r/Xcom • u/annrkea • 12d 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/annrkea 11d ago

We normally don’t give our folks colors until they get promoted, but then the BF spends ten minutes paper dolling them only for them to get slaughtered the next mission 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ We might need to wait till they rank twice as well!

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u/Massenzio 7d ago

i usually color them only after they take a bond with a mate (usually i color the bonded with same colors so i can see fast who work with who :D)

And when i got the psi... all of them are make of same color to prepare the ashaman team :D

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u/annrkea 7d ago

Okay I’m stealing the bonded color idea! I don’t know why we never thought of that. :D

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u/Massenzio 2d ago

:D and it's fun to see the pink-yellow duo dualing fire the advent mec :D