So we're going to China, to pick up somebody. The mission is kind of mysterious, it came down from the Council, and China insists they have no alien problems. What little Droid has been able to glean from back channels suggests somebody got in touch with us and has some kind of technology that isn't of human origin.
Operation Blinding Paramour
Shanghai, China
Present: StarSlayer, SpardaSon, CommanderDJ, IronBeer"Just four of you. Things must be bad here."
"And watch your damn flanks. Seriously, rookies all of you."
"So here's the package, here's me, let's go."
So we move out and grab cover and...
OH COME ON, THAT'S JUST CHEAP. Even worse, there's one behind us too.
So everyone blasts away at the first new alien. And we get two misses and a single HP hit. The_E can be heard muttering about everyone's ineptitude. The second new alien isn't shot at, for some reason.
All right let's try and clean this up. Sparda takes a shot with his new rifle at the alien up front, and misses. IronBeer once again eschews the unreliable rifle for the use of a frag grenade, actually killing the alien.
DJ fires at the alien and gets a hit. For 1HP. God help me, this is worse than rolling with Jet Harpoons back in Terror From the Deep.
StarSlayer saves the day with a shotgun blast. "Boss, there any particular reason these things appear to explode into clouds of multi-colored chemicals?"
"Single hostile blocking the exit, just skittered for cover." IronBeer, out of grenades, engages with his rifle. Two damage. Marginally better.
DJ finishes it off.
A Thin Man drops in and gets blown away instantly by StarSlayer.
"Second wave inbound to your position, we've got...something different in the group." HEY GUYS, YOU REMEMBER ME!?
"Giant bugs, why did it have to be giant bugs?" So StarSlayer takes a shot, hit, 4HP. Then Sparda takes a shot, hit, 3HP. It's down to one, it's still coming, I'm sure you guys can do this!
IronBeer and CommanderDJ miss cleanly and the thing runs right up to StarSlayer's face. I HATE YOU ALL.
StarSlayer, out of shotgun rounds, pulls a pistol and shoots the damn thing in the face. It falls over dead. I no longer hate StarSlayer.
And...Jesus Christ get out of The E's personal space! It's on overwatch so I tried to get out and The E took a couple damage, but survived, then DJ pulled back a little and killed the thing.
"Strike, we've got another wave inbound!"
So everyone and their dog shoots at the first guy who drops (as you can see). They killed it very, very dead.
"Popping smoke!" DJ, and the support class in general, has a basic ability where they toss a smoke grenade. I don't use it terribly often, mainly because I'm bad at it, but here I want to get a kill to Sparda because first-tier Snipers are really bad.
As I said, I'm bad with smoke. Sparda still gets shot at by the Overwatch-ing Sectoid, but they missed. They also didn't follow up but went Overwatch again on their own turn. This means that Sparda's free to pop off a return round that takes the Sectoid in the gut and kills it.
We're done here. Oh and by the way? Our newcomer, The E, qualified as a Lieutenant right out the gate, while I think the best of you right now is a Sergeant.
After lunch we'll do some mechanics-discussion/illustration housekeeping, and then another mission. Catch you folks then.