Chris... glad to see you are back.
Liked !! If I have the troops and the Drop ships I can do all three terror attacks at one go. Once I did two attacks with just one Drop ship, but sent more healthy soldiers for the second one.
Did NOT like!! Alien base in Africa. Could have been anywhere. The aliens beat me up badly. I still had three soldiers left, two wounded but went to retreat. I also hauled all the aliens and my dead soldiers and good weapons to the entry point. Then when I went to pull out my three soldiers all dropped dead, even the one who was never wounded. That means the only way to do those missions is 1) wait until I have very good equipment or 2) just don't do them with anything valuable. That two soldiers survived with only 1 hp didn't make me feel better. At least the Drop ship was not lost. 3) reload the game at the start of the mission, but that feels too much like a cheat.
Liked!! The terror missions don't require you to kill all the aliens who are visiting. If you fight back you can get a WIN but not lose your drop ship, all your people. It's a sort of run, run, run away style of fighting.
It took me a while to discover that if a base is rebuilding a ship that was destroyed, it only uses the engineers who are sitting around bored. Maybe that applies to the the damaged robots as well. Also, having two and eventually three fighters is needed to beat some alien groups. Losing all the aircraft from one base can make the game very hard, or even impossible.
I DON'T like that some of the soldiers seem to be selling their fancy weapons and armour on the black market and showing up to fight almost naked. At least the fools are soon dead but it's tough to replace all that lost gear, I haven't actually caught any of them selling their equipment yet, but the stuff just disappears and I can't see another reason for it going missing.
One soggy Wet Gator.