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[Burnt Pies]

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The Valkyrie is expensive, but quite awesome. With time, you will need to make more use of its combat capacities with better upgrades. Once money is less of an issue, I suggest buying a Wolfhound APC and stripping the Valkyrie of its transport capabilities. This will let you install proper combat modules on it, as well as be able to collect all the loot from higher end missions.

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The problem with doing that is that APCs can't get to downed UFOs at all. As we need to capture examples of every UFO, that's gonna mean a lot of gear micromanagement later when UFOs are actually manned. Just selling off useless loot will likely get us a Hawk Air Warrior soon-ish, however, so the Valkyrie's not all that important.

Oh, and putting a soldier on 'Agressive' means they'll focus on carrying out your orders, no matter what happens. Having them on normal means they'll frequently stop when they see an enemy, and shoot at them. Also, they'll occasionally sidestep when on normal, if they feel they have cover to one side. I probably should have mentioned that a while ago.

[Vgray]

I guess Aavak is nice enough to take orders from a Squad Leader. Or something. Hmm...

[Blankdoor]

Episode 7 is online!

Blank Plays XCOM: Apocalypse Episode 7

There you can finally be happy AlleeCat! Your time to shine has come again. Still we finally manage to recover some alien craft as well as make some progress on researching aliens, so all is good! Plus its only a few days to the end of the first week for the re-formed XCOM!

Kick-ass Soldier list:

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Alive:

Dr Spah
Blank
Aavak
Elof
Sansom
Dunker
Cognitive Dissonance
Javierpwn
Miranda Galena
Remalle
AlleeCat
Revocane
Vgray
Ednar Maridan
Halceon

Dead:

Isaac

I guess Aavak is nice enough to take orders from a Squad Leader. Or something. Hmm...

I like to think my rank would only be a field rank, yet out of the field I am the leader. Once again I'm adding to the custom XCOM fanfic I seem to be creating in my mind.

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The problem with doing that is that APCs can't get to downed UFOs at all. As we need to capture examples of every UFO, that's gonna mean a lot of gear micromanagement later when UFOs are actually manned. Just selling off useless loot will likely get us a Hawk Air Warrior soon-ish, however, so the Valkyrie's not all that important.

Oh, and putting a soldier on 'Agressive' means they'll focus on carrying out your orders, no matter what happens. Having them on normal means they'll frequently stop when they see an enemy, and shoot at them. Also, they'll occasionally sidestep when on normal, if they feel they have cover to one side. I probably should have mentioned that a while ago.

I'm just going to put every troop aggressive, I think doing what I say is better than risking them pausing, especially on real-time. As for the interceptor thing getting a Hawk Air Warrior was my plan at a push, or arming a second interceptor and stationing it in XCOM HQ. Two interceptors and some hover-cars should suffice for a few weeks at least until hings start ramping up.

~Blank

[Vgray]

Should we not be helping the police? Sir?


The funny thing is, I'm going to get paid for doing absolutely nothing when week one ends.

[Blankdoor]

Should we not be helping the police? Sir?

They can actually handle themselves surprisingly well, though I don't mind getting caught up in a fight and lending them a hand, we will certainly not make a habit of it. Since, it'd mean firing on the criminal syndicates and I want them to remain friendly for now. Note the words 'for now'.

~Blank

[Vgray]

Now I wonder why we don't see Marsec shooting people.

Oh, and why do they have roads? I think I saw a few roads.

[Burnt Pies]

Some people can't afford these fancy 'Hover vehicles', so they just make do with boring ground vehicles. Unfortunately, balance between ground and air vehicles is terrible, meaning ground loses out in every way except anti-building firepower and raiding buildings, so no-one ever really bothers with them, as air vehicles can still do all that, they're just not quite as good. I did once try having a few tanks with AA Missiles stationed by the dimension gates, but they were fragile as hell and didn't contribute much, so I can't recommend it.

I think there's a mod out there to make ground vehicles more competetive, with a few buffs to stats and weapon choices (Heavy Disruptors on the Tank, for instance), along with making roads take a lot more punishment (Currently, it doesn't matter how tough a ground vehicle is, if the road beneath it is destroyed, it dies. Roads are extremely fragile.)

[javierpwn]

In think we should just buy a crapton of Elerium, and arm our vehicles with plasma and Sports engines.

[CognitiveDissonance]

Some people can't afford these fancy 'Hover vehicles', so they just make do with boring ground vehicles. Unfortunately, balance between ground and air vehicles is terrible, meaning ground loses out in every way except anti-building firepower and raiding buildings, so no-one ever really bothers with them, as air vehicles can still do all that, they're just not quite as good. I did once try having a few tanks with AA Missiles stationed by the dimension gates, but they were fragile as hell and didn't contribute much, so I can't recommend it.

I think there's a mod out there to make ground vehicles more competetive, with a few buffs to stats and weapon choices (Heavy Disruptors on the Tank, for instance), along with making roads take a lot more punishment (Currently, it doesn't matter how tough a ground vehicle is, if the road beneath it is destroyed, it dies. Roads are extremely fragile.)

Well, I actually had really good mileage with the Griffon heavy tank with a disruptor turret. Position it well and it can really take chunks out of the bigger baddies. I also had decent mileage with smaller vehicles during invasions. They work well as fire support, as long as they are allowed to keep their range OR they have excellent speed.

[Burnt Pies]

My mid-late game strategy is a bunch of hoverbikes with plasma cannons, as Plasma Cannons and Prophet Missiles are the only human weapons capable of punching out the last few UFOs, and late game UFOs have more than enough firepower to take out a big target like a Valkyrie or Hawk, but have trouble hitting tiny little hoverbikes. Don't bother wasting elerium on the first few weeks of UFOs, and never buy the smaller plasma guns. Elerium is far too scarce to waste on weaker guns and enemies.

I'm fairly sure the Griffon only gets disruptor turrets with the Roadwar mod, which is dedicated to making ground vehicles actually useful. A GLM Array Griffon could be useful fire support, but to be honest, I can think of many things I'd rather spend that money on.

[CognitiveDissonance]

My mid-late game strategy is a bunch of hoverbikes with plasma cannons, as Plasma Cannons and Prophet Missiles are the only human weapons capable of punching out the last few UFOs, and late game UFOs have more than enough firepower to take out a big target like a Valkyrie or Hawk, but have trouble hitting tiny little hoverbikes. Don't bother wasting elerium on the first few weeks of UFOs, and never buy the smaller plasma guns. Elerium is far too scarce to waste on weaker guns and enemies.

I'm fairly sure the Griffon only gets disruptor turrets with the Roadwar mod, which is dedicated to making ground vehicles actually useful. A GLM Array Griffon could be useful fire support, but to be honest, I can think of many things I'd rather spend that money on.

Ah, right, I was thinking of the Rumble Cannon link. As it doesn't need ammo, it's fun.

Also yeah, the GLM for either the tank or other vehicles. That's how I used those, I forgot that their existed
Yeah, I like the ground vehicles. But also, I'm sorry for derailing the thread a bit Blank!

[AlleeCat]

You know, I've been wanting to do a Let's Play of X-COM: Enemy Unknown, but I don't know how well a subtitle/screenshot LP of that game would work, since I don't have anything I could record my voice with.
Maybe I could stream it or something?

Or maybe I could do a hybrid sort of thing where I have videos of battles and screenshots of everything else.
I dunno. Maybe this calls for an interest thread.

[CognitiveDissonance]

You know, I've been wanting to do a Let's Play of X-COM: Enemy Unknown, but I don't know how well a subtitle/screenshot LP of that game would work, since I don't have anything I could record my voice with.
Maybe I could stream it or something?

Streaming would work, but steamers are commonly expected to at least talk through their play.

If you are in North America, electronics stores sell headsets around $10-$15 which give okay quality of sound from their mic. Not ideal, of course, but it can get you started!

In Western Canada specifically, London Drugs sells (or used to sell) a stand-alone mic for about $15-$25 that also gives decent quality.

[Vgray]

I just read something interesting on TV Tropes. I don't know if you qualify yet, but if you do quote, "very very good" unquote, the Senate will decide that you're very cost efficient and actually reduce your funding.

[AlleeCat]

You know, I've been wanting to do a Let's Play of X-COM: Enemy Unknown, but I don't know how well a subtitle/screenshot LP of that game would work, since I don't have anything I could record my voice with.
Maybe I could stream it or something?

Streaming would work, but steamers are commonly expected to at least talk through their play.

If you are in North America, electronics stores sell headsets around $10-$15 which give okay quality of sound from their mic. Not ideal, of course, but it can get you started!

In Western Canada specifically, London Drugs sells (or used to sell) a stand-alone mic for about $15-$25 that also gives decent quality.

Well let's just say there are other reasons I don't own a microphone.
Also, sorry for advertising my own thread in yours, Blank, but here's my interest thread thingy.