Base Defense 101
You start out with your base defence that attack UFO's, these are the ones that hit your UFO's which try to attack your base (see them incoming via Hyperwave Decoder and they say Alien Retaliation).
come in several forms, from lowest to highest
- Missile Defence - Conventional rockets, about as useful as throwing a pistol at a sectapod.
- Laser Defence - Shoots laser beams at incoming UFO's, better then missiles.
- Plasma Defence - Blow up alien ships with powerful plasma guns, extremly useful in Base Defence.
- Fusion Ball Launcher - The Ultimate in base defense, a few of these and your base should be safe from any Alien attack
However Base Defence goes much much further then that,
Grav Shield - Every base should have one if you can afford it. This baby makes it so once all your base defences have finished firing it will bounce the UFO back up again and allow all your missiles/beams to fire the UFO's again, it effectivly doubles your base's firepower.
Mind Shield - This doesnt do anything in a direct attack to your base, but if you have a nice base which you dont want the aliens to find out about and attack then getting one of these mind shilelds lowers the chance of the aliens from discovering your base.
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That is the basics of base defence in the terms of shooting down UFO's that try and attack your base, so what about the UFO's that might make it through???
Firstly the design of your base is one of the biggest factors in whether you can win a base defence or lose it.
A preffered base design is
X - Empty
H - Hanger
A- Acess Lift
R - Other room
HH HH HH
HH HH HH
XX XX XA
RR RR RR
RR RR RR
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Altrenativly you can have
RX HH HH
RX HH HH
RR XX XA
RR RR RR
RR RR RR
RR RR RR
Aliens only come in through the Acess Lift or Hangers, this method means that you can contain the aliens into a section of your base easily while then mining the hallways with prox grenades, or alternativly you might have some HWP's to kill the alien scum.
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There is another factor that you have to take into account, your equipment. There is an 80- item limit and you automatically get the top 80 items in your base inventory that can be applied to combat, this means that if you have a lot of laser weapons then you will only have a few/no plasma rifles for your troops.
Also should make sure that all soldiers on a base should be wearing armour regardless of whether they are on a troop transporter or not.
There has been rumours that if you have lots and lots of HWP's in your base that they all get used so you can cause a lot of destruction right at the start of the attack, however you must have at least one soldier defending your base otherwise the aliens automatically win.
Just remeber the basic rule though, the best defence is attack, see an incoming alien battleship to your base, take it out with a firestorm.