An X-Com Apocalypse Interactive Dynasty - Mission 3 Posted

[WVUFAN]

Not wanting to take anything away from the other great x-com dynasties in the past, I've decided to start one of my own, and for a purely selfish reason: I could use some strategic help in beating this damn game. Here's how I want this to work:

Those who are interested, post here, and I'll assign you a character. I'll start the game, and post screenshots of what's going on, and those who have played the game before can give me some assistance, all the while enjoying a great interactive game of Apocalypse. Anyone willing to help a poor man out?

Soldiers Signed Up:

1. Travis
2. Abe Sargent
3. Poli
4. Coffee Warlord
5. MrBug708
6. Bhilloy
7. NtnDeacon
8. Greyroofoo
9. BYU14
10. Hoopsguy

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RANKS:
Squad Leader NtNDeacon
Squaddie Travis
Squaddie MrBug708
Squaddie Greyroofoo

KILLS:
Travis: 7 (2 missions)
Greyroofoo: 5 (2 missions)
NtNDeacon: 4 (3 missions)
MrBug708: 2 (2 missions)
BYU 14: 1 (1 mission)

DEATHS:
Coffee Warlord -- Mission 1 (Brainsucked)
Brett Favre -- Mission 2 (Brainsucked)
Abe Sargent -- Mission 3 (Snakes)
Peyton Manning -- Mission 3 (Snakes)

[Travis]

Sure, sign me up as fodder. I'm assuming you'll be using the same cloning technology as the other dynasty to stay fully staffed? Can't let those aliens win due to lack of recruits!

[Abe Sargent]

I want to be an Android.

[WVUFAN]

Yep. If you want to participate, just put what you want your character name to be (or just your username here), along with what primary weapon you would like to use, and if you want your daily training to be in psionics or weapons.

An example, for Travis:




Once I have enough for a squad, we'll start.

[WVUFAN]

Anxiety:

Here you go:



Health: 83
Accuracy: 50
Reactions: 27
Speed: 64
Stamina: 77
Bravery: 80
Strength: 74
Psi-Energy: 0
Psi-Attack: 0
Psi-Defense: 100

Androids do not increase statistics over time.

[Poli]

Poli, weapons training. I'm not partial to any weapon...whatever works.

[Travis]

Can you list the options (and maybe suggestions) for weapons/training/etc for those of us who haven't played before? Not sure if that's a stupid question or not (or how many options there are).

I've played the original X-Com but none of the follow ups so if you're seeing a role for my guy that you'd prefer, I'm all for that.

[Coffee Warlord]

Coffee Warlord is in the fray, he wants a gun. A nice rifle.

[WVUFAN]

Originally Posted by Travis

Can you list the options (and maybe suggestions) for weapons/training/etc for those of us who haven't played before? Not sure if that's a stupid question or not (or how many options there are).

I've played the original X-Com but none of the follow ups so if you're seeing a role for my guy that you'd prefer, I'm all for that.

You can choose Weapons Training or Psi-Training.

Weapons at this stage of the game:

Marsec M4000 Machine Gun:
Weight: 7
Accuracy: 30
Fire Rate: 83
Range: 56

Megapol Laser Sniper Gun:
Weight: 6
Accuracy: 95
Fire Rate: 23
Range: 75

So you're getting a higher rate of fire from the machine gun but are losing range and accuracy. The laser rifle does just a little more damage but they're virtually equal.

Megapol Auto Cannon:
Weight: 10
Accuracy: 40
Fire Rate: 29
Range: 56

3 type of rounds with this:
Armor Piercing Clip:
Power: 40 Rounds: 24

High Explosive Clip:
Power: 33 Rounds: 24

Incendiary Clip:
Power: 37 Rounds: 24

[WVUFAN]

Coffee Warlord:



Health: 46
Accuracy: 30
Reactions: 15
Speed: 71
Stamina: 42
Bravery: 20
Strength: 51
Psi-Energy: 13
Psi-Attack: 14
Psi-Defense: 20

[Abe Sargent]

The AutoCannon is the best weapon in the early game, no question. There's also a pistol, and a vibro-blade thing if I recall. And perhaps an AT weapon too, I can;t remember.

[Travis]

Put me down for the sniper gun and weapons training please.

[Abe Sargent]

Oh, for those who have never played this game, there is also a hybrid race you can be, half human/half sectoid. They are physically weaker, but strong against mental attacks. You can also equip this device available at the beginning of the game called a Mindbender which allows you to control or make afraid aliens. You can do to them what they have done to you for two games now.

[WVUFAN]

Poli:



Health: 49
Accuracy: 33
Reactions: 44
Speed: 85
Stamina; 44
Bravery: 20
Strength: 49
Psi-Energy: 10
Psi-Attack: 6
Psi-Defense: 23

[Coffee Warlord]

I am one sexy chick.

[WVUFAN]

Originally Posted by Abe Sargent

The AutoCannon is the best weapon in the early game, no question. There's also a pistol, and a vibro-blade thing if I recall. And perhaps an AT weapon too, I can;t remember.

No Vibro-Blade at the beginning game. Unless I'm missing it somehow.

[Abe Sargent]

Sorry then.

Oh, personnally, I like the Megapol armor for everything bu the chest unit - go with Marsec there, because then y0ou can fly.

[MrBug708]

MrBug708!

[WVUFAN]

MrBug708:



Health: 40
Accuracy: 19
Reactions: 28
Speed: 82
Stamina: 59
Bravery: 60
Strength: 40
Psi-Energy: 10
Psi-Attack: 6
Psi-Defense: 25

[Abe Sargent]

Dude looks like a lady

[bhlloy]

I'll give this a whirl. A laser rifle and plenty of AP grenades please boss with weapons training.

I strongly disagree that the cannon is the best weapon at the beginning of the game FWIW. You need a mix of cannons for short range and rifles for long range, but without a bunch of guys with rifles you aren't going to hit anything at distance. Even more so in the beginning when everyone has crappy accuracy stats. In my late games I still keep at least a quarter of my squad with the laser rifles because they are so damn accurate.

[ntndeacon]

I will give it a whirl! if I can be that half and half race I will go for psionics training...and for beginning weapon... go with the lighter laser one.


name= ntndeacon

[WVUFAN]

BHilloy:



Health: 44
Accuracy: 15
Reactions: 10
Speed: 70
Stamina: 55
Bravery: 50
Strength: 44
Psi-Energy: 13
Psi-Attack: 14
Psi-Defense: 2

[WVUFAN]

Ntndeacon:



Health: 35
Accuracy: 36
Reactions: 36
Speed: 73
Stamina: 57
Bravery: 50
Strength: 30
Psi-Energy: 43
Psi-Attack: 32
Psi-Defense: 37

[WVUFAN]

X-Com has been activated. Megapol, one of the major distributors of our weapons and armor, have contacted us about an alien infiltration at their Flyer Factory. The 10 man team has been assembled:

NtnDeacon
Abe Sargent
Coffee Warlord
Poli
Travis
MrBug708
Carson Palmer
BHilloy
Brett Favre
Donovan McNabb

They're taking a Valkrie Interceptor to the site.

[WVUFAN]

The team has been broken up into two squads:

Alpha entered from the eastern side of the plant: ntndeacon, Abe Sargent, Coffee Warlord, Poli and Donovan McNabb

Beta entered from the northwestern part of the plant: Travis, MrBug, Carson Palmer, BHilloy and Brett Favre.

[WVUFAN]

As the team landed, the first thing the team noticed was the lack of civilians. This was a fully automated factory. The heavy gunners loaded non-AP rounds into their weapons, and they set off.

Spoiler

Game is set to turn-based rounds

As Alpha Squad set down, they saw a ramp leading down 3 floors to the factory storage below. Coffee Warlord and Poli immediately see 2 blue-colored aliens with a strange looking rifle in their hands, but they don't have the right line of fire to take a shot. The rest of the team gets into formation to head down the ramp.

Beta Squad, led by Travis at point, begin investigation of this floor.

As the Alpha squad begins travelling down the ramp, the two blue aliens fire their rifles in seemingly random directions, but they soon find out that what comes out of the rifles are alive also. Two yellow blob-looking things burst out of shells and begin coming after Alpha Squad very, very quickly. Poli, Coffee Warlord and NtnDeacon each take snap shots at the yellow things, but miss. It flies into the air and lands on the face of Coffee Warlord. CW screams loudly, and shakes, but after just a moment, the yellow blob falls of his head, dead, and CW seems to be fine.

Beta realizes all the action is down the ramp, and begins travelling down the ramp, just as Alpha makes it to the ground floor. NtnDeacon sees one of the blue aliens, and fires a quick shot. It hits the aliens in the back, and it slumps to the ground, dead. Two more yellow aliens attack the ground. One attacks Donovan McNabb, and the other attacks Coffee Warlord again. Both aliens slide to the floor, dead, and Donovan seems fine, but there's something ... wrong with CW. Coffee Warlord, screaming and moaning, attacks Poli, but misses.

Meanwhile, Beta Squad has reached halfway down the ramp, as Alpha deals with one of their own. The entirety of Alpha squad turn their fire on Coffee Warlord, and most hit, but Ntndeacon lands the killing blow.

Meanwhile, several of Beta squad has fired at the other blue alien, but misses. The shots drive it out of hiding, and Ntndeacon aims and shoots the killing blow.

All in all, a good mission. NtnDeacon gets all 3 kills, and we lose one of our own.

RIP Coffee Warlord

[Abe Sargent]

As an Android, put me in point against the brainsuckers

[Coffee Warlord]

CW's first clone online.

[WVUFAN]

NtNDeacon has been promoted to Squaddie.

We move Mark Sanchez into the main team.

Our Biochemistry scientists are working on the Bio-Transport Module, while the Quantum Physics scientists are hard at work on the pyramid-shaped Dimension Gates popping up all around the city.

We're building a new Living Quarters and a Security Station. They should be ready in 2-3 days.

We're still taking new recruits!

[WVUFAN]

Wednesday, March 8, 2084 has ended.

Our 1-Day score was -103, due in most part to a UFO incursion I wasn't able to get to. We have $72000 left.

[Greyroofoo]

Hey, create me!

Human tommy gun person please

[WVUFAN]

Greyroofoo:

[WVUFAN]

Our physicists have finished research on Dimension Gates. Until I take down a UFO, I have nothing for them to do.

[WVUFAN]

Our scientists have finished researching and developed a bio-transport module so we can take back remains of aliens as well as live ones. I set my engineers to building these modules, and my chemists to working on the rifles we recovered from the aliens.

[hoopsguy]

I'm answering the call to duty, WVUFAN! No strong preferences; whatever role is useful to you.

[BYU 14]

I'm in, weapons training, Laser sniper Rifle.

[WVUFAN]

BYU 14:



Health: 72
Accuracy: 42
Reactions: 24
Speed: 72
Stamina: 72
Bravery: 80
Strength: 59
Psi-Energy: 0
Psi-Attack: 0
Psi-Defense: 100

Androids do not increase abilities over time.

[WVUFAN]

Hoopsguy:



Health: 49
Accuracy: 19
Reactions: 36
Speed: 70
Stamina: 47
Bravery: 20
Strength: 49
Psi-Energy: 10
Psi-Attack: 19
Psi-Defense: 30

[WVUFAN]

The alarm sounds again, and the X-Com troops are called to a Marsec Warehouse, where numerous aliens have been spotted. The Interceptor takes the 10-man force to the warehouse, and they're split into two teams:

Team One: Abe Sargent (leader); Greyroofoo, Poli, Carson Palmer, Donovan McNabb

Team Two: Squaddie NtNDeacon (leader); Travis, MrBug708, BHilloy, Brett Favre

Team One (T1) has Abe Sargent at point. Since the last fight we lost Coffee Warlord to a brainsucker, we want to put AS at point since he's immune to that sort of thing. They start out in the western part of the warehouse, while NtNDeacon and his team start out on the eastern part of the warehouse. Almost immediately T2 sees a new alien. A wierd pink-colored alien:



Some of the team takes a few shots at the alien, but nothing is able to take it down. Then a blue-colored alien comes down the elevator ...



Radio Excerpt

Travis: What the hell is that?
MrBug708: Looks like a dog. Like that old show.

Brett Favre: Rin Tin Tin?
Travis: Blue's Clues.
NtNDeacon: Abe Sargent, I need some help over here.
Abe Sargent: Roger. Poli, Carson -- give Team 2 a hand.
Poli: Great. I get to be the one who kills the dog from Blue's Clues. Yeah, heading over there.
BHilloy: It's trailing smoke.
Travis: What the hell?
NtNDeacon: I don't like this. It's moving awfully -- it's coming toward us!
Travis: KILL IT!
BHilloy: HOLY HELL it's fast!
NtNDeacon: Move people, MOVE!

The Blue alien creature explodes in the midst of several of the agents, severly injuring BHilloy and MrBug708, and moderately hurting Travis, and slightly hurting Poli.

Despite his injuries, Travis takes out the pink alien before he can do any further damage.




Suddenly from the right side of the agents a door opens, and a blue alien shoots a brainsucker into the group. It lashes onto Brett Favre, turning him into a zombie. MrBug708 takes out the blue alien, and Travis scores his second kill by killing zombie Favre.

After taking a moment to collect themselves, Team One heads upstairs, where the Blue dog alien and pink alien came from, while Team Two explored the door the brainsucker came from. Team One finds no further infestations. Team Two, however ...

Finds several of these yellowish, mushroom looking creatures, and one green snake-ish creatures, with smaller snakes attached to them:



The team keeps their distance, and NtNDeacon takes out the green alien, and several of the smaller snakes fly out of the corpse and go after the agents. Travis takes two of the smaller snakes out, while MrBug takes the third one. Then the team slowly destroy the remaining two mushroom creatures, who make no offensive move toward the agents.

Mission Over. NtNDeacon scores 1 kill. Travis kills 7 aliens. MrBug708 kills 2.

Deaths: Brett Favre (brainsucked)
Injured: Poli, Travis, MrBug708, BHilloy

[Travis]

So how long is Favre's clone going to take to decide whether or not he's signing up for duty?

[Abe Sargent]

Lotsa fun there.

[Abe Sargent]

Oh, and good job there travis. Now, next time, cn some of the rest of us get kills?

[WVUFAN]

NtNDeacon has been promoted to Squad Leader, while Poli, BHilloy, Travis and MrBug708 have been taken off-duty until they recovered from their injuries.

Travis and MrBug708 have been promoted to Squaddie.

[WVUFAN]

This one could be big, folks. The government has called us in, as the aliens have infiltrated the Senate building. With injuries to three of our more experienced agents, we have some new agents on this mission. The teams break down as such:

Team One: NtnDeacon (leader); Greyroofoo; Abe Sargent; Peyton Manning; Donovan McNabb

Team Two: Carson Palmer (leader); Coffee Warlord II; Chad Pennington; hoopsguy; BYU 14

Team Two takes the Senate floor and the elevator going up:



While Team One takes the rooms on the outside of the senate floor:



So far, we've encountered no resistance.

[WVUFAN]

Team One has the android Abe Sargent on point, incase of brainsuckers. However, a small snake-alien rushes and seriously injures our android:



Abe turns, kills the snake-alien, then uses the Medikit on himself.

Soon thereafter, the big green alien slimes his way into the midst of the team. Everyone scrambles in fear, which isn't good, because even if we kill it, the snakes that come out of it's corpse will not be easy to kill without losing someone.



Greyroofoo and Peyton Manning take shots at the green alien, but is unable to take it down, but Abe Sargent kills it with his autocannon. This unleashes the snakes, who attack in mass and kill Abe Sargent and Peyton Manning in short order, leaving Greyroofoo alone in the immediate area -- NtnDeacon and Donovan McNabb each fled further down the hallway.

Greyroofoo has a machine gun, and kills all three snake aliens in impressive style.

A pink alien appears suddenly around the corner, and again NtnDeacon and Donovan McNabb head for cover. Greyroofoo stops takes aim and kills the pink alien with three shots.



Team Two continues exploring the eastern side of the senate building.

With BYU 14 and GreyRoofoo taking points for the two teams, they both make their way to the upper corridor on opposite sides. Both points see two more pink aliens:



BYU 14 missed his try, while greyroofoo accidently shoots a civilian trying to hit the pinks.

The aliens move closer to Team Two, and hits BYU 14 by spitting at him with green goo, but it doesn't seem to hurt the android. BYU kills one of the pink aliens with his sniper rifle.

As Team One moves closer to the remaining pink, Greyroofoo is attacked by yet another pink, this one coming from the north:



Team One heads north to kill that Pink, while Team Two centers on the pink in this hallway.

Greyroofoo finally takes down the Pink in the northern hallways, while the remaining force bears down on the last Pink. Finally, after a moment, Chad Pennington kills the Pink with his autocannon.

Deaths: Abe Sargent; Peyton Manning.

Kills: Greyroofoo 5; Chad Pennington 1


Greyroofoo has been promoted to Squaddie.

[Greyroofoo]

Woohoo! I love the tommy gun!!

[Abe Sargent]

Heya, let's give me another Droid, you can just transfer my consciousness from one to the next, so it's still me.