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• ✅ Allows recruiting new soldiers after each mission, mitigating losses.
• ✅ Reduces hesitation in tactical decisions, encouraging calculated risks.
• ✅ Frees you from the fear of losing irreplaceable units.
• ⚠️ Without WOO, other upgrades are less effective due to manpower constraints.

This upgrade is the most important because it addresses the core issue of casualty replacement, enabling more strategic and less fearful gameplay.

• ✅ Improves black market prices, yielding more from mission loot.
• ✅ Compresses the time needed to acquire better weapons.
• ✅ Reduces the risk of losing soldiers due to mediocre gear.

The Fixer ensures new recruits are well-equipped, turning each mission into tangible progress for the entire campaign. It addresses the game's tight economy, making equipment progression smoother and faster.

• ✅ Reduces the supply cost to deploy vehicles and pilots.
• ✅ Allows frequent use of heavy tanks in missions.
• ✅ Shifts strategic planning from budget limitations to mission needs.

AI Logistics makes deploying vehicles financially viable, adding significant firepower and durability to your squad. It changes the strategic dynamic, allowing you to build plans around mission requirements rather than budget constraints.

• ✅ Generates extra resources from destroyed enemy vehicles.
• ✅ Rewards aggressive gameplay by increasing income with each destruction.
• ✅ Accumulates into a fortune to fund better gear and recruits.

Salvage Teams rewards aggression, turning destruction into investment and funding the best gear and recruits. It helps players reach the mid-campaign with a comfortable financial reserve.

• ✅ Provides smoke cover to control enemy line of sight.
• ✅ Enables safe advancement, healing, and repositioning of troops.
• ✅ Multiplies the value of existing resources and squad members.

Smoke Drop empowers your squad by providing tactical flexibility and changing how you perceive difficult situations. It allows you to solve problems rather than succumb to inevitable doom.

• ✅ Increases the chance of reviving fallen soldiers.
• ✅ Lowers the pressure of having to play perfectly.
• ✅ Protects accumulated experience by keeping veterans alive.

The Advanced Medical Bay acts as a safety net, increasing the chance of reviving fallen soldiers and protecting valuable experience. It rewards consistent campaigns and reduces the tragedy rate.

• ✅ Offers a passive bonus to the maximum supply limit.
• ✅ Allows for more tactical options on the battlefield.
• ✅ Enables bringing beefier squad compositions into practice.

Auto Supplies silently changes how you play by increasing the maximum supply limit, allowing for more tactical options and beefier squad compositions. It ensures you never feel like you lost a battle because you couldn't bring the right tools.

• ✅ Reduces the AP cost to rotate vehicles.
• ✅ Transforms tanks into battlefield predators with improved agility.
• ✅ Increases vehicle lifespan by enabling better positioning and armor management.

Expert Pilot is almost mandatory for mechanized units, drastically reducing the AP cost to rotate vehicles and transforming them into agile battlefield predators. It allows for better positioning and armor management, significantly increasing vehicle lifespan.

• ✅ Enhances vision and detection, seeing enemies before they see you.
• ✅ Transforms advancement into control, choosing where, when, and who to fight.
• ✅ Saves resources by reducing surprise attacks and related costs.

Scout provides vision and control, allowing you to dictate the terms of engagement and save valuable resources. It feels like playing one turn ahead, setting up ambushes and avoiding dangerous situations.

• ✅ Increases soldier growth potential, enhancing attribute evolution.
• ✅ Transforms mediocre soldiers into elite combatants over time.
• ✅ Maximizes the value of veteran soldiers through enhanced stat growth.

New Tricks maximizes soldier growth potential, transforming mediocre recruits into elite combatants over the course of the campaign. It ensures your soldiers have maxed-out stats, ready to handle any situation in the final missions.