I think this is the pinnacle of turn base strategy games. Everything after this felt lackluster in some way or another.
This game is unique in almost every single way. It allows you to equip your soldiers in any way you want, take up to 40 soldiers to missions (or only 1), you can destroy all the buildings you find, set grenades to detonate far in the future.
This is balanced for the early-mid game. If you take too many soldiers you will spend a lot of money equipping them, the more you have the easier is for one to lose moral, drop everything (even primed grenades) and flee, maybe killing other, more important, soldiers.
Late game is a different story, both you and the aliens are overpowered. They can mind control your soldiers if they have a low psy ability. You can fire missiles that moves in a pattern defined by you, if those hit an enemy you will kill it and probably every enemy around it.
Overall, the best strategy experience I had in any game.
This game is unique in almost every single way. It allows you to equip your soldiers in any way you want, take up to 40 soldiers to missions (or only 1), you can destroy all the buildings you find, set grenades to detonate far in the future.
This is balanced for the early-mid game. If you take too many soldiers you will spend a lot of money equipping them, the more you have the easier is for one to lose moral, drop everything (even primed grenades) and flee, maybe killing other, more important, soldiers.
Late game is a different story, both you and the aliens are overpowered. They can mind control your soldiers if they have a low psy ability. You can fire missiles that moves in a pattern defined by you, if those hit an enemy you will kill it and probably every enemy around it.
Overall, the best strategy experience I had in any game.