Personal armor, heavy laser

Michael, we've already developed personal armor. Do you have another choice?

Stick with Heavy Plasma for now then Heavy Laser so we can get Laser Tanks then on to Alien Grenades. Hopefully enough of those should be recovered from missions so we won't have to build them. We have to seriously make a plan for live capture or we are going to be vulnerable to mind control in the future. We also simultaneously need to head towards an Avenger so we can have double tank action otherwise Chrysalids(sp?) are going to destroy us. I vote for more scientists in the next buying round. Good job so far Rob. I doubt I could do so well at this difficulty level.

Heavy Laser and for the second option I'll vote for Sectoid Navigator again.

Motion Scanners are useless in combat, the only thing I've used them for is mass production and selling to make some extra money, but then again I've read else where that other people use Laser Cannons for that.

I'll leave kit selection to you.  I haven't played with XcomUtil or UFO Extender yet so I don't know how to make best use of it.

Well I'm off to find my desk for the next three weeks. (I can't do math can I)

Would anyone mind if my ghost haunts the Skyranger? Instead of the sound of rattling chains, it's the sound of auto-cannon fire. :)

Not at all, Edgar! Perhaps you can snap us out of a mind-control stupor, should the worst happen....

Kenn, no one's interested in the small launcher, so looks like I'll have to equip a few soldiers with stun rods. We'll see how that turns out next week!

So I guess I'm basically Longshot from X-Men.

Heavy plasma. Stay the course.

Wouldn't Elerium make Heavy Plasma easier to research? That would be my guess.

In any case, stick to H. Plasma and I'll second the motion for Sectoid Navigator again.

Heavy laser, Floater Corpse

Alejandro, I wish tech trees in games worked like that -- it makes sense intuitively and would also make research planning more strategic.

I'll say stick with Heavy Plasma and Heavy Lasers. Lets see some laser tank action.

If need be my half brother from south of the border, Nathaniel "totally not made up" Juárez  would be more then willing to fill out the rookie ranks. 

Nooo!!! Lilly, Tommy, I shall avenge thee...or something Shakespearian.  I'd love to join in and die horribly for the cause.

A small update: Memorial Day weekend is upon us, which means that I won't have another episode ready on Monday. Instead, I'll update sometime later in the week. This means that you all have extra time to vote on research options or discuss strategy.