[Japo]

My strategy involves covering the whole world, and goes as follows. First base in Europe, second in Eastern Asia and Third in North America. The order is dictated by the addition of the covered countries' contribution to X-Com. In the long term all of them get full operational facilities and personnel.

Among my soldiers I select one third of them with the greatest psionic strength, and put them in Europe, which is closest to the other two. When the mission is against Sectoids or Ethereals, I launch from Europe and my squad is then impervious to psionic attacks.

The rest of the world is covered by cheap radar-only bases in Africa, South America, Australia and the North Pole, which can include stores so that I can free some slots occupied by storage facilities in the operational bases.