Double post but Iduncare
God,
X-Com: UFO Defense, I forgot how bloody
hard you really are. Even on beginner
my first mission to a crash site went great, no one killed. The second mission, lost 3 soldiers when an alien popped out of the UFO and blasted my heavy gunner before he or the other guy covering had a chance to react.
Then a few days later I get my first terror mission in Montreal. Holy sheep shit. I engage a few of the big two-legged alien monsters from the ramp of my ship, then on turn 4, some sort of fire rocket comes flying out of a neighborhood house and 5 of my soldiers are immediately down, knocked unconscious (including the squad leader.)
Needless to say, that mission didn't end well.
Being an X-Com noob, I take it reaction time and time units remaining play a big factor in whether or not you get a shot off on the Aliens turn?