Wow and I thought that terrormissions are tense, well they were until I assaulted my first alien outpost.
Summary:
5 killed, 2 corporals (meat)shields, 1 sgt, 1 major, 1 revival,1 detroyed defender, and rest all wounded with less than 30 HP left.
96 aliens killed, 1 captured wraith and 1 captured ceasan officer.
My starting area had 2 doors on the same side so I could position pretty decent. On the first turn I opened both doors and saw one long corridor and one medium long corridor that turned left but no aliens so smoke and end turn, aliens turn 3 wraith teleport inside and I se 2 xeno coming in the medium corridor and 1 ceasan in the other. I dispose off the wraiths and gas the ceasan to death, on a personal note whoever did the soundeffect for the chemical grenade hit the nail right on the head I almost feel sorry for the aliens when using it because how unpleasant it sounds, I throw 4 incendiary into the other corridor turning all the floor into fire and end turn, I am not kidding I counted atleast 20 (I stopped counting after that) xeno deaths and a few ceasans in the following turns only the queen, the other big one (forget name), a few warriors and wraiths broke through which was managable with some losses. I did not leave the starting area until turn eleven I think, clearing the base went rather clean until storming the commandroom that cost me 2 guys. That mision took me nearly 3 hours, insane.
Do someone know how to make the tone darker on the battlescape? I want to make them more dark in the nightmissions.