Target Escort is one of the Council Mission types in XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Mission Objective
The objective of this mission is to have the target VIP safely reach extraction zone at the Skyranger. Unlike the Target Extraction mission, the VIP starts the mission placed with the squad and under the player's control. Should the VIP be killed the mission objective defaults to extracting the squad, though the mission will still count as a failure (unconfirmed).
Tactics
The VIP has very little health and should be shielded from enemy fire and avoid burning vehicles at all costs.
Unlike many other mission types, enemy force is only partially present on the map at the start of the mission. As the VIP advances across the map additional enemies (specifically, Thin Men) will drop into the map, typically on elevated positions in sight of the VIP. The newly spawned enemies typically use Overwatch as their first action. Their entrance counts as movement, and XCOM soldiers on Overwatch will react with fire often elimimating the enemy before they can become a real problem.
Known Target Escort Missions
- An engineer may have found crucial information about contamination of the local water storage, bring him back safely to begin further investigation. The second tutorial mission on a building site, but now you start at the top.
- William Thorne, a politician, is suspected of collaberating with the aliens, bring him back for interrogation. The map centers around a long back alley that runs between a large video/music store on oneside and laundromat and pizza place on the otherside. The squad starts at the mouth of the alley nearest the laundromat where a delivery truck is parked. The EVAC zone is in the center of the street at the opposite end of the alley.
- Dr. Hongou Marazuki, a scientist, has been keeping track of UFO activity is in danger, bring him back safely to find out what he has discovered. The map has a large observatory and small observatory in opposite corners of one side of the map and numerous chemical/fuel tanks and a small storage building on the otherside. Your squad starts inside the main room of the large observatory and must make their way to the EVAC zone out beyond the small observatory.