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This is all ironman classic.  Man, my second terror mission lived up to its name.  While I was dealing with wave after wave of enemies, more and more kept coming.  Those stupid chrysalids were making zombies, which made more chrysalids, all offscreen.  That didn't happen in normal mode...

I knooow that second terror mission is outright well....terifying! After losing two soldiers I had to move all my troops as far away from the terror site as possible just to keep them alive. The amount of chrysalids was ungodly, I must have collected around 20 corpses.
On the bright side, chitin armor (or whatev it's called) for the survivors!

Got me titan armor on month 3, or was it early 4 I can't recall, and finally decided to attack the alien base. I lost two good men in there, one just had a streak of bad luck when he got hit thrice out of three, and one a crit. The other guy died after my sniper failed a crucial 75% shot....four times. Ugh, damn you randomness, and you worthless french sniper.

It's getting a little weird now though, somehow all my male soldiers are getting KIA leaving me with a lot of female soldiers. Right now my main squad is 4/6 female, and depending on wich class this latest recruit picks maybe 5/6.

That comic, so true!

Alright, got enough experience to have a stab at iron man challenge. I'm playing at classic ofcourse, I do like a challenge.

I've already given it a go last night, damn is the early game unforgiving. Still, I managed to pull through and get a pretty good team up and running despite the occasional loss.
I was especially proud of one soldier in particular, same nationality as me even, who was extraordinary badass. Besides pretty much netting half the kills throughout the playthrough this guy earned himself the title 'hazard' after blindly storming in a group of 3 sectoids while shouting 'Moving at the speed of death!', and emerging unscathed taking two down single handedly. While the rest of the team was panicking after a casualty he just kept on killing, so badass.

Sadly I messed up the strategic part (the one part that has no random elements, shame on me) and didn't get enough engineers in time to build more relays, leading to countries leaving all over as I missed two UFO's because I forgot to transfer my fighter to the right continent, stupid. 

Take two, got a decent team up (I won't lie I start over if more then one dies first mission). This heavy already had her moment of glory as she managed a quad kill her second mission in by blowing up a truck. The mission only had 4 sectoids, heh. Suppose I'll have to make her a demolitionist expert!

The only video I've seen of him playing DF is that one time he drowned that donkey. Or was it a mule, I'm not sure.

I'd agree that, as a designer of a game you cannot get the same enjoyment out of it. All game rules seem so arbitrary, and all features rather dull after having developed them, I imagine.

Alright I stuck with the game for a bit longer and I have to say the randomness gets better after a while, as soldiers rank up their hit chance just keeps increasing. Thin men still a pain in the ass though, if I decide on playing the top difficulty or iron man I think I'll just pass up on all the missions with lots of the buggers in them.

Yep, I'm aware of the seeded RNG, played enough Civ to figure out the pattern, and since this was another firaxis game it seemed obvious.
I should mention while I save scum (just as a learning experience) I never do it mid mission, I'm positive starting the mission anew gives you a new seed, since the maps tend to cycle as well.

Anyway, psi powers! What are they, what do I need to know about this testing facility?
Two of my A team soldiers tested positive, now I've got a psionic medic support and a long range psionic sniper, neat. What's roughly the use of these abilities?

Also I'm dabbling in jetpacks. Got my rocketeer and my rifle assault equiped with the suits but I'm not sure how this stuff works. Are they harder to hit when airborne? Because I'm reluctant to just have them fly out of cover.
I understand there's a 6 unit fuel limit, where can I see the current fuel gauge? It only appears when I initiate flight.

Here, I'll list my soldiers, beats typing out their specifics. 

I'm EU, so there might be a difference. I've actually tried NAW servers and frankly the latency seemed kind of the same as on EU. Or maybe I wasn't paying attention.
Either way I enjoy playing engineer with a shotty most, tanks and shotgun fire aren't really that sensitive to that stuff anyway.

Yeah, plasma rifles seemed like a solid choice so I researched those. I'm in my second month now so looks like I'm on a good schedule.

Not sure I'm going to continue playing though, I'm in another mission that's just so INFURIATINGLY random. It's those thin men, man... I miss every shot under 80% and even then some under 95%, they hit and crit everything. They're like DF bogeyman annoyance level squared.
Throw a poison down, get a 9 dmg crit from half across the map, boom another dead squadmate. Just stupid, who would ruin such a great game with this stupidly copious amount of RNG....

Damn talk about bad luck. Was on an escort mission, all targets down escortee one turn away from extraction point. One of my guys runs into a poison cloud and panicks, shoots down the VIP. Ugh...

On another note, what's up with soldier nicknames? So far I've got my support sporting a medkit nicknamed 'Angel', and an assault 'Gunner'.
Nice feature, I take it they get nicked according to their actions in the field?