X-Com help

[DRoseDARs]

It's been a long time, but couldn't you use the medpack stimulants to wake civies?

[Kassiopeia]

Like I said, they'll be treated as hostiles when they wake up, so why would you want to wake them up?

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Avalanche Unless you want to try to shoot them down gently enough to keep the elerium and power source in one piece.

Typo fixed.
The cannon is nice if you want to shoot down the scout ships rather than destroy them, but why bother?

[Kropotkin]

The cross-shaped ship I'm talking is a scout.

Large Scout

In my ideal world (beside that my ideal world includes extensive use of blaster lanchers), I place a proximity grenade to the right and leave on soldier behind, aiming at the door. While twp tp three others go to the left.

[Skanky Burns]

The Terror Ship is nice in that tanks can enter it first and if even one of the power sources exploded, your tanks can roll across the entire bottom floor of the ship.

The X's are my favourite ship though, the scene of many a great battle.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
"ah the cheats.......well watch out for brainsuckers especialy on nightmissions " - child of thor

Wrong game

true - still they should have put something like that in for people who use the cheat codes

I doubt i managed to make tubeski see the error of his ways

[Urban Ranger]

DRose,

Thanks for the link.


MWIA,

Throwing high explosive packs? Darn, it makes me want to play the game again.

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by General Ludd
I remember having a "demolition squad" in Apocalypse that would specialize in explosives. I'd do alot of fun things like go around a building and planting high explosives at all the major supports with a synchronized explosion time. They'd set them all down, step back, and *boom* the entire office complex is a pile of rubble I would then just have to clean up any aliens that survived the collapse or that where luck enough to get stuck in a mysterious floating room that survived.

You mean buildings actually fall down when you blow the base!? What a concept!

[CapTVK]

Btw, did anyone ever manage to recruit a chryssalid? Legend has it it is possible!

[DRoseDARs]

I did it.

[Skanky Burns]

Pray tell.

[Urban Ranger]

I read somewhere (probably in the unofficial strategy guide) that, if one of your soldiers got turned into a chryssalid, you could somehow got it work for you.

Now actually recruiting an actual chryssalid is something I haven't heard of.

[DRoseDARs]

Bare in mind this was ages ago and I only did it once. I'm fairly certain I cheated to make my soldiers uber-psychic and they in turn relentlessly mindbombed the hapless chryssalid. You'd think it'd be harder to get the Etherans...

[Kropotkin]

I got a program from the site linked above that did some twists to the game. One of the small but great ones is that the high explosive charge is much more powerful (200 compared to 110 before), so now you can blow holes into UFOs! Tested it one one of the famous cross-crafts/large scout and it worked as a charm. I tossed in proximity grenades infront of the door when it was needed and wen in from the side.

[Main_Brain]

I seem to remember you could burn holes in the UFO with Heavy Plasma Rifles too?