Ok, I know it could be difficult, but the secret is to have all bases equipped with Avenger, 20 soldiers (Min) and 2Firestorms (and maybe a Ranger for emergency)
Yeah, in the first year is impossible to stop them all, but then if you do a great job you can stop 5 or 6 big ufo's in a day without losing soldiers.
I've played 3 game years, captured over 700 ufo's and conquer 25 Alien Base...I've lost only one soldier (Sorry Micheal Davies
)
I'm a little fanatic of this game, but I think I'm not the only one.
This is my Commander (after some training
):
And this is an example of Base:
You can see, I don't use defense weapons...I like Ufo's landings
