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Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire
For the tanks I remember I used to use them. Mainly to spot for Aliens when you disembark because they tend to see you disembark and take pot shots at you. Having good squaddies dying while disembarking always infuriated me, especially considering you have no say in the order your soldiers are at the start of the mission in the Skyranger.
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It's possible to exit the transport safely. The first thing I do is deploy smoke and wait a turn inside doing nothing (except looking outside as default of course, in case an alien appears amid the smoke I can shoot at him). After that turn firstly the smoke is up, and secondly aliens move and so I continue by using the motion detectors and learning where are the nearest stalking aliens.
Afterwards it's also possible to exit the craft safely without giving aliens who are farther the opportunity to shoot. It's like going around a corner, the most obvious and fast trajectory can make an alien see you before you see him, but with a little roundabout this can be made impossible.
It's not possible to exit the transport safely with a tank first, though. And losing a soldier is bad but losing a tank is damn expensive too.