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[Orb]

Things don't go well for my inverse game against Burnt. He took out a tank and a soldier for 2 Sectoids. 

Otherwise, it still appears fairly balanced. However, March just rolled around the corner, so I'll be seeing terror missions soon.

In other news, I have enough time for another piecewise update! Woo~

Spoiler: Update 5.85: The Tide Changes (click to show/hide)

Huzzah! An Abductor. Good. Can get back to research.



So I had a new idea. The South Pole is HUGE. If I spread my UFOs out around the edges, it reduces detection. Also, from the South Pole, ships move in a weird wide angle. It messes him up if he tries following my UFOs.



Huzzah! Destroyer. Just in time for terror missions. 



Definitely only useful after March.



I'll see what this Heavy Plasma tech does.



Mooooothership.



What? Bah. Must have used my Snakemen up on the harvester.



I adjust breeding accordingly.



These supply shipments definitely seem random.





The Mothership goes to South America. The base will help scout the Americas, where I suspect his base is.



Yep. Only Snakemen/terror unit.



Heavy Plasma~



..and a Supply Ship. This will ship Elerium for UFO production.(I actually shipped WAY too much, and a lot of my resources got wasted. I didn't realize it required storage, or that it wouldn't overflow back into my original base)



Next: Terror Ship. 



Two Abductors. Double the research.



March. Terror missions. 



Hurray! Terror Ships for terror missions.



Now Psionics. Hopefully this will kick in before the destroyer is completed. Then the first terror mission will truly be a surprise for him, and probably quite moral shocking.





A light scout is crashed and destroyed. Nothing to see here.



Woot! Mind Control and Cyberdisks. Time for some fun. 



Blaster Launchers now. I hear these things are quite destructive.







Its time for payback. Payback for all those nameless Sectoids that were murdered. All those easily replaceable Sectoids killed, no time to realize their full potential of nothingness. Time for payback.



...and it gets away. Is my opponent scared?



Another light scout.





...and another gets shot down.



But there is a never ending tide.



Instant kill. Ect.



Another shipment? Well, I guess I can't complain.



Let's terrorize again.



He took the bait. 

Next time: Terror Mission. Spoiler: It involves mind control and exploding cyber disks.

[frostshotgg]

Near as I can tell, you get score for having actual combat missions. Like, the first terror mission wouldn't count for score, but the one you've yet to show us would. The supplies seem to be in the rough ballpark of your score.

[Orb]

Near as I can tell, you get score for having actual combat missions. Like, the first terror mission wouldn't count for score, but the one you've yet to show us would. The supplies seem to be in the rough ballpark of your score.

My belief was that it related to the number of missions I partook in. Since I'm using bigger ships, I have less of them. I had at most in the last update like 3 ships at a time. Which reduced the number of missions, and therefore resources.

However, you may have a point. So what, the amount of DAMAGE I take during X-com missions determines supplies? Interesting.

[frostshotgg]

Looking at what little evidence we have, you got 2000 score from getting wrecked in the first 28 days, then when you got the abductor, your number of combats dropped massively, and your score plummeted as well.

[EuchreJack]

This should demoralize him.

What a true prophecy.  Did you write that before or after Burnt quit?

[Ehndras]

I'm confused. What is this? Multiplayer alien-enabled X-COM? o_O Or am I confused. Yep, I'm confused.

[Delta Foxtrot]

I'm confused. What is this? Multiplayer alien-enabled X-COM? o_O Or am I confused. Yep, I'm confused.

One person controls X-COM while the other handles aliens. It's got other features not in the base game (like high explosives breaching UFOs, sniper rifles, additional exit from the skyranger etc.). Sadly it's unfinished as the developers got a cease & desist from rights holders. You can still find it in the dark corners of the internet, though I don't know what's the latest version.

[Ehndras]

GENIUS.

[JanusTwoface]

I'm confused. What is this? Multiplayer alien-enabled X-COM? o_O Or am I confused. Yep, I'm confused.

One person controls X-COM while the other handles aliens. It's got other features not in the base game (like high explosives breaching UFOs, sniper rifles, additional exit from the skyranger etc.). Sadly it's unfinished as the developers got a cease & desist from rights holders. You can still find it in the dark corners of the internet, though I don't know what's the latest version.

Unless someone can point me at an official source that says otherwise, I'm pretty sure that they never actually got a cease & desist. Judging from what I remember from their 'so long, farewell' post on their forums, they just saw the new games coming out the X-COM IP and were starting their own game studio up and decided that they'd better play it safe than sorry. Which is really unfortunate, because they were *so close*.

[Orb]

This should demoralize him.

What a true prophecy.  Did you write that before or after Burnt quit?

After. 

What. It makes a good read. 

[EuchreJack]

This should demoralize him.

What a true prophecy.  Did you write that before or after Burnt quit?

After. 

What. It makes a good read. 

Spoken like a true LPer. 

[majikero]

How do you make 2 ships attack at the same time? I tried setting 2 ships to go after the same target but only one attacks?

[Burnt Pies]

Got to set them to Control Groups, hold control and press 1, menu comes up and lets you allocate planes to that group. Not a great idea if one plane is running out of fuel, btw, as both planes have to be there for them to attack, just one plane will allow the UFO to escape. You can still control them individually to avoid that.

However, it's a good idea for hitting any UFO of medium size (And almost mandatory for Large ones), as with sufficiently good luck those UFOs can shoot down an Interceptor.

[Orb]

Final update until a replacement is found.

Note: There are so many soldiers to keep track of, I just didn't bother. I only took a screen shot what I figured it would be interesting/note worthy.

Spoiler: Update 6: Terror! (click to show/hide)

Cyberdisk!



Reaction fire Cyber Disk is best.



A hail of fire pelts my Cyber disk. These things have more armor than tanks!



Wow that's a big explosion.

Note to self: Use Cyber Disks as suicide soldiers when I get the chance.



Huh. Heavy Plasma. Its a weapon, not an actual ship weapon. It has no automatic fire, but I assume it packs more punch. I can't say I prefer it. Maybe if my opponent made a habit of using tanks, I'd welcome the change more.



Miiiiind Controoool



This fellow looks particularly vulnerable. However, I fail to take control of him. Apparently, there's a good chance to fail.



Peekaboo. Cyberdisk wants to say hi.



Miiiind Control. I command ye, human. Now, enter his Skyranger and blow everything up.



What. I lost control of him. I guess it only lasts one turn(not counting the turn I took him over).



Leader has got a good shot. Sniped all the way through the gas station.



I have eyes everywhere. He can't escape detection.



What. Oh. Fire at a gas pump, it proceeds to explode. Got to be careful of that.



Pew pew.



He's after my leader. A lot of luck saves me. This mission could have went straight south if he had taken him out.



I get behind cover and use mind control. Ah. Its Xanatos, my old friend. This will be fun. Quite climatic also, that the strongest units in our respective armies would duke it out.



Recent Intelligence indicates there are X-com in that warehouse.



More unsuspecting X-com. Pew pew.



Caught two. 



Xanatos panics. I guess he's still responsive to the death of his comrads?

Attempting to bring him to an early grave only serves to blow up another gas station.



I figure by now he must be retreating, with panicking units and losing more than half his army. I had a Sectoid stashed in a nearby warehouse for the explicit purpose of interception.



Pew pew.



This human has been bugging my left flank for far too long. Cyber disk shall end her.



Oh? I won? I guess he lifted off. Woot!

Full casualties on the human side. Death of Xanatos. This is a good day.

Note: Most of the points lost were from civilians. So while they don't hurt directly, per say, always try to take out civilians if you can in a terror mission.

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Summary







The base image is my new base. We're in pretty good shape. Blaster Launcher is almost done.   

...and that's it. I'll continue to post minor updates from my inverse game, and prompt minor discussion topics, until we get a replacement, I do a different LP, or I get bored. 

[NRDL]

Huh.  Nice update, but kinda sad that I can't press my claim to the first terror ship.