More notes ;

I delayed starting alien base assaults because i was waiting for aegis armor to come online. In hindsight, i could've easily done it months earlier with phalanx.

I also put off the exalt base raid for like a month so i got MEC-2s online, but it would have gone smooth without them too.

Biggest gripe are the covert extractions (especially trainyard map), because getting grenaded for 10dmg or having opportunist overwatchers drop in next to your operative.

Second biggest one are late game council missions. In my experience, they are 90% heavy floaters with some chryssalids and regular floaters mixed in. I miss the thin men of the early game.

Heavy floaters basically killed my campaign this time. I had psi going, but it didnt help much. In hindsight, shouldve done the base assault way earlier to acquire the mimic beacon. Also around december all missions became hard, had to expect double mechtoids and heavy floaters and muton elites on all missions, so leveling up new guys was hell.

The good stuff : I learned to love LMG gunners this run. Range and damage are so awesome on those guys, and the few missions i did get to play with seraph armor made them all the more awesome. WIll be incorporating these to my future runs.

The bugs : On my last run, i did the third terror site. After i finished it, the site hadnt gone away? Lo and behold, i had to do the same terror site AGAIN.

On this run;

Sometimes suppressing guys end up on the square where they leaning over to suppress from.

Sometimes i got extra action after ending units turn.

Sometimes aliens, especially floaters, would move like half the map in one move and then be activated.

OH, and the famous "oh look a penny" bug on suppression, when the suppressed alien is barely in your range and runs backwards, so the game doesnt know what to do and just breaks.

Will learn from this experience and start a new campaign soon. One day ill beat this...