Alien Craft (Apocalypse)

The alien craft in X-Com Apocalypse are airbourne biological constructs grown in a hostile otherworld. Ugly Fungus Organisms.

UFO: Unidentified Flying Object

The alien menace has ten UFO craft in which to invade Mega-Primus, each equipped with a strange beam or missile weapon.
UFOs should be all shot down (disabled) or destroyed if possible to slow the incessant invasion of the city. Crashed UFOs must be recovered to learn more about these strange flying ships, the aliens they contain, and the exotic technology within.

UFO Disabled & Recovery

If a UFO is critically damaged, the craft will be disabled (the image of the UFO changes to a distorted and cracked appearance) and will fall out of the sky and impact the ground in a clear area and start smoking.

• Any crash landed UFO can be recovered by any airbourne X-Com vehicle which has an agent onboard via either button: "Attack Hostile Unit" or "Go To Map Point". If no agents are present, the X-Com vehicle will land on the UFO's roof then immediately take off and return to base. The craft will remain on the ground.
• Any manned UFOs (medium and large types) will start a crash-recovery battlescape mission as soon as the X-Com vehicle, manned with a large extermination force of heavily armed X-Com agents, touches the UFO's roof.
• Road vehicles cannot reach a downed UFO, even if it crash landed on the road.
• Other organisations and their vehicles, eg: Rescue Transport, do not interact with any crashed UFO in any fashion.
• Any damaged or destroyed UFO components will be recovered after successful UFO recovery. Only one weapon or device of each type.
• The aliens must first use the device (eg: shields used in the cityscape) before one can be recovered by X-Com. Device appearance and use depends only on "UFOs Shot Down" score whereas equipment used by the aliens (Anthropod or Skeletoid) depends on "Total Tactical Battlescape Missions" score.
  
• Any crash-landed UFO ignored by X-Com will eventually disappear from the cityscape with no other effect.

eg: aliens do not travel to the nearest building to seek refuge infiltrate.

• Any alien on the crash-recovery battlescape which managed to escape via blue-exit-tiles is declared dead, irrelevant of misison outcome. They do not survive and de-brief score is not adjusted.
• If X-Com attempts to recover the alien craft and fails (escape, abort, or all agents dead), the remaining aliens will immediately destroy all traces of the craft and themselves.
  

When knowledge of reverse-engineering is understood, advanced craft of X-Com's own design can be built and when ready, able to match any UFO in aerial combat.

Overhead UFO Battlescapes

Each page dedicated to each UFO has an overhead view of the entrances which shows the doors as bright white small rectangles. Any door is always two-wide (shown as two rectangles side-by-side) but some doors vary in height (not shown). Every door entrance is accessible by ground-based agents and aliens.

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Chart

UFO	Armor1	Constitution2	Top Speed	Acceleration	Weapons	Equipment3	Primary Role	Score
Probe	2/2/2/2/2/2	80/15	14	8	Light Disruptor Beam	-	Escort	50
Scout Ship	5/2/5/5/5/5	120/35	12	2	Light Disruptor Beam	Small Disruption Shield	Infiltration	100
Transporter	6/4/6/6/6/8	400/150	8	2	Light Disruptor Beam	Small Disruption Shield	Infiltration	150
Fast-Attack Ship	10/5/10/10/10/12	500/150	20	5	Medium Disruptor Beam	Small Disruption Shield	Escort	200
Destroyer	14/16/14/14/14/12	600/200	12	3	Disruptor Bomb Launcher	Small Disruption Shield Teleporter	Search+BaseAttack	250
Assault Ship	8/12/8/8/8/4	850/200	8	2	Medium Disruptor Beam	Small Disruption Shield Cloaking Field • Teleporter	Infiltration	300
Bomber	15/15/15/15/15/8	700/100	14	3	Disruptor Multi-Bomb Launcher Light Disruptor Beam	Large Disruption Shield Cloaking Field • Teleporter	Bombing	300
Escort Ship	20/20/20/20/20/20	500/80	16	4	Stasis Bomb Launcher	Large Disruption Shield Cloaking Field • Teleporter	Escort	250
Battleship	17/17/17/17/17/17	1800/300	12	1	Heavy Disruptor Beam Disruptor Bomb Launcher	Large Disruption Shield Teleporter	Bombing	500
Mothership	15/10/15/15/15/15	2800/350	8	1	Heavy Disruptor Beam Disruptor Multi-Bomb Launcher Stasis Bomb Launcher	Large Disruption Shield Teleporter	Overspawn Terror	700
Overspawn	17/17/17/17/17/17	1800/0	4	1	Claws	-	City Destruction	400

¹ Armor values are read as: Top (above), Front, Left, Right, Rear and Bottom (below or under). The "Armor" value reported in the in-game UFOpedia entry is the sum of these values.
² Total Constitution / Disabled Constitution.
³ Appearance of equipment depends on X-Com's "UFOs Shot Down" score.
An Overspawn is listed within the chart since it is classed as a vehicle.

Important: One particular UFO must be shot down and successfully recovered for the game to proceed to completion.

Alien Craft Components

Any successful UFO crash recovery mission will enable X-Com to research their craft technologies. One device of each is recovered automatically from the first successful (medium or large) crash recovery. These are only needed once to enable further research. UFO components are not used for anything else and cannot be sold:

• Alien Control System
• Alien Energy Source
• Alien Propulsion System

Crash Recovery Battlescape Mismatch

• Alien craft devices (weapons: beam and missile, devices: shields, cloak and teleporter) appearing on any battlescape do not match up with what the UFO uses in cityscape combat.
  

eg: A Destroyer does not have any shield modules anywhere on the battlescape tactical map but will use them when flying about the cityscape.

• A UFO must first use the device before X-Com may recover it. Appearance of more advanced devices is dependant on X-Com's "UFOs Shot Down" score.
  

Chart

• ♥ Present on the craft when cityscape fighting, and one will be recovered (irrelevant of damage) if crash recovery is successful.
• ∇ Present on battlescape only and not used in cityscape fighting.

Craft	Small Shield	Large Shield	Cloak	Teleporter	Dimension Shifter ♠
Transporter	6♥	-	-	-	-
Fast Attack	4♥	-	-	-	-
Destroyer	♥	-	-	4♥	-
Assault	♥	-	8♥	2♥	-
Bomber	-	4♥	6♥	♥	-
Escort	-	4♥	6♥	♥	-
Battleship	-	12♥	-	4♥	8∇
Mothership	-	8♥	16∇	♥	6∇

♠ This device has been cut from the final version and is not recoverable or researchable.

See Also

• Score And Technology Progress
  
• UFO Appearance And Incursions
• Vehicle Equipment
• Vehicle Weapons
• Research
• Dimension Shifter: Cut And Removed Items

X-COM: Apocalypse: Vehicles
Airborne	Hoverbike Phoenix Hovercar Valkyrie Interceptor Hawk Air Warrior Police Hovercar Air Taxi Rescue Transport Construction Vehicle Airtrans Space Liner
Ground	Blazer Turbo Bike Stormdog Wolfhound APC Griffon AFV Civilian Car Police Car Autotaxi Autotrans
X-Com	Dimension Probe Bio-Trans Explorer Retaliator Annihilator
Alien	UFO Type 1 - Probe UFO Type 2 - Scout Ship UFO Type 3 - Transporter UFO Type 4 - Fast Attack Ship UFO Type 5 - Destroyer UFO Type 6 - Assault Ship UFO Type 7 - Bomber UFO Type 8 - Escort Ship UFO Type 9 - Battleship UFO Type 10 - Mothership • Overspawn