If you get a recruit with terrible stats, who's likely to die, name him Ben Pasko. Bonus point if he has a red shirt.
^.^

Plasma based weaponry?

FFFFFFFFUUUUU- YEAH.

If I knew anything about X-Com I would totally be blabbing my mouth off now about how you should expand the base to include XYZ Alenth. But I don't :<

You should do a live recording of a session though, maybe invite a few DRLers to comment on the situation. Ventrilo etc. The one thing this Let's Play! is missing is an explanation of the game mechanics, and videos with vocally awkward gamers explaining the turn-based combat of X-Com do that very well.

I've got a vent you can use.

I could Livestream it if I find out where the screencap software is for that.

Got livestream working, and MOSCOM is on a mission to take over a VERY LARGE UFO with only 14 rookies armed with laser rifles, grenades, and no armor.

Also the Casablana mission ended. Nobody was watching the stream at the time. I think Kelas and Shadow both died to crazy bullets, while Grif, Kalle, and some unnamed guys went and killed everything ever. I could restart that mission (I left that save untouched) but then I would have to wait for the current mission and it might not go as well as it is (no losses in 15 turns against floaters).

http://www.livestream.com/phaethon is the channel

Oh yeah, where can I get a copy of this game? it sounds hilarious.
edit: Nevermind, I saw it on amazon.com, and ebay. I'll look for something else, but now I know.