Saving

Save your game during battlescape

Anybody feel TFTD can be a little on the tough side? even on the lower difficulty levels? I can tell you i've lost far too many, important (and not to mention expensive) men due to simple mistakes or unavoidable situations.

This is when I employed a tactic that undoubtly shifted the fights in my favour. After each alien turn has ended and im presented with my squad with fully charged TU's I simply save the game under one save slot (call it something like battlescape1) then execute my moves and save the game again once all TU's are spent, this time in a different slot (battlescape2).

Now this allows me to load up the games at these critical points and try different tactics if previous attempts result in nasty outcomes!

This seriously takes the 'fun' element out of the game but I just cant stand losing my favourite sniper right at the end of a mission!