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Long range firefight or close combat?

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Strzelec:
Hello everyone,

I am curious about one thing: do you prefer long range firefights or do you go for close combat? For me close combat has generally lack of sense and I prefer fighting at at least 100 meters with accurate rifles (but in this game I sometimes approach very close and I still keep at least one soldier with shotgun, I doesn't seem bad for,me because it is a strategy, not mindless shooting even at a close range) but from what I can observe most players prefer fighting at close, very close ant point-blank range in FPS games, they seem to have problems with aiming. Now I want to check if general trend of shooting from less than 20 meters also appears in a tactical game.

hwoarangmy:
I also prefer long range fights because aliens have much more TU than your soldiers and you are likely to have losses (and you won't be able to choose which soldier to expose) on close combat.

anonymissimus:
Long range whenever possible. Stay smoke covered, always scout out of the smoke in every turn to keep the area around it free of aliens. The snipers have very high survival rate then, allowing for high precision long range shots.
Short range is just insane, because you will be attacked, which basically means you are guaranteed to die, after possibly wounding the killer. But more often than not reaction fire will fail. I only use cannon fodder for short range combat. If you are lucky and/or are scouting well you can attack first and very well kill an enemy but that killer is likely to be killed in return as well.

Strzelec:
I'm glad I'm not alone with my thoughts about PROPER range of shooting.

Adler:
I prefer long range also.

In some cases I changed tactic and avoid smoke cover.  Sometimes its better to have at least one soldier visible to draw attention of aliens in range. If that soldiers is covered by boxes, lamp poles and so on, there are good chances he will survive one or two hits (medium difficulty) with armor. The alien is mostly an easy target after doing so. For me it works sometimes better then smoke and hide, because aliens remain hidden and I have to go after them. But it depends on situation.

Another strategy I discovered with long range weapons (and high skilled soldier) is the followin: If there is just one one main direction where enemies can encounter your soldiers and free space, just build a line of 4+ kneeling experiencend soldiers (i use a combination of laser and plasma atm) and use autofire. First time I tried I managed to kill 3 enemies in one turn with 5 soldiers, not even a scratch. It's hard to deceide when it's wise to do so, but in the right situation it can be less risky then smoke and hide.

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