CommanderOzzy

My tip: Get Capacitor Discharge (Combat Hacker Colonel) ASAP. It can almost one shot a Heavy MEC later, and, in my last mission, mid-august, I used it to one shot a Super-heavy turret, a Heavy MEC, and finish off an Archon and Gatekeeper. WAYYYY more useful than Restoration, which by the time you get it, only 1 or 2 of your soldiers are getting hurt, more than the health it gives you. "They can't hurt you if they're dead".

Armour Piercing rounds are also incredibly useful. Put them on a Sniper with Kill Zone and a Plasma Lance and you can kill multiple armoured enemies. Using them with Deadeye on a Sectopod and you can almost halve it's health. Have a Gunslinger with Bluescreen rounds too and you can kill a Sectopod with just the two of them. Possibly even just the Gunslinger, if they have Fan Fire, Lightning Hands and Quickdraw. 5 shots, with a Beam Pistol, does (If the Sectopod's Armour is shredded) 45 - 50 damage in total.

@gaspower+ @cybexx: Pressing Z will zoom out, as long as you hold it.

@undeadpool: I know the feeling, my previous tactic of "They can't kill you if they're dead" + Arc Blade was my favourite option until I met the Muton. Major Ranger (and my only one) killed and on ironman. I spent hours scoring to check the Muton was the only one that could do this. *cough* Berserker *cough*