can't you train them like everyone else? If you have such a long time for evac, then infiltrate to a larger % before missions. You can call in the ranger a couple of turns b4 the mission primary goal is completed.

Ok so the timer for evac is supposed to be like that.
Thank you, that answered that half of the question.

Rev: strictly, you can call for evac at any point in the mission, although i recommend you at least get close enough to the objective that everyone on the team is withing sprinting distance of the zone.

That said, if you have an 8 turn evac counter, you probably shouldn't be in the mission anyway -- the counter goes down as your infiltration percetage goes up (the minimum is 2 turns, IIRC). Keep in mind that you should expect to skip upwards for sixty percent of the targets that pop up. As a general rule of thumb, in the early going you should probably skip any mission that you won't can't infiltrate to at least 80%[1]. There is a really handy mod for LW2 in the workshop that will show what your infiltration percentage with the current squad will be when the mission timer runs out[2].

Highlighting the idea of XCom as a force engaging in a campaign of guerrilla warfare against a force that is vastly superior in both technology and logistics is a major driver behind the design for LW2. In the vanilla campaign, it was, in so far as you could, a good idea to try and hit every available target and you'd rarely get more than two or three missions a month. In my current LW2 campaign, by contrast, I have something like nine missions that I'm ignoring because I don't think the rewards are worth it, as well as two squads out doing infiltrations.

[1](The big exeception is any mission with "full salvage"; for those you generally want as many and as tough of enemies possible consistent with avoiding exessive losses; Being able to carry out advent corpses &ct is rare in LW2 AND those same corpses are much more valuable. So maximizing the number you bring home is worth some risk.

[2] (http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=888102133&searchtext=infiltration)

Ah ok. That explains why I keep gettin pwned on those missions. Thank you.