The long awaited episode 11 is here, well I doubt its long awaited, still it is up!
Blank Plays XCOM Apocalypse Episode 11The only thing I'm saying here is that we had a pretty big near miss. I mean a few pixels to the right and it'd have been a whole different story!
Current bunch of lucky survivors
Alive:
Dr Spah
Blank
Aavak
Elof
Sansom
Dunker
Cognitive Dissonance
Javierpwn
Miranda Galena
Remalle
AlleeCat
Revocane
Vgray
Ednar Maridan
Halceon
Frejya
Dead:
Isaac
Did we invade that UFO last episode? I think the video stopped early for me for some reason.
So...what happens when Blank the Impaler dies?
You really do have to wonder who you sell those brainsucker launchers to.
The brainsucker launchers are the most counter intuitive weapon ever, well at least for humans to use. I imagine its sold for research or the Cult of Sirus by them to use on themselves. It wouldn't surprise me.
As for when I die? We soldier on of course, after the most fancy funeral you've ever seen and a giant statue built in my honor of course. That and I get a sainthood as well, I'm going out in style!
Blank, you prompted me to install the game on my laptop. It was a lot easier last time, when I didn't have to fiddle around with dosbox. 
And then it started a bit slow because I couldn't remember how to play.
I'm playing the second difficulty level and I'm now on Thursday in week 3. I think it's the same scenario as you, but the d-gates are clustered in the southwest of the map. Tall slum blocks get in the way and stop me getting clean shots at the alien craft. This week I haven't shot down any aliens and lost several vehicles. In the last invasion, a slum block was completely razed. I thought to myself "I hope I didn't do that". But Osiron is now annoyed at me.
On the ground, my X~Com has around 20 soldiers, including four mutants who stay in base as much as possible and three or four wounded who garrison my research base while they heal. I tend to take 12 soldiers per mission. They arrive on the map as two squads of 6 but then I reorganize them to squads of 2 to 4. Strong guys and androids get autocannons, accurate guys get sniper rifles which seems to train their accuracy even more, and a disruptor in their backpack for situations when fast shooting beats long range. Rookies get twin plasma pistols for the higher basic accuracy and everyone else gets twin disruptors. Whenever I don't have aliens to worry about and I notice my training facilities are overcrowded (effectiveness < 100%) it's time to get someone injured by raiding the cult of Sirius, or, as I like to think of them, X~Com's primary funding source. Another 6 or 7 raids and they'll have given me enough for an air hawk.
Large bio and physics labs are scheduled for completion early next week.
But the aliens are keeping me busy. Diablo are half assimilated so I need to annoy them by speculatively investigating their buildings. There's a handy button I haven't seen you use, Blank, over on the left side of the screen, that gives you a graph of the level of assimilation of different organizations.
That handy little button is going to be coming in use now aliens can start dropping off units without me being able to stop them. So I will be slowly increasing my raids in companies, especially if they have a high percentage.
As for your map, that's one major concern I have is the cluster of aliens and the slums in the center of the map. With units like hover cars constantly having to change there height levels, which means then essentially stay still, they are sitting ducks. This also means the slums are hit by a lot of crossfire, like you say people get pretty pissed when whole slums go down. They might not have been pretty, but people lived in them and people owned them.
You load out isn't to bad though. Since I have some more names to recruit into XCOM I might start expanding into two squads of 6 soon. The use of laser sniper does boost accuracy faster than other weapons, though it makes sense since sniping is a bit of an art form. Nothing like training your men by forcing them to do it, whilst under fire.
As for the your map if you can get the Air Hawk you should be fine as that can take care of a lot of your woes, the infiltration level of Diablo is a bit bad though :/
~Blank
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