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Originally posted by PrejudiceSucks@Mar 31 2005, 08:32 AM
Indeed it's not a bad game at all.

Just going back to the ongoing HP argument - Another reason I don't use HP is this - they sound really lame when they fire. I'm sorry if that's just me, but aesthaetics come first on my Skyranger.

Still you wouldn't want to mess with The Banshees, my crack team (all made of women, you see), as they fly around in their Lightning with laser rifles and power suits. They're all sergeant or above (sergeant is the lowest, I only have 1 of those and she's getting promoted on the next landing we have). They can take out Battleships that have landed for no casualties, thanks to the leader's mighty stats.

On the other hand, I save every battle I have with these gals to make sure that they all live. When they're not fighting, they're protecting my Arctic Base (200 scientists + 300 engineers ) or training their Psi abilities.

Smoke Grenades work really, really nicely when you have power armour, you can just cover the whole map in smoke so that the aliens run around like headless chickens/collapse from the smoke fumes while your soldiers walk around in Power/Flying Armour (best tactic = cover map in smoke and hide in the skies where they won't find you, on top of Battleships is always nice).

That way, pretty much every alien is stunned, unless they get cheeky and get mowed down by Reaction Fire.

I changed to laser rifles for my 18-man high-psi hit team (I left my most senior guys at home; they don't need any more stats) for an Ethereal base assault. There was a huge lightshow when a sectopod came up; almost every soldier fired off several laser shots at the thing before it finally went down. I also shot some Ethereals that had walked into the first level of the gravlift. Straight down, into the head.

The next turn, an alien fired a blaster launcher at me but it hit one of the many, MANY aliens that were right below the green room, so about 10 aliens died (including at least one sectopod). As you can imagine, the next turn, the remaining Ethereals panicked and went berserk.

I shot some weaponless Ethereals with laser rifles, and one Ethereal took about five shots to bring down. Most of the time it took 2-3 laser shots to bring down an Ethereal.

Now I KNOW that on Superhuman, laser rifles are useless on the field, except against Sectopods. They're fine for base camping, though. Aliens have too much health and armor on Superhuman for laser rifles to reliably kill in one hit. I couldn't even reliably kill an Ethereal with a single head shot with a laser, whereas HP can kill in one hit even if it hits the alien's leg or chest or something less critical than the head.

Nevertheless, my soldiers got quite the Reactions boost from having to fire so many lasers in Reaction. =)