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[LordPorkins]

Question! Define "Clutch Porkins"

*Watches Video*

See, this is why I never make a serious character. If i really wanted to optimize Porkins so he would be the perfect character, I wouldnt have him be the build he is. But thats the thing. Whenever I try to do a "tactical" character in any game, It goes poorly. When i do a goofy character and just wing it, be it on a forum (Castle Foxhound) or outside one (My D&D Luchador who successfully suplexed a dragon.) I end up becoming basically a demigod (Or at least fairly good).

[Ashsaber]

A good question: Why is rocket overwatch not a thing?

@Porkins
Feel free to suggest a "Professional" character that I can field along with regular Porkins, so we can toy with both of them.

Spoiler: Operations (click to show/hide)

Operation Mouse Canoe
https://youtu.be/7q-b8GR4-Tk
Type: Hack Workstation
Bay12ers: ?
Notables:
-The first move of this mission heralded the start of a rather painful day.

Operation Market Two (Solo Mission)
https://youtu.be/MOKJ5xImO3Q
Type: Steal Item from ADVENT Train
Bay12ers: None.
Notables:
-Required One Reload.

Operation Barrel Repression
https://youtu.be/qPGW42UiVSU
Type: Kill and Collect Advent
Bay12ers: Shock&AWe, Redshirt
Notables:
-Goddammit Ace
-Goddammit Ace x2

Operation Punching Vision
https://youtu.be/KF_74x72Wfc
Type: Capture VIP
Bay12ers: None.
Notables:
-Rockets make the world go around.

Operation Disgusting Salvage (Plot Advancing)
https://youtu.be/puFu2GThYGs
Type: Recover Item from ADVENT Blacksite
Bay12ers: Graverobber
Others: Blade
Notables:
-Heroes came harrowingly close to dying.
-Chance for vengeance.

Spoiler: Promotions (click to show/hide)

None

Notes
-We're going to see the end of the blacksite mission next session.
-I'm planning on changing the squad roster behavior. Instead of having 5-man teams and stopping them from deploying when wounded, we're going to have full 10 man teams instead and strip away units on deployment as needed.

So Kaos, you have 5 more slots to play with.

[Mephansteras]

Yeah, the blacksite is the kind of mission that all-samurai has some issues with. Too much overwatch and staggered pods so you tend to trigger more than you can take out in a turn.

Oh, well. No one actually died. I guess Vanya gets to go play with other squads for a while as she waits for the rest of the team to heal.

[Darkening Kaos]

     5 more in the squad?

     First is a Psi-Op of some description, nicknamed 'MRI Tech', female, British, I'll try and get a screenshot of my current Psi-Op from my game later.  Here she is.  (Steam link)
     Second is a Grenadier, focusing on grenade options.  Looking like this and nicknamed 'Scalpel'.  (Steam link)
     I'll need to think about the rest.

    If you need the numbers for customization, let me know and I'll dig them out.

[Praefectus Screptum]

You think cloaked throwing knives are insane? Just wait until you get to the point you have silent takedowns+reaper+that ability to increase crit by 50% while concealed. It is a crit fest and guaranteed to murder everything.

[Ashsaber]

BOY was this set a doozy.

Spoiler: Operations (click to show/hide)

Operation Archon Acid
https://youtu.be/a5RC-RnztMI
Type: Steal ADVENT Cache
Bay12ers: One-Shot
Notables:
-Sudden difficulty spike or really bad start?
Casualties:
:Master Sergeant Tom Ireland, 2nd Lieutenant Kaiju, 1 Rookie.

Operation Mischief Gyser
https://youtu.be/yJzqmvjJB1I
Type: Protect Datacap
Bay12ers: The Real Kaos, Shock&Awe, Ensign Redshirt, One-Shot Schmidt,
Notables:
-Kaos and One-shot switched roles this mission or something.
Casualties:
:Two rebel operatives sacrificed as damage sponges.

Operation Hierarch Prince
https://youtu.be/2D3eGWZkO1k
Type: Sabotage Monument
Bay12ers: None
Notables:
-Surprisingly useful rookies.

Operation Flagrant Question
https://youtu.be/CQE9H2iekzo
Type: Rescue VIP
Bay12ers: None.
Notables:
-Chicken Legs? Sadly it didn't stick.

Operation Beta Club
https://youtu.be/yuaofwW0vMo
Type: Rescue VIP of a different kid
Bay12ers: King George IX, Leeory Porkins
Notables:
-Quite possibly the mission with the most botched handling so far.
Casualties:
:Tech Sergeant Perez (NPC)

Operation Authorized Fly
https://youtu.be/n11tppxFiUY
Type: Hack Datavault
Bay12ers: Disgrace, Hellion
Notables:
-A reprieve at the end of a shitstorm.

Spoiler: Promotions (click to show/hide)

None

Notes
The change to our squad makeup will be reflected next session.

[Ashsaber]

Short but otherwise uneventful section.

Spoiler: Operations (click to show/hide)

Operation Serpent Town
https://youtu.be/Cd6y-aIOtbI
Type: Destroy Datacap
Bay12ers: Brass
Notables:
-Serious milage out of Killzone.

Operation Dry Distress
https://youtu.be/U03zqf0ytYU
Type: Protect Datacap
Bay12ers: The healbus Squad
Others: The newly formed Weeabostabby squad and a Samurai.
Notables:
-Diagnostic still has trouble finishing targets. A good near-death-experience sorted him out just fine though.
Casualties:
:Two rebel operatives.

Operation Striding March
https://youtu.be/iRpr-UU8vFk
Type: Escort friendly to safety
Bay12ers: None
Notables:
-Mind Control Muton

Spoiler: Promotions (click to show/hide)

2nd Lieutenant Darkening Kaos
-Kubikiri (Action. Criticals instakill some enemies)
-Multitargeting (Action. AoE Holotarget)
-Hunter's Instincts (Attack on flanked enemies +2 damage)

Anaestheist (You get to sorta pick, Kaos)
-Sentinel (Successful Overwatch gets additional overwatch)
-Trojan (Hacked units take damage when hack effect is lost)

Notes
Also Rojas accidentally received a sister (see Avenger section for part 127)

[Darkening Kaos]

    Nice, I'm finally hitting stuff and not leaving it with one hit point.
    And maybe, just maybe, Diagnostic needs to be on one hit point, or less, to be motivated enough to kill everything in sight.

     As for promotion, I'll take Kubikiri, and Anaestheist will take Trojan.

[Ashsaber]

Short section of "Wait this changed"

Spoiler: Operations (click to show/hide)

Operation Seething Tequila
https://youtu.be/Ue6QrDQL9eA
Type: Rescue Rebels
Bay12ers: Graverobber
Notables:
-First mission after Long War 2 got updated.

Operation Poltergeist Collection
https://youtu.be/Q86Iua-YsOw
Type: Attack Advent Troops
Bay12ers: None
Others: Fake Kaos
Notables:
-Audio very noticeably lags behind the video.
Casualties:
:Nepgear via Muton Elite

Operation Food Venus (Mission Failure)
https://youtu.be/qR36kfdwamg
Type: Secure UFO
Bay12ers: Disgrace
Notables:
-Goddamn Archon Overlord.
Casualties:
:Master Sergeant Mirihiro "Disgrace" Sakurai via Archon Overlord
:Gunnery Sergeant "Greyhound" Boylan via Muton Elite
:Gunnery Sergeant "Privateer" Ohara via Muton Elite
:2nd Lieutenant "Wreckage" Nakamura via Archon Overlord + Viper Poison

Operation Imperial Dominion
https://youtu.be/w9WpOowvQMg
Type: Hack ADVENT Workstation
Bay12ers: One-Shot
Notables:
-Nothing interesting to report.

The skill trees got moved around a little and I think the exp chart was tweaked, 'cuz everyone has promotions now.

Spoiler: Promotions (click to show/hide)

Master Sergeant "One-Shot" Schmidt
-Double Tap (Activate. Fire one shot, get second attack action for shot or overwatch)
-Alpha Mike Foxtrot (Gun damage +4)
-Serial (Activate. Kills are free actions)

Major "Brass" Svenson
-Restoration (Heal/revive all party units, 1 action)
-Kill Zone (Kill Zone)
-Capacitator Discharge (AoE Damage action)
What Brass used to have as Kill Zone is now Threat Assessment. Someone had a grudge, apparently.

Master Sergeant "Shock&Awe" Shuzaka
-Bunker Buster (Huge Missile)
-Rapid Fire (Fire twice, -15 aim for each shot)
-Firestorm (attack all around with fire. Do not use on rooftops(?))

Gunnery Sergeant "Ensign" Rojas
-Rapid Fire (Pew pew, -15 aim each)
-Tactical Sense (+3 def per visible, max +15)
-Rapid Reaction (get up to 3 overwatches if you hit in overwatch)

Gunnery Sergeant "Hellion" Black
-Salvo (First explosive does not end turn)
-Tactical Sense (+3 def per visible, max +15)
-Quickburn (next flamethrower use is free)

Gunnery Sergeant King George
-Tradecraft (Greatly reduce infiltration time)
-Hit and run (shoot and hit flanked target, get extra move)
-Whirlwind (melee and hit target, get extra move)

Anathesist, because the specialist tree got tweaked the most
-Savior (healmore)
-Cool Under Pressure (+10 aim on overwatch)
-Failsafe (no hack fails)
Trojan got moved up the tree, so now he has that instead of whatever used to be on the sergeant slot.

Notes
-The promotion tree got moved around, so if any of you (Brass mostly) feel like respeccing feel free to speak up. Your dude will have to sit in timeout for like a month though.
-Casualties are mounting, a sign of good things to come.
-I'll update the skill tree on the first post when I get the time to sit down and read it over.

[TheDarkStar]

King George IX will take Whirlwind.

[Praefectus Screptum]

Be warned that saves from 1.2 being run on 1.3 may have some bugs. I experienced a buttload of lag during a mission(And jesus christ, insane amount of ayys with evac very far away). So they will leave 1.2 patch open to download on nexus.

[Strife26]

Ouch. Someone is really not Blase's biggest fan.

[Darkening Kaos]

     Anaesthetist will take Failsafe and hack all the things.

[Mephansteras]

Hellion will take Salvo. All the rockets!

[Greatness942]

Anne Schmidt: Serial

Eto Shuzaka: Bunker Blaster

Adam Rojas: Rapid Reaction