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Is there different kinds of alien base attacks? It would be interesting in the event of sneak attack you have your soldiers placed randomly with their standard equipment... or some are not equipment at all (they are on their down time) and you have to get them to the armoury. That would suck if half of them where stuck with the invading aliens between them and the armoury. Maybe in the attacks that are known to be coming one gets to equip their troops and place them in the base before that attack?

Ah well that is a bit of pity. Maybe something I could add as a modd at a later stage. Hmmm... suppose that is true then again doesn't mean one can't subcontract other groups I suppose it depends how it is implemented. If you start hiring other organisations you would have spend money on training their troops and equiping them with the new tech. Pay them per operation for the troops they send. This could have a consequence of countries been uncorformable with idea of training and arming other groups and which might cause reduced funding. By doing this you have some backup when thing start go pear shape at later stages of the game... sort off trade really, do you invest in mercenaries groups saving long term on base and personal expensives at the risk of annoying countries that are funding you? Anywho just thought, not really in the spirt of XCOM but maybe something for a modd?

I think it would be interesting to been able to hire mercenaries, soldiers with more experience but at much much greater cost. I am new here, had a quick look on the forums but northing pops out so not sure if this has been suggest at all. Maybe they could be hire like normal soldiers and paid per month but much larger expense or hire per ground operation they are sent on. On a paid per monthly system they could be used to back more inexperience troops until they can hold their own. So one would get one or two mercenaries to put in with their troops. On per operation system they could be called in to supplement overextend troops if there too many ground operations for your standard experienced troops to handle. This would mean hiring mercenaries organisations maybe?? I think mercenaries would be helpful on harder settings of the game and bring more to balancing your budget versus dealing with threats.