Rosstoid

This sounds like a fun idea. A very fun idea. I'm not exactly a good player, so playing the game with this method would give me little other choice than to use hit-and-run guerilla tactics in order to win. Instead of taking down whole UFOs I may have to attack a single alien just for his rifle. My hat off to NKF

I came across this definition in the online wikipedia encyclopaedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM

I agree. The feats I used to be able to do with psi amps were ridiculous. I could easily mind control every alien, line 'em up for a group picture and then shoot them.

Bah! Robot tanks! I think the idea is that these vehicles or specs are controlled by people outside it, much like the UAV drones of today. I think the closest thing to a HWP is the Bradley armored vehicle, it's 25mm cannon is similar to the one used in the HWP. I'd prefer it if the X-Com HWPs were bigger, took more punishment and fired explosive anti-vehicle cannon rounds rather than solid shot.

MIND CONTROL IS EVIL! IT MAKES THE GAME UNFAIR! IT TAKES OUT THE SQUAD TACTICS THAT MAKE X-COM GREAT! :devil:

I remember my first missions. I remember them like it was last sunday. My 8 men walked off the skyranger. A green bolt hits soldier. I run forward. More green bolts. Soldier goes beserk. Bang bang bang. Jimmy killed by fellow soldier. Everyone dies. In my second mission I was supposed to recover a UFO. I went into the jungle at night. The green flashes came from the bushes. I unloaded my soldiers and shot many bullets around, but most of the soldiers died by the time I saw my first alien. The snakeman (I was that bad) shot one of my two remaining soldiers. My last soldier sent a rocket into my first kill and dragged it back to the skyranger. He got shot in the back.

I think they carry it because it is a kick ass weapon. Sometimes when my raider teams storm the larger UFOs a medic would pop out and bloop one off, stunning multiple soldiers. A blaster bomb is too slow to fire and they don't always have time to toss a grenade. Outside of battle use, they could stun people with it before abducting them.

My worst mission was my most recent finishing of the game. I hand-picked my soldiers for their bravery and general length of stat bars. I didn't play that game of X-Com with any PSI at all, believing it to take the tactics out of the game. But also because capturing sectoid leaders and ethereals is difficult. 14 soldiers, 2 plasma tanks and 1 blaster tank went in. Getting into the elevator pyramid was easy. When I got into the base complex it was okay at first but soon the ethereals started taking an interest in the minds of the soldiers. I pushed them forward and a soldier was killed in the exchange of small arms fire. A big blow was struck when a blaster bomb killed the super elite commander, a blaster bomb soldier and a plasma tank. A grenade killed 3 soldiers. Another blaster bomb blew up a soldier and a plasma tank. The soldiers started panicking and getting mind controlled. 3 soldiers panicked and 2 mind controlled soldiers shot them. A bolt of alien plasma put the blaster bomb tank out of commision, leaving me to deal with the brain face on. One soldier dodged mind control and enemy shots and reached the chamber where 4 ethereals were waiting. He dodged a shot, hit the brain and I had won. Only he and another soldier survived (although he would have died soon after by the ethereals).

They can, but you can't access the alien inventory by clicking on it. Go to the interface of one of your X-Com men and go to his inventory. Then keep changing the inventory you are looking at in there until you are viewing the alien inventory.

Thats great of you two. You can increase the ever-low Chrysallid population by allowing them to let you "host" some Chrysallid offspring.

Damn those funders! Damn you funders! How can anyone be stupid enough to sign treaties with creatures that mutilate their cattle, citizens, steal, murder etc, even after the peace treaty has been signed.

My dream weapon: the M79 40mm "blooper gun" grenade launcher

I send annoyance landing teams as well. While cute little sectoids hang around the UFO laughing, a tank rumbles towards them and fires a rocket at the nearest sectoid and bugs out to the Skyranger. I then imagine the aliens shaking their fists and running to their dead pal. "Noooo!!!!!! They got Zubleratch! Curse you X-Com! CURSSSEEEE YOUUUUUUU!!!!!!" Or I just order any nearby aliens to throw their guns in. If I sell a heavy plasma I could buy a house or loads of toys to play with :dontgetit:

2xy + y = 10 (1) x + y = 4 (2) (2), y = 4 - x (3) 4 - x . sub (3) in (1), 2x(4 - x) + (4 - x) = 10 \ 8x - 2x² + 4 - x - 10 = 0 \ 2x² - 7x + 6 = 0 \ (2x - 3)(x - 2) = 0 \ either 2x - 3 = 0 or x - 2 = 0 therefore x = 1.5 or 2 . Substitute these x values into one of the original equations. When x = 1.5, y = 2.5 when x = 2, y = 2 YAY!!!!!!!

That's what I know is true but the sight of that white cross from a downed UFO annoys me. It sits there. Mocking me. Being like a smudge on a window. Telling me I am a bad commander if there are any non X-Com symbols on the earth.