23 (variant 1)
Armor: 11
Weapon: Sharper Teeth :-) Causes bleeding (damage over time) to a bitten character.
Notes: The armor makes this dog variant a little bit tougher.

Its movement range will still make you crazy.

Note also that the small armor amount means
its health + armor total just equals
that of a regular Attack Dog's total health.

Medic

Health: 57 (variant II); 69 (variant III)
Armor: 23 (variant II); 34 (variant III)
Weapon: Pistol
Special Ability: Heal self or others by +25 (variant I), +35 (variant II); +45 (variant III).

25 heal, which it can use on itself as well as other allies.
Notes: If a Medic is the last enemy on the map, you may get into a frustrating cat-and-mouse chase because he will run away, heal, run away, heal etc. If you have a Sniper Rifle character, using Ambush (overwatch) is a way to immobilize him for a turn and prevent the cat-and-mouse routine.

Variant II is substantially tougher than Medic I because of higher health and armor. Don't count on one-shotting Medic II, even with Epic weapons. Legendary weapons might be able to.

Nazi Trooper

Health: 34 (variant 1); 51 (variant II); 69 (variant III)
Armor: 0
Movement Range: 8 tiles (I think?)
Weapon: Assault Rifle

Officer

Health: 57
Armor: 0
Movement Range: 8 tiles (I think?)
Weapon:
Special Ability: Shout, which Inspires himself OR another unit to fire an additional time on enemy turn.
Notes: If an Officer is out of your line-of-sight on a turn, you may notice a visible enemy taking two shots at you on a turn. This likely means an officer shouted "off screen" during the turn.

Also, if your Sniper's Ambush (Overwatch) mode stops a moving Officer in his tracks, he may still be able to Shout and give himself another turn to move or shoot.

This is a long-winded way of suggesting you take any Officer out ASAP. :-)

Shock Trooper

Health: 40 (variant I); 51 (variant II); 63 (variant III)
Armor: 11 (variant I); 23 (variant II); 34 (variant III)
Movement Range: 9 tiles
Weapon: Shotgun that does blast (cone) damage to multiple targets at fairly close range.
Notes: Especially in its Shock Trooper III variant, this is one of the toughest enemies in the game in terms of health + armor numbers.

Sniper

Health: 40 (variant I)
Armor: 0
Movement Range: 6 tiles (I think?)
Weapon: Surprise! Sniper Rifle.
Special Ability: Ambush (overwatch), just as with your own characters' sniper rifles.
Notes: As with your own Sniper characters, these Snipers have ridiculously long attack ranges but don't do tremendously high damage.

Teslaborg

Health: 34 (variant I); 51 (variant II)
Armor: 23 (variant 1); 28 (variant II)
Movement Range: 7 tiles
Weapon: Disintegrator beam. This is likely 75% damage against health, 125% damage against armor, same as with the Disintegrator used by the players' Doctor character.

"Mola Ram! Sola Ram!" (Occultists)

Cultist

Health: 36-40 (variant I)
Armor: 10-11 (variant I)
Weapon: Molotov Cocktail that does around 11-16 (depending on Cultist variant) damage to multiple targets, more with the higher Cultist variants II and III. Seems to effect roughly about a 9-tile area.
Notes: Cultists have extremely long movement ranges, and can hurl their explosive area-of-effect cocktails an extremely long range.

You'll want to try NOT to bunch up when fighting Cultists. This way their explosive attacks will only damage one of your characters.

High Priestess

Health: 40 (variant I)
Armor: 11 (variant I)
Ranged Attack: Fireball
Special Ability: "Resurrects" defeated
zombies' corpses killed by your characters.
The resurrected zombie only has half of its maximum health.
Movement Ability: Teleportation, up to 16 tiles
(I think; I eyeballed it)
Notes: When teleporting, the High Priestess can in some cases move past a Sniper character's Ambush (Overwatch) without triggering it.

"They're coming to get you... Barbara!" (Zombies)

Infected

Health: 46 (variant II); 57 (variant III)
Armor: 0
Weapon: Green ranged vomit attack for about 25-27 damage
Special Passive Ability: Explodes when killed, which does splash damage to friend or foe on all immediately adjacent tiles. So don't melee attack to finish off an Infected. :-) NOTE: Infected variant III's explosion radius on death damages targets up to TWO tiles away.
Notes: Note that the explosive death of an Infected damages enemies too, so make use of that when you can. :-)

Spore Bearer

Health: 57 (variant II)
Armor: 0
Weapon: NONE
Special Ability: Fires a ranged attack that can immobilize the target, and will do so to both friend and foe.
Notes: While getting immobilized is annoying,
it doesn't damage your characters, so consider focusing on damage-dealing enemies first.

If the Spore Bearer(s) is/are the last enemies on a map, the battle will end since they can't damage your characters.

Zombie

Health: 36-40 (variant II)
Armor: 0
Weapon: Bare Hands attack for about 12 damage or so.
Special Ability: Can consume a zombie
corpse for about 20 health restoration.
Passive Ability: Strong retaliatory melee
attack (about 24 damage for Zombie II) if your character attacks from adjacent tile.

You may not want to attack from point blank unless you're sure it will finish the Zombie off.

6 Comments

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Kae717 2 Dec, 2023 @ 8:59am

thanks for this!

Lukeman 24 Apr, 2019 @ 10:09am

Also health values can be pulled from same file.
Basic Nazi Trooper has Health listed as 30 in that file.
Game seems to multiply it with 1.15 and round it down. 30 * 1.15 = 34.5 = rounded down to 34.

Lukeman 24 Apr, 2019 @ 9:56am

If you want to save some time and get the exact numbers, you can just pull the number from game files: Pathway\config\units\enemies.json (I recommend opening it in something like Notepad++, Windows' default notepad seems to break the formatting)
The agility number listed there seems to be exactly the number of squares they can move.
For example, basic Nazi Trooper's agility is listed as 9 and in-game when not blocked by anything they can move 9 tiles straight: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1722303589

BlackjackGT [author] 23 Apr, 2019 @ 10:01pm

April 24 UPDATE: i've started gradually adding in Movement Range tile numbers.

I'm basically just counting grid squares on my monitor using my fingers. :)

BlackjackGT [author] 22 Apr, 2019 @ 1:50pm

Thanks! I made some tweaks and additions. Hope to do more when work allows me to. :)

Lukeman 22 Apr, 2019 @ 12:00am

This is an excellent idea for a guide.
Here's some additional info:
Battle Hounds cause bleed on hit.
Medic's heal amount levels up with them. I think it's additional +10 per level but can't confirm at the moment.
I: +25, II: +35, III: +45
Sniper I has 40 Health.

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