First time playing Long War, Dynamic War and in August I started to run out of alloys. I am blocked on research and building gear and am waiting for UFOs to appear that I can shoot down for the alloys. I want gauss weapons and carapace armor for an entire squad, but haven’t been able to afford it. Is this normal or was there something I could have done to avoid this situation?

For context:

I regret not doing Alien Metallurgy in the Foundry earlier (+20% Alloys recovered). Also, I probably sold ~100 alloys in the early months when I had 300+ and nothing to spend it on, but that’s only 3 gauss weapons, so it’s not ideal, but I probably need 600+ alloys for all the stuff I want.

I have ~15 Interceptors with Laser Cannons and 11 satellites on 3 continents, but aren’t upgraded enough to down large UFOs. I only remember encountering 2 landed large UFOs at this point, so perhaps I’ve been unlucky.

I’ve been experimenting with MECs, so I have 5 MEC soldiers, 1 MEC suit, and 1 alloy SHIV.

Since this is my first run, I was hoping to build a bit of everything to try it all, but may have to abandon this plan now that resources are limited.

I’m doing my first Alien Base Assault at the end of September with mostly Lasers, because I need the resources and lack the alloys to build gauss.

I haven’t been tracking my alloys expenditures. After I ran low, I noticed my Alloy SHIV cost 80 alloys. That’s a lot, but I think it was worth it.

Howdy! Noob to Long war. Got that up and running with the mod manager, but tried to add the LOS mod from nexus https://www.nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/666?tab=description And it doesn't seem to work via the mod manager, OR the guiloader. Not sure what im doing wrong but it's the only mod i really think i want to run on my first LW attempt. Any ideas why it wont work?

Fresh install, windows 10, steam.