((I forgot to turn off Steam's auto-updates for this game, and an update made my save unusable. I'll restart with the same settings, and continue like it never happened.))
Commander's Log
I am Melou Zhou, former captain in the PLA Ground Force. My predecessor is in a coma in the infirmary following a reportedly nearly disastrous battle. I am given to understand that this organization only recruits leaders from their combat personnel. As the only other active soldier was deemed unfit for command duty, the bureaucrats were forced to either break their charter or give command to someone unfamiliar with the project. I believe the lack of Chinese squeamishness with necessary sacrifices played a role in my placement.
Following a hasty re-hiring, these are the new Xenonaut soldiers:
((Felius has a sniper rifle. Monkeyhead gets a machine gun.))
While he was out, the scientific staff made a few discoveries:
We are unable to link our radar network with the major governments, for security and secrecy reasons. Fortunately, for all their advanced technology, the aliens are not good at masking their presence. We frequently receive reports that could be enemy craft. Our own fighters lack the range to act on this information.
With my predecessor unavailable, I have, with the assistance of the only other survivor, been analyzing the footage from the battle. It began with Russian aircraft managing to down a light scout in the Sakha region of eastern USSR.
The terrain made a perfect ambush point against us. My predecessor realized this, but decided the reinforced southern wall was not worth the effort to breach after a fragmentation rocket and a few seconds of machine gun fire proved inadequate at the task. I do not know why he was hording the explosive charges, but this proved a bad plan. He ordered the western wall blasted down and charged. There were casualties, of course, and they met a reptilian species this time. Despite the reptiles' extreme resiliency, devastating close-ranged weapons, and favorable terrain, only four xenonauts were killed taking the fortified position held by four of the reptiles.
Four soldiers remained to claim the downed craft. Three aliens were inside it. The two on breaching duty didn't survive the fight, and the ensuing standoff lasted for several minutes. Our infantry rockets were able to blast a hole in the side of a light scout, but EuchreJack ran out at that point and had to help gun them down with a dropped machine gun, his pistol useless against their armored hides.
If we can continue with trading six soldiers for seven enemies who have heavy advantages in biology, technology, leadership, and terrain, victory is well within our grasp -- Particularly as we bridge the tech barrier.
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Topic: Xenonauts LP. It's like Cold War era X-Com. (Read 7396 times)