When i found an ethereal i evacuate all troopers and send the tank in a suicide attack for cover the retreat.... sometimes the tankīs attack can give u enought points to accapt the fact of lose money and the mission. Once i was forced to assault an undamaged etherealīs battleship(i was needing the income hardly and without seeing an alien in weeks). To enforce the mission i send mostly top officers(they tend to got good MC skills)....Well, MC, sectopods and the fact that both squads were ambushed to near the ship (sectopods at rear and the ethereals going out all the time) make a result of -451 even when i manage to avoid sectopods by moving into the ship killing many ethereals, even when a wounded trooper do it to one of the power source stations...
About ambush and being ambushed, only in base defence missions u can ambush them. In the others, itīs more likely u are going yo be ambushed cuz they are scatered in the whole map and all your people is in the Skyranger. Smoke is only usefull to get out of the Skyranger or to cover an already moved soldier that is in a huge need of cover.
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