Okay folks, back to the end of the world.
What I have a terrible suspicion will be our last operational mission is to Salvador, Brazil, for a Bomb Disposal on a bridge. Rookies Redsniper and IronBeer join Rodo for the finale.
Those little things with the green lights, and the one next to Redsniper without lights, are bomb power nodes. Plasma bombs are kinda power-intensive, you see. You get up next to one with moves left and you can turn it off (at no cost in moves) and delay the big kablooie.
Like so.
Rodo, flanked but not shot at by the aliens, takes cover behind a taxi and then blows one away.
Redsniper gets the other. We move up, takng down more power nodes and generally keeping the clock at three turns.
A couple more Thin Men bar the way, but fortunately IronBeer has a Cunning Plan
TM.
Grenade out!
The aliens respond with plasma fire, but do note that car one of them is hiding behind is burning. That's going to be important.
Right about...now. Scratch a Thin Man.
Rodo runs up and flanks the other, killing it a spray of automatic fire.
Two more. 3 turns on the clock. The big glowy thing is the bomb. We might pull this off. One alien takes cover there.
The other's over here.
It repositioned, giving Rodo a chance to move up for beside it, but no flank because of the centerline divider. Still did some good damage.
Shame about the retaliation. IronBeer just panicked, so I'm left with two turns and Redsniper to win the mission with.
Unfortunately, he missed. Then he got posioned.
Then he got dead.
Just a panicked IronBeer left. He took a shot but missed. The return did not.
Well ****.
The end of the month hit. We're broke. We have no more soldiers. Four more countries left. The project was shut down. The aliens conquered Earth. Whoopsie! In all honesty, as our last mission was a council mission rather than a UFO recovery or the like, it can be said we genuinely did manage to go out fighting. The hit on Rodo wasn't really the end, it was the failed panic check.
FOR ALL THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN DEFENSE OF THEIR PLANET:
Captain Talon 'Pitbull' 1024, 14 kills, 10 missions, lost 5/5/2015
Captain Scourge 'Smokey' of Ages, 19 kills, 9 missions, lost 5/15/2015
Captain esarai 'Killsteal', 16 kills, 9 missions, lost 5/15/2015
Sergeant Dire 'Longbow' Wolf, 8 kills, 8 missions, lost 5/5/2015
Corporal Polpolion, 6 kills, 4 missions, lost 5/5/2015
Corporal Rodo, 5 kills, 5 missions, lost 5/20/2015
Squaddie Pred the Penguin, 2 kills, 2 missions, lost 3/21/2015
Squaddie Mort, 2 kills, 2 missions, lost 5/15/2015
Rookie crizza, 1 kill, 1 mission, lost 3/28/2015
Rookie LHN91, 3 kills, 1 mission, lost 4/72015
Rookie SpardaSon21, 0 kills, 1 mission, lost 5/15/2015
Rookie FireSpawn, 0 kills, 1 mission, lost 5/15/2015
Rookie IronBeer, 1 kill, 1 mission, lost 5/20/2015
Rookie Redsniper, 1 kill, 1 mission, lost 5/20/2015
The game starts on 3/1/2015.
I am however pleased to report that, thanks the use of modding tools to change the name of one soldier from the DLC, the possibilities for a second try at this look bright. I'll let you know when we're starting.
