kai Posted November 26, 2004 Author Share Posted November 26, 2004 Anyone ever mind control an alien, give it primed grenades and send it in to the crashed alien ships? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted November 27, 2004 Share Posted November 27, 2004 Yep, sure beats sending your rookies to the slaughter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kai Posted December 25, 2004 Author Share Posted December 25, 2004 It's a bit like finding the most useless rookie and sending them in to the UFO as a suicide bomber/scout who gets shot after walking through the door. More fun making the aliens do it. That said, when they kill their own who are under X-COM mind control, does it effect their morale? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Probably not. If you mind control an alien and kill it, your units lose morale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 When I shot my mind controlled cononel the other day, I lost moral Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kai Posted December 27, 2004 Author Share Posted December 27, 2004 It's a loose-loose situation, there is only one thing you can do, take the course of action which takes the most aliens down! :devil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Shell the bridge with several large rockets and hope the repeated explosions kill the dag blasted Sectiod leader? :devil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kai Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 I try to avoid using explosives in the bridge if I can, less chance of damaging the loot. If it's a large scout then I send 2 people in by the left bridge entrance, to get a view of who's there and 1 on the right hand entrance. depending on where reaction fire is likely to be more of a problem is how I decide where to have the 1st soldier fire. With battlecruisers, I normally have snipers covering the exits to the ship and kill the aliens with reaction fire. If they start to loose morale, then I send the troops in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 The trick with explosives is to only bomb a new area once. You'll recover all the loot off the corpses, but the second explosion will blow away the loot that was dropped before. So a single Hi-X or a blaster bomb into the bridge is nothing. As for what you lose? Well, I don't know how closely related navigation units are with the battlescape chairs and wall doodads, but I'd be careful around the power unit, as those have elerium 'in' them. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Just shoot at it until you hear that Sectiod scream. One or two shots from a rocket launcher usually can take out the leader if you are getting mind blasted, with little actual damage to the interior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Nav units aren't worth much to me. I find myself selling the surplus all the time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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