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After playing (and loving) UFO: Aftershock, i found the transition a little difficult. My biggest beef is the inability to use the old "LoS" mode which clearly showed you where your troops could see and where they cannot. What we have without it is enemies popping out in open fields seemingly without reason. I find it takes alot away from the tactical depth of the game since using tight tactical movement plans is all but worthless. Anyways, ive been playing Afterlight despite this and i got to the point where i decided to attack the Martian home base. The mission was to destroy an object deep within the base. Here's how it went down: The squad breached the entrance to the base and quickly took down the entrance guards with silenced weapons. One of the guards had a strange light sword on it's corpse. The base appeared to be very heavily defended so it was decided to send a stealthy lone operative in to destroy the target. Samantha was selected due to her speed and expertise in setting explosives. She'd always been handy with a knife, so she decided to take the new lightsword with her, just in case. She set out to get the job done while the rest of the team stayed behind to keep the exit zone safe. Samantha did her best to avoid attention and made her way to the objective. She climbed the last spiral ramp and found her target. Just as she was finishing planting the explosives, she heard the sound of a light sword behind her. She wasn't going to escape without a fight. She drew her own lightsword and prepared to do battle with the martian swordsman: http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m259/Meneliki/SabreDuel_zps227c5bd3.png She narrowly defeated it(and wouldn't have were it not for "Major Toughness" which allowed her to stay concious with with her healthbar all in the red), exhausted and wounded, she dove to the floor and barely escaped the blast. She picked herself up and ran: http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m259/Meneliki/Escaping_zps208acec2.png Apparently the martians had caught on to the plan and had sounded the alarm. The defenders at the exit were swarmed by angry martians, but were determined not to leave without their comrade: http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m259/Meneliki/DefendingExit_zpsd39ad666.png Samantha made it to the exit not a moment too soon and with a furious fighting withdrawl, they got into the UFO and returned to base. ========== Cool scripted events in games are nice, but the truly great moments are the ones that ARENT scripted, and happen purely by circumstance. just my little AAR. Thanks for reading. Meneliki