Cool writeup. Not surprising new Xcom is most popular.
As much as I'm not a fan of the way it was rebooted (and the way that it pretty much established the '2 action point system' as being the new norm that is constantly used these days; no offense..) I do have to respect it for bringing the genre back into the mainstream after it pretty much died off into a niche thing.
Oh and thanks for the key! Guess I was one of the lucky ~6~ Aussies there :P