Higher difficulty - alien blaster bomb abuse?

[kharille]

Playing on superhuman.  Just conquered a floater very large ufo and

NO BLASTER LAUNCHERS!?!?

I realize with only 14 soldiers on my skyranger I'm not quite prepared to take them on yet, but I thought they had multiple blaster launchers on xcom util when I got this far.  Must be June.  They didn't spam blaster bombs mind you, but they ought to.

Or maybe we might create an even imaginative computer AI, call it 'alien genius' level maybe...  Ones where they chuck grenades and fire off blaster bombs first and figure out what they hit later...

[Phezzan]

I forget the timing, but there's an element of randomness to it.

Play another month or two.   I know they'll show up - and By The Way, they tend to fire as soon as there's an unobstructed path from the command room to your soldiers and you've passed the 2nd or 3rd turn (I don't remember).

[kharille]

Always nasty when it happens.  But they tend to bring too much ammunition.

Finally got them on a very large ufo.  Floaters were carrying them.  I remember when I first played xcom on beginner level I never ran into them.