Roguenaut2021

Alas a great sign of relief all around the world today as the last alien ship lays silent in orbit. From New York to Beijing with mass gathering of people rush outside to celebrate the heroes that had headed the doom of their planet. Yes after tens of thousands died and the sacrifice of 48 brave men, xenonauts have overcame almost inevitable destruction of the human race and defeat an almost godlike race of beings and their slaves. Yes, after multiple attempts I have finally beaten insane ironman. On July 4th, 12 men of my best alive stormed the command ship of the alien armada armed with magstorms, mag snipers, shields and singularity cannons. With the clock ticking they moved fast mowing down any alien they came across. With liberal use of bullets and explosives they made to the bridge were they found the high praetor. This creature with power that rivals god was then atomized by one blast of the singularity cannon. But the victory was hollow, as the four xenonauts that was to destroy the generators were wiped out and now faced a horde of thrashing unyielding and bloodthirsty reapers behind the main force. In a last stand, they made a firing line and tried to hold out as fast as they can but ammo is finite and were soon overwhelmed. Although, when a rescue team came aboard to find that the reapers where in a catatonic state, they found two survivors, unconscious and wounded before the reapers swarmed the main echelons of the base. Although with the external threat to humanity is extinguished, agents from both sides of the Berlin wall are planning seize the new technological discoveries thousands of years more advanced and will use it for there ideological ends. Which might lead to WW3. --- I'd, like to thank GoldHawk for making this game, this forum for giving me ideas and for my men who seem to make me smile every time they manage to make a 5% shot and rage after missing a 95% Also 10 things that I learned from this game 1. *** Androns 2. Suppression, Suppression and Suppression. if the alien isn't suppressed, he will kill you 3. Grenades are your best friend (flash bangs in particular) use them a lot. 4. aliens loves grenades too, and will throw them at you at every opportunity. 5. Putting most of your men in predator armor with plasma/mag make the game tolerable 6. Singularity cannons makes the game easy 7. Terror attacks will always be in far of places like Anchorage or Melbourne and the aliens will make monthly visits 8.Throwing down your guns after ever turn while fighting caesans stops them from berserking your machine gunner and killing your best soldier from behind. This strategy doesn't work well with reapers. 9. The higher the bravery of the xenonaut, the more chance that he will be MCed at the most crucial of situations 10. *** Androns

It’s more of a "What would you do in my situation" type questions. Yes, I did a tactical withdrawal (I ran with my tail between my legs) during the aforementioned reaper rush Thanks for your opinion, and I've been controlling the skies since late November with the occasionally up tiered ship catching me by surprise but he’s easily dealt with. Again thanks for the opinion, I think I know what I should do, even though I will lose some resources. Luck, the aliens attacked inside my radar range and the ones that didn't weren't terror/ base building ships, on the ground level mostly mass stun grenades machine gunners and tanks made sure I suppressed/killed most aliens and never making any risky shots. I have three bases (located in Greece, Florida and china) with 2/3 radar systems each and with two marauders/foxtrots with one corsair in each base (I usually left one condors in one base to deal with early game fighters, there useless when the heavy fighter squadrons come in). Two of the bases have soldiers with them, one in Greece which I use for almost all my missions and the other one in Florida which is a secondary force to take one scouts/smaller UFOs and the last having four batteries to defend it. Two workshops in two of bases (Both in the bases with troops). Two bases with labs, one have two of them (Greece and china). Two garages with hunters/Scimitars in them. I don’t have medical center or a Cryptology Center in them yet though.

I have this dilemma, I'm playing a decent Insane iron man run (I haven't lost any continents and took out three bases in two months) and have recently shot down my first battleship in march. Yet when I assaulted a carrier I lost three good men to alpha reapers. Most of the plasma weapons they had are gone and I had to resort to laser weaponry (mostly a scatter laser) to fill the gaps. Yet I also have two rail rifles and a Scimitar tank with plasma cannon. I also had to fill the gap in my ranks with rookies, well now corporals after a successful assault against an andron carrier (One rookie killed five Androns).I would love to have the materials and a chance to capture a Praetor, but I fear it would wipe my whole force. Now I'm trying to wonder should I should try to try to take it or jut airstrike it?

When I was breaching a Ceasan infested carrier and I forgot to un-equip one of my soldier with a plasma caster. He was one with the highest bravery during that play-through and made four kills before getting close to the spacecraft. He was mind controlled during the alien turn and killed two of my men at the door.... I stopped playing for four days after that.