This one was tough from the beginning. The starting base was TINY - a cross-shaped facility with next to no room for expansion - and the map was maybe three times larger than in the previous two Novice level games. Add to that the fact that the Dimension Gates were quite some distance away, and you had a recipe for a long, hard road ahead...

The ground missions came thick and fast, with Hyperworms rather than Brainsuckers being the major threat, killing two and wounding many others. The UFOs took advantage of the Dimension Gate locations, sneaking in and fleeing before any interceptors could get a clear shot - the first intercept mission yielded some successes, and a Type 2 UFO was recovered, but after that, they were far more wary, and a whole lot more slippery.

The focus of alien attention appears to be the north-eastern corner of the map, which included a large number of Marsec factories and warehouses. Not good...

Greatest Victory : Recovering a live Popper the first time they were encountered!

Score At End Of Week : 2294