Pesky UFOs shooting down my assult teams!

[Wilko]

Hi guys picked up the dev version and strated playing last night.

I was rocking along happyily until I sent my troop carrier on a mission and a UFO poped up and blew it out of the sky! Very rude.

Is there a way I can protect against this?

Cheers,
Wilko

[adre76]

Try arming the drohships, build bases nearer the targets and you can make and escort of interceptors. Also get radar coverage on mission sites. If you see you cant win the fight land the dropship on the mission, the enemy might get tired and fly away or at least you acomplish the mission.
By the way what are UGVs and how do you get them?
Hope it helps

[Viento]

These is no real way of protecting the dropship. Forget about weapons and armour.

If you realise that the dropship is close to a ufo (several 1000 km is already close as the ship is quite slow), run for your next base or SAM-site, so that you are close enough to intercept the ufo before it fries your men.

Save often is another strategy.

Andy

[SonofAres800]

By the way what are UGVs and how do you get them?

UGVs are Unmanned Ground Vehicles remote controlled by another person at a safe distance, from what i can tell the project team are still working on getting them working, im not sure myself though, ive only got the 2.2 version and im waiting for the stable release of 2.3