Let's Replay X-COM UFO Defence #29: Picking off the Stragglers

There are many advantages waiting for day missions, but they’re balanced by the ultimate counterweight: time. Waiting for the ideal mission conditions takes up time and the longer you wait, the more likely it is that you’ll run out of time to do the missions at all. Worse yet, time spent waiting is time that the aliens can use to launch even more missions, potentially leaving you unprepared for dealing with the crash sites that come about from shooting them down. If not kept under control, this can lead to a domino effect that culminates in you being unable to keep on top of the many things vying for your attention.
In this instance, waiting for the daylight hours to take out the supply ships made the missions a lot easier, though we’ll never know if I missed the opportunity to get more elerium from the other crash site. What’s done is done however, so it’s best to look forward to the one remaining mission site that we can deal with. Even if we don’t find any elerium, we’ll be getting a lot of positive score for the council report which will surely result in even more bonus funding. We could certainly use the extra money to put a tend in the growing maintenance costs of our bases, for both the facilities and the people working in them.
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[@LovablePWNER]

I love that Sub Zero is the guy that always kills the first alien. It's like his morning routine now. I'm sure after he does it he just yawns or scratches his chin or something.

[@kulrigalestout]

**yawn** **scratch** **burp** **shoots alien** **brushes teeth**

[@George-nn8ui]

He also sleeps in the alien containment building, it helps him sleep better.

[@sharkforce8147]

and carries a smoke grenade in his off hand at all times. just in case.

[@LovablePWNER]

SharkForce he probably sleeps with that too kinda like teddy bear.

[@BirdRaiserE]

LovablePWNER This guy rips spines out on a daily basis and probably warms up by beating the crap out of every squaddie on the base

[@observer1357]

Nicely done on the 3 UFO Crash sites. To be fair, trying clean up 4 crash sites in such a short amount of time without a 2nd Skyranger or an Avenger as a additional troop transport is a pretty tall order. Also, you completed them with such a low number of casualties. I know you haven't use tanks before on your X-Com let's plays. However, I think you are really in for a treat when you finally try out the Plasma tanks. Keep up the great work.

[@jinxshaddix]

Three episodes! :0 Christmas came early this year.

[@jinxshaddix]

five years ago. seems so recent..

[@enkayeff]

One advantage of meeting Ethereals this early in a smaller ship is that you'll mostly be going up against the lesser soldier ethereals. No less dangerous as they too have psi, but you will have better chance of potentially capturing one alive.

[@ayontole9320]

I like how the positioning in the last mission makes it look like the Ethereal got caught flat-footed out in the open and tried to hide behind an old dead tree.

[@Ikine557]

Ooh, an extra episode!

[@emilysong2000]

Three X-Com videos in one day...it must be Christmas in July! =)

[@SilencerGDA]

emilysong2000 They were all just deserts.

[@gracol435]

"Batlin, cover her..." But I'm EVIL.

[@Rellana1]

Cover her anyway or you'll be evil dead.

[@ReikuYin]

Hail to the king, baby?

[@Nasosdag]

If I remember correctly, whenever I was using cautious attack to engage a UFO, there was a higher chance that the power sources did not explode, when the UFO crash landed. That way I could get some Elerium. Of course a cautious attack did not always work for larger UFOs that could return fire. But sometimes it did.

[@JosephArata]

High explosives hull breech is a favorite of mine, enter into the space craft feet away from the control center.

[@FinnmanGaming]

It would be very useful if the tank could throw flares. It would make it an excellent scout. Great video as always, Kiko!

[@DragDenDFO]

Hey, Kiko, you threw an electro flare, then another electro flare right next to it, then tried to throw a third electro flare right on top of the first (4:45) :D

[@AdmiralLink]

Whoa! 3 episodes in one day (Sunday)! Kiko you are spoiling us! What's the special occasion?

[@Ixnatifual]

If you let one of the soldiers further back throw the smoke grenade, the ones at the front will be able to take more shots on the initial turn.

[@Kikoskia]

Doing it first makes it less likely that I'll forget to do it.

[@Ixnatifual]

Good point.

[@Ciekawostkioporanku]

I once(!) had a mission where I won instantly. When I started it I got a message "All aliens died in the crash" LOL! Did anyone else had that?

[@Stealthwilde]

I've had it a few times. It's more common with smaller UFOs as they have less aliens to begin with, and especially with the very small one-alien scout (if you manage to down it without destroying the thing entirely of course)

[@DinnerForkTongue]

I'd like to see a mod where you need to scout the crash site to find the dead aliens to complete the mission.

[@sharkforce8147]

so, uhh... just to mention... you can totally blast things on the other side of diagonal walls with high explosives. i think weaker bombs work too, i just know for sure it works with high explosives. doesn't work on straight walls though, so it's probably a glitch.

[@TehCubey]

You have a lot of money, how about hiring more scientists? The labs have space for 30 more after all.

[@eirianrobotto]

Wohoo... Jawas!

[@DinnerForkTongue]

Three desert missions in a row. Then again, sand being coarse and rough and getting everywhere is the least of X-COM's problems if there are Ethereals scouting the planet.

[@LovablePWNER]

I killed them all. And not just the Sectoids, but the Snakemen, and the Chrisilads too. I HATE THEM!

[@sharkforce8147]

well, they're all in the same region. makes sense the terrain is similar.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

SharkForce I know, I was taking the window of opportunity for the meme.

[@BirdRaiserE]

Dinner-fork tongue They're aliens. And I slaughtered them like aliens! I HATE THEM!

[@SaberusTerras]

Woo, bonus episode!

[@Ciekawostkioporanku]

Did Kikoskia played "Star Controll II: The Urquan Masters" on his channel?

[@Kikoskia]

I have not, no.

[@Ciekawostkioporanku]

I think it is a game with your type of humor. When you make the scared Sectoid voices you basically mimic Spathi. :D kzbin.info/www/bejne/gna9aGiCaJugbZY

[@Spootiful]

That would indeed be a great LP! Here's hoping to Kiko will one day experience the lovable Spathi!

[@shadowqueen1701]

The dead ethereals look like Jawas

[@George-nn8ui]

9:03 They just don't pay me enough for this shit!

[@BirdRaiserE]

Where does helicopter pig come from? Google is not cooperative on the subject

[@enkayeff]

Scroll back through Kiko's playlists for Let's Quickly Play Super Mario World. The allegedly legitimate Super Mario game that's totally not a rom hack of another game. You need to behold it in its majesty. More specifically, check half way through episode 2 for the Helicopter Pig boss fight.