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[IronyOwl]

If a soldier is wearing all pink armor the chance to stun with an arc thrower is far higher than displayed. (source: Ellatan - Programmer and Chief Quality Assurance Specialist for Long War)

Well, who wants to volunteer?

Everyone.

[UXLZ]

All pink is good camouflage. Right? Right!?

[Mephansteras]

Spoiler: Glass Giant (click to show/hide)

The squad deploys outside some sort of municipal building. The place is trashed. We can only assume whatever local security was here put up a hell of a fight before they were overwhelmed.


The squad prepares to breach the building as sounds of alien activity is heard.


And, sure enough, some sectoids and drones make thier presence known.


A well placed shot from Underhill takes out one of the greys, but the other two aliens are out of sight. For the moment.


McSheb moves in and spots the drone, as well as another pack of drones out on the street.



The squad readies an ambush for the aliens as they prepare to move inside the building.

Krauss fills the last grey with lead as he tries to move around to the side.


And Rickenbacker blasts a drone to bits.


Meanwhile, Greene and Grey team up to destroy another of the drones.



McSheb moves up and takes the last drone out at point blank range.


The squad moves up to clear out the rest of the building, with Rickenbacker going up to the second story to make sure nothing is lurking up there.
McSheb spots another group of greys and a drone moving in from the street.


The aliens do a mind merge and attempt to assault the building. Grey blasts the melded alien, but boosted as it is his shot doesn't kill it.


Rickenbacker uses her height advantage to blast the melder.


And McSheb finishes off the badly injured alien with a face full of lead.


Another pack of drones moves in to support their lone comrade, however.


It flies up and flanks Rickenbacker, who gives it a proper XCOM greeting in return


The drones apparently try to use some strange teleportation technology and end up under the floorboards. The squad blasts down through the floor and take one out.


The other flees back to the remaining drone


Greene, meanwhile, has prepared a surprise for them, destroying one and heavily damaging the other.


And the fight is finished off by Krauss moving up and blasting the final drone into shards of metal.

With the extra funds we have available a final interceptor is ordered to round out our compliment in Africa


And with excavations complete, a new power generator begins construction.


A week passes before any more sign of the aliens in Africa, when an abduction attempt is detected in South Africa


Eager to take advantage of these relatively easy early egagements to give our soldiers experience, a fresh squad is given the opportunity to fight the aliens.


A fierce battle along a heavily damaged Dam


But the team performs extremely well and the mission is completed without a single scratch on our soliders.






Some promotions are due and make their way through the paperwork trail


Rickenbacker is our first Lance Corporal! She can take Steadfast (Immunity to many panic types and +5 Will), Executioner (+10 Aim and Crit against badly damaged enemies), or Covering Fire (Overwatch triggrs on alien attacks as well as movement and +3 Aim)








As always, if you want something tweaked about your soldier's appearance or loadout let me know.

Also, I'm worried. These missions have been WAY too easy for Classic. I fear the game is building up to some nasty surprise for us.

[MaximumZero]

I approve of my surprise for the allium scum. Explosions for everyone!

[Mephansteras]

Our research into Alien Weaponry is complete!



We can now manufacture some very useful items




And we must decide what to research next:


Xenobiology will allow us to dissect corpses for research, and leads to capturing live aliens, genetic modifications of our troops, and psionics. Corpses and Captive Aliens are much more useful in long war as funding nations will often trade scientists and engineers for them. It's one of the best way to get those, since Workshops and Labs no longer grant them when built.

Alien Materials leads to the better armor types

Experimental Warfare opens up quite a few useful items that we can build and leads to a bunch of Foundry projects for when we build that.

Beam Weapons gives us laser weapons, of course. Very useful, although laser weapons are expensive and it'll be a bit before we have the resources to convert over completely.

[MaximumZero]

Beam weapons. The best defense is a good offense.

[UXLZ]

I have a guy now. *glad*
I've got to say, aside from the exposed arms which aren't particularly ghost-ee you got the look I was aiming for nailed down pretty nicely. Once access to carapace armor arrives, it'll be perfect.

I'd like to add a marksman's scope to my equipment roster if possible. Otherwise, SCOPE. (I'm not sure which one's better because I think there's some kind of effect from the laser pointer, but marksman's scope seems more fitting.)
Experimental Warfare. Seems to open up the most options. Flexibility is good.

[Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum]

The exposed arms look really cold...

Alien materials maybe? Assuming lasers are too expensive right now.

[UXLZ]

I can't really understand the reasoning of the people who designed that armor. I mean, I can understand the hands or fingers being exposed, that would allow more dexterity, but why is the entire arm uncovered? I can't really think of anywhere more debilitating to a soldier than a useless arm/hand. Obviously other than having both eyes blown out (maybe even in this case), or their head removed. The functionality of a leg is far more easy to replicate with a prosthetic than a hand.

[Powder Miner]

Given the lack of actually ever getting shot Meph's displayed, I vote for Beam Weapons.

[IronyOwl]

Xenobiology. We've got to start capturing them alive!

[GiglameshDespair]

Yeah! Rickenbacker represent! I'll go for Executioner so she can keep picking off those x-rays.

And research beam weapons. The extra damage and aim are vital.

I can't really understand the reasoning of the people who designed that armor. I mean, I can understand the hands or fingers being exposed, that would allow more dexterity, but why is the entire arm uncovered? I can't really think of anywhere more debilitating to a soldier than a useless arm/hand. Obviously other than having both eyes blown out (maybe even in this case), or their head removed. The functionality of a leg is far more easy to replicate with a prosthetic than a hand.

Spoiler: This is modern armour. (click to show/hide)

If you wear thick armour on your arms and legs, you aren't going to be mobile. On the torso, the weight can be distributed effectively, but not quite so much on the limbs. Either you have thick enough armour it's inhibiting rather than protecting or it's thin enough it's ineffective. Or, as is done, you simply don't have armour on the limb for stopping bullets (or plasma in this case, which is deadlier). Limb armour is generally for stopping shrapnel.

It comes down to the best way of surviving is simply not getting shot. Offensive capabilities of weapons now greatly outdoes the defensive capabilities of armour for the most part.

[RAM]

Xenobi! Because stuff...

Also, tap dat steamin' hole!

[Mephansteras]

We are at 3 for Beams, 3 for Xeno Biology, 1 for Alien Materials, and 1 for Experimental Warfare. Tie breaker time, folks!

[Vector]

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