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[Wolf Thug]

If you feel a bit too lazy to tackle crashed ufos then just shoot them down whilst they are over water...

[Hypersniper]

I don't shoot UFOs down early in the game, instead I follow them with my Skyranger and wait for them to land and then I pounce. :evil: When you win the mission you will always get Elerium-115 and maximum Alien Alloys. The only downside is you don't score for shooting UFOs down.If your gonna put your suad at risk, make it worth their while.

[Hypersniper]

Originally posted by Wolf Thug@Mar 23 2006, 06:08 PM
Does Carrying items efect the TU?

Yes it does. If you have soldier with a strenght of 30 and all the items he is carrying add up to 45 then 15 will be deducted from his time units each time you start your turn. I have the Xcom Ufo Defence Guide written by Dave Ellis and read about this in there.

[laiocfar]

Go after aliens with an unexperieced squad and normal rifles with, many grenades and some in ammo in a night mission, i found this last very amusant.

[another_guest]

Originally posted by laiocfar@Mar 25 2006, 06:30 AM
Go after aliens with an unexperieced squad and normal rifles with, many grenades and some in ammo in a night mission, i found this last very amusant.

Unless you come across mutons... You can empty all your rifle ammo into them and they still won't flinch

[PrejudiceSucks]

If you hit them in the head then you might be alright, but the best way to tackle them if all you have is rifles is to surround them (pretty much) and then shoot them so many times that they get stunned (as every shot stuns a creature a little bit).

Then you should just take them into your Skyranger and just run away unless you have any real desire to fight more than one of them :P.

Of course, to kill off Muton Commanders when you have rifles (God forbid!) then you need to utterly surround them, throw smokes grenades at them (when they're in a room) and then just fire wildly into it until you hear it drop.

Or you could always just throw explosives at them, or set them on fire before you get lasers.

[okonenipica]

UFO is my faworite game... But i never win that game

[Master MC]

I never managed to win the game fair and square...

[Hypersniper]

Originally posted by PrejudiceSucks@Mar 25 2006, 03:23 PM
If you hit them in the head then you might be alright, but the best way to tackle them if all you have is rifles is to surround them (pretty much) and then shoot them so many times that they get stunned (as every shot stuns a creature a little bit).

Then you should just take them into your Skyranger and just run away unless you have any real desire to fight more than one of them :P.

Of course, to kill off Muton Commanders when you have rifles (God forbid!) then you need to utterly surround them, throw smokes grenades at them (when they're in a room) and then just fire wildly into it until you hear it drop.

Or you could always just throw explosives at them, or set them on fire before you get lasers.

Surround them with Proximity Granades then shoot the living daylights out of them.

[laiocfar]

To deal with muttons use the shock weapons anyway the funniest its to deplete your ammo in a mission, i feel beter when i have to send someones to the back cuz they are out of ammo. I got always a guy or a pair only to carry the heavy amunition in the middle of battle to the cannon. ....When a trooper without more rifle clips runs into the enemy fire to take the ammo of a dead one or when soldier isloated and without more ammo, runs with an activate HE inside the Ufo. This is the best part of game.