Well if it's any consolation GazChap I just tried the first alien base assault a couple of different ways and fucked it up both times.
I can get through the first chunk of it OK but I can't seem to help spotting three Chyrsallids simultaneously a bit further in (and there are another two not far behind them), which is basically an impossible task given I only have my heavy carrying a rocket launcher (not even the 'double launcher talent'), and no one else brought frag grenades because that moany woman back on the base complains every time I blow the aliens up so I'm going for clean kills or stuns.
With the weaponry I have my chances of one-shotting a Chyrsallid are very small so it's taking up two of my five squaddies to take one down, which means one of them's gonna killed, then I got a zombie on the loose, then it's all over. The Chryassilds have such awesome movement too, which doesn't help.
I've definitely got the wrong troop and weapon loadout for this mission, but it's served me very well up to now, so the game giving me some sort of hint as to what I might need in there would have been appreciated. (It also appears that the Chyrsallids and Drone thingies can't be captured anyway, so I'd have been quite at liberty to just blow the groups of the fuckers up with explosives if I'd have damn well brought any with me.)
Sheen not having the sniper's 'move and fire' talent is proving disastrous as well.
On one level I really rather admire it, it's old school gaming in a lot of ways, a lot of trial and error and well and truly learning the hard way, bad choices have terminal consequences. A world apart from something like WoW where in a lot of ways it's impossible to really 'lose'.
As I was trying to do 'pseudo-Ironman' I don't have any other saves apart from me on that mission, and given that I think I've rendered it damn near impossible for myself given my troops/weapons combination - it may be time to bin this one off.
Plus I know I've fucked the satellites up too.
AND HOT DAMN money is always very tight, too tight to mention, one could almost say.
Ace game though, I need to stop playing this for tonight since I'm a bit buzzed up from the excitement and my alarm's still gonna go off at 6:30am in the morning, and I need some calm down time