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Operation Laughing Reckoning
The morale is high at the makeshift bar in the Avenger. High-fives are in abundance as the Squaddies recount their first operation to a handful of rookies hanging about the bar. After a large laugh there is a silence as the energy suddenly gets sucked out the door. It's Bradford.
"Andersen, Kodos, Chas in Cinti, and Price, gear up. We have a target." He looks around the room, noticing the smiles. "Let's not get overconfident. That was one misson. We've got a long way to go."
Operation Laughing Reckoning
Reward: Engineer, Martha Fisher
As it looks like an easier target, I decide to hold our Specialist back in favor of getting another Rookie some experience. Rk. Don Price joins the squad and Sq. Li stays on the Avenger. Sq. Andersen leads the squad again, with Chas in Cinti, Kodos, and Rk. Price in tow. We give the Flashbang to Kodos to equip.
We drop into the slum districts of Pretoria with the mission of locating and protecting a transmitter device.
Chas in Cinti and Rk. Price go high, Sq. Andersen and Kodos to low. Sq. Andersen spots an Officer and a Clacker. We move to ambush. Sq. Andersen lines up her shot through her scope and fires the sniper rifle. She hits the Officer, but it doesn’t go down. Kodos and Rk. Price both miss their shots. Chas in Cinti was out of range and didn’t fire. We have 2 to deal with. The Officer hits Sq. Andersen hard and then the Clacker fires on her as well. The Clacker takes her out – two heavy wounds, center mass and Sq. Andersen is lying in a pool of her own blood. Rk. Price panics as the squad leader goes down. He fires at the Officer but misses.
Chas in Cinti drops a frag on the Officer and takes him out. Kodos runs over and hacks at the Clacker with his machete but doesn’t drop him. Rk. Price recovers, flanks the Clacker, but misses his shot. Kodos chases him down and cuts him down, but we’re spotted by a Sectoid and 2 Clackers. Chas in Cinti decides to drop her last frag on one of the Clackers, but fails to kill him.
The Sectoid uses its psionics to resurrect the Officer as a Psy Zombie. One clacker shoots at the transmitter we’re here to protect. The other one moves to a burning van and fires at Chas in Cinti. The Clacker misses Chas in Cinti and the van explods, killing the Clacker. Rk. Price drops a frag on the Sectoids covered position. Chas in Cinti fires at the Sectoid and hits but fails to drop him. Kodos moves around his cover so the last Clacker can’t flank him and takes a shot at the Sectoid, dropping him. The Zombie, unsupported by the Sectoid’s psychic energy vomits and collapses. The injured Clacker retreats out of range. It looks like the Sectoid dropped some loot.
Rk. Price moves to flanks him and finally hits a target, dropping the Clacker. Rk. Price also has positioned himself to pick up the Sectoid’s loot. Looks like an energy core and a scope. Chas in Cinti and Kodos cover him.
We get visual on another Sectoid and two more Clackers. Kodos misses his cover shot, Chas in Cinti connects but fails to drop the Sectoid.
Rk. Price moves to cover and hits the Clacker but doesn’t drop him. Kodos moves to heavy cover and drops his flashbang on the injured Clacker and the Sectoid. Chas in Cinti backfills Kodos’ position and goes to overwatch.
The Sectoid takes a shot and hits the transmitter. Clacker-2 moves around to try to get a shot on the team but misses on a shot at Chas in Cinti. The injured Clacker dives for more cover and Chas in Cinti misses his cover shot.
Chas in Cinti takes a shot at Clacker-2 and misses so Kodos charges it with his machete and hacks it down. Rk. Price moves around his cover to get a flanked shot at the injured Clacker. He drops it.
The Sectoid relocates and animates the Clacker that Kodos just dropped. Chas in Cinti takes a shot to drop the Zombie and connects, wounding it. Kodos moves around the Zombie and tries to hack at the Sectoid, but misses! Rk. Price comes over and drops the Zombie, but Kodos gets lit up by the Sectoid that he missed with his machete – he’s injured, but still breathing.
Rk. Price climbs up onto the rooftop and races over to flank the Sectoid. He empties his clip and drops the Sectoid.
Operation: Laughing Reckoning
Enemies Killed: 10
Soldiers Wounded: 1 - Kodos
Soldiers Killed: 1 – Rk. Andersen
Rating: Good
Loot: Superior Scope, Elerium Core, Corpses
Award: Engineer, Martha Fisher
AAR: Made a mistake early on that cost us. Should have had Rk. Andersen on the roof early instead of the Rk. Price and Chas in Cinti. But I moved Chas in Cinti first into a position that I couldn’t get A around to get to the roof. Paid the price. Kodos paid the price for missing a killing blow with the machete. Would have been worse for Kodos if Rk. Price and Chas in Cinti didn’t finish off that Zombie.
Casualties
Rk. Andersen: KIA – Clacker fire
Kodos: Wounded – 35 Days (need to get the Advanced Warfare Center built)
Promotions
Rk. Price: Rookie > Squaddie GRENADIER
Kodos: RANGER Squaddie > Corporal
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