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There's been several times when I have seen Drones come into view and they have retreated out of sight again. Then a turn or two later I get shelled by the Sectopod. I'm fairly sure I've not seen the actual Sectopod & it's not seen any of my squad.

Has anyone else had this happen?

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Is this not the same question as gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/92883/…;? – fbueckert Nov 13 '12 at 14:49
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I don't think it is quite the same question is it? I did consider this but this is not talking about one group making another active. – evoelise Nov 13 '12 at 20:00

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I have observed this also. The Sectopod will sometimes just shell the area where you were spotted by some other alien. It even happened to me that I had already moved my guys away and the barrage hit the region my squad had been standing in the last turn.

But I have the feeling that the Sectopods are a bit bugged (or maybe used to be up until the last update), with their positioning and visibility and also with being able to target them (sometimes they seem to hover between layers when they are standing on a roof for example), so whether it is a bug or a feature I can't tell!

I have the impression that Sectopods can't be taken out by an overwatch trap easily exactly because they can hit you without being in your visibility range.

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The real reason you can't kill sectopods with overwatch is your operatives all getting the brilliant idea to shoot an innocuous drone instead of the massive death robot. – kotekzot Nov 13 '12 at 17:25
:D so true, though I feel this to be a general shortcoming of the overwatch system, that all operatives with sight will attack the first enemy to stumble into view. Having some kind of priority system would be cool. – Dethecor Nov 14 '12 at 13:43
For me, I'm very happy when overwatch actually completes a kill, so killing drones is just fine; they won't repair the 'pod and they won't shoot at me. – ohmi Nov 14 '12 at 16:45
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Sectopod does not need line of sight on location it's going to shell. As such, it will occasionally use other aliens as "spotters", much like you would use your soldiers for Squad Sight snipers.

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