[TrashMan]

Time to expand further:

Large hangar for the second base. Gonna use a Saracen here.

Also, bought a new Stilleto

a 3 Shivan config should put out a large amount of firepower. Hmm...probably shoud put  targeting computers in it.


anywhoo, we shoot down a scout or two over the sea, and we double-team in on a fighter. Once it's down, the team goes in;


One alien shoots Firespawn from logn range. Only a sineel shot, but it hits. Seems they do not like him. Rodo me and Melvin take a few pot shots at the charging alien, but it's Retsofs grenades that bring it down.



We consolidate out line, with Firespawn duckign back for a heal. Headdie climbs up the stairs to the house to get a good vantage point for hte missile.


Yet it doesn't kill the alien. The tree suffered most of the damage. Dekkers bursts were also stopped by the tree. I make a mental note to make our fighter armor out of wood.

Rodo and Melvin finally take out the closer alien.

From my position at the warehouse stairs, the tree isn't blicking my shots, so hte alien falls down to a well-placed burst!


HAIL THE GLORIOUS VICTORS!

[FireSpawn]

Me + Southeast London stabbing skillz + Alienz = Martian-mincemeat 

[headdie]

Looks like my random fire support worked out ok and nice assist Firespawn

[Rodo]

Yeah, trees are kinda hard to understand.
I recall loosing more than one soldier that was crouched behind a tree in those "little-forest" maps, the shots got right through the frikking tree every single time!, and then you go to this map and you find a tree that's like a fortress

Congrats on a flawless game so far!
PD: where did you place Rising Sun?

[TrashMan]

UFOS!
UFOS everywhere!


You'd think there's an invasion going on!


A little bit later the situation is differnet. We shot down one, but no time to send a team in. Terror mission takes priority!



Wow...small map




Sniper and bazooka would be of little use in there, so Malvin and headdie are staying on the main deck.
Everoyne esle forms up and prepares to storm the ship.

Sparda softens up an alien with reaction fire, before moving in close and finising it. Flechette ammo b***!



We go in catiously but do not meet any aliens on that deck. Rodo and Melvin check above, the rest go down.
Patriot and Dekker take one ramp, Retsof and Revnholme the other

Alien pops up, but reaction fire stops em in their tracks. On our turns Dekker and Patriot finish it off.
On hte other side we detect another alien, but having spent quite a few TU's on movement, we fall back and let it come to us.


Ravenholme peppers it with a burst, and Retsof jump out of hte corner and hits it with flechette shells. Over-sized shotgun effect follows.

***

Immediatley after that we fly to Russia to that crash site.


A little fire from Rodo and a missile from Headdie and 1 alien goes down


Dekker decks the second one


3rd one tries to charge us from the brn, only to run into spardas reaction fire.



the last one is taken down by Retsof and a few pot shots from the rest of hte team.




That said - new lab is compelte, more scientist hired. And research on Laser Amplification is done! Wooo!
Also, large hangar and a Saracen are now operational in the second base. Any pilot want to transfer there?




EDIT:
I was planing a comedy mission with Chuck Norris. Alas, editing the save game to edit soldiers stats is a long and overly-complicated procedure.
So I won't do it.

[Patriot]

Y'know, i was interested in trying the game out for myself, but i would like to know how to edit the prices you get for alien equipment/ships and such, so as to not have the debacle we had in our "previous lives"

Care to share, maybe the mods too?

[Mongoose]

You can throw me back in for another pilot if you want.  I had a good run going in that first game.

[Scourge of Ages]

If I'm not in in the new game yet, throw me in there. Looks like we need some more shotgun up in here

[TrashMan]

Y'know, i was interested in trying the game out for myself, but i would like to know how to edit the prices you get for alien equipment/ships and such, so as to not have the debacle we had in our "previous lives"

Care to share, maybe the mods too?

I'll zip it and put it up a bit later. But it's simple really
 .pk3 files (in the base folder) are basicly rars. You can just extract the 0ufo folder. The files inside are just text files (don't mind the .ufo extension) and can be easily edited.
Just be sure to remove the 0 when you extract it, the folder structure shoudl be UFOAIDirectory/base/ufo/ (files go in here)

[TrashMan]

Look like we will need another large hangar (and a dropship) in base 2. Time is slowly coming to split into 2 deedicated teams.

[TrashMan]

Two short reports from two short battles:


First a downed scout:

Mission at night. Melvin takes the first alien out.

Two more sighted - the barn and the house. We try a few pot shots, but there's too many obstructions in the way.

Stupid alien almost blows himself and his buddy with a plasma grenade, before moving up and killing a civilian with a blade. Our fireing line takes it out.


I repalced my heavy machingun with a flamer and test it out on the alst alein. Booyah!


Immediately after that a terror mission. Middle east.


The alien closest to us falls under a hail of bullets and the grenade launcher.


We fan out and run into another alien, in the company of a mechanical spider. They both burn very nicely


The UFO is this time woefuly under-staffed. It turns out there were only these 3 aliens thar....

[TrashMan]

What follows is 3 missions wrought with peril at every step, a huge number of clsoe calls and a LOT of luck.


Guess what - we researched Kerrablade. I'm focusing on taman autopsy and UFO Theroy, so we can get sweet alien materials (and we cna get monomolecular blades) and Laz0rs.

Aliens are increasign their activity, more and more terror missions are popping up. Our first mission seez Dekker falling out of hte dropship (actually, due to some bug he's been placed alone, next to the alien Harvester...but hey)

That little green dot there..that's Dekker. All alone. I put full reaction mode on, crouch him and send every runing to him as fast as possible. no TU's in reaction fore for anyone else. Damn risky, but we don't leave a man behind!

And sure enough, aliens start flooding out of the harvester.


Oh s***

Tehy seem to want to cut Dekker up with their blades. Every one of htem has a plasma pisto, but they onyl fire 2 shots this turn, and aimed at our other troops.

Well f*** that!

One down.


Make that 3 down! 

The team is surprisingly accurate today. Altough everyone was running, so they only fired pot-shots, everyone scored at least 1 hit.
the combined weight of fire from 1 HMG, 4 assault rifles, 1 shotgun and 1 pistol was too much.


No sooner than we finalyl join up, the last alien pops out. Firespawn and Patriot finish this one.

WOHOO!!!!

[Colonol Dekker]

Yaaaay! I'm a reckless twonk!

[TrashMan]

RED ALERT - in china. A civilian sheleter is under attack!


This is gonna be a tough one. Close quarters combat. For this mission I pulled Headdie out and put Melvin back in.

Except we can barely move. 3 alien on the upper walkways open fire on the entrance, spending all TU's on shooting.

another alien comes close, only for Sparda to blow it away. Firespawn and Patriot are hurt.
I bring Melvin forward but both of his shots misses. He gets shot. I re-group and heal.


Having no other option I charge out.

After a lengthy shoot-out, we finalyl fin. the superior accuracy of our rifles wins out, but we don't come out of it untouched - Rodo gettign the worst of it. More healing follows.

We cna hear more shooting, but cna't determine where it's coming from. The team splits.
Ravenholme, Patriot and Rodo take left, the rest go right. Firespawn and Dekker split from the second team to go down. We discover 3 aliens down.


Melvin quickly takes position on the upper walkway, Sparde runs down to join firespawn and Dekker. The plan is to lure hte aliels out so hte second team can open fire from above. Dekker plays the lure.

Reaction fire from Dekker and Melvin has little effect, but Firespan tosses 2 grenades.

They end up rolling too far, but still close enough to kill 1 alien.

Sparda tries his luck. His incendiarey fails completely but his explosive one finish off the already wounded alien.

the last one is killed by Melvins reaction fire.


A victory, but all civilians were killed.
There's jsut no way to save them, as they start too close to the civilians.




3 promotions in one mission!!!!
Celebrations are in order!



Alas, beign too focused on the mission, I neglected a lone UFO fighter that flew past hte base. At hte alst moment it changed couse and attacked! The aliens found our base! To make things worse the only one left in the base are Headdie...and me.

[TrashMan]

but we shall not give up! We will fight them in the air, in the sea. We shall fight them with pitchforks, in the nude and in a bowl of jello if necessary!!!

The sucidal team gears up. I take a flamer and Headdie a grenade launcher filled wiht Flechettes.
the first alien is jsut around the corner and falls to the burnign rage in my heart. And the napalm.



We place ourselves in this tight corridor and shoot the first alein that pops up. Ful lreaction fire on and then we hit End Turn.
Then they come



But hte combines firepower of a flechette grenade launcher and flamer (set to inferno sweep) is utterly devastating. Headdei even runs out of ammo as he was bursting all the time.

4 aliens are shredded in seconds!


A glorious, unexpected victory!!!!! 

[headdie]

boom Boom BOOM haaahaaahaaahaaahaaahaaaaaaaaa 

[FireSpawn]

boom Boom BOOM haaahaaahaaahaaahaaahaaaaaaaaa 

This needs MOAR DAKKA! 

[Colonol Dekker]

* Dekker is destined to be bait forever?

[TrashMan]

Yaaaay! I'm a reckless twonk!

Well, you DID manage to survive 3 turns alone..


EDIT:

Here's the link to the mod:
http://www.mediafire.com/?m5l94m656y142vm
You just place the ufo and model folders from in inside hte base folder.

[Patriot]

Did Dekker learn from Chuck Norris or the other way around?