


Devoted fans should love this game, but we're also keen to introduce the joys of old-school grand strategy to a whole new generation of players who might not otherwise experience it! Key Features We aim to improve the graphics, add new content and streamline the interface whilst still retaining all of the key mechanics of the original games. Xenonauts is a spiritual successor to the classic X-Com strategy games from the 1990s. A detailed strategic layer allows you to co-ordinate the defence of the planet, using your interceptors to shoot down UFOs and researching captured artefacts to learn about your foes and unlock new combat equipment to use on your missions. Other than the Command Center, you won't lose any structures by using them.ĭuring a defense mission only 16 xenonauts can be brought to defend during the mission.Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat. While the game recommends you avoid causing collateral damage, there is currently no penalty to using explosive weapons in your base. Aliens tend to appear at the extremities of the base however.Įven if a bases air defences did not shoot down the attacking UFO, every successful hit will reduce the number of alien attackers assaulting the base. The Aliens enter the base via Alien Breaching Pods which are forced into the base at random locations and deposit the Alien forces into the base. Commanders should take care to the use of explosives as heavily damaging rooms will destroy them, forcing commanders to rebuild or repair them at a later date. To win the Xenonauts must kill all attacking Alien forces within the base. If the Aliens kill all defending personnel or destroy the Command Center then the Base is destroyed.

The player is charged with defending the base from the Alien attackers at all costs. These missions are generated when a region of the world is doing very well in shooting down UFOs.

Defend the Command Center from destruction.Ī Base Defence mission is triggered when an Alien Base Attack mission is able to locate a Xenonaut's base.The loss of one of our installations to alien attack could be catastrophic for the Xenonauts. However, remember that you are fighting within a Xenonaut installation - inflicting heavy damage on our structures will knock them out of action until our maintenance crews can repair them It must be protected at all costs, as if destroyed the resulting explosion will annihilate our installation. The alien objective will be our Command Center, as this contains the base reactor. All military personnel in the base are preparing to repel the invaders. All non-military personnel have been evacuated to the emergency bunker beneath the base Command Centre. The alien vessel has survived our anti-air defences and alien troops have been detected entering our maintenance tunnels. Our installation (Base name) is under attack by (Alien Race Name).
