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[Darkening Kaos]

     Beam Lasers to give the aliums all-round warm and fuzzies.

[scrdest]

     Beam Lasers to give the aliums all-round warm and fuzzies.

One out of two ain't bad.

[i2amroy]

Did you upgrade to the latest version of Long War (i.e. beta 15d2)? Because if you have I'd like to swap Shamrock over to the new British English voice from the Australian one.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Lasers!

[Mephansteras]

After a fairly short discussion we agree to work on beam weapons. I know how successful they'll be on the battlefield, and I don't really want to waste any time getting them out in the hands of our troops.


Speaking of, we have a few soldier updates



I also order Shen to start work on some new equipment to help our soldiers out against the aliens.




His men also continue the excavations on the second level.


In the midst of our base management the aliens decide to do a hit and run on Australia. I order the interceptors up to hopefully take it down, or at least drive it off.





We manage to drive it off, but sustain more damage than I'd like to our own aircraft


Almost immediately afterwards another alien craft shows up on radar. This one is big, and headed low



An abductor landing in Melbourne. Time to get the troops geared up and out there!



Kaos will be leading this one, with a mix of Seasoned troops and a pair of rookies.

Spoiler: Operation Severed Savior (click to show/hide)

Well, now, that's an ominous name. Hard to take that one in a positive light. Can we be a little more upbeat here, whoever names these?


In any case, the troops disembark down in a rather nice roadway plaza. I have a feeling it won't quite as nice when we're done.



Ádhúil throws out a battle scanner to see if we can take that right side meld quickly. And it looks like we can, as long as we bring those floaters in on our terms.



Damn it! Kaos spots a group hiding nearby as he moves over to secure the flank. This fight just got a lot harder with half our troops out of position. Meld is a trap. It's always a Trap. I have to remember this.


Ádhúil and Groovester pay a heavy price for that lapse in scouting, but manage to survive the onslaught




They fall back to safer positions and Raven gets to work patching up our Irish girl.


Meanwhile, Vector and Kaos start working on keeping these cyborg monstrosities busy



The second group of floaters patrols around a bit, but fortunately stays out of the fight for now. Two groups would probably overrun our fragile position pretty easily.


The others hunker down, with only one bothering with a pot shot at Kaos that misses by a large margin.


Kaos keeps up the suppressive fire and Raven takes a break from medkit duty to put a few holes into an alien



The firefight with the remaining two continues. Raven patches up Groovester while Mace braves weathers the alien overwatch to get into the fight.





Vector puts another alien down, leaving a lone floater which is put down shortly thereafter.





With the meld expired, we take a little time to set up a proper assault on the second group of floaters


They spot Ádhúil moving up and scatter, only for one to immediately fall to a well placed sniper round




Unfortunately Ádhúil's position is too dangerous, and she has to run overwatch to escape. She manages to get by without any further injuries.


Raven takes out another as it tries to move up, but the last floater is soon joined by a pack of sectoids moving in on the right.



The squad hits hard, trying to thin out the aliens as quickly as possible to avoid a prolonged fight in half cover


The firefight that ensues is brief and bloody as the aliens fall one after another.










Capped off by a well placed shot from Vector the mission is wrapped up. Not our best, but a solid victory nonetheless.

Spoiler: Soldiers (click to show/hide)

Other than our two rookies being put in the med bay for the next month, it wasn't too bad. Lots of combat experience gained, certainly.



Jim Groovester became an Assault


Shamrock Ádhúil became an Infantry (And had her voice updated to British)


Vector can take Low Profile (Treat Half Cover as Full), Gunslinger (+1 Dmg and no range penalties for pistols), or Lone Wolf (+10 Aim and Crit 8+ tiles away from Allies)


Mace can take Steadfast (Immune to most panic, +5 Will), Covering Fire (Overwatch on all Enemy actions), or Executioner (+10 Aim & Crit vs badly wounded enemies)


Raven can take Suppression, Steadfast (Immune to most panic, +5 Will), or Field Surgeon (75% chance to reduce med bay time for injuries)

Australia requests some of the weapon fragments we've recovered to improve thier own forces. While we will need quite a few, we could also really use more Engineers so we take the offer.



Shen reports that our new equipment is completed and ready for use




The next few days pass uneventfully, until Vahlen reports that our Beam Weapon research is complete!



Now, what to focus on next?




Also, here is the list of all soldiers waiting on Promotions:
Rina Wind
Jane Rickenbacker
Vector Space
Quartz Mace
Jack Raven
Max Greene
Amy Wong

[Sheb]

Let's go for exp. warfare. We need those foundry upgrade!

[Toaster]

Xenoneurology.  What do we lack for Adv. Lasers?  What are the prospects for getting containment up and running?

[Mephansteras]

Xenoneurology.  What do we lack for Adv. Lasers?  What are the prospects for getting containment up and running?

Alloys, mostly. We have 19 before building any basic laser weapons and we need 30. So unless we can take down some UFO's soon it'll be awhile.

Containment up and running should be possible sometime soon, I think, if we want to go that route.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Alien Materials. With all the people getting shot we should prioritize better armor. (and maybe pheonix cannons)

[Jim Groovester]

Was that my first mission? Golly, out for (more than) a month again.

What version of b15 are you playing on? Since I've got an assault again maybe I'll see what build I can come up with.

Alien Materials. With all the people getting shot we should prioritize better armor. (and maybe pheonix cannons)

Also this.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Was that my first mission? Golly, out for (more than) a month again.

It's a pretty accurate intro for an assault.

[SOLDIER First]

Spoiler: Can we still apply? Screw it, applying. (click to show/hide)

Name: Noah "Sarsparilla" Roth
Gender: Male
Nationality: Anything from the UK / America.
Appearance: Base armor. Main is brown, accents are dark orange.

Preferred class: MEHDIK
Preferred weapon: Any assault rifle, any machine pistol. Prefers laser pistol if available.
Preferred equipment: Medkit...?
Preferred tactics: SHOOT THE FUCKING ALIENS, heal if/when necessary.

[Darkening Kaos]

     Bloody Aliums, don't mind them attacking Melbourne, the massive herds of hipsters could do with thinning out a bit, and it was nice of them to destroy a few coffee dumps shops, but they really needed to die much quicker.

     Alien Materials +1

[RAM]

Alien brain thingie.

[crazysheep]

I'm torn between Alien Materials and Sectoid Autopsy. One could improve our overall tech progress, the other would give us more stuff from council nations... hmmm.