The soldiers are dropped down in a truck yard and gas station
We interrupt...alien nap time? In any case, a Muton and three floaters are spotted back behind the store. The Muton bursts into the convenience store while the Floaters hang around outside.
Maelle and Grey take out the big one with minimum fuss
The floaters stand off against the squad, but seem afraid to come in.
Villiams gifts them a flashbang and the squad repositions to deal with them properly
Groovester blasts the close one in the face
The other two try to flee. Maelle shoots one out of the sky as it tries to go overhead
While Grey and Mace pincer the other behind the garage
The building secure, the team moves to clear out the rest of the area. Maelle takes position on the roof as everyone else moves out towards the trucks.
Almost immediately, the troops are rushed by a pack of floaters!
Villiams gets off a clean shot on one
But they scatter to cover before any of them can be taken down
Maelle tags another one from her rooftop vantage point
Groovester discovers a fourth Floater hiding back as he moves up, and barely dodges the plasma fire.
He takes his anger out on the closest alien
Krauss flushes another out to its death in a hail of laser fire
One of the floaters launches itself up high. Villiams slashes it with laser fire on its way up, but we loose sight of it after that
With no idea where the alien might come from, the squad splits up to cover all directions. Maelle drops down off the exposed roof.
The other floater charges forward, and is quickly dispatched
But the remaining one pulls of a high flank on Villiams through a window. She survives, but it is a nasty wound
The team strikes back, with Krauss dealing a killing blow
While Grey patches up Villiams
The troops move back into position, just in time for a group of Thin Men to attack
Maelle strikes one down immediately
The aliens strike, but miss Villiams
She suppresses the closest one
But draws a lot of heat, taking another shot in the process
Maelle strikes back, but can't quite take out the Thin Man
Jim braves more overwatch fire to move in on the Thin Man leader, skillfully dodging the attack. Villiams takes the opportunity to fall back to safety.
His is strong, but not quite strong enough
However, the alien charges him and he takes it out before it can close
One of the remaining Thin Man suppresses Krauss to try and stave off their inevitable doom
The other, badly injured alien, simply falls to a more defensive position
It doesn't stop us from taking it out
Grey patches up Villiams yet again as the rest of the team focuses on the final Thin Man
It shoots at Krauss, but she takes cover behind the solid cement pillar
Grey moves up and pulls off a tricky shot on the alien
Weakening it enough for Krauss to finish it off
Other than the grievous wounds that Villiams suffered, the mission was a complete success!
And the Australian government rewards us well for our work