If they are, you might have problems. Otherwise, it's the aliens who should be afraid, because clearly you're sending MOSSAD after them.

Hint to the aliens: You're better off voluntarily turning yourselves over to Dr. Vahlen for some of her trademarked tender, loving, Geneva-convention compliant interrogations.


Also, as regards laser weapons: My advice is just to skip them entirely and push for Plasma research as soon as you capture a Thin Man. Then capture five or six more Thin Men. You can skip lasers entirely for your Assaults and Supports and go straight to spewing Light Plasma Rifle fire (Plasma Carbine fire?) right back at the aliens. Level the playing field, and then some, if you find more Sectoids. You can also skip manufacturing plasma pistols by stunning Sectoids and Sectoid Commanders, but if you're researching fast enough, you may actually be fielding plasma rifles and cannons before the aliens do.

Vahlen's interrogations are anything but Geneva convention compliant. Which is actually sort of ok as the aliens are beyond the scope of the conventions.

Word to the wise, do not try skiping lasers on anything above normal difficulty. Many bitter bitter tears will be had when your in that mid range where you can't reliably kill the buffed up thin men, and they eat your lunch.

Vahlen's interrogations are anything but Geneva convention compliant. Which is actually sort of ok as the aliens are beyond the scope of the conventions.

Word to the wise, do not try skiping lasers on anything above normal difficulty. Many bitter bitter tears will be had when your in that mid range where you can't reliably kill the buffed up thin men, and they eat your lunch.

I'd say you're fine as long as nobody else in your Barracks is from the Middle East.

If they are, you might have problems. Otherwise, it's the aliens who should be afraid, because clearly you're sending MOSSAD after them.

Hint to the aliens: You're better off voluntarily turning yourselves over to Dr. Vahlen for some of her trademarked tender, loving, Geneva-convention compliant interrogations.

What's the viability of standard Interceptors armed with plasma cannons, versus Firestorm fighters? Can I get away with bypassing advanced fighters?

What's the viability of standard Interceptors armed with plasma cannons, versus Firestorm fighters? Can I get away with bypassing advanced fighters?

Yeah, selling the damaged scavanged stuff certainly helps. Would be a lot better to be able recoup some credits from transitional gear upgrades like Carapace armor or old laser weapons through the Grey Market as well though.

I got rid of some old equipment when some of my member nations asked me for them as a pending request. Got some decent cash for it too - I was pretty cash-strapped until I got 2k in cash for 5 plasma rifles. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) Coincidentally, I had 4 already so I just made one, completed the request, and then re-made the 4 that I needed for my squad.

I got one from France asking for Scopes to assist their military.

After I finished laughing, I had Dr. Shen get to work on the project.

I got rid of some old equipment when some of my member nations asked me for them as a pending request. Got some decent cash for it too - I was pretty cash-strapped until I got 2k in cash for 5 plasma rifles. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) Coincidentally, I had 4 already so I just made one, completed the request, and then re-made the 4 that I needed for my squad.

I got one from France asking for Scopes to assist their military.

After I finished laughing, I had Dr. Shen get to work on the project.

I had one from Germany asking for Sectopod wrecks.... I gave it to them.... I was concerned about the 4th Reich popping up if I did....

I got a request for something like 9 Carapace armors, and the payout was over 6k.

Sadly, I didn't have the bodies to produce that much.

What do you guys spend your money on? I did everything that I had the parts for (which is my limiting factor now) in the Foundry, have a Firestorm in each region, satellite uplinks/satellites for every country (except for South Africa - they panicked early and withdrew), got every research project thus far, etc.

I've still got like 1.2k sitting around (with 16 soldiers in my barracks). I guess I could just hire more soldiers? But I don't see the point in that, considering I'm leveling up the people I have (2 at a time) - I don't dare send less than 4 of my vets with 2 lower-ranked people.

You could always hire a ton of soldiers, put them thru psionic testing and dismiss the dropouts. Try and create a balanced team of psi operatives.

But isn't psi ability based off the willpower stat? So the highest chance of nabbing a psi soldier is to test them when they're colonels. I only say this because I got 5 psi soldiers out of my ranked soldiers (around 10) while I only got 1 out of my squaddie barracks of the about 20 I tested.

The chance of them having the "gift" is based on their will chance. Just means you need a larger pool.

And you can only test 3 squaddies every 10 days. It might make more sense to at least marginally level up soldiers before testing them.