Tactical Employment of XCOM Troops

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Jacke
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Tactical Employment of XCOM Troops

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So my Legendary campaign is well into May and I'm feeling I need to watch Xwynns Season 3 in detail to get a better idea of the tactical employment of XCOM troops.

Had two missions. Both were in Western North America. ADVENT Strength 5 and FL5.

First up on May 6 was a Very Light Smash & Grab. I had sent Cpl Shinobi Assault Gunner, Sq Specialist, and LCpl DFA Sharpshooter. 12 turns until reinforcements. Shouldn't be a problem?

It was the usual Smash & Map. Scouted with the Shinobi and engaged carefully with the other troops. Had a hard time getting good sight lines for the DFA Sharpshooter. And took way too long. Had defeated ADVENT partway through 2 turns before reinforcements. Moved to grab the chests and paused to OW kill the first RNF. But the reinforcement indicator stayed red. Oh bother.

Got out with 2 of the 4 chests. Damn. Then on May 7 got a Retaliation in Western NA. Had done a Protect the Data Tap back in April but never saw another one. Had a Sgt DFA Sharpshooter as Haven Advisor. Geared up a 8 soldier squad: LCpl Spec, Cpl Shinobi 2xAssault Grenadier Sharpshooter as well as a Sgt Gunner and a Rookie.

Building in center, stream between XCOM and building, scattered trees with more stuff nearer the building. No timer, no reinforcement indicator, have to save 7 Rebells.

Well, this one was tough. 14 enemy, 5 pods: Muton, Rocketeer, Trooper; Stun Lancer, Scout; Officer, Rocketeer, Sentry; 3 Sectoids; and 3 Sneks. The trees towards the edge were very spread out making it hard to advance high cover to high cover.

And ADVENT spread out. Almost impossible to suppress or flaskbang more than one at a time. Sharpshooters again had sightline problems but found a good but unfortunately level spot for them. And they came through with some amazing snipes, wounding and killing.

But ADVENT was too uncontrolled. Got too many shots at my troops. One Assault got hit and broke, only to be brought back by Revival Protocol. And the Shinobi got wounded too. As it stands, amazing that ADVENT only killed 1 Rebel and wounded another.

Earlier while scouting, the Shinobi stumbled upon a Rebel who was a hidden Faceless at the end of his movemetn. He was dead. I said nope, that was stupid of me, and reloaded. Never got to that Rebel again. Didn't get any corpses. And the Rebel count for the zone only went down by one, for the KIA Rebel I assume.

Need to step up my game or I'll be seeing too many WIA and KIA. Thinking about adding in Pyseye's Gunsmoke Grenadier because if I can't flashback ADVENT, I'm going to have to smoke off XCOM.
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