That comic, so true!
Alright, got enough experience to have a stab at iron man challenge. I'm playing at classic ofcourse, I do like a challenge.
I've already given it a go last night, damn is the early game unforgiving. Still, I managed to pull through and get a pretty good team up and running despite the occasional loss.
I was especially proud of one soldier in particular, same nationality as me even, who was extraordinary badass. Besides pretty much netting half the kills throughout the playthrough this guy earned himself the title 'hazard' after blindly storming in a group of 3 sectoids while shouting 'Moving at the speed of death!', and emerging unscathed taking two down single handedly. While the rest of the team was panicking after a casualty he just kept on killing, so badass.
Sadly I messed up the strategic part (the one part that has no random elements, shame on me) and didn't get enough engineers in time to build more relays, leading to countries leaving all over as I missed two UFO's because I forgot to transfer my fighter to the right continent, stupid.
Take two, got a decent team up (I won't lie I start over if more then one dies first mission). This heavy already had her moment of glory as she managed a quad kill her second mission in by blowing up a truck. The mission only had 4 sectoids, heh. Suppose I'll have to make her a demolitionist expert!