To reload or not to reload that is the question!

[phantra]

how much do you reload on ground/air combat? when do you do it and do you think the game is winnable if we would just let the dead die?

[llunak]

There seems to be a typo in the last option. Surely that was meant to say "Never! Those who reload are no xenonauts material to begin with!" ?

[Dranak]

Just click the Ironman box and then you don't have to worry about when to reload.

[Zolden]

I must agree with Dranak. It's not just "don't have ot worry about", it just makes the game uncomparably funnier, if you forget about save/load.

[inRain]

I save at the start of every month, and when I have to stop playing. If a horrible failure occurs, I'll reload and do the month again as a penalty. After having started the game over so many times that I lost count (iron man, veteran, first playtrough), I decided to cut myself some slack, and play veteran with this save system. Once this play through is finished, I'll install some mods and start iron manning again...

[phantra]

personaly I keep a few saves but mostly out of fear that a bug or a crash might accur

[Man of Doge]

Whelp, when I first started playing I named my soldiers after friends and family--boy was that a mistake!

After those incidents I learned I couldn't save everyone and just stripped them of their most human aspect so I could focus more on the battle at hand! (I named my Heavies "Heavy-X" or "Rapidfire-X" and named my other soldiers similarly)

Since then I've done MUCH better during battles and rarely ever save scum. Unless of course I decide the mission should've been aborted before the battle even started and a rookie should be sent in to be sacrificed, in which case then I might save scum a little bit...

[nDervish]

I reload when things go horribly stupid. I can deal with "horribly wrong". I can deal with multiple soldiers dying. But "oops, I just dropped a grenade on my foot instead of throwing it" or "I tried to fire due north, but instead shot the guy to my east in the back"? I don't think so.