[Mika]

Combat diary part 2

Okay, I have to admit command did a rather brilliant move this time. Ditch shooting against foes with superior firepower, and figure out some new tactics! To begin with, bunch of our guys did not have any guns to bear with, which normally would have caused a serious concern among us. But they got a **** load of explosives and stun batons instead! You should have seen their grins when they were assigned! You know, we're still like those Mongols back in the time, if there's something they loved more than anything, it was outsmarting the enemy.

We got to throw C4 on one of them, he was hiding in a house. To our surprise, he got out and walked next to the explosives, and got consequently blown to bits. Yeah, these **********s do die like the rest of us. And one of our team punched a Sebillian into submission. I swear he quipped "Earth, welcome" as the unconscious alien dropped to his feet. It was the cleanest side hook I ever saw, can't forget the look on the alien's face when the fist connected. Don't go fisticuffs with the squadron's champion!

I got to fire an RPG too, gas grenades this time as it never was our intention to kill the aliens, just to capture them. The moment I squeezed the trigger I just could not but to think "Suck gas, evil-doer!" That moment still brings a grin to my face. Afterwards the recovery team had to keep the front doors open for several hours for the gas to clear out so that they could actually see a thing, so maybe we went a bit overboard with the grenades. Got promoted too, so I'm now Sarge.

In retrospect, we were very lucky too. Aliens got shots towards us, but none of them connected. After they took a look on captured alien weaponry, the eggheads were rather grim about our survivability when shot. But that's just the way it goes, the one who ****s up the least will usually win.

I love the sarcastic remarks of the research personnel in this game, they are not really for far from reality!

Yes commander, please do tell me how to do my job

[TrashMan]

Armor is in the works, but we only have 1 workshop (I'll have to rectify that) so it's slow. At the time of this writing we only have 4 armors in stock I believe.

Part 7 will be up in  an hour or two.

[TrashMan]

I meant part 8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7EhTKIyL0&feature=youtu.be

[Gortef]

If you need more troops then you will have my rifle.

Callsign: Gortef
And put me into good use, it's up to you TrashMan.

[TrashMan]

Will do.

Part 9 is uploading (you're not in in but you will be in part 10), but since it's a 35 minute bigge, it takes a while to upload.

We now have actual armor guys. ARMOR

[TrashMan]

PART 9:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z28mmiElmqE&feature=youtu.be

[TrashMan]

PART 10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1zWZ3uVJVM&feature=youtu.be

Two more people join our mottly crew.
And we kick more alien ass. Because we are awesome!

[TrashMan]

PART 11:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbbpq3CArwI&feature=youtu.be

[StarSlayer]

Ouch, not a good day for the flyboys.

[Mika]

MINOR MISHAP DECLARATION FORM


NAME: Mika                                                     RANK:Lieutnant             
UNIT: CLASSIFIED                                        OPERATION: CLASSIFIED         

WHAT WAS LOST/BROKEN? Train car, cargo              (x 1)                                                                           
                                           Train car  wheel, steel    (x 3)                                                                           
                                           Cargo, train car              (x 2)                                                                           
                                           Combat jacket, Jackal    (x 3)                                                                             
                                           Combat helmet, black    (x 2)                                                                               

HOW WAS IT LOST? RPG firing mishap, I swear the thing swerves to right as is evident from the performances
                                of other rocketeers. Everybody missed towards right, it MUST be an equipment fault.       
                                The blast broke the personal armor of nearby stationed soldiers, including mine                 

ESTIMATE THE WORTH OF LOST / BROKEN EQUIPMENT:
How could I know what was inside the cargo containers? 99 999 $ for the train car.               
                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                   

Please note the following listing of mishaps
CLASS A: Damage > 1.000.000 $                    Will lead to further investigations possibly leading to court martial.
CLASS B: Damage  100.000 $ - 999.999 $      Will lead to further investigation by the local MP.
CLASS C: Damage < 99.999 $                         Will lead to unit level investigation.

DESCRIBE THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE MISHAP:
                                  On a CLASSIFIED mission to CLASSIFIED. Our objective of the mission was CLASSIFIED, part of operation CLASSIFIED.                                                               
                                  The mishap occured in the CLASSIFIED of the mission, when I was CLASSIFIED to shoot a rocket into CLASSIFIED, which was taken by CLASSIFIED.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

HAS SEARCH / RECOVERY BEEN ATTEMPTED (YES/NO)? IF NO, WHY NO? NO. Could not because CLASSIFIED area was CLASSIFIED in the vicinity of CLASSIFIED.

I swear the information I gave is correct and true and I have been informed that giving false information is punishable by Act. 23 § 1 of CLASSIFIED Operations procedure

Mika
Mika

Date: CLASSIFIED


The part below this row shall be filled by the investigative board

Outcome: Declaration not accepted                                                                         
                The board sees this as a result of negligence in weapon usage.             

Actions:    (1) Disciplinary                                                                                           
                 (2) Lt. Mika has to pay the carriage back from his salary.                         
                 (3) The investigative board recommends that the squad spends more   
                      time in the RPG training.                                                                       


On behalf of the investigative board,

Colonel R. U. Maad
Commander of CLASSIFIED operations

Remember the CLASSIFIED motto: "Always supporting our troops!"

[Gortef]

Damnit! Even if we bring the results some of the countries are still not happy.
Granted we can't really be everywhere... yet... but they should try to see big picture.

Looks like l'm good at suppressing people with a sniper rifle, go me.

[TrashMan]

Soon I'll start distributing LAZ0RS among our troops.


Now, I'm playing with the "light" version of my mod (just adds advanced ballistics and 2 aircraft), but I'm thinking of switching to heavy (re-balancing of ALL weapons and aliens. Save games are NOT affected, re-starts are not required).

Currently, armor values are underused for aliens, and aliens just get a HP boost and weapon tiers are a clear and linear progression (ballistics < lasers < plasma < MAG).
I find both boring so I've begun to heavily mod the game, to both increase the importance of armor and give different weapon types strengths and weaknesses.
so ballistics would be all about lots of dakka and ease of use.
lasers are all about accuracy and range
plasma is high damage + splash damage, but low range and accuracy
MAG is armor penetration at it's finest.

Also, I'm thinking of splitting lasers into regular lasers and pulse lasers.

[TrashMan]

Part 12:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BmggT6kPHw&feature=youtu.be

[Gortef]

The pilot of Condor-4, we salute you. o7

(Yay my first 2 kills)

[TrashMan]

Part 13:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULZlWT7tBTI&feature=youtu.be

EDIT:
Also, Scotty, you want to switch aircraft?
Soon we'll have a beefed modified F-14 in our arsenal.
There are two varriants mind you: a 2 missile slot (can carry torpedos OR missiles) + gun varriant; and a 4 gun varriant.

note: there is no real pilot switching, but I can easily keep track of your killcount...which is 8 UFO's by now IIRC

[Gortef]

Ooh~! That was a tight one. And I missed that last shot, damn. Good thing Jaegers nerves are like steel.

[Scotty]

I like the 4-gun model, if only for the Independence Day imagery.

[Rodo]

Rodo's log, entry 2:

My acuracity on last mission sucked baaad.
Mental note: I need bigger caliber guns, I recon bigger caliber gives me even more chances of hiting something maybe?
Second mental note: Never stand alone against one of those green aliens. Scary little buggers can take a pounding.

[TrashMan]

Part 14:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNX8A0MQ9tk&feature=youtu.be

[Gortef]

Oh boy. Scotty is going to kick some major alien arse with that new aircraft.