Exalt base assault attempt

[Firestorm🗿]

I now have the option to attempt a raid on Exalt's HQ. However I am not confident that the intel available to me confirms it is Germany for certain. I have decided to send a covert op instead. My intel is as follows:
Not an island country
Not English speaking
East of Atlantic Ocean.
Did I make the wrong decision?

[Crypto Gamer]

You can start to attempt the Exalt HQ mission after doing at least 3 successful Exalt mission but you basically do not know it for sure.

After doing 7-8 Exalt mission successfully in total you will narrow down HQ location to 1 country.(on classic difficulty).

Now if you accuse some country of harboring Exalt and they are the wrong one they leave Xcom and you lose their funding if they already left that continent gets panic increase.

If everyone left in that continent than you can quess their HQ.
On non ironman you can savescum it too.

On classic difficulty HQ has 5 pod of 3 Exalt elite so total of 15 soldiers.

[thenomad111]

Russia, France and China also fit the bill based on this so yeah you need more missions.

[Amanoob105]

As you get more clues, the game will automatically knock off options of where to "attempt a base assault". So if you just keep doing enough covert ops you will, sooner or latter, simply run out of other places it could be.

Personally I always put off attacking their base for as long as I could as because those missions are generally far easier than ones against the normal enemies they make for perfect opportunities to train up any lower level troops I have.
Far more so once you realise just how brokenly OP an operative with both Low Profile and Mimetic Skin is on such missions (or any other mission for that matter).

[Firestorm🗿]

New Intel: the country is a playable nation in Civ 5. That does nothing to narrow it down...

[Firestorm🗿]

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

As you get more clues, the game will automatically knock off options of where to "attempt a base assault". So if you just keep doing enough covert ops you will, sooner or latter, simply run out of other places it could be.

Personally I always put off attacking their base for as long as I could as because those missions are generally far easier than ones against the normal enemies they make for perfect opportunities to train up any lower level troops I have.
Far more so once you realise just how brokenly OP an operative with both Low Profile and Mimetic Skin is on such missions (or any other mission for that matter).

I like these EXALT missions a lot more than before because now they have laser guns which means I don't have to spend more time and resources on weapons for my troops. I want to keep EXALT around for a lot longer now to see if they eventually get plasma guns.

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by Firestorm🗿:

I like these EXALT missions a lot more than before because now they have laser guns which means I don't have to spend more time and resources on weapons for my troops. I want to keep EXALT around for a lot longer now to see if they eventually get plasma guns.

I wouldn't go getting your hopes up on that one. You can at least sell off all of their weapons you don't want to fund the creation of plasma weapons.
The only way to get those guns for free is to take in the aliens alive.

[Androgynous]

when you complete covert ops and gain intel, it narrows down possible countries that exalt is not in, which is shown on the covert ops room with a yellow circle that has a green cross through it, which saves you having to think about what the intel actually means.

eventually you can narrow it down to 1 country. though sometimes you do get redundant info

Originally posted by Firestorm🗿:

New Intel: the country is a playable nation in Civ 5. That does nothing to narrow it down...

I didn't play civ 5 so I don't know which countries those are. but with the original info there's still a large number of possibilities. all of europe except UK, all of africa, india and china if I'm not mistaken.

Originally posted by Firestorm🗿:

I like these EXALT missions a lot more than before because now they have laser guns which means I don't have to spend more time and resources on weapons for my troops. I want to keep EXALT around for a lot longer now to see if they eventually get plasma guns.

exalt don't get plasma weaponry. the council do sometimes special request a few exalt weapons so maybe keep some extra just in case if you're low on money / scientists / engineers, but don't feel like you need to hold off on raiding exalt HQ for this particular reason.

you'll know when it's time to raid exalt HQ because you'll get bored of them. if late game aliens are a problem though, it can be worth keeping exalt around to train up rookies easier until you're more ready.

[Shahadem]

I keep Exalt around to have something different to kill.

[Firestorm🗿]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

I keep Exalt around to have something different to kill.

Good oh. I have decided I want to go for the achieve where I make certain of their location anyway.

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by Firestorm🗿:

Originally posted by Shahadem:

I keep Exalt around to have something different to kill.

Good oh. I have decided I want to go for the achieve where I make certain of their location anyway.

Generally the safest option. Added bonus, you can easily tell when the game has run out of new clues to give you as it will just give you the same "EXALT is not in America" after every one of their missions from that point on.

[Firestorm🗿]

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

Originally posted by Firestorm🗿:

Good oh. I have decided I want to go for the achieve where I make certain of their location anyway.

Generally the safest option. Added bonus, you can easily tell when the game has run out of new clues to give you as it will just give you the same "EXALT is not in America" after every one of their missions from that point on.

Finally got the achieve for making certain. Only one place is not crossed out as the location on the ops screen. Time to finally get these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, about time too since they nearly game ended me by making Canada panic.

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by Firestorm🗿:

Finally got the achieve for making certain. Only one place is not crossed out as the location on the ops screen. Time to finally get these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, about time too since they nearly game ended me by making Canada panic.

Good hunting Commander. Expect a big fight that won't stop for a while after it starts.

[Firestorm🗿]

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

Originally posted by Firestorm🗿:

Finally got the achieve for making certain. Only one place is not crossed out as the location on the ops screen. Time to finally get these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, about time too since they nearly game ended me by making Canada panic.

Good hunting Commander. Expect a big fight that won't stop for a while after it starts.

I'll be sure to bring my best. My Heavy and Assault MECs, my demolition heavy, my gene modded assault and two squadsight snipers.

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