🚀 go-pugleaf

I've been playing TFTD for awhile now, but after reading the posts for UFO,
I thought I'd have another crack at it.  It's been retrieved from the loft,
dusted down and installed.

    It's a bit basic, but the principles are essentially the same,
naturally.  However, my biggest annoyance is the Skyranger and deployment.
As you are not on the ground, the troops can't see the damned hostiles even
though they sometimes wait outside the bloody door!  I had my first terror
mission... what a disaster!  I couldn't get my troops out of the transport,
as they were being picked off by aliens left, right and centre.
    Anyway, as this was my first continued attempt at UFO since I bought it
3yrs ago, or so, I just kept reloading the mission, to see how things were
different from TFTD.
    The aliens were more aggressive, in my opinion, in that they move in and
try to pin you down, not like TFTD, where they wander around aimlessly at
times.  There appears to be more co-ordination in this behaviour - I had
four cyberdisks lurking around the back of the transport, as well as some
sectoids taking pot shots and retreating to cover.  When they started
popping off my men, they started moving in on the transport - one cheeky
bugger threw a damned grenade into the Skyranger waxing the whole squad!
    I'm sure many of you are sniggering away at this tale, but it was
certainly an interesting incident.  I was expecting things to be really
easy, from what people have said about UFO being easy, but I was surprised
at the difference in alien behaviour compared to TFTD.  Also, I set up the
game on the beginner setting, to have a wander round and familiarise myself
with the game.
    Anyway, I aborted the whole terror mission and carried on the game.  By
the end of the second month, I was told my performance was poor, although I
had only 8 interceptions and 2 terror missions.  * I've noticed a bug in
both UFO and TFTD concerning terror missions.  If you get the terror screen
come up, telling you an attack is underway, and immediately after, you have
a research completed window pop up, the terror site has gone.  I think this
contributed to my poor status, which I can live with, but it's still
annoying to have this happen.

    Overall, I've enjoyed the experience and I'm going to keep cracking away
at UFO now, since more than anything, the land based missions are really
refreshing from the TFTD sea based affairs.
    I just hope the advanced craft can let me deploy on the ground instead
of trying to hide beneath the undercarriage of the Skyranger - visions of
that terror mission keep coming back... absolute carnage [sigh]

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