soldiers experience level/ rank and alien base

[Talrea]

would all recruits start as rookies, or could you hire (for more cost) more expeienced personel, maybe for example if you have high favour/funding with some of the bigger countries they could allow you to recruit some of their expeienced troops (maybe as a event or diplomance function?)

also i was thinking about ground combat during terror missions, about the presence of freindly troops (local police/military trying to save the situation), at the start they would be a asset, but once the region takes hits (from ufo action) they wouldn't be present anymore due to disorginization and damage to the countries military, and of course as the game progresses the standard weaponry would become inadiquit and thed turn the defence entirely over to the player.

On a totally unrelated point: alien bases would they become operational imediatly, or could you catch them during construction to try and prevent them becoming operational?

and any options later with research to *soften* up a alien base with missiles? maybe making the base damaged before the troops arive... (maybe researchable/buildable icbm missile silos?)

would base missions be just the troops entering the base or multi part battles where they have to gain acess to the way in by killing the defenders (and maybe base defences) on the surface?

Edited March 5, 2012 by Talrea

[Gorlom]

1) There was a suggestion about recruiting higher ranked soldiers as you progressed in the thread about a new recruitment model to prevent hire/sell abusal. Chris said no.

2) Chris has already revealed that some missions may contain local forces if that was your suggestion. If it was a question about it I did not understand it.

4) As far as I have understood it its more likely to be single phase base attacks over multi part battles.

[MrPyro]

Also on 1): while you have to hire rookies there is a basic training program that you can put them through which gives them a mild stat boost and stops the morale penalties associated with being a rookie.

[RavenX]

Unless of course you play like Sathra and enjoy killing rookies so you can bring them back as undead zombie troopers....hehe.

[MrPyro]

I suspect that for Sathra, rookies are just delivery mechanisms for High Explosives.....

[pack.wolf]

would all recruits start as rookies, or could you hire (for more cost) more expeienced personel, maybe for example if you have high favour/funding with some of the bigger countries they could allow you to recruit some of their expeienced troops (maybe as a event or diplomance function?)

In my opinion all soldiers hired are highly trained specialists. But since they face a completely new kind of enemy they are basically rookies, despite their status in regular armies. The rookie training program brings them up to speed with the special tactics and equipment developed to counter the alien invasion. So I'm not in favor of a kind of JA hiring system. They are the best of the best available, but that still might not cut it against the invaders.

On a totally unrelated point: alien bases would they become operational imediatly, or could you catch them during construction to try and prevent them becoming operational?

and any options later with research to *soften* up a alien base with missiles? maybe making the base damaged before the troops arive... (maybe researchable/buildable icbm missile silos?)

That would be quite neat! I like this idea

[AradoX]

Bunker-busters, yay!