Uhh that was a harsh experience, loosing nearly your complete team on that kinda easy mission, Abductor with Snakeman. Jeah its Snakeman Time!!
I will try to finish the last turned versions of the Alien Base AMps and then release a new Version before Christmas, mainly bugfixes and the early game research changes i mentioned before.
Maybe using the drones would help to have expendable units?
Erm, it was sectoids? Did you watch the right video mate :-) They cracked out their magic brain powers, which I haven't really experienced much yet (Thankfully!). Anyway I'm considering using a drone again, but the price point is quite high. 250k for it, or 75k for a recruit that can do about the same job and seems to survive around the same amount of time.
Either way, I agree losing most of the team wasn't really ideal :|