Reddit's Weekly Mission Challenge

The idea was proposed here to hold a regular single mission challenge.

The challenge:

1. The purpose of this challenge is for XCOM players to submit a saved game for a mission they find particularly difficult. One saved game is chosen, and then shared amongst everybody on Reddit.

2. You (the players) can then try and develop a strategy for solving this tough mission. A `winner' is chosen (or several winners are chosen) based on the novelty of their tactics.

Challenge submissions

Your submission:

If you're interested in submitting a saved game, please upload the saved game on a file host (like Google Drive, Dropbox, or Megaupload), and share it in this thread along with details about:

1. Difficulty mode

2. Second wave options

3. Explain in a few sentences why this mission is interesting and what makes it difficult (the geography, the number of aliens, the awkward positioning, poor weapon choice, etc.)

4. Explain in a few sentences what you have tried

5. You do not have to submit a saved game at the start of a mission. It can be in the middle or the end, so long as the challenge is clear.

Selection:

Missions are selected based on the following qualities:

LW Beta 14f only
Novelty: it should be a well defined difficulty that is interesting. Don't just submit "this is a hard mission," but explain what makes it hard.
Elegance: Short challenges are preferred over long challenges. Remember: the challenge needs to be well defined.
People have asked about creating the saved games (using the dev. console to create mission layouts). This is acceptable as well.

All saved games that aren't chosen will continue and hopefully serve on the next Weekly Challenge.

Play-through submissions

Remember the challenge is about the development of tactics, so part of your submission will involve you explaining your approach to the mission, and why you chose to do what you did. Please submit by replying to the weekly gaming thread with the following:

1. A brief description of your approach. You can also add details about different approaches you might have tried that didn't make the final submission.

2. A video recording of the playthrough or an imgur album that tells the story of your strategy.

For the video recording, you can add commentary or simply keep it with the original audio. Please try to keep the videos as short as possible, and in particular, if you don't intend to add commentary, it would be helpful if you sped the video up (this can other be done in post-processing or within the XCOM game itself using the developer console or the LW shortcuts).

If you prefer to submit an album of the strategy, it's crucial that you mostly include overview camera views, rather than action shots. Make sure you zoom out as much as possible. I highly recommend the Explain and Send Screenshots Chrome tool which allows you to easily add annotations and upload images.