So, I completed an extremely frustrating base assault mission.
Plenty of guys scattered through the base, that were fun to fight and kill
2 wraiths, 4 androns, all holed up in the one room with only one exit and a long, coverless corridor on the approach.
Basically I was lucky enough to have two assault troopers with about 110 TU, so it basically turned into,
- walk assault until he can see one alien
- fire snapshot at alien
- retreat
- try to get LoS from one of my two snipers down the hall
Sniper LoS was often not possible, killing the aliens took a LONG LONG time, since the room had lots of cover in it and the androns were using it to their good advantage (I thought they weren't supposed to, but they even moved to alternative cover when I destroyed their initial cover)
I lost one guy just by getting bored and not paying attention to his TU's, ended his turn in their LoS and got shot in the back. Quite frustrating
I may have assaulted the base too early and not equipped properly (laser weapons, no assault shields, wolf armour). It was also a night mission (which should not be a factor in assaulting an underground base, but was).
Regardless, it seemed like a pretty odd scenario, and I wondered if anyone else had encountered it, or if it was intentionally so crazy hard.
Oh, the other weird thing is that the LoS algorithm appears to glitch out in the bases, I saw a lot of plasma and heavy plasma fire happening towards my units from inside rooms which hit walls.