Xcom long war meld amount full#
Xcom long war meld amount series#

Xcom long war meld amount full#

My Base and barracks are now a full month behind the 479 campaign. Instead I am building laser rifles to trade for corporals in order to strengthen my weak barracks. Do not have the resources to build laser cannons. Of the 3 UFOs that I do bring down, only one has a crash site.īuilding only 3 carapace armor. A fighter on a bombing raid does 39 days of damage and escapes. A Destroyer shoots down another satellite, and 2 scouting UFOs cannot be engaged. This was a much needed victory, and keeps me going.Īgain the air game is a disaster.

The only difficulty is the command pod, which severely wounds 2 soldiers, and KOs a SHIV. Most of the enemies are weak and everything goes smoothly. Given how poorly the campaign is going, I decide to take a huge risk, and raid a transport on the 10th, with the intention of winning that mission, or abandoning the campaign.

With some luck I might have pulled things together, but all the luck was with the aliens, who hit a pair of 4% shots. The remaining pods charge my position as well. Then a cyberdisc activates way out of line of sight, from behind the ufo, because one of its drones took a weird path. So I am unable to deal with the first pod of enemies quickly. I meant to hit the F5 button, to zoom in, but hit the 5 button which fired the rocket at nothing. The first mission, a landed scout, snowballs out of control after a misclick when firing a rocket. Have started building full WS block (repair bay, foundry, workshop x 2). One of the research missions was trapped 2 wounded, but everyone survived. There is a failed Covert Extraction on the 23rd, with 2 soldiers killed a rookie, and a LCPL. All told 5 UFOs escape, and 1 interceptor is killed.

The next UFO, a scouting raider on the 13th does 58 days of damage, and kills an interceptor, though I managed to bring it down. Because of this lost satellite, I am unable to raid a research UFO, and 2 other scouting UFOs are missing from the schedule, probably because I can't see them without the satellite. I have no interceptors to engage the next UFO, a fighter, also on may 1st (probably triggered by the escaping scout) which then shoots down my satellite. On May 1st a raider does 62 days of damage to my hangar, and also manages to escape. Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published 428 Notes:Īir game is a total disaster. The only significant difference in my strategy was that I started with Xenobiology in campaign 428, and started with Alien Weaponry (by accident) in 479. For both, I chose the Benefactor starting bonus, and used the strict screening 2nd wave option. I wanted back-to-back wins, and I was able to push through all the misery and misfortune in order to get them.įor brevity I am going to refer to these 2 campaigns as 428 (cursed) and 479 1 (blessed). I’m sure I would have abandoned that run at some point, but I had just won an I/I base game campaign, and I was enamored by the idea of immediately following that win with another win in the long war.

Xcom long war meld amount series#

I am going to wrap up this series of posts about long war by discussing some of the highlights, and comparing it to my previous long war campaign, which was filled with bad luck, stupid mistakes, and brutal disasters. This was by far the smoothest run I’ve ever had seemingly blessed. I just completed a long war campaign and am feeling pretty good about myself and life in general.