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[Lizard]

Originally posted by Spookyfish@Apr 15 2005, 09:25 PM
The ultimate UFO challenge:

- No research allowed at all, not even laser/medikit/motion scanner

Good luck :bye:

Actually I finished this one :whistle:

[Spookyfish]

You what :blink:!? With no research at all? And I specify, no research at all? Whoa. You're my new God .

[Lizard]

Yup...
I even started a challange....
Finished it ummm, about ten pages backwards.... :blink:

[Spookyfish]

:blink:

That's pretty impressive you know . Guess it all ended up in rocket launchers and high explosives near the end?

[Lizard]

Originally posted by Spookyfish@Apr 15 2005, 09:35 PM
:blink:

That's pretty impressive you know . Guess it all ended up in rocket launchers and high explosives near the end?

And stun rods and smoke granades...
You can make WONDERS with stun rods, hight amount of TU and smoke granades :evil:

[Spookyfish]

Hm... Just for the sake of statistics, of about fifty new recruits, how many were became veterans (sergeants and over), after the obligatory stat-check?

[Lizard]

Originally posted by Spookyfish@Apr 15 2005, 09:40 PM
Hm... Just for the sake of statistics, of about fifty new recruits, how many were became veterans (sergeants and over), after the obligatory stat-check?

Well becouse I have aproximetly 200 soldiers all over the bases, I had about 3-5 advances after mission...And mostly, I was losing them also so fast....
Even soldiers stored in bases advanced sometimes

[Spookyfish]

You know that that means that there was too few people left after a mission to handle all the promotions ? So those at the nearest base gets promoted instead. Figured it out after one of my bases almost was sacked by Etherals.

But think of the "Join XCOM!"-posters...

"Great pay! Few chances of making friends! Survival rate of standard-procedure missions lower than 50%!"

Oh boy. Guess your recruiters had to lie a lot .

But, how did you manage Cydonia? How many were left?

[Lizard]

Originally posted by Spookyfish@Apr 15 2005, 09:50 PM
You know that that means that there was too few people left after a mission to handle all the promotions ? So those at the nearest base gets promoted instead. Figured it out after one of my bases almost was sacked by Etherals.

But think of the "Join XCOM!"-posters...

"Great pay! Few chances of making friends! Survival rate of standard-procedure missions lower than 50%!"

Oh boy. Guess your recruiters had to lie a lot .

But, how did you manage Cydonia? How many were left?

Well I finish it with my 2 troops...
But Cydonia werent SO bad...I could finally use Avanger so I took a lot of cannon fodder(=my best soldiers from normal mission, sorry guys!! )
The ugliest part of game was trying to capture muton base....Even etherals were less dificult....

[Spookyfish]

Can imagine that. It was their high armor, right? Nearly impossible to take one down on Superhuman. They look so easy to kill on the intro movie...