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[lordcooper]

The RNG in XCOM: Enemy Within hates my guts, but has a stranger than usual way of showing it.  Nine snipers in a row.  WTF am I meant to do with nine snipers?

[EnigmaticHat]

The RNG in XCOM: Enemy Within hates my guts, but has a stranger than usual way of showing it.  Nine snipers in a row.  WTF am I meant to do with nine snipers?

Give them snapshot and have a shittier version of normal infantry?

[Culise]

Team Squadsight, using Battle Scanner or expendable rookies for scouting.

[Kydrasz]

Or maybe turn them into MECs and have a full robotic team that can't take cover at all but has lots of firepower.

[MaximumZero]

Team Squadsight, using Battle Scanner or expendable rookies for scouting.

This. Team Squadsight is airborne, 5 archangel snipers and an assault to scout with.

[Flying Dice]

Checking in on this after a long hiatus... so base defenses are actually almost as difficult as they were in the original, if you are unlucky with what the game gives you? That's nice. Still don't think it'll top taking on (and beating, albeit after several savescums to see if it was possible) a Muton invasion with six rookies sharing two sets of armor, two laser rifles, two laser pistols, a motion tracker, and six frags between them. 

[Taricus]

I guess this is why you don't sell off the exalt laser weapons then.

[forsaken1111]

Checking in on this after a long hiatus... so base defenses are actually almost as difficult as they were in the original, if you are unlucky with what the game gives you? That's nice. Still don't think it'll top taking on (and beating, albeit after several savescums to see if it was possible) a Muton invasion with six rookies sharing two sets of armor, two laser rifles, two laser pistols, a motion tracker, and six frags between them. 

Unfortunately as far as I know the base defense thing is just a single mission, part of an optional mission line.

[Sindain]

Yeah base defense is part of the "Progeny" mission line, and doesn't really matter whether or not you sell teh exalt weapons, as your just stuck with whatever your last squad that was on a mission had. So if you have the equipment for one squad more doesn't matter.

[EnigmaticHat]

Team Squadsight, using Battle Scanner or expendable rookies for scouting.

This. Team Squadsight is airborne, 5 archangel snipers and an assault to scout with.

Its always weird to me that people treat archangel armor as relevant.  If you have it, you could have already won.  Besides, once you have ghost armor, plasma weapons, and tactical rigging you could beat most missions with rookies, if you somehow don't have New Blood at that point.

[MaximumZero]

It's fun. Isn't that what games are about?

[Mageziya]

Oh just fuck operation Portent.

And more or so, all Thin Men deserve to burn. Gods of shots that should not hit, and strangely enough, of missing ones that should hit.

Results over various playthrough attempts:

First time: Team Wipe.

Second time: Smashing Success.

Third time: Barely scrape by with a one health MEC.

Something has changed in Thin Men. The creators have supposedly said they didn't change anything in Thin Men. If that is the case, then that means they changed something on a broad scale that affects them, whatever it is, and has changed them into gods.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Finished my first assault on a battleship ever. So that's why I've never fully researched everything.

[Mephansteras]

Got to say, I'm having a lot of fun with the second wave option that mixes up the skill trees for each soldier. It makes leveling up interesting and has given me some rather fascinating combinations. Like a Heavy with Opportunist (no penalty for reaction shots), Rapid Reaction (gets two reaction shots), and whatever one gives full bonuses for half cover. He's very effective in a somewhat unusual fashion.

[EnigmaticHat]

It's fun. Isn't that what games are about?

Fair enough.

Still, I assumed he was way back before archangel was an option.