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X-COM: Terror From The Deep

 1. The benefit of hiring scientists and rapidly creating more living
    quarters outweighs the startup costs.
 2. Be sure to get the engineers to work as fast as you can, and use
    the profit to buy needed equipment.
 3. In dealing with creatures, know your monster, do research on
    specimens that you capture and interrogate medics to learn more about
    them.
 4. Try to cover as much ocean as you can with your bases, meaning
    locate them right in the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans.
 5. Defend the countries that are subsidizing your operation.
 6. The location of your first bases should be in the middle of the
    Atlantic, in the North Pacific, the South Atlantic and then the South
    Pacific.
 7. Create as many Listening Posts as possible to span the globe as
    fast as you can.
 8. To bestow your listening points with Inception capabilities, add a
    Sub Pen, a Barracuda and General Stores.
 9. For Command Bases, keep the best members of your crew at your main
    base.
10. With multiple bases have one base specialize in research and the
    other in technicians.
11. For your base layout, connect as little as possible to the access
    lift and subpens.
12. Get cash for all the unneeded things you've collected on your
    missions.
13. Sell weapons you don't need and remember you pick them up during
    missions anyway.
14. If there are aliens on the floor above you and are preventing you
    from using the only available elevator, then fire a thermal shock or
    disruptor pulse launcher straight up into the ceiling.
15. Don't spend money without thinking and try to anticipate your
    needs.
16. Try not to sell Aqua Plastics and Zribite.
17. In the beginning, fill your living areas with an additional ten
    scientists and ten soldiers.
18. Try to accumulate between 50 and 100 scientists.
19. Once your research is done, dump the scientists, saving about
    50-75 to examine aliens.
20. If you've researched a weapon, follow up immediately with the
    ammo.
21. Try to put together a staff of 20 or more technicians.
22. For fresh recruits, the trick is to keep them alive so as to
    improve their experience.
23. If you're not pressed for recruits, get rid of the ones with low
    scores, especially in bravery and accuracy.
24. Create as many officers as you can, by, for example, using a
    squad of them to go after a weak alien ship.
25. Then spread the officers around to different squads.
26. At the start, arm your Seamen heavily.
27. That is, research armor and then make plenty of it, arm them one
    of each grenade, and later, a Chemical Flare for every soldier, a
    Medikit for every two soldiers and a Particle Sensor.
28. Always ensure that your soldiers are properly equipped for long
    missions.
29. For combat, one good tactic is to divide your squad into two or
    three teams and use them in concert with each other.
30. For seabed missions, divide your squad into small teams place
    them all over the place.
31. For the island attack, depose of the outlying enemies first, and
    then treat the central hotel as if it was an alien craft.
32. For cruise liners and cargo ships, divide your squad into teams
    and give each of them a different deck to deal with.
33. In alien constructions, watch the overhangs and balconies for
    snipers.  Also be careful with grenades in the tight areas.
34. In all these missions, go during daylight whenever you can.
35. Always take Chemical Flares to night-time missions.
36. Keep tabs of the attributes of your soldiers by renaming them.
37. Although mission objectives are often explicit, don't hesitate to
    add to them by, for example, going after aliens or officers.
38. For long two-part missions, bring an adequate amount of ammo and
    enough medikits for all.
39. Take out alien submarines as soon as you begin to notice them so
    as to prevent them for gaining a foothold.