Ethan

ummm, I think aliens do get critical wounds, you will sometimes hear them die between turns. I haven't played Thief, but I think the chrysallid should've been #1. A monster that can make my pulse quicken in TURN BASED STRATEGY is a truly terrifying thing. 110 TU's and a guaranteed melee kill, damn.

wow, i just noticed that slaughter has over 3,000 posts. that's bad-ass. just wanted to point that out.

rasdel, you have good ideas. I was thinking about an X-COM tc for s² before i even had it running, so i totally love that someone else is enthusiastic about it. I first got X-COM in 7th grade, and still play from time to time [under windows XP, no less. I believe the patch only works on gold edition, hopefully you haven't already tried this], and think it's still one of the great games of all time. As far as the tc I dream of goes, I have absolutely no idea how to bring it about, as s² doesn't seem to have anything resembling the geoscape or base / research / supplies screens. Perhaps those could be run as game levels, like the way you recruit and re-arm between missions in s², or whatever, I don't know. Anyhow, if you really want to make a run at it, count me in. I don't really have much in the way of modding experience, only a couple of starcraft levels/ICE script mods and stuff like that [nothing to write home about, anyhow], but nonetheless, I have been waiting for a re-make of X-COM for about 8 years now and if I could find some way to make myself usefull, that would be really sweet. Right, so if you get something started, give me a shout. Later