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Ok I restarted. The starter mission was a lot worse than on the first try, I lost 2 guys. I ended up with a sniper and a heavy. I fast forwarded, and the council mission is coming on the 9th, so it should work on this run. I am now playing the abduction mission, but it kicks my ass...
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I managed to kill all sectoids (12) and secure a meld canitster on the 1000th try. I got 4 engineers, sout africa and argentina panicked. I started excavating (should have done that earlyer...) and building a workshop. Next up is sats on the 11th, then a pg on the 13th latest.
I got the babysit a guy mission on the 9th, for 123 cash, some panic red and a sargent heavy. Tough one.
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OK I saved Van Doorn, with no casualities, but 2 wounded. I got squadsight for the sniper, and opportunist for the heavy(missed: rapid reaction). The new sargent got rocket, low profile (yay!) and shredder (missed: grenadier and sprinter)
I started on 4 sats, and start the pg as soon as the excavation is done. I had to sell everythung but weapon fragments to make it financially. The uplink will have to be built from the ufo loot.
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Ufo shot down. It had 3 nav computers and 1 damaged and 2 damaged power sources. I had the abduction mission on the 26th, then I had fast forwardded to see if i get the ufo in april time to grab a nav comp. I do get it, but since I ignored everything I reloaded, unfortunately before the abduction, so now I have to dero the abduction. Sucks.
I got a lucky reuest from Argentina too ( a sat in a country where I would have satted anyway is essentially 200 cash for free), bu I might savescum for that to not happen (I want to minimize luck)
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Bad luck: I am mising a single engineer.I have 5 starte engineers+4 from the first abduction, then 5 more from the workshop, but need 15 to build the second workshop...
I get some at the end of the month, so I could immediately build a ws, that takes 10 days, then a nexus takes 21, but april is only 30 days long... ,and I need at least 2 from end of month, which is not guaranteed at all. Dangit. This might mean I need engineers as part of the council reward. Which is possible I suppose...
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OK I went back to the council mission save (5th of march save, meh) I savescummed to get about 120 and 5 engineers for the target escort mission(about 14 tries) The main benefit of this is that satelite prize dropped to 67 a pop, so by selling every corpse I was able to build the uplink AND 4 satellites right away. 10 engineers, plus 5 from the workshop also means I might have some room with the second abduction mission in april (depending on how many engineers I will get from sats in may). Ill probably go for scientists, as I should have 10 satelites at the beginning of may, which shuold get me all the money I need.
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Dangit. I completely rocked the ufo mission (including meld) only to find that there is only 1 nav computer undamaged  Retrying.
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Maybe it's not my place to ask this, but have you considered doing a different setup that's not based on endless reloading shenanigans? That would be a lot more interesting to read and follow. 
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Well, the point of this is to see if a specific goal can be reached at all. I think now that without high stakes second wave option it needs an exorbant amount of luck to pull off, so an ironman play is not really feasible. I guess I could do a report on an impossible game, after this.
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I find that the UFO in April is impossible to get earlyer than the 11th, but Id need it before the 9th. The strange thing is, If I ignore the abductions, I get it between the 6th and 8th very likely, however, when I do the mission, the ufo gets postponed. It might be impossible to get it early enough, which increases the luck requirement yet again. I calculated that the nav computers would be possible to get in some 50% of the time, but if this is the case, it drops to a meager 6%, as you need 4 nav comps on the first ufo undamaged...
On another note, I was able to easily do this with the high stakes enabled (which, in savescum mode, means 6 engineers per abduction), so If I go back to UFO2 and get 4 undamaged nav comps, I should have this also. The luck required is rather high tough, as you need an early council mission with engineer reward (or 4+ scientist reward), and 4 nav comp. I dont think Ill have the patience to do this on ironman (which would be the ultimate goal), because Id need some 200+ attempts...
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