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The squad thing was a nice idea but frankly I ignore it. I choose soldiers based on who's available and the mission type. Officers are great but not for squad bonuses. The perks can be quite powerful. Command, Oscar Mike, Incoming are all great - and available early. Cham suits are like suppressors....

Meant this as PSA. It's easy provided you realise you don't have infinite time. If the rnfs start dropping before you get the vial it could easily be campaign ending, as it nearly was for me.

So I thought the RNFs start dropping when you grab the vial - and they do. But it turns out they ALSO drop after a certain amount of time after losing concealment, just like a GOp. I was crushing the mission, having taken my sweet sweet time. Nothing on the map gave me an issue. And then just before...

Strength is kind of irrelevant for the big missions. Each point is like 2 extra enemies. When there are 35+ as standard on an HQ or golden path mission, what's another 2?

Sounds right. You won't get top tier everything. And it's definitely not worth drawing things out to get all plasma or every T3 secondary. Prioritise what you think you need most or what your squad can make best use of - and/or just what you get, given how rare some corpses are. Get attention missio...

Sounds pretty normal. 2 libbed regions is enough. I would not attempt another HQ after August because enemies become more dangerous and the mission puts your A team at material risk for questionable reward. The difficulty curve does rise and you will probably find you can't field many squads with en...

Have a read of the Long War 2 ufopaedia. Also in the commander's quarters in the avenger there are some resources. Sounds like you underinfiltrated that supply raid. In which case it will have more enemies and a tough command pod and you don't start with concealment. Generally do these with 5 guys v...

I don't know if it's intentional but it does seem to be consistent. The suppressor won't get reaction shots against you but that also means you can't break the suppression by moving.

Nice. I like the back-handed compliment to Julian Gollop: yeah we have the Phoenix Project but in our version they just run away...

Lib2 is difficult to detect AND has +strength modifier. If I get one I can do with a boost then I probably will. Lib3 ditto in theory. Except there's a bug so that the second time it appears it will be detected immediately with a good timer. So just wait for that. And don't feel bad about it - it's ...

You just subscribe in steam and then when the X2 launcher comes up you check the box to activate the mod. As with all other mods.

I like the idea but the factions could do with some branding consultants... Are those placeholders / will there be names and lore around the factions, or are the factions better characterised as stances that other nations or supranational organisations can adopt?

Redshirt what difficulty are you playing and do you play with the Shen missions enabled? I've been finding both Sparks and psi to be an unaffordable luxury on Legend, whereas I did find room on Commander. I just tanked another Legend campaign. This time in October, which really hurt. Long period whe...

They are kind of fun. Very good on certain mission types, notably all retal types including invasion and avenger defence. They are ok on GOps. I reckon aim is too poor for the OW tree. And strike is dreadful, possibly the most underpowered thing in the game. I find wrecking ball too finicky to use r...

Thank you. I can't seem to make it work on this one, so I will just play the turn differently without considering it a savescum.

Tried to hack one on avenger defence. Redscreen works. Arc pulser works. Bluescreen bomb does not disorient or debuff hack. Pretty sure I'm landing it on all 4 tiles. Going to have to mulligan the turn. That was kind of crucial to the plan. If I'd known that I'd have hacked a MEC instead. But if it'...

One thing you will find going up difficulties if you will find yourself more resource constrained. You don't just deck out everyone in the latest weapons and armour. In September my GOp squads still use a mixture of ballistic, laser, mag and coil. Armour items are bought gradually and prioritised on...

For me the holobot officer often is in the middle of the squad, doing officer things and using his pistol. So hp is nice. But defence is probably better. Then the enemy will just shoot someone else. Mobility needs to be average ideally, say 15. But if you have 15 mobility and low aim you probably ha...

I once intercepted 3 UFOs in 2 weeks from severe vigilance. It was very rewarding.

I've recently gone from Commander to Legend. Legend is a bit harder, certainly less forgiving of suboptimal strategy, and strategic layer RNG feels more swingy. I'm enjoying it but I feel I do know what I'm doing in this game now, so I was ready. And still I've lost two Legend campaigns and am now o...

For me the purpose of a DfA sniper is to hit targets in full cover. That does require pretty darned good aim. And ideally aim so good that you can trade out the scope for a laser sight. He also needs to kill when he hits, so trading out the damage perks hurts quite a lot. I take my holobot officer o...

Definitely serial on snapshot. Synergises the best. They also massively benefit from mobility armour (ideally with a high hp vest). Often you can move and grapple to behind a bunch of enemies and kill them all. To be honest, those soldiers are great all the way through but godlike at MSGT. They can ...

Yup that doesn't get much better. Did you play with the perks revealed or did you take the grenade perk just to see what the 3rd tier one was? My rangers and gunners often end up with the most as a lot of perks work on them. Although I only like grenade perks on technicals, since they get early bigg...

I don't think the ballistic SMGs actually got fired, although the lasers did. The elite office ate at least one plasma grenade, a shredder blast, a laser shotgun crit to the face, a basic sword fleche, and a combat protocol. Over 3 turns. There were other M3s too but they were more manageable as the...

I have come to really love combat awareness PCS on gunners. Advent are forced to shoot at someone else or take really bad shots to try and remove the suppression.