Looks like we're not doing a warehouse raid yet. Rodan is attacking Angola, and we have to rev up our mecha to fight him. Wait, we don't have a mecha... Let's just get The Fieri One going.
This plane allows us to wait out the first turn to avoid reaction fire, but this time we probably won't need that.
It's a yeti rampage! That mongorn broke into the butcher's shop, which is still better than it eating some poor civilian. We couldn't kill it this turn, so maybe next time.
We demolished the wall so we could have a better shot at the yeti. CAWS with AP ammo works really well for this, but I wish we had something more reliable for that. RPG maybe?
Minigun is a reliable problem solver, but not of the solid wall variety.
Mr. Mastication would have died if it wasn't for the kid who got killed instead. Time to avenge your savior, Mr. Mastication. (And so he did).
Mr. Rantaplan discovered that this one house is full of yeti. There's one here and another one on the upper floor, and we have no guys inside. Time to get some guys then.
Looks like the yetis started evacuating once they realized there's nothing to steal in that house. Too bad for them that our agents are all outside, waiting to shoot some lost snow apes.
After a long and fruitless bug hunt, yetis suddenly decided to come out of every hole in the ground. Mr. Touchable managed to defend himself, but Mr. Studd Jr. got jumped by two mongorns at once. Ripperoni in pepperoni.
They're not that solow after all. One of them ran up to me, but its punch missed. I turned it and its roof-dwelling friend into fine mist.
Mr. Rantaplan was never meant to be a heavy hitter, but he proved he can take down a gorilla.
Holy shit, I just got fucking murdered! Madamme Abandonne and Ms. Consulate failed to kill this Mongorn, but Mr. Rantaplan came to the rescue. He's a good boy.
We've stopped the terror mission, lost two agents, and got some good points. Could have been worse.
Look, trash! It's a 1998 phone, so it could be used as an effective weapon.
Now the event we've all been waiting for - the warehouse raid in Rwanda. The Syndicate is an insidious bunch, so we gotta be careful. Ms. consulate deployed smoke by the hatch for extra safety. Now let's wait and see what happens.
Hello there. A member of security personnel came to invite us in. Or at least what I would think he wants to do if he wasn't pointing his BlackOps shotgun at Ms. Consulate.
He looked tougher than he really was. Maybe we should try to catch someone instead of killing indiscriminately...
For now let's get ready for the assault.
Another guard down. Mr. Rantaplan had to rip him apart after we failed to get him with a stun rod and a dart rifle. Mr. Particular and Mr. Mastication are preparing an ambush. Maybe we'll finally arrest someone useful.
Here we go! Mr. Silly is quite good with the dart gun, so he managed to tranquilize a guard from the other side of the corridor.
So this is where wares are actually housed. As much as I'd love to rummage in there for a while, we have to make sure nobody will interrupt us first.
Oopsie woopsie, wrong door.
One of the guards went upstairs next turn, but this one stood in just the right spot. Mr. Rantaplan opened the door, and Ms. Consulate opened fire.
This guy woke up. He must be feeling really stupid seeing five armored agents and their dog surrounding him like this. One electric prod jab later and he's on the ground again.
Time to get all sneaky beaky like. That generator room is perfect for a temporary hideout.
I'm pretty sure we've just lost a doggo. I have no idea what kind of weapon that guard has, but it looks like a BlackOps LMG of some sort.
What was he thinking? He had a clear shot at Mr. Rantaplan, yet he decided to drop down straight into a pile of agents. We've arrested him.
Meh, not really what I expected. The only valuable thing we extracted was the LMG. Wait, what if this was a wrong warehouse and we killed three innocent security guards? Oh no...
New agents!
Mrs. Byrd, wife of the original Mr. Byrd has joined the force. She's a jack of all trades kind of agents, just very weak.
Mr. Muscle, Mr. Reach, and Target. I should buy some ammo for Target.
Another Dagon outpost. We have more beef with them than ever before, so why not.
We're doing really well. One chosen is dead, the other one is unconscious, many klansmen were mowed down by minigun fire. We quickly finished the massacre and went back home just in time to welcome an another batch of fresh rookies:
Ms. Deadwatch lied about her age when enlisting. She's actually an edgy 15 year old who joined X-Com just to spite her parents.
A Red Dawn sailor told us about the cure for cancer. I would expect something more than just fifty points, for that. Fifty points is like a single spikeboar or a frog.
An EGGSALT outpost in Brazil. There are two bosses or whatever right in front of the ramp, but there's also a pond blocking the way, not to mention the army of thugs.
I like when guys are huddled together, just asking for the 'nades, but I hate it when they're unfazed by incendiaries.
Good thing there's always a minigun ready to finish the job.
Walls, especially those with windows, piss me off like nothing else. Let's tear it down with extreme prejudice.
You guys think we went a little overboard with trashing this place? How will we cover this up? Do Brazilian anti-terrorist units blow up entire buildings to get terrorists?
He took a grenade to the face, but ended up with just a single fatal wound. We got him healed up and stimmed, but...
An incendiary grenade hit him in the face again, this time breaking it for good. Mr. Yanush got his minigun going on that grenade launcher guy. This was apparently too much for EGGSALT, and we could finally arrest the four guys who survived.
More moneys. We need to somehow unlock large warehouses, and I hope we can do it this month.
I like where this is going. We can finally start researching alien containment, but let's finish what we've been doing first. One guy working on the light cannon isn't enough.
Since the Ainsley Harriott HQ was equipped with its own Dragonfly, The Big Meat, there's no point in not hiring additional agents. Those guys may become the best there ever were, or they might get killed in the first turn of their service.
I also ordered 5 more nerds for the same base and forced them to work on the medical drone.
Hmm... The spear is very accurate, and when wielded by a strong, capable agent, it can deal a lot of damage. Where's the catch? It's kinetic damage, easily stopped by any armor. The speed is also an issue here.
We recovered this from the EGGSALT outpost, and for some reason we needed a nerd to tell us what it's for. Surprisingly the scientist has a different idea than the EGGSALT goon who was trying to hang himself before we shot him dead. It's not a good weapon. NEXT!
Oh, I don't feel like writing about every detail of this, but I have to raid this ship for money that I love so much.
Killing enemies with melee is the most satisfying thing ever. Every important agent should have a saber on them, even if just as a symbol of status
Mr. Particular somehow survived a direct hit with an RPG. You know, the weapon designed for busting tanks.
Mr. Excitement killed two goons with his CAWS, then Mr. Particular, still wounded, rushed the boss with his saber. Now he's trying to heal the boss so we can arrest him.
The mission went very well. 10 goons surrendered in the end. We got:
-useful Earth weaponry and ammunition
-sample of durathread
-2 alien communicators
-zrbite tank
-sonic pulser
-incinerator
-plasma pistol
-plasma blade
-20 alien navigations
A homicidal soldier told us the reason why he went postal was this. An actual alien terror unit, rarely encountered on monster missions. They're best countered with napalm, if I remember correctly. If we're lucky we'll see those guys on terror missions. If we're unlucky, we'll see cyberdiscs or chrysalids instead.
Thanks to that soldier we have researched a live alien, so now we can theorize about alien lifeforms.
A new outfit for Target! I've never seen it in action, so why not? It doesn't have any offensive capabilities though.
The true mistery behind Ivan is that he's part bigfoot, and that's why he's so blurry on this photo. I'm surprised a mere goon knew about the real identity of one of EGGSALT's top spies, but I'm not complaining.
A single spikeboar in South America. There's a hunter in here for some reason, so we should probably do this mission. Ugh.
I just realized spikeboars are quill rats from Diablo. When we're at it, chupacabras are scavengers and shamblers are abominables.
The first real heavy weapon. It can destroy buildings and heavily armored enemies, but it's extremely heavy and needs a turn to set up with its 90% TU cost.
Hi-Ex, the real deal. As the description suggests, this thing is for destroying buildings with everyone inside. It's the pinnacle of Earth's explosion magic.
Another warehouse raid. Target deployed smoke, because we haven't finished working on the new chassis for him.
We're going in immediately and without lube. One guard killed, one tranquilized, waiting for more.
Target, as a scouting drone, was deployed to scout the warehouse. He was immediately discovered, but that wasn't a problem to him. Breaching shotgun has 75 power and 75% accuracy (150% * Target's 50%), so it's no wonder it just vaporized that guy.
Huh, a fourth guard came out and immediately got whacked with a nightstick. I guess that's done. Again, no interesting loot.
I mean, we've confirmed that Red Dawn is aware of aliens' plans to conquer Earth, and that's not too far from apocalypse. Unless they meant the events of X-Com: Apocalypse, in which case they still have 84 years to prepare, and until that time humanity (at least Megapol) will be using plasma guns, so their AKs will be very much obsolete.
Giant bugs in France. Ms. Attention, that was a civilian! Be careful with that minigun!
Whatever, we got a few live bugs to research.
How can the nerds say the deep ones trace back to the cretaceous period based on a recently killed specimen? There were never simillar creatures discovered, and there's no way they could live for over 65 million years.
Speaking of deep ones, the farmer we just question had the Innsmouth look to him, but it could be because he's British, not because he's part fish.
Colt Commando, a two-handed SMG very similar to MP5 except weaker. It's more of an equivalent to our BlackOps rifles than BlackOps SMGs, but of course we're far beyond even considering using commercially available weapons.
So far we haven't had any trouble with those lads. While certainly better armored than most human enemies we've encountered, a slug from a CAWS kills them reliably.
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Lady, I tell you, better make a note about that and start drawing manga in like eleven years. I bet it will get big for like half a year.
Secret files that were likely in Osirion's possession before we recovered them, contained information of Dagon witches. iZahn?
Then The Big Meat landed in the Mojave desert to shoot two beetles. Yawn.
This is way mor interesting than that SMG that researching Kiryu-Kai unlocked earlier. I assume Kiryu-Kai never managed to make much use of this technology, but we sure will.
Monster terror mission, this times werewolves. This is not blood moon, so I'm not sure if we'll see an alpha. If someone gets brain-tickled we'll know for sure. Fortunately there aren't many large buildings, so this should be straightforward enough.
Here's the alpha. I kinda want to capture it.
Ms. Procedure was bitten. She died next turn, so we won't have a werewolf outbreak on our hand later. The alpha brain-tickled Mr. Grain, causing him to go berserk and shoot at a far-away werewolf. He did manage to hit a few times with his minigun.
Not gonna happen, there were just too many.
Since when are we obeying any regulations, Dr. Vahlen? Next time you're gonna tell me not to use explosives because they destroy alien artifacts. That's why I like Shen more.
He's got a true dwarven spirit inside him - if you can catch it alive, you can breed it, and if you can breed it, you can start exotic meat industry. I say free him and put him in charge of X-Com cafeteria. Can't eat grease burgers everyday, no matter what Guy Fieri says.
A confirmed UFO sighting over the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing we can do about it until it lands.
Great stopping power, but sub-optimal accuracy. Still, once we can get ammo, we'll start fielding them. We can now contact M.A.G.M.A, so let's.
Anthropods are probably the weakest aliens we'll ever encounter. Sectoids have their refractors at least, but anthropods' strength comes from their exotic weaponry that easily cuts through armor.
We already know about further stages of zamboni transformation. There are the ones that turn people into zambonis, and the ones that mow the lawn at 10 a.m on Saturday while sipping Monster.
Another Dagon outpost. Man, the fish Klan really doesn't care for its leaders. Two chosen literally a few steps from the plane as if asking to be arrested. They were shot and are both bleeding; I wonder if Target can save them?
Here we go! He's still overstunnedbecause we hit him with a tranq dart earlier, so he'll probably die anyway. On the other hand, Target is surrounded by angry green klansmen.
Done.
Good ol' PPSh. By good I mean bad. Its accuracy is atrocious compared to every bigger SMG other than Sten.
A big iron with decent stats. There's one problem - to unlock it you need non-standard weapons. Unlocking non-standard weapons unlocks magnum. Magnum is in most ways superior to this.
Next is an EGGSALT safehouse in the Rockies. At least we've landed reasonably close.
Miniguns are my favorite weapons now. Mr. Grain kicked the door open and mowed down those two poor chumps.
The mission wans't pleasant, but there were no casualties on our side. Some people got hurt badly, but that's all.
Arasaka this isn't, but it gets a bonus damage from accuracy too. I may be spoiled, but I expect my precision rifles to have accurate snap shot.
People in Africa have enough hiding from monsters. What they don't know that when they kill a monster they become monsters, so the total number of monsters doesn't change. Or something like that. What I'm saying is, if batman killed Joker AND the Penguin, there would still be one less murderer in Gotham.
We arrived at night. At least there doesn't seem to be a lot of monsters. I forgot about flashlights, but I had a good replacement:
IncendiaaaAAAH, special spiders! Fine, let's see what we can do. Catching a spider queen is actually a prequisite for a big plotline, unless that was changed.
The red spiders are nice enough to lighten up the jungle for us. Conveniently, they helped us to find one of the queens.
Ms. Consulate and Mr. Excitement got spit on by a red spider. Panicking, Ms. consulate unloaded at the spider queen and killed her. Too bad Target's fire extinguisher has such short range. I could really use it right now.
The second queen was taken down by Ms. Attention and her minigun.
Target to the rescue! He saved the agents' lives, but put them to sleep.
MS. GIGANTISM! MR. TOUCHABLE! Ms. Attention avenged them the very next turn.
At least Target , the real MVP, survived. We haven't got a live queen, just 4 corpses.
Nobody who remembers the infamous soul harvest is alive. Rip in pantyhose.
https://i.imgur.com/pUU5QYZ.pngDo I feel like we're doing well? Hell yeah, we have over 6 million on our account.
This gun is more auto-fire focuse than the assault LMG. I'm still not convinced I need this.
It's worse, heavier cousin. 'nuff said.
Didn't raising T'leth and awakening the Ultimate Alien require alien embryos or something? I really think aquatoids don't need any help from the surface other than maybe a few wombs. W-wait, fish/klansman mpreg? I swear I've seen something like that on DeviantArt once. Also, I wanna die for even thinking about it.
I evidently need some sleep, so let's end it here for now.
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