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[Urist Imiknorris]

Except for reaper rounds and the damage boosters, all ammo types are usable by all weapon tiers.

[crazysheep]

I would have preferred flak ammo to nullify or reduce the flying defence bonus, rather than dealing extra damage. Would rather be able to hit heavy floaters reliably, rather than have a small chance to deal more damage.

[i2amroy]

The perks (or perks + 1 ammo item) should indeed all stack just fine with one another from what I'm seeing. Assuming they implemented Flak the same as HEAT ammo (which is what the change log points to "New Item: Flak Ammo. [...] Works like HEAT Ammo") it should stack just fine.

That said note that currently being shredded has no effect on the bonus damage from HEAT ammo or Flak ammo. The bonus damage from shredded is applied to the post-armor modified damage number, but happens before the HEAT ammo (and probably Flak ammo) bonus damage is added on top as a flat bonus.

[Mephansteras]

I know we'll need as much air power as possible, so we use some of our funding to order a new interceptor


I also want to get a leg up on our research, so I use the remaining funds to start building a Laboratory and a new generator



With those projects underway, things quiet down for a bit. Of course, the Aliens were hardly going to leave us alone for too long. We get word that Canada is under attack.



Time for more of our rookies to get some combat experience against the aliens!


Geared up, the troops head out for Operation Devil's Empire

Spoiler: Operation Devil's Empire (click to show/hide)

The Devil's Empire is apparently a butcher shop. That's either really macabre or our mission namer is vegetarian



The troops move up on the building and detect multiple meld canisters somewhere up ahead.


Vector soon spots a sectoid hanging out on top of a semi. Looks like we're in for a fight already.


We quickly set up to engage


McSheb claims first blood as one tries to move up the alleyway


Vector moves up to get eyes on them from the roof, but has to duck back for cover before she has a chance to shoot


The aliens try to get revenge by attacking McSheb psychically, but his will is unbroken


They resort to plasma, which is a bit more effective but McSheb manages to stay on his feet


Albtraum moves around to flank, but finds more aliens waiting behind the truck


A grenade helps soften the drone up for Albtraum to take out



Meanwhile, Mace grabs the nearby meld and hands a surprised alien a grenade.



The aliens mount a psychic assault on Albtraum's mind. He resists as long as he can.



More aliens moving out from the back building


The place is crawling with them!


Mace moves up and catches one off guard


And Vector follows up with a death blow from above


Disarrayed, the aliens fall back. The squad presses the attack!






Crumpling under the assault, the aliens continue to fall back. It seems they did not expect such stiff resistance


Recovered, Albtraum grabs a canister of meld and then shows one of the secoids what a gunshot feels like



Gray patches up McSheb


Meanwhile, Mace grabs the last meld canister and guns down another sectoid



Imiknorris hunts down the last one, and the site is ours.



Canada is most grateful for our assistance.

Spoiler: Soldiers (click to show/hide)

Promotions to specialist all around. McSheb will be out for quite a while, but other than that it went well.

A week passes, and we get word that Argentina has abandoned us. Not wholly unexpected, though it was still disappointing to hear.


The fission generator completes a few days later.



Dr. Vahlen informs us shortly afterwards that the research into Xenobiology is complete




Excellent. Now, what to focus on next?

[Pencil_Art]

Sign me up.

Name: Leaden 'Pencil_Art' Stik
Gender: Male
Nationality: Chinese or NZ.
Appearance: Default. I have no preferences maybe.

Preferred class: Medic
Preferred weapon: N/A
Preferred equipment: Medkit
Preferred tactics: Heals high priority team members. Tries to stay behind the front lines, such as with other support classes, but advances where needed.

Reposting this just in case.

[crazysheep]

Let's go with Alien Weaponry.

[i2amroy]

+1 for Alien Weaponry from me.

[Tiruin]

+1 for Alien Weaponry from me.

third'ing this.
We need a serious firepower boost.

Also, it looks like we're hard for cash.

Meph: Make my character into an airforce pilot instead! Any free aircraft (Asia based, if ever)
It'd hurt to try to get that extremely tiny percentage of even getting a Filipino soldier, seeing the raws and the many percentages ._.

[Darkening Kaos]

Let's go with Alien Weaponry.

     Jumps on bandwagon.

[Sheb]

I feel like I spend most of my time in the medbay in all your campaigns :p. I feel like my nickname (once I get one) should be 'Doc' or something.

[Rince Wind]

Alien Weapons, though it is kinda stupid to first research alien biology and then weapons, if you don't continue on the biology path.

[Toaster]

Alien Weapons.  You rocked the meld out of that mission.

Alien Weapons, though it is kinda stupid to first research alien biology and then weapons, if you don't continue on the biology path.

In Long War it lets you trade sectoid corpses for scientists via Council requests.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Let's research alien-made alien killing devices.

[Mephansteras]

After a short discussion we decide to focus our research efforts on Alien Weaponry


And a quick status update for the base




@Tiruin: Sure. Dasher fine? We're based in Asia, so you get that immediately at least.
@Sheb: Mummy, perhaps?
@Pencil Art: I have you in my list, I just don't have any available Chinese or NZ characters available. You can check the roster in the OP and claim any unnamed soldier on the list, or you can wait until I get some new recruits to see if we get one you want.

[Karkov]

Ach, you moved threads on me.  PTW.