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"The Blue Max" <brunos...@Jasta1.com> wrote in message news:<c4560743279c4866...@free.teranews.com>...
> "RandallW" <rand...@smokedspamcore.com> wrote
> 
> > In my X-Com experience even in good campaigns there are a significant
>  number
> > of alien bases i'm not able to eliminate....so playing the alien side may
> > not automatically mean the humans will eventually outnumber you massively.
> 
> I am simply curious as to how many aliens there actually are available to
> the AI. At any one time I have seen perhaps 4 or 5 large UFOs
> simultaneously. The alien bases / colonies are always fully manned, so the
> UFO crews are obviously not drawn from bases.
> 
> Playing as XCom, OTOH, one could quite quickly amass 100 to 250 soldiers in
> total. I guess 1,000+ would be feasible if you built enough accommodation
> and storgae. So if one could play as the aliens I imagine you'd start with
> 20 to 30 guys and would peak at probably 4 to 500 - it's possible, I
> believe, to have 10+ alien bases, so their complement plus UFO crews start
> to add up.  But this is late in the game - if they hit you with 400 guys in
> month 1 you'd lose.
> 

here are some theoretical numbers based on ingame table sizes....

the maximum sites/ships/waypoints on the globe are 50, if Xcom has 8
bases and only fly's 1 craft (Avenger/Leviathan) at a time and only to
alien bases... that would leave a posible total of 41 alien bases and
no UFO's

each combat alows for a total of 80 units (i'll leave out tanks and
other large creatures for this) if xcom sends the max of 26, there
would be 54 Aleins per base (108 for TFTD's 2 part'ers)
so a total of 2214 Aliens at a time for UFO and 4428 for TFTD

X-com can have 8 bases... and 254 units per base. for a total of 2032

now 26 vs. 54 is abit lopsided but say they all were involved in one
battle at once. if they were evenly armed X-com would have a fighting
change to beat the aliens in UFO, but in TFTD it would take pure luck
with out superior tactics and stats.

-Blade FireLight