Yeah being able to delete fences has been unironically pleasant. Particularly on that wild (new?) city raid. Which was a total trip, by the way. I wonder if I got lucky, because there were only 1 or 2 wolf-police. Some Osiron sec and cheeky Sharp Guys got some hits in, and the map is huge, but certainly lucrative.
...Oh right ubers weren't allowed, it was kinda designed for my Turtle full of peasants XD
Meanwhile my proper gals took on some church ship. It couldn't have been bigger than medium, yet they had 25 troops on map DX Almost entirely shielded, beastmasters and zealots mainly. Also:
A pair of novices (with gauss muskets why not)
A pair of lightning-fast exalts who got three one-hit-kills with their stupid insubstantial psi-weapons, one through a window I'm pretty sure the Turtle didn't have in J15
A couple of Chryssalids who died in a hail of Smartgun and Linux Mandrake fire. oh and a fartbag which has my boss gal leading from the hospital for a few months while she grows a new torso.
Very bloody mission altogether since almost everyone had yellow shields, which is the Church's way of ensuring martydom. how twisted is a shield which does nothing against bullets, mostly just less-lethal attacks. Though I guess I got lucky there too:
... There was an Academy Pogrom okay? jeez I really need to build a large prison.
Also in my defense I'm *finally* researching persuasion, thanks to that Young Uber from that pogrom, which will let me break the Engineer.
Got the Cardinal in an early boot camp, it'll be satisfying to be able to do something with him too hehe.
Anyway... smartguns with plastateel munitions are surprisingly powerful and accurate, good for trained peasants, though I still like wheeled machineguns and UAC chainguns. Male Touch freakin sucks, I'm still using peasants instead of SS (though I did just discover Crusader armor, which has the ability to survive its user's death... hmm~). My limited gals are surviving pretty well in full tac armor and heavy weaponry, using dogs and peasants to scout for their HMGs, but I miss using them like chryssalids