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[IronyOwl]

I was going to vote Europe, where did we end up with? I vote working on whatever is favoured by the base bonus...

#YOLOSWAG
^{Known more formally as Africa}

[Powder Miner]

Name: Fiamma "Third Degree" Bruciare
Gender: Female
Nationality: Italian (yeah, I'm trying to snag that Italian Weapons)
Appearance: White skin, no helmet; instead, long hair colored bright red. Armor also bright red.

Preferred class: Rocketeer
Preferred weapon: SMG
Preferred equipment: Explosives.
Preferred tactics: Destruction first, waiting later.

[RAM]

Oh, well that is boring... Get some sort of aircraft and then focus on infrastructure I guess. Strike the earth?

[Vector]

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[Mephansteras]

We've tracked an alien craft entering airspace over Africa. We launch a fighter armed with Avalanch missiles to intercept it. Based on the results of the simulations we'd run, the pilot is ordered to engage as agressively as possible. We need to hit hard and fast!





Victory! The craft is downed, and scans reveal aliens still alive at the crash site.


The soldiers are ordered to prepare for combat.


A fresh team is assembled to assault the craft. I'm confident they will do well.

Spoiler: Operation Bloody Pipe (click to show/hide)

The craft went down in a swamp. At least no civilians should be nearby.


After a short time we spot two of the aliens lurking in the muck. They fall back into the darkness.


The soldiers move up cautiously and prepare for the aliens to return. While they get in the first shot, their aim is fortunately bad.


Krauss' aim, however, is dead on. The alien survives the hit but is badly injured.


And is quickly gunned down as the rest of the squad unloads on it.


The other alien moves up behind a log and takes pot shots at the squad, but is unable to hit anything


Max uses some high explosives to get rid of the log...


And Rickenbacker finishes off the exposed alien with a flurry of lead.


That group taken care of, the squad advances towards the sound of alien movement


Along the way discovering a container of strange alien material. It is secured for future analysis.


We sight the crashed UFO. And near it some drones of some sort.


They prove to be little threat and are quickly gunned down by the squad




The squad circles around the downed craft to find a better point to assault it from. Once everyone is in position, Krauss moves up to investigate.
Inside she spots a new alien type! Some sort of...energy being?


She attempts to destroy its hiding place with a grenade, but the alien metals prove too strong.


The creature is resiliant, and the squad is unable to take it down quickly.



Fortunately, Krauss manages to avoid its return gunfire


And Max and Rickenbacker line up some solid hits that finally take it out



More aliens quickly move in on our position


Raven blasts the leader as they scurry to find good firing positions on the team


Unable to get good shots on the aliens, Krauss throws up a smoke screen for the rest of the squad as they take time to propely steady their weapons.
Raven tries to take one of the aliens out with an AP grenade, but it manages to survive the attack.


Both aliens focus their fire on Krauss, as she is the only one outside of the protective smoke screen.


Luck is with us and she manages to stay stafe.

One alien is shot down.


And Max finishes off the leader with a well placed grenade.

Spoiler: Soldiers (click to show/hide)

Vector, you lucked out and the Russan girl got Scout/Sniper again. Snipers are generally more stationary while the scouts are more about movement and flanking. Snipers get the big stationary sniper rifle, but both can use the Marksman rifle. Which class did you want?


GiglameshDespair, Rickenbacker got Tactical so I went ahead and made her an Infantry for you. I also gave her the helmet she had before.


MaximumZero, Max got Weapons this time around so I went ahead and made him a rocketeer for you.


Birdvig, Krauss got Weapons this time around. Do you want Gunner, Rocketeer, or Random?


IronyOwl, Raven got Support this time. Do you want Engineer, Medic, or Random?


Darkening Kaos, you got Weapon as well. Do you want Gunner, Rocketeer, or Random?


Powder Miner, you've been given the Italian Weapons girl.

[GiglameshDespair]

Rickenbacker, destroyer of xenos! A good first mission.

[MaximumZero]

That'll do nicely. Much kaboom.

What's with the alien trophy?

[GiglameshDespair]

It prevents panic from seeing other people get hit or killed (but not if the carrier themselves gets hit). It's a good way to stop panic spirals,though generally I'd prefer something like a flashbang that stops you getting hit in the first place.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah, I don't use it too often. Still, it can be nice on troops with really low will.

[birdy51]

Let's go with Gunner. She'll bring the firepower.

[Vector]

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[Mephansteras]

A few promotions have worked their way through the paper trail.



We also order another interceptor for the air fleet. We're going to need more planes if we want to keep up with the aliens!


And not long after the aliens ram the point home. Another scout ship, inbound over Africa!


Flash is sent out to intercept


Despite doing heavy damage to the alien craft, however, he is forced to fall back




We send up one of the Stingray intercepters to try and finish the day


Alien activity is sighted at the crash, so the troops are ordered to prepare for battle once again.
As all of the troops that have seen combat are still fatigued, a fresh batch of recruits is sent in. May they do as well as the last group!





I'll be running this mission sometime this evening. I probably won't do a full mission report, since it's all NPCs on the mission, but I'll show you the summary at the end and the promotions screen so people can see if there is a troop they want to snag.

[Mephansteras]

The squad returns triumphant! While one soldier was badly wounded in the fighting, the operation was a success and the alien craft was secured.







GUNINANRUNIN: The Canadian came back Weapons, if you want to snag him for your Gunner.

RAM: Same, if you guys want to fight over the gunner. For Suppression you could also go Engineer. There area  couple of Supports who you could grab for that route in the list.

Remalle: I've got the two sniper girls in med bay, if you want to grab one of them. They've both had their will knocked down pretty low due to the serious injuries, though.

RedKing: You got your British Medic!

[Parsely]

Very well, I shall be bestest Canuck gunner.

[RAM]

I was wondering if I might have one of those tacticals and get an infantry. All those overwatch perks work with suppression-induced attacks, right? It could follow the third path except for lock and load and vital-point... Maybe go for Extra Conditioning if sentinel doesn't work on suppression...