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You wouldn't hit anything anyway, what with a smg's range malus.

nmkaplan wrote:They can show up on the Avenger Defense mission too

I would have loved that actually. Avenger Defense for me was like "Killing Grounds: The Mission".

As well as experience for your soldiers, though I don't know if it's more than in other missions.

Assuming the tile is on fire a a target moves out of it, does he always catch on fire?

Then: covering fire on a gunner. It ensures suppressed targets stay debuffed even if they run the suppression.

Does anyone know it this means the gunner will also do a shot at anyone shooting while suppressed?

I really like electroshock on assault within teams that have to be concerned with multiple pod activation. It doesn't matter if the assault has crappy aim, it doesn't matter if the enemy is in high cover, you always at least get the disorientation effect. You can blue move and stun to get close, the...

You need to keep in mind that the ammo cost associated with suppression is simply for activating the ability. You will need another shot for each enemy you want to actually fire on during suppression.

On supply raids/columns: I consider the standard MO on untimed missions to - set up a sniper nest (2 at least, or you won't have a significant impact on approaching pods), - scout ahead with a Phantom soldier (shinobi or AWC assault/technical) and - set up a line of OWers (rangers, specialists, gunn...

On Gunners: If a Gunner gets Sentinel or Rapid Reaction in the AWC, then you can make them very good OWers. Just pick CUP, which also benefits suppression. You can make quite an impressive hybrid with one of these from the AWC, CUP and the rest shooty skills. You end up with a soldier that's very go...

And flashbangs reducing hack resistance helps controlling big bad mecha without having to shoot at them, though this is more a welcome side effect. I had actually forgotten about this until it allowed me to control a heavy MEC on one of my last missions with no extra effort - had to flashbang the po...

I had a lot of success with a squad consisting of a shinobi spotter, two sharpshooters and someone to stop enemies trying to get to the shooters. For the last job I picked whoever can CC/overwatch and got lucky with the AWC. For less time-critical missions, slap one or more people as CC/Overwatch bu...

If you're fine with that, there's a mod for showing faceless in havens:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... =912497882

I use this because I consider manual tracking tedious.

I just had my first UFO defense and I didn't get the impression that the turrets are super useful. They shot at the enemy about 2 times and got shot 1 time.

Do you really feel the defense turrets need a buff?

Thanks. I waited with the liberation. Gotta bleed Advent wherever possible.

But even if I liberate, then launch the troop column immediately thereafter, does Advent lose the legion? That depends on how it is coded. If Advent strength is 1, a troop column can't reduce the strength or something like that.

I have just received a troop column in one of my regions. Thing is, I was about to liberate that region. What happens if I liberate first and finish troop column later? Can I do that at all? Does Advent still lose the legion?

If I want to put 20 guys into psionic training, I need a psilab. This costs a total of 250 supplies and 2 elerium cores to get both bays open. Or I could dedicate myself to weapons tech instead, let's see... [...] I don't think anyone is seriously considering buying no weapons and making every sold...

Infiltration time make it even less manageable, one example, you have wounded in a squad so you allocate some soldiers to another squad needing someone, fine. But when first squad is ready again ooops multiple soldiers are in infiltration with another team. So you recruit soldier from another squad...

I don't think this 'nerf' will be particularly noticeable to gamers not farming RNFs. After all, you have to kill everyone else first, and kill xp aren't particularly noticeable in the first place. In a mission where I kill all 12 legit enemies and 3 enemies I now get no xp for, I will still get 12 ...

Rapid Fire can be used with Run and Gun, the others can't. If you want your dude to move twice to your target and still be able to hit him twice, then you need Rapid Fire. In all other circumstances the other two seem superior to me.

Sorry, I looked for other threads dealing with this but didn't see that one. Thanks. Too bad we can't fix it completely ourselves.

Jj001 wrote:4. The shadow chamber is a HUGE advantage if you can get it fast. There is a mod that is an enemy troop counter which also helps.

Why is the Shadow Chamber an advantage for avoiding yellow alert shots?

So for a DfA sniper, I consistently habe the problem that my steady bonus applied to the first shot, but I have to kill using the un-steadied second shot? That's a serious disadvantage. Although I don't know how important that steady bonus is in mid- and endgame.

According to the 1.5 changelog, there is a bug making some missions harder than intended: Fix bug causing forced reinforcement missions (haven defense, supply convoy) to use the wrong reinforcement rules leading to much more difficult reinforcements. That sounds like a simple INI tweak to me, if I k...

Never used a Concealnobi before, but I'd see it as an ability to restore spotter ability after a fight. Normally, if you want your shinobi to spot, you can't directly use him in a fight. With Conceal, he can help out and go back to spotting afterwards.