XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Yep, LOVED to see the nice influx of resources -- still ran out of weapon fragments later on in my run, but that's to be expected, given how often I'm capturing live aliens. :)

Played it on normal and had 18 aliens, just for info.

Just wanted to say that if you don't do Gangplank it comes up again... and again... and again. The council's been telling me to do it every 3-4 days for over a month now, so no rush. I'm running through on normal, my first playthrough, if that matters.

Just completed it on easy there and encountered 22 aliens!

Yes, the mission is coming up just the next day.. so my Zhang was heavily wounded in the last mission which makes him cannot join the last mission of his storyline..

Yeah, I read your guide for Rising Dragon. But I just wanted him to join every mission for his story line :p
BTW, in Gangplank, most of the aliens comes out from nowhere and started w/ a overwatch, it would be easier to kill them if yr assault class soldiers hv lighting reflexes to make the 1st overwatch missed and approach the alien for the kill.

Very easy to complete if you leave it late like me.
I used this mission on my Ironman/Classic run to reduce the amount of terror/abduction/etc missions by just ignoring it so that it came around again and again (as talkstogod said above). Almost all of the mission pop-ups were for Gangplank which let me earn a stack of money and research what I needed whilst only having to go on a few combat missions.
When I had Titan armour & plasma weapons I assaulted the Alien Base first then this. Total enemies were 2 Sectoids, 20 Thin Man, 1 Muton, 1 Cyberdisc and 2 Chryssalids. You get over 300 Elerium, over 500 Alloys, 6 Flight Comps, 5 Power Sources, 2 Fusion Cores and 50 (IIRR) weapon fragments.