"That's the last time I leave you in charge!"

I was playing on UFO the other day, a new game, and doing pretty well. Only lost 1 guy so far, all my guys were pretty hot on the firing range picking off pretty much whatever I pointed them off in one shot.

Then second terror mission comes along, I lost an interceptor trying to down the ship, and slightly damaged the other, so I let the ship go, and a bit later it showed up.

So I take my Skyranger over to take a look, and upon landing find I landed on a big open green space, and the map was divided up into 4 by a road. 2 warehouses along the bottom, and on the top right is what I think of as a "slum" house, surrounded by rickity looking fencing etc.

So I deploy and spread out intending to spread my men along the road and camp out picking off the aliens as they appear. Then one of my guys gets panicked, and I relaise this is a sectoid mission, which I;m not too fussed about.

So I'm at the road, moving the last guy into position and all of a sudden he gets shot, not a big thing. I turn my heavy cannon around and take a shot at the cyberdisc that killed him, the shot sails along into the back of the next soldier along, and that set the tone for the entire mission.

I lost more of my men to friendly fire than the aliens. Soldiers being shot in the back all over the place, HE and AP shells flying in every direction except the right one, and all the while grenades and cyberdiscs exploding.

I went in with 14 men, and left with about 6. I left behind me half the map completly devastated. Nearly all the walls on the two warehouses were blown out and the insides were swirling with smoke and burning nicely. There were several large holes in the house, a bit was burning, and the only thing that wasn't damaged was the big green space because there was nothing to damage!

Has to be the worst mission I have played, not for result, but the way I lost my men, and what happened. A real comedy of errors but I enjoyed it, and next time I'm taking more explosives with me

The Hills are alive with the sound of music...

ok, Apoc works now, but theres no sound. Can anyone suggest a way to fix this?

X-com Apoc problem

I've never gone on any of the 3 collector's edition games other than ufo defense cause i like to complete games in order, but 2day I felt like giving apoc a go, but it won't load. I installed the game ok, but whenever I click on the icon to play it get a black screen and nothing. I've tried the .exe files and the shortcuts, I've tried from dos but it says "mouse not present" but I've got a mouse which works fine.

I'm trying to run it on win98, I've got more than the min specs for it, plus ufo works fine, but I don't know about TFTD

I wanna play Apoc! Help me!

"Set weapons to stun!"

I've been trying to get a live sectoid leader or etheral for ages now, I just can't do it, i've got guys with small launchers and stun bombs strapped to every availiable part of their armour and I still can't get a live one!

UFO crashes

Like it says on the topic desription, it crashes, without warning, one minute i'm happily clearing out and alien crash site next minute i'm unhappily looking at my desktop, having just lost all my unsaved mission data. The screen flashes black then its as if I had come out of it properly, no error messege or anything. I think it may happne when I click to do something but I'm not too sure. Any one have any idead whats wrong?