23rd June 2084, 5.45AMThe dropship reaches the crash site at dawn. There is no sign of any alien activity near the wrecked Harvester which contains a number of dead Taman, but a trail of chaos leads Tiruin to a nearby train station with aliens busy massacring civilians. The squad disembarks and gets ready for action.
Tiruin dusts off and carries out a quick flypast of the enemy positions.
The Taman soldiers are carrying what appear to be bulkier versions of the plasma weaponry we have already seen them use. With luck these weapons will be as inaccurate as the smaller pistols we have seen them use in the past. Note the differing uniform on the second - some indicator of rank maybe?
SSG dispatches the first distant alien with no fuss.
Kickingbottom peppers the alien holding the fucking huge gun with two accurate bursts of rifle fire – it seems to shrug these off with no ill effects.
Shadenight steps up to shoot it in the thigh to finish it off.
Immediate threats cleared, the squad spreads out to hunt more alien scum.
A Taman emerges from the railway tunnel and blasts apart a civilian with a single thin beam from one of the bulky guns. A second Taman heads up the street towards where Bruce is hiding, and blows a hole in the fence with a large glob of plasma from the same bulky gun – it appears it has multiple modes of fire. A Hoverdisc comes tearing up the slope towards Luke, stops just outside of flamethrower range and hits him with a plasma round in the torso – blood begins to pool on the ground around him. The sneaky bastards are learning.
One by the tunnel
One by the house
One wounding Luke
Kickingbottom peppers the Taman that is hunting Bruce, again the rounds impacting on the body of the alien producing no visible effect.
It’s a good job Shadenight is on hand to back her up and rip a round through the ribcage of the advancing alien
Cognitive dissonance demonstrates the potential of the rocket launcher, sending a rocket into the tunnel wall just behind the most distant Taman, sending its corpse tumbling to the ground in some style.
Honker Bonker sprays automatic fire all over the Hovernet, and most of a magazine later it is full of enough holes to fall down dead.
This allows Luke to retreat to safety with Bruce on hand to try and stop him bleeding to death.
While Bruce plays at doctor again, the rest of the squad split into two 3-man teams – one will head towards the train station, one will head past the house ahead of our position.
As Krevsin approaches the train, he sports a lone Taman hanging around, salivating, unsure of what fruit to buy as a healthy snack between murderous rampages. Krevsin has no shot on this alien so takes cover behind a handy tree.
The alien breaks off his fruit related dilemma, and instead launches a barrage of large plasma bolts from his gun at Krevsin. The tree takes the worst of it, But Krevsin still nearly has all his upper body armour burnt off, and is losing a lot of blood.
Nobody is close enough to help him directly yet, so SSG lobs a smoke grenade to obscure the aliens view of Krevsin. This will buy him some time, but not a lot. Honker Bonker sprints over to try and tend to his wound – his idea to carry an extra med pack is paying off.
Ignoring the two soldiers hidden in the thick smoke, the Alien continues its advance, hitting SSG square in the chest with a single plasma round, blowing a neat circular hole in his armour and causing the by now compulsory torso burns and bleeding. The weapon it is carrying seems to be able to fire accurate single rounds or full auto bursts of plasma – it puts our assault rifle to shame.
Enraged, SSG engages in an exchange of fire with the alien, but his sniper rifle proves the more accurate of the two weapons and the Taman is killed. SSG is in a bad way though, his ribs visible through the molten mess of meat and armour.
A sweep of the area reveals no further aliens. 4 civilians were found hiding in amongst the houses, with one dead civilian near the tunnel mouth.
Again, our sniping skills saved the day here – the bulky alien plasma rifle is a terrifying weapon – accurate and with one hell of a punch. Full auto fire from medium range or less will kill our soldiers with ease – I am emphasising to our soldiers the need to engage the aliens at maximum range. If we had not thinned out their numbers early in combat we would have been in for a hard time. As it stands, we have 3 more troops in the medbay with a mess where their chests should be.
For his bravery in putting himself directly in harm’s way in taking down the Hovernet, and in sprinting over open ground to aid a comrade, Honker Bonker has been promoted to Lance-Corporal.
Scriver, Barry the Baptist and MaxClone have been rotated into the squad to replace the wounded. Scriver has been issued with a HMG following the disappointing performance of our assault rifle compared to the alien plasma rifle.
The salvaged plasma rifle and the odd and bulky plasma blaster have been deposited to the lab for evaluation – once someone can get Dr Branth’s attention off the alien EMW setup.
With the arrival of some serious alien weaponry in this war in the form of these 2 new plasma weapons, I really worry that the casualties will soon begin to mount up.
Pilots:
Pilot Rehyaaz “Haspen” de jesus – 7 missions, 4 kill
Pilot “Tiruin” Kloot – 5 missions, 2 kills
Pilot “Birdy-51” Danielsen – 1 mission
Soldiers:
Rifleman Bruce “Dsarker” Bonzer – 6 mission, 1 kill
Lance-Corporal “Shadenight” Schwartz – 6 mission, 9 kills
Rifleman “Cognitive Dissonance” Schultze – 3 missions, 3 kills
Lance-Corporal “MaxClone Alpha” – 3 missions, 3 kills
Lance-Corporal “Scriver” Bouzid – 4 mission, 3 kills
Rifleman “Honker Bonker” Assar (Kicior) - 6 missions, 2 kills
Rifleman “Euchre Jack” Cardoso – 2 missions, 2 kills
Rifleman “Kickingbottom” Suzuki – 1 mission
Rifleman “Delta Foxtrot” Guedes – 0 missions
Rifleman Barry the Baptist – 0 missions
Lance-Corporal “Krevsin” Timofeev – 5 missions, 4 kill: Extreme torso burns and blood loss.
Rifleman “SSG” Bradford – 6 mission, 6 kills: Extreme torso burns and blood loss.
Rifleman “Luke” Mubarack – 3 mission, 1 kill: Extreme torso burns and blood loss.
Rifleman “Lukeinator” Herring – Gunned down from point blank by a dual plasma pistol wielding Taman at a docks in Egypt. 1 mission, no kills.
Pilot Jesse “Spaghetti-7” James – 6 mission, 3 kills. Shot down by an alien fighter craft over the Ukraine.
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