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[another_guest]

Originally posted by Dreadlord@Mar 30 2005, 04:02 PM
The first thing you do is not care, the second thing you do is give all your guys automatic weapons and rush them into battle.

The drawback of this is that you'll end up with an army of only freshly-recruited rookies. Plus, two soldiers killed early during a terror mission or when attacking a large ufo, can make quite a difference, especially if you only have a skyranger for troop transport at that point.

Tip of the day: while most aliens don't strike us as the particularly religious type, some tend to rise from the grave. Especially floaters seem to be good at this.

Allright Axident, thanksfor taking the time man, I will try the spotters sistem wich my base commanders will call "The Axident gambit" k: and will let you know how it goes.

As things stand, I am building plasma defenses and mindshields in my base, BUT, I WANT a couple of ships to get by my defenses and invade. I WANT a REMATCH!!! arghhh. One of the things that killed my in the SurafriCOM battle was the fact that my people start the battle SCATTERED all ove the base, taking their sweet time to get to the Hallway. OH! and another, VERY important thing> I only had my Heavy Plasmas to equip my troops, a couple of grenades, AMMO for the blaster launcher but NO blaster launcher. The 80 item thing?

A question on plasma beam and Avalanche missiles> you guys figure its ok to have both on every interceptor? or makes more sense to switch all the way to plasma beams?

Thanks

[PrejudiceSucks]

Plasma beams all the way, but to begin with that can get expensive. Still, Plasma Beams are one of those things which it is the most important to have. More important than armour for your troops even.

Oh and make sure you have actually good stuff in your 80-items limit. If necessary sell everything over 80 items of fighting equipment.

[another_guest]

And keep enough soldiers at your base at all times, as it may come under attack while your troops are returning from a mission.

Well, thanks Prejudice Sucks, gotta say though, that 80 items limit sucks. So I should keep my bases empty, regardless of how many general stores I build? I am a pack rat, so I build a lot of stores to keep LOTS of stuff.

Hmm, or does it only take into consideration combat equipment? let me see what my troops carry>

Sky Ranger loadout

8 troops, 1 tank (with 8 misiles). Tank works as a spotter! Troops do the killing.
6 Laser rifles
4 Heavy Plasma
12 Heavy Plasma clips (by the way, micromanaging the HP clips its annoying, a mission sudenly ends and I loose every clip that was used, even if only fired once? sheesh)
8 proximity grenades
2 flares (just in case night missions)
4 medkits
1 Blaster Launcher, 6 bombs


Hmm, I think that's it. A question> the 80 item limit, does it count what you have equipped in the Sky Ranger, or ANYTHING in your stores?

Anothe guest, that IS a problem for me, as I NEVER keep more than 10 fighting troops in any base, and 2 of them end up as perennial rookies while the other 8 go on missions and gain experience. If my base is attacked while the troops are out.... ouch....

[PrejudiceSucks]

Build lots of space in your stores, you will need it for storing the items you manufacture. I personally have 2/3 at every base. By the way, the 80 items limit is only for fighting equipment as I said, so keep enough space for that + all of the alloys/elerium you take from ships and also all of the other stuff that isn't weapons.

Your troops do not armour themselves up, though, you need to give them armour pre-battle (just go to the 'Armour' bit of your Skyranger or whatever and give it out).

There is a reason I like lasers in base defense and your last post showed it perfectly. Why waste all of that space with Heavy Plasma and HP Clips? I send those to bases I probably won't defend (like my first) or sell them pretty quicky.

For the limit, it's stuff in your base, so keep spares of good equipment. TfTD changed this though, so you can't pull that trick off any more. Oh, remember that a tank only counts as one item. Yes, that means if you made 79 tanks and kept one laser rifle in the base you could swamp the aliens with tanks (you must have a soldier in the base, the tanks CANNOT defend by themselves for some reason), although this would be a waste of millions.

I say that if a base is doing well keep 10 spare troops in it and arm them with Laser Rifles. Keep your Heavy Plasmas on the Skyranger, that way you won't waste equipment space on them on a base defense. Think about it, 1 Laser Rifle per soldier = 10 spaces (heavy lasers would do nicely as well). 1 Heavy Plasma + 3 clips as you have it = 40 spaces.

I'd rather have 70 spare, wouldn't you?

Oh and Juan Rayo, you should get yourself an account here, that would be good.

[Rogue]

Originally posted by Juan Rayo@Mar 30 2005, 02:29 PM
Anothe guest, that IS a problem for me, as I NEVER keep more than 10 fighting troops in any base, and 2 of them end up as perennial rookies while the other 8 go on missions and gain experience. If my base is attacked while the troops are out.... ouch....

Save often and before you sent your troops. If there is attack before they are back (how unlikely is that), reload from save point and send fewer soldiers.
Also, at the time you lend at UFO, first save, and then progress. Do not allow them to shoot your people. Use tactics described before with 2 soldiers, One advancing and discovering the alien, and other one (or two) shooting it, and then exchange the soldiers, so that other ones can gain better characteristics. (aliens are using similar strategy)
Any base should consist of more then 2 stores. Sell stuff you don’t need as soon as you got it at base.
Laser weapons are great as they don’t require any ammunition. Use it as much as you can.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Hey! Finally someone agrees with me!

Heavy Plasma can kiss my rectum, Lasers are the way forward!

[axident]

Originally posted by PrejudiceSucks@Mar 30 2005, 08:12 PM
Hey! Finally someone agrees with me!

Heavy Plasma can kiss my rectum, Lasers are the way forward!

Lasers are good for base D and sectopods. Okay against Floaters and Sectoids. For everything else, there's Mastercard. I mean, Heavy Plasma. The ammo thing is just not good enough of a reason for me to stick with lasers, not when I have hundreds and hundreds of spare clips of Heavy Plasma that I nicked from fallen aliens. But to each his own.