Damaging the UFO will reduce the amount of panic created at the end of its mission.Īn Abductor will fly to the target area and generate an Abduction site. This mission will cause a lot of panic if successful.

Damaging the UFO will reduce this chance further, with 50% or less HP leading to an automatic failure.Ī Fighter, Destroyer or Battleship will fly around the target area bombing civilians. This mission will destroy the satellite if successful. An unimpeded mission grants the aliens resources.Ī Fighter, Raider, Destroyer, or Battleship will fly at high altitude over a satellite-covered country. Successful scouting missions will spawn a satellite hunt mission over the target country.Ī Transport, Harvester, Raider or Scout will land. Expect dozens of high-level aliens, even packed into the tiny Scout, especially if you allowed it to land for maximum artifact retrieval.Ī Scout, Raider, or Battleship will fly around the target area. This mission will grant the aliens research if successful. Here are the specifics for the missions.Ī Scout, Raider, Abductor or Terror Ship will land for a while and then fly off. Note that a UFO that is damaged in flight has a chance to fail it's mission, based mainly on the damage you dealt to it. This content is taken directly from the fine folks at UFOpaedia.

The table shown above tells you what you need to do. The spreadsheet is maintained as a Google Doc here. They are either going to land and you can foil their mission tactically, or they are too large to waste Interceptors that would never shoot them down.

Attack fighters and destroyers that are flying low, or they will bomb and create terror.

Always attack small or medium aircraft that are flying low.

50% health is indicated by little explosion graphics appearing around their ship. Hitting them to 50% health is good enough.

Always attack small or medium aircraft that are flying high.

If possible, bring the indicated weapon type to improve your chances of a successful attack. This table tells you what to do when a UFO is sighted. You had better be ready to assault it! But you can save your precious Interceptors for those UFOs which are not landing, and must be shot down. If a craft intends to land, you can choose to allow it to do so without engaging it. UFOs come buzzing by with a variety of intents.

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