Stuck on Classic Terror Mission- Any tips?

[InfernalFuton]

Aight, I give up. I've finally decided to play Classic after beating the game about 10 times on Normal (without losing any soldiers), and it is thrashing me.

I did pretty well until the Alien Base, but managed to get that sorted with only one save reload. After that, my A team got put on the bench by a Large Scout crash site and I was left with 4 guys, 1 Support (major) 2 Heavies (1 Squaddie 1 Corporal) and 1 Assault (Sqaddie).
The day right after the A team beating, I get a Small UFO landing that I did without much trouble, but then the day immediately following THAT I get a Terror Mission in a maxed panic country.

The map is the one with the single large building in the center with 2 floors that's on fire, an alley to the right and the road behind it.
After my first turn, without fail, a trio of Cryssalids crosses the entire map, and split up to start murdering civvies. After that, if I get LOS on the interior of the building AT ALL, there are 5 more Cryssalids inside that squadwipe me the next turn. If I turtle up and try to bait them out, on turn 3 a Cyberdisk and drone escort roll in. I've spent 2 hours trying everything I can think of with absolutely no success.

I've got the whole squad in Carapace with Laser gear and a Plasma Pistol on my Assault. Her and my Major Support have Chitin plate and the Heavies have Scopes.

I'd just reload a save from before, but I blundered and overwrote the auto I had when the mission dropped.

[InfernalFuton]

Originalmente postado por CuddilyWuddily:

1. Restart
2. Rush the Tactical Rigging upgrade.
3. Kill 100% of aliens with grenades
4. Laugh at the terror mission because you got more grenades than aliens

I'm on EU, not EW, so Tac Rigging isn't an option for Non-Supports

[red255]

been AGES since i played Enemy Unknown, what enemies are we facing on what map?

gimmie a screenshot or something.

seems like you took injuries on your heavies and can't just use rockets to deal with Terror mission. play conservatively, don't try to save more than 2 civs, use explosives. dont worry about weapon fragments.

whats left? On EW I would recommend having some alloy shivs kicking around if you are racking up losses.

[Karasukan]

ouch squaddie assault and heavy is pain here.

You do have a medkit to be immune to chryssalid poison? Use heavies rockets to deal with the chryssalids.

heavies that low rank and assault dont stand much chance against a cyberdisk (aim penalty is too high). I expect your major with a scope has best chance to hit it. A cyberdisk will only throw one grenade so try to let him waste that one at an unit who is behind undestructible cover. Shoot at the cyberdisk standing behind indestructible cover because its plasme will destroy your cover.

[InfernalFuton]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2566163656
Squad and Map, Mission Start

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2566167175
This is Turn 4 or 5 of the same game. There are 4 Cryssalids and 2 zombies outside LOS in the building.
I have never survived past this point. Going slow/not leaving spawn causes at least 3 Cryssalid pods and the Cyberdisk to advance by turn 3 and 2 rockets is never enough to deal with them before I get squadwiped.

At this point I'm strongly considering abandoning the playthrough and using what I've learned to hopefully not get to this point again.

[InfernalFuton]

Originalmente postado por red255:

been AGES since i played Enemy Unknown, what enemies are we facing on what map?

gimmie a screenshot or something.

seems like you took injuries on your heavies and can't just use rockets to deal with Terror mission. play conservatively, don't try to save more than 2 civs, use explosives. dont worry about weapon fragments.

whats left? On EW I would recommend having some alloy shivs kicking around if you are racking up losses.

I don't even have my foundry fully constructed at this point and have never fielded a shiv before. Idk if I've ever even built one.
Half the civvies on the map are at spawn usually anyway so that isn't a problem, but I only have 2 rockets to work with and neither heavy has shredder or danger zone so they're pretty crap.
Also, I'm pretty stacked on resources so I'm only doing this mission to keep 3+ countries from abandoning XCOM. Panic management has been really rough and I'm still not sure what Classic does to the systems I'm used to from Normal

I think My primary issue here is how fast every enemy on the map is on my ass. By turn 3, even if I don't move at all, there are 3 pods MINIMUM right in my face, and with only 4 guys there's only so much they can do before the purple reapers come for them.

[Karasukan]

that map is called the Police Station. Going forward to the storage part will spawn so many mobs. I think the only way is going left because that building is so high there they cant come from above.

but tbh i think you better accept you failed that mission. On that map its impossible to carefully explore, and i think you lack the shooting power to deal with the chryssalids and the lack of aim to hit the cyberdisk

also you have no full cover when outside so especially the cyberdisk will one-shot your units one by one.

[InfernalFuton]

Originalmente postado por karasukan 💕:

that map is called the Police Station. Going forward to the storage part will spawn so many mobs. I think the only way is going left because that building is so high there they cant come from above.

Thanks for the map name, and yeah I think you're right about the rest.
In my experience so far, going left has actually killed me faster because there are always 3 pods in that main room, whereas in the storage area there's usually only one (but that area is also LOS hell so it isn't much better).

[Karasukan]

i played that map so many times in multiplayer games and its actually a really small map so every turn you will activate pods.

[InfernalFuton]

Yeah, I'mma just reboot the playthrough at this point. Thanks for the assist, this whole thing has been a learning experience.
It almost seems like playing this like XCOM 2 will work out better than my Normal dif. bad habits...

[Karasukan]

XD I beated XCOM2 in ironman playing it like EW. (no special ammo and stuff, just medkits mainly).

the terror mission with cyberdisk you face now is notorious :c it got me so many times.

my tactic with the game is so sacrifice a large continent like USA or Europe. I wlll try to explain since my english is kinda bad...

When you get to choose one mission to do (out of the three) i never pick USA or Europe so soon a whole continent will be lost. But since those continents have so many countries the game will still select them. So soon you dont get to choose out of 3 missions anymore but only 2. The mission concerning the country that would be on your lost continent will be blank.

I hope it makes sense

[Karasukan]

there is also 1 mean mission with a very small landed UFO. That UFO has pods with mutons and a cyberdisk. That map has slight hills and the UFO is on lower ground. Its hard to explain but i also burned myself a lot on that one.

[Karasukan]

https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/PoliceStation_(EU2012) its a small map, you can dash in a few turns from north to south or left to right

[Commander Gorda]

Just use lots of rockets and grenades and keep your distance, You only need to save one civilian so take it easy.

[Commander Gorda]

On that map i only use the left side, You shouldnt enter the building just use the pillars outside and You can have a squadsight sniper in in the uppger left corner.

[EnemigoDeLaMafia]

Are you not using the squad size 1 and 2 upgrades? At that point you really are going to need all the firepower you can get.


Having at least 2 well leveled heavies is pretty important, you'll need the firepower. I'd even consider 3 for some situations.

Looking at the situation, you can always just abandon the mission. Small maps like that are going to require lots of firepower in order to take down mobs. But not enough men and little space, it looks like it's going to be a slaughter there.