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The Melee Weapons. The closest we'll get to having an actual Dwarven squad. Do note that this means we'll be using mostly melee on enemies that have guns...

3 (15.8%)

The Pistols. Humiliate the aliens by killing them with tiny baby guns! Do note that the enemy's guns are much bigger than ourse even at the start of the game...

0 (0%)

The Rifles. Bring the fight to the enemy with standard space marine gear. Do note that space marines have some very, very high rates of turnover due to death...

6 (31.6%)

The Shotguns. Like a mix of a gun and a melee weapon. Do note that enemies can and will attack from long ranges, where shotguns aren't much use...

2 (10.5%)

The Cannons/Explosives. Sometimes the only true solution is to blow it up. Do note that these true solutions don't apply to allies or civilians...

8 (42.1%)

Total Members Voted: 19

[Doomblade187]

The alien containment unit sounds nice, I support the building thereof.

[AzyWng]

Sorry for filling up your "New reply" list like this, but I'm here to report that I won't really be able to continue the LP for... a while really, as in between schoolwork and personal issues I can't scrape enough time to make any new posts of this LP.

Perhaps I can tell you about other game mechanics in the mean time, to ease the wait.

Spoiler: Accuracy, or why "50%" might not truly be 50% after all (click to show/hide)

The way weapons fire in this game is that nearly all of them propel a physical, in-world projectile along an angle that is randomly generated within a certain range, that range being determined by the accuracy of the unit who's firing the shot. This means that it's possible for an alien or other target to be obscured by map objects like trashcans, lampposts, or small trees in the event the shot hits the right wrong spot. This also means that if a soldier is standing a few squares away from something like a hole in the wall or a gap in a fence and fires, there's a chance the soldier will simply hit the fence rather than firing through it.
This is another reason why the use of cannons with explosive rounds is... rather dangerous in enclosed spaces.
Thankfully, this gameplay quirk means that firing upon enemies at closer ranges is more effective, thus (hopefully) averting the "65% chance to hit" meme that's appeared in the remakes.
See, the angle of a shot begins to matter more and more the farther away the shooter is from their target. When traveling over long distances in vehicles like boats or planes, going off course by a single degree, even for a little bit of time, can cause the pilot to get lost.
Now, when you're firing bullet across the map, and that bullet's path is a beautiful, straight line.... that's off by over twenty degrees... Your hit rate tends to suffer quite a bit.
Now, when your target is barely a dozen squares away, those degrees of difference aren't so bad. Sure, you'll still be side of the mark if your shot is off by twenty degrees again, but if it's off by one, or even two or three, you might still have a good chance of hitting (or at least destroying cover that's near the target), especially if you're using explosive ammo.
Naturally, you're much more likely to hit an enemy that's directly in front of you, all accuracy statements be damned.
Just don't act too surprised if when you miss. This is XCOM after all.

[Rince Wind]

Explosive weapons can be very effective when you just aim at the ground as well.

[pikachu17]

Isn't there a missile launcher or something that you can set waypoints, and set one right above the alien, and one on the alien, so even if it "misses" it still hits.

I'd like to dwarfed/humaned/X-com Operatived with one of those, if it works like that in OpenXcom as well. If not, any explosive using operative will work.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Isn't there a missile launcher or something that you can set waypoints, and set one right above the alien, and one on the alien, so even if it "misses" it still hits.

You mean the Blaster Launcher, base damage of that thing is 200 iirc and makes a large area disappear in a cloud of smoke and debris and can be guided around the map and up/down lifts or though windows. Favourite weapon of Ethereals in the late game.

[AzyWng]

The insidious thing about the old XCOM is that, while the stats of enemies changes from difficulty to difficulty, the power of enemy weapons does not.

Currently, the aliens are using plasma weapons that, as you saw earlier, are capable of killing soldiers in just one shot.

Later on, the aliens will use plasma grenades that are capable of killing multiple soldiers in just one shot.

Still later on, the aliens will use blaster bombs that are capable of killing many, many soldiers in just one shot.

So. Fun.

[IronTomato]

PTW

I dunno if laser weaponry is as big of a leap forward as it is in the vanilla game, but if it is then I'd make sure to research that first. Having weapons that don't take like 20 shots to kill enemies like reapers or cyberdiscs is nice