Scanning with the avenger is equivalent to gathering intel with 4 more personnel. That is why you switch to intel gathering immediately and scan at your home region. Infiltration takes time, and the more time you have the more soldiers you can bring. Missions will not be automatically revealed you must find them, and then infiltrate. But there is now a new function of the GTS, and that is to train Officers, and you should start doing this also. Once the GTS has been built you should immediately start training Rookies into Squaddies, just as you would in Vanilla XCOM 2 or WOTC. Eventually you will want to assign some personnel to Supplies, usually when Advent strength gets too high to run normal missions in this region. You can move some haven personnel to the Recruit job, a good idea when all your soldiers are out on missions. Only after you have found 2 missions to send your troops out on, should you scan to find the Blackmarket.

This will improve your chances of finding missions to run, and also the amount of time you have to infiltrate those missions. Do not do that yet, instead, go to your home region and scan there. That takes you to the main map, where you will see the option to scan for the Blackmarket. When you are done with all that you can go to the Bridge with the cool holo globe. Switch all the Personnel to Intel gathering and assign a Haven Advisor (I find a Ranger or Assault work best early). This will open a screen that lists the Haven advisor and all the Resistance Personnel. Go to the CommanderвЂ™s Quarters (upper right corner of the ship), select вЂњResistance ManagementвЂќ then click on the single haven listed. Start building the Guerilla Tactics School in the one vacant room. It will prompt you to promote all your surviving soldiers. It will prompt you to select a Technology choose Modular Weapons. After the battle you will be introduced to the Avenger, your ship and also your base. If lose more than one soldier, you may want to turn down the difficulty. In Vanilla that would have been a 6 to 8 total enemies.The game opens with a battle, and this is a good test of your abilities. Then squads of 4 reinforcements started showing up every other turn starting 2 turns after I fired my first shot. 9 enemies on the map, had to destroy a com tower. It was far easier than this.Д®DIT: on my second campaign, my first mission was 200% infiltration again Rookie difficulty and 'Extremely light' alien activity. My actually harder missions (second and third) wiped out all but two of my starting troops before I could evac because despite being 100% and 120% infiltrated both missions left me again in similar impossible scenarios. And again, this was Rookie difficulty (the easiest) and a Very Easy mission (I assumed the lowest difficulty mission) and almost fully infiltrated. it was only 3 days into the first month, it's not like I really had much to work with. I'm not sure if that last ~15% infiltration would have reduced their numbers down to a fightable number even if I'd sent some of my squaddies instead. Plus, the timer was too short to waste many turns. No way to fight, there were too many enemies, I mean 7 to 1 odds is considered 'extremely light' enemy?Д¬ouldn't stealth the objective with 10 guys standing on it.Д¬ouldn't lure them away (tried multiple times) as they were too spread out especially with the patrols on opposite sides of me, and the map was too small. The other 4 were patrolling in two pods of 2. There were 14 enemies on the map, 10 of them standing on top of the mission target: a console I had to activate before the timer ran out.

I had sent two rookies and was 85-ish% infiltrated when time ran out and I had to launch or abort. Rookie difficulty campaign, mission was flagged as 'Extremely Light' enemy activity and offered 30 intel as the only reward. Here's a screenshot: it was my first mission post gatecrashers and literally impossible. I find it hugely more difficult than vanilla. No way I'm doing Rookie to get those reinforcement flares, I want to play it the way it's meant to be played Lorkenpeist wrote:Thanks for the replies! Looks like I'll have to swallow my pride and bump the difficulty down to Veteran.

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