getting frustrated with the train countdown mission

[zangadong]

its normal to be hardly ♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the train bomb countdown mission?

thanks

[Old Atrocity]

what difficulty are you playing? and what stage have you progressed to regarding tech and rank?

there's usually a lot of thin men on that mission, and if you are unlucky enough to get it early on can be quite difficult.

i've lost whole squads on that mission, other times i've beaten it with no casualties.

[Stardustfire]

Are we talking about a normal council bomb mission taking place in one of the 3 trainyards or do we talk about "Confounding Light" ?

If we talk about a normal bomb disposal on a train yard this things are very smooth compared to some other bomb missions, becasue u get tons of cover.

If we talk about Confounding light than u must se the risk reward thing, not for the mision itself but for the last mission of that cycle, and than u must abdmit that the reward is much bigger than the danger. hell i got my special archivment for that mission back in EU (more than 3 turns left) so u can say its not so hard and undoable. When u play on Classic and u survived Friends in Low Places the Train is a lttle difficulty climb but Gankplank on the other side is very easy compared to the first two.

[red255]

He said Bomb so I assume he's talking about a bomb disposal mission, either the trainyard beagle calls Mumbai, or the internior one (which is the counfounding light map from the other direction)

and its normal to be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ if you don't know what you are doing.

[Starving Poet]

Just remember that every council mission is scripted - after you play them a couple times you'll know exactly where and when the thin men will drop in. They basically become free XP after a while.

[porfirius7]

Yes, the cyber disk in the battleship mission caught me off gaurd too. I had to re-load a save becuase one of my guys died from the cyberdisk, the first time. I really don't like to lose soldiers.

[TheDudeC]

Ursprungligen skrivet av porfirius7:

Yes, the cyber disk in the battleship mission caught me off gaurd too. I had to re-load a save becuase one of my guys died from the cyberdisk, the first time. I really don't like to lose soldiers.

It's best to just count your losses and move on! The most memorable missions are those where you barely scrape by or even just haul ass to the extraction point to save a few good soldiers.

[zangadong]

the game lose sense to me if u reload

[SpunkyJones]

Ursprungligen skrivet av TheDudeC:

Ursprungligen skrivet av porfirius7:

Yes, the cyber disk in the battleship mission caught me off gaurd too. I had to re-load a save becuase one of my guys died from the cyberdisk, the first time. I really don't like to lose soldiers.

It's best to just count your losses and move on! The most memorable missions are those where you barely scrape by or even just haul ass to the extraction point to save a few good soldiers.

This! I can still to this day remember epic battles from the original xcom where a rookie survived to save the day. Losing soliders is part of the fun, at least to me.

[Drahcir0]

Y is that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cyberdisc even activated? And y can it go and see through doors without opening them? ;(

[Incunabulum]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Zángano:

its normal to be hardly ♥♥♥♥ed in the train bomb countdown mission?

thanks

Nope.

But you have to be relentlessly agressive to do it.

Keep in mind that you *don't have to kill anything*.

You just have to tag the transponders and get to the end zone.

So

Don't let the aliens tarpit
Take some guys with heavy weapons and armor
Take some squadsight snipers
Take some guys who can move fast
Don't worry about corpse recovery or anything. Blow the ♥♥♥♥ out of everything with rockets if necessary.

Battlescanners and rockets from beyond visual range are an awesome combination, followed up with a squadsight shot to finish off survivors.