Ok, this was so absurd I just had to post it, if not for notification then for the laughter that this incident received.
This on the Mac Development Build r28016 so things might have changed blance wise since then, but still, one way or the other I simply had to share this.
So on a mission in some place, might have been Berlin, not really sure. Either way standard terror mission, aliens and a ship, early in the campaign, like second or third mission. So I'm busy looking for all the aliens that aren't holing up inside the cockpit
and making my mission a bit more annoying by being hard to kill before they get off a flurry of shots before I have a chance to even though I am the ambusher. But I digress.
So I have a grenadier and a sniper working their way along the open ground, there's nothing there and everywhere else is cleared so it seems. Until A Taman pops out from the far side of the ship and lots off a couple of shots which miss. So I perch my sniper behind a couple of crates and have my grenadier run into the safety of a little hut building thing. The Taman can't see her, and has to cross a fair amount of open ground which the sniper has covered. If it survives that then I can pop out and blow it up. Easy win, right?
Well... The Taman goes first to the cover of a big grey thing that looks like a computer. My sniper fires off a shot, misses. Fair enough. Next turn, comes out of cover, has to cross all that ground, sniper time. Two or three shots, all of which my sniper dutifully misses. Taman goes aorund the corner, into cover. Gotcha, I have the grenadier right around the corner. I see what you're doign and I'm going to beat you at it, ha ha! So I swing her out, she takes about seven steps, ends up with 13 Time Units left. There are two tiles between her and the Taman. Aimed shot- airburst, in the face. That's pretty much a grenade at point blank range. She was just outside of her own blast radius. Taman is just standing there as if a particularly stiff breeze had rolled over it.
It's response was to nonchalantly sidle up to this poor girl, put it's little blue pistol in her mouth and pull the trigger several times.
My reaction was to gawp at my screen and then laugh.
This little alien is invincible!