Best base as your first one to place IMO is in Europe as it is the most expensive to set up in, but you get your first base free so its cheaper overall then buying a base there later. Also it covers a large number of funding nations and I would rather have USA under alien control then Europe (if you lose lots of countries you lose the overall game regardless of funding/score).
2nd Base is either in Far East or in North America (whatever is more at risk by looking at the graphs).
Favourite mission type is terror-missions, they are great fun to play as you have to be cautious but there is a slight time-scale in the way that you have to try and save civillians quickly (Good stun does the trick for er... saving civillians, though if they turn hostile if you stun em, just stum em again).
My most frequent mission type though is raiding alien bases, its great to raid alien bases as you get loot and experience and as long as its snakeman/floater base its not that risky, just go in, kill a few aliens, steal some elerium and guns, odd corpse or two and run away.
What I want to know is what factors reaction/oppurtunity shot, is it just reaction of the shooter or say if the erm.... shootee, no erm the 'target' has higher reactions do they get to react first? Also aliens/Xcom wont react unless the target uses TU, a good tactic on multiple entrance areas is to send one person one way, other person the other way, whichever alien is looking at the person, dont move that person move the other one and shoot the alien in the back.
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