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Detonate wrote:
> 
> 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]
> 
> Detonate
	You do know that soldiers can look out the windows of the skyranger,
don't you?
	I ALWAYS load my 1st 2 soldiers with smoke bombs and have one of them
throw one before anyone leaves the craft. It seems to work.