Standard terror missio- Cue 6 chryssalids, 3 heavy floaters, and some zombies marching into sight. Luckily for me they decided to attack in three waves of two chryssalids, 1 floater, and 2 zombies. Which doesn't work well for them. After the last wave, we push into the library and find a Sectopod just there in the lobby. First reaction is to get everyone into cover and fire at it. Everyone excepts for my Hover SHIV misses, and it gets it down to half-health.
Then it's the Sectopod's turn to fire, it takes down half of my whole team to half-health with it's first shot and destroys their cover. The second shot goes for the SHIV which misses. Because they're standing there in the open with barely 4 health remaining, I had them get the heck out of dodge starting with the assault. Then I put the SHIV into overwatch (I didn't want the Sectopod to move without getting harmed), and a Support Colonel who had full health into hunker down. The Sectopod brought the Colonel down to 3 health, and misses the SHIV again.
Since my assault was too far away to trigger the Sectopod's overwatch, I had the SHIV charge at the Sectopod. It dodges the overwatch and stops a measly 3 tiles away, and fired. The shot was a crit, and the Sectopod went up in an explosion.
Hilariously enough, the SHIV missed every other shot on the other aliens and nailed every one on the Sectopod. This was a great first mission to test it.