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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cazgotsaved @ Jul 25 2007, 11:13 PM) [snapback]301383[/snapback]</div>So you start and you are asked to put down your first base... so you do that (only in water). You want your first base to cover important high profile countries, because those are the ones that pay your bills. So either put it somewhere in Europe, or somewhere in North America, gulf of mexico maybe, something like that.

Once you have your base then you go to your Base screen. Check it out, look at all the options.. etc..etc..
Go to Aquanots, thats your soldiers basically. You can re-name them if you want. Then you want to equip your Triton, thats the ship you will send out to fight the Aliens face to face.

I would begin construction on the Wide Array Sonar (so your radar can cover more ground) and also Live Alien Containment, so any live aliens you capture don't die, cause you will want to interogate the bastards later on.

Once you think you have things setup, then move time forward faster, by clciking on 1 day. Eventually it will stop .. most likely it will say that a small alien ship is detected, so then choose 5 sec time, so you go normal time. Click on your bsae, pick one of the Baracudas and then click on the alien ship and tell it to intercept. Once it gets to it you will be presented with a top view of a battle type screen.. nothing fancy. Click on the buttons on the top right .. just go with Aggresive Attack... your barracuda will shoot down the alien ship. So good.. now you have a crash site. Your baracuda will go back to base.

Now click on your base again and tell your Tritan (make sure you have equiped the Triton with your soldiers and any weapons you want) to intercept the crash site. When you go there it will ask you if you want ot land.. yes . you do.

Now you are at the re-arming screen. Here you basically tell each soldier what to carry. If you don't know what any of these weapons do, then read up on them in the UFOPEDIA which is one of the options in your base screen.

So anyway, arm them, when you are ready hit GO. Usualy want to save the game before you start a mission.

Now you are in the best part of the game, the squad combat .... you tell each of your soldiers to get out of the ship and start to move around... notice that when you tell your soldier to move his TUs drop. thats the amount of points you can use on that turn. Once you moved all yoru guys how you want, then you click on End Turn and now the Aliens move. If an alien moves within range of your guys you will see it... if not, you don't see anything.

Thats it! ... those are the basics, from here you play how you want, and do what you want, and have fun with it! Its pretty hard not to have fun with this game.