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[SeriousConcentrate]

Sir Kahn is a pretty cool guy
She kills aliens & buildings and doesn't afraid of anything

Obviously, what she needs is even more destructive weaponry...

[Sirus]

I thought you said you were terrible at this game! 
Yet here you are wiping out terror missions without a single death! Sure, it's only floaters and reapers, but damn!

Any word on promotions and kills and stuff?

[Jacob/Lee]

Wow, Stone Cold actually hit something

[IronyOwl]

I thought you said you were terrible at this game! 
Yet here you are wiping out terror missions without a single death! Sure, it's only floaters and reapers, but damn!

I think the fact that everyone's insisted on having an explosive autocannon has helped immensely with that.

Any word on promotions and kills and stuff?

That's actually kind of tricky. I wasn't tracking them while they happened, and the later part of the mission was basically five or six members standing in the middle of the street firing at two Reapers hiding behind buildings. Consequently, while some kills are well-documented, I'm actually a little fuzzy on some of them.

But let's see. The first one was gunned down by Maxclone right next to the Skyranger, then got up and was gunned down by Miranda, so she gets a kill. I think the second one was put down by McCannonFodder, the one in the alley, then the third, standing across the street, was killed by O'Malley. Miranda got a second reaction kill near the gas station and Sir Kahn disposed of the one on the far side of the house right next to the Skyranger. Xenio popped into the house next to the one O'Malley took down, and Commissar Bane roasted the last Floater I definitively remember, being the one hiding behind the buildings with the Reapers.

One Floater, the one in the tiny house near the end, I actually don't remember. I do believe it was someone with an explosive autocannon, but strangely that doesn't narrow it down a ton. Sir Kahn and O'Malley only got one kill this mission and Bob Bunny was elsewhere (specifically, near the building but away from any windows) and had AP ammo, though, so I guess it was McCannonFodder? I could also be remembering wrong and it was Maxclone, but it was definitely a non-grenade explosion.

As far as Reapers go, there were four. One was taken down by Miranda's grenade. One was taken down by GlyphGryph. I want to say one was gunned down by Sir Kahn, but the numbers don't line up, so I guess one died on its own in Commissar Bane's fire and one was taken down directly by him.

Alright, so I guess that's only one fuzzy kill- the Floater in the tiny house. As for promotions, there weren't any, oddly enough.

Wow, Stone Cold actually hit something

He's having a devil of a time actually getting a chance to shoot anything, what with all our frontliners surviving and blowing everything up. I'm gonna have to be more aggressive with him in the future. :3

[Sirus]

Wait, Bane has been on two successful missions now and gotten kills on both, and he isn't even a squaddie? Guess he'll just have to kick more ass in the future

[IronyOwl]

Wait, Bane has been on two successful missions now and gotten kills on both, and he isn't even a squaddie? Guess he'll just have to kick more ass in the future

Now that you mention it, yeah, that is odd.

Of course, from his own perspective a mere three aliens slain in two missions is probably fairly terrible.

[Mephansteras]

You only get so many promotions based on the number of X-Com soldiers there are total. So to get more promotions Irony will have to hire more guys. It's a strange system.

[Sirus]

Wait, Bane has been on two successful missions now and gotten kills on both, and he isn't even a squaddie? Guess he'll just have to kick more ass in the future

Now that you mention it, yeah, that is odd.

Of course, from his own perspective a mere three aliens slain in two missions is probably fairly terrible.

On the plus side, he's gone two missions without executing anyone. That's a personal best!

[Derp Sandvich]

Another successful mission, keep up the good work. I wish I could say the same thing for the poor civilians that were caught in the crossfire.

How many were there total?

[GlyphGryph]

Hire a "capture" squad - 8 men, armed with nothing but cattle prods and smoke grenades. Send them out on easy missions to capture aliens. They can have their own fun little side story, and WE can get promotions!

[Sirus]

Hire a "capture" squad - 8 men, armed with nothing but cattle prods and smoke grenades. Send them out on easy missions to capture aliens. They can have their own fun little side story, and WE can get promotions!

: I'm Commissar Bane, and I approve this idea.

Eventually, we might want a second Skyranger purely for the capture team, so the primary squad can deal with the real threats.

[GlyphGryph]

Might want to assign one of us to "command" them and bring a weapon just in case of non-capturable enemies.

Preferably a rocket launcher or equivalent.

[Sirus]

1-2-3-Not-it!

[IronyOwl]

Another successful mission, keep up the good work. I wish I could say the same thing for the poor civilians that were caught in the crossfire.

How many were there total?

According to the mission summary, 5 were slain by aliens, one was slain by a certain X-COM operative, and 10 got to live.

Incidentally, one of the things I mostly failed to mention was the civilians running around. There was of course the one Xenio ran into, who survived, plus at least two in the building next to the gas station- which had one wall damaged by explosive fire aimed at the alley alien (in fact, that's how I knew there weren't any aliens in there- I could see the civilians pacing around). Immediately after the Reaper nearby was slain, one of the stupid gits walked out through a hole on the pump side, near where the Reaper and grenade had been. Believe he walked back in immediately after, but still.

The main civilian hub, however, was oddly right next to the last alien hideout. Basically, the only screenshot of the battle I got was of a building and the surrounding hallways; to the upper right of that, there were two rooms. One is visible on the upper right edge; it's where that one civilian was shot right through the window later on in the mission. The other connected to the room visible on the upper left, which had nothing in it. That room was filled with boxes and led via garage door to the outside, and for some strange reasons civilians were swarming around that building, room, and surrounding grasslands; that's roughly where one accidentally shot by Dr. Euchre, and I was hearing the alien craft/garage door opening sounds all mission long from the weirdos going in and out of the door for some reason.

Hire a "capture" squad - 8 men, armed with nothing but cattle prods and smoke grenades. Send them out on easy missions to capture aliens. They can have their own fun little side story, and WE can get promotions!

Now this is fascinating. Would they be recruits waiting at a chance to get into the main squad, or default/mook-named mooks?

Might want to assign one of us to "command" them and bring a weapon just in case of non-capturable enemies.

Preferably a rocket launcher or equivalent.

This is also a good idea. I imagine capture squad overseer would be a pretty dull position, though.

[Sirus]

I'd say let raw recruits into the capture squad, using generic mooks if not enough people are on the waiting list. Player characters would have precedence for moving up into the main squad.