Update 2: Trading ShotsMarch 8thWith too few engineers to build another satellite station, we're forced to wait for something to happen instead. Days go by with no such luck.
Finally, on March 8th, we get reports that aliens are striking several locations at once. Forced to choose, I decide to save Japan and its precious, precious engineers.
The squad is assembled- this mission will be Armok, Rapingshire, Smith, and Nydus. Armok and Rapingshire have been given medkits in place of grenades.
Here goes.
Operation Cold Gift
The site appears to be a loading yard or similar.
Maxine advances to the forklift, while Tarran climbs into the back of a freight truck to get a better vantage. This works a little too well- instantly he spots movement to our left, and a pair of sectoids scurry back. Codswell begins moving- very cautiously- around the back of a truck to possibly flank them, while Nydus takes a more direct approach, holding position on the other side of one of the trucks the sectoids were near.
A moment later, one runs around the corner and takes fire from Nydus. She misses, and it brazenly stands in the open and returns fire, also thankfully missing. Meanwhile, two more sectoids are spotted near but further out from where the first two were.
Codswell continues moving past the truck, and finds that she can fire between the cabin and the trailer, severely wounding but failing to kill the sectoid. Nydus finishes it off without trouble, however, going so far as to crit for double its normal health.
There's still at least three more out there, however.
We find them soon enough, and proceed to engage in a firefight in the corridor between two trucks. Codswell continues circling around, and Nydus goes down her own corridor.
Codswell takes cover behind a pump before it's blown away, while one sectoid empowers another healthy one. A third holds the line despite being heavily wounded by Maxine early on, and nobody can hit each other otherwise.
Tarran decides to circle around the truck Maxine is holding at, while Codswell and Nydus both take cover behind the same nearby truck.
Then it catches on fire, so Nydus takes cover behind a far off bench and finally hits the boosting sectoid. When its buddy dies in the chain reaction, Codswell takes her chance to run up, though still hiding behind a pump, and execute the wounded one at close range.
Mission accomplished.
Incidentally, we can now build workshops and panic has increased across Europe and North America.
We've also gained two new recruits:
Typical enough.
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