Re: ufo:aftermath

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From: Andrew Gray
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:22

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In article <6deb8f206e760ddf021e92f948fb7666@news.teranews.com>,
raille@mich.com wrote:
> 
> whew.  If you had been around the group longer you'd have learned that
> many feel that Apoc was something Less than an expansion for Xcom in
> general.  That Apoc was a bastard child and did not deserve to be
> included as part of the Xcom universe.  
> 
> So... to take that a step farther, Apoc was a step backwards.  In the
> real world of Xcom you have to fight like a MAN, no one crawls, no one
> kneels, everyone stand and fights.

TFTD introduced kneeling... one of the very few changes to the model,
IIRC.

(the others being weapons that only operated in certain environments,
multi-level missions, and retaining TU reserves between turns...)

-- 
-Andrew Gray
 shimgray@bigfoot.com

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From: Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: ufo:aftermath
Date: 20 Aug 2003 15:22:18 GMT
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