{"id":891,"date":"2014-07-28T11:36:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T15:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/?p=891"},"modified":"2014-07-28T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T15:37:27","slug":"aiptlf-xcom-managing-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2014\/07\/28\/aiptlf-xcom-managing-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"AIP\/TLF: Managing the Team (XCOM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My second <a href=\"http:\/\/thelearnedfangirl.com\/2014\/07\/28\/as-i-play-xcom-managing-the-team-part-two\/\" target=\"_blank\">as-I-play post on XCOM: Enemy Unknown has gone live on TLF<\/a>. I&#8217;m a few more hours into the game now, and have started to see my soldiers carving out niches in terms of their tactical abilities (which really means that they&#8217;re advancing along their little tech trees in different directions). I&#8217;m also upgrading their armor and kits so that they&#8217;re less likely to get killed (or can at least take more shots).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not in love with the game, though. It&#8217;s not a bad game, I don&#8217;t dislike it, but I find myself largely apathetic toward it &#8211; it is an engaging way to kill time, provided I&#8217;m looking to kill more than an hour (otherwise it isn&#8217;t really worth getting into it).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thelearnedfangirl.com\/2014\/07\/21\/as-i-play-xcom-invasion-initiated\/\" target=\"_blank\">the first as-I-play, if you need to catch up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My second as-I-play post on XCOM: Enemy Unknown has gone live on TLF. I&#8217;m a few more hours into the game now, and have started to see my soldiers carving out niches in terms of their tactical abilities (which really &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2014\/07\/28\/aiptlf-xcom-managing-the-team\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9152,9130,9147,9136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-i-play","category-game-criticism","category-tlf","category-videogames"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XN03-en","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}