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Operation Lone Smoke
Went pretty much the same, except that Socks got zapped by a sectoid before blowing its head off right at the end and the game didn't crash.
Castro got promoted to Sergeant, nicknamed "Lockdown," and wounded, taking him out of action for a week. Everyone else was fine with band-aids and asprin, it seems. Armor is awesome. Socks got promoted to Lieutenant, and Torres to Corporal. We got a lot of loot, including two "muton" corpses. Those must be the front-line hulks we saw and conquered when we came.

At Dr. Shen's advice, I have a foundry started. Brazil requests laser rifles, to which we reply "Will you supply us with more alien alloys?" The response is negative. We figure out titan armor and begin autopsying mutons, which are evidently very similar to floaters. I intend to begin construction of some Titan armor...nope, we only have 16 engineers and need 25. We begin investigating how we could use alien tech to improve our interceptors, because it's that or improve interceptor lasers. Come on, we were promised weaponizing crimes against nature like a month ago!

We finish a new satellite uplink, intended to be used to launch satellites in Asia and Africa...only satellites are the first project to require actual time to complete. And then abductions.
"Seriously, listen to me. We're making revolutionary powered armor, space-jets that shoot down UFOs, and lasers, and we can't afford another Skyranger?"
Anyways...we can't afford more panic in Asia, so it crashed again. Um.


Steam says there are issues with the Steam Cloud, so I'll come back later.

Honestly, in my games, I have not once seriously needed for Engineers or scientists, and I never build labs, and workshops only for the refund bonus. Maybe it had to do with my base being in Asia, but my North American one didn't have a problem either.

You can have a base in Asia? My options were Europe and North America.

Anyways, what's your squad build like, or are you still in the 'whoever I have on hand' stage?

A little beyond that. Depending on the perceived difficulty of the mission, I either send whatever experienced and accomplished soldiers I have on hand or send one or two lower-level ones with a bunch of green rookies.