Base Defence

Base defenses can be DEADLY.

But not for the reason you think.

The game has some totally funky system for deciding what equipment in your base will be available during base defence. So, if you've been accumalating a lot of clips or mission specific special equipment, you might have *problems*.

Ie, make sure to sell unnecessary stuff before base defences.

BTW, only battleships actually assault your base, don't worry too much about other alien craft, they're just scouts.

Much feared by me is also the dreaded "walled off section" bug. Certain sections of your base will often be separated from other by walls, when I don't see why there should be any there. Heavy plasma and blaster launchers needed in this scenario. Possible that heavy explosives might work too, I'm not sure.

Blaster Bombs can save your base in just a few turns, if you launch a few into the hangars and access lift. The problem, IMHO, is getting the program to supply your soldiers with blaster bombs instead of the various weird booty.

Another ANNOYING bug I find is the dissapearing bodies and booty from aliens. This occurs related to the 80 item bug problem.