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noname2200 said:
I'm using Europe this go around, as I've already done all the other continents save Asia. I've also largely stayed away from upgrading to lasers, and instead relied more on explosives to buy time until researching plasma. I actually find the battles pretty easy now, thanks to a "take it slow" approach, but the damned abduction missions happen at least twice a month, and once the battleship/supply ship UFOs start appearing my crappy interceptors can't shoot it down in one go, so the UFO often gets away before the second interceptor can reach it.

That's just it. You can skip lasers in a normal game and go straight to plasma, but in classic ironman that's just no an option. I have laser weapons and cannons as soon as possible because of this problem. Chryssalids and ufos will overwhelm you otherwise.