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I think it's worth mentioning, that I was fortunate not to take any deaths leading up to those numerous supply raid/troop columns and had a pretty decent roster on hand when I started. I would take a few injuries each mission I went on and they had to be sidelined for a bit. Near the end of me liberating the region and having gone on so many tough missions.... I was nearly picking soldiers from the bottom of my roster. I wouldn't have been able to keep them up and had to eventually take a couple lower ranked soldiers on the HQ assault instead of my full A-team. I think that reducing the soldiers from 10 to 8 would make a huge difference, as there were several situations where the extra 2 soldiers could've easily been the difference from me staying alive or wiping when I pulled a couple 8 man pods simultaneously with several beefy units. I play on ironman and losing one of those missions by having my large squad wiped would've almost surely been the end of my campaign with so many of my best troops going down.
I thought I would update my post. I went on another supply raid today and nearly had my whole squad wiped with a bad pull. Now that the enemy fields tougher units, it was devastating. I lost 3 soldiers and 4 wounded and two of them had to be revived. If my sniper hadn't had just gotten the "serial" perk, it would've been GG. It seemed a bit cheese when I was hitting lower level enemies right after I got laser weapons, but now that the aliens have caught up... it's definitely not a cake walk. This is just from my personal experience.