(November 1st, 2012, 14:51)uberfish Wrote: Ug was that map the one with a few vehicles in the starting corner and a building with first room full of books behind? Because this is what just happened to me on Impossible:
my turn 1: wake up 2 mutons and a berserker, kill one muton
alien turn 1: every alien on the map activates and most of them come screaming at me (3 berserkers + 5 regular mutons + 6 chryssalids...) and I thought I was going to wipe
fortunately I'd just finished titan armour and heavy plasma and managed to survive, because my troops could survive a berserker hit and my heavy could reliably spit out 18 damage per turn on the berserkers
Well, that and allowing the berserkers to hit me a couple of times while I nuked all the regular mutons in sight of my main force on the first turn, so I could ignore cover while dealing with the melee aliens.
Total death count is 15 including a captain and 6 lieutenants. Two missions that ended with one hero super medic survivor (the same guy and the only colonel on my roster - it's month 5) accounted for most of the carnage.
It does sound familiar but I can't be sure. I do remember the building had a second storey as the Cyberdisks flew out of it so they could almost shoot down on top of me whilst the Chrysalids either charged me or created zombies. They were so near that my Cpt sniper was one-shoted by a Cyberdisk on turn 2 against the back perimeter
