The squad disembarks down in front of a meat packing plant. An ominous energy node sits out front.
Knowing they have little time to spare, Krauss moves up and deactivates the node.
With the shopfront empty, the squad moves quickly to prepare a breach of the back room.
The back room is similarly devoid of aliens, but Phobos does find and deactivate another node.
Nyx, Greene, and Oney head up to the roof and find it also devoid of aliens.
The sound of doors opening in the next building alert us to the alien presence.
Tiruin moves out to the side street and gets first contact. A mixed group of aliens that immediately scatters.
Krauss shreds the Seeker with a hail of bullets as it charges the squad
Nyx, meanwhile, takes out the Thin Man with a well placed headshot
And Oney leaps off the roof, grabs the nearby node, and blasts the wounded seeker into scrap
With that threat more or less dealt with, Ra and Phobos scout out the left side of the store.
Ra grabs another node while Rickenbacker covers him. The Sectoid scampers off into the interior of the building rather than face our troops.
More alien movement spotted! Two groups of Thin Men move in to engage the squad.
Greene kicks off the conflict by blowing up the front of the building, wounding quite a few aliens and activating a hidden group of seekers
Phobos takes the injured seeker down with a well placed AP grenade
Nyx blasts one of the wounded Thin Men into green mist from her rooftop vantage point
Tiruin and Oney move up to engage the aliens and hit another node
Ra also moves in, but despite their efforts they can't quite take out the last seeker
The aliens return fire, but can't manage to hit us with their injuries
One suppresses Ra to keep him from moving in
And the Seeker advances in, only to be torn to shreds by Krauss
The alien assault halted, the squad hits back.
A thin man moves out the right side of the building, only to be surprised by Tiruin who had taken another node
She puts it down with two quick bursts from her assault rifle
A few of the thin men are hiding out in the catwalks of the meat packing plant. Greene tries to blast through the walls to get to them, but only manages some property damage.
Oney and Ra move in to take them out close range
While Phobos takes out the Sectoid cowering behind the bomb. Good thing she's a crack shot.
One of the Thin Men tries to escape past Krauss, who splatters it against the walls. The other vanishes off into the night.
With the building temporarily secure, Oney and Ra quickly diffuse the bomb.
As we have come to expect, Thin Men drop down from the alien ships above. Most land out of sight of the troops, but one has the misfortune to be right next to Greene and Underhill
With the aliens about to hit us from all directions the squad sets up defensive positions and opens fire on the incoming Thin Men
One manages slip into the meat packing plant and spews a cloud of acid onto Oney
Krauss and Tiruin team up to take it out
The last few enemies trickle in by ones and twos, making them easy picking for our soldiers
Phobos splatters the last against the rooftop and calls in the site as secure.
Another successful mission!
In all seriousness, I'm really impressed with how well that went. A Cyberdisk or pack of Mutons could have turned things sour really quickly. Fortunately, it was just low level aliens and they had a bad habit of moving in with both moves, leaving themselves open to a counter attack before they ever got to shoot. I had quite a few scares as thin men jumped up or down into flanking positions only to have them be out of moves to capitalize on the flank.
Also, I should
never gear up troops when super tired, which is why I somehow forgot to give anyone laser weapons for that mission.
...I'm going to blame it on an Exalt spy or something.
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Topic: XCOM: Long War - (Canceled: Moving to new campaign for Beta 15) (Read 97356 times)