[TrashMan]

Great game. Thinking of making a "iron man" type let's play here. (there may be my own mods involved)

Anyone want to be immortalized as a Red Shirt?

[Ravenholme]

Great game. Thinking of making a "iron man" type let's play here. (there may be my own mods involved)

Anyone want to be immortalized as a Red Shirt?

I was going to do a UFO:AI LP here, I've just been waiting for the oft delayed next public release

[SpardaSon21]

I volunteer for redshirt duty, and I also volunteer to stop being an alien hunter after I take a plasma blast to the knee.

[LordMelvin]

I, Lord Sir Melvin Huffleston III volunteer for cannon-fodder duty!

(I would, however, prefer to be a mauve shirt - someone who lives just long enough to seem important, then dies to show things are really serious.)

[TrashMan]

Great game. Thinking of making a "iron man" type let's play here. (there may be my own mods involved)

Anyone want to be immortalized as a Red Shirt?

I was going to do a UFO:AI LP here, I've just been waiting for the oft delayed next public release

Get the nightly build installer

[Scourge of Ages]

While I'm on the waiting list for redsniper's X-COM squad, throw me into your UFO game there, I'll need the experience.

[TrashMan]

As we start our defense of Earth, we first find we have to set up the base. Being a conservative old sod, I place my base in south-east Europe. It covers a decent area and several nations, so it seems OK. I also place a UFO Yard immediately.

Next, I start quickly spending funds on upgrading the base.


After 5 days we detect our first UFO.
A Stilleto II interceptor was sent immediately. The landing pad for another isn't done yet, but I had time to install additional ECM and targeting equipment into our only fighter. It appears that is sufficient:



No sooner than the first UFO is shot down, another pops in from another direction. The Stilleto will rearm and refuel before engaging, since it's still fair distance away. Meanwhile, we send the team in.


I regret not giving everyone long-range weapons - a tactical blunder on my part. By I position my men as best as I can, using cover to come close. 2 snipers are on both flanks.

The aliens charge in on their turn - maybe my CC fighters will get some action after all. My sniper utterly fails to hit with both shots, and I reluctantly order Spardason to break cover and engage. He actually riddles the aline full of holes.
Yay for us! The rest of the team moves inside the building to try and flank.


On the very next turn another alien charges and throws a plasma granade at Sparda. He misses, but Sparda, Scope (our sniper) and Scourge are wounded. That doesn't discourage Sparda, as he opens with full-auto on the second alien, killing him too. Go Sparda! Huh..guess our weapons are effective enough.

We hunt the last alien, assuming he's further towards the crashed UFO. He isn't. We find he came around the house while hunting civilians as is behind our backs. Melvin is prevented from cooking the bloody alien to a crisp by a civilian too dumb for his own good. Furtunately, having anticipated such things, the entire team was runing back like crazy..and it so happens commander TrashMan and his heavy machinegun were in range!

Victory for us!

But our UFO yard still isn't complete and we got no place to store the craft. We sell the thing to the US as they offer the most moolah for it.



The intercept of the other UFO was also sucesful, but with 3 people in hospital, I'm wondering should I get replacements or risk it (since we got medikits)

Also, state your favorite weapon/position in the team.
Your skills are as follows:


.. hm.. Sparda seems to have gotten a few points in Assault and Mind.
And of course, your glorious leader:

[Patriot]

I volunteer for red shirt duty

Xan Derr would be my name :3(not my actual name mind ya, just my alias on things that require a first and last name)

[headdie]

I will take an assault position, just give me an AR until laser rifles come online

[TrashMan]

Having decided not to risk Sparda (him being useful in the last mission) I confined him to Sickbay for this mission. However, we're not going depleted as two new soldiers joined our ranks. We waste no time and deploy immediately to the site of the second UFO crash:


It is dark and the enemy probably scattered. The craft appears to be of the same type as the last one, so we expect only 3-4 aliens. 
No sooner that we disembark, we run into the buggers!

Our sniper manages to get one shot in, but that is not enough.  While Xan Derr is right next to her, he refuses to use his granade launcher, due to civilian proximity. Fortunately Melvin rushes from our dropship and manages to bring the alien scum down with a well placed burst.


2 to go and we end our turn.
A plasma bolt comes flying from the barn and hits headdie. The alien rushes forward with a blade attempting to finish him, but it doesn't end well for him.

He landed smack in the middle of our group, but Headdie didn't need help. Two down, one to go.


Plasma shots are heard and the team fans out. We assume the alien is near the craft or in the house beneath it.



Our assumptions are wrong. The alien pops out form the other side. It looks grimm as Headie is already wounded!
Our sniper attempts a long range shot trough the dropship:

And it succeeds! however, the alien is still on its' feet!
Xan Derr attempts an airburst shot, but the damn dropship in the way. Melvin managed to get 1 bullet hit on him too, but the damn alien is STILL standing.

Finally, headdie opens full auto and the alien finally falls, mission won!
Alas, our UFO yard is still not ready, so we sell it to New Africa.

Back to base for our brave team.

[Starman01]

THis looks interesting, I always liked the X-Com type games.

Is this a fan mod, or an official game ? How big are the maps, this would really interest me. I was so much dissapointed that the maps in aftershock were so tiny

[headdie]

Nice to know I have managed to earn a baddass rep on my first outing

THis looks interesting, I always liked the X-Com type games.

Is this a fan mod, or an official game ? How big are the maps, this would really interest me. I was so much dissapointed that the maps in aftershock were so tiny

Its a fan offering using I believe the Q3 engine though could be wrong there.  Its been in the works for years and they keep releasing updates every now and again.  My personal preference is for the original game but this does well for itself.  Look it up on source forge

[TrashMan]

UFO AI is excellent. The only thing that sucks is the story.

I advise you to get the latest nightly Build)

the UFO AI installer can be found here:
http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/Download  (Look under Development)
Note, ti's 1.1GB atm.

[FireSpawn]

I volunteer myself to be the crazy guy equipped with a knife and grenade that runs at the enemy.

[SpardaSon21]

I'm fine staying as a Rifleman until you get access to psionics (there are psionics in this, right?).  When that happens, I want to kill aliens with my mind.

[TrashMan]

YAAAAAAGRH..... accidenlty closed the tab and the LP was lost. Now I gotta type this s*** again....


***  DO TO CIRCUMSTANCES TOTALLY IN MY CONTROL, BY ME DERPING,  THIS MISSION WILL HAVE TO BE..RE-WRITTEN.  ***


Anywhoo... when we last left our intrepid heroes, the eeeeevil aliens sent another UFO their way. It suffered a predictable fate:
Glory to our mighty pilot!

The UFO has gone down somewhere in africa, and the team is going in. Without Headdie, as we left him in the hospital. We got Firespawn as replacement, so all is good.

Our luck, it crash landed right in the middle of a small desert town:



We devide into 3 grups.

FireSpawn, yours turly, and the flamer guy (slot open) flank from the left, going trough the house.
The two sniper chicks cover the main square from the dropship.
Scourge, Melvin and Xen Darr take the right flank


Fukken aleins turn out to be spread out again. one shoots from the buildign and hits Scope, but despite me bringing her wounded into the missions, she's still holding. Both snipers return fire but alsmot all shots miss. The ones that do hit only graze the alien.



Another alien comes from our right flanks and begins murdering civilians at the small marketplace. However, he makes two mistakes.
One, he remain in range of our guns, and two: he got rid of his human shields.

Xen Darr, enraged at such alien carnage, blows hte creep up with a full 3-nade burts.

Rest in pieces!


We push forward, Scourge and Melvin hugging the house, and our left flank moving in. An alien attempts to shoot Firespawn once, but realising it is futile from that position, climbs down. His compatriot from the house exits too, as both seem to want to charge us.



Scourge nad Melvin make use of this and charge out of cover themselves, the aliens completely unprepared.

Scourge run right up to one of them and unleashes a 3-round shotgun burst. Somehow, the aliens remains standing. Untill Melving finished the job with his assault rifle.



The last alien is the designated prey of the left team, as we move into position. I flank the alien and ready the HMG, firespawn and the flamer guy in position to take it out if I fail. Despite there only beign a 11% chance of hit, the 5-shot bursts kills it. Guess the sniper girls did some damage on the guy.

anohter victory for our glorious team!

[Pred the Penguin]

I volunteer to be the guy lugging the heavy weapons who gets killed by his own fire!

[Rodo]

Oh oh! I love this one, got it installed and play it from now and then.
I want in if there are positions open, just give me a heavy machine gun and send me to the front, will slaughter anything with that.

[FireSpawn]

Woo! I'm a 'nade chuckin' gun slinger!
 PH33R M3 X3N0 SCUM F0R D07H C0M37H 

[LordMelvin]

Waaait..this seems familiar:
Yup..same map. This time we are ready and Scourge and Melvin circle around the house, while the rest of the team highs the warehouse.

Yay! I can totally be prepared for something if it's identical to the last thing I did...

Meanwhile, on the right flank, the alien rushed right between the houses. Melvin still wasn't in position, and Scourge was out of AP's. Yikes.

Yaay! I'm... wait, no, that's bad. Erm. Yeah. I don't understand this, Usually Melvin Huffleston the Third is the most prepared guy on the field and...
*zooms screenshots*
GAH! Noooooo! You got my name wrong! Noooooooooo!

Oh, well. At least I've got good facial hair.