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1) One hunter with machinegun; was destroyed at second or third turn. If I understand correctly, it became a real "scout" now since it can be detroyed even with plasma pistols 2) All six soldiers were in jackal armor 3) Second time one soldier got laser shotgun, and even killed one "disc" with it. 4) Never heard about wolf armor The squad was 3 riflemen, 2 snipers, one machinegun and one hunter with machinegun. No special formation was used, just tried to keep soldiers together and place them behind some objects wherever possible. Also both times the battle happened during night time; spent a lot of action points throwing flares in all directions. First battle happened about 5 october game time. Then I've loaded some older savefile and second time the terror event happened about 17 october. I had 10 scientists and they were working at one project at time; there were almost no breaks. By that moment I've learned "alien biology", "foxtrot", "jackal armor" and started lasers (second time they finished lasers too). Maybe I could try to kill sebilian, take his rifle and try to use it against dark beasts, but I'm not sure.

Well, I have no idea how to deal with this nightmare. Maybe I missed something? Is there some special trick, or maybe "must-to-be-researched" technology, or else? I failed two games. First there were sebilians with rifles (shooting three times each across all map) and dark beasts with melee attacks. The beast got shot shot from machine gun and was still able to move. It did not even noticed rifle shots; infected two sodiers in one turn. Another time there were some blue aliens and disk robots. Maybe I could even kill some if tried to save/load each turn few times, but I'm not sure.

Yes, each time there was one or two soldiers with shields. Just tried to go to the battle without witthout them and successfully completed first combat So it seems the shields caused that problem.

The game crashes in the first ground combat mission when I try to press "i" on the keyboard. The savegames should be here http://yadi.sk/d/xQfKz2Hi4yl0L I've tried to start another game, but got the same error (so it should be reprodusible on all three autosaves from the archive) Also I've tried to run game in "debug mode", it hanged and later crashed producing the dump file. It seems there is no matter what soldier is selected or what weapon he carries. Hope it will help.

What version of the game do you have? The strange thing is that mine seems to be "18 HOTFIX 1 1-4 2013". It should be very old, but I don't see any way how to forse Desura to update it.