First time playing XCOM and holy shit. Do these fuckers actually

fall back

>>381465391
>First time playing XCOM
>blindplaying on classic ironman

That's a terrible idea, why the fuck would you do that?

>>381465391

Explosives are guaranteed damage. Abuse them because for a while Thin Men will be the biggest threat that you'll face. Don't worry about losing weapon fragments, you'll have more than you'll know what to do with by just playing normally. What you should try to do is feed kills to one unit as much as you can until you have a sergeant, hopefully by the end of month 1. Once you have a sergeant, you can increase squad size to 5, which dramatically increases your options.

>>381465391
XCOM is fucking garbage and 90% of the missions throw random shit at you that you couldn't possibly see coming.

>Hey you did the objective, great job, OH MY GOD HERE'S 30 NEW UNITS SPAWNING RANDOMLY ALL OVER THE MAP!

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>>381465646

It's what I did. The game is most fun that way. What are you, some kind of coward?

>>381465983
>restarting the game 3000 times because you didn't know that Sectopods were coming

not everyone has autism anon

>>381465646

I'm new to XCOM, but have been playing TBS for over a decade, so I'm not intimidated by shit like that.

>>381465815

Huh. I didn't know that you can do that by the end of the month. I feel that my biggest weakness is a lack of coverage. It's very hard to flank at the start of an encounter for me. The enemy hitting me most of the time on half-cover also makes me afraid to take risks. Should I dump kills into a heavy? I really like the rocket over drags.

>>381465842

Eh. I did get miffed when a group of thin men spawned behind my escort and overmatched which was pretty much an instant mission fail.

>>381465391
blast them off with grenades and rocket launchers those have guaranteed damage. or just hold until you get a high rank sniper. those guys are killing machines provide you place them well.

in the zone consecutive kills are amazing for clearing zones of small enemies

>>381466391

>not being thrilled at the prospect of overcoming a new enemy.

>playing vanilla xcom

play LW, it gives you more tools and a fair difficulty
vanilla is just stupid hit chances and no possible way to defend against

>>381466587

First rule of XCOM: half cover is a filthy fucking lie.

Heavies are the best class in the game. I'd suggest having 2 on your team until you upgrade squad size, at which point put 3 on your team. Snipers are broken, but require a lot of investment to really get good. Swap them with support in and out of your team. Once your heavies get to bring two rockets per mission and get holo-targeting, things become a lot easier.

>>381465391
>First time playing XCOM
>classic ironman

What are u doing m8?

>>381466587

There's no penalty for skipping council missions. I'd recommend that you just not do them until you get a decent group of units. The only one I'd say to do is the one with the Chinaman, because he's a great heavy. Of course, this assumes that you have all the DLC.

>>381466587

Word of advice: in lieu of heavies, you should rush laser weapons on the research tree. The goal of the game is to kill the enemies on the very first turn you see them. A much greater offense will give you much more survivability than anything else. With laser weapons, you can kill a thin man with a single shot most of the time.

>soldiers that aren't in full cover end up dying quickly

HUNKER DOWN IS NOT USELESS
FULL COVER IS VERY VERY IMPORTANT
HALF + HUNKER IS THE BARE MINIMUM FOR PROTECTION
HALF WITHOUT HUNKER IS WORTHLESS
OUT IN THE OPEN = DEAD

Snipers are king, never forget this. Keep them elevated and away from the action and you'll rain death

>>381468790

I hunker on half and still get blown away since the enemy NEVER does below 4 damage to me.