User:MB

Likes to use Large Rockets. Has been known to allow Terror Ships to land, just so he can go after them with a squad of his strongest soldiers, armed exclusively with Rocket Launchers.

Also known as 80.5.160.25 The ufopaedia doesn't always agree with me about whether I am logged in.

Playing style

Level: Veteran/Genius

Questionable things I don't do:

• Reloading when things go bad (The aliens don't do it after all (except when the game crashes, I suppose))

• Accessing alien inventory (It's a bug!)

• Walking through walls (ditto)

• Using Medi-Kit as alien detector

• Throwing grenades through the ceiling

• Throwing stuff through diagonal walls

Questionable things I will do:

• Firing a rocket into a destructible ceiling in order to get an alien in floor above. (This is a slight cheat because the explosion occurs on the level the alien is at.)

• Nuking the crap out of a battleship with blaster bombs. (Turn 1 goes like this: Soldier 1 fires launcher into top of UFO, drops it, steps back. Soldier 2 steps onto launcher, picks it up, reloads it, drops it, steps back. Soldier 3 steps onto launcher, picks it up, fires it through the hole the first guy just made and into the bridge.)

• Mind-controlling all 4 bits of a terror unit and using it as a scout with massive TUs

• Stunning aliens, reviving them with medikits, and using them for training purposes.

(Urgh, looks like I found a bug. How do I make that box go away?)

Delete the space in front of the text. It's a shortcut to turning 1 line into pre-formatted text without using the <pre> tags. If you prefer to put your list into bullet points, put a * at the start of each line. Feel free to erase my comment once you make your edit. -NKF

Thanks, that worked.  But the bug I was referring to is the thing that happens if text inside a box is too long; the text extends off the edge of the screen and out of the box.  Maybe I should get a bigger monitor or something, or perhaps I should be less of awindbag.  MB 11:55, 19 October 2006 (PDT)

Alien Entertainment

Has anyone noticed that terror units and alien entertainment are always found in the same places? That's not a coincidence. Terror units have nothing much to do in flight - it's not like they can operate the UFO equipment - and so they need to be kept busy somehow. Otherwise they get... cranky. And you don't want to be sharing a long flight with a bunch of cranky chrysalids.

Armour

Why is alien armour not listed in the articles on aliens? It would be useful to know, e.g. the uselessness of rifle vs cyberdisks.