[Rodo]

wow, impressive base mission right there, you are already heroes.
Kudos!

[TrashMan]

I have to admin that I had to re-try that mission. A redicolous bugglitch happened, in which Headdie unloaded a full burt of flechette ammo at an unarmored alien. Point blank. 100% hit chance. All hit. Alien blood flying. No damage to the alien. 
I was going "WTF!?!?!?!" when that same alien killed headdie on his turn. The flechette burst is supposed to do 460+ damage. The Taman has like 130 health.
Still have no idea how or why it happened.

[TrashMan]

While our team was flying back, another terror mission hit..In the US of A.

Our dropship only landed back in base for 5 minutes to refuel (and so our tropps can take a potty break) and immediately continued to Juno, alaska.



It cold..and I should have given everyone arctic cammo. But that doesn't matter. We detect 3 aliens next to the UFO Harvester


The aliens hang around the front of the ship and open fire with everything. Dekker, who is positioned near the rear of the dropship gets hit twice. As I try to move him back he gets hit once again by alien reaction fire. IT turns out all shots are grazing ones and he's jsut a tad below half health. Firespawn and Melvin whip out healign kits.

Retsof opens up with the grenade launcher with on of hte aliens who came in clsoer and kills it.

We detect anohter alien behind the UFO.
Sparda and firespawn move towards it, using the trees nad boxes for cover. Their weapon ranges are too short for the shootout with the main alien group anyway. Malvin takes opsition insdie hte dropship to snipe.

Two turns of shooting follow. Spada has made it to the large container, Retsof and firespawn lagging behind. The reast have been fireing full bore from everyting. Constant auto-fire. Few hits scored.
Rhodo has the best hit-ratio, but only because he's using auto-sweep so he's spraying bullets everywhere. Dekker gets back int othe fight and his bur finished off the wounded alien.


The aliens return fire hits Ravenholme dead center. Twice. He is in critical state and I move him back into the dropship. The alien at the back of the ufo finally walked down and into Spardas reaction fire. That stopped him long enough for Sparda to finish him off next turn.

Retsof attempts a 3-round burst on the last alien next to the small water/oil tower, but all 3 of his grenades collide with the scaffolding. Yet the reast of the team compansates with a hail of bullets.

Another victory!

[Ravenholme]

Man, I'm a damn bullet sponge

[SpardaSon21]

Heh, I'm doing really well with my "shotgun to alien face" approach.

[TrashMan]

Mhoar action. The damn aliens keep increasing in frequency. I'm gonna hafta auto some battle methinks.
Anywoo..
Everyone reached the rank of Lance-Corporal in these missions... Expect for me, Patriot and Sparda (methinks) who hold captain rank. Will have to double-check.

We were mindin' our own buissnes, cllin and relaxin,
when  UFO land near our radar tower in New Africa...and it's up to no good in that neighborhood.
We sent one little dropship out and the aliens got scared, and said "we'll send a fighter to intercept you up in the air"



So we turned the dropship around and sent fighters of our own, and the alien fighter was the one to go down.
The cost was clear so our dropship landed, and we kicked the aliens off our planet.


A nice little map and Patriot got a easy first kill. the rest of us moved forward (and Ravnholm was still getting first aid from the last mission)



2 more aliens up, but with everyone on reactive fire, they were greeted by a wall of lead.

Melvin got one, but I honestly can't tell who killed the last one. It was a joint effort anyway, since all the shooting caused many minor wounds.


Anywhoo, we hit the crash alien ship on the way back and find ourself in another forest map. Alas, no screenshots for some reason (dunno why)
But we just pretty much did the "wall of lead" tactics with Headdie as bait (who almost died). Last alien was killed by Ravenholme, who finally ranked up.




Test of Saracen interceptor yielded satisfactory results

Greater range, greater speed, more armor than Stilleto. But less guns and less manouverability.

We clear that landed UFO too (auto) but on the way back, ANOTER landed UFO...blargh!




2 aliens ened up inside the UFO, 1 on the front. The front one was taken care of by Firespawn and Rodo, the two in the back were injured by combined injuries from our bullets and the dead was sealed by Retsofs grenade launcher


Now maybe we can finally get a few days of lower activit-


DAMMIT!

[Rodo]

Be carefull with those missions far away from the base, that thing that happened before with the fighter appearing out of nowhere to hunt your dropship is a dangerously repeating scenario.

[TrashMan]

Thankfully, I can send a Saracen as an escort. It has the range. Too bad it's worse than a Stilleto in a dogfight.

...

So we go in to Australia. Long flight and an iffy mission. A gigantic farm, but I pre-emptively equipped both Sparda and Firespawn with sniper rifles (as they have the best sniper skill aside from Melvin...I really need a dedicated sniper damit. Bad rolls with initial recruits) and I gave headdie a bazooka.


3 turns are spent until I realized the damn fence is like a impenetrable barrier and 3 missiles are wasted by headdie (hitting nothing) and my snipers spent 3 turns just sitting there looking pretty.
At least the rest of the team was moving around towards the barn. All the aliens we detected are high up..and we see...plasma rifles. And alien light armor! Uh-oh!


I move everyone up.. Me and Rhodo enter the barn and wait by the other entrance for an alien to come near.
Retsof takes position behind the barrels, Patriot (or was it Dekker?) stay at the lower end of the barn to heal up Headddie, who got hit by plasma fire.
The snipers take up positions to the right of the barn.
the first alien that comes too close gets toasted


3 more aliens runs down from above


Headdie dishes out some vengance


Firespawn and Sparda take out the second (actually third) one


And another alien appears!

But juditious application of firepower by Retsof and Rodo brings em down


The last alien emerges from the ships, only for Firespawn to roll a grenade beneath it's feet and me to cremate it. VICTORY!!!!

I'm playing on standard difficutly and still no deaths. DAYUM!

[crizza]

Am I ace yet?

[TrashMan]

ANOTHER TERROR MISSION!

Near our second base. and only 0.5 days left till the second large hangar (and dropship for the second team) is done!


I'm beginning to hate the aliens. REALLY hate em.


Anywhoo, we deploy and move forward cautiously, but for several turns, no alien contact. Since Firespawn was taking a shortcut trough the house and civies blocked him, we kinda waited a bit for him and formed a battle line..but no aliens popped up.

We moved forward - very, very cautiously. It took a few more turns to get to this position here:


and then they started coming. First a single Taman who tossed a plsma grenade, that hurt me and retsof a bit, but he was quickly put down.

then two bloodspiders

It turns out Flechette grenades are almost useless against them. Retsof empited the entire clip without bringing one down. My flamer brought one down but the other was still there..and I had no TU's left.
In the panic that ensued some friendly fire happened. I got hit by a stay bullet as everyone that could was shooting at the damn spiders. Firespawn and Ravneholme eventually killed it.


the wounded stayed back (and ironicly with the strongest close-combat weapons)
But only 1 unarmored taman was left - Headde finished it off easily.



Now maybe we can finally get some res-.... terror mission? In Mexico!!! FuUuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU


EDIt:
YEA.now that we have two functioning bases and 2 dropships, it's time to split the team. Who wants where?

[TrashMan]

Am I ace yet?

Game doesn't keep track of pilot kills yet sadly. but yeah..you took out quite a few. several UFO scouts and 3 UFO fighters IIRC.

[FireSpawn]

I'll stick with Dekker, bros got to stick together.   

[SpardaSon21]

Where are your bases, again?  If you have one in the U.S.A. I'd like to be there, and if not Europe is my second choice.

[TrashMan]

East Europe and China. Have to open up a new base in USA when I get the $$$...

[Rodo]

I don't care about location, so I'm free to transfer or stay as you see fit.

[Colonol Dekker]

Keep me in Europe, it's where I keep my stuff

[TrashMan]

Time for a new report and some statistics!


We go to Mexico and engage aliens thar. A large, cleared jungle area.

Practicly no cover..should have brought more long-range wepons


Only one armored alien pops up, but we slowly whittle it down with reaction fire from Ravenholme and Melvin seals the deal with a well-placed HEADSHOT.




Turns out it's better I didn't bring sniper rifles, as the rest of the aliens are holed up in their UFO

We approach slowly

and one alien exits. armored. With a plasma rifle. but he hits his own ships and the return fire from Firespawn, Rodo and Patriot (?) bring him down.


We move closer and another alien falls down to Rodos HMG


The third one stop in the corner...and Firespawn rolls a grenade right beaneth it.


We then move in. Retsof lobs 3 grenades in the face of the alien that just came down the stairs.


A narrow corridor, so only 1 soldiers can shoot at a time.and an armored alien popped up right in front of Melvin-

But Melvin gets off 2 reaction shots IN DA FACE. Sniper files aint' so bad in close combat after all....

Victory and we mosy back to base.



Statistics time!!!!


NAME          MISSIONS       KILLS          RANK

TrashMan           14            15          Sgt (Seargent)
Sparda               15            11          Cpl (Corporal)
Melvin                 22             8          Cpl
Rodo                   22           10          Cpl
Retsof                 17             9          Cpl
Patriot                 21             9          Cpl
Ravenholme        14             5          L-Cpl  (Lance-corporal)
Firespawn           18             7         L-Cpl
Headdie              22             10         Cpl
Dekker                21             8           Cpl



Crizza (Skydancer1)  - total kills (estimate): 9
Penguin (Skydancer 2) -  total kills (estimate): 4
Mongoose (Saracen 1): - total kills (estimate):  2


EDIT:
Rodo, Headdie, Melvin and Patriot seems to be the most experienced (and highest ranking). One of youz will take over command of the second base.

[Patriot]

I'll do it, but Corporal doesn't outrank a Sergeant sir.

[TrashMan]

I'll do it, but Corporal doesn't outrank a Sergeant sir.

I should have said - highest ranking except for me. I will of course remain in the main base.

[TrashMan]

I have autoed 2 mission (1 by our team and 1 by the second). but there's been a few things happening.

First of all Skydancer 1 and 2 have shot down another UFO fighter and we butchered the alines there. Report as follows:

Middle eastern town. Lots of cover.We detect 4 aliens immediately. 1 inside the small store, 1 on the roof of the house and 2 next to the UFO.
We scatter immediately. Patriot is still wounded from the last mission - so he takes cover behind the house



Ravenholme runs into the store and blasts the aline with a hail of bullets at point blank, but it's not enough to drop it. He has enough TU's to take a step to the right.

Which is just enough to clear Malvin line of fire. 1 alien down, 3 to go.

Retsof steps forward.

2 down, 2 to go.

The armored alien makes a sucidal jump from the roof and runs into the house Firespanw was in.

Firespawn responds with a grenade, but it's not aimed good and Firespawn also gets caught into the blast. minor injuries - even less on the alien.
He uses all reaming TU to shoot the thing with his pistol. All shots hit, but the armor is damn resillient.


Luckily, headde was near and the already injured alien was blown to bits.



4 down..but the mission isn't ending..hm..another one must be left.

I move Ravenholme and Headdie forward ((the only two left with the rank of L-cpl)
The two run into and kill the last alien

Well, mostly firespawn... Ranvholme was a further away and only 1 bullet of his hit.


As you can see here, team 1 and 2 were both on their way:

To different crash sites. the Saracen is working wonders against UFO scouts.
Alas, I couldn't auto this mission for team 2, so I have to play it. A freshly recruited team of n00bs (I still haven't transfered anyone). 5 aliens (3 with plasma rifles and armor)...youch.and yet they win with no losses (only injuries)


The month is done - so by selling all of the excess gear, ufo's and plus the funding recieved, I begin work on our third base "Area 51"
UFO Theroy has finished researching to boot.




Laboratories and workshops cost 100000$ each and take two weeks to built
But rejoice - son we shall lave Laz0r rifles. Then EM rifles and monomolecular blades