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[Descan]

*shrug* Let the other player watch the first.

Or, better, play as the aliens.

[Starver]

Both players get asked what they want to do. Both say "land", it's two-player (plus AI Aliens hostile to both forces, doesn't have to be sophisticatedly so), winner takes all, loser loses face, possibility of aliens trampling over the exhausted remnants of a Hu-on-Hu pitched battle.  Just one wants to land then other player gets to be the aliens (and if wins, reduces kudos of the opposing human player).  Neither does, and alien AI faction get a free pass and all earthly forces lose face/reputation/resources/whatever.

(I'm sure that this is better discussed elsewhere, but  elifinoware..)

[miauw62]

That would remove a lot of the mystery of not knowing what your opponent is up to, though. You can't reasonably make a cold war game without the paranoia.

[Sergarr]

One could potentially make all battles that are not "human vs human" run in some sort of "quick-battle" mode, without player input, but in exchange they would take a lot of overland time (just like the calls for all these missions usually last for at least several days, in original X-COM), so that the opposite side can react to it.

[Starver]

That would remove a lot of the mystery of not knowing what your opponent is up to, though. You can't reasonably make a cold war game without the paranoia.

Dependng on the design, each battle could obscure the choice made by the other. Dress up the AI as 'token Russians' when the Russian player is actually guiding the aliens, have alien-infighting so that it's occasionally LGM-on-LGM?

All kinds of variations, some best suited for different immersive experiences, naturally.

[Sheb]

You'd still know if what tech level your opponent have and so on.

[Starver]

You'd still know if what tech level your opponent have and so on.

Then have no field-encounters at all...

"They've fielded a Timey-Wimey Mortar Unit, they've reached level 25 in Chronomechanics! But their grenades and slug-throwers are all black-powder types, so their Explosives research isn't beyond Level 2!"

[Loud Whispers]

"There are a lot of people who believe that organisms can survive long-term, particularly the spores themselves," Dr Vreeland told BBC News Online. "We have provided the strongest evidence that in fact these things could survive for extremely long periods of time.

"We're 250 million years and counting as far as the survival of an organism goes in a crystal."

Origins of Life

The crystals were in a drill sample taken from an air intake shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the world's first underground dump for radioactive waste left over from making nuclear weapons.

When they were extracted from the crystals in a laboratory and placed in a nutrient solution, the micro-organisms revived and began to grow.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/978774.stm

Old news, but I only heard about it today. Fucking awesome

[Radio Controlled]

I think that was the start of the plot of some (horror?) movie once.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The first thing that comes to mind for me is how hard this would make life to extinguish. Even if Earth got maximum fucked, isolated things like these would still be sealed away in the rock, waiting to be freed.

[TempAcc]

It also means that, if any form of life ever existed on Mars, we'll probably be able to find a bit of it on crystal structures and maybe revive them :v

[Shadowlord]

Reviving martians from martian mosquitos in amber when?

[chaotic skies]

Taking over the universe using self-replicating organic nano-robots we found underground when?

[Starver]

Once they finally work out that electricomechanical anthropomorphic robot takeovers aren't all they are cracked up to be.

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect