XCOM: Enemy Unknown aka the one where Haphazard dies repeatedly

[Sareln]

Someone else want to start this off ? It looks like I'm first on the turn order from earlier posts but only got back from work about 10pm and will be tomorrow evening before I could even think about it. Should be Ok Weds onwards though.

Have we discussed whether we want to play through the tutorial? Obviously we've all seen it before, but skipping it makes the first few missions significantly harder. I'm easy either way.

Preference: No Tutorial

Too much railroad IMO.

[dazedroyalty]

Okay, so we're set to start! Sweet! Just have to decide who goes first. Should the first person do two missions since they will essentially get zero strategic choice otherwise?

[haphazard1]

I also vote No Tutorial. Too much railroading. The first couple players would get essentially no choices at all.

If the first player wants to play two missions, that would be fine with me. dazedroyalty is right that they otherwise would not get any strategic choices.

Where do we start? I have already voted for Africa, and we have a couple vague votes as well.

[uberfish]

We should have lurker sign ups! I'm not sure if all of the gaming table knows that this is happening. I don't mind kicking us off tonight and doing the first 2 missions with mostly rooks, if we have a consensus on our starting direction by then. (TBH it doesn't seem like anyone really cares that much about where we start.)

[Brian Shanahan]

I'm lurking in the deeps

[dazedroyalty]

Uberfish, why don't you start and choose the continent. It seems we all are pretty much okay with anything so lets do it!

[haphazard1]

Uberfish, why don't you start and choose the continent. It seems we all are pretty much okay with anything so lets do it!

I agree. Get us started, Uberfish, and good luck!

[Mardoc]

We should have lurker sign ups!

[uberfish]

I'll take Africa then since a couple of people have spoken in favour of it.

And besides the poor continent got ignored for the most part in the old XCOM so let's show it some love.

[dazedroyalty]

I was thinking about the game last night and realized one sad fact: smaller squad size means less deaths. That is to say, I don't think we'll get to have Haphazard die quite as many times as in the previous games. It also means that, if we play well, we won't go through as many names. Therefore, consider this as a call to all Lurkers to post in the thread to make sure you get included. So far names we have for the game (in order of current post count in this thread):

Dazedroyalty
Uberfish
Haphazard
Ug the Barbarian
Sareln
xenin
Tasunke
Mardoc
Brian Shanahan