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[laiocfar]

I use rambo like troopers for use the rocket launcher, they need some training in easy mission like running when the last alien its fortified inside the ufo or carry unusefull stuff. I can defeat ethereals with the toughest squad avaible and normal tactics but it takeme some loses of veterans. The problem come in big ships, there are sectopods, they got a wondefull aiming and are very hard to take down. The best thing that i found to kill them its short range laser assault that takes near 3 troopers per sectopod and only if u managed to isloate one lefting him without backup. A Battleship can carry more than 4... Plus when fighting a big number of ethereals, the first line of them advance backuped by Psi power of the unsppoten ones. Maybe smoke (P rocket) can handle this last problem but what about sectopods?

Discovered this beautiful site recently.

Sadly, I have a little bug with UFO: I can't transfer equipment between my bases. Any help or fixes on that?

Sorry, if this question is already been answered, but I was too lazy reading 166 pages :whistle:

I play the XP version, btw.

Originally posted by laiocfar@Feb 12 2006, 10:39 AM
The best thing that i found to kill them its short range laser assault that takes near 3 troopers per sectopod and only if u managed to isloate one lefting him without backup. A Battleship can carry more than 4... Plus when fighting a big number of ethereals, the first line of them advance backuped by Psi power of the unsppoten ones. Maybe smoke (P rocket) can handle this last problem but what about sectopods?

Short range laser firwe is more efective than you wrote a while ago One or two hwp (laser) cannon shots ususly take them down and a close ramge laser rifle burst from one guy can smoke its sensor circuts.
I think that theres a hit box system in the larger aliens coz front laser fire seems more damaging to the robots than shoting at its back.

Fire beats etherals? If thats true the incendiary weaps have a use coz last time when i used them i had problems with burning a damn sectoid.

[another_guest]

Yes, armor usually depends on the side of the alien you're hitting.

Incendiary weapons certainly have their use, but only against a limited number of alien types (for example reapers are quite vulnerable to incendiary weapons).

[laiocfar]

I found fire weaponary usefull as support role, not as snipper or bazooker but as smoke to cover your people.

[Yobor]

The blaster bombs are too large of an explosion for just cover, and a lot of the early weapons end up ineffectual against later Aliens. Cover seems a little tedious when somehow the aliens can see through walls, and aren't YOU trying to find them?

[rlbell]

Originally posted by Acolyte@Feb 16 2006, 03:16 PM

Fire beats etherals? If thats true the incendiary weaps have a use coz last time when i used them i had problems with burning a damn sectoid.

I use fire weapons for nightime illumination. It has never occurred to me that it might actually kill something. It may have been a wierd bug, but I had the wierd experience of one of my troopers catching fire, so do not stand in flames.

[laiocfar]

It doesnt looks like a bug, soldiers and aliens inside fire will caught the fire as a wound until get stuned or die.

[blue123]

Well, if you're in a fire stuff does catch fire.

haha good job grabbing the screens from the forum members in x-com game at xcomufo.com/forums