Base operations
Sad times at the base as we tip a 40 for those lost. New soldier hire requests have been sent out, but for now only 3 operatives remain with combat experience, the last thing we need now is a mission, but on April 4th the call comes in, abductions are underway.
Sapporo, Japan – Moderate, 200 credits, panic level 2
Port Elizabeth, South Africa – Easy, Heavy Sergeant, panic level 1
Montreal, Canada – Really difficult, 4 scientists, panic level 4
I really should go to Canada, but we are in no condition for that, so I elect Sapporo as I am sure I will get a promotion to sergeant and South Africa is only a 1.
Operation Dark Savior
Date: 04/04/2015
Location: Sapporo, Japan
Objective: Sweep and neutralize hostiles
| Assault Team | Rank | Specialty | Missions | Kills | Gear |
| Coffee Warlord | Corporal | Heavy | 3 | 6 | Nano-Fiber vest |
| Poli Rules | Corporal | Sniper | 4 | 3 | Scope |
| Benton Gale II | Squaddie | Sniper | 1 | 1 | Scope |
| Da Law II | Rookie | none | 0 | 0 | Medikit |
What an aptly named mission as we touch down with heavy hearts in a dark, windy metropolitan area, as lightning crashes in the distance. We take positions on a train platform, get organized and prepare to sweep.
As move slowly along the platform, setting up defensive fields of fire with overwatch as we go. Da Law II sprints ahead and spots two floaters, the big boys are here now. Coffee Warlord rips off a reaction shot at one and misses, the floater fires back and hits Law, wounding him. The second floater moves and Poli is on point, zoning in with our new scope, she takes it down from distance. Law heals himself and we prepare to push on.
Warlord pops out and opens up on full auto, shredding the second floater, off to a good start. Two thin men come into view through the train windows moving along the tracks. We will be flanked if we don’t reposition, so we move to get set up near the train windows, while still maintaining cover in front of us. Poli moves near a train door and spots a thin man, wounding it with a pistol shot. Gale moves next to the other side of the door for support. Law joins them by the train and hits the other thin man, wounding it as well.
One of the thin men tries to get a better angle to go after Law, but Coffee Warlord is ready on overwatch and drops it in a hail of bullets. Law moves into the train as the other thin man vanishes in the darkness. The rest of the squad goes to overwatch, knowing they have to stay on high alert. The second thin man reappears and CW is ready again, sending it to alien hell with a well placed barrage.
Gale and Law move through the train and prepare to inch forward along the tracks, while Coffee Warlord and Poli move along inside the train to set up a pincher like offensive. Suddenly from the front of the train, two sectoids appear and Coffee Warlord is Joanie on the spot again, unleashing a torrid burst of lead that eliminates one. As we move in to close the alien down, Warlord gets over excited and fires her rocket, missing for the love of god. Poli, who has just sprinted to CW’s position kicks her in the ass for her reckless behavior, CW only smiles.
The sectoid moves up and goes to overwatch mode, but it is in a bad place right now. Warlord takes aim and misses, but Law, inching up from down the tracks near the wall does not. A well placed burst finishes the job and we are back on track!
Summary
Operation Dark Savior - Success
Aliens killed: 6 – Excellent
Operatives lost: 0 – Excellent
Artifacts recovered
2 sectoid corpses, 2 floater corpses, 2 thin man corpses, 12 weapon fragments. We are now able to conduct a floater autopsy.
Promotions:
Coffee Warlord – Sergeant, trains in suppression, causing a -30 aim penalty for the target. She is also given the nickname ‘Sister Sledge’ by her teammates.
Poli Rules – Sergeant, trains in damn good ground, getting a +10 aim and +10 defense against enemies at a lower elevation. She is nicknamed ‘Hex’ by the crew.
Da Law II – Squaddie, assault gaining run and gun.
A big night for Coffee Warlord as she bags four of the evil suckers, with none of them dying by rocket which is a first. Poli and rookie Da Law II each take a scalp of their own as we skate through unscathed, thanks to a much more patient approach. Da Law II is going to be out 7 days from wounds sustained in battle.
On the way back we get word that mass hysteria has gripped both Canada and Mexico and we could lose both. I will have to make sure we rectify this before the next council meeting somehow. We just need to get more experience after the debacle in the US. In addition panic also increases in Africa, while decreasing in Japan, which rewards us with 200 credits.
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Originally Posted by Grover
Feel free to throw Shane Sexton into the fray at any point.
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Shane Sexton is in and in transit to the base. All respawns in and back on track after our foray to Japan rejuvenates the team. Still bummed about the USA mission though, who the hell new 10 aliens could fit into a small scout craft, sneaky bastards
I can unlock officer training school now though, 5 soldiers a mission, woohoo.