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[Lonely Vazdru]

Originally posted by the_fifth_horseman@Jul 29 2005, 10:37 AM
Why? Flares easily negate any advantage the aliens might have.

It doesn't cost action points to light the sun !

[Kearnsy]

I tend to keep most of my men fairly close.
This means that when you spy a :eeeeeh: you can easily get most of your soldiers to have 1 or 2 at it. As long as you go slow + stay in cover this works brilliantly.

@Sqauddie_Anderson: Congrats on sifting through the 100 and something pages.
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I started reading when it was at about 60 and that almost killed me!

[Sharp]

And when you keep your men fairly close you run 3 risks.

1) Alien Grenade
2) Rampaging ever-growing chyrsalid army
3) Blaster Bomb

I tend to move my men around in squad of 2-3. Also if one squad is in real trouble i.e. shot aliens and missed, then il try and get another squad to snipe off the aliens.

Aimed is really really useful with Heavy Plasma, auto-shot should really just be used when you are close to the alien or have limited TU's.

[zoloth]

Geez I just finished reading this entire thread , It took me ages ! I've been playing this game for years and I'm a UFO addict !

Some of you keep refering to commandos , I've never seen this rank during all my years of playing the game , I've got a commander but you can only have one of those.

How do you get your troops to become commandos ? I've got a colonel who has 67 confirmed kills and monster stats but he hasn't been promoted to commando.

[Squaddie_Anderson]

Originally posted by zoloth
How do you get your troops to become commandos ?

I think they are refering to the Commander rank (highest rank in the game, afaik) or simply to the fact that after a long tour of duty in XCom, the soldiers with awesome stats are commandos in our heads, even if not labeled so by the game.

[Sharp]

Yes some use commando's differently. For most it is the Commander Rank, but obviously you only get so many of them.

Commando's are generally the best soldiers youve got. They tend to be highly experienced and have very good stats. Also it sucks and you feel like reloading the game everytime they die :bleh:

@Squaddie, must have taken you a long time to go through over 100 pages of UFO, although you must have found a lot of repeats. Luckily for me I only had to go through 30-odd pages, brings back memories looking through the posts.

dla odmiany powiem coś w języku polskim:
kocham X-com! jest to chyba najlesza gra w jaką grałem! Jedyną która może jej dorównać jest Jagged Aliance 2 ale i tak troche jej brakuje. Ewentualnie Terror from the Deep jest jeszcze ciekawe ale czegoś jej brakuje... who knows Polish this will understand
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Originally posted by Sharp@Aug 1 2005, 10:29 PM
Yes some use commando's differently. For most it is the Commander Rank, but obviously you only get so many of them.

Commando's are generally the best soldiers youve got. They tend to be highly experienced and have very good stats. Also it sucks and you feel like reloading the game everytime they die :bleh:

@Squaddie, must have taken you a long time to go through over 100 pages of UFO, although you must have found a lot of repeats. Luckily for me I only had to go through 30-odd pages, brings back memories looking through the posts.

You hit it right on the spot there,

I lost my most experienced trooper last night , A Colonel with 88tu and monster stats
the guy managed to whack 87 alien dirtbags before they got him , I thought about reloading the game but that would feel like cheating.

[zoloth]

Above post by Zoloth

guess I was to tired to bother login in

[zoloth]

I love the blaster launcher !!

My team of 20 commandoes equipped with the weapon and psi amps wiped out an entire battleship in just one turn without cassualties !!!