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There is no squad size upgrade. Missions have soldier limit. You don't even need to have squads.
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To be honest my playstyle is - hard mission = burn and rocket and shoot after cover is gone. I will try to make one DFA but this will reduce number of missions that I can have. I m trying to squeeze as much as I can with phantom Snipers. I have Shinobi-Specialist-Technical small teams to do hack and...

Mission 1 Jailbreak has spawned me near 3 pods. Have no clue why this become very light mission but I will not complain. Huge building is whole map and I m in bottom. Map is not huge but I have 22 turns timer. I m in low cover unable to move and can't dash vs 2 Advent officers and some 5 HP troops ....

Yes Vanilla - it just slipped from my mind

Because I can't get good DFA sniper that early or train one. I must use them as Phantoms to cover missions without Shinobi. My Assaults go full Right path or they are dead/30 days out of action (they can be dead with this wound time). Just use every sniper you have. Do the map with Shinobi/Sniper co...

He can one shot kill. Every turn. And he will kill your best soldiers.
What difficulty you run?

You can. Start game with mod enabled. Do not start WoTC and play non WoTC campaign

He can't do crap while he is on fire. Use rocket or two on rest of pod . Flank , burn , crit.
Safe

How many regions do you control ? Liberation chain in starting region is bad in my opinion, you will screw up all cheap to contact regions. Farming in those regions is more important than Liberation. 8-10 man away is big hit to expansion. Usually last two pods don't go far from each other and you wi...

Rush break point is fifth region. All extra 4 regions have one thing in common they are cheap to contact. You can't raise Vigilance that much so you will have endless supply of scientist/ jailbreaks. Scientist / rebels will ensure better detection without Avenger. Most income and EXP will come from ...

It is possible to contact all four neighboring regions before May (mid April). This is time when Strength of starting region(s) is start to skyrocket. Five regions can remedy this (Vigilance/Strength ratio) . Advent will try to reinforce all. By manipulating vigilance you can create endless supply r...

120 is small barracks in my opinion. With starting 21 I usually hit 30 at the end of the March So multiple A-Teams must still grab what they can. Also I do not suicide rookies - best way to do a extra mission (more loot). Shinobi alone can do the 1 day mission. Shinobi and Specialist/Phantom Sniper ...

No supply for haven - recruit/intel. I did one 0% infiltration Lib 1 (first one) by mistake. Almost screwed my strategy timing because I could not send Avenger on two places at same time (Black market and next bulk of missions). I avoid 0% early . 50%-70% is enough above 70% there is not enough Adve...

And I forgot that name of this thread is - Commander mag and psi rush On Commander I just send my whole barracks on first three missions (minimal infiltration), contact second region, contact third region. I can make loop at this point (Vigilance cycle) or get more greedy - contact cheap 4th region....

I ended in creating Phantom Snipers. They are good only for first two months when I lack Shinobi-s. Without Commander Choice I must have them on Legend. My "most and must" builds are respec class. Ranger - shotgun build - they can kill for sure and when number of enemy is low I prefer to k...

Yeah early second region should net you scientist-s . I m starting to research boxes for intel. 3 region + lib chain it is like I m playing commander. If I can keep my losses low I will have bunch of them in April. Than I can break this game once for all. With luck I will net 3 scientist from Lib 2 ...

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=925598042 Other way is to count missions they add +1 to Vigilance. Your aim is to keep it at 7 max if you wan't extra missions in region. You will have missions even you hit more than 7 Vigilance but for early game this is your number for best resu...

SPARKS spam - only if you play 8 man GOPs. Every mission 8 man full squad -infiltration 50 -70 % at beginning (+ 3 enemy is difference) Early early mission to be safe - carpet bombing. After few perks - Vests and full 8 man GOPs. (Avoid 0% go for 20%+) Every point of intel to new region. Three regio...

If you do not play Legendary : Having 8 man GOPs is powerful tool to have everything. Extra exp alone makes strong squads. So read Psieye's comments/threads how to get them and how to farm with them. He actually broke the Commander difficulty with 8 man GOPs. Tip use two Specialist in squad for that...

Liberation 3 in 3rd region (if low Strength) is something on my mind. If I can make 2nd region very hot and put 1st region on cold (recruit). Region 2 and 3 should not have border (line?) 1 st region can try to reinforce both (in theory) . UFO can be avoided if I just doing Lib chain in 3rd region ....

I will hit vigilance 5 after 3 missions. Started with Vigilance 2. Detected faceless in first few hours - I hate that Two missions will bring it to 5 - not sure that I have enough time for vigilance to decay. There is huge possibility that I will skip S&G if vigilance do not drop. Eventually Lib...

I found that Formidable is one that I pick always on any class.
Not because I want tank - if I do not pick it I regret it.
Somehow this reduces my builds.
Never picked Fortify before but is quite useful now.

It is usually mess but switching Avenger from region to region should net you better mission timers and more missions. 1st mission is easier to detect because it is mission with better dice roll. 2nd mission (just detected later) is more like small team mission You have barracks of 21+ and some miss...

Liberation 1 will spawn after 3 weeks You will start with 5 rebels + faceless. 5 rebels will give you 8-3 days mission. This can be fine if both missions roll early detection. If they don't - one 3 days mission can screw you . You can't buy scientist yet . My advice is - If you detect bad timers - l...

I put scientist for lib 1 & 2 (lib 3 will respawn with max detection if you skip it) and I m always expanding as much I can. This allows me to skip missions when vigilance/strength get high. I can't detect high profile missions with rebels and I don't have enough them (rebels) to detect normal m...