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[Dostoevsky]

If all else fails when it comes to ninjas, you can always debug-kill. When it comes to certain ninja foggery I don't feel any great shame in it.

[Chiefwaffles]

I ended up doing the usual trick with a Hunter-Killing baiting the defenders out while I had my menace craft land at a forward base.

The actual battle was trickier though. I didn’t debug-kill, but I did use an absolutely disgusting amount of save-scumming — even for me.

Problem with me and ninja (forward) bases is just how dense the map is with enemies. There wasn’t really any time for me to sneak in the back when I spawn with 5 enemies immediately facing me and many more about to attack on their turn.
I had multiple grenades thrown into my transport, and it was at this moment when it burst into flames that I realized I forgot to pack fire extinguishers. Fun.
Turrets weren’t much of a problem. I brought a large number of RPGs and rockers and had someone sitting at the top of the transport with a mortar. Main problem was the aforementioned grenades and just how many enemies there were.

Ultimately though excessive use of RPGs and CAWS got me to the end, if barely. Every single person I sent has a 60-90 day injury time.

…now just to repeat this 5 more times for each other forward base.

[Robsoie]

Rosigma for 40K got updated to 1.09D

Spoiler: changelog (click to show/hide)

UPDATE 1.09D NOTES:
**Requires OXCE 7.7.3**

FIX:
- Added missing battletype 2 to lascutter ammo that prevented the items from being loaded (applies to enemies using it as well).
- Yarrick and Commissars power claw hand switched.
- Made Autogun mags buyable for all imperial factions.
- Gave the Tzeentch Witch laspistol ammo instead of lasgun ammo so she can pew pew.
- Removed 2x2 size spawn nodes from indoor locations on some of the new maps. Alas, no more Deffkopter Corridor.

ALL:
- Lowered basic outpost maintenance cost to 300k from 600k/month.

GUARD
- Taurox turrets now have improved rear firing arcs.
- Guard Gamer Chairs now 25% cheaper.
- Made all Guard wheeled guns tankier in the front and side armor, add 10% resistance to small arms fire and a +20 health bonus for the guardsman using it.
- Updated Penitent Guard to have wider (lower) stat distribution compared to normal Guardsmen. Slightly worse shooting stats, but better strength and melee skills (that prison yard workout routine). Normal Guardsmen do cost a fair bit more.

ADEPTAS
- Can now buy Autogun ammo from the start.

RADICAL INQUISITION
- Researching the Radical Road will now trigger an event that gives a free Corvus Blackstar Token + a fireteam of Inq Storm Troopers as reinforcements.

ELDAR
- Buffed Eldar soldier stats for all types. Farseer stats unified (can still get them 2 different ways).
- Buffed Transport: Added 6 slots to the player Wave Serpent (external), +1 possible vehicle (platform).
- Hulk Farseer no longer required to wield the Mirrorsword. Lowered Strength Requirement of the Mirrorsword to 30 from 60.

MAPS
- Added Space Hulk lvl 1 variant maps HSHIP9 to HSHIP11 with longer spawn timers. Added a missing roof segment to HSHIP6 (no gameplay effect). Added URBAN28, another 20x20 map to the Grover Haus rotation.
- Updated Routes for URBAN24 and 25 to not allow large terror units indoors.
- Added GRUNGE20-25 variant map blocks to the second space hulk level.
- Remote warehouse maps can now serve as Deserter Hideouts.
- ReCOVERS: Added additional cover to very open map blocks in Desert, Forest, Jungle, Polar and Hangar/Airport.
- Added 12 new UFO variant maps for CH02 and double tower layouts.

[Robsoie]

Sent my Rhino Squad (full of MK7 tactical armored SM with each a plasma gun) into a newly spawned CSM base.

The first level went surprisingly well, didn't tried to clear the whole map an headed to the elevator area to transport all my guys to the underground level. 
The underground level started well (plasma is good) , until a couple of chaos terminator started to throw rockets multiple times by turns and destroyed 5 of my marines...  meaning the super expensive loss of 5 MK7 armor, 5 plasma guns, oh and 5 space marines but they're easily replacable as i still have my Drop Pod team while i rebuild my number, but the amount of armor and plasma gun crafting time that's a big loss..

But in the end we prevailed, but man that was completely hard.

Spoiler: good score and lots of money from selling the loot (click to show/hide)

though i hoped for more adamantium component :/

the terribly bad difficulty balancing of a Space Marine run made me stop playing with Rosigma after some point, but since i discovered the following mods i have fun again as with all of that it finally feel like the enemy take as much damage as my troops (previously it always felt i needed a lot of shots to take down an enemy while said enemy was one shotting my heavily armored units)

Spoiler: mods list (click to show/hide)

"No Spawning unit on death" (can't believe i ever played without this one before, hated that Rosigma feature so much)
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,10706.0.html

"Difficulty settings" (by default the game is forced on difficulty "Veteran" that is mostly responsible of why i felt enemies were bullet sponges while mine were so weak, going on a lower difficulty makes it feel more much balanced)
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,10802.0.html

"No Dodging" (there's enough randomness in damage, i found the addtion of those random dodging bullets/missiles being simply too much luck involved)
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,10720.0.html

Those made Rosigma fun again for me.

[EuchreJack]

40k is rough because you can't use the vast majority of the loot EVER, unlike all other X-Coms. I imagine ideal play is to have a Market right away, and prioritize manufacturing.

[Robsoie]

Things are also locked behind some specific researches, and lots of researches are doing nothing out of just adding a picture in the codex, so you'll have to explore the research finder to quickly find which researches are actually worth doing.

And you really want to not waste any time with useless "cosmetic" research, as you can get very hard enemies very quickly so you want always better guns.
That and in addition there are tons of gun variants with some less useful than other, cluttering a lot your item list, always only focus on what can kill everything fast instead of gimmicky weaponry.

[EuchreJack]

Things are also locked behind some specific researches, and lots of researches are doing nothing out of just adding a picture in the codex, so you'll have to explore the research finder to quickly find which researches are actually worth doing.

And you really want to not waste any time with useless "cosmetic" research, as you can get very hard enemies very quickly so you want always better guns.
That and in addition there are tons of gun variants with some less useful than other, cluttering a lot your item list, always only focus on what can kill everything fast instead of gimmicky weaponry.

Almost sounds like you dived into discussing X-Piratez for a second there, LOL.
But yeah, that does define 40K.  But 40K is generally quite shallow.

[Robsoie]

After playing xpiratez that has so much content it's certain you'll find every mod shallow

Though i wouldn't really call 40K shallow, especially with the multiple playable factions that features their own troops, vehicles, weaponry etc... there's quite a lot in that mod, and with the rosigma expansion there's even more content.

But the gameplay loop, diversity of mission and other activities are nowhere as developped as xpiratez for sure.
And the game balance or progression is rather bad (fortunately as mentionned before there are mini mods that can help there)

edit : X-Com Files version 2.7 got released

Spoiler: changelog (click to show/hide)

2.7:
- New weapons: Chemthrower (with two ammo types), Chryssalid Gas Grenade.
- New units: Reclamation of Aether Initiate (2 genders), Reclamation of Aether Journeyman (2 genders) (both mostly by CosmicAfro).
- New missions: The Sound of Graves, Impossible Internet Intelligence, Televised Ghost Hunting (all mostly by CosmicAfro).
- New commendation: Pest Controller.
- New Postindustrial maps (mostly by Dioxine).
- 7 new Catacomb maps and terrain (by Dioxine).
- 4 new Port map variants (by Thallori).
- 1 new Sewers map (by Dioxine).
- Desert stones are yellow.
- Better Moon minimap (SCANGs by Kato).
- Added Security Camera description.
- New lore articles.
- Hybrid Control Circuitry bigob (by Brain_322).
- Spirit Cultists have worse Psi Strength.
- Flamethrowers give Technician commendations.
- Commando reinforcements in manors never come from the south.
- Children of Aether are more grey.
- Night-Ops and MiB Enforcer graphics improved (by Dioxine).
- Fixed an issue with Katapeltes Spiritus clips.
- Fixed missing commendations.
- Fixed an issue with Polar terrain where X-Com craft may be placed on water.
- Terror Ship map fixes.
- Fixed Trinidad position.
- Minor fixes.

[GiglameshDespair]

Chryssalid Gas Grenade.

Zombification in a can?

[Dostoevsky]

I assume it's the same sort of thing as the anti-hellerium damage type in XPZ that works on chryssalids (and... many further uses).

[Robsoie]

There was a quick bugfix update to xcom files,version 2.7b

[Mathel]

Chryss-gas is indeed Anti-511 damage. It wrecks anything with hellerium based metabolism, potentially setting it on fire.

Super effective against Chryssalids and Zombies, effective against Ubers.

Like Choke damage, bypasses energy shields. Unlike Choke damage, it merely needs contact with victim, not actual inhalation.

[MCreeper]

Restarted once again  with new update. Got a workshop in may of second year and sickbay shortly before becuase of abysmal luck with loot. Barely scraping by despite destroying ninja outposts with cheats. First time i see a loanshark message.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

At least catgirl's plate armor is buyable instead of craftable.
Also new inventory system is constantly throwing me off. In particular, it appears to put double of gals' weapons on loot page, and i'm not sure if i accidentally sold all my fuso swords through "fence" or through loot screen.

[Chiefwaffles]

I really like the idea of the new inventory system and when it works, it's genuinely super convenient. But uh. I'm not sure I'd recommend it in its current state. And whether or not it improves from that current state in the future, I don't know -- the philosophy of the Open X-Com Extended developers on adding new engine stuff is always a bit weird.

The main things are modifying inventories of agents currently assigned to a craft, and the whole putting your guys' gear on the loot page. For the former, if you change someone's loadout and they're already assigned to a transport, then they don't actually bring their new loadout with them. They have to be unassigned from the transport then re-assigned to bring their different loadout aboard; otherwise, they'll start their missions with an empty inventory. The latter is even more fun, since it fucks with auto-sell. Don't need any more of a certain gun and set it to auto-sell, but have it equipped to one of your gals? Congratulations, you are now auto-selling your own equipment!

It still can be worth it right now though if you can stomach the quirks. Despite my problems with it, I haven't disabled it.

[Dostoevsky]

Yeah, I don't think it's worthing using it yet, and honestly after using for a bit the marginal efficiency increase isn't worth all the fiddly-ness of it.