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[IronyOwl]

Good haul, an intact UFO (if only a small one) with some combat experience for the grunts. One can never have too much elerium. Also yay for snakemen. What are your thoughts on night time snakemen terror missions? Instant mission abort if you come across one or a welcome challenge?

Actually, that elerium may account for half of all that we've got. I might want to actually pay attention to this stuff in the future.

As for snakemen, sadly I'm not familiar enough with them to fear them properly. With luck we'll get a very entertaining horror mission to correct this issue.

[Sonlirain]

Good haul, an intact UFO (if only a small one) with some combat experience for the grunts. One can never have too much elerium. Also yay for snakemen. What are your thoughts on night time snakemen terror missions? Instant mission abort if you come across one or a welcome challenge?

Actually, that elerium may account for half of all that we've got. I might want to actually pay attention to this stuff in the future.

As for snakemen, sadly I'm not familiar enough with them to fear them properly. With luck we'll get a very entertaining horror mission to correct this issue.

Snakemen alone are nothing interesting.
Sure a bit more resiliant (nothing a laser rifle can't fix) than floaters or sectoids and probably better accuracy.
But their terror mission butt buddies.
Dear god those things are almost on par with Etherals in their potential to intercourse you over.

[LordSlowpoke]

Posting to follow.

[Delta Foxtrot]

Actually, that elerium may account for half of all that we've got. I might want to actually pay attention to this stuff in the future.

I'm not an expert so take this with a grain of salt, but especially during the first few months I try to let let all the UFOs land because of their elerium. I've had a few instances in post-July games where I pretty much rage quitted because I ran out of E so that might colour my perspective a bit. Still, having my interceptors and skyrangers follow any spotted UFOs and then assaulting them as soon as they land means that by the end of February I have several hundred units of elerium and a bunch of UFO power sources. Then there's the combat experience of having fought several full crews to boot.

Bear in mind that this method has caused me to lose maybe a few scouts (they probably landed before I got them on my radar, I think) as they flew out into space without landing. It's still a pretty good way to stock up on elerium while still only fighting sectoids & floaters armed with pistols.

And less I say about Snakemen & Terror Buddies the better.

[Flying Dice]

Yeees... Snakemen terrormissions are basically "Daytime only, blow up the everything, burn the everything". And you really want to save civilians.

[GlyphGryph]

I have never had problems with Elerium reserves. Don't know why, really... but then, I'm not sure what people spend all that stuff on either! I usually end up selling it off in big chunks for extra cash.

Then again, I do love boarding landed crafts instead of shooting them down. I'll have the interceptor ready and waiting to blow it up, and send the skyranger to hopefully catch it before it leaves (and then the second interceptor to relieve the first before it runs out of fuel), simply because you get so much more stuff to sell, and oh do I love money.

[Flying Dice]

Once you get a camp set up on, say, a muton base, you can get a lot of it from capturing supply ships, true.

[Jacob/Lee]

I don't understand why anybody would ever need to grind supply ships for elerium, I never run out of the stuff. There's always huge mountains of it collecting in storage, right next to the alloys.

Snakemen terror missions are usually when you're either screwed to high hell or just a run-of-the-mill bug hunt if you have flying suits. My most recent game I had a full squad armed with plasma rifles and flying suits by the time I got a snakeman terror mission.

[Sonlirain]

Yeees... Snakemen terrormissions are basically "Daytime only, blow up the everything, burn the everything". And you really want to save civilians.

Who cares about the civvies.
Fire more incendary rockets at those creepy crawlies!

[Flying Dice]

Yeees... Snakemen terrormissions are basically "Daytime only, blow up the everything, burn the everything". And you really want to save civilians.

Who cares about the civvies.
Fire more incendary rockets at those creepy crawlies!

Every civvie that isn't behind your lines means another zed, which means another flash-moving corpsefucker coming after you.

[GlyphGryph]

I find your friend is open areas on a map edge. No matter how powerful they are, a line of soldiers with full reaction fire available is going to take them down.

If night, make sure to use plenty of flares to maximize your reaction likelihood, too.

Corners are definitely the enemy, though!

[Kilroy the Grand]

Chryssalids can survive a direct hit from High Explosive by the way.

The only good way to kill them is 12 soldiers autofiring heavy plasmas at them.

[Mephansteras]

Let's not ruin too much. I want to see what happens when IronyOwl has to deal with a Snakeman Terror mission for the first time. That should be...entertaining.

[IronyOwl]

Hah, Meph has the right idea.

[Flying Dice]

Yep. I'll say just one thing: I-AC is your friend in every situation.