Lost all my soldiers in month 4, can I still recover?

[alexshiro]

Everything was going fine up to base attack, but then I lost a whole squad to a small scout, and then a few more guys, and now all I have left are a Heavy Major and Support Captain and a bunch of replacements. I have all of America and Africa covered by sattelites and no sattelites in Europe and Asia.

Normally I'd ragequit, but now I want revenge for my guys. Any chance or should I give up?

[P-47 Thunderbolt]

If you have enough equipment to outfit six soldiers you can definately continue with your game.

[[E] Caladus]

Ouch. I would rage quit so fast.

It will be difficult. But if you can hold off on story progression you might be able to recover.

[Nerds Flo]

Depends on the difficulty you're on.
I lost 25-30 men on my first classic ironman run, winning was still possible. How is your research going? What kind of armour and weapons are at your disposal?

[alexshiro]

I'm playing classic ironman, I can equip a squad with laser, light plasma and carpace, researched non-ligh Plasma Rifle and Heavy Plasma, but I don't think I can build more than 1 or 2 as I'm low on alloys.

[Nerds Flo]

Should be possible then. I would give the heavy his Plasma, the normal-Plasma rifle can wait imo. Your funding should be not to bad, so i think you'll fine as long as you don*t get your two highranks killed, before the rookies level up.

[alexshiro]

Next mission I got swarmed by mutons from 3 directions in 3 turns by a Large Scout. I guess that's that from this playthrough :(

[spacealf]

You may just have to start over at a save or complete new game. May be just the way that you are playing.

[Kelloggs]

Opprinnelig skrevet av alexshiro:

I'm playing classic ironman, I can equip a squad with laser, light plasma and carpace, researched non-ligh Plasma Rifle and Heavy Plasma, but I don't think I can build more than 1 or 2 as I'm low on alloys.

When I was playing classic Ironman, I had my share of awful missions in the first months, but by the end of the game everything became a breeze. So, my points is, keep on rolling... because each day you survive will make the next one be easier.

If this serves as consolation in any way.... I've lost a total of 16 soldiers in my last playthrough. My deaths stopped a few missions after the first Mutons appeared. Honestly, I don't remember losing anyone to EliteMutons, Ethereals, Sectopods, heavyfloaters and so on....

From those 16 soldiers, I'm almost sure at least 8 or 9 died to thinmen on the first months of the gameplay.

[Sneaky]

So far on my ironman impossible run I have about 6 deaths on the board, 1 near squad wipe which resulted in the death of sgts and corporals, all because I thought I could get away with leaving my squad sight sniper out of cover in the back, he got criticaly wounded and in my rush to save him from bleeding out I didnt take enough caution and lost the other 3 to rambo sectoids. Luckyly my last remaining heavy saved the day and shes now squad leader.

Rest of the campaign has been relatively smooth sailing as I have doubled up on caution, the Overseer crash site was a little scary when my assault took a 15 damage psi lance hit from the ethereal I was trying to capture but she thankfully lived.

[The Faceless Man]

If you've lost no council members, should be fine. You will have a hard time training up some rookies, but just try to complete the abduction missions that give veterans as rewards.

[Dracon]

If you pared ironman with Marathon leave it be... I never lost a country on classic... Now I tried a marathon Ironman game and suddenly I lost Mexico, Egypt and south africa...

[nightworg]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Dracon:

If you pared ironman with Marathon leave it be... I never lost a country on classic... Now I tried a marathon Ironman game and suddenly I lost Mexico, Egypt and south africa...

Classic ironman with Marathon is allot harder. You have to face Cryssalids and mutons with regular weapon in the beginning and having no amour. You also have huge problem getting satellite up in time as everything is double up. Price, time to build. I love playing with it, and some of the other second wave options.

[Ygolnac]

Don't give up untill game over man. In another run things can go worst. If you are good with satellites and have decent equipment you can make it.
Also if you spawn to many enemies it's going to be painfull, you might want to move less tiles and abuse overwatch untill you spawn a group, and then deal with them without moving any further.

Sometimes you notice a flanking opportunity and running to the sweet spot spawns another group. Also retreating all your sqaud to a previous position and waiting to come might not be a bad tactic, i do it all the times.

[The Faceless Man]

I can't recall if you lose all the equipment from a failed mission or not. I don't think you do.

If that's the case, all you've really lost are some abilities and minor stat gains on soldiers. Use scopes and light plasma rifles.

[alexshiro]

Do you think saves will become useless after patch? I'll continue this after they fix all the bugs when the expansion comes out.