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Certainly the question of "why do aliens need to build up?" needs to be addressed. But there's multiple ways to tackle it. Maybe some sudden disaster struck their homeworld and got to the Solar system by chance with whatever few population and supplies they could muster. Maybe they were d...

XCOM2 ain't PI's property, they can't benefit from work done on it unless the money comes from Firaxis. If anything you can support their next project, Terra Invicta. Sadly that one won't have a squad based tactical layer, so if you're into that maybe you can look forward to Phoenix Point.

My usual strategy is to forego the pull and snipe tactics and bumrush the ground enemy troops using consumables and cooldowns early, on multiple pod activations. That way you're getting the whole squad closer to the beacon faster and at the same time since there's less enemies on the ground, RNF is ...

If you got a ton of rebels on intel and actively scanning with Avenger you might luck out and catch it with a 4d timer, so you can infiltrate with 5 after boost. If it happens on a Strenght 4 region tho, expect it to come with a Light rating at 100%, which might be a tad too difficult depending on y...

Just be advised that in Legendary you'll get mowed down by any pod walking into you, with all of them getting yellow alert shots, if you heavily under-infiltrate a mission. You're bound to lose any soldier caught behind half cover against enemies with 75+ aim, like the T1 Mutons, or even T1 Gunners ...

Wow, I have not seen a UFO in longwar 2 this entire year of 2017. You guys have insane luck. You need to find the precursor mission, which looks exactly like Lib1 (Find a Lead, no Intel Package), except it's harder to detect, comes with low infiltration times and has a +strenght modifier (more enem...

I got two campaigns to give you info, both Legendary: 4/2/2035 : 23 Total, 0 available for recruit 9/17/2035 : 38 Total, 14 available for recruit 1/16/2036 : 44 Total, 44 available for recruit (same campaign as above, pretty much won at this point) The most visible difference with the lowest difficu...

I fail to see your point about why you're taking Electroshock over Lightning Reflexes. What contributes more to the team effort, a soldier that can disorient a single target (if it misses) or one that can dispel overwatches for the whole team, FOR FREE, allowing it to take better positions?

I don't know how you can play 1.5 without Lightning Reflexes. Overwatches are eeeeeverywhere and even if you only have 1 overwatch to get rid of, you want the assault to keep on the move. Even my 13 mobility assaults pack it. Electroshock is weaksauce compared to it, given that a high aim assault wi...

Gotta prioritize dem Intel reward missions over boosting a bunch supply raids.

Will 1.5 be the final version of LW2? No more updates for the vanilla version?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_B_OEpfMeU Watch that one first, decide if Xavier (Snapshot SS) would have been better as a Ranger. I think the deciding factor whether you take Snapshot or not isn't so much aim but not having crappy mobility. You get +10aim from Lone Wolf and Sharpshooters get a l...

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Don't follow that guy's advice is my advice.

You don't need to do 3-man missions, you just gotta set a pace so that you're not pulling excessive vigilance all over your few regions, instead pulling them towards a single one and have a lot of intel gathering going. Having three 5-6man squads out during the early game is perfectly fine. The way ...

Does April 4th count? I just rescued the 2nd scientist (engineer, scientist, scientist). I'm looking for missions on the 1st and 2nd region tho, but picking the ones on the 2nd region very carefully to not bloat it with vigilance.

You ain't turning the high aim OW Specialists into Officers, you're turning the low aim hacker-spec Specialist into Officers. If you have low aim grenadiers (with high HP and/or defense) you give them Sapper and fill them with frags/plasma/incendiaries and no ablative. Preferably you send them on th...

Thing is, the only bad rewards are the soldiers. If you get plenty engineers, you dig faster and with those supplies you buy the scientists. Also you won't have to build a Workshop for a while, if at all. If you need personnel you can fish them with Lib2, granted, infiltration times on those tend to...

Weirdly enough I've never taken Combat Engineering. It just seemed overkill when I had access to Sapper, Demolition, regular Rockets, Bunker Buster and Bombard (and Rainmaker'd Plasma Blaster). I'm gonna give it a whirl next time for sure, but it doesn't seem productive towards the way the fights de...

Well yes, specially with the PoI, but it was just to show that no, there's no bias towards no scientists. Either buy the scientists or make due with what you get. Tho, to tell you the truth I abandoned that campaign shortly after that caption because milking the first 2 regions for missions incorrec...

Black Market (after engineer dig), Black Market (after S&G), rescue, rescue, PoI, rescue (Lib2).

Is this a whine thread? Cuz I thought only Tac1 was allowed to do them.

Check this out:

That's what the Black Market is there for. If you get Engineers, you use the excavation supplies (and other sources) to buy Scientists. Usually I'd start the GTS on day 1, a rescue for Engineer happens, engineer excavates for ~$45 and either with S&G supplies or selling loot and trooper corpses ...

I have a hard time making room for Gas. If my Grenadier went left side of the tree then his equipment is usually Incendiaryx2, Fragx3, or Incendiaryx2, Fragx2, Flashbang. I'd have to reaaaally consider subbing the flashbang for the Gas grenade because the flashbang serves as the emergency button and...

What, weren't you going to finish them off with the Grenadier anyways? You might miss the loot opportunity. Might. But so what if you destroy the loot? Could have been crap anyways. For that chance you're giving up on an ability that gives value to all the shooters in your team. Your rangers and gun...

You're gonna love this: Background : This is beginning of campaign, and I take a strong team of 5 (shinobi, technical, assault, sawnoff ranger and specialist) to a Rescue VIP from ADVENT cell mission. 18 turns map, nice. I scoot around towards the cell, see a pod of 2 and a solo drone, set up a poss...