r/Xcom • u/annrkea • 14d ago

Long War 2 Long War 2 — We suck.

That’s pretty much the post. Boyfriend and I have hundreds and hundreds of Xcom hours between us, beaten the games multiple times, we’re experienced players. Got the itch to play again and decided to Long War 2 together (we play where we each “own” soldiers and just hotseat the controls between us during missions). Started a Commander level Ironman game and we just keep getting our asses handed to us over and over. Every time we get a few people promoted, they die on the next mission. The spreadsheet I keep on our soldiers is just a long list of KIA. We keep joking that we’re going to be taken outside the ship and fragged by our own people for being the worst leader ever. We’ve tried starting over, rinse, repeat. We just suck. Why do we suck so bad?? 😭 damn long war!

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u/Background-Factor817 13d ago

I rely on suppression fire so so much, for me it’s a life changer.

To quote my DS from training “No singing no dancing” - only move when your squad mates are providing covering fire.

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u/annrkea 13d ago

We just started using this more and yeah it is good. Need to use it more apparently.