Avenge me boys! Avenge me! (X-Com)

[MacroGuru]

Alright, so I proceeded to get our collective asses kicked in Gootan Attacks! or Mars! or Nizami! (http://osatwork.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=85579)

I am starting a whole new dynasty and hoping we can get further than the last. I am going to try a little something different with the style unless everyone liked how I did the other thread.

You can post in here or at the end of the other thread to state your character name, if you prefer a male or female, country of origin.

Also, please vote at where HQ should be. Choices are:

North America - Aircraft maintenance/cost is reduced by 50%. You can create interceptors for cheaper, and their monthly fees are reduced.

South America - Interrogations an autopsies complete instantly. autopsies provide certain projects and gear, which typically requires corpses. Interrogations typically yield research bonuses.

Africa - Monthly income is increased by 30%. This means that at the end of the month, when you collect your income, it will be boosted, allowing you to build/buy more things in any given month.

Europe - Labs and Workshops cost 50% less to build and maintain. Labs grant scientists and speed up research. Workshops grant engineers and can reduce the cost of buildings

Asia - 50% discount on in the Foundry and Officer Training School projects. The Officer Training School bonus is pretty nice in the early game, and there are a few "gear improvements" in the Foundry that can be useful.

FOFC Starting Roster So Far
Sterling Silvers
Shane Sexton
Da Law
Slag Rooney
Ardent Enthusiast
Benton Gale
Ches O'Peake
Deacon Palmer
Coffee Warlord (An assumption because he has been throwing bodies around between both threads like they are skittles)
Mar Mel
Jerome Alstott
Ren Snow

[BYU 14]

I vote Europe, that way Roomey can catch some Man U matches :)

[Grover]

I second the vote for Europe.

[sterlingice]

No idea. Whichever one keeps us from dying the most :D

SI

[ntndeacon]

I like the idea of Interrogations so South America sounds good, but Iwould not be opposed to Europe either.

[ntndeacon]

dola:
please put Deacon Pal;mer on trhe list of the cannon fodder...err, I mean volunteers

[MacroGuru]

dola:
please put Deacon Pal;mer on trhe list of the cannon fodder...err, I mean volunteers

Done...

FYI...voting on HQ will go until 9 pm EST tonight. I will then begin the new dynasty.

[Marmel]

I'll sign up and vote for Africa.

Mar Mel (gender and everything else can be whatever)

[Brian Swartz]

Jerome Alstott again.

Something European.

HQ should be in Africa, it's a much better bonus at the beginning of the game than any other IMO.

LOL at the comments on Coffee Warlord! :)

[Poli]

Djibouti.

[MacroGuru]

1st Mission
Commanders Log 2015.3.1

Based upon a lot of politicking that I had to be a part of we were able to get our secretly funded team in Africa. We have received some extra financial incentive to be here and it seems to help out the recruits.

Our first mission happens while the new recruits are getting settled. Our Skyranger is hauling to Port Harcourt, Nigeria at a fast food restaurant. The squad that was sent was:

Rk. Roberto Lopez (Spain)
Rk. Hoda Canaan (Nigeria)
Rk. Duane Kelly (USA)
Rk. Man Shik Shin (South Korea)

We decided on a slow moving approach as we are not 100 sure who were are dealing with here. as Kelly moves forward he spots two freaky large head and eye aliens that appear slimey take off into the building. Kelly is on over watch and uses that time to aim one down and pull the trigger, the assault rifle tears into their flesh easy and the green blood oozes out.

They finish moving around when Kelly pops up again and takes another alien out, this one through two car windows and simply destroyed it's chest.

The rest move and go into over watI think Hoda and Shin were caught by a little bit of surprise and missed both their over watch shots.

The squad slowly enters the building as they want to tactical exit from two spots in the back.

We hear noise as they scramble along the roof and drop down to surprise us. Hoda unleashes blindly through the rook and wipes out an alien with her over watch. She then drops the rifle letting the sling hold it and spins and tosses a grenade, eliminating a wall of the fast food joint and the alien while she was at it.

Shin spins and fires at one hiding at the door. Lopez moves up and hits the alien, and Kelly finally rattles a few shots off in his chest and watches him go down. Looking at it, Kelly yells back at Hoda inside the restaurant "Clean up in the main lobby."

6 Aliens Killed (Excellent)

0 Operators Killed (Excellent)

Lopez is promoted to Squaddie Heavy
Kelly is promoted to Squaddie Sniper
Hoda is promoted to Squaddie Assault.

I assign the research team to focus on xeno biology. I think we can catch one of these guys. I also ask the engineers to build a satellite and a power generator.

[MacroGuru]

2nd Mission
Commanders Log 2015.3.4

We have been notified of alien abductions in 3 locations:

Bangalore, India (Moderate/ $200)
Buenos Aires, Argentina (Very Difficult/4 Scientists)
Dallas, US (Moderate/4 Engineers)

Looks at the panic levels right now, we decide to travel to the US. as we will be breaking in 2 new rookies.

The squad that goes in is:

Rk. Mar Mel
Rk. Ardent Enthusiast (Medkit)
Sq. Roberto Lopez (Heavy)
Sq. Duane Kelly (Sniper)

We drop down in Dallas at a road construction site. I send Mel to the right with Kelly and AE to the left with Lopez. Mel has immediate contact and the sectoids scramble. Mel pulls up and shoots, missing one in her excitement.

One of the sectoids fires at Mel and misses but the other is able to hit. Mel brushes it off as her cover took most of it.

AE shifts to the right and misses, Kelly moves up and misses and Lopez decides to bad the niceties and sends a rocket at the truck that the sectoids were hiding behind. It takes 1 out. The other back, shooting at Mel and missing.

Kelly moves up to get a better shot and waits. AE is moving over to play medic role. Lopez opens up with the LMG and misses.

The aliens move around and are staying back. AE finally arrives at Mel and heals her up.

The aliens start to move and Lopez catches one in his line of site and opens up missing two of them. Mel and AE both shoot from their position missing.

Well, Lopez earned the aliens attention and two of them launch an assault against him and missing. A third alien moves up and shoots towards Mel and AE and hits AE.

Lopez gets sick of throwing hot lead and tosses a grenade taking out 2 in the explosion. Lopez starts laughing.

Another alien joins in and they both fire at Mel as AE is still ducked behind cover surveying his wounds. They both miss and Kelly finally gets a clean shot with her sniper missing.

The aliens move and try to set up a better position. Mel is watching the entire time and gauges it just right as she unhooks a grenade from her harness, begins to run and tosses the grenade right in between both aliens. The explosion takes out two cars and both aliens.

The squad mops up the site and are on their way.

Mar Mel was promoted to Squaddie Support and is out for 8 days.
Ardent Enthusiast is wounded and out for 7 days.

We were able to gather up some of the pieces of the sectoids and fragments of their weapons. (6 corpses and 4 fragments).

The team at base informs me a workshop is available.

[Coffee Warlord]

Coffee Warlord (An assumption because he has been throwing bodies around between both threads like they are skittles)

Somewhere deep in the mountains, there's a small breeding facility, generating clone after clone of strange creatures known as Coffee Warlords. They live, they fight, they die.

[Grover]

Somewhere deep in the mountains, there's a small breeding facility, generating clone after clone of strange creatures known as Coffee Warlords. They live, they fight, they die.

I hope after thousands upon thousands of clones they don't start coming out all twisted and mutated.

[Coffee Warlord]

I hope after thousands upon thousands of clones they don't start coming out all twisted and mutated.

Science is a cruel, cruel mistress.

[MacroGuru]

Somewhere deep in the mountains, there's a small breeding facility, generating clone after clone of strange creatures known as Coffee Warlords. They live, they fight, they die.

Coffee Warlord Cloning Center

http://wherebadmovieslive.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/kurt_russell_soldier.jpg

[hoopsguy]

Somewhere deep in the mountains, there's a small breeding facility, generating clone after clone of strange creatures known as Coffee Warlords. They live, they fight, they die.

Mostly die.

[RendeR]

Sign me up General:

Private Ren Snow ready for duty SIR!

http://www.obviouswinner.com/storage/post-images/bad-ass-military-soldier.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1279721342065

[MacroGuru]

Will do.

Mission 2 has been played. I have been away from home and will post and play mission 3 tomorrow.

[MacroGuru]

We have finalized Xeno Biology research and now our research team wants to capture a live alien, so they being research on a device that will allow us to do just that, they call it the Arc Thrower.

We transfer an interceptor to Asia because it looks like we will need to launch the satellite we are working on over India.

Mission 3
Commanders Log 2015.3.14

We have UFO contact over Nigeria and we scramble the interceptor. It takes 1 shot but ends up dropping the UFO and command goes crazy. This pilot will never have to buy a drink again.

I gather a team together and send them to the site. I am trying to get some combat experience within the group. So I send out:

Rk. Da Law
Rk. Coffee Warlord (Medkit)
Sq. Roberto Lopez (Heavy)
Sq. Duane Kelly (Sniper)

We land out in the middle of nowhere, but the funny thing is, there is a broken down truck with some flares in the middle of a road. The owner is no where to be found. I bet you he soiled his pants when this thing came down and booked it back to civilization.

The layout of the terrain is weird, so I send Warlord to the right supported by Lopez up the middle, tending to the right with Law and Kelly up the left. I order them to move carefully, so it's slow go as they move and look, move and look.

Kelly reports of noise to the left and in the center. I order the movement to slow and shift CW up the road towards the truck, once he gets there I order him to sit and wait.

Lopez moves up and has immediate contact with 2 sectoids and they scramble, falling back. I tell everyone to wait and see what happens.

Our patience is awards as both aliens move forward trying to get into position. Lopez and Kelly both pop out of over watch and misses an alien while Law manages to wound it.

Law tries to keep the fire going on the wounded alien but misses. Lopez wants nothing of the alien right now and tosses a grenade finishing him off.

The 2nd alien moves up, trying to get into a decent position to attack but Lopez steps out from behind his tree and rips him to shreds, that is now 2 kills for Lopez.

We sit and slowly move, when Lopez and CW both mention of noise to the right. It looks like they might be trying to flank us. I order CW to fall back into the tree line with the rest of the squad and we set up an ambush site and wait.

The aliens don't wait long as they move into our firing zones. Lopez fires missing. I order Law up and behind a tree to get better position and he fires when he gets there, missing. The aliens begin to move and CW tries to catch them and misses. One sets up and rips a green gooey shot off at Lopez, hitting him and the tree he is behind. It tears him up pretty good.

I order CW to fire and work his way over to Lopez. He opens up and misses. Lopez is pissed and pulls the launcher off his back and sends a rocket at the alien that hit him, exploding the tree it was behind and the alien itself. There isn't much left but a green splat. Kelly finally turns into the sniper he is and takes out an Alien that was trying to move up and get a clean shot at CW.

CW moves over and hits Lopez with a medkit. It's amazing technology as Lopez starts to heal up almost immediately.

I order a slow movement up towards the area the last two aliens come from and we catch sight of the large UFO. We slowly move towards a few holes we see in the hull. CW get's close enough to catch something in the UFO, it was gold and moved quick. He points out where it ducked to the rest of the squad.

Lopez moves up and fires from behind a tree missing. Kelly moves up and hides behind a piece of the hull stuck in the ground. He snaps a shot off with his pistol and hits the alien.

Alien steps out from behind the cover. Oh my, our scientists are going nuts about this being saying it is made of energy or something. CW doesn't hear anything because he is focused on the beam that is coming right at him. It rips him in the chest and the only thing that saved him was his last minute turn trying to pull a matrix move. He panics and rips a shot off into nowhere.

Lopez opens up with the LMG shredding the alien behind it's cover but not taking it down, dang this thing is tough!

Law has enough and runs up with grenade in hand and tosses it right where the alien is, tearing out a hole in the side of the UFO but killing the alien.

They squad finishes a sweep of the ship and surrounding area and it's empty.

We ended up killing 5 aliens and not sustaining any casualties.

Lopez is promoted to Corporal
Kelly is promoted to Corporal
Law is promoted to Squaddie Sniper

Lopez is out of commission for 5 days while Coffee Warlord will be out for 14 days, but he is quite relieved he was able to survive.

Our recovery efforts nabbed us:

4 Sectoid Corpses
25 Elerium
50 Alien Alloys
4 Weapon Frags
2 UFO Flight Computers
UFO Power Source

[BYU 14]

Nice haul, those crash site recoveries net some nice coin on the gray market :)

[MacroGuru]

The Arc Thrower research is complete and I order one built. Our satellite is complete as well, we launch it for India.

We are then advised of Alien abductions. We have the following areas calling for help:

Lille, France (Panic 2, Difficult, $200)
Mexico City, Mexico (Panic 2, Difficult, 4 Scientists)
Hong Kong, China (Panic 2, Moderate, Sgt. Assault)

Still wanting to get some guys trained up and everyone is equal in panic level so I send the squad off to Hong Kong.

Mission 4
Commanders Log 2015.3.26

I compile the following squad:

Sq. Deacon Palmer (Sniper)
Cpl. Roberto Lopez (Heavy)
Rk. Shane Sexton
Rk. Deacon Palmer (Medkit)

We touchdown on the corner of a shopping district. I immediately send Lopez to set up behind a delivery truck and he has contact with 2 sectoids inside the corner store. The aliens scramble, one breaks out a window and runs behind a corner the other drops back behind some shelves inside.

Sexton moves up, hides behind a pod and fires, missing. Law moves up and does the same missing with his pistol. Palmer moves up behind a car and misses as well.

The alien pops out from behind the corner of the building and shoots at Palmer missing. I send Lopez around the side of the truck and he sees the alien in the store with it's back to him. He unleashes hell with the LMG and tears the little guy apart.

Law fires with his rifle, shredding the side of the building a bit, but missing. Sexton moves behind a car and tosses a grenade at the corner. It explodes taking out the side of the building and wastes the alien.

I move the guys to inside the shop so there can be a good solid base to set up from. We pick up some noise north of us. We moves towards that direction and we have contact with 2 more sectoids. Lopez wastes one through the wall, it is pulverized from the LMG. Palmer moves to the window, taking cover and misses the other alien.

The alien moves up, taking cover behind a garbage can and the building. He fires and hits Palmer. Palmer, bleeding a little moves back into the building. Sexton runs over to where Palmer was and sends some lead towards the alien catching it in the chest and dropping it immediately.

We asses the wounds on Palmer and not having them life threatening move up to the alleyway where the two sectoids came from. We then hear some noise from the building next door. We approach the back door, setting up a decent perimeter.

The aliens must have grown tired of waiting as they try to bust out the back door and they do it right into our arms. Lopez empties his LMG into one sectoid and the other runs to take cover behind a dumpster.

Lopez drops the gun and pulls a pin on a grenade lobbing it over right into the lap of the alien. BOOM! Nothing left but green parts.

Clean up of the site after that went flawless.

6 Aliens killed and 0 casualties was nice.

Recovery of 6 corpses and 8 weapon fragments.

Lopez was promoted to Sgt.
Sexton was promoted to Squaddie Sniper

China reduced Panic by 1
Panic increased in North America and Europe

We received Sgt. Kaun-Yin Pang from China for our assistance.

Palmer will be out for 7 days

We are now able to build an Officer Training School.

[Grover]

Nice couple of missions in a row. Looking good.

[MacroGuru]

Mission 5
Commanders Log 2015.3.27

No sooner does the Skyranger land back at HQ when I am called into a council meeting.

It appears the aliens have planted a large ass bomb right in the middle of a bridge in France. We are asked to dispose of it and any aliens.

What else am I to do except to say aye-aye.

I tell Law and Lopez to stay dressed and pick two others to go. Our squad for this is:

Sq. Da Law (Sniper)
Sgt. Roberto Lopez (Heavy)
Rk. Slag Rooney
Sq. Mar Mel (Support)

We touchdown at the south end of the bridge and have 2 power cells fairly close but the rest are a ways away.

Lopez moves up and covers while Slag moves up to one source and disarms it. Law and Mel move over to the left to get to the other source. Law catches a new human looking alien. The alien moves to flank.

Rooney moves over to the other power source and disarms it and drops back. Another thin man moves over to flank Rooney and Lopez.

Mel shoots and hits the alien on their side as it moves to flank. The alien then drops a poison bomb on Law. Mel watches with intensity as the alien sets up behind a car. Mel takes aim through the front window and empties into the alien.

Lopez moves up towards another power source and has contact with 2 sectoids. We now have a thin man and 2 sectoids in the way of most of the power sources. I get Slag to move up to one.

I am informed by control the bomb is almost armed, I am relying on a rookie now to help save us. An alien pulls up and shoots and hits Slag and he does the rookie thing and panics, firing wildly and then hunkering down. The squad tries to get to the power source and disarm it without fear of their well being.

Law takes a shot in the head and drops, another alien moves and takes out Rooney. Lopez and Mel realize it's futile and I order them to drop back. The bomb is already armed and this mission is a waste. They get into the Skyranger and take off.

As we fly away from France, I only know they will be in full panic mode from this blast.

1 Alien killed and 2 Casualties plus a failed mission, not our best day.

[MacroGuru]

March Council Report

France withdraws due to the failed mission and the council is not happy about it. We are given a B rating for the month, with the last mission deducting the worst to our grade.

We receive around $305 and 2 Engineers for the new month. I order construction on the Alien Containment facility and Officers Training School.

I also order the study of Beam Weapons now that we finish up Weapons Fragment research. We are now able to produce SCOPE.

The Panic Levels are as follows:

US 2
Canada 3
Mexico 4
Argentina 4
Brazil 3
UK 2
Russia 2
Germany 2
China 1
Japan 2
India 1
Australia 2
Egypt 2
South Africa 2
Nigeria 1

[BYU 14]

Damn rookie!! respawn on Rooney please with his brother Tig Rooney.

[MacroGuru]

Damn rookie!! respawn on Rooney please with his brother Tig Rooney.

Yeah, and if would have taken his laser beam like a good boy, he would have been able to disarm the power source and we would be just fine.....:p

[Coffee Warlord]

...I lived?

[BYU 14]

...I lived?

Hey, you haven't died yet in mine :)

[MacroGuru]

...I lived?

Yes you did, and I was excited for you.

[Coffee Warlord]

Hey, you haven't died yet in mine :)

Due to the large number of orders, the Coffee Warlord Combat Cloning Facility occasionally gets confused as to which Coffee Warlord Units are active and which units are in need of replacing. :)

[MacroGuru]

Mission 6
Commanders Log 2015.4.01

We scramble an interceptor to meet a UFO over Nigeria. It is a quick battle and the UFO is dropped. We scramble the following squad to the Skyranger:

Sgt. Kuan-Yin Pang (Assault)
Sgt. Roberto Lopez (Heavy)
Rk. Ardent Enthusiast
Sq. Shane Sexton (Sniper)

We land just south of the UFO and AE is sent to the North. When he hits a spot for overwatch he catches sight of 3 sectoids and fires away missing. They move to flank AE and he spins and fires, dropping one.

Pang misses and they move up more with one of them firing at Sexton missing. Sexton returns fire and hits with his pistol. Lopez roars a shot with the LMG missing and AE misses. Pang notices the two sectoids are grouped together and runs up tossing a grenade and eliminating them both. While he does this it appears that 3 Floaters were pulled out of their cover and move up on the squad.

Lopez spots one and drops it immediately. AE misses while Pang turns and wheels on a 2nd and kills it. Lopez is left alone and tries to down the last one but misses and his body is shredded by the last floater, dropping to the ground and slowly bleeding out.

Pang moves up and takes the clean shot from behind and blows the damn thing up.

We wipe out 6 aliens and suffer 0 operator casualties.

Ardent Enthusiast is promoted to Squaddie Support.

Lopez is gravely wounded and will be out for 14 days.

We recovered:

3 Sectoid Corpses
3 Floater Corpses
21 Elerium
94 Alien Alloys
10 Weapon Fragments
3 UFO Flight Computers
2 Power Sources

[MacroGuru]

We finalize the Alien Containment facility as well as Officer Training School which we promptly take advantage of by adding an additional squad member and training on wet work (25% XP increase).

We start digging an access lift and excavating because I want to get another power generator and satellite up-link going.

We are notified of Alien Abductions taking place:

Dallas, USA Moderate Panic 2 $200
Johannesburg, South Africa Moderate Panic 2 4 Engineers
Shanghai, China Moderate Panic 1 Assault Sgt

The money and the US is needed more than the Engineers right now. Besides, we should keep South Africa fairly low with it being so close.

Mission 7
Commanders Log 2015.04.09

Squad that is selected for the mission is:

Cpl Duane Kelly (Sniper)
Sgt Kuan-Yin Pang (Assault)
Sq Ardent Enthusiast (Support w/ Arc Thrower)
Sq Shane Sexton (Sniper w/ S.C.O.P.E.)
Rk. Ren Snow w/ Medkit

We land down in the middle of a shopping complext. We believe in the move and wait game which the squad does. We are all set whn 2 floaters attempt to scare the hell out of the squad, They are startled and miss on their over watch coverage.

AE moves and misses. Pang moves to covers AE and wakes up some dirty man. Right now we see Floaters, Sectoids and thin men beginning to emerge. Sexton fires and missis.

Kelly takes out the floater
sectoid shoots @ AE and missies
Pang is killed by thin man from a flanking shoot. Ren Panics

Sexton drops thin man
Kelly headshots a floater
AE moves up and misses.

Thin man shoots at Ren missing

Alien hits AE as he moves to positiion.

Ren drops a thin man,
AE IS PUT INTO CRITICAL CHANCE Of dYING.

Sexton drops thin man

Sexton Head shots an alien and Kelly moves up with his pistols

The aliens shoot at Kelly and misses. Kelly tosses a grenade and destroys what he needed to do.

6 Aliens Killed
1 Squadmate Down

Sexton promoted to cpl
Kelly promoted to Sgt
Snow promoted Sq. Heavy

AE Is out for 11 days.

2 sectoids
2 floaters
2 thin men
10 Weapons Frags

Panic Decreases in Us by 1
Panic Increases in Asia
Panic Increase in Africa

[ntndeacon]

We want more Palmer... Either that or prettier nurses!

[CrimsonFox]

Fox McCloud, Male, Scotland (if you are taking newbies)

[MacroGuru]

Working on it...now that I can get 5 into the squad, I am trying to get the rookies in to bump them up in rank...

[BYU 14]

Cool, Rooney is chomping at the bit :)

It is tough bringing more than 1 or 2 rookies along after that first month, things just ramp up dificulty wise.

[MacroGuru]

Cool, Rooney is chomping at the bit :)

It is tough bringing more than 1 or 2 rookies along after that first month, things just ramp up dificulty wise.

I think so...It's why I tend to run the vets a little to long. But I think a good mix of vet and rookie will help out a lot.

[MacroGuru]

Mission 8
Commanders Log 2015.04.14

We are called to action due to the news cast of the aliens changing tactics and going in for an out right attack in Mendoza, Argentina. It's at a Panic level of 4 and very difficult. We have no choice but to save them.

The squad consists of:

Sq. Mar Mel (Support)
Sq. Ren Snow (Heavy)
Cpl. Shane Sexton (Sniper)
Sgt. Duane Kelly (Sniper)
Rk. Coffee Warlord with Medkit

We are in an area that contains about 18 civilians that need to be rescued, and it is on a freeway interchange going into the city. Cars are overturned, parts of the overpass are collapsed and there is a large Billboard off to the left.

We start to move forward slowly, going into over watch. The aliens make themselves known immediately, these weird looking crawlers come out right at us. Our scientists call them Chryssalids, I will just call them crawlers.

With the crawlers moving towards the squad, they all unleash on it, Sexton hits it and Ren hits it, the thing is tough!

Warlord moves up and finishes it off and Sexton rips towards the other one hitting it. The other crawler drops back and you can hear it attack and kill a civilian.

In the meantime, Kelly and CW saves two civilians while another one is lost. Sexton is standing over watch as the last crawler comes back into view, he takes aim with the rifle and drops it immediately with a head shot. Sexton then moves to high ground going up on the Billboard.

CW moves forward saving 2 civilians while everyone keeps watch. That is when 2 Floaters make themselves known. They move towards the group, CW misses and Kelly hits one with a head shot. The floater call down two more and now we are sitting at 3 floaters and they all move towards the group and the civilians that the squad is trying to protect.

Kelly misses and Ren realizing the gravity of the situation drops the LMG and pulls out the rocket, sending a shot right in between 2 of the floaters. The resulting explosion and chaos sends the bodies of the 2 across the bridge and up against an overturned tanker. That leaves one more that tries to scramble away, CW wounds it in its haste to escape.

The squad starts rescuing civilians and moving towards where the last floater ducked. As we get about halfway to the other 2 corpses the floater comes out and tries to bum rush us. Kelly was ready and drops the sucker.

Command informs me and everyone else there are no other alien life forms detected in the area. We walk around and make sure all civilians are safe. Quite a success if you ask me rescuing 16 and only losing 2 civilians. The squad took out 6 aliens and managed to stay alive AND unharmed.

Sexton was promoted to Sgt.
Kelly was promoted to Lt.
Snow was promoted to Cpl.
Mel was promoted to Cpl.
CW was promoted to Squaddie Assault.

We recovered:

4 Floaters
2 Chryssalids
4 Weapon Frags

Panic in Argentina dropped by 3 and decreased across South America.

[BYU 14]

Nice job and damn the Chryssalids for showing up, hate those suckers.

[Grover]

Sgt. Sexton, bad ass. That was a ruthlessly efficient mission.

[MacroGuru]

It was an amazing mission, the Chryssalids charged right at us while we were on over watch. It could have been a nightmare if they didn't or we would have missed, they were right in the middle of the squad when they charged.

[Coffee Warlord]

Hey hey, looks like the Coffee Warlord Combat Unit Facility is starting to pump out some better models finally.

[RendeR]

Fire a rocket into a bug hole, you get a lot of dead bugs.

[MacroGuru]

We are alerted to some more alien abductions, this time they are in:

Cairo, Egypt Panic 3 Difficult, 4 Engineers
Munich, Germany Panic 2 Moderate, Sgt. Sniper
Brasilia, Brazil Panic 1 Easy, $200

I do not need another Sniper right now and Brazil is only at a 1 so we head out to Cairo.

Mission 9
Commanders Log 2015.04.16

I call up:

Cpl. Mar Mel (Support)
Cpl. Ren Snow (Heavy)
Sgt. Shane Sexton (Sniper)
Sq. Coffee Warlord (Assault)
Rk. Deacon Palmer

We touch down at the end of a long city street with cars emptied throughout. We slowly start a movement up the road, we have Ren moving on the left, Shane and Coffee in the middle and Mel and Palmer on the right.

We have contact pretty quickly with 2 sectoids on the left and 2 thin men on the right. They all scramble.

Mel lines up a thin man in his sites and shreds his chest sending him flying backwards. Palmer lines up the other thin man and wounds him sending him in retreat mode.

Sectoid shoots at Palmer, missing and then moves up but Ren catches him with the LMG and puts it down.

Mel begins to move up, but forgot about the thin man and takes a nasty hit in the left shoulder. He slams up against the side of a cop car and peeks over and sees 2 more thin men to the left.

Palmer moves towards Mel to support, he shoots and misses.
Sexton is in the middle in cover behind a car, he moves to the left, catches site of a thin man and fires, hitting and wounding.

Ren moves up a little more and exposes 2 floaters. So thinking about it, we now have 1 Sectoid, 3 thin men and 2 floaters against the 5 of us, I like the odds, especially when Ren likes to make things go boom. He does just that tossing a grenade into the middle of 2 floaters and a thin man. The thin man explodes and the floater is wounded. CW and Mel both miss their targets.

A Floater moves so fast he ends up behind Ren while another moves and starts sending suppressing fire at Sexton. What the floater that landed behind Ren didn't realize was he was in range for CW. CW makes a flanking move and is within Arc Thrower range and stuns the floater! We have captured a live alien!

Ren moves to the right of the car he is behind, pops out of cover and takes out the floater suppressing Sexton.

Mel draws a bead on a thin man and misses, the thin man returns fire ripping into Mel's chest. Mel slumps to the ground and is bleeding out. We do not have a lot of time, but since Mel was our support no one else had a med kit. We have to wipe the aliens out.

Palmer moves up and takes out the thin man as does Sexton. The sectoid is moving and evading while we try to corner it. It finally gets tired and tries to flank on the left and fires at CW missing. CW returns fire and Palmer moves towards it in a flanking maneuver and takes it out.

As Palmer drops the alien, command lets us know Mel bleeds out....Damnit.

8 Aliens Killed
1 Operator Killed

Sexton is promoted to Lt.
Snow is promoted to Sgt.
CW is promoted to Cpl.
Palmer is promoted to Squaddie Support.

We were able to recover:

Light Plasma Rifle
2 Sectoids
Floater
4 Thin Man
1 Floater Captured
12 Weapon Fragments

Panic increased in South America and Europe while it decreased by 2 in Egypt.

We immediately stop research on Beam Weapons and move to interrogate the Floater.

[MacroGuru]

Mission 10
Commanders Log 2015.04.26

We have interrogated the Floater and all he did was get our scientist's panties in knots about capturing one of those damn "all energy" beings. Not going to happen anytime soon docs.

We are alerted to a UFO landing in India and send out a squad to investigate.

Sgt. Roberto Lopez (Heavy)
Sgt. Ren Snow (Heavy)
Lt. Shane Sexton (Sniper)
Cpl. Coffee Warlord (Assault)
Sq. Deacon Palmer (Support)

We have high ground on the left and immediately move to that area. It's maybe a couple of minutes into our movement and CW has contact with 3 sectoids causing them to scramble. Deacon moves up and fires, missing.

The aliens move and try to get themselves into position taking fire from Lopez and avoiding injury. One fires and hits Snow, sending him into a crazed panic where he runs away. Another fires at Sexton and misses.

Sexton is pissed, takes aim and obliterates a sectoids head. Palmer moves up and kills another. CW sets up for a run and gun and hits the last sectoid, who is up on a cliff.

The alien is in good cover and position and fires at Palmer, missing. Palmer returns fire shredding the tree next to the alien and Lopez sends a barrage of bullets missing too.

The alien tries to get Palmer, but misses. He did succeed in stalling us out as 3 floaters proceed to drop down next to the sectoid. Lopez eliminates their curiosity as he sends a rocket right into the middle of the 3 floaters and send them all back to where they came from. In the meantime, Snow has moved over by Palmer so he can receive some treatment which Palmer does, telling him to "Stop whining like a little bitch".

The sectoid takes off in a retreating action and disappears. The squad moves up slowly, taking their time and setting up a nice perimeter around the UFO. Finally, I order CW up to some cover by the door, he is partially in cover and sees one of the "all energy" aliens and fires away hitting it.

The wounds pissed the alien off and heightened it's focus as it moves up and sends a fusillade of Plasma towards CW and catches him with every shot. There is no chance to heal as CW's heart, lungs and well, all internal organs are all melted.

Palmer is able to catch the alien and drops him. Dr. Vahlen goes ape shit on me and the squad about not capturing him, and Palmer says something like "tough shit, come out her yourself" and she shuts up.

Palmer moves up to the door and that damn sectoid that we wounded pops up and hits him. A strategic mistake. Palmer hits his cover, pops out and takes him down, right by the power source.

We proceed with a tactical entry into the UFO and find no one there. We do hear noise outside the back of the UFO and move to exit out one of the entrances. It's Snow that catches the 3 sectoids back there.

They scramble and in the action Snow eliminates one, Palmer the other and Lopez finishes them off.

No other forms are found on our scan of the site.

10 Aliens Killed
1 Operator Killed

Palmer promoted to Cpl.
Lopez promoted to Lt.

Snow is out for 11 days
Palmer is out for 9 days

We have another amazing UFO haul:
6 Sectoids
3 Floaters
25 Elerium
60 Alien Alloys
14 Weapon Frags
2 UFO Flight Comps
UFO Power Source

[RendeR]

Just letem' keep bunching up around me. I like taking them in groups!

[RendeR]

And OUCH......

[MacroGuru]

Beam Research is complete and we are able to build laser pistols and rifles and I order the engineering team to build 3 each.

We focus on Alien materials next.

The UK requests 3 Arc Throwers for 3 Scientists which I quickly oblige.

April Monthly Report

April was an amazing month for us. We grade out with an A for the amazing work picking up $305 and 2 more engineers.

The Panic Levels for the world are:

US 1
Canada 1
Mexico 4
Argentina 2
Brazil 3
UK 3
Russia 3
Germany 4
China 3
Japan 3
India 1
Australia 3
Egypt 1
South Africa 4
Nigeria 2

Alien Material research is complete and we are able to build Nano Vests which I promptly order 3 made.

We shift our research to performing an autopsy on the Chryssalid.

The engineers are order to Build another Satellite as we just completed one. They are also set to build a Satellite Uplink and a Lab as they just finished a power generator.

[Coffee Warlord]

Coffee Warlord Combat Unit Model 2241(X) Revision 2 Build B has been FedEx'd to X-Com HQ.

Please keep this mode away from open flames, and remember, its internal systems do not react well to ham. Please ensure all ham is kept a safe distance from the 2241(X) R2-B Unit.

[MacroGuru]

I will post an updated roster and memorial tonight when I get home.

[Breeze]

Gale is feeling a bit left out this time around...wondering if he needed to get killed off a few extra times to make a better impression :)

[ntndeacon]

I like this version of Palmer. "Quit your whining you little bitch" indeed!

[MacroGuru]

Gale is feeling a bit left out this time around...wondering if he needed to get killed off a few extra times to make a better impression :)

I'm trying to get down the list. I am trying to bring a rookie a long at a time. Gale is coming up soon...trust me :)

[MacroGuru]

Mission 11
Commanders Log 2015.05.07

The roar of the alarms reverberate through the complex as a UFO enters into the airspace. I prep a squad and we scramble the interceptor and it is a close call but it ends up dropping the UFO over Nigeria. It is a large scout class.

The squad that is sent out is:

Rk. Ches O'Peake
Cpl. Deacon Palmer (Support)
Lt. Shane Sexton (Sniper)
Sgt. Ren Snow (Heavy)
Lt. Roberto Lopez (Heavy)

As we land we start moving northwards towards the crash site and we instantly hear noise in the woods. We start moving slowly and then we have contact, 3 Floaters. They scramble right into Palmers line of sight, he quickly dispatches one on over watch and keeps an eye on the others. He moves up and takes out the 2nd one in the matter of seconds. Lopez sends a fusillade of bullets missing, but Ches takes out the third floater.

We start moving and setting up a perimeter on the UFO exit areas. We hear noise from within and are patient and willing to wait them out. They grow impatient and try to surprise us with 2 floaters launching and landing in the middle of the groups.

The entire squad was ready and rips it apart through a storm of bullets. Sexton then wheels around with his rifle and lines the others head up in his scope and he sees it disappear in a puff of gore.

We start to move into the UFO and Palmer comes into contact with one of the Outsiders as Vahlen calls it. He hits the alien and Sexton has it dead to sights and takes it out against Vahlens wishes. She isn't in the trenches so she doesn't get a say.

We secure the UFO and wait for the clean up crew.

6 Aliens killed without losing an operator or injury.

Palmer is promoted to Sgt while Ches is promoted to Squaddie Sniper.

The recovery team nets:

5 Floaters
35 Elerium
63 Alien Alloys
12 Weapon Frags
2 UFO Flight Computers
UFO Power Source
2 damaged UFO Flight Computers
Damaged UFO Power Source

[MacroGuru]

Mission 12
Commanders Log 2015.05.08

No rest for the weary as we are called to handle alien abductions.

Beijing, China Panic Mode 3 Very Difficult, 4 Engineers
Egypt, Cairo Panic Mode 1 Moderate, $200
Guadalajara, Mexico Panic Mode 4 Very Difficult, Sgt. Assault

Seeing the Panic at 4 in Mexico, we prep a team to go to Mexico. they are:

Lt. Roberto Lopez (Heavy)
Lt. Shane Sexton (Sniper)
Sgt. Ren Snow (Heavy)
Sgt. Deacon Palmer (Support)
Sq. Hoda Canaan (Assault)

We land down in an industrial complex

We have contact with the floaters on the left. Palmer misses, Lopez misses, snd Sexton is being suppressed. Sexton fires and misses.

One floater moves up and shoots at Ren, missing while the other moves to flank. Sexton takes aim and hits one of the floaters while Ren opens up and shreds the one trying to flank him. Palmer drops the wounded floater.

We slowly move towards the building when 3 very large, thick aliens resembling..well, moving tanks come into view. Vahlen states "It was only time we would see something like this" no shit doctor, that was the statement of a lifetime.

Lopez, sees them trying to flank the squad and sets up covering fire, pinning one of them down. A mutton fires at Palmer missing but the one not pinned guns at Palmer and pulverizes him. Palmer is gone! Snow in turn panics, damnit, we need his rocket!

Lopez switches quickly and fires a rocket right into the middle of the 3, it explodes taking out a wall of the building and wounding all . The burst forces them to turn to Lopez, with one tossing a grenade at him and blowing Lopez into tiny pieces. That's another operator...this isn't looking good.

Canaan turns and drops one of the Muttons who managed to work himself away from the others. Snow finally pulls his head out of his ass and fires a rocket, killing both the other muttons. Down to three operators we have to be extremely cautious.

We start to move into the building now and we have contact with 2 more Floaters. Canaan snaps a shot off missing, Sexton drops 1 and it's dying screams brought out 3 more floaters!

Two of them focus on Ren, they must have noticed the LMG. Snow drops back and sets up a defensive perimeter while Canaan opens up and takes down 1. The aliens return fire, one hits Canaan while another misses. Canaan returns fire, the pain causes the shot to stray. Snow lays down covering fire, suppressing an alien. Canaan drops another alien while Sexton misses. They fire away at Canaan as he appears to be the only one causing damage.

Canaan takes down another while Sexton mops up with the last one. Command calls an all clear and we are done. A rough mission, but successful.

10 Aliens Killed
2 Operators Killed

Sexton promoted to Cpt.
Snow promoted to Lt.
Canaan promoted to Cpl.

Snow is out for 15 days
Canaan is out for 11 days.

We recovered:
7 Floaters
3 Muttons
17 Weapon Frags

Mexico issues Sgt. Eduardo Soto to us immediately as a resource for us helping them out.

Panic increases in Africa and Asia while it drops in Mexico by 3.

[Grover]

Mission 12
Commanders Log 2015.05.08

No rest for the weary as we are called to handle alien abductions.

Beijing, China Panic Mode 3 Very Difficult, 4 Engineers
Egypt, Cairo Panic Mode 1 Moderate, $200
Guadalajara, Mexico Panic Mode 4 Very Difficult, Sgt. Assault

Seeing the Panic at 4 in Mexico, we prep a team to go to Mexico. they are:

Lt. Roberto Lopez (Heavy)
Lt. Shane Sexton (Sniper)
Sgt. Ren Snow (Heavy)
Sgt. Deacon Palmer (Support)
Sq. Hoda Canaan (Assault)

We land down in an industrial complex

We have contact with the floaters on the left. Palmer misses, Lopez misses, snd Sexton is being suppressed.

All communication cut out as aliens took over the earth.

I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords and look forward to serving them in any necessary capacity.

[BYU 14]

All communication cut out as aliens took over the earth.

I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords and look forward to serving them in any necessary capacity.

:lol:

[Coffee Warlord]

All communication cut out as aliens took over the earth.

I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords and look forward to serving them in any necessary capacity.

This traitor has been summarily executed.

[ntndeacon]

Wolverine!!!!

[MacroGuru]

All communication cut out as aliens took over the earth.

I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords and look forward to serving them in any necessary capacity.

Alright smartasses, I updated the mission....:lol:

It's what happens when one takes Ambien to help sleep and starts writing. I ended up crawling into bed, not finishing and leaving my lights on.

[MacroGuru]

Officer Training School helps us out and with us having a Captain, we are now able to have a squad of Six on a mission and we improve our medical facilities and our soldiers can heal faster.

We trade 4 Arc Throwers for 4 Engineers to Brazil and our latest research allows us to build a Foundry and a Phoenix Cannon.

[Grover]

Officer Training School helps us out and with us having a Captain, we are now able to have a squad of Six on a mission and we improve our medical facilities and our soldiers can heal faster.

We trade 4 Arc Throwers for 4 Engineers to Brazil and our latest research allows us to build a Foundry and a Phoenix Cannon.

As captain, you're welcome.

[CrimsonFox]

All communication cut out as aliens took over the earth.

I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords and look forward to serving them in any necessary capacity.

Alright smartasses, I updated the mission....:lol:

It's what happens when one takes Ambien to help sleep and starts writing. I ended up crawling into bed, not finishing and leaving my lights on.


That is just hilarious! :D

[ntndeacon]

We want More of the illustrious Palmer... Luckily we were able to rebuild him. we made him better! and just as snarky!

[RendeR]

Damnit man, boost my panic score or something =)

[MacroGuru]

Updated Operator Roster

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="427"><colgroup><col style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:6253;width:128pt" width="171"> <col style="width:48pt" span="4" width="64"> </colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td class="xl63" style="height:15.0pt;width:128pt" height="20" width="171">Operator</td> <td class="xl63" style="width:48pt" width="64">Mission</td> <td class="xl63" style="width:48pt" width="64">Kills</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Cpt. Shane Sexton</td> <td align="right">8</td> <td align="right">11</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Lt. Ren Snow</td> <td align="right">6</td> <td align="right">9</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Lt. Duane Kelly</td> <td align="right">5</td> <td align="right">9</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Sq. Ardent Enthusiast</td> <td align="right">3</td> <td align="right">1</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Cpl. Hoda Canaan</td> <td align="right">2</td> <td align="right">6</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Sq. Ches O'Peake</td> <td align="right">1</td> <td align="right">1</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Sgt. Eduardo Soto</td> <td align="right">0</td> <td align="right">0</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Rk. Crimson Fox</td> <td align="right">0</td> <td align="right">0</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Rk. Jerome Alstott</td> <td align="right">0</td> <td align="right">0</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Rk. Benton Gale</td> <td align="right">0</td> <td align="right">0</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Rk. Slag Rooney II</td> <td align="right">0</td> <td align="right">0</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Rk. Coffee Warlord II</td> <td align="right">0</td> <td align="right">0</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Rk. Da Law II</td> <td align="right">0</td> <td align="right">0</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
</td> <td>
</td> <td>
</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
</td> <td>
</td> <td>
</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td class="xl63" style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Memorial</td> <td>
</td> <td>
</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Lt. Roberto Lopez</td> <td align="right">9</td> <td align="right">16</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Sgt. Deacon Palmer</td> <td align="right">5</td> <td align="right">11</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Cpl. Mar Mel</td> <td align="right">4</td> <td align="right">5</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Cpl. Coffee Warlord</td> <td align="right">4</td> <td align="right">1</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Sq. Da Law</td> <td align="right">3</td> <td align="right">1</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Rk. Slag Rooney</td> <td align="right">2</td> <td align="right">0</td> </tr> </tbody></table>

[MacroGuru]

The Satellite Uplink is complete. Argentina is asking for a satellite and we send it up for them. It nets us a quick $200 and then an additional $70 month.

I order another Power Generator and satellite to be built. We also build 1 interceptor in Africa and Asia and build 2 in South America.

We also start on a Sectoid Autopsy.

[sterlingice]

Sterling Silvers is waiting on the sidelines, hoping to make it into this game

SI

[MacroGuru]

I order an Access Lift to the third level to begin, so I can get to the thermal steam vents for additional power.

Sectoid Autopsy is complete and I now order Precision Laser research.

The satellite is ready for launch over China.

[MacroGuru]

Mission 13
Commanders Log 2015.05.21

The alarms sound again for alien abduction alerts, this time we have choices to help out in:

<table width="460" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100"><colgroup><col style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:6619;width:136pt" width="181"> <col style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:2779;width:57pt" width="76"> <col style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:3437;width:71pt" width="94"> <col style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:2706;width:56pt" width="74"> </colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td class="xl65" style="height:15.0pt;width:136pt" width="181" height="20">City / Country</td> <td class="xl65" style="width:57pt" width="76">Panic
</td> <td class="xl65" style="width:71pt" width="94">Difficulty</td> <td class="xl65" style="width:56pt" width="74">Rewards</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Calgary, Canada</td> <td align="center">3</td> <td>Very Difficult</td> <td>4 Scientists</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Melbourne, Australia</td> <td align="center">4</td> <td>Very Difficult</td> <td class="xl66" align="right">$200 </td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Praetoria, South Africa</td> <td align="center">5</td> <td>Very Difficult</td> <td>Lt. Support</td> </tr> </tbody></table>
Looking at how things are we obviously select Praetoria and send the following squad out:

Cpl. Hoda Canaan (Assault)
Cpt. Shane Sexton (Sniper)
Lt. Duane Kelly (Sniper)
Sgt. Eduardo Soto (Assault)
Sq. Ardent Enthusiat (Support)
Rk. Fox McCloud

We land down at the edge of a street. There are abandoned cars and delivery trucks everywhere. We slowly move up, sending 2 to the right side, 2 to the middle and 2 to the left side. The middle contain the Snipers so they can cover both the left and right. We move up in a V type formation.

We have contact with 2 Floaters on the left. They scramble, as they do Sexton misses on his over watch chance. Canaan is planted behind a large SUV and she moves to the right and drops a floater.

As we move, there is now contact with 3 Sectoids in the middle of the street and they scramble. That leaves 4 aliens to deal with.

We move to position properly and Soto misses on a chance to drop a Sectoid. The Sectoid fires back missing Soto. A couple of the aliens move and Sexton drops the Floater on over watch. He then follows that up with a head shot on one of the Sectoids.

The dying scream of the Floater called in 4 more on the map. Thanks to Sexton's skilled shooting we only have 6 aliens to deal with.

Kelly takes aim with his rifle and misses a head shot on one of the floaters. Soto takes down a floater while AE moves and finally drops a floater.

A Sectoid takes aim and hits Soto while a Floater drops quickly behind Sexton trying a rear flanking maneuver while the other Floater lays down covering fire on Canaan.

Kelly ups an aims and misses. Soto drops back to a spot with solid cover and takes out the Floater trying to flank Sexton. AE hits and wounds the Floater providing covering fire. The floater is forced to duck and stop shooting, allowing for Canaan to pop out and drop it.

2 more Floaters come to the scene. AE hits and wounds one of the floaters while Fox finishes it off. Kelly catches a Sectoid trying to scramble and hide and manages to drop him on the fly.

Soto misses and Sexton moves and misses, leaving AE exposed. The Floater turns and shreds AE with the plasma rifle. AE flys back into a bus stop bench and lays very still. Soto and Fox both panic trying to flee.

Sexton turns and wings the Floater with a pistol, Canaan misses. The Floater tries to take out a fleeing Fox, missing. Fox stops and returns fire causing the Floater to dodge right into Sextons path. Sexton finishes the Floater.

Squad cleanup is complete.

10 Aliens killed
1 Operator killed

Not a bad mission considering we had to take 10 on. We do recover:
3 Sectoids
7 Floaters
20 Weapon Frags

Fox is promoted to Squaddie Heavy.

Panic increased across Asia
Panic increased in Canada
Panic decreased in Africa

We also receive Lt. Sterling Silvers (Support) due to our effort.

[ntndeacon]

I would like an new Deacon Palmer added as well please.

[MacroGuru]

I would like an new Deacon Palmer added as well please.

Alright, I will get you added to the updated roster asap.

[MacroGuru]

Mission 14
Commanders Log 2015.05.26

We receive a call from the council. They want us to extract a UN VIP from a roadway attack that happened in Cologne, Germany. They are willing to pay $129 and a Lt. Sniper...plus it will help reduce panic in the area.

We accept and I send out:

Sq. Fox McCloud (Heavy)
Lt. Sterling Silvers (Support)
Cpt. Shane Sexton (Sniper)
Cpl. Hoda Canaan (Assault)
Lt. Ren Snow (Heavy)
Rk. Jerome Alstott

We touchdown at a freeway interchange that has collapsed in the middle. We start moving like we did last mission, 2 left, 2 middle (Sniper and Heavy) and 2 right. We have contact with 2 Thin Men real quick.

Alstott fires and misses in his move as he was the first one to spot them. The Thin Men scramble and Canaan manages to take one out on over watch.

We continue to move up, and start to come to the edge, where the collapse is. It looks like the supports just fell out from underneath it. There are wrecked vehicles an collapsed roadways for us to get down. We contact 2 more Thin Men that are in the lower area. We also have a visual and audio contact with the VIP. Silvers takes a shot and misses. We have set a perimeter up around the VIP and send Alstott down to recover the VIP.

A Thin Man steps out to stop Alstott and he is shredded by everyone in the perimeter action. We then initiate an over watch mode as Alstott and the VIP move towards our level.

We are notified by command that there are aliens on their way and a Thin Man is dropped behind us. Silvers turns and misses but Sexton doesn't. The Thin Man has his chest tore open.

Alstott makes a run to get to a spot to help the squad as the VIP is handed off to Ren. A Thin Man takes a shot missing Alstott and he gets to his spot unharmed.

Fox moves and drops down behind the Thin Man that Alsott was trying to get position on and lets the LMG rip, point blank. Fox just smiles as he pumps the alien full of lead and is covered with it's entrails.

Another Thin Man steps out to stop the squad and they tear him apart on over watch. There is a Thin Man moving across the side of the collapsed road and we have no one that can get a proper shot. Ren sets up with the Rocket Launcher and takes him out. That alien will not be troubling us.

Another Thin Man is dropped behind us and he takes movement, poisoning Fox. Sexton lines him up in the crosshairs and drops him. Sexton is all about defense here.

Another Thin Man is dropped into the middle of the group forcing Sexton to take him out. There are two more Thin Men dropped into the back, by the LZ. Silvers moves up and takes one of them out.

The other Thin Man moves and takes shot at Alstott. Alstott is hit, but is able to return fire taking out the Thin Man.

The VIP is slowly moving up to the LZ and once the last Thin Man drops, he makes a mad dash for the Skyranger and we book it out of there.

10 Aliens Killed
0 Operators Lost

Canaan is promoted to Sgt.
Alstott is promoted to Squaddie Heavy.

Alstott and McCloud will be out for 6 days. We did manage to recover:

10 Thin Men
18 Weapon Frags

The access lift was complete and I order a Foundry built as well as excavation to happen over a Steam Vent.

We receive from the UN, Lt. Deacon Palmer II (Sniper)

[MacroGuru]

May Council Report

We lose Australia, Japan and Canada from the X-Com project, placing the Doom Meter to 4/8 and picking up a D Grade.

We do pick up $526, 1 Scientist and 1 Engineer

Panic Levels are:

US 2
Mexico 2
Argentina 1
Brazil 3
UK 3
Russia 3
Germany 2
China 3
India 4
Egypt 3
South Africa 2
Nigeria 2

[MacroGuru]

We have managed to finish a satellite and launch it over Russia. We also have 2 interceptors built and delivered to Europe.

The Foundry is complete and we immediately begin work on a Heavy Weapons Platform and a SCOPE upgrade.

We also finish another Satellite. However, we need to build another uplink center in order to launch it.

[BYU 14]

Nice, the Foundry should pay immediate dividends.

[MacroGuru]

We finish our Precision Laser research which yields us the ability to make a Scatter Shot and a Laser Sniper Rifle.

Mission 15
Commanders Log 2015.06.10

It's been a quiet two weeks with the aliens, but then they hit and I am stuck trying to make a decision.

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="100" width="460"><tbody><tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"><td class="xl65" style="height:15.0pt;width:136pt" height="20" width="181">City / Country</td> <td class="xl65" style="width:57pt" width="76">Panic
</td> <td class="xl65" style="width:71pt" width="94">Difficulty</td> <td class="xl65" style="width:56pt" width="74">Rewards</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Los Angeles, USA
</td> <td align="center">2</td> <td>Very Difficult</td> <td align="right">4 Engineers</td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Hamburg, Germany
</td> <td align="center">2</td> <td>Very Difficult</td> <td class="xl66" align="right">4 Scientists </td> </tr> <tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20"> <td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Port Said, Egypt
</td> <td align="center">3</td> <td>Very Difficult</td> <td align="right">Lt. Support</td></tr></tbody></table>
Looking at the choices and needs, which is quite honestly, additional Scientists to speed up research, I send the squad to Hamburg.

Sq. Fox McCloud (Heavy)
Lt. Sterling Silvers (Support)
Cpt. Shane Sexton (Sniper)
Sq. Jerome Alstott (Heavy)
Lt. Ren Snow (Heavy)
Rk. Benton Gale

We land near a road construction site and begin our 2 left, 2 right, 2 middle movement when we come into contact with 2 eye looking things that the good doctor calls Drones, and then a big ass spinning silver disc which I have no idea to call it.

Ren moves up and shoots, hitting the big disc. Sexton takes a shot hitting one of the Drones and Gale takes out the wounded drone.

The big ass disc converts into a robot and flings a grenade and wounds Sexton and Gale who manage to shake it off while someone in the group cracks a joke about how this reminds them of the movie Phantasm..

3 Floaters come moving in on the left which causes Alstott to send a rocket their way and destroys two of them. Gale manages to shoot the other drone and Silvers comes in with clean up taking out the drone.

Ren rips a rocket towards the robotic disc thing and blows up a delivery truck and massively wounding the disc robot, causing it to convert back to spinning disc. Sexton drops back to hide behind a back hoe and snaps off a shot at the wobbling disc. He hits, and the disc crashes to the earth, not moving.

The lone Floater retreats while Silvers moves to Sexton and heals him up. 2 more Floaters decide to make an appearance. Ren shoots at one and misses and it returns fire hitting Ren.

Gale and Alstott both miss a Floater while Fox comes in and drops it. Ren wounds the Floater causing it to retreat. Silvers moves over and heals Gale while the team slowly moves up. When we do, we have contact with 2 Mutons, this is not looking good.

Alstott misses a Muton and he draws both of their attention and they launch a plasma barrage and forces the life out of his body. We are down an op!

Ren hits a Floater that has returned while Gale misses a Muton. Sexton manages to hit the Muton while he was on over watch.

One Muton moves and fires at Ren missing. While Ren is distracted the other flanks him and shreds him, Ren drops, spilling his life essence all over the ground, the wall and the cement drain he was hiding behind.

This second death causes Sexton, Fox and Gale to panic. They all fire randomly and run. A Floater tries to drop behind the squad but Silvers was ready for it in the back and takes it out.

Muton misses Gale and Sexton wakes up enough to hit one of the Mutons. Fox is still trying to come out of his panic mood and pulls the rocket launcher off, trying to send it to one of the Mutons and hoping to catch them both with the blast. There is report of a misfire and he only takes one of them out, and it wasn't the one he was aiming for.

The Muton attempts to hit Gale and misses while a Floater hits him. Sexton takes out the Floater. Fox and Silvers both try to hit the Muton and miss horribly, leaving it the chance to take another shot. This time its aim is true and he kills Sexton. We are down 2 Veteran Ops now, this mission is going to hell real quick.

Fox panics again and rips a shot off towards the Muton and manages to hit it. Gale spins around and is determined and drops the Muton with a wonderful shot in the head.

10 Aliens Killed
3 Operators Lost

I wouldn't call this mission a success. We completed it, but at what loss? We did recover some hardware though:

Cyberdisc wreck
5 Floaters
2 Muton
2 Drones
8 Elerium
16 Alien Alloys
17 Weapon Frags

Gale was promoted to Squaddie Assault
Fox was promoted to Cpl.

Gale will be out for 8 days due to his injury.

Egypt's panic level jumped to a 5 while the rest of Africa and North America increased as well. Germany's panic level reduced by 1.

[MacroGuru]

We immediately move our research to the Cyberdisc and perform an autopsy on it and start development on a thermal generator over a steam vent.

We build 2 Laser Sniper Rifles and 2 Scatter Shot Laser Rifles.

The Cyberdisc Autopsy results in a UFO Tracking boost and we turn to focus on the Drone.

[MacroGuru]

Mission 16
Commanders Log 2015.06.13

The aliens are making us pay for their small break. This time they send a UFO over Argentina. We pick it up and scramble one of the interceptors. I order the use of the special aim tracking computer and it helps us target and take out the UFO as it crashes in a remote part of Argentina.

I order the Skyranger out and have the following team loaded in it:

Sgt. Hoda Canaan (Assault)
Lt. Duane Kelly (Sniper)
Lt. Sterling Silvers (Support)
Cpl. Fox McCloud (Heavy)
Lt. Deacon Palmer II (Sniper)
Sq. Eduardo Soto (Assault)

We slowly move towards where we think the UFO is at and come into contact with 2 Sectoids. Canaan and Soto both miss a Sectoid but Silvers is able to take one down. It's partner rips a shot back at Silvers hitting him. Silvers returns fire and takes him out and then proceeds to heal himself.

We continue to move and we then have contact with 2 Mutons that were attempting to flank us. Canaan misses a Muton.

One of the Muton just unloads on Canaan taking her down. Fox aims and hits both of them with a rocket. Soto is able to drop one of them with a well placed shot.

Kelly moves and shoots with his pistol hitting the Muton. The Muton moves and shoots at Soto and misses. Soto returns fire missing as does Kelly with his Sniper rifle.

The poor shooting doesn't bode well as Silvers is critically wounded and since he is our only support guy, chances are, he will bleed out before we are done.

Soto panics due to Silvers injury. Fox is pissed and runs and lobs a grenade hitting the Muton. It is still standing, this is one tough SOB. The Muton rips a shot back at Fox missing. Fox returns fire but Soto is done being a whiny boob and drops the Muton.

As we get near the UFO we spot one of the Outsiders and it manages to squeeze a shot off at Soto, missing. This thing got our attention quick. Soto returns fire missing but Kelly finally decides he can shoot and hits the thing with a head shot as Vahlen manages to yell at us again.

5 Aliens Killed
2 Operators Lost

Another completed mission with success but I am burying 2 more operators. The aliens are getting tougher.

The UFO was a typical score.

2 Sectoids
2 Mutons
25 Elerium
49 Alien Alloys
UFO Power Source
2 UFO Flight Computers

Soto was promoted to Lt.

[RendeR]

I am saddened that I have only 1 life to give for my planet....wait...Fuck that, Load up Ren Snow II, Vengeance Mode.

Young Ren II hugs his 30 or more clone-like siblings goodbye, turns to the sky and shakes his fist "You shall be avenged Father!"

[Grover]

You can resurrect Sexton. I am very said that the Captain has passed.

[CrimsonFox]

I am saddened that I have only 1 life to give for my planet....wait...Fuck that, Load up Ren Snow II, Vengeance Mode.

Young Ren II hugs his 30 or more clone-like siblings goodbye, turns to the sky and shakes his fist "You shall be avenged Father!"


i blame myself....

(actually I just realized I was in. Great stuff! :) )

[sterlingice]

Dang. This was probably the best Sterling Silvers run in the current X-Com dynasties, too :(

SI

[MacroGuru]

The avenging will continue tonight. I have had my sister in town and I finally had my kids this weekend.

Tonight when I get back from the girlfriends, it will be game on!

[CrimsonFox]

The avenging will continue tonight. I have had my sister in town and I finally had my kids this weekend.

Tonight when I get back from the girlfriends, it will be game on!


Happy to hear you dispatched the spooky aliens and can now get back to business :)

[MacroGuru]

I don't have the heart to post the next two missions up as they are the end of the X-Com Project for this Dynasty.

We basically had aliens terrorizing Bangalore and we had to go in and stop them. It was at a point of damn near impossible for me to win...It was 2 Cyberdiscs with their drones, 2 Floaters, 8 Chryssalids and 2 Mutons.

We fought valiantly, taking out 5 of the Chryssalids, 1 of the Cyberdisc drone combos and the Floaters, but the 2nd disc and Mutons hit us hard and caused panic in the ranks and the minute that happened was our doom. We lost 6 of our top operatives in this mission. We lost India because of this and puts our panic level in Asia up to full blown.

The second mission was an alien abduction in Germany which has seen an increase in panic was rated VD as well. We had a couple of vets and some rookies and the first contact the rookie was hit and panic shooting the other rookie and we were done. The 6 muton's that were there had a field day with us. It was over quick. All countries in Europe went to full blown panic.

When the council meeting arrived UK, Germany, China all backed out of the council bumping our doom level to 8/8 and a close down of the council.

[RendeR]

Damn aliens.

[BYU 14]

Grrrrr, screw those Aliens, guess I am the last hope for mankind :)

[sterlingice]

Bummer

SI

[MacroGuru]

I might run another Interactive Dynasty for this. I enjoy it a lot. I am just frustrated with the game right now with those last 2 missions. Throw everything and the kitchen sink at me, how am I supposed to succeed, especially with that wonderful panic.

[CrimsonFox]

aw that would have been some good reading :). You should post the bad missions too. :)

I guess everyone should crank out their III's :) LIke Deacon Palmer III, Sterling Silvers III, etc :)