El Cid

Hi, All I've been off line for awhile due to my work ! But now am back... El Cid

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Occurred, to me the other night while playing in a artifact device mission. First off,Im the type of person who likes to fight it out from begining to end,hunting down all of the aliens critters to stun or otherwise! thereby up-grading my troopers experence, Plus it makes for a long game and its fun.(although, I learned on this forum that only Stunned Aliens on the 2nd level Count!) Which made my job simpler on the first level, My squad is made up of eleven troopers, 4 riflemen (Sonic Blasters) 2 HW (use to carry auto cannons,but,now Sonic Cannons) and 4 scouts (sonic pistols) and when the occasion develops which is frequently encountered, engage in hand to hand,the last trooper is SOP for special operations (alien disrupter,mc device and a sonic pistol for insurance.) all carry medkits and thermic lances, except the SOP who carries 5 rounds of disrupter ammo 1 loaded 2 in the backpack and 2 on the belt. The others carry 1 loaded and one on the belt (please,bear with me) last but not lest,one of my scouts carries in her backpack a alien stun lancher (or what ever it called) plus 3 rounds for it. In referance to grenades and flares only 9 of my troopers carry one of each,otherwise the 80 item limit kicks in.. Now back to the mission,we were on the first level of the pyramids, and my luck at night! which was tough going (came close of losing some good troopers) very challenging. My tactic is 2 to a team the second to cover the back of the first with ample distance between the teams,otherwise you risk a grenade or disrupter conterattack. (Which is Bad News) The SOP stays within the craft as backup with his disrupter (Tends to use it mostly in colony assaults on the first level) which he seldom uses now in favor of his Mc device in these missions. The first wave that hits you are usually the Brains (what-ever there called) very chilling and scary and alarming at times,your thermic lances very handy at those moments,then a combination horsemen (yellow-ones which are fast and smart,but tend to lose it,when their buddies are killed off) reminds me of my rooky days when I use to lose my troops to these suckers. or the shrimpy creepy sectoid,hard to spot at times particularly at night. Now this bunch gave me the most trouble in this mission, especially the medic him tossing his darn grenades, and the last one found alive in the upper far corner of the map.Before I go on theirs one other alien rather easy if you have mind control,pack with armor like a tank called (Hell-something) your lucky if you can take it out with sonic pistol or a sonic blaster,your best bet is to use a sonic cannon or Mind Control, let it serve as your spotter and scout,the other aliens will get tick off and kill it for you,thereby,revealing their own positions on the field.. Now,thats done and said, I finished off the medic, and Im taken to the arming screen of the 2nd Phase of the mission (which I call The Abyss of Darkness) Im met there with the reality that all my weapons are empty no ammo!! the only one who had one disrupter round on his belt was the SOP (which he never used in the 1st phase and the MC device that he did use was missing) the others never used their 2nd ammo clips, were gone!!! I could not believe this!!! the game Cheated me of these items... It was willing to send my troopers, ten of whom had only their thermic lances as weapons as their guns where quite useless. into the Abyss...The Last time I played this mission when it cheated me was back in 95,couldnt find the last alien in the 2nd Phase. never finished the game.Is this glitch or oddity or bug that occurs

Thanks for the Tip you Guys! That means Ill have to go out and sack some more colonies

I can't seem to get this building...and very little is written about. Does anyone know what one has to do to get it, by chance!!! Thanks El Cid

Great looking Ship you guys !!! But, Tell me how many Alien critter's, I have to face on this mother !!! ( pardon,my french, he,he,he.... El Cid...

I have ton's of it ,it does'nt show up i n reseach what can I do with it... Can I sell it? (Alien re-animation zone) thanks El Cid...

Hey, I've, tried your setup I get the following in both games (Xcom1 & Xcom 2) The games go well (sound & Music) Till Im taken to the screen where you arm your troops,I get a Blue screen of death momentarily then I see the Out of Scan Range notice! nothing happens then when I touch a key (any) on the keyboard, Im taken to the arming of my troops sceen ( With No music or Sound ) then into combat...Funny,though,after I finished, Im taken to the Void of Blackness, when my computer reboots, Thus Iam out of the game...Any Ideas??? Question: How does one overcome a Stack overflow error ? Thanks again Blade Firelight for the setup,its been useful for other programs... El Cid

Hi,Folks The game start's out good with music and sound,it allows me to setup my base and then I shoot down one of those critters (UFO'S) Then the game takes me to arm my men and it crashes....I get a note saying Stack Overflow change your config. and try again! OS: Pentium 4 1.60 / HD: 20 GB/ RAM 96/Video Mem 30 Win98 2nd edition Sound & Music setup: Blaster=A240 I5 D3 T4 P300 Midi setup: 300 What can I do to overcome this problem ? El Cid

Thankyou,Bladefirelight For the insight,my OS is win 98 2nd edition which I failed to mention, I did'nt know about a windows version of the game,though. I have a number of the old dos games, and for which reason I've never upgraded to other OS's, Please,bear with me for I'am new at this (E-mails & and Forums setups) My question is what's your Autoexec.bat & Config.sys files setup look like,Perhaps,that will be able to help me play, aswell as my other games. Thanks again! El Cid

Hi, All, Please forgive me for asking,I know this isn't the forum to ask this in ,I tried posting in the question section,and was told I needed to be a member So,I'am stump, But here goes= I have the org,cd of tftd, It use to play great on my old computer pentium 166 like a charm... Now,on my new computer Pentium 4 160 with a cdplayer 52x max the game puts me through a cdspeed test then it take me to the sector where I choose English and then it crashes...Can any One ! help me,I love this game,I was never able to beat it like Xcom 1, Those horses and brains Oh, the Lobstersmen always did me in,it was fun! another point I loved playing at night! use to scare the hell out of me. Thankyou Much. El Cid.