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Spencer Lu <fake.a...@no.spam.com> wrote:
> I was just robbed of a stunned Sectoid Commander.  I was assaulting
> an alien base, and this commander was actually roaming the hallways.
> I know it was a commander because I used a Mind Probe on it.  Anyway,
> one of my soldiers stunned it using a Small Launcher (it took 2 stun bombs
> to do this).  After about 20-30 turns later, I finally killed the last alien 
> in the
> base, and my Skyranger returned home.  I clicked on the Research button,
> and was shocked to see that "Sectoid Commander" was NOT in the list
> of new projects.  What happened to him?  I know for a fact that he did
> not wake up and walk away, because after each turn I looked at where
> he was stunned, and his body was still lying there.

Maybe you should have carried the stunned creature in someone's
backpack. Anyway, the better tactics to destroy an alien base is to
destroy the 'heart of the base' and go back to the green area (with a
live Commander carried there!).

> My questions are:
> - Is there a limit on the number of aliens you can have in one alien
>   containment unit?

As I recall it's twenty.

> - Do stunned aliens die after a long while?

Nope.
  
> Also, is there a bug with saving a game during battle?  I've tried this
> 3 times now, and 2 of those times the game crashed.  Actually the

In my older version of 'UFO - Enemy Unknown' I had the same problem. Play
tactical missions without saving it! Now I bought the CD-ROM 'Unknown
Terror' and the savegames are working. In the older version I also had
problems with Alien Base missions.
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