FandaHang a shining starupon the highest boughRegistered Userregular
At Morning Butter's feet lies the penultimate step on our research path to victory: a stunned alien Leader. His assignment for the rest of the mission is clear. Using a stun rod tossed to him by Gabriel_Pitt, Butter will guard the Leader and put it down again should it begin to stir.
A few doors up the street, Rend decides he doesn't have time to babysit another sleeping alien, so he subcontracts the job to a grenade. This arrangement works out splendidly for everyone, except the Floater.
Now our singular focus is saving the Colonel. She has three turns left, and there's no telling what the enormous bulk of the apartment building is concealing.
Fortunately, this idiot has exposed himself to a man with a machinegun.
Hat trick.
On the other side of the building, Pixie finds a fifth Reaper lowering its head for a charge at this civilian.
Molybdenum lets a proxy fly from the park, and Pixie ducks back behind the corner.
The discovery of the Reaper is miserable luck. It holds up up our advance on the eastern flank, and no one with suitable weaponry is in position to get a shot on it.
We catch a tremendous break when the proximity grenade kills it outright.
But now Talus is just two turns away from bleeding out. We've cleared almost all of the map. I thought that Reaper would be the end of it. Where the hell is the final alien?
Morning Butter pokes his head into the warehouse. Shadows reign on the far wall, but all is still and quiet.
Rend checks the other storage facility to the north. Nothing there either.
With Pixie and Molybdenum coming up from the south, manwiththemachinegun and Existential Doubt push east to converge on the last patch of ground still concealed by the fog of war.
We have to hope the last alien is there. If it's in the apartment building, we'll never find it in time. There are too many floors, too much space to cover.
As the Colonel's final turn commences, this notification appears:
Existential Doubt rolls up on the convenience store, ready to crack it open to find our cowering prey if need be.
But no.
In the end, all that's required is a steady hand and a keen eye.
...
Wait. It's still not over?
Oh. You.
Get some sleep, Floater Leader. You're going to need it.
You've got a date with a very special lady.
The loss of crucialityfactor leaves an empty space in our hearts and in our ranks.
The latter, at least, can be filled. Congratulations, Rend.
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chiasaur11Never doubt a raccoon.Do you think it's trademarked?Registered Userregular
Well.
Even allowing for the fact those were only floaters, that could have gone much worse.
I am pleased with the combat performance of my digital counter part. It is just as well he has not been promoted, otherwise crayons, nap-time, and other such diversions would be quickly instituted throughout the ranks. Such frivolity has no place while our campaign against the alien menace continues.
Dear Amy,
Thank you for the cookies! I ate them all, but not all at once at. That would make my stomach upset like last time.
Today, the explosion friends went to a new town! I was sad, because the bus left another friend to go to take a forever sleep. I was soooo angry! I used my noise gun and don't remember much. It was very loud. But everyone was very nice after the party was over. They said I made the bad gnome stealers explode good, so I was happy.
I think everyone is mad at Mr. Phaselight though. Everyone kept shouting, "MORE BUTTER! NOT ENOUGH BUTTER!" Maybe he forgot the butter? Maybe he STOLE the butter? It was all very confusing.
I will eat another of your cookies when I get home!
I'm not gonna lie, this was our best mission yet. This valuable resupply effort has retrieved well over three tons of reaperburger for us! You can look forward to a grill-out next week,
I'm not gonna lie, this was our best mission yet. This valuable resupply effort has retrieved well over three tons of reaperburger for us! You can look forward to a grill-out next week,
To say nothing of the 30 kilos or so of crucialityfactor that we recovered.
Naturally, it'll go to feeding command first, but there might be some leftovers for the rest of us to enjoy.
What can I say, all that muscle butter makes for some lean, tender meat.
Oh hello sickbay, I think i've spent more time in here than out in combat!
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MorninglordI'm tired of being Batman,so today I'll be Owl.Registered Userregular
I'd say there's cute nurses.
But I volunteer.
Don't worry I give the best therapeutic massages.
*cracks knuckles*
(PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
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FandaHang a shining starupon the highest boughRegistered Userregular
It's the perogative of every officer to take a nice, long summer vacation.
Why, even the Floater Leader is using its time off to visit one of Europe's premier historical buildings.
Some of us are still working, though. Two days after the terror in Santiago, Mudzgut sends another Medium Scout crashing to earth in the woodlands near Neo-ChongQing. Since close quarters combat in a forest sounds like a great way to commit suicide, I decide to pass on the recovery mission.
Besides, greater things are currently drawing our attention.
We're almost at the end of a long road. After iterating on several flawed designs, the research department finally has a winner in mind.
They've taken to calling it "The Avenger Initiative." Once this final aerospace project is complete, we'll just need to discover where they're coming from.
And they're still coming, of course. More frequently with each passing week. This Large Scout cruises around the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall in Mississippi.
There its journey ends. MechMantis's tenth air combat victory sees him promoted to the rank of Major, and leaves him only two kills behind EvmaAlsar on the leaderboard.
With Mt. Rushmore's roster still not at full strength after Santiago, and considering that our score for June must surely be secure, we can afford to skip this UFO recovery as well. The United States Air Force obliterates the crash site with laser-guided bombs later that day.
In addition to hiring another pair of rookies to bolster Mt. Rushmore, I'm having Sergeant Rend and fedaykin666 trade places. Moving Rend to Asia will balance out the distribution of officers among our bases, while fedaykin666 brings some much-needed marksmanship to the Americas.
It's the last piece of business as June draws to a close.
What's the expected resistance when you get to Cydonia?
A ton of Sectoids, some Cyberdisks, Ethereals, Siliciods, Chryssalids, and Celatids.
Oh. And Sectopods. Which are pretty much immune to everything you have.
Is that regardless of how fast you rush it?
IIRC early on it was established that Fire damage bypassed armour, which presented an alternative to obliterating things with ample quantities of explosives.
I think the avenger was only 24 max capacity. but maybe that was with two tanks? If it wasn't for the fact that Cydonia is blaster bomb hell, I would of tried beating it in my many play troughs with out cheesing them also. I honestly expect us to get destroyed turn 2-3 on Cydonia due to mass panics and a blaster bomb before we even get fully unloaded.
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chiasaur11Never doubt a raccoon.Do you think it's trademarked?Registered Userregular
I think the avenger was only 24 max capacity. but maybe that was with two tanks? If it wasn't for the fact that Cydonia is blaster bomb hell, I would of tried beating it in my many play troughs with out cheesing them also. I honestly expect us to get destroyed turn 2-3 on Cydonia due to mass panics and a blaster bomb before we even get fully unloaded.
26. Or 10 and 4 tanks.
And the first stage is just Sectoids, so it's a bit rocket tag. It's quite possible, but if it goes wrong, you're going to have a bad time.
I think the avenger was only 24 max capacity. but maybe that was with two tanks? If it wasn't for the fact that Cydonia is blaster bomb hell, I would of tried beating it in my many play troughs with out cheesing them also. I honestly expect us to get destroyed turn 2-3 on Cydonia due to mass panics and a blaster bomb before we even get fully unloaded.
26. Or 10 and 4 tanks.
And the first stage is just Sectoids, so it's a bit rocket tag. It's quite possible, but if it goes wrong, you're going to have a bad time.
Let's be honest though, we're going to Mars with glorified machine guns.
A bad time is all but assured.
If this was just normal X-com instead of open X-com, we could abuse this bug that makes every bit of fire on the map deal damage to anything in it whenever any new fire is created. Unfortunately, this is openXcom, so there aren't really any bugs to exploit.
If this was just normal X-com instead of open X-com, we could abuse this bug that makes every bit of fire on the map deal damage to anything in it whenever any new fire is created. Unfortunately, this is openXcom, so there aren't really any bugs to exploit.
Also 80 item limit though, so..
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chiasaur11Never doubt a raccoon.Do you think it's trademarked?Registered Userregular
I think the avenger was only 24 max capacity. but maybe that was with two tanks? If it wasn't for the fact that Cydonia is blaster bomb hell, I would of tried beating it in my many play troughs with out cheesing them also. I honestly expect us to get destroyed turn 2-3 on Cydonia due to mass panics and a blaster bomb before we even get fully unloaded.
26. Or 10 and 4 tanks.
And the first stage is just Sectoids, so it's a bit rocket tag. It's quite possible, but if it goes wrong, you're going to have a bad time.
Let's be honest though, we're going to Mars with glorified machine guns.
A bad time is all but assured.
Sectoids. Even our machine guns can kill them quite easily. It's just if they see us first... yeah.
FandaHang a shining starupon the highest boughRegistered Userregular
I'm thinking of taking two tanks on the Cydonia mission, which would leave room for 18 soldiers. The armor will let us push out of the Avenger a lot more aggressively. Depending on where our landing zone is, I might disembark half the team on turn 1 without waiting for smoke, so as to avoid a catastrophic blaster bomb or Bigity Incident.
The main drawback to tanks on Mars is that they can't follow us underground. If we make it that far, I'm hoping to find a path to the brain that avoids Sectopods. Otherwise ... running past them as fast as our little legs will carry us might result in the fewest casualties.
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MorninglordI'm tired of being Batman,so today I'll be Owl.Registered Userregular
Gosh that sure is going to be an exciting mission.
(PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
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FandaHang a shining starupon the highest boughRegistered Userregular
We killed thirty-three aliens in June, led by Mvrck and manwiththemachinegun with three apiece. Special mention goes to an_alt, who became the only trooper so far to kill at least one Sectoid, Floater, Snakeman, and Muton. If she can bag an Ethereal, she'll have a full house. I'm pretty sure that's how dead alien poker works.
Despite the operation of the alien base in the Congo, all three African nations remain solidly on board with the project thanks to our successful interdiction and recovery of the Muton Large Scout on June 1st. If the aliens are smart, they'll suspend UFO flights over Africa in July to starve us for points.
Haus von Trapp's fourth hangar has now finished construction. The second workshop will be ready as well by the time our new engineers arrive. We're just waiting on the science team to give us the Avenger schematics.
Any bets on which race will be conducting July's terror mission?
Lt. timspork's ghost is tasked with the interception, in the hopes that the greater explosive yield of his Avalanche missiles will kill most of the Medium Scout's crew in the air.
His first salvo crushes UFO-52, which craters on the Jylland coast.
Although I'd rather not risk any more lives in the cramped environs of a Medium Scout crash site, Skyranger-1 sets out immediately to conduct a reconnaissance in force. The benefit of knowing what race we'll be facing later is too great to pass up.
For the first time, terror is coming to Europe. We're going to be ready for it.
I'm thinking of taking two tanks on the Cydonia mission, which would leave room for 18 soldiers. The armor will let us push out of the Avenger a lot more aggressively. Depending on where our landing zone is, I might disembark half the team on turn 1 without waiting for smoke, so as to avoid a catastrophic blaster bomb or Bigity Incident.
The main drawback to tanks on Mars is that they can't follow us underground. If we make it that far, I'm hoping to find a path to the brain that avoids Sectopods. Otherwise ... running past them as fast as our little legs will carry us might result in the fewest casualties.
Does this mean I'm not making the trip?
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I'm thinking of taking two tanks on the Cydonia mission, which would leave room for 18 soldiers. The armor will let us push out of the Avenger a lot more aggressively. Depending on where our landing zone is, I might disembark half the team on turn 1 without waiting for smoke, so as to avoid a catastrophic blaster bomb or Bigity Incident.
The main drawback to tanks on Mars is that they can't follow us underground. If we make it that far, I'm hoping to find a path to the brain that avoids Sectopods. Otherwise ... running past them as fast as our little legs will carry us might result in the fewest casualties.
Does this mean I'm not making the trip?
Oh, you're coming. You'll just be armed with a rubber band and a handful of paperclips.
For business reasons, I must preserve the outward sign of sanity.
--Mark Twain
At this point the tiny fraction of my brain still operating on Earth just wants to go out in a blaze of glory. Otherwise I'll end up as a psyker test target in one of the Doc's labs.
I'm thinking of taking two tanks on the Cydonia mission, which would leave room for 18 soldiers. The armor will let us push out of the Avenger a lot more aggressively. Depending on where our landing zone is, I might disembark half the team on turn 1 without waiting for smoke, so as to avoid a catastrophic blaster bomb or Bigity Incident.
The main drawback to tanks on Mars is that they can't follow us underground. If we make it that far, I'm hoping to find a path to the brain that avoids Sectopods. Otherwise ... running past them as fast as our little legs will carry us might result in the fewest casualties.
Does this mean I'm not making the trip?
Oh, you're coming. You'll just be armed with a rubber band and a handful of paperclips.
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A few doors up the street, Rend decides he doesn't have time to babysit another sleeping alien, so he subcontracts the job to a grenade. This arrangement works out splendidly for everyone, except the Floater.
Now our singular focus is saving the Colonel. She has three turns left, and there's no telling what the enormous bulk of the apartment building is concealing.
Fortunately, this idiot has exposed himself to a man with a machinegun.
Hat trick.
On the other side of the building, Pixie finds a fifth Reaper lowering its head for a charge at this civilian.
Molybdenum lets a proxy fly from the park, and Pixie ducks back behind the corner.
The discovery of the Reaper is miserable luck. It holds up up our advance on the eastern flank, and no one with suitable weaponry is in position to get a shot on it.
We catch a tremendous break when the proximity grenade kills it outright.
But now Talus is just two turns away from bleeding out. We've cleared almost all of the map. I thought that Reaper would be the end of it. Where the hell is the final alien?
Morning Butter pokes his head into the warehouse. Shadows reign on the far wall, but all is still and quiet.
Rend checks the other storage facility to the north. Nothing there either.
With Pixie and Molybdenum coming up from the south, manwiththemachinegun and Existential Doubt push east to converge on the last patch of ground still concealed by the fog of war.
We have to hope the last alien is there. If it's in the apartment building, we'll never find it in time. There are too many floors, too much space to cover.
As the Colonel's final turn commences, this notification appears:
Existential Doubt rolls up on the convenience store, ready to crack it open to find our cowering prey if need be.
But no.
In the end, all that's required is a steady hand and a keen eye.
...
Wait. It's still not over?
Oh. You.
Get some sleep, Floater Leader. You're going to need it.
You've got a date with a very special lady.
The loss of crucialityfactor leaves an empty space in our hearts and in our ranks.
The latter, at least, can be filled. Congratulations, Rend.
Even allowing for the fact those were only floaters, that could have gone much worse.
Why I fear the ocean.
It's all good, it's a non complicated one.
I'm already back home with pain killers and other drugs etc.
But yeah, I didn't have much fun.
So I come home, I check the first thread at the top of my favourites.
And what do I see?
I see that my Xcom Avatar got given explicit instructions to MELEE a floater leader if he so much as twitches a limb.
And then I get to see Morning Butter scream and charge and smack him down.
10/10 would relive day again.
Do we need a commander or is a leader good enough? Anyways,
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I'm not gonna lie, this was our best mission yet. This valuable resupply effort has retrieved well over three tons of reaperburger for us! You can look forward to a grill-out next week,
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To say nothing of the 30 kilos or so of crucialityfactor that we recovered.
Naturally, it'll go to feeding command first, but there might be some leftovers for the rest of us to enjoy.
What can I say, all that muscle butter makes for some lean, tender meat.
But I volunteer.
Don't worry I give the best therapeutic massages.
*cracks knuckles*
It's the perogative of every officer to take a nice, long summer vacation.
Why, even the Floater Leader is using its time off to visit one of Europe's premier historical buildings.
Some of us are still working, though. Two days after the terror in Santiago, Mudzgut sends another Medium Scout crashing to earth in the woodlands near Neo-ChongQing. Since close quarters combat in a forest sounds like a great way to commit suicide, I decide to pass on the recovery mission.
Besides, greater things are currently drawing our attention.
We're almost at the end of a long road. After iterating on several flawed designs, the research department finally has a winner in mind.
They've taken to calling it "The Avenger Initiative." Once this final aerospace project is complete, we'll just need to discover where they're coming from.
And they're still coming, of course. More frequently with each passing week. This Large Scout cruises around the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall in Mississippi.
There its journey ends. MechMantis's tenth air combat victory sees him promoted to the rank of Major, and leaves him only two kills behind EvmaAlsar on the leaderboard.
With Mt. Rushmore's roster still not at full strength after Santiago, and considering that our score for June must surely be secure, we can afford to skip this UFO recovery as well. The United States Air Force obliterates the crash site with laser-guided bombs later that day.
In addition to hiring another pair of rookies to bolster Mt. Rushmore, I'm having Sergeant Rend and fedaykin666 trade places. Moving Rend to Asia will balance out the distribution of officers among our bases, while fedaykin666 brings some much-needed marksmanship to the Americas.
It's the last piece of business as June draws to a close.
What's the expected resistance when you get to Cydonia?
A ton of Sectoids, some Cyberdisks, Ethereals, Siliciods, Chryssalids, and Celatids.
Oh. And Sectopods. Which are pretty much immune to everything you have.
Why I fear the ocean.
Is that regardless of how fast you rush it?
IIRC early on it was established that Fire damage bypassed armour, which presented an alternative to obliterating things with ample quantities of explosives.
Eventually.
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26. Or 10 and 4 tanks.
And the first stage is just Sectoids, so it's a bit rocket tag. It's quite possible, but if it goes wrong, you're going to have a bad time.
Why I fear the ocean.
He's our man.
If he can't do it.
No one can!
Let's be honest though, we're going to Mars with glorified machine guns.
A bad time is all but assured.
Get excited!
Also 80 item limit though, so..
Sectoids. Even our machine guns can kill them quite easily. It's just if they see us first... yeah.
Why I fear the ocean.
The main drawback to tanks on Mars is that they can't follow us underground. If we make it that far, I'm hoping to find a path to the brain that avoids Sectopods. Otherwise ... running past them as fast as our little legs will carry us might result in the fewest casualties.
We killed thirty-three aliens in June, led by Mvrck and manwiththemachinegun with three apiece. Special mention goes to an_alt, who became the only trooper so far to kill at least one Sectoid, Floater, Snakeman, and Muton. If she can bag an Ethereal, she'll have a full house. I'm pretty sure that's how dead alien poker works.
Despite the operation of the alien base in the Congo, all three African nations remain solidly on board with the project thanks to our successful interdiction and recovery of the Muton Large Scout on June 1st. If the aliens are smart, they'll suspend UFO flights over Africa in July to starve us for points.
Haus von Trapp's fourth hangar has now finished construction. The second workshop will be ready as well by the time our new engineers arrive. We're just waiting on the science team to give us the Avenger schematics.
Any bets on which race will be conducting July's terror mission?
Lt. timspork's ghost is tasked with the interception, in the hopes that the greater explosive yield of his Avalanche missiles will kill most of the Medium Scout's crew in the air.
His first salvo crushes UFO-52, which craters on the Jylland coast.
Although I'd rather not risk any more lives in the cramped environs of a Medium Scout crash site, Skyranger-1 sets out immediately to conduct a reconnaissance in force. The benefit of knowing what race we'll be facing later is too great to pass up.
For the first time, terror is coming to Europe. We're going to be ready for it.
Does this mean I'm not making the trip?
Oh, you're coming. You'll just be armed with a rubber band and a handful of paperclips.
--Mark Twain
You'll put an eye out with those things.