Yep. I recommend starting with a base near Prague, it covers the whole of Europe, a little of China and northern Africa with a HWD or LRA.

I recommand just 3 bases...
My first base in US, Second in China and the third in Europe
and only the US and China base got troops and carrier.
The base in Europe just got 1 hanger and a hyper-decoder and a storage room.
In this way you can save lots of money on maintance fee and cover most of the world, at least the rich part of the world...

I suggest you just finish the game in less than 6 month so you don't have to fight tons of Ethereals later.

Finish the game in 6 months? How would that be fun? :blink:
I want it ALL! :D

(I now have three bases BTW, one in Sweden for Europe, one at Chicago for the US, and one at Antarctica for researching)

Bout chrisalids... ive found something funny.
i had one man with power armour who were ambushed by those freaks.
instead of shooting i filled both hands with HE and set them to 0.
he were ZOMBIFIED.And in the second turn he exploaded like a firecracker.
Boom one he turned it to a alien.
Doom 2 he was dead.

what i like to do is send out my tank(s) first to clear the immediate area around the Landing Craft and then use my soliders to create a perimeter keeping every direction covered. The great thing about this is that any cryssalids have to run to my men to get them which gives you a good chance of your men firing off a snap shot or two.

the problem with this is that etherals get free psy attacks on your men until you start moving out

Try crouching your men while they are inside your craft, I read somewhere that the aliens cannot use psy on your troops while they are like this.

Amazing but true...

Wow, thats fricken trippy, no wonder the aliens always MC the troop standing next to my crouching sniper.

*hugs Harvell*

now Im happy, i can keep my superb sniper but terrible Psi soldier fighting against sectoids and etherials, just have to keep him crouching. (Hope it works againt panic attacks as well)

I always have my first base in Europe, first base is free and Europe is the most expensive area, of course late in the game as another_guest said, money is no problem. Generally have two-three transport craft, all other bases have one hanger with a firestorm. Also try and have two research/manufacture bases, that way near the end of the month you can use the salary trick and still keep production and reasearch efficent.

I dont like using blaster launchers against chyrsalids, generally i seem to kill more civillians then aliens when i use them in terror sites, also wasting a 52k blaster bomb on a 20k chyrs corpse seems a bit erm inefficent.

After completing UFO a few times ive tried to make a new goal by being more buisness orientated in playing, always look after key sponsers, and if a mission is looking more costly then financial rewards then it may be aborted. (never really used the dust-off mid-battle before) Its much harder financially, especially when you dont use the salary trick (angry lawyers start sueing).

I dunno. I played for a very long without knowing about the salary trick and I don't really use it.

Business orientated games are harder, yes, but a lot more rewarding by the end of the game.

You just think "not only have I won, but I've won really well "

Yeah.... This is the windows download of Enemy Unknown, and when I try to run it in windows, I get either the turbo action from one exe, or from the other one, the picture looks all scrambled as hell. What's going on?l