How to get more supplies?

[Michaelus]

I'm in my first LW2 run, trying to get the feel of the mod. (I played LW and even original X-COM back in 90s). The only problem I have is total lack of supplies. Whatever I could sell on black market are pennies, drops are poor and there're no supply rewards from missions as far as I can tell.
So how to get it?
Everything is so damn expensive. I got 2 lasers and 2 magnet weapons and I'm stuck on no supplies. I still didn't liberate a region in July, so I think this run is already lost.

I don't think $$ were ever so hard to get. What am I missing?

[SeniLiX]

Supplies are given from several places. Black market trading, various random lootdrops, missions, safe havens and especially from liberated areas.

The amount generated from a safe haven depends on the number of personnel assigned to gathering supplies. Also, scanning at a safe haven will increase the output quite a bit.

Lastly, if you are losing supplies every month, you most likely have a spy in one of your havens. Assign soldiers as advicers to try and sniff out these spies. Higher ranking soldiers are more effective at this.

Hope this helps :)

[qwaar-jet]

Yeah, alien spys can be very annoying, even potentially ruin your run due to amount they steal. Next patch will change stolen amount to percentage of your income rather than absolute number. Dont bother with appointing engineers or scientist as advisers. Lance corporal or, if you want to find them faster, corporal in all havens, and you will eventually gain mission to kill spys. Mind that they can reinfiltrate haven so I dont know when it is safe to remove soldiers from havens

[Jesterofgames7712]

Originally posted by Fashion is my profession:

Yeah, alien spys can be very annoying, even potentially ruin your run due to amount they steal. Next patch will change stolen amount to percentage of your income rather than absolute number. Dont bother with appointing engineers or scientist as advisers. Lance corporal or, if you want to find them faster, corporal in all havens, and you will eventually gain mission to kill spys. Mind that they can reinfiltrate haven so I dont know when it is safe to remove soldiers from havens

What do you mean next patch?
patch 1.1 is out

[qwaar-jet]

I remember reading somewhere that they will change the amount of supplies stolen. Maybe it already went live, maybe it will be in future patches, I dont know honestly.

[Michaelus]

It was changed in last patch, so they steal percentage now.

I assume one of my heavens is safe when there was no faceless on last retaliation mission.

[Nerpa48]

I don't know, first months i was losing around 15 - 25 % in my first region. After assigning my high ranked soldier there we successfully accomplished 2 spy meeting missions, and now my income loss is around 100%. Great work. I guess my soldier is a spy than. And since he has skin and name of Central Officer Bradford, i am in deep troubles. =(

Region is fully liberated now btw.