>>2749240The Ethereal terror attack hit New York City on June 24. Of course it _had_ to be at night. This required some careful preparation, namely in leveling everything with massive Blaster Bomb attacks. I am not kidding. You would not believe just how much devastation I caused. The entire bottom half of the map by the end of the mission was a massive smoking crater. There was nothing left. I mean, I completely wiped a gas station out of existence except for two pumps in the lower left corner. The roof, the buildings, everything totally gone.
Mostly because I don't have a reliable way of taking out Sectopods short of direct BB hits. Also one of my sergeants in a flying suit got mind controlled, wandered off into a building, and got killed by a Sectopod. That was facepalm.
I actually don't find Sectopods that annoying because their weapon is less powerful than heavy plasma so your soldiers are fairly safe if they have power armor. The main problem is the difficulty of trying to take them out. Ethereals though...oh hell no. When they're not mind-jacking your dudes, they have insanely good reactions and firing accuracy. Even though I had my guys put down their weapons at the end of turns (unless they're ones I know have good psy strength) it still sucks because at least half your squad is totally useless.
None of the civilians survived and most were actually killed by my Blaster Bomb attacks rather than the aliens. Oh well, I still got a better score than I would if I'd just gone to the terror site and dusted off.
