Enjoying this game so far, although on Classic Ironman I haven't really gotten that far before losing
Had a few interesting moments so far; on my current run I've had some stories to tell and we haven't even hit the first major mission yet -
Second mission (I think,
may have been the first), one of my soldiers panics and shoots one of my rookies, killing him instantly.
That soldier went on to become a sniper (well, she certainly showed aptitude for it), and
single-handedly saved a Target Escort mission.
The mission in question started out fairly bad - the obligatory rookie did what they usually do (got shot and killed, in case you weren't following), then as my squad started to move up the map very, very slowly, they got jumped and one of my two heavies got shot by a passing Thin Man.
We struggled on, getting halfway through the map, before another enemy spawn wiped out my other heavy, leaving one sniper and a panicking civilian.
She then proceeded to grenade the remaining Sectoid out of cover, and sniped every last Thin Man drop-in on the way to the exit.
Eventually she reached Captain, and then, instead of dying a heroic death, she got sniped by a lucky plasma rifle crit from halfway across the battlefield. (The rest of her squad also got killed during that mission).
Probably just as well, since when the first terror mission came up, everyone died in that too. And in the first assault on
where everyone died again, within the first ~3 turns in fact if I recall correctly. (In fact I
actually lost the mission on the first turn due to revealing enemies with my very last move of the turn, who then proceeded to kill off the whole squad - it just took them a couple of turns to do it)
On the plus side, recruitment is up about 300%.