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[crazysheep]

Location: Earth orbit. A spacecraft flickers into view.

*fzzzzt*"Damn, comms seem to be down. Anyone know where we are?"

"Brother, that seems to be Holy Terra... although something seems to be wrong about it."

*bootsteps resound on metal plating*

"Local time seems to indicate we materialised in 015.M3, brother."

"Oshit."


Welcome to (yet another) XCOM:EU screenshot LP on Bay12 forums! This LP will be based around the premise that XCOM soldiers are actually Deathwatch Space Marines lost in a different time. Bradford, Vahlen and Shen decide to recruit them to combat the alium xenos threat, and being true Space Marines, they do not stop to ask why not.

How I plan to run this LP: Inspired by mastahcheese's play-by-play EW LP, I was tempted to make this PBP as well... but I thought better. I'll run this as a Classic Ironman game, and I'll need a volunteers, submitted using the following format:

Spoiler: Signup sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: <firstname> <preferred nickname> <lastname>
Gender: Any/Female/Male
Appearance (optional): <whatever styles XCOM supports, otherwise I will default to whatever your soldier Space Marine was rolled as>

Preferred class: Any/Assault/Heavy/Sniper/Support
Preferred weapon:
Preferred equipment:
Preferred tactics: <Word or phrase best describing character's behaviour on a mission. You may change this as the game progresses.>

Your choice of tactics will determine how I play your character during missions. For example, if you choose to make your character overconfident, then I may get him/her to take low percentage shots, or stay in low cover even with multiple xenos threats nearby.

We also need to vote on where XCOM HQ will be located, and please specify if you want me to use any Second Wave options. I will use game defaults if nobody wants Second Wave options on. Current Second Wave options I have are:

Spoiler: Second Wave Options (click to show/hide)

Active, Waitlist, Memorial

Missions

[Hanzoku]

Spoiler: Dossier: Han Zoku (click to show/hide)

Name: Han Zoku
Gender: Male

Preferred Class: Support
Preferred Weapon: Laser Rifle
Preferred Equipment: Medikit
Preferred Tactics: Prefers advancing by leapfrog, will generally prefer to advance from cover to cover while still being able to set up overwatch or take a shot.

[mastahcheese]

How I plan to run this LP: Inspired by mastahcheese's play-by-play EW LP, I was tempted to make this PBP as well... but I thought better.

We're all entitled to our own opinions.

This LP will be based around the premise that XCOM soldiers are actually Deathwatch Space Marines

Have you ever heard of Space Hulk? From what I've been told, it's basically a Warhammer 40K X-COM.

Spoiler: Sign-up sheet cause why not (click to show/hide)

Name: Cromwell "Redshirt" Jackson
Gender: Male, cause I don't think Cromwell would sound good on a lady.
Appearance (optional): Pink armor, with some slick shades and a beret.

Preferred class: Don't care
Preferred weapon: Don't really care much, if I get assault, I'd prefer the shotguns to rifles.
Preferred equipment: Chitin Plating.
Preferred tactics: Ok, I'll do this.... (until/if I get a class, follow the "Assault" line.) In general, play him as suicidal, with no regard to his own health.
If Support: Take the perks that go along the "smoke grenade" line for defense. Use myself as a body shield to keep other people alive in needed.
If Heavy: Take all the rocket launcher perks, and grenadier. Blow up EVERYTHING.
If Assault: Take all the close combat perks, get in everyone's faces and start popping caps in a$$es.
If Sniper: Take Snap Shot, and act like I'm using a regular rifle, rather than a sniper.

For Base Location, I vote for Africa, because that increased funding is amazing, and it lets us get more cool loot.
As for the Second Wave choices, turn on ALL OF THEM.

[HissinhWalnuts]

Name: James 'Repetition' Magee
Gender: Male
Appearance (optional): Helmets on his face, if not he will settle without one, he's afraid of SPEZZZZZZZZZZ MICRUBBBES. Blue.

Preferred class: Assault
Preferred weapon: Shotgun
Preferred equipment: Grenades
Preferred tactics: Blowing up the most terrain possible. But being generally lightweight.

Second wave: ALL THE THINGS!

[Remuthra]

Name: Remuthra "Hatman" Bridger
Gender: Any
Appearance (optional): Pink armor.

Preferred class: Heavy
Preferred weapon: Heavy Plasma
Preferred equipment: S.C.O.P.E. and Juggernaut Armor
Preferred tactics: Find cover and Overwatch, waiting for others to "prod" the enemy into range, then focus fire. Use rockets to remove heavy threats.

Second Wave: All the ones that aren't purely negative. For example, Damage Roulette on but Diminishing Returns off.

Go to Afarica for all the Egyptian Tomb Raid Gold.

[Aseaheru]

If I am to join this I must demand all the options, and a person with XALT weapons.

Or is it not spelled Xalt? Is it exalt? I think its exalt.

Well, who cares. Its the new version.

[mastahcheese]

If I am to join this I must demand all the options, and a person with XALT weapons.

Or is it not spelled Xalt? Is it exalt? I think its exalt.

Well, who cares. Its the new version.

It's "exalt", but he's playing Enemy Unknown, so they aren't in this version.

[Darkening Kaos]

Signing on for more madness, because.....why the hell not?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Darkening "Sam" Kaos
Gender: Unimportant
Appearance (optional): Makeover when assigned a class.
Preferred class: Assault or Sniper.
Preferred weapon: Shottie, or Sniper.
Preferred equipment: Reaper Rounds for Assault, or SCOPE for Sniper.
Preferred tactics: Shotgun-toting Lunatic, or rifle-toting Lunatic, (I'm getting typecast)

As for second wave, all those that are not painfully negative.  I'd also suggest ignoring 'Not Created Equally'

[crazysheep]

Hanzoku, HissinhWalnuts, Remuthra and mastahcheese, your chars have been accepted. You shall be part of the first scouting Kill-Team.

Aseaheru: As mastahcheese pointed out, I'm not playing the new version with EXALT in it, do you still want in?

Current base votes: 2 for Africa.
Current Second Wave votes: 2 for "everything non-negative", 1 for "everything!!11!"

I'd say we're good to go. I'll check back on this thread tonight before I launch our first mission to rid Earth Holy Terra of the alium xenos threat.

Have you ever heard of Space Hulk? From what I've been told, it's basically a Warhammer 40K X-COM.

Heard of it, haven't played it yet, and I want it :3

[crazysheep]

Active Kill-Team volunteers [8]:
Heavy In Cromwell "Redshirt" Jackson, 1 missions, 3 kills (mastahcheese)
Sniper Cpl "Super" Mario Schulz, 3 missions, 6 kills (darkpaladin)
Assault In Altasian Smirnov, 1 missions, 3 kills (Altasian)
Support Cpl Old Man "Gnomies" Henderson, 2 missions, 8 kills (Remuthra)
Support Cpl James "Repetition" Magee, 2 missions, 2 kills (HissinhWalnuts, back from the dead)
Neo Beliel "Harbinger" Darktalon, 0 missions, 0 kills (Mephansteras)
Neo Lukash "DreXav" Durante, 0 missions, 0 kills (DreXav)
Neo Dorothox "Oddysey" Matthews, 0 missions, 0 kills (Solarflare)

Memorial [13]:
Death by flaming gas tank: Rk Mona Halvorsen, 1 mission, 2 kills
Death by plasma: Rk Jeff Snyder, 1 mission, 0 kills [posthumous meatshield award, posthumous wooden spoon award]
Death by plasma: Assault In Richard Brown, 2 missions, 2 kills (Aseaheru)
Death by critical plasma: Heavy Cpl Remuthra "Hatman" Bridger, 4 missions, 8 kills (Remuthra)
Death by plasma: Sniper In James 'Repetition' Magee, 2 missions, 3 kills (HissinhWalnuts)
Death by plasma: Neo Luca Dakka, 1 missions, 3 kills (darkpaladin109)
Death by plasma: Neo Everett Owen, 1 missions, 1 kills (Aseaheru)
Death by critical plasma: Neo Shannon "Twitch" Nichols, 1 missions, 0 kills (HugoLuman) [posthumous meatshield award, posthumous wooden spoon award]
Death by critical plasma: Neo Aradiel "Harbinger" Darktalon, 2 missions, 0 kills (Mephansteras) [posthumous meatshield award, posthumous wooden spoon award]
Death by critical plasma: Sniper In 'Honest' Abe Lincoln, 2 missions, 6 kills (EnigmaticHat)
Death by critical plasma: Support In Han Zoku, 3 missions, 4 kills (Hanzoku)
Death by critical plasma: Sniper In Darkening "Sam" Kaos, 2 missions, 2 kills (Darkening Kaos) [posthumous meatshield award]
Death by critical plasma: Neo Konrad Doomsen, 1 missions, 0 kills (HugoLuman) [posthumous meatshield award, posthumous wooden spoon award]

Waitlist [1]:
KJ "Kaje" Reilloc (Kaje)

Spoiler: Awards (click to show/hide)

meatshield (only available posthumously): any soldier who dies while protecting the rest of the squad
wooden spoon (only available posthumously): any soldier who dies without getting a kill

[crazysheep]

Prologue: Operation Demon Chant
Mission 1: Operation Vengeful Chant
Mission 2: Operation Cryptic Pipe
Mission 3: Operation Glass God (WARNING, IMAGE HEAVY)
Mission 4: Operation Crystal Dirge
Mission 5: Operation Blinding Daze, Part 1
Mission 5: Operation Blinding Daze, Part 2
Mission 6: Operation Fading Blade, Part 1
Mission 6: Operation Fading Blade, Part 2
Mission 7: Operation Silent Grave, Part 1
Mission 7: Operation Silent Grave, Part 2
Mission 7: Operation Silent Grave, Part 3
Mission 7: Operation Silent Grave, Part 4

[crazysheep]

Prologue: Operation Demon Chant

From the log of Deathwatch Librarian Garroth:

My battle brothers and sisters were still recovering from the major shock of being thrown almost 40 millenia back in time. While the perils of Warp travel were known to all of us, none of us could have ever imagined being whisked away to a time before the Emperor of Mankind was born!

Worse of all, there was already a xenos threat lurking on Holy Terra. We wanted to fight, but not all of us were ready. Sister Remuthra was quickest to volunteer for duty, while the rest of us consolidated our assets and assisted XCOM to set up its HQ.

***

Egypt, in the rain and darkness. Perfect for the xenos, bad conditions for XCOM operatives. Remuthra leads 3 operatives into the field in Cairo: Mona, Jeff, and Lauren. After exiting the Skyranger, she orders the humans to spread out in a dispersed formation.


The squad slowly advances up the road, using abandoned cars as cover to move up.
Suddenly, Jeff uncovers a pack of xenos in his dash to get into cover! His mad dash doesn't fool the xenos, and Jeff eats a plasma burst.


Mona moves into position and guns down one of them, but the rest are still lurking out there.


The xenos lay down fire to try and flush out Jeff and Mona, and succeed in setting a car on fire.


Mona dashes up... unfortunately she attracts a hail of plasma bursts, and the car she chooses for cover is set ablaze. A bit late for regrets here.
Remuthra has been busy cleaning up on the left side of the road, already clearing out 2 other xenos threats.
Lauren and Jeff move up to cover her, attracting yet more xenos attention.


*bzzt*
++ video feed interrupted ++
++ parsing audio feed, standby... ++

*Plasma weapon fire*
Female voice 1: ungggh-
Female voice 2: Lauren's down!
*whimpering, 5 seconds*
Female voice 2: We need evac!
*Autogun fire*
Xenos voice: eeeeep- *thud*
*sizzle*
*boom*
Male voice 1: S-SHIT, MONA'S DOWN
*panicky breathing, 7 seconds*
Male voice 1: WE NEED TO LEAVE, NOW!
*Plasma weapon fire*
Male voice 1: noooo- *thud*
*Autogun fire*
Xenos voice: eeeeep- *thud*
Female voice 3: It's down.
++ positive ID, female voice 3: Remuthra ++
*cling*
Remuthra: Frag out!
*beep*
*boom*
Remuthra: Mission complete. All hostiles accounted for.

++ video feed restored ++




So... you can see I took quite a few liberties with the mission narrative here, especially the bits regarding Space Marine lore. I'd like to think I'm giving our troopers meatshields a chance, but let's face it, what chance do they really have?

Remuthra accounted herself beautifully though. 1 mission, 4 kills, 1 promotion.

[darkpaladin109]

Name: Mr. Dakka
Gender: Male
Appearance (optional): A big, blad guy.

Preferred class: Heavy
Preferred weapon: Biggest machine gun you can find
Preferred equipment: Heavy armor
Preferred tactics: DAKKA DAKKA

[crazysheep]

Oh, and I should mention the Second Wave options being used in this LP are:

Appearance (optional): A big, blad guy.

Blad? :s

[Aseaheru]

Awww... Damage roulette is fun!


Right, I am in. Give me a default person w/ there name (although the nickname will be changed when it gets to that). Male, preferably British, medic-support. Enjoys keeping people alive. Good accuracy is a must.