Good luck.
This is my third game, I never finished the first, too many crashes and glitches just before the base assault, the second I have just finished, Enema Within seemed to fix the majority of the problems I have experienced, except for bugs in the Battleship map - that still pisses me off.
Ended up having to find my way around an Elite Muton corpse a little further on, thankfully they give you three routes to get anywhere on that map. I have not had any issues with any other map - strange.
Edit:
Second mission just a couple of days later, two wounded still in the infirmary. Paula, now an assault, goes on an abduction mission to Argentina with three rookies. An Abduction Mission on the 4th day of the game!!!!
It went so well, no-one was injured, my luck is too good right now and I expect fatalities soon.
The 6 sectoids seemed to be overwhelmed by my troops' unusual level of accuracy, thankfully it was over quickly, only about 6 turns.
My problem is going to be the fact that I rush my assaults into situations that are far too risky. Paula was Runnin' and Gunnin' into a cafe to stand across the table from the Sectoid and hit it point blank with her shottie, at 85% to hit, she would normally have missed, but the pRNG seems to be kind at present.
Son of Edit:
Third Mission on the 8th of March: the Council request XCOM to investigate what looks like a bomb in Toronto: Paula leads Ho Deng, now a Sniper, Melaina Boulos, a Heavy, and Dion Korba, a very nervous Support, equipped with the first Medpack.
Paula suffers badly during the mission, {I screwed up an attack on a Thin Mint and she ended up inside the cloud when it died - poisoned and that was the only injury}, Ho Deng demonstrated a firm grasp of Sniper Skills - get up high and shoot anything that moves.
Dammit! Because I misjudged things, Paula is out for over a week, that will hurt if we have another mission, Paula is my only assault.
A day after finishing the mission, research concludes on weapon fragments and I can now build S.C.O.P.E. First batch of new recruits arrives and I am impressed by 4 out of the seven - I sacked the other three plus a couple of useless ones I started with.
Edit^3:
Our Interceptor downed a UFO over Japan and our team, led by Deng Ho went to investigate. Barret Braun went along as Support, with Miguel Delgado as Heavy fire specialist. rounding out the team was a promising new recruit, Encarnacion Gonzales, from some small Mexican town, she doesn't speak much good English, but her performance spoke for her, promoted to Support at the end of the mission.
I forgot to take a screencap at the end of the mission, nobody took any damage, thanx mainly to finding each group of aliums and eliminating them before tripping over the next. No need for grenades, but Miguel did blind-fire his rocket in an attempt to roast a hidden sectoid - must have missed him.
Grandson of Edit:
Another alien abduction mission, in India again, a construction site in Mumbai this time. Deng Ho leads while the recovered Paula King rejoins the squad, Barrett and a new rookie, Jana Mueller round out the squad. Seems like Paula is training her replacement in Jana, who is streets ahead in terms of raw skill - Jana promoted to Assault at the end of the mission, also the only one to get hurt, though only one point so she shrugged off the attack and blasted the Sectoid that shot at her.
Not much to say here. Deng Ho was able to get on top of a hut in the second turn and dominated from there, I had to deliberately use him last in the turn just so the others had a chance to get kills.
With Deng Ho now a sergeant, I can look at buying upgrades in the officer academy, though with my self-imposed restrictions, there isn't much to buy, fortunately, each mission so far has paid cash, so I'm swimming in dosh. Unfortunately, I can't build a new satellite uplink due to a lack of Engineers and tensions are increasing around the world - the USA is at 4, France, Mexico and Australia are at 3. Research is almost concluded on experimental Warfare, so Lazors soon.
That's all for tonight, going out tomorrow and don't think I'll get a chance to continue.