We meet him in some sort of Chinese temple graveyard. Interesting choice for a randevous point, but he made it here in once piece so I guess that's something. He then nonchalantly blows the head off a sectoid with a pistol, so I'm guessing he's not too creeped out by graveyards.
In any case, the extraction point isn't too far away. We just need to get him there safely.
Knowing how the aliens like to conduct these operations, the squad prepares for the Thin Man bombs to drop.
And drop they do
The closer one becomes the first live subject test for the laser weapons. They work pretty well!
Another group of Thin Men run up to join the fight
Grey tags one as it runs back to cover. Unfortunately, the others were too far out of range for anyone else to hit before they get into position
Villiams decides to get some more practice with her new laser rifle and blasts one into green mist
The rest of the Thin Men rush back into firing range and give Grey a hard time. He gives as good as he gets, though.
Two more Thin Men and a Sectoid rush in from the right flank to give their belagured comrades more help
Albtraum takes one out before it even has a chance to blink
Grey falls back and patches himself up while the rest of the squad deals with the new threats.
Albtraum shows off the power of his Marksmans rifle yet again
While Rickenbacker makes the Thin Man leader bleed
And Krauss flushes it out to its death with a hail of bullets
The Thin Men move to better cover, but it doesn't save one of them from Albtraum as he moves up to get a better shot
More alien reinforcements drop down
The first is taken out by a readied shot from Albtraum
While the second is ripped to shreds in a laser light show by the rest of the squad
The rest of the squad escorts Zhang along the left hand side of the courtyard and Albtraum moves to join them, his quick reflexes saving him from a waiting Thin Man
It shouldn't have given its position away
The squad catches sight of one of the badly injured Thin Men attempting to move around for a flank
Albtraum and Rickenbacker move back to deal with it while the rest of the squad continues towards the exit.
A group of those squidbots and a Thin Man cut off that avenue
And the Sectoid who'd scampered off earlier gets a perfect opportunity to take out Albtraum. Fortunately, its aim is horrible
Villiams takes out one of the robots
While Rickenbacker takes out the other
And Agalia blows up the cover of the Thin man and Sectoid
Krauss lays down covering fire on the Thin Man to keep him occupied, but the Thin Man shows remarkable bravery and rushes through the fire
And pulls of a devestating attack that kills our brave gunner. Villiams is too distraught to even react for a bit.
(Seriously, the person much higher will than anyone else fails a 97% success will check)
Agalia avenges her with a shot to the alien's gut
And Albtraum takes out the Sectoid
More aliens dropping down! A Thin Man appears directly ahead of the squad
And is immediately taken out by Grey
We get word that a new contact has been detected. It's one of those insectoids!
It dodges most of the squad's attacks, with only Albtraum managing a solid hit on it as it rushes forward
And Villiams finishes it off
With the current threats taken care of, the squad regroups and moves forward
More aliens appear on the road. A Thin Man and another Sectoid.
Albtraum moves up to get sight of them, dodging an attack by the Sectoid as he gets to cover.
Rickenbacker takes out the Sectoid, but with no eyes on the Thin Man the squad just goes on overwatch
When it tries to flank the troops it is taken out by Villiams and Grey
We get Zhang to the Skyranger and head back to base.
A Costly Mission. We can only hope that Zhang and this alien device we worth the cost we paid to get them.
Author
Topic: XCOM: Long War - (Canceled: Moving to new campaign for Beta 15) (Read 97540 times)