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And ... another failure. Started decently, but had a few wipes when thin men and floaters began to appear and everything went to hell afterwards. Couldn't succeed a single mission after this.

Quote from: PanH on December 24, 2013, 06:16:12 pm

How to save a VIP ? Seriously, I remember it being easy as pie, but now, aliens seems to shoot at it first, and when 5 thin men rain down from the sky, I can't kill them all, and they inevitably kill the VIP with their crazy accuracy (failed 3 VIP missions that way).

Don't rush the VIP.   Enemy spawn on the VIP's progress if I remember correctly..  Set Overwatch, move VIP, watch thin men die, move troops forward.  Rinse and Repeat.

I'll try that. I actually used to try to get the VIP as fast as possible out of here, so it seems weird that spawns are based on that.

And thanks for the other answers. Though, anyone knows whether special missions can still be done if one of them is failed ? I might restart my game anyway.

Actually, IIRC, if a soldier dies, you can steal the medals and give them to another guy.

So, once you have 6 medals of each, it's nearly useless ?

So, bought Enemy Within with the last sale. After trying again a Classic Ironman (and I'm quite failling at it too), I'm wondering about some stuff :
What happens if I lose a special mission (say, an Operation Slingshot mission ? I also failed one with a french military convoy that has been attacked, don't know if it leads to anything) ? Does the operation chain continue or not ?
Medals are destroyed if the soldier you gave them is dead, I assume ?
How to save a VIP ? Seriously, I remember it being easy as pie, but now, aliens seems to shoot at it first, and when 5 thin men rain down from the sky, I can't kill them all, and they inevitably kill the VIP with their crazy accuracy (failed 3 VIP missions that way).
And, any general advice on classic difficulty ? I know it's kinda too hard for me, but when the game went out, I played Normal, and it became too easily too quick (hell, didn't even finished the game), I wish there was a middle difficulty, so I'm trying Classic.

Also, the game is quite more polished now. The "make items disappear from anyone not in the team" button is crazy useful. Plenty of little stuff (nice options) that are really nice, though, should probably have been in the base game.

Ok, I see it on steam now (I swear it wasn't on 30minutes ago). Will look into it tomorrow though.

Quote from: PanH on December 13, 2013, 12:37:18 pm

Quote from: Dutchling on December 13, 2013, 12:19:52 pm

Quote from: Rolan7 on December 13, 2013, 10:46:17 am

I've started browsing their realm adding up the levies in my head, but that's slow *and* inaccurate. 

Click on someone's (anyone in the enemy realm will do) portrait and go to realm view to see the total levies of the top liege. It's one of the three buttons near someone's dynasty shield. The levies shown there is way higher than their actual levies, but if your total levies is higher than theirs you probably have more troops.

Not that much. At least it's pretty accurate for what I can levy.

The ledger also has an "independent realm size" entry, so you can see how your army stacks up versus everyone else.

Hm, possible that's what I've been using.

Quote from: Rolan7 on December 13, 2013, 10:46:17 am

I've started browsing their realm adding up the levies in my head, but that's slow *and* inaccurate. 

Click on someone's (anyone in the enemy realm will do) portrait and go to realm view to see the total levies of the top liege. It's one of the three buttons near someone's dynasty shield. The levies shown there is way higher than their actual levies, but if your total levies is higher than theirs you probably have more troops.

Not that much. At least it's pretty accurate for what I can levy.

You could ignore them and conquer France?  And then maybe the HRE.  Alternate between holy warring weak states and then invading big ones, works every time.  Then once you're so big they stand no hope of stopping you, then worry about finding a CB.  Just make sure your armies don't drop too far beneath the other guy's, or he could attack you.

I could, but I'm not really interested. It'd be really easy (France is controlled by Welsh, has 6k army). The biggest catholic kingdom is Lotharingia/Italy, at 11k soldiers atm. It wouldn't even be a challenge (and Tulunid, the sultan of Egypt, invaded Aquitaine btw, though he lost Egypt to the Abbassids). That wouldn't be a problem to invade the catholic world but I want to usurp the Arabian Empire, and I'm only at 54% (need 81%). Abbassids has the other 46% and there's 124 counties. I'd need to take 34 provinces from them to usurp the title, but I only have single counties cb (which are not really worth fighting a war over). Once I have a title, the rest of their realm will implode, since there's plenty of dukes and not a king title.