In combat, each of your soldiers has a specific number of Time Units.
If you win, you also recover any alien artifacts left on the field, which can then be researched. Your mission is usually extermination of all aliens on the battlefield, though if you can capture a few it would surely help your research efforts. Once you join a ground battle, the game switches to Battlescape, which is an isometric view of the battlefield with realistic line-of-sight calculations and turn-based combat. It's even possible that a nation gets so fed up with you that it signs a pact with the aliens and ceases funding altogether. You can earn money by selling unneeded stuff, and you receive funding from the nations of the world however, a nation can decrease its funding if it decides you aren't operating efficiently enough within its region. Researchers need to be paid, engineers (who build the new toys) need to be paid, base(s) need to be be built/expanded, planes need to be bought/maintained, supplies need to be replenished, and so on. You also need to control your budget, as you can't afford to overextend your reach. You also control your research, as you must invent better weapons (the Terran weapons are just no match against the alien weapons) quickly, not to mention all the other cool tech you can recover from the aliens. You order movements from here, such as sending out fighters to intercept UFOs, transports with soldiers to assault/recover UFOs, and perhaps assaults on alien bases (if you find any).
On the strategic side, called GeoScape, you get a rotating view of the globe, where you see all visible UFOs (those that are within your detection range) as well as major cities and your base(s). X-COM: UFO Defense is a strategy game featuring separate but interlinked elements. Starting with one base, two fighters, one transport, and a few soldiers, X-COM must locate the aliens, learn about their origins and technology, find out where their base is, and destroy it. It was eventually decided to organize a secret paramilitary group, dubbed Extraterrestrial Combat Unit (X-COM). Finally, after various nations of the world have failed to intercept the UFOs, their representatives met in a conference of global importance in Geneva, Switzerland. Stories about abductions and alien attacks became more and more widespread. In the year 1998, the amount of reports of UFO sightings has been drastically increased.
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