[headdie]

Those are supply ships?  Jeez, my first X-COM game (that I lost because I didn't know how to win), I was taking an average of six of those a month for like four months.  Needless to say I was ****ing rolling in cash, but never figured out that capturing aliens alive was required for the game.

They were also all Snakemen ships.  I hate Snakemen.

Snakemen are not a huge problem, not compared to mutons anyway.  If you a getting loads then you should follow their flight path as a base should be at one end

[TrashMan]

BRING IT ON ALIENS! BRING IT ON!!!




COME GET SOME!!!


* this game has a serious lack of miniguns! *

[NGTM-1R]

Miniguns are unnecessary. Particularly if you happen to be The E.

An alien battleship has landed at Area 51. No attempt was made to engage with it Interceptors 1 and 2, as it's highly unlikely they'd be able to catch the ship on its approach run, much less knock it down without being destroyed. All aircraft have been sent to orbit at a safe distance, and we managed to get the technical and science staff out before the battleship landed.

Snakemen are entering the base via all surface access points; the hangers and the main lift are compromised.  As might be noted from this image, however, their entry has not been easy. HLPX-COM agents have already killed two, and the laser tank took out another.

The E kills a third. My main worry is we've got nobody in position to cover the south-east hanger.

Just got another one with reaction fire. This is vaguely pathetic. The E confirms the presence of Chryssalids by killing the first one spotted.


Got another one with reaction fire from SpardaSon. The count of the dead in the North Hanger is up to five as TrashMan guns down one which fired at The E on its own turn. Fury kills yet another which may have come out of the lift. Seven aliens down in the North Hanger area, two more in the Southwest Hanger


Both tanks, supported by SpardaSon, are advancing on the Southwest Hanger. Three Heavy Plasmas and their associated eyes (-Joshua-, jg18, and KyadCK) are watching the lift. Axem and Scourge of Ages are headed to the Southeast Hanger. Everyone else is currently engaged in clearing the North Hanger and will then hit the lift.

A Snakeman emerges from a side room in the North Hanger to fire at The E. It misses. The E returns a single Heavy Plasma round that does not.

Mission Complete. Surprisingly, only ten aliens attacked the base, and none escaped alive. No HLPX-COM operative was injured, and indeed none of their Flying Suits was even struck by enemy fire. The tanks were likewise completely unharmed in even a cosmetic fashion.


This was the most pathetic alien assault on an X-COM base I've ever seen. It literally ended in three turns.

[Alex Heartnet]

What happens to the battleship UFO after a failed base attack?

[StarSlayer]

Spoonzer Elite messes up your **** at home and abroad.

[NGTM-1R]

What happens to the battleship UFO after a failed base attack?

I wish I could assault it before it ran away. Actually, I just wish it ran away. The battleship disappears after delivering troops.

[NGTM-1R]

Just to top off my annoyance I've checked; both the alien bases are Muton and neither is positioned so I can intercept supply runs easily (I usually don't see them until they're on their way out, in fact). I can't pull a Commander from either and I can't go "AVAST YE SPACE-LUBBERS" so I'm just going to knock them out. Rekitting Squad 1 now.

[General Battuta]

Just to top off my annoyance I've checked; both the alien bases are Muton and neither is positioned so I can intercept supply runs easily (I usually don't see them until they're on their way out, in fact). I can't pull a Commander from either and I can't go "AVAST YE SPACE-LUBBERS" so I'm just going to knock them out. Rekitting Squad 1 now.

Oh ****, this is even more dreadful than an alien attack on our bases.

I predict a blaster bomb bloodbath. I predict casualties and screams.

[SpardaSon21]

Well, time to do as the thread title says and die for my planet.  I hope you can scrape together enough DNA from my plasma-melted corpse for a clone.

[TrashMan]

I only killed one alien? Dissapointing!

Miniguns are unnecessary.

HERESY! Miniguns are ALLWAYS necessary.

[Spoon]

Dai shouri!
Dual wielding tanks like a boss, the SpzKpfWg II in one hand and the SpzKpfWg III in the other. All those years of gaming and multitasking are finally paying off.

Of course, I for one, never doubted our success for a moment!

The E has become the grizzlied veteran I hoped he would become. He should be promoted again soon! Speaking of which, can we get an overview screenshot again, who is at what rank currently? And if possible, get a kill count on our brave HLPX-COM operatives?

[Scotty]

So, now that they know where your base is an have actually assaulted it, does that mean they're going to send a steady stream of ships to try and take you out?

Does this call for stockpiling SpzKpfWg IIIs at the base for much reinforced base defense?

[NGTM-1R]

Batts and SpardaSon are both more terrible prophets than I am.

Squad One, we are going into the unknown here. The aliens have a base in Antarctica and given its lack of proximity to X-COM installations and our inability to interdict supply flights, we're killing it.


-Joshua- gets the first kill. The inhabitants are new to us, but they go down like everybody else when Heavy Plasma'd.


SpardaSon kills another. Kyad engages one, but he and it exchange shots without striking home. Sparda  takes down yet another on his next turn, while Kyad again trades shots, sustaining no hits to himself but inflicting one. The E, moving for linkup, bushwhacks this Muton.


He had friends, a Celatid and another Muton. Sparda did a smaller-scale ambush and shot the Muton in the back, while the Celatid went down to long-range shots from jg18.


Opening turn 4, the Squad One killing machine just took down a Blaster-Launcher armed Muton and one with a rifle between The E and -Joshua-.


In fact, at this point we've killed nine aliens. They have returned exactly one shot. It missed. Make that ten; KyadCK just got another.


There was an attempted Blaster Bomb launch earlier, but it blew out part of what we think are the command center walls. Jg18 finds another Blaster Bomber and kills it as the rest of the team closes in on the command center. SpardaSon chases down an alien who got hit by “friendly” fire and knocked out briefly.


KyadCK, SpardaSon, and Joshua prepare to breach the base command center. The E is close behind.


The command center is empty. SpardaSon performs a thorough check for hostiles, but there are none. The last alien betrays himself when he panics and runs away, only to recover his wits and run back for his weapon...right past -Joshua-.


Mission Complete. Even the alien's best shock troops are no match for Squad 1.

[The E]

Excellent showing, people. Time to have our cake and eat it.

Oh ****, this is even more dreadful than an alien attack on our bases.

I predict a blaster bomb bloodbath. I predict casualties and screams.

I have no problem with that, as long as it happens to the other side.

[SpardaSon21]

Finally, some Elerium-115 and UFO Power Sources for your depleted stockpiles.  What the heck is "Alien Entertainment" though, inter-species space porn?

[NGTM-1R]

Possibly. It's happy rooms; you go in and they create an illusion you find pleasing, if you let your focus wander too much.

Active Soldier List
Squad One
-Joshua-, Sergeant, 13 missions, 16 kills.
SpardaSon, Sergeant, 17 missions, 18 kills
TrashMan, Squaddie, 17 missions, 10 kills
KyadCK, Squaddie, 13 missions, 13 kills
jg18, Squaddie, 12 missions, 10 kills
The E, Captain, 22 missions, 21 kills
jr2, Squaddie, 15 missions, 7 kills
Axem, Sergeant, 22 missions, 9 kills
Fury, Squaddie, 7 missions, 4 kills
Scourge of Ages, Squaddie, 10 missions, 4 kills

Squad Two
esarai, Squaddie, 3 missions, 1 kill
Mjn.Mixael, Sergeant, 21 missions, 18 kills
Watsisname, Squaddie, 9 missions, 5 kills
Droid803, Squaddie, 6 missions, 2 kills
swashmebuckle, Squaddie, 5 missions, 6 kills
Backslash, Squaddie, 5 missions, 4 kills
General Battuta, Squaddie, 6 missions, 2 kills
Hades, Squaddie, 3 missions, 1 kill
CommanderDJ The 2nd, Rookie, 2 missions, 0 kills
Veers, Squaddie, 8 missions, 5 kills
Alex Heartnet, Squaddie, 4 missions, 4 kills


Squad Two has three people out injured at the moment, Battuta, Backslash, and Veers.

(derp, forgot Alex)

[StarSlayer]

When foul xenos soil themselves in their sleep it is because their nightmares featured The E

[Alex Heartnet]

I think I figured out what to do with the alien entertainment.  A lot of insight into alien culture and possibly their motives could be gained from studying their entertainment.

[SpardaSon21]

The E will probably have a badass psi score to match his brass balls when that research is done.  Soon the aliens will find their waking moments haunted by specters of him as well.

[Scotty]

I approve of -Joshua-'s handling of the my former berth.