The Council (EU2012)

The Council consists of a group of 16 countries that fund and support the XCOM Project. The Council, represented by its shadowy spokesman, will make regular contact with the Commander (the player) via the Situation Room.

Council Nations

Africa	Asia	Europe	North America	South America
Egypt South Africa Nigeria	China Japan India Australia	United Kingdom Russia France Germany	United States Canada Mexico	Argentina Brazil

The Council has 4 primary reasons to contact XCOM:

• Deliver the monthly report that evaluates and rewards the XCOM Project's activities.
• Propose a new Council Mission in exchange for a generous reward (Credits, Engineers, Scientists, or a new, highly ranked Soldier).
• Present a special request from a member nation asking that XCOM supply them with certain items, either weapons, technology or alien bodies in exchange for credits and/or scientists/engineers. This request will remain available for fulfillment for 20 days.
• To terminate the XCOM project if 8 or more countries decide to leave the Council.

Council Report

XCOM Project Monthly Report

Each month the Council issues a report that details the XCOM Project's successes, failures and the global panic levels. Each council member nation has a panic level which increases if alien activity occurs in that country or parent continent that the player ignored or failed to contain. Once the panic level reaches a critical level, Council members will pull out from the XCOM Project permanently, which will affect the monthly funding. If eight members pull out of the Project, the game effectively ends in a defeat. Launching a Satellite will lower the panic level of a member country by two. Once a continent has full satellite coverage, no abduction missions will spawn for that continent anymore. Current panic levels and satellite coverage can be monitored from the Situation Room.

Council Rewards

Coinciding with the monthly Council report and letter grade, the Council distributes rewards of cash funding and additional Scientists and Engineers. XCOM earns these monthly rewards based primarily on the satellite coverage over individual members; these rewards are detailed in the chart below.

Country and Continent Bonuses per Month (Easy/Normal)

Satellites	Africa	Asia	Europe	North America	South America
1	+1 engineer	+2 engineers	+2 scientists	+1 scientist +1 engineer	+1 scientist
2	+1 scientist +2 engineers	+3 engineers	+3 scientists	+2 scientists +2 engineers	+2 scientists +2 engineers
3	+2 scientists +3 engineers	+6 engineers	+6 scientists	+4 scientists +4 engineers
4		+8 engineers	+8 scientists

Country and Continent Bonuses per Month (Classic/Impossible)

Satellites	Africa	Asia	Europe	North America	South America
1	+1 engineer	+1 engineer	+1 scientist	+1 scientist	+1 scientist
2	+1 scientist +1 engineer	+2 engineers	+2 scientists	+1 scientist +1 engineer	+1 scientist +1 engineer
3	+1 scientist +2 engineers	+3 engineers	+3 scientists	+2 scientists +1 engineer
4		+4 engineers	+4 scientists

Council Missions

Each month the Council may propose to XCOM additional missions, offering in exchange a mission reward. The rewards can be in the form of trained Soldiers, Scientists, Engineers, credits (§), panic reduction, or even Elerium. There are 18 specific Council missions, and each has a predetermined reward. The Enemy Within DLC adds an additional mission, Site Recon, to the pool of Council missions.

Council missions may be ignored without any effect on your monthly score but it will still affect panic. However, if you accept any mission, its results will affect the Council's score.

The majority of failed/ignored Council missions will raise panic by 1 or 2 points. The panic raise will only happen in the targeted country, on the Easy, Normal and Classic difficulties. On Impossible level mission failure will also raise panic on neighbouring countries. There are several missions that can be ignored without any panic increase: here are 6 Council missions that don't raise any panic: the Industrial, Pier and Truckstop Assault missions, and the Pier Extraction (Sgt. Carlock), Boulevard Rescue (Anna Sing) and the Commercial Extraction (William Thorne) missions.

Council missions may also be replaced by either the Slingshot campaign and/or, in the Enemy Within DLC, by the Progeny missions. After those campaigns are completed, regular Council missions will be generated afterwards. On the Enemy Within DLC, the Site Recon mission is always the first Council mission that happens after the 1st Terror Site.

Mission Rewards

Mission	Random Cash	Scientists	Engineers	Soldiers	Elerium	Panic Reduction	Panic Increase1
Helicopter Assault2	100-225					-1	1
Pier Assault	100-225	10
Truck Stop Assault	100-225				40
Industrial Assault	100-225					-2
Cemetery Assault	100-225					-4	1
Research Assault	100-225	10					1
Train Station Bomb	225-506					-3	2
Slaughterhouse Bomb	225-506					-3	2
Trainyard Bomb	225-506					-3	2
Bridge Bomb	225-506					-3	2
Commercial Extraction				Yes		-2
Pier Extraction	225-506		10
Museum Rescue	225-506		5			-2	2
Highway Rescue	225-506			Yes		-2	1
Boulevard Rescue	225-506	10				-2
Research Rescue	225-506	5				-3	1
Cemetery Bomb	225-506	8				-3	2
Site Recon						?	?
1 If mission is ignored or a failure. 2 Mission can only occur after assaulting the Alien Base.

Council Requests

From time to time an individual Council country may request assistance through the sale of Weapons, Alien Artifacts or even satellites. In exchange for supplying the country with the desired item, XCOM will receive in return Credits and/or Scientists/Engineers. The credits offered in exchange are usually 30-50% higher than the values required for building the item or selling it on the Grey Market. This may motivate Commanders to keep a few extra units of items in store or to change their current manufacturing depending on the value of the offered reward. Requests have a deadline of 20 days to be fulfilled or they will be removed at the end of that period.

A notable particularity is the request for a Satellite Transfer. A country which asks for a satellite can ask you to transfer or to actually launch one to monitor its territory against UFO incursions. But if launched, XCOM retains control of the satellite as well, which means all of the monthly funding, extra scientists and/or engineers, as well as potentially triggering the continent bonus if you have enough coverage. With the request completion reward as well, this makes waiting till towards the end of the month to launch satellites a great idea. Though keep in mind: requests last 20 days, and without Rapid Construction, satellites also take 20 to build. If you try to build one after getting the request, it will expire before the satellite is completed.

Requests Frequency

On EU the game will check for a Request every 20 days + 7 random days. Each request has a tech requirement and if it isn't met, no Request will be generated.

On the Enemy Within DLC, the frequency has been reworked. In the game's scheduling for a month, there are two dates for "Council Events" in place. When one comes around, there is a chance to receive a mission, a request, or nothing at all. If a mission is gotten for the first event, a second mission will not be given for the second, with the exception of Slingshot and Progeny missions.

Items Requested

Artifact Sales Weapon Fragments Navigation Computers UFO Power Sources Alien Alloys Sectoid Corpses Floater Wrecks Cyberdisc Wrecks Thin Man Corpses Muton Corpses Chryssalid Corpses Heavy Floater Wrecks Sectopod Wrecks Sectoid Corpses Floater Wrecks Cyberdisc Wrecks Thin Man Corpses Mechtoid Cores Seeker Wrecks

Technology Sales S.C.O.P.E. Nano-Fiber Vests Arc Throwers Combat Stims Satellite Satellite Transfer Satellite Jet Transfer Interceptor

Arms Sales Laser Pistols Laser Rifles Heavy Lasers Scatter Lasers Plasma Pistols Light Plasma Rifles Plasma Rifles Heavy Plasma Guns Alloy Cannons Ghost Grenades Gas Grenades Reaper Rounds Mimic Beacons Flashbang Grenades EXALT Assault Rifles EXALT Sniper Rifles EXALT LMGs EXALT Rocket Launchers EXALT Laser Rifles EXALT Laser Sniper Rifles EXALT Heavy Lasers

See Also

• XCOM Headquarters
• Grey Market
• Situation Room