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[Darkening Kaos]

     …..and we can confirm that Greys do not taste like chicken.

[SQman]

A me is back!

Also that Calico flavour text sounds like it was stolen from JA2. I think it is the same there.

It totally was. Jagged Alliance confirmed canon in X-Com Expanded Universe.

     Herr Kaos, of the Klandestine Kaos Klan, reporting for duty, and when Harriot HQ is operational, requesting transfer to the US of A.
     Chosen weapon: SMG.
     Other: Incendiary 'nades

I'll try to remember, but we'll have to wait for the second promotion for the sweet, sweet napalm.

Polite request for shurikens, tonfas, and/or a Katana for Mr. Byrd Jr. Jr. Because if you are doomed to die, you may as well die with style. :p

You've already decided how your agent is supposed to die? That's so sad. Alexa, play Blaze of Glory by Bon Jovi. Consider this done.

I have to say, melee is amazing in this mod. I'm early in the game, and detected an alien landing site near my base. I send out a pair of agents in their crappy rent-a-car, not realizing that they didn't have even a full setup of crappy starter equipment. One ended up sporting a pistol and a knife, and the other had a taser and a knife.

Does melee bypass sectoid and ethereal shields? I never bothered with melee in my previous playthroughs, but after XPiratez I developed a passion for smacking enemies on the heads with heavy objects, blunt or sharp.
I wish I could have got that scripted UFO this time, but the sectoids were sniping from buildings and it was night...

     …..and we can confirm that Greys do not taste like chicken.

More like turkey, really.

Spoiler: File 9: Can Shoot, Will Shoot (click to show/hide)

We start with learning that american political elites invented not only crack, but also psiclone. We already knew that, but it's nice to have it confirmed.
Now we can research recruiting the military envoy, and thaw we'll do.
Then a Red Dawn outpost showed up in Israel, or maybe Jordan. I wish there were borders of non-council members on the geoscape, just for the flavor.



Yeah, it was worth much more than unlocking Calico or Sten, even if we got nothing of it. Maybe we should research mutant physiology before trying to dissect mutants? Let's do that.



Israeli forest, Mr. Inglenook, Ms. Attention, Ms. Babe and Heidi came out of the van. A man in a sailor outfit was aiming at them with an old pistol.



Ms. Attention asked the sailor about the gun, and she found out it's in fact a Mauser.



Ms. Babe got her own kill. It was a sailor with a Mauser. Sounds familiar...



Heidi discovered some baddies. Mr. Inglenook is getting smoke up, and we'll see how many more will show up.



Someone is trying to 'nade us! Ms. Attention found herself just outside of the blast radius, and she's ready for more action.



Told ya. It was a Red Dawn lad. That's what he's called - a lad. The gopniks have allied themselves with chavs, and if we give them some more time, they will start recruiting australian bogans, polish dresy or japanese high school delinquents.



The lads are becoming the Red Dawn's cannon fodder. They will make us miss the gangers with tricks like taking three pellets from Mr. Inglenook's shotgun.



Heidi found friends. They don't know they're Heidi's frieds,so they'll be trying to kill her.



Ms. Attention got sniped hard. We're taking the stunned guys and run, we can't take so many dudes in our current state.



The case was not resolved, but we got what we came for - prisoners and a new gun. Granted, the gun is from the end of 19th century, but it's a thing we can research, and potentially get some points from.



We must have passed some kind of milestone, because everyone is getting a promotion.



Agents in Ainsley Harriott HQ. Mr. Minor-league surpassed Ms. Macrofauna in the silliest name competition.



Herr Kaos is a great agent, lacking only in HP. We couldn't teach him to fake a generic american accent, so we told him to exaggerate his german accent and go by Herr Kaos. Once the storage facility is built, we'll get him an SMG of some sort.



I always thought the trauma pack had more heals, but took longer to use. Maybe I was thinking about XPiratez field surgery kit? It costs 30k to get a single one. I want Mk23 SOCOM analyzed next.



A good pistol that we used in the Osirion drug bust. Weaker than magnum, but with slightly longer range and can do three aimed shots in one turn. It has 105% CQC accuracy, which probably means it's great at point-blank. Psiclone seems relevant, so that's next.



Hell no! A mansion raid would NOT end well at this point! Or ever, but we'll have to do it sooner or later, preferably later. Same goes for cavern missions, but I'd rather not worry about those right now.



For someone with 50 throwing accuracy the damage would be 17.5 and for 60 throwing it's 25.2. It's cutting damage, so it goes right through kevlar, but anything that resists cuting will shrug this off easily. The shurikens are way weaker than knives, but they come in sets of 8, are faster to throw, and have slightly higher range.
I wonder what an Osirion goon will tell us.



It's a melee weapon for people who have feeble, noodly arms. You bet I'll get some of these.
Meanwhile general stores and a hangar went online in Harriott HQ, so we can buy equipment and start operations.



A standard crop circles mission in China. We're already have a beef with Bill Clinton, no need to get on Jiang Zemin's bad side too.
That was simple.



A lot of yetis in northern Canada. I forgot to buy a van for the Harriott HQ, so dinernauts had to fly over from Nepal.



The yetis can take some punishment, but ultimately they're just guys in gorilla suits. Mr. Hostess took the BlackOps magnum for a spin, and it seems quite effective in this situation.
Easy 105 points and Canada's favor.



The last part makes no sense whatsoever. First, there's no actual evidence supporting this. Second, are they implying cows are aliens? I know it's about the theory that life came to earth from space, but it sounds like they were implying that cows are aliens.



So as far as Osirion goons are concerned, they're just crack dealers. I'm not buying into the whole 'well-trained' thing. A group of five or six well-armed goons lost to four half-naked guys with tazers and knives just a few days ago.



I'm not too familiar with small pistols, but it's probably a straight upgrade.



Those are not some super duper deadly predator zambonis, but a barely moving, detoriating variety. They can still take a serious beating before collapsing.



And this is... garbage. It can be stronger than the hunting rifle, but it's slower and less accurate.



And this is literal garbage. Can't say it isn't strong, but 80% accuracy coupled with flat 11 TUs to hit leaves a lot to be desired. Though I don't really know what accuracy modifier does.



Quick beetle mission somewhere in the middle east. Not much happening in this update, huh? There were just these two bugs, but we got 60 points for saving civilians.



The Dagon outpost in north Africa probably won't be conquered this time, but look what we've got herem a chosen of Dagon right of the bat. Too bad we didn't come here expecting easy catches. The klansman got killed with Ms. Macrofauna's shotgun, so he doesn't pose a threat now.



Most bad guys are hiding on the western edge of the map, but they have bolt-action rifles, so they're still dangerous. There was also a priest with them, but I only noticed him later.



Mr. Silly tossed a tonfa over the truck to Mr. Byrd Jr. Jr., who then ran up to the chosen and took him down. We got a G-11, a prototype assault rifle that never got into production. How the fish amish got hold of this thing we'll never know.



We're chipping away on them, but there's still a lot of them. Mr. Silly is badly wounded, and even though Mr. Hostess patched him up, he's still not in fighting shape.



This is where we've been doing the most progress. These guys were just a turn away from gunning us down with their shotguns, and they were flanking Mr. Silly's hiding position.



Another chosen, this time with an MP5. Mr. Hostess got hit a few times, but it wasn't so bad, Mr. Silly did a sneaky heal. Ms. Macrofauna ditched her shotgun for a Nitro Express rifle, but now that the chosen got so close, I kinda regret that.



The closest klansman got a big hole in him, courtesy of Ms. Macrofauna. Mr. Hostess's BlackOps magnum eliminated the chosen and a guy with a snubnose revolver. The chosen's death will shake the things around in the enemy ranks.
Byrd Jr. Jr. made use of his new, prototype toy, and sniped a last shotgunner to the north from across the map.



Took risk with Mr. Silly. He was jumped by a green guy with a snubnose revolver, but a small gun like that won't pierce kevlar. To be sure, I had Silly pick up a pump-action shotgun from the conveniently located dead man.



The cultists started panicking, so I sent people to arrest the stragglers. I didn't think they would actually attack with their fists... The priest is a pretty swole dude.



God damnit! The chosen woke up and took down Ms. Macrofauna! We're down to two agents, so I hope the chosen will either pass out, or not defend himself.



Great mission, but the chosen was a bastard. He punched Mr. Silly, leaving us at only one agent, Mr. Byrd Jr. Jr., to slam the shosen for the third time.

Then zambonis in north Africa and crop circles in Belarus. I hate zombies, but I'm up for beating up farmers.



Nice. After playing XPiratez it's good to actually get paid at the end of the month. Looks like China is ready to forgive us, but USA is still salty. You would think that the country where everyone has a gun could handle some mutant frogs.



An abducted farmer had Wikipedia uploaded into his brain, and it's all in Zeta Reticulan. Now we can start researching alien language. I'll put the scientist in the intel center, because we're not making much progress on that.



More farmers for the labs, yay. It was a deadpan yay, not an enthusiastic one.



Oh wait, it's MiBs.



Shooting Nitro-Express rifle one-handed? As long as it works, right? There's another guy with a CAWS, and I may or may not try to catch him.



Mr. Tuna got five fatal wounds from a CAWS shot, but he took revenge with his tazer. The farmer got one zap too for blocking the stairs. Someone upstairs shot Mr. Shoestring twice. We need to get him.



Mr. Inglenook had just enough TUs to take care of the sniper.
We got another BlackOps magnum out of this mission.



Intel center means more scientists, which is always nice. Does X-Com HQ unlock biology and intel projects? I don't remember being able to research living zambonis without the biolab, but I can be wrong. Apparently, looking at the Harriott HQ that lacks the... HQ, I see that I was wrong.



In awe at the size of this lad, absolute unit. Yeah, we're past getting assaulted by thugs with baseball bats and knives.



Ah, dossiers, flavor info on random people that we won't personally arrest or even meet. It's not like Anatoly is any important, people in Red Dawn just like him a lot.
Okay, we've got three nerds free, so let's send two to examine a zamboni parasite, and one to interrogate a supporter of Dagon.

There was a Dagon outpost in Italy, but we ran away as soon as we arrived. There was a chosen armed with a grenade launcher facing our truck, so any move would trigger reaction fire, killing all agents and destroying equipment.
Meanwhile the rest of equipment has arrived in Harriott HQ. The oiltroopers are now ready to be deployed all over the Americas.



We're deploying super-advanced magnums made by secret arms manufacturer and dealer who deals with all kinds of sinister organizations, do you think I care if the guns are legal? Granted, we stole those guns, but it's the fact that we use them is what matters.



Speaking of... We've hit a gold mine, lads.
One into humvee, one into Black Lotus operations.



How do I convey rolling my eyes in text format? That was a one wasted amish.



They failed to point out the most jarring flaw in the design of this creature - it dies as soon as someone raises its voice slightly in its presence. That's good for us, because we can quickly wipe them out with pistols, but if I was a hypothetical wealthy investor using chupacabras for my nefarious goals, I would be pissed at whoever produces them. Not like I know those are produced on earth or anything.



Night mission in north Canada, and it's werewolves. The Oilvan has arrived, carrying Mr. Minor-league, Mr. Look, Ms. Plume, and Herr Kaos. Kaos was equipped with a magnum this time, because I don't like using SMGs on monster missions.



They came to us on their own! Let's try out the shurikens, shall we? Spoiler: they are trash against things that have good amount of HP. The werewolves killed Mr. Look too. First dead rookie for the Ainsley Harriott HQ.

We've been unlocking some crap guns and I lost track of the research, so here's the screenshot of what we're researching now:



I probably should have put more into humvee instead of G-11, but with the envoy on board who knows what may happen.

Crop circles in Brazil, monsters in Nigeria. Both countries are in the council, so I should take care of that.



Herr Kaos demonstrated the key to success of all special forces - vandalism pays off. He casually broke down the fence to kidnap the innocent Brazilian farmer. The mission went as expected.



Nigeria is dealing with this - muckstars from UFO: Aftershock, not related to UFO: Enemy Unknown, apparently by people who made DayZ. I learn a lot about vidya playing this game.
Muckstars have low mobility, but have a weak ranged attack. They usually appear in large numbers, but now there seems to be only one. It went down after a single Nitro Express shot, and we got a lot of points for saving civvies.



Cyber-psycho-crack. You jam one of these into your neck and you can steal alien cable TV. Of course we can't confirm that aliens have cable TV, that's just what an Egg Salt operative had told us.
We can recruit the chief engineer now, finally.



No more raiding hentai stashes, now we can find who translates smut-manga and get them with their pants down, hopefuly not literally. Now we can contact the cult arms dealer, which will unlock the chinese sniper rifle we've seen in that one mission.



Just as they told us we won't be doing safehouses we've got a safehouse raid. We won't be getting those from the next month. We're going for an outpost, because that sprung up in Australia too. That confirms that Black Lotus is an Australian organization.



Great, let's start the day with lowering the ninja population even further. And that's all we did, killed one ninja, kidnapped the other. Heidi was killed after she heroically drew fire from all pyjama boys. A true champion of Earth.



He a sailor so I call him sailor. These guys are... I don't know, they show up at the same time as pioneers, and have worse guns, that's all I can say about them. He unlocked researching Red Dawn operations for us.



Huh? I don't think that's how guns work... It relies on the user's bravery quite a lot, as  the base damage is just a little above the sporting rifle. Auto shots are fast and accurate, though, and the clips are huge with 50 cartridges inside. We can buy clips, but not the gun.



The sailor told us about this thing. It's relatively light, quite accurate, shoots fast enough for fair damage and with no range limit. It's a good gun, but our Nitro Express does 33 base damage + 0,4 * accuracy, so...



One last Black Lotus safehouse. Conveniently, most grunts are facing the other way, pretending they didn't hear the truck pulling over. Our rookies managed to beans it up hard by missing almost every shot. One monk dead, one bleeding out. The rest of the mission went better than the first turn, and a straw hat sniper surrendered at the end. Got AK 74 out of it.

EXALT safehouse in Cuba. Oiltroopers deployed.



Oh. The thugs are poorly equipped, some of them don't even have guns, but there's an officer with an m16. We're abandoning this one.



A terror mission in St. John's, Canada. If it's something strong and bulky, I swear to god.



Can you fucking see this? This is the rakening these leafs deserved.

Then there was a werecat in South Africa, but it was such a boring mission.



Well excuuUUUUUuuuse me, Canada! I'm researching the humvee right now, but if we had more money, we could be flying helicopters. Too bad someone's cutting our funding.

We've captured a live yeti in USA by shooting it repeatedly with a magnum. This is the X-Com way.



They actually wipe their memories accidentally when they play with their neuralyzers. They forget what it does, so they just keep doing this, making it looks like there's some sort of regular wiping.



Too bad their arc isn't even halfway done, and we won't see them outside crop circles missions.



A not quite covert mission, that could be interesting.



The Oilvan is in Las Vegas. I can totally believe this is Vegas, and that cyber-psycho-crack dealers would do their business in here. Herr Kaos, Mr. Dry, Ms. House (not related to Mr. House from New Vegas... or is she?) and Mr. Candidate are all armed with magnums and knives, throwing or not, and they all have tasers on them. Time to steal some drugs arrest some drug dealers.



A roof sniper with a shotgun, not catchable and not shootable from this position. We can try to sneak up on him.



I think it's the same guy. He shouldn't have too many TUs left, so Herr Kaos should be able to capture him. On the other hand there are so many convenient windows. What do?



Nighty night, mr. dealer. No roof sniping for you today.



House and Candidate have found a doggo. Doggos are deadly, as we should already know, so as much as it pains me, we must put it down. With a magnum.



We've got the boss and his bodyguard. The head honcho's got something that's probably fully automatic and definitely deadly.



Oh no, how did we miss this one? He's got a knife and a BlackOps SMG. This could end VERY badly. He took a knife to the chest, hopefully he'll pass out.



While Herr Kaos is looting the unconscious goon, the rest is in serious trouble. The wounded goon decided to run, so Mr. Candidate ran after him. The agent had too little stamina to throw another knife. Ms. House zapped the boss again, but that wasn't enough. Reloading the tazer ate the rest of her TUs. Mr. Dry shanked the new goon causing him to bleed, but not die just yet.



Mr. Candidate wasn't cut for this job. Herr Kaos used the stolen shotgun to avenge him. It was loaded with slugs too, so the revenge came in the form of 40 base damage.



The big boss has been apprehended, but there's at least one more dealer in the storehouse out there.



Turns out there were two, and they were trying to run for it. One got hit by Mr. Dry's reaction fire, and that was probably the one who was already wounded. The other one got shanked a few times, them Ms. House threw one of her knives straight into the guy's back. It's not the end though...



The boss woke up after being tazed three times. Great, now he'll be running around punching our agents.



Herr Kaos tazed the boss with Mr. Candidate's tazer, but he had to run, because there's a thug with a GRENADE LAUNCHER in the alley.



Oh for fuck's sake! Herr kaos blasted grenade guy with his shotgun, Mr. Dry shot him with his magnum, and finally Ms. House took him out with a Steyr. Now there are two unarmed dudes running around punching people.



The boss is on the ground, but he wakes up every other turn. The other wounded guy got the shotgun treatment, and now there's this guy. He's got a Steyr, and he did whole seven damage and two fatal wounds to Mr. Dry. Herr Kaos came with his shotgun.



What do we have here... FN FAL is what the boss was holding. The 'nade launcher is a nice find, 11 wads of cash is 55k, always welcome.



Smaller AK, much faster than its big brother. Thechnically it's a rifle, but it's simillar to MP5, which is an SMG, so I will compare it to MP5. AKSU-74 is slightly slower, less accurate, and has greater one-handed penalty, but it's slightly more powerful. Not really worth it.
Another scientist to humvee.



A trinket stolen from Osirion. Useless.



Would you look at that, an extremely simple crops circles mission in South America. The Ainsley Harriott base is getting a lot of work lately. Herr Kaos smacked both farmers.
Five scientists have arrived to Harriott HQ. What can they research?



Sounds good. The guns won't be gathering dust in the general stores, and the Zeta-Reticulan Wikipedia articles will be Google-translates soon.



Once we unlock those, we'll be able to kill stuff hard over obstacles.



A supporter of Dagon snitched on this dude. I want info on key members, not bald hipsters!
We should get in contact with BlackOps ASAP.
Now there are monsters in South Korea and a madman in Berlin. That's for the next time

[Il Palazzo]

polish dresy

How are you even aware of this?

[Rince Wind]

Accuracy modifier should be the actual skill level used for this weapon. So for the pipe it is 65+35% of your melee skill. Times .8 for the weapon modifier. So noone is really terrible with it, but you'll never see great to hit numbers either.

[birdy51]

I choose to think that is not how Mr. Byrd Jr. Jr. dies, but how he lives.

[Hanzoku]

How are you catching the critters alive? Because I refuse to let them get close enough to my agents to bite if I can help it, so I normally end up introducing them to buckshot. I don’t suppose tranquilizer rifles are a thing?

[pikachu17]

I would to be re-agented as Raichu, the father of Pikachu.

[SQman]

Guys, would you believe if I told you I had this update done for a long ass time now and I just forgot to post it? There was an update to the mod, but this was done before that.

polish dresy

How are you even aware of this?

Gee, I wonder?

Accuracy modifier should be the actual skill level used for this weapon. So for the pipe it is 65+35% of your melee skill. Times .8 for the weapon modifier. So noone is really terrible with it, but you'll never see great to hit numbers either.

Ooooh, so that's how it works. Seems so simple right now, thanks.

How are you catching the critters alive? Because I refuse to let them get close enough to my agents to bite if I can help it, so I normally end up introducing them to buckshot. I don’t suppose tranquilizer rifles are a thing?

Tazers if they get close, dumb luck if they don't. Dart rifles are absolutely a thing, but they come later.

Spoiler: File 10: Friends in low places (click to show/hide)

Up to a good start - twice as fast as the van, one more agent, but no covert missions. I need one in Guy Fieri HQ.
We've got six nerds to distribute, so let's go for Black Lotus footman, cult gun dealer, Red Dawn operations, and a shiv.



Young dashing Ray Shen joins the crew. You may not recognize him because he doesn't have the cool XCOM sweater. He's already pissed we don't have a Firestorm assembly line, but we can appease him by bringing him shivs and baseball bats to tinker around with. That opened up the research of workshops and durathread.



Grand Wizard of the Cult of Dagon. He's slightly less mentally challenged and can animorph into a trout. They say those guys don't do anything special, but lobbing dynamite isn't nothing to me.



FAMAS is a light rifle, faster than Steyr and doesn't have a max effective range for snap shots. It's weaker than AK, but pierces armor. I think it's the best automatic rifle we've found so far.



Okay, back to the action. Giant rats in Japan waiting to be exterminated.



They really can't take too much punishment. We've caught one before, but it never hurts to stockpile on live giant rats just in case we need them.
There were 14 rats and 1 civilian, at the end it was just a single rat, and that rat is coming with us.



Oh. It's weak, but nobody expected anything else from a shiv. Interestingly it uses reactions for calculating accuracy. I'll stick to non-makeshift weapons, thank you.
I feel like researching some monsters, like giant spiders.



A madlad is lurking somewhere in this city. He's unpredictable and may even lay down on the floor when somebody asks him to. The absolute madman.



Look who came here to cheer for us: a regular german man, Hans Olo.



The perp is in the worst possible position. He shot Mr. Pearl with his Steyr for way too much damage. I want him alive if possible.
Mr. Pearl got patched up by Mr. Byrd Jr. Jr., then Ms. Macrofauna ran up to him also asking for heals.



Looks like Mr. Storm has to do it himself. A policewoman blocked his way, and I kinda need Mr. Storm inside the building, so...



Take a break, officer.



Just a matter of a few whacks and...



Oh.



OH! Looks like we're taking out tazers, because that guy is resistant to being whacked on the temple with a tonfa.



It's a miracle everyone came out of this alive. Ms. Macrofauna almost kicked the bucket, and I was ready to kill the madlad, but we've done it. Look at the points tho.



MiBs in the land of the free. I'll let them take care of the crops circles this time.
The Flavor Delivery Truck is being replaced with a humvee.



Good ol' Red Dawn, they may not be the best at hiding their activity, but with enough firepower it doesn't matter. I connect with them on a spiritual level.
BlackOps CAWS and pistol next.



The mysterious molecule is what they make Monster Energy Drink from, that's why it's called Monster. We can now recruit the chief researcher, and this we shall do.



Zambonis have little tiny clam-things lodged in their brains. These are alien in origins, even though we haven't brought back anything alien yet, so I have no idea how they know about it.



Black Lotus base in South Korea. Can we do it? Absolutely not. Can we at least check it out? Sure, why the hell not.



Before we do that... Everybody loves us and wants to give us money. Ainsley Harriott HQ is already paying off.



And we also have this. Straw hats aren't as good as sneaking as ninjas, but they carry real guns, not swords and shurikens. We'll be seeing a lot of those guys in the near future.



That footman told us about a really cruel man.
Maybe we should have started researching something important instead, like basic flight training.



What a surprise, giant spiders are literally giant spiders. Who would have guessed?



Behold the Greasemobile! We can field five agents at the same time now.
There's a witch in the cave and a few ninjas in the woods to the east. How about we make a few potshots before we bail?



No more enemies in sight, but I know the actual base is crawilng with witches and straw hats. I'm feeling ballsy right now, so let's go.



Holy shit, a giant floating troll doll! It would be a perfect mascot for Guy Fieri HQ! We can't catch it just yet, not enough firepower.



Mr. Suspect got the incendiary treatment, the old spicy grenade. He's panicking and can't get back to the car or even reload. We might need to leave him here. RIP a fat one, Mr. Suspect, you were kinda shit, really.



Yeah baby, that's what daddy likes. CAWS actually has lower accuracy and effective range than our basic bitch shotguns, but buckshot does more damage and it uses so much less sweet TUs.
I want to know about baseball bats now. Are they as amazing as they are in XPiratez?



This rifle is pretty nice. It's slower than FAMAS, but more accurate with snap and aimed shots. Auto fire should be saved for point-blank situations. It's strong and gets a power bonus from accuracy. I think I like this one more than FAMAS.



Buff agents can do some serious stun damage with this thing. I think I'll get some as a joke.



I'm so sorry. Maybe when we research MIND BULLETS you could turn out to be of alolan variety, but the low stamina is still a big hit to usefulness.



The big man himself has entered the battlefield. I'm much better than Mr. Raichu, but none of my stats are fantastic. I guess I can run, stab a little bit, and throw, just not too far.



Cattle mutilation in Texas. I'm pretty sure if we looked well enough, we could find alien blood from the moment when a farmer shot a sectoid, bacause Texas.
Mr. Connection and Ms. House handled the situation, or should I say they manhandled it.



Another BlackOps wonder stolen from MiBs or Osirion. This gun is hard to compare with any other non-revolver pistol we have. It has auto shot capability like Glock 18, although much slower and with three bullets instead of one. It has high damage of Colt and Mk23. It's fast and accurate, but not quite as accurate as Mk23. It has the greatest range of all pistols we're aware of. I think I prefer BlackOps magnum's sheer stopping power and Mk23's ridiculous accuracy over BlackOps pistol's impractical auto shot gimmick.

EXALT safehouse in Brazil. How many times we've dealt with those losers, twice? We need some progress on their case.



They're making it too easy. The nearest guy has a pipe, guy on the hill has a Glock, the one with suspenders has some crappy SMG that probably won't go through kevlar.




This is going smoothly. We've got two guys caught, including the important one, Herr Kaos is having fun with BlackOps SMG, Mr. Connection casually breaks a brick wall with his magnum.



I said it. Mr. Connection broke Herr Kaos's arm with his magnum too. More like Mr. Connection with EXALT, amirite?



GUESS WHO GOT A NAMED AGENT KILLED! Mr. Connection deserves to die for this.



And he did. He conveniently missed all his shots, then got riddled with holes by an EXALT goon with an M16. Bad score, but good karma.



New Herr Kaos. He's Mongolian, but he's good at faking German accent. Other than that he's rather average.



A replacement for the traitorous Mr. Connection. Okay shot, but nothing more.



No, their electricity is psionic, not biological, and they're transgenants created from earth organisms mutated by alien spores. We can't retcon the X-Com Extended Universe canon like this.



Something important at last. The Zeta-Reticulan Wikipedia is not actually gibberish, and we'll probably need someone who can speak fluent Finnish to translate it. Too bad there's 50% probablility that Finns don't exist at all...



The Grease Lightning, as I renamed it, has arrived in South America to deal with zamboni infestation, and I immediately noticed something I want back at the base.



Mr. Hostess put three full bursts from G-11 into the zamboni, but only managed to stun it. Mr. Silly ran up to the unconscious undead and carried it to the humvee.
There was one civilian on the map, but he was worth just -2 points, and catching the infactor gave us 20. Priorities.



Inferior Beretta, and it takes some effort to gain this title.
We should ask the homicidal maniac what made him go postal.



These guys are filled with DETERMINATION, and have good firepower at their disposal. They come in both male and female flavor, which raises a question: where do pioneers come from? We've seen lads, but no lasses. Where do they recruit those people from?



Generic mercenary guy, not even of the big masketta kind. I wouldn't even pay him to grab dr. Pavel.
Also, the only thing I can decipher from slav-runes is ?, which doesn't help me understand the NOTES. Nice going, research team, you didn't even bother to translate everything.

We've stole a police ID card, and we're gonna research it.



This thing does HOW MUCH damage? It's got slow and relatively inaccurate auto shot, slow but decently accurate snap shot, and fast and quite accurate aimed shot. I would gladly replace our MP5s with this if it wasn't for MP5's uncomparably superior accuracy and longer range.



Monsters in southern US, probably a wolf, but if it's an ambush of rabid chupacabras I'm gonna flip it.



Shpiders! That makes it even better. This one got killed, the other one passed out after being shot and we got it alive. We have to transfer it to Nepal because we don't have animal cages in this HQ.
Then more strange creatures in the Rockies, and crops circles near LA. All the sci-fi disaster movies were right, a lot of weird stuff is going on in the US.



We unlocked this thing, but we can't afford to build it anywhere. We need to do everything we can to get those sweet dollarinos on the next pay day.



I like what I'm seeing. Biological warfare unlocks tranq rifles, I think, but we wouldn't be able to make them just yet. Let's take care of the Osirion boss and EXALT goon first.



Hey, trash! The officer will absolutely need it, seeing how we knocked her out and robbed her. We can sell it for almost nothing.



This is just slightly heavier, slower, but more accurate FAMAS. But hey, it's an American good guy rifle.



The Grease Lightning is out in Somalia to hunt bugs. It's a bit of an overkill to bring elephant rifles, a super secret MiB magnum, a flamethrower, and a product of Kraut Space Magic to kill creatures that just want to consume some sweet detritus, but maybe Egypt-senpai will notice us and pay for our workshop.
We also killed a wolf in America, so... uncle Sam, give money.
Then extremely easy whacking of two farmers in Canada, so... leaf, give money. That literally took less than a single turn.



I like this guy already, but why did the homicidal maniac go insane from this knowledge? Is it the incredible selection of guns? Krazy low prices? Snazzy Krazy Kamel figurines? We may never know.
We learned how to take kevlar vests off of madlads.



Netherlands, Dagon outpost. I see no way for it to go wrong, so let's get to it.
Immediately Mr. Pearl blasted a klansman with his shotgun, then Mr. Hostess demonstrated the fault of G11 by failing to kill with one shot. Mr. Storm had to shoot his BlackOps magnum across the map to finish his colleague's business.



Geez, these guys are humanity's last hope, and they're hopeless themselves. In the end no amount of contrarian rifle design can beat a good old shotgun.



They don't look so tough. I just wish someone was strong enough to lob dynamite that far.



It may not be apparent from this angle, but this priest is currently standing on dynamite. Mr. Storm threw it over a tree after getting one clansman with a reaction shot. I already like this guy.
Mr. Shoestring Nitro Expressed a chosen to death, leaving the cultists without a leader.



Here we go!



Or not? This was such a good throw, how did it end with three wounded and no dead? If this dynamite wasn't stolen, I'd demand a refund.



That was much better, but it shouldn't take so much gunfire, jeez.
They all started panicking, but there's still a second chosen that we can kill to drain morale even more. Shooting them with Nitro Express is just so satisfying.



Some brave cultists were unshaken by the fall of two chosen and a priest, but an incendiary grenade quickly made them reconsider their decision not to surrender immediately. We've got 5 klansmen, and 1 chosen who somehow survived with a big hole in the chest.



Napalm, the big boy incendiary. I can't wait until we can buy it in bulk. There was also a bag of cash worth 500k. I started building a workshop with this money.



Alien artifacts? The only thing we have that we can confirm as alien is the zamboni parasite, and those guys are dealing with artifacts on a daily basis.



Which GTA is this guy from?
He's in contact with the hybrid network, an organization we shouldn't know, so let's pretend we don't.
We can now research the Syndicate, but we haven't made contact with BlackOps yet, so let's put nerds into that.



They won't sell us miniguns until the council approves, but we can now say goodbye to magnums and MP5s. Of course after we research aquisition.



This boy here is faster than our shotguns, but slightly less accurate. It would be nice to have them, but we're in no hurry, and with no money.



Something for the strong, brave and stupid. Don't.



We should have researched this before BlackOps for the full effect. Now everything will be inferior to what we can buy from our secretive friends.



Dagon safehouse in Madagascar, jungle village map. I learned to hate these maps with a burning passion, but a simple safehouse ransacking shouldn't be too problematic.



Mr. Hostess and Mr. Silly were ambushed by an armed supporter of Dagon! Fortunately Mr. Hostess thinks fast, so he picked up a knife from a dead klansman and stabbed the ambusher to death. I just like killing with melee, okay?



We've taked down a dozen cultists, but it's only now that we found the actual safehouse. Mr. Storm knocked this cultist down with one punch. Granted, the cultist had already dropped his billhook, but it's still admirable.

Good training mission. Found a RAK SMG, it's no BlackOps SMG, it's gotta be said.



Not a cruise ship terror mission! If I see a single lobsterman I'm gonna flip.

[Hanzoku]

You are making sure to send agents to the gym, right? It solves all of the low stat issues except bravery... eventually.

[King Zultan]

PTW

[SQman]

You are making sure to send agents to the gym, right? It solves all of the low stat issues except bravery... eventually.

I keep the gym full at all times. That's why I don't usually field new recruits immediately - I want them to turn from regular blokes to superhuman killing machines first.

Spoiler: File 11: Boats and toolshed armory (click to show/hide)

The update is here, but Solarius Scorch didn't post the changelog on the project's page, so I'll post it here in case someone was curious.
[spoiler=Changelog]0.9.5:
-New weapons: Stapler (sprite by Badfella), Electric Prod (Stun Rod is now a more advanced and better weapon), Wrench (sprite by Dioxine), Crowbar.
-New armors: Work Suit (human and hybrid), Seabot (AI).
-New terrains: Rural, Native Junkfarm, Urban Dawn.
-New units: Male Tomb Guard, Female Farmer (both by Dioxine), Dragonfire Turret, X-Com Security Camera (now in all corridors!).
-New mission: Industrial Investigation.
-New Staff Input (by samuelroy21).
-New palettes for Mars, undersea missions and sewers (by Bloax and Dioxine).
-Added ambient sound to underwater locations.
-Added Dog Bark (designed by Ivan Dogovich and Starving Poet).
-Added Ufopaedia articles for most built-in weapons.
-Added an article on the Luxury Car.
-Added several missing Combat Analysis articles.
-Added a cutscene after the Dimension X Wreck mission.
-Added a Corridor to the starting base.
-Increased Terror Mission size to 60x60.
-Shogg villages are height 6.
-More exit tiles in the Vampire Castle.
-Increased Terror Ship crews.
-Added more spawn points to X-Com bases.
-All Hovertanks now require 6 Grav Modules.
-Zrbite is now buyable from Hydrospace Dynamics.
-Tanks underwater are restricted to the Seabot armor.
-Synthsuit is now a bit stealthy.
-New sprites for the UAC weapons (by Badfella).
-Added paperdoll for the Female Doctor.
-Alien Drone weapon is somewhat stronger.
-Vampires got an unarmed attack.
-Improved the EXALT Liquidation and Syndicate Assassination missions (now all civilians start inside).
-Decreased points reward on Asylum Apparitions.
-New hybrid names (cooperation with Dioxine).
-New Hooligan sprites (by Amuys).
-New Gunship paperdoll (by Ivan Dogovich).
-Improved Reptoid Commando paperdoll.
-Unified text formats between craft articles.
-Fixed too bright lights on scout drones.
-Fixed incorrect Power Suit torso on female Hybrids.
-Fixed Floater Legionnaire inventory pic.
-Fixed Giant Beetle sprites (by Augur).
-Fixed Skyranger and Skymarshall sell prices.
-Fixed some desert blocks.
-Fixed incorrect terrain texture coordinates.
-Fixed premature access to the Gunship and the BlackOps Smartgun.
-Fixed some minor issues with ammo purchases.
-Many adjustments (thanks BT Axis) and fixes.



Oh no, the cultists of Dagon are having fun! We, as the fun police, can't allow it!
We can research a crowbar an L85 rifle acquisition now. Wait, we can get an actual rifle without 2nd promotion? Sweet.



That's a nice gun if I ever saw one, and it unlocked the research for FAMAS acquisition. I don't know what's the point of that, since L85 is superior in every way besides slightly lower aimed shot accuracy.



Osirion ship boarded, now let's see what we can do. What we can't do is escape, so I packed a CAWS to make sure we have good firepower. Mr. Pearl, don't disappoint me.



Four turns in and we haven't seen a single goon or lobsterman, bio-drone or triscene. We've raided the kitchen though, and we can bring the loot back to Guy Fieri HQ.



Will you look at that. This guy walked right into Mr. Hostess's and Mr. Storm's ambush.



The ship just become one goon safer. Now there's only fifty more to take care of.



Now that's an awkward encounter. I have no idea what that dude was thinking when he brought a grenade launcher on the ship, but I doubt he'll be able to fire it inside. Mr. Pearl however...



Good hit, but not good enough. If the goon decides to blow himself up with one of our agents, I'll be pissed.



What's with people bringing high explosives on the ship? The new goon has an RPG launcher which, unlike the grenade launcher, works well in narrow corridors with low ceilings.



Hooray for Mr. Pearl and his CAWS.



Another guy, but instead of explosives, he carries a humongous gun. Mr. Storm's small handgun proved more effective. Monstrous size alone has no intrinsic merit, unless using 75% of time units for a single shot be considered a virtue.



This is getting ridiculous, another goon with an RPG launcher.



Launcher boy is dead from a shotgun blast. The big gun was an M60 machine gun, not something a drug dealer should carry on a private cruise ship.
Anyway, a guy with a Steyr got ambushed by Mr. Storm. He couldn't take two magnum bullets to the back, which was expected.
We're assaulting a ship that's crawling with criminals armed with heavy weapons, but so far it felt like shooting fish in a barrel.



Ms. Babe noticed a shotgunner investigating the helipad where we landed. She fired a nitro express round but missed. I don't want to get flanked by that guy, so the next shot better be accurate.



Good ol' elephant rifle, 63 +/- 100% damage (or 50%, I don't know if TFTD damage formula mod is on) in Ms. Babe's hands is a little more than kevlar can stop.



Another M60 guy upstairs. I could have took a shot with Mr. Pearl, but CAWS isn't guaranteed to one-shot, even with AP slugs.



Next turn however... Yes, he did take 2 shots.



The upper decks have been cleared, now we can move lower. The goons are starting to panic, and for a perfectly good reason - they haven't fired a single shot at our agents yet.



Well, they did now. An Osirion boss with a light cannon almost turned Mr. Silly into Silly String, but our agents aren't wimps.



Mr. Silly and Mr. Storm got the boss down, which will do wonders for us. Maybe we won't have to go through the whole ship hunting for goons now? Surely they'll just give up, knowing that we killed their boss who was armed with a futuristic heavy super-gun.



Mr. hostess somehow discovered a wounded goon with a Steyr. Enemies shouldn't pick up guns, and the only Steyr guy we saw is dead, so what happened to this one? They did notify me about a goon going berserk, so maybe he's a victim of that?



The action begins now! The wounded guy went berserk and unloaded at Mr. Hostess, hitting twice for 0 damage. I was afraid he would go for Ms. Babe. Another Steyr guy showed up, but had no TUs to kill anybody.



Ms. Babe finished the wounded goon, while Mr. Hostess wounded the other one. She had to run for cover, because after reloading she had no TUs for another shot.



Oh, and there was a panicking shotgunner a level below. Mr. Pearl tried to nightstick him into submission, but in the end Mr. Silly had to come up to fix that mistake.



Meanwhile Mr. Storm is sneaking around the lower deck. He's got an incendiary grenade, so if anything goes wrong, he can just torch this place.



Out of the more interesting stuff we got:

Earth treasures:
-Arasaka 3000 sniper rifle
-BlackOps auto-shotgun
-Light Cannon
-M60
-RPG launcher
-$135k in cash
-8 Osirion goons
-Secret files

Mysterious technology:
-Canister gun
-Chemogun
-Toxigun
-Plasma caster

Possible alien technology:
-Alien fuel trace
-Alien data slate
-20 UFO navigations (!)

Undeniable proof for aliens:
-Alien embryo

Now that was a good mission - not a single agent wounded, not a lot of ammo used, a lot of loot, Cyberpunk confirmed for X-Com Expanded universe.



Questioning a supporter of Dagon made the accountant lady or whoever she is realize that flashlights are horrendously expensive. I don't like electro-flares at all, and when I think about it, I don't like flashlights either. How about we just avoid night missions?
I want an alien embryo analyzed, maybe the council will increase founding for that.



A Red Dawn ganger told us everything about knives. With knives reactions are everything and strength doesn't matter. A good melee weapon for agents with thin noodly arms and quick hands.
Oh, and we can buy QBU-88.
Arasaka 3000 and secret files next.



I knew the council would be happy to hear about our latest Osirion bust.



Chicks dig it when he says "I'm in" in his hacker voice. I just wish we didn't have to learn about it through secret files confiscated from Osirion.
Then we killed a wolf in Greenland and a werewolf in Australia. Easy points and training, but nothing more.



Wow, harsh! I'm sure if we gave it a proper upbringing it would become a valuable member of society. Just kidding, sectoids don't even have the basic decency to wear clothes, fuck them. We can now research alien biology, so that's one thing these guys are good for.



The boys from Harriott HQ finished taking apart a big dog. Great work, but we learned literally nothing from that.



This, on the other hand, lets us unlock the helicopter. Humvee was great, but it was getting rather wet inside when crossing the ocean.



The last member of our family, the chief researcher. We can now get the next report done and prepare for promotion. Meanwhile the Harriott HQ will take care of unlocking some trash guns because why not, then BlackOps premium catalogue.



The pipe's big brother, equally mediocre. 14 TUs is just too much. On the other hand its usefulness in fighting alien invasions has been proven in at least 2 episode 2 cases.



Are we gonna get any missions this month or not?
Seems like we've discovered a megacorporation bent on world domination, like Google, but it's February 1998 so Google is not a thing yet.



Nice. This gun can fire 2 extremely accurate snap shots in one turn dealing massive damage. It's a sniper rifle in everything but name, and it's much better than QBU-88.



Ouch! I bet this robots bangs all the washing machines and toasters it comes across. We learned about it from an Osirion goon, which is a shame because these guys must know something important.



Finally! So the crop circles aren't drawings of Zeta-Reticulan dicks? I can't say I'm not disappointed.



Finally something is happening and look, a new terrain type! I was over the moon when they added jungle villages with chain link fences to XPiratez, and now they added them here. Hunting spiders just got a thousand times easier.
Killed 14 for 140 points. Nice and easy, but wasted 2 CAWS clips.



Mr. Storm became so swole our training equipment can't do him any good anymore.



The lighter parts of the bars are how much he grew since the beginning. He's harder, faster, better, stronger. He can do anything from throwing high-ex to sniping from the other corner of the map. Not sure if he can still gain skills from missions.



This is the Gobi desert, believe it or not. There's quite a lot of civilians, so we probably shouldn't run immediately. Spider missions are never fun, but 142 points are.
We've got a workshop built in Guy Fieri HQ, we can now start researching fun stuff without worrying about wasting time. 6 engineers will have to do for now, because each is $50k.



An Egg Salt agent who can fire a gun and wears a bulletproof vest. I wish we had MEC troopers who could launch those chumps with their kinetic fists... Oh well, we'll have to keep disposing of them in less exciting ways.



Boooooooring!



Not boring! Much faster and with longer range than the humvee, just less durable. By the time damage capacity starts to matter, we'll be flying better stuff.
We should probably start researching mutant metabolism.



Baby, oh baby! We'll be able to get the good stuff soon. We probably need the next promotion, but that's just a matter of time.



One of the amazing things stolen from Osirion. Not as accurate as Regular BS shotgun or CAWS, but it fires in bursts. Only buckshot though.



Now that's what I call a waste of a Red Dawn ganger.



Machetes are fast, light and don't require much skill to use. I honestly think these are better than our combat knives.



Oof. It's stronger and faster than UZI, but even less accurate. BlackOps SMG it isn't.

The council was happy with us this month and...



They told us to shoot aliens on sight. We're now a proper paramilitary formation. Well, not yet, we still have to research the actual promotion.



After a long time of nothing going on, we've got info about a Red Dawn outpost somewhere in Mongolia. The hills are live with the sound of AK-47, but I've got just the right solution for that.



The spray-and-pray mechanics. I set up two points which Mr. Pearl is supposed to fire between.



It was garbage. Mr. Pearl hit the left ganger once, then autofired at the right one, but hit and killed the left one instead. Mr. Storm cleared the hill with his BlackOps magnum.



Ms. Babe got out of the car with a primed incendiary and tossed it at a pioneer who was watching us from behind the outpost's fence. Oh, speaking of grenades, Mr. Silly deployed smoke immediately, then shot a guy standing quite far away in the back with L85. That gun might be optimized for auto fire, but a good agent can get good shots with everything. Except the guy who was shot survived. Oh well.



You see that tiny batted window? Mr. Hostess killed a man by shooting his Nitro Express through it. I love getting good angles. That happens so rarely, but it's so satisfying.



So that's our situation now: We've killed three guys, wounded one. The pioneer woman was set on fire and is now running for cover. Mr. Pearl got shot by a sailor and we have to patch him up. Smoke is up and we have no idea what's going on around us.

I didn't take any screenshots, but Ms. Babe hit the sailor with three consecutive L85 snap shots. That's what you get for hurting Mr. Pearl.
That got me thinking: maybe this team is too good? We should give them some chumps to train up next time.



Mr. Pearl and Mr. Hostess hid in the bushes hoping to get the two pioneers in the next turn.



One of the pioneers ran for cover, but a lad took his place. He also took a bullet. The pioneer inside survived two shots, unfortunately, and then another shot did 0 damage. Can't have everything.



We've found the woman we've set on fire, but shooting her
I really hate SMGs. They can't hit even at point-blank. I also hate chain-link-fence because they're unreasonably durable and block shots everytime.



Next turn the pioneer from earlier sprung out from cover, dragging a sniper lad after him. The sniper was much more threatening, so Mr. Hostess took him out immediately.



Great job Mr. Pearl. Once he broke all fences with first three shots, he started shooting all over the place but not at the pioneer. I hate SMGs so much!



I was late to screencap this, but Mr. Storm got the 'nade treatment. He fortunately sustained only minor wounds, so we can get him into the working conditions quickly enough.
Mr. Hostess quickly reloaded his rifle and put a hole in the grenade lobber. I know he wouldn't have another one, but it was about revenge.



We have a sniper though, and snipers are always dangerous.



Maybe Mr. Storm isn't such a good agent after all. He managed to stab the notoriously hard to kill pioneer once, but she's still alive and she has a knife. There's a river of lads flowing in our direction. We've took down one, thousand to go.



Finally we got her! The agents patched themselves up somewhat, but the medikits take so long to use it's not even funny. Then we killed the guy behind her. Most lads are poorly equipped, and the sniper should be easy to take care of, so we should be able to heal the mortal wounds and...



God damnit. Some of our guys will spend some time in the infarmary.
We got some interesting things:
-a wrench
-a moist nugget Mosin Nagant
-an SVD sniper rifle
-secret files
-a boombox (?)



Black Lotus ninja didn't tell us anything, but military envoy has discovered a worldwide farmer conspiracy. The truth is, the aliens are planning to start a fast food chain once they conquer Earth. Their best selling product, the ADVENT burger, will be a tool of control over the enslaved populace of our world.



That's a lot of research! We can also contact UAC, which means DOOM is a part of X-Com Expanded Universe. Gotta clean up Mars before demons attack. I want to be able to buy Arasaka-3000, so let's get to it.



Oh, this. We can get as many Incendiaries as we need, but we need to build more general stores.



We'll be able to extract Monster Zero Ultra from mutants, which will give us the ability to mow all the lawns on Earth, then terraform Mars to make more grass to mow. We'll lose the chance to trade crypto though.
Now we'll get to researching Xenonauts and Mosin.



Night hunt for a madman in Dallas. There is a huge chance this will end badly, but even if we lose the truck there wouldbe a silver lining - I wanted to replace it with a helicopter.




Oh god, no! Some police officer tried to shoot the madman, but hit the exploding barrel blowing up half of the industrial complex. Mr. Dry was dry, so he caught fire easily and died. At least we learned that the madman has really been hiding among the barrels, and is now bleeding profusely. He's got a Nitro Express rifle, so I don't want anyone to get hit even once.



The ambush is ready. There's a lot of street punks running around, so we either get a penalty for killed civilians, or a madman stunned by civilians. I'm okay with either one.



He's fast. Managed to run behind the container and shoot someone.



The madman shot twice instead of running, so Ms. Plume zapped him. Surprisingly only two civilians were killed, and we got the madman along with his diary.



Is this XPiratez? No, because in XPiratez this could be a good weapon. 90% TUs makes this unusable. Bravery for strength and accuracy can make it devastating or completely useless if the target is in range, but then again, if the target is in range you want to have a shotgun instead.
Now we can buy Arasaka precision rifle. Four more days for more space in Guy Fieri HQ.
We're researching general strategy and CAWS acquisition now.



A zapper for fast gents. Good accuracy and massive power guarantees that some stunning will happen. We need this. We have to produce it though, and it takes very long with just 6 engineers. Gotta get more.



Moist Nugget, good shooters can hit everything with it, but chumps will just waste time units, because it's quite slow. At this point it's not worth considering using.



Like all makeshift weapons the wrench is kinda garbage. Not fast enough for this accuracy.



Luger is quite fast and reasonably accurate, only a bit heavy. Not the worst gun, but we're beyond using WWI guns.



I'm not a fan of low accuracy melee weapons. I like weapons that use bravery for damage bonus though, and I've been using this one in XPiratez lately. Somehow I think billhooks fit better for mutant pirates than for well-dressed secret agents.



Was Xenonauts a good game? I heard some game being called X-Com but without the charm, but I'm not sure if that was Xenonauts or UFO: Aftermatch. Anyway, we got some real military digs, the armored vest.



Is this better than Arasaka? The autofire is just a gimmick, and snap shots aren't that accurate. I'm staying with my Cyberpunk gun, thank you.



Dagon base. We'll take care of it next time, see ya!

[Rince Wind]

Big update! 


X-Com without the charm seems to sum up Xenonauts pretty well. I never got very far though.

[ZebioLizard2]

Actually liked the UFO: Aftermath games, they had their own charm. Xenonauts was.. ehhhh

[Hanzoku]

Make sure to pick up some combat armor - it unlocks silently with the Xenonought research. You lose a little front armor vs the bullet proof vests, but gain armor everywhere else.

Also, agent me! Mr./Ms. Zoku

[Il Palazzo]

Please add Mr/Ms Yanush to the roster!