Brigand Pounder

The Brigand 8-Pounder, 12-Pounder and 16-Pounders are bosses which appear in the Weald.

 From the memoirs of the Ancestor, all his experimentation and occult delvings have caused the locals to make legends and stories about his doings. Because of this, awe quickly became ire. The ancestor offered them immense wealth in exchange for their cooperation. The Hamlet's inhabitants quickly refused.

The Ancestor was outraged and hired the Brigands to silence his opposition by force. They brought the Brigand Cannon with them to seize the Hamlet. Even after the Ancestor's suicide, the cannon was maintained by the Brigands to aid in their plundering of the Estate as well as to strengthen their grip on the region.

Behaviour
The Brigand Pounder spawns with an assortment of brigands to support it. The most important of these is the brigand matchstriker. The matchstriker has ridiculously low speed, but if he acts he is devastating. He activates the cannon and causes it to fire at our entire party. This attack causes crushing damage and should be avoided at all costs. At the beginning of every round, however, the Pounder will spawn an assortment of brigand reinforcements.

Abilities
* The Brigand Pounder will ALWAYS use Reinforcement at the start of every turn. Unless no brigands are downed.

** Reinforcement can only summon Brigand Matchman, Brigand Cutthroat, Brigand Fusilier and Brigand Bloodletter. A Brigand Matchman will always be summoned if there are none.

** The limit of each Brigand type during the fight is 1. Means that there will be no duplication of Brigands at any given time during the boss fight.

*** The Brigand Pounder will only use BOOOOOOOM! and MISFIRE! after the Brigand Matchman uses Fire In The Hole, and regardless of any status effect (if any).

*** BOOOOOOOM! an MISFIRE! are mutually exclusive. Means only one of them can be performed by the Brigand Pounder after the Brigand Matchman uses Fire In The Hole.

Strategy
KILL THE MATCHSTRIKER. Do not let him live to the end of a turn, BOOOOOOOM! is devastating. Ranged characters are reccomended, as the Brigand Matchstriker may get at unhittable range otherwise. It is reccomended to leave no Brigand men alive at all times, as they can be a nuisance, and hit the Brigand Pounder only when the field is empty. This may take a while, but it's the safest way of dealing with this boss.