Heh, sorry for your loss. One thing I have learned is that you have to smoke the inside of the craft as well because they can see you through the front window. I wish I had paid a little more for tinted windows.
Wow, thanks for all the wonderful replies. Sorry my initial post was so long. It appears I'm stressing too much over perfecting my game. I just didn't want to be accidentally sabotaging my chances for success given the amount of bugs plus the choices available to us. On a side note, I had a psi-sectoid terror mission in the middle of month #2...and with some ample reloading I was able to come out unscathed. Thank you smoke grenades!
First of all, hello, and thanks for such a wonderful X-com site! I love this game, but have some questions of which the lack of concrete answers cause me much mental stress being one of those min/max type of strategy gamers. I did some scanning of older posts but still never found any hard answers...so hoping someone can help me: 1)