Alien Transporter (Apocalypse)

The primary mission of this craft is to deposit Alien life forms inside city buildings. This represents a serious challenge for our ground forces, but if they can be shot down before they unload their passengers, then the problem will be minimized. The craft is armed with the same beam weapon as the Scout Ships or Probes, but it is slower moving and an easier target to hit.  From: Apocalypse Ufopaedia

Alien Transporter

Size: medium Top Speed: 8 Acceleration: 2 Weapon Slots: 1 Weapons: Light Disruptor Beam Constitution (Disabled): 400 (150) Armour¹: 6/4/6/6/6/8 Modules: Small Disruption Shield Chassis Weight: 5000 First Appearance: Week 2 Score: 150

¹ Armour values are for: Top/Front/Left/Right/Rear/Bottom

The Alien Transporter (UFO Type 3) is the first of the larger style of UFOs the aliens have developed. This craft is only used to infiltrate lifeforms into Mega-Primus. It is not used for any other mission style. If downed, X-Com can recover this UFO and its technology via a ground-assult battlescape mission.

Cityscape Combat
A Transporter is a comparable to an Alien Scout Ship with its weapon and device loadout, however this craft has much stronger damage tolerance but only slightly better armour. This UFO is slow and vunerable when many X-Com vehicles are swarming in aerial battle. A small shield for more protection will be used in the future. Transporters are often escorted by more combat capable UFOs for protection and distraction.

Crash Recovery
Once disabled, crash landed and smoking (message: UFO has crash landed), this and all other UFOs in the medium or large category can be recovered by 'landing' (using "Go To Map Point") an X-Com vehicle packed with flying, heavily armed agents. Do not go under-equipped with either armaments or troops. Once the X-Com vehicle is 'on the UFO's roof' a battlescape crash-recovery will immediately start. The Transporter's complement of alien lifeforms and any craft devices are not injured/killed or damaged from the ground impact.

Door Locations: North & South

The crash-recovery battlescape shows the purple UFO has slid into sparsely wooded grasslands and has scoured a trench with debris on fire.
Access into the UFO is via two doors level with the grass. One door is located on the (overhead view) north side, the other, south side.

Battlescape Combat
Special Note: WILL BE CHANGED after all UFOs are done. Detailed walkthrough. Impact damage is not considered for any UFO. Alien lifeforms and quantity will be identical for each style of UFO. General combat tactics mentioned here can be used for all crash-recovery battlescapes. An agent standing on any part of an unconscious alien will prevent that alien from becoming active. Fires will spread but can be extinguished with any gas-effect grenade or the burning item can be destroyed with guns or explosives. UFO devices found on the battlescape will be recovered (there are errors) irrelevant of its damage or destruction. A UFO must first use shield devices before shields will be recovered from a successful crash recovery. It helps to know what aliens you will find, their weapons and weaknesses.

The crash recovery battlescape is eight levels high.
The two doors governs splitting your agents into two squads to cover each side of the UFO. If aliens are outside, use 'walk' and 'cautious' to engage any immediate threat (RMB on a hostile to highlight them as a priority) ...Brainsuckers! Attack fast to limit their chance to retaliate - the quicker they are dead the less they are able shoot back - and it reduces their morale from friendly deaths. A proximity mine (1.5 seconds, 6metres) at each door will deal with re-inforcments. Explosives may leave craters and if they detonate next to the entrances, the aliens may be unable to swarm out easily, if at all. Any stuck in the crater and cannot find a way out can be ignored. Deal with them later with stun or with agents needing combat experience. Check the bunker in the south for aliens. The sewer pipe in the northwest is never used by aliens and can be ignored. If the battle has slowed (beware of the fire spreading west from the trench-fire in the south), a proximity mine can be destroyed with other explosives so that entry into the hull is possible.
The central grav-lift is the only way up into higher levels. Beware of any threat inside the hole at its base. The corridor at the top has an elevated section on both sides with brown 'fencing'. A flying agent can find a way through (the corners where the fences meet) to scout out aliens waiting in ambush. The small ramps either side allow aliens to get close. Agents (ground based) within the corridor can only move south to the window, or north. The corridor northwards will end which will expose agents to crossfire from aliens either side of this open area. Kill or stun any remaining threats (any in craters?). Chrysalises are harmless, eggs not so much.

Research
A succesfully recovered and researched Transporter enables X-Com to design advanced combat vehicles. Weapons, devices, and UFO sub-systems are further avenues from any recovered craft.

The game cannot be completed if this UFO is never successfully recovered for research.

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