Heck, I don't even bother doing base raids, unless I need elerium. Will only cause retaliation. You can easily compensate it by doing some missions (both points and elerium) on large or if you're lucky very large ship missions, as long as your team is well trained and equipped (laser rifles are not good equipment Juan). Make sure you have heavy plasmas, medikits for the whole team, flying suits, alien grenades, proximity grenades, small launchers, psi-amps and even a tank will be helpful.
Don't bother about losing countries too, get 2 bases manufacturing alien alloys and medikits at high scale and money won't be a problem. As long as you have at least 1 country running, it's all good.
Tip for very large ships: make a hole at the top level of the ufo in the corridor zone with the launcher and get half your crew in there, while the other half is watching the lift and making sure no one is outside.
exception for the tip: if you try this with a poorly trained team and the ship has ethereals, say bye bye to half of your crew.
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