Aussie

The current way i defend a base which is working suprisingly well at the moment is when you start the mission find the largest room (hanger generally) race all you men there priority one. find which direction the air lock is and position a speedy sniper in sky armour at a diagonal from the enterance. use to stong people who can use grenads well as walking talking grenade throwers and position the around the opposite side from the sniper. these guys are responsible for force throwing grenades into the entrance. 2 heavys both directy opposite the doorway with rocket launchers. to fire against the far wall if more than one target appears. Lastly 2 very good up close and personal specialits MP7's (cant stress enough how good these on burst fire are). sniper spots and runs around avoiding rockets grenaders make a mess of the entance and heavy guys are great for mowing down multiple hostiles. When that annoying moment where both the heavies are reloading and aliens get to the doorway they endure horrific MP7 damage. hold this position for as long as it takes. most of the time you can sit there litteraly killing the as they come but sometimes a couple of the little blighters are hiding in this case MP7 guys to the rescue run then around together and no two bit alien is going to stand in thier way. What i would not give for a Displacer Sonic

I have now found myself in the same boat had 30 odd bases the whole of europe africa the states and now i have no bases in the us or asia only africa and eastern europe. I have downed a Planer but it's in thick highland dense terrain which means i get flawed easily cos i cannot fend off the alien scum any ideas i have tried changing to earth weapons without much success i even ran one man through the entire lot of em and got to the second part of the mission with out getting killed but he gets mauled because they come from multiple directions any pointers? also does anyone know if there are any tanks in the game?

...Once upon a time in Stalingrad there was a secret complex which was guarded by more Reticulans than you can shake a stick at, An Xcom Commander planned a daring raid on the complex to steal some technology and hopefully not get missiled back to Cydonia or T'leth whichever took their fancy. He tried rushing them which had about as much success as Rik Waller winning the Olympic 100mtrs sprint. undeterred he tried to out manuver them which was about as effective as trying run through a wall. when all seemed lost he took a 2 man crack strike team, Objective get in and out as quick as possible secondary objective Borrow the info for research with a five finger discount. I cunningly armed my men with smoke grenade in both hands and all their belts full of grenades and MP7 in backpack. started mission by smoking the entire way to the wall blew a hole it with grenades whilst member number 2 ran around in circles attracting fire. once hole in wall is established run 2 blokes through and in second area simple..(after 3rd Attempt). second part of mission was much simpler standard close fighting and grenading all the corners before rushing rooms with MP7. and I did not lose a bloke wheww.... what I would not give for the thermal shock launcher or a tank!!

im in love with the mp7 :inlove: that gun is unbelivable in clos or mid range. i am getting the hang of dealing with them close and in urban areas but the stalingrad mission is really causing me a problem im researching their rocket launher at the moment so hopefully i'll sought it out

i have the plasma rifles laser rifles etc i have loads of heavy weapons i have alien sun armour and heavy armour and am developing sky armour. but now they are using incendery rockets which i can dodge away from but if they hit (ouch is an understatment). and psi weapons converting my people and a psi weapon the does area dammage which is insane it wipes me out every time. the main problemim having is with the storyline i have the option to go do a story specific mission in stalingrad area and the enterence to the base is guarded by about 10+ and i can't get near it cos they apear on all sides. my recruuits are levels 10-14 at the moment am i am struggleing, im going to go back to standard weapons and try again tanks

Right here goes... I have played all the previous X-coms and enjoyed them throughly as with UFO:AM but in this one im stuck. i have now come acros the aliens (Reticulans) with SKY armour and they are mincing my squad every mission i have to replay 5-6 times. i have researched everything i can... i have not done autopsy on reticulans so am unaware of what they are weak to etc... if only i had a sonic displacer tank