Why I never beat X-Com : UFO Defense

It's a great game. But, ultimately, the core mechanic gets a little old.

Tactical turn-based combat is fun. Coming out of a transport and blasting aliens from a downed UFO is fun. Unfortunately, doing it 100 times is not 100 times more fun. It gets old. It would probably get old even if it wasn't the same battle over and over.

This time, I eventually started ignoring the tactical encouters to speed things up.

I won.