Hey all, I've played through the game on Beginner, got about halfway through a new campaign on Veteran, stopped playing, and so today decided to start a new Veteran campaign.

Now this isn't counting the Gatecrasher mission, but for the next mission where you retrieve your first item, I got reinforcements sent at me with one officer and two stun lancers... Anyone know what the hell that is about - I thought lancers come a bit later.

With a brilliant combination of horrible luck (missing 2 close range overwatches), flashing the lancers (which then MIRACULOUSLY allowed one of them to fire at my grenadier and crit him in high cover instantly killing him), I got thoroughly wrecked.

Anyone know why the game deemed to spawn them on me so early...?