I just made it through the end of the month, very difficult abduction mission. I had researched titan armor, and plasma rifles, but didn't have the cash to actually buy them...
So my trusty squad of whoever was still alive after the disasterous month was put together:
A top level sniper, a high level heavy, two squaddie assaults, a squaddie heavy, and a squaddie support...
We hid behind some cars like cowards, hearing enemies all around. Some floaters showed up, and were destroyed by overwatch fire.
After waiting around, it was clear nobody else was going to just walk into my ambush, so I started scouting. There was a cyberdisk hiding in a nearby building!
My heavy, with the heat perk, blasted it and it's drones with a rocket, blowing up half the building. We were able to finish off the cyberdisk without incident. But some mutons heard the ruckus, and came after us.
Luckily, two were close together, one behind a car. The other heavy blew him sky high, and heavily damaged the other. This left me with one full health muton, and one badly wounded. They incapacitated one of my assaults, but we were able to stabilize him, and finish off the mutons. So 0 casualties, and 3 promotions. I wasn't able to capture a muton, as I had hoped, but at least everyone made it out alive.
Explosives really won the day for me. That, and hiding like a coward when I heard scary alien noises. Suppressing fire may have saved one of my soldiers from the last muton, and I was really glad to have taken holo targeting over bullet swarm. For winning the mission, I got a badly needed captain support.
After that, the month ended, and I was able to buy titan armor for my squad, and hire 6 new soldiers. Things are looking up. Now hopefully I can capture an outsider...