Istarion

Yeah I agree XD, but since I've got the heavy suits, well, missions are a lot easier! I only use save&load when a soldier dies, and this only happens when they are unconscious with an enemy near them, or the missions where the number of tough enemies is huge and they come from every position around your soldiers... But now grenades aren't that great, they just work on specific enemies :S just research advanced weapons, and improve the "standard rifles", as they will be better than beastman ones I must admit, however, that the difficulty level of this game is not well made, it just jumps from baby-easy missions, to nearly-impossible ones at start, and when you are better, you can do a mission in 2min, or in 2hours O_o, that's not fair... well at least the game is quite funny

Well, I played a little more, and I improved a lot!! It's not as difficult as it seems (well, it's difficult but not so much). You suffer a little when the beastman improves, and you can lose a lot of territories; but after a while, if you get that great "heavy suit", and train thougness, your soldiers become very unkillable And more about, the "weapons that some old ally gives you" work great! There are better than I though! Just patience, and organize your troops, don't make run as mads through the enemy lines; cover them, and try to defend from only one direction, your burst fires will catch them down And support the soldiers with some grenades, they work great! Thanks for all! I will post new comments about my progress

Well, I attacked the reticulans, well I nearly humiliated them xD, a grenade makes them fly! so imagine what could happen if you throw 3... the pitty is that I've lost my own alien called Tabbie... it wasn't strong, nor good firing, he almost always ended the missions stunned, but he was one more in my team :S and he worked great as a healer xD Who would you choose, reticulans or expedition?? to be logic, I would kill all reticulans, they attacked the humans, and expedition are the "good ones", but if they're gonna try to kill me later, I would continue with my treaty with reticulans... Thx for the tips,

Now the game is a little crazy, what does the yellow mines mean? I have 5 metal territories, but only 2 for me O_o I traded only 1 territory with reticulans... Those canons are great!! I finished the mission I won yesterday but without cheats A little save&load was involved , but at least I haven't used any cheat. And those Shamans... what do they do?!? they die relatively fast, and get close to the troops, so I really like facing this enemy, as you said a grenade will make them jump. Now I will try to unlock beastman weapons and see what they can do. I have that training because I have researched beastman autopsy. I'll train my soldiers with it (yes I have a lot of points to spend in trainings

Thx for the reply! Well, I can't do Heavy Suit because I haven't enough metal

Well I just started playing UFO : AL some days ago, and I have the stupid idea of playing in hard difficulty (level 3/4). I'm getting veery annoyed with this; after playing two or three days, and a little later than finding the beastmen, I'm just getting almost stuck, or at least It's too difficult for me. I lost a lot of territories since I'm nearly unable to finish missions. I can only lie down with the soldiers, and wait for little tricks to get the missions done. And then almost all my soldiers have the suits broken (the first armored ones), and his life near death. Moreover, I fire with "sustained" fire my weapons, and this leaves me making all the time ammo cartridges in the production screen. And since my soldiers need healing, I must wait some times before fighting again. My weapons are that projectile ones, and some grenade launchers, since they can stun the enemies. Yesterday arrived the "cargo from some site from some old friends". But these weapons doesn't help me much, they're slooow. It's just that I'm bad, or what?!? What do yoy recommend me?? Thanks for all in advance.