Gah, hate etherial bases, them followed by mutons then sectoids are the hardest.
Best method is to get two plasma tanks, they cant be MC'ed and are good at fighting in smallish rooms, and they have a lot of ammo for just clearing rooms. Autocannons are extremly useful in bases as well due to the narrow hallways, the main room is not always in the centre. Its best to keep 2-3 soldiers guarding the entrance to the centre room and clearing out the whole base first, nothing sucks as much as getting shot in the back, not to mention the rear armour is next to useless.
For etherials though it is always the hardest to take out the last room, I was lucky once as when I fought the etherials I got to the last room and one of em managed to blow up the whole of the top floor using a blaster launcher.
However you dont neeed to destroy the equipment, you have to kill all the aliens to destroy a base, however if there is a base in say the Arctic/Antarctic or in a country which has been taken over by aliens then you might as well let the base survive and only go there to train up troops and to steal equipment.
__________________
« † DxRxIx † »
|