[Most Anti-Climatic First Ground Combat Mission EVER.]

Yesterday my jets shot a UFO down on a farm and the only surviving local force was a farmer. I kept hearing gun shots but couldn't see them. Then finally we came across a farmer packing a shotgun and I positioned all my troops and ended turn. An alien came into our and the farmer's sight and he just flat rekt it, he shot like 3 or 4 times in a row. I kept finding dead aliens around the barn lol. He killed at least 3 or 4. He seemed pretty pissed off judging by his sheer badassery.

[Slight nitpicking with gender and experience roles in game]

Best to think of it as an alternate reality rather than an accurate simulator. Just because we have a whole bunch of sexism in our time-line that doesn't mean our fictional universes need it too. As must've been posted already, you can mod the likelihood of female soldiers (and other bio details).

Though on this topic, have you noticed any women anywhere else in the xenonauts team? I think they're all guys except the secretary that is handing some papers to one of the generals in the monthly funding image. Even there you can only see her chest and not her face. I get it though, the game is about tactics and shooting aliens, not social commentary.

The amount of women soldiers makes up for lack (lol) of women art in the research, etc., tabs. Most of my current team is mostly women.

[Thoughts on XCOM 2]

I love Xcom EU, but am holding off buying Xcom 2. Timed missions were okay in the first one every now and again, but the frequency of them in 2 is turning me off.

Though I loved Xcom EU I think pods were a terrible design decision, and was hoping they'd get rid of them in 2.