Base operations
June 11th, 2015
A US corporation wants 6 Muton corpses, I have 3 right now so I will hopefully run into a few more in the next 20 days.
June 15th, 2015
Medium UFO spotted over the US, I hate these the most but have to scramble an interceptor. This time we take it down easily though and the Skyranger is dispatched.
Operation Red Heart
Date: 06/15/2015
Location: Rural USA
Objective: Locate UFO and neutralize hostiles
| Assault Team | Rank | Specialty | Missions | Kills | Gear |
| DJ Thomas II | Corporal | Heavy | 3 | 4 | Nano-Fiber Vest |
| Benton Gale II | Captain | Sniper | 7 | 10 | Scope |
| Da Law II | Lieutenant | Assault | 5 | 11 | Nano-Fiber Vest |
| Kid Kodos II | Corporal | Support | 3 | 3 | Medikit |
| Deacon Palmer II | Squaddie | Support | 2 | 2 | Medikit |
| Sterling Silvers II | Squaddie | Sniper | 2 | 2 | Scope |
We advance slowly as it is dark and cover is sparse with all the burning trees and foliage. We hear noises to the north, so continue on course trying not to expose anyone. As we creep up two mutons and two floaters appear. Kodos rips off a shot at one of the mutons and wounds it. We are outnumbered on the left flank, so this will be tricky.
Kodos and Law open up on a floater but both miss, likewise for Thomas as he unloads on a muton. Palmer lays down smoke to shield Thomas, while Gale lines up the wounded muton and drops it from distance, great shot. Silvers lines up the other muton and tags it, inflicting grave wounds and intimidating it, but it is still alive.
The wounded muton freaks out and retreats, but doesn’t fire, while Law gets a spoonful of his medicine as floater suppresses him. Kodos lines up the offender but misses. Palmer misses the wounded muton, while Gales draws a bead on the floater suppressing Law and sends it to hell! Silvers edges around some debris and finishes the wounded muton with his pistol.
The second floater ventures toward us and is promptly sent scurrying back on a reaction shot form Law, who misses. Angered at his incompetence, Law goes rapid fire mode and tears the floaters heart out with his shotgun, quiet time again.
Law sprints forward and almost runs headlong into 3 more mutons, shit, this is bad!! Kodos doesn’t like the odds so lays down smoke to cover him and Law until the squad can close in. Thomas sees an opportunity to be a hero and snatches it, unleashing the rocket and wounding two of the mutons, while obliterating their cover. Gale has been money all day from his perch and promptly puts the kiss of death on one of the wounded mutons. Silvers has the other one lined up and follows suit, we have turned a bad situation on our favor!
Thomas pursues the third muton, who has retreated, but misses, followed by a rare miss from Gale. The muton comes back at us and Law misses a reaction shot. He has the muton dead to rights, but has to reload. Kodos has no such dilemma and wounds it. Thomas moves up and this time scores, but the muton is still up, barely. Gale has to reload, so it will be up to Silvers. Sterling lines the muton up, fires, and the muton goes off to the big sleep.
We move into the ship and an outsider appears and heads to the bridge. Looks like Law will be called upon here. Suddenly the alien appears and hits Kodos, but the Kid is OK. Law sprints in from the other side of the ship and empties his shotgun into the outsiders face, drawing cheers from the boys and another bitch out from Dr. Vahlen for not capturing it. Screw it, we win again!!
Summary
Operation Red Heart - Success
Aliens killed: 8 – Excellent
Operatives lost: 0 – Excellent
Artifacts recovered
2 floater corpses, 5 muton corpses, 26 weapon fragments, 37 elerium and 74 alloys. We also get 4 UFO flight computers (2 damaged) and 2 UFO power sources. (1 damaged)
Promotions:
DJ Thomas II – Sergeant, trains in shredder rocket, causing extra damage to any enemies hit for the next 4 turns. He is also given the moniker ‘Nuke’ for his heroics with the big toy this mission.
Deacon Palmer II – Corporal, trains in sprinter earning the extra 3 tile sprint bonus.
Sterling Silvers II – Corporal, trains in snap shot allowing fire from his sniper rifle after movement with a penalty.
Another one for the ages, how we extricated ourselves from that three muton mess Law ran into I will never know, but we pulled it off with good positioning and clutch shots. Thomas is the hero even though he got no kills as his rocket shot turned the tide. It is the day of the sniper as Gale and Silvers each get a trifecta and Law takes out the other 2 in his usual subtle style.
* Note: I have never had a run like this playing on classic, which means it is going to suck all that much more if/when we finally lose someone. This team is pretty damn lethal right now!!