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[Mephansteras]

I'm taking the day off of work sick, and decided that doing an LP of Enemy within sounded fun. It's probably a horrible idea and many soldiers will die, but that's X-com for you.






We'll be going Ironman Classic for this, just to make things even worse for our poor soldiers (not impossible, since I don't find that as much fun). We'll also add on a few nice Second Wave features to make things more interesting.

Spoiler: Game Options (click to show/hide)

I also have a few tweaks to the game ini file in place. Namely, all soldiers (bar heavies) can use basic shotguns and snipers are allowed to use any of the various rifles in addition to the sniper rifle. Makes squaddie snipers much less useless. The strategic layer is also a bit different, with more UFOs showing up. Also, Satellites and successful Abduction missions have a reduced effect on the Country that happen in but lessen panic over the entire continent. Failing missions still makes it quite likely that we'll lose countries, but this means that we're less likely to lose countries just because the RNG hates us.


As usual, you're welcome to sign up for soldiers, give me recommendations on what to do at a strategic level, and bemoan our horrible fates as I try to play X-Com with a head cold.


First Order of business: Where shall we set up XCom HQ? Note that New Economy is on, so it's quite likely that whatever country with start will will have terrible income.

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Name: <firstname> <preferred nickname> <lastname>
Gender: Any/Female/Male
Nationality: (If you care)
Appearance: (I have all of the DLC for XCom, so you have tons of options. I'll do my best to customize your soldier to fit.)

Preferred class: Any/Assault/Heavy/Sniper/Support (If you take a rookie, you get whatever class they roll)
Preferred weapon: (If applicable)
Preferred equipment:
Preferred tactics: (Word or phrase best describing character's behavior on a mission. You may change this as the game progresses.)

Active Players:
RAM
birdy51
Erils
Worldmaster27
Powder Miner
Darkening Kaos
Yoink
darkpaladin109

Waitlist:
Harry Baldman
GiglameshDespair
mastahcheese



Base Stats
Credits: 185
Income: 258
Meld: 120
Engineers: 14
Scientists: 15

Barracks
Here is the roster of our current soldiers

Claimed

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Lt. Quill 'Centurion' Arven - Assault - Mexico - Female - Will 60 - Aim 92 - Mob 14

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Lt. Phillip 'Fish' Ishmael - Sniper - United States - Male - Will 84 - Aim 81 - Mob 11

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Sgt. Birdvig 'Doc' Krauss - Support - Germany - Male - Will 72 - Aim 76 - Mob 14

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Sq. Eris Everking - Heavy - Netherlands - Male - Will 61 - Aim 71 - Mob 13

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Uisce Farraige - Assault- Ireland - Female - Will 47 - Aim 74 - Mob 14

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Charles Whitman - Assault - USA- Male - Will 29 - Aim 75 - Mob 11

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Darkening Kaos II - Rookie - Brazil - Female - Will 57 - Aim 60 - Mob 14

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Captain Bloodbeard - Rookie - South Korea - Male - Will 59 - Aim 60 - Mob 13

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Joanna Rickenbacker - Rookie - USA - Female - Will 49 - Aim 70 - Mob 14

Unclaimed

Rookie - Japan - Female - Will 57 - Aim 65 - Mob 11
Rookie - Iran - Male - Will 51 - Aim 60 - Mob 11
Rookie - Italy - Female - Will 31 - Aim 65 - Mob 12
Rookie - India - Female - Will 51 - Aim 60 - Mob 13
Rookie - Israel - Male - Will 59 - Aim 65 - Mob 11


Memorial

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Sgt. Jane 'Phobos' Rickenbacker - Heavy - United Kingdom - Female - Will 56 - Aim 66 - Mob 11

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Sq. Carlos Jackson - Heavy - Spain - Male - Will 54 - Aim 82 - Mob 11

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Cindy Edana - Rookie - Canada - Female - Will 59 - Aim 55 - Mob 11

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Darkening Kaos - Rookie - Australia - Female - Will 42 - Aim 70 - Mob 11

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Sq. Cromwell Jackson - Support- Ireland - Male - Will 56 - Aim 65 - Mob 13

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Sq. Dick Dippler - Support - Australian - Male - Will 58 - Aim 71 - Mob 11

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Sq. Bangles Brookwater - Heavy- Australian - Male - Will 34 - Aim 65 - Mob 13

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Sq. Break Man - Assault - United States - Male - Will 56 - Aim 83 - Mob 12

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Sabal Mathur - Rookie - India - Male - Will 59 - Aim 70 - Mob 14

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Belinda Jackson - Rookie - South Africa - Male - Will 55 - Aim 75 - Mob 11
Assault - Nigeria - Female - Will 54 - Aim 80 - Mob 13
Heavy - Japan - Male - Will 34 - Aim 70 - Mob 11
Rookie - Nigeria - Male - Will 55 - Aim 60 - Mob 13
Rookie - Norway - Male - Will 53 - Aim 70 - Mob 12


I've decided to start collecting the customization options here so people can more easily decide how they want their people to look. This will probably grow slowly.

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- Heavy Only

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[GiglameshDespair]

Name: Jack/Jane "Phobos" Rickenbacker
Gender: Male/Female
Nationality: British
Appearance: Always wearing this helmet if possible. Orange armour

Preferred class: Any
Preferred weapon: Unless Assualt, most powerful rifle available
Preferred equipment: Scope
Preferred tactics: Trigger-happy

[Harry Baldman]

Name: Dick Dippler
Gender: Male
Nationality: Australian
Appearance: no hair apart from the largest possible mustache. No helmet!

Preferred class: Support (but any will do)
Preferred weapon: any!
Preferred equipment: the most powerful grenade available.
Preferred tactics: stay back as far as possible and try not to get hit. People start dying too badly, throw grenades at likely enemies and get away!

[Mephansteras]

Either of you have a preference on Base location?

[darkpaladin109]

Name: Break Man
Gender: Male
Nationality: American if possible
Appearance: Always wears the fourth helmet from the left, bottom row and the third armor from the left.

Preferred class: Any
Preferred weapon: Most powerful weapon available, laser weapons when possible.
Preferred equipment: Whatever suits the mission and squad best
Preferred tactics: Careful

[Harry Baldman]

Either of you have a preference on Base location?

Nope! Well, I could maybe suggest Africa.

[Mephansteras]

Africa is the safest bet with New Economy, so we'll go with that. Initial update will be out in a bit and we can start making some of the more meatier decisions. Plus we'll get to see how many of you actually get soldiers initially.

Also, if anyone has any preferences on our initial Research options now would be a good time.

Options are:
  Xeno Biology - Leads to us being able to capture live aliens + autopsies
  Alien Materials - Leads to better armor
  Weapon fragments - Leads to Scopes and Laser weapons
  Advanced Warfare - Unlocks the Foundry plus a bunch of upgrades for everything and SHIVs
  Meld recombination - Unlocks Genetic manipulation and MEC Troopers

[GiglameshDespair]

Weapon fragments.

The best defence is a good offence in this game.

[darkpaladin109]

Weapon fragments, cause laser weapons.

[RAM]

Name: Phillip Fish Ishmael
Gender: Any
Nationality: Antarctican
Appearance: Punk with an overdose of stimulants.

Preferred class: Sniper
Preferred weapon: massive single-shot damage
Preferred equipment: heavy rifle and armour
Preferred tactics: Sharpshooter

[Mephansteras]

[XCOM Base - Africa]



-- Bradford: I've been told our new commander will be starting today.
-- Vahlen: Ah, good, I am looking forward to meeting him.
-- Shen: Indeed. I am curious who the council chose to run this operation.

  -- COMMANDER: You will refer to me as XCOM COMMANDER! And it's awesome to be here, let me tell you! I know exactly what we're up against!

-- Vahlen: You do? But...we've barely learned anything yet ourselves!
-- Bradford: With all due respect...commander...this is an unknown alien menace. We've barely learned anything about them.

  -- COMMANDER: Let me guess, ugly naked little grey aliens shooting plasma at us? Possibly with some sort of Psionic powers?

-- Vahlen: That's incredible! How...how did you know?
  -- COMMANDER: I'm from an alternate universe. There, this exact scenario played out in a video game I played to death called X-Com back in 1992. Trust me, I know what we're in for.

-- Shen: I see. Pardon me, Commander, but...are you dressed in Ninja armor?
  -- COMMANDER: Yes! I wanted something that would inspire the troops.
-- Shen: I see.


-- Bradford: In any case, let's review the footage of our initial encounter against the aliens. I think you'll find it...enlightening.

Spoiler: OPERATION: Demonic Serpent (click to show/hide)

We encountered three of the aliens near some strange glowing artifact. They quickly scattered as our troops moved up to engage.


They fired plasma weaponry at us. Our troops did suffer some casualties in the fight, but fortunately no one was killed.



Fortunately for us, they do not seem to be immune to bullets, although sometimes more than a single burst would be necessary to take them down. Oddly, their weapons seem to be coded to self destruct upon the death of the wielder. We have fragments of their weapons to study, but nothing more.


Explosives proved to be extremely effective, however we could not recover any fragments from aliens destroyed in this fashion. Also, it was noted that some of these aliens had a psionic link between them. When severed on the one projecting the link both aliens perished.


Overall the mission was a major success. No deaths on our part, multiple alien bodies to research, as well as two of those strange orange canisters.

[Worldmaster27]

Name: Quill 'Centurion' Arven
Gender: Male
Nationality: No preference
Appearance: Any armor style, must have helmet

Preferred class: Assault or Support
Preferred weapon: Shotgun
Preferred equipment: Respirator Implant, replaced with Chitin Plating when available.
Preferred tactics: Up close and personal

[Mephansteras]

(Double post to break things up a bit)



Here is our base layout. As you can see we have a lot of open space to work with. However, it will take a while to get down to the geothermal energy vents. We'll need to plan carefully where we expand to in order to maximize base efficiency.



[Barracks]
Here is the roster of our current soldiers

Claimed

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Dick Dippler - Rookie - Australian - Male - Will 51 - Aim 65

Unclaimed
Heavy - United Kingdom - Female - Will 49 - Aim 66
Assault - Nigeria - Female - Will 54 - Aim 80
Sniper - United States - Male - Will 64 - Aim 62
Rookie - Japan - Male - Will 29 - AIm 70
Rookie - Australian - Male - Will 29 - Aim 65
Rookie - Ireland - Male - Will 53 - Aim 60
Rookie - United States - Male - Will 51 - Aim 80
Rookie - Nigeria - Male - Will 55 - Aim 60
Rookie - Brazil - Female - Will 57 - Aim 60
Rookie - Canada - Female - Will 59 - Aim 55
Rookie - Japan - Female - Will 57 - Aim 65
Rookie - Germany - Male - Will 59 - Aim 65
Rookie - Iran - Male - Will 51 - Aim 60
Rookie - Spain - Male - Will 51 - Aim 80


darkpaladin109 and RAM, there are two American soldiers available (sorry, Antarcica is not an option), our Sniper and a Rookie with really good stats. Not sure if you guys want to split those two up or how you want to do it.

For those of you who want specifics (Class, nationality, etc) I will hold off on assigning you a soldier until a matching one becomes available. If you change your mind and want one of the existing soldiers, just let me know.

General note:
Unclaimed soldiers all follow a basic color scheme, and all wear standard military helmets.
    Green indicates Solid Will (not too likely to panic). Swamp is poor aim, Dark Green is average/good aim, Mint Green is great aim.
    Yellow indicates Weak Will. Dark yellow is poor/average aim, Bright Yellow is great aim.

Unless you specify a color for you soldier, your will continue with that color pattern.

Later on I usually break soldiers into colored squads (All red, all Back, all blue, etc), although I'm flexible on that depending on what people want their soldiers to look like.

Note that armor options are limited right now, so it may be a while before you get armor that looks like the type you prefer. Helms I can do whenever, though.

[GiglameshDespair]

Phobos can be the femal heavy, just called Jane instead.

[darkpaladin109]

I'l let RAM choose which soldier he wants first.