Beat X-Com: Final Mod with:
-Full global surveillance (AWACS-type craft fill in the gaps where all 10 bases couldn't reach, (Small and Large Radar, and a Hyper-wave decoder each base; with 3 hangars each base as aircraft checkpoints (at least 1 free hangar for relay-shipping of craft, and extending troop range for UFO raids)))
=With a security base at Pearl Harbor (8 hangars filled with varied craft as a situation calls for, and enough storage to keep all ships fully-stocked, with some room for personnel security (in case of a Retaliation while the rookies are out)
-At least 16.5M in my bank before raiding Cydonia (after paying the monthly bill; before that, I had roughly 34M, monthly Mainainence
was is enormous (Income = 16M-ish, and monthly expenses = 32M-ish), but worth every damn penny.)
-A devoted storage base fully loaded with an arsenal of alien weaponry (for emergency funding and restocking of weapons/ammo)
-4 bases with 2 of each devoted to research and manufacturing separately (when not making top-priority items, they've been pumping out low-cost/good-profit goods for sale; research bases split projects between weapons and alien life forms, until they were no longer a priority, then remaining low-cost research for one, high cost for the other)
-At least 2 bases were devoted to Alloy and Elerium Storage when over-stocked (Until I gambled on Fusion Ball tech, and nearly depleted a supply making ammo for my interceptors)
-Only lost one nation to the aliens (Brazil, and only because I didn't stop a base in time, and that happened during March)
-Most, if not all aliens (live and dead, with some Medic assistance) researched, including the more rare/unique visitors featured in the mod (like Ethereal Guardians and such).
-Minimal casualties (maybe a dozen losses; then again, I did some early save-scumming; later on, I just did PSI-Ops to spare lives)
-Aliens also suffered minimal casualties (<500 kills total; >thousands of stuns (way more profitable when you keep them alive; excess containment sells the live ones). MiBs were a slightly different case. Free Stormtrooper and Power armors, easy profit when fully-stocked. Spared/stunned/sold the useless, killed the armored for their suits.)
-Defeated Cydonia with a pacifist (or at least, non-lethal) victory (stunned everyone on the surface and underground, and destroyed the master brain)
And best of all
-I beat the game (mod) that's stated to take longer than 3 in-game months, and maybe longer than an in-game year (according to the mod makers) by Early November '99 with all of the above done.
This calls for some victory musicUp next: I'll become the real Terror From/Of The Deep. I might have to retro-fit the Pearl Harbor Base to be submarine operable. Same setup as before. Quick to build, and extremely useful, not to mention a hell of a strategic advantage point.
After using the Ironfist so much, the Avenger was so pathetic by comparison. Ultimate Craft, my ass.