Biggest UFO ever

[JiMMy]

i think it was ufo-12, biggest ever seen bigger than supply barge! it was classified as unidentified and killed my firestorm equiped with laser canon and two shot all my ravens! it got away and it never came back! that was classic difficulty! now i am playing impossible marathon and i am sure i not going to drop it this time as well!

anyone downed this ufo? i think it is exclusive to enemy within! i am curious to know more about it

[Sir Tapkomet of Canterlot]

It's a Battleship, I think. The toughest of them all, and has a big crew, but you get a lot of loot (as well as some unique stuff) for bringing it down. It should appear on any difficulty (I had it appear on Normal)

[JiMMy]

what unique stuff you get? i doubt i can take it down on marathon!

[Bindal]

Two Fusion cores. Required to reseach the Fusion Lance and Blaster Launcher and also required to build the latter.

If you got Slingshot, the third mission in that arc is taking down a battleship so if you play with that, you're garantueed to get one very early with weak crew (thinmen and sectoids plus a single muton and single cyberdisc). Just don't expect to be able to research it early as it would take about a month to research both that soon.

[HiddenHope]

I managed to take it down, but it took 2 firstorms with emp cannons to take it down. The first one got shot out of the sky before it could even get in range lol. Took 3-4 shots to take it down and had to use the dodge option/thingy.

[NeerPS]

It's better to have some Firestorms with Plasma/Fusion Lance (in case of late game with Slingshot) and all bonuses (aim, track and dodge) to shoot it down. Lot of resources inside, but it can be painful in terms of cleaning it from x-rays.

[JiMMy]

i am not going to get firestorm anytime soon :-( i am in 2nd month with all normal weaponary and council throwing slingshot missions at me :-/

[NeerPS]

Originally posted by Jimmy_Jenk1ns:

i am not going to get firestorm anytime soon :-( i am in 2nd month with all normal weaponary and council throwing slingshot missions at me :-/

Oh, in that case it's not possible to shoot it down. Luck has much influence here. :) Firestroms are your main goal after alien base assault, because you can't hold panic level acceptable due to escaped UFO's (abductors and etc). And, of course, escaped UFO grants more chances to get another Battleship and another broken sattelite.

[Gromozeka]

Originally posted by Jimmy_Jenk1ns:

anyone downed this ufo? i think it is exclusive to enemy within! i am curious to know more about it

Battleship. I am downed it with 2 ravens with lasers, used dodge and aim stuff. Second raven was downed too but last hit did the job. Its on classic. May be a just lucky.

[Mandemon]

To give you idea how big Battleship is:

On other UFOs, you land outside then and then storm them.

On Battleship, you land on the battleship, and then fight your ay to the control room. Entire map is the battleship.

[Bindal]

Originally posted by Mandemon:

To give you idea how big Battleship is:

On other UFOs, you land outside then and then storm them.

On Battleship, you land on the battleship, and then fight your ay to the control room. Entire map is the battleship.

Well, the supply barge and abductor ALMOST fill out the entire map. But yeah, Battleship is nothing BUT the battleship. Hence why there is only two maps (or three with slingshot) for it - landed and shot down with one bridge missing in the latter and some destoryed parts (and the Slingshot version, but that's basically the flying version with slight modifications)

[Legis]

;-)