Played some missions. Those are most the usual crash sites, Scout or Fighter UFOs with 3 or 4 aliens at best. Alien Body Armour and Plasma Rifle are still rare and we lost no soldier. Although we were somewhat lucky on the last missions, I think.
This is the only map I did not really like so far. You simply have no room, Not enough TUs to go in on the first turn and you cannot get cover if you stay outside the building. Not sure how to handle this. But of course it is nice to see a lot of different maps. Once more people play 2.5-dev (or 2.4.1, because the fix about the mapselection alone would make a good reason for this) we will get more feedback about the maps.
Small Street. We had four aliens here, unarmoured Tamans. They all used their Plasma Grenades to kill the nearby civvies in the very first turn. Afterwards they had to fight with their bare 'hands' against a full squad of heavily armed and armoured Phalanx soldiers.
Wilderness map. The aliens only had plasma grenades, but the guy on the left managed to walk from nowhere up to this point, absorbed some hits from the RF and threw a grenade next to Allison and Thierry Zhang (the two soldiers on the left, behind the wood). They both were heavily wounded with Allison getting the best of it, down to 7/99 health points. So we have to hire two new soldiers for Alpha Squad while this the Zhang twins are resting in the hospital. Maybe also noteworthy, Crystan (second from the right) shot, hit and killed the Taman on the right side of the pic. Incredible.
We need the new recruits, because Alpha Squad will have to take on this Harvester that landed in the Lhasa region.
Sniping Contest:
Crystan, Alpha Squad (Phalanx HQ), Sergeant, Missions 21 Kills 15
TrashMan, Beta Squad (America North), Rifleman, Missions 3 Kills 2
