Always name your cannon fodder in tactics games. A friend of mine did terribly in XCOM (the original) until he started naming his own soldiers instead of letting the game do it. Afterwards, his soldiers began to survive. Where previously, Pfcs. Johansen and Cooper had fallen under the invading alien gunfire, Colonel Bugbait and Major Deadmeat rose through the ranks until they commanded a number of squads (crewed with soldiers of appropriate names) and fought back the alien invasion.
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Ebony the Black Dragon
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"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."