Ah ok thanks for the info :ok:

160K then really isnt that bad for a military weapon system. Also since SWORDS is not putting any US troops lives at risk I think its money well spent.

Someone of the TT line got some X-Com base in the map. I dont remmeber what they demand and what they produce.

I am a newbie to this game and I love it.
Somehow I do not manage to use stun rods. I get close to the alien, I have enough time units, but when I click on stun nothing happens: cursor returns to "movement" box mode. Any suggestions?
Thanks.

The stun Rod simply didn't stun the alien - so you have to give it another shot - same as hitting an alien with a rifle, and watch as it is still standing...

/Raasted

It's just like hit points. Every normal attack takes hit points down -they're indicated as a red bar- and once they reach 0 the target -alien, X-com operative- is dead. Well, in order to stun a target you've got to cause it as many hit points as it's got remaining, with a stunning weapon. When you hit a target with a stunning weapon, instead of decreasing its hit points -red bar- you fill the red bar with a white bar. Once the white color has filled the remaining red bar, the target is inconscious.

This way you can see how many hits you need to stun a target with the stun rod, and you can see as well whether any of your operatives is close to fainting -due to stunning attacks, smoke inhalation, etc.-. Later in the game you'll get to research more powerful, alien stunning weapons.

Do you can advise to me, how can I find the alien base????? Please, please, please.

The way to discover an alien base's location is dispatching an interceptor to PATROL near over it during a little time. That's easy, now the key is learning the approximate whereabouts of a base, because you can't scan the whole map of the world.

Once you've researched Hyperwave Decoder, you're told which mission each UFO is devoted to. If you let it land a UFO whose mission is "Alien Base", it will build a base where it landed. So if you dispatch an interceptor to patrol over that point afterwards, you'll discover the base. If you detect a UFO whose mission is "Alien Supply", it's going to re-supply an existing base, so let it land -you can take it down once it takes off again- and that's the area you must patrol later.

If you don't have Hyperwave Decoder, check out the locations where UFOs land and then take off again. They might be involved in merely "Alien Research" missions or others, but you should patrol that area in case they've just built a base.

Also keep in mind that you need to be on the tile next to the alien and face it before you can try stunning it.
And of course you'll need to see your soldier has lost time units after attempting to stun an alien, then at least you know he tried.

In addition to Japofran's hints, every now and then you'll automatically be informed about the location of an alien base (a message stating X-Com agents have discovered the location of an alien base + a pink square on the globe view). That takes quite some time though...

another way is too look on graphs, see where activity is high, and then patrol that area with the interceptor.