I got to the first combat mission and played it through once and then reloaded to try to do better after learning.
After that I quit the game, my hand was sore from the insane amount of repeated movements.
Every single turn I have to hit the same pattern of keys and/or do the same mouse movement over and over.
Select Soldier, Move/Fire, Crouch * times number of soldiers in my group.
A much better design would be at the start of my turn it automatically select soldier 1, then I do something and hit space to End Turn for that soldier. If I have "spaced" all my soldiers it is the aliens turn automagically.
Auto Crouch and auto crouch as part of the TU reserve.
Soft TU reserve instead of the current hard reserve system. If I tell my soldier to use more TU's than his reserve, he should simply use them and ignore the reserve. Basically make the movement coloring the only effect the reserve system has.
Actually complete remove the reserve system from the UI, just use movement path coloring indicating that if he moves to this spot he will have TU's left for this or that depending on the color of the path indicator. Also it should show the movement path without having to press a button first, just by waving the mouse around it should give the path.
