At this point I'm honestly considering no longer detailing Squad One missions. This is...well, you'll see.
We expected resistance from the Battleship crew comparable to Shanghai or the first Supply Ship assault. Instead, they've done almost nothing. Only one Floater has been encountered in the first four turns, and he was taken down by a reaction shot through a window by Kyad.
The E gives a final briefing just prior to the breach. He emphasizes the need to move swiftly; the aliens probably have Blaster Bombs. He also emphasizes that any command personnel must be taken alive. Stun rods out.
Three stunned, a Demented Fuzzy Shivan and a Floater killed. One of the Floaters, we hope a Commander, had a Blaster Bomb launcher.
Another Floater was killed by reflex when it tried to open a door in front of SpardaSon. The Battleship, at three stories tall and thirty meters in diameter, could use a whole platoon trying to secure it rapidly. We have just a squad.
But they are Squad One. Kyad tracks down another Blaster Launcher-armed alien and stuns it. The E finds another with a heavy plasma and does the same. Honestly, with all these effective HTH attacks and the way we haven't been shot at once during the mission yet, I keep expecting to find out somebody's hacked my game and the aliens can't shoot or something. This is
bizarre.
The E did it. We have a Commander, alive.
One last alien trades fire with Kyad, but is taken from behind by -Joshua-, only proving the ninja analogy more accurate. On a battleship attack we were shot at once in the whole mission. And it missed. This actually ****ing happened. Mission Complete!
This was getting really close to the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Squad One took on the entire battleship crew with stun rods; I only deliberately fired at two aliens (one because I couldn't get a second person close enough for a second stun attack; the other was the Reaper and nobody gives a **** about capturing Reapers), two others were killed by reaction fire. Squad One is apparently composed of
ninjas in giant ****off suits of power armor.