Rendezvous scaling wow!

[Rebus]

Hmm, the Rendezvous missions are a good addition: experience, corpses, drops, variety, kinda fun, etc. They seem to scale surprisingly quickly in terms of Faceless, even at Vet/Ironman level. In very early game I had one pop within a week of contacting second zone (Str 2, Vig 2) and had 2 Faceless and 5 Advent against a low grade corporal shinobi and three haven (one with lousy SMG). A little extreme for so early, and lost two haven guys and injured XCommie. Now with 7 regions contacted had a Rendezvous in a Str 4, Vig 5, FL11 region, and had 5 Advent and 4 Faceless (one in pod, two agents, 1 popped from citizen although no Faceless DE is up). Four Faceless at once was a little crazy for a 5 haven (two embarrassed to be holding SMGs) and Sergeant support grenadier. Finished with Flawless, fortunately, but was a little surprised to see 4 of a tough enemy when low on firepower. The reach on those bastards is nuts!

Thanks for the fun challenge PI! Enjoyed the tension.

[Tuhalu]

There are many other classes that are much better in a Haven Advisor role. The weakest haven advisors are suboptimally specced Specialists, Shinobi and Grenadiers. A Needle Grenades grenadier is quite good though.

[Rebus]

Yeah, she was just passing through while usual advisor was officer training. There are lots of pretty good soldier advisors: weak aim flamer technicals with mobility work fine, OW gunners, etc. Still, I shudder when I see a lousy SMG in the loading screen.

[RookieAutopsy]

As I generally like using fast mobile squads, I only take sharpshooters (with DFA) on untimed missions so to save them from rotting in the barracks I use them as haven advisors. Then the 'useless' rebels with SMGs move from cover to cover, hunkering while the sniper picks them off. As they also have smoke grenades you can kite and go full turtle easily.

[Jadiel]

Hmm, the Rendezvous missions are a good addition: experience, corpses, drops, variety, kinda fun, etc. They seem to scale surprisingly quickly in terms of Faceless, even at Vet/Ironman level. In very early game I had one pop within a week of contacting second zone (Str 2, Vig 2) and had 2 Faceless and 5 Advent against a low grade corporal shinobi and three haven (one with lousy SMG). A little extreme for so early, and lost two haven guys and injured XCommie. Now with 7 regions contacted had a Rendezvous in a Str 4, Vig 5, FL11 region, and had 5 Advent and 4 Faceless (one in pod, two agents, 1 popped from citizen although no Faceless DE is up). Four Faceless at once was a little crazy for a 5 haven (two embarrassed to be holding SMGs) and Sergeant support grenadier. Finished with Flawless, fortunately, but was a little surprised to see 4 of a tough enemy when low on firepower. The reach on those bastards is nuts!

Thanks for the fun challenge PI! Enjoyed the tension.

You had a civilian spawn on a Rendezvous? I don't think I've ever seen that. Now if I do, I'll know what to expect!

[Jacke]

You had a civilian spawn on a Rendezvous? I don't think I've ever seen that. Now if I do, I'll know what to expect!

AFAIK, all civilians on Rendezvous are unrevealed Faceless.

[Rebus]

Not all of them, Jacke. I've had some on maps that haven't turned into Faceless, more than once I think. This one was next to the two agents put didn't turn until the last Advent died. That squishy noise they make sure got my attention!