My funniest XCom moment in a while (probably ever)

In May, I have the dark event active that puts faceless on missions. I'm doing as many missions as possible as per the post a few weeks back - essentially running anything above 4 days. This means I have conventional weapons and unfortunately I have no shinobi's available.

I am extracting an engineer so the squad is revealed and nervous from the start. I manage to kill a few pods, and advance towards extraction. Very carefully as I have no way of seeing what is ahead.

I have an advent officer and stun lancer active. I kill the lancer easily as I have hail of bullets available. This leaves the officer and I have no choice but to move my technical up into an exposed position and flame the officer. I need this to work as all the shots of the rest of the squad are terrible.

Duly set the officer on fire, but to do so I have to target a civillian because of the way the cone positions. I don't like it, but don't think too much about this because those civiliians have killed their own fair share of my soldiers.

Lo and behold! The civillian turns into a faceless after I set him on fire. I really laughed at this one - he is now at 7 hp and my ranger crits him, on the next shot for a kill.

it was a really unexpected moment after over 1000 hours of playing.