I just evacuated out of a Pandoran Lair clearing mission, first time I ever bailed out a mission. I had a guy with the Neurazer to capture an alien, but even though I ran up to a badly wounded one and zapped him, he died instead of being paralyzed. This is the second time this happened to me and I've posted to the Phoenix Point forum on this to try to get some pointers. And just to make it more annoying, my Neurazer guy got hit hard by a second, unseen alien.
And as that wasn't enough, another one of my guys got too close to a Fireworm egg and it hatched and the Fireworm headed towards my guy. Since he couldn't reach him,
the Fireworm exploded in flames instead and my guy caught on fire. I used medikits to avoid him dying from loss of hit points but he lost the use of both arms, so he was nonfunctional as well. So I decided to evacuate.
In the mission previous to the one mentioned above, I raided a New Jericho haven to grab supplies. I got them, but it cost me a level 6 hybrid heavy/assaulter. It cost me more to replace him than I got and the guy I got was a level one newbie. So I guess I'll be staying away from raids.
I think I'm beginning to hit a wall after twenty hours. The strategic game is a scramble to keep getting resources at a rate at least as fast as I am spending them. It would be nice to consider getting another aircraft, but I don't have near enough resources to build one, which would be a Manticore anyway. And when I stole my Thunderbird it cost me two soldiers, and replacing two of them was really expensive.
The tactical game is fun, but it is getting repetitious. The maps are smaller than XCOM but they are big enough for the combat so far. However, there is little room for flanking movements, especially when you could run into the enemy in any direction to the front of your (usual) spawn corner. And I haven't run into any chirons which everyone tells me is going to cost me soldiers every mission. If that happens I'm going to be in real trouble.
Anyway, I'm leaving midweek for a few days and maybe that will be something that will clear my head about the game. Or maybe I just need to start a new campaign on Easy...
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