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[cganya]

Do I LOOK like the type of guy that would sell an autocannon? I thought not.

Judging by how many rounds it took to take down those aliens, pistols just won't be cutting it soon enough. 

actually pistols contributed 3 of 7 kills on my last mission. I'm not selling the only one hand ranged weapon available at this point

[zchris13]

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this is how you want one of your soldiers to be . Trust me. Drop pistols until the laser pistol.

Also, plasma pistols are worthless, so is heavy laser, and for more reasons than one, it's not as simple as I would suggest. 
Anything without autofire or explosiony goodness is a waste of my time, and your time, if you know what's good for you.

[Heron TSG]

How are heavy lasers bad? They can one-shot reapers most of the time.

[cganya]

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this is how you want one of your soldiers to be . Trust me. Drop pistols until the laser pistol.

Also, plasma pistols are worthless, so is heavy laser, and for more reasons than one, it's not as simple as I would suggest. 
Anything without autofire or explosiony goodness is a waste of my time, and your time, if you know what's good for you.

you know, to start off. THIS IS MY PLAY THROUGH. i'm not going to adhere to your every suggestion and direction.

if you had read through this topic you would have noticed that i am playing with a mod that rebalenced a few weapons such as the pistol, and the heavy laser.

i will not employ an arms master who orders me around and insults my intelligence

[cganya]

OK like last time, i posted my notes, this is a good "TL DR" i suppose but it also stirs up interest while i slowly type out a convincing and not horrible (but still not terribly good) story to go with it. combat did not go so well this time and a few of you did not get your "time to shine". i have a full roster of redshirts waiting to be renamed before the next skyranger is sent out. there is not enough room for those who lost soldiers to join in this time but you'll be in reserve in case this is a repeat.

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the next morning another small ufo appeared over the southern states, we sent an interceptor but it only landed 1 solid salvo, immediately after I dispatched

the second interceptor but it landed before it was intercepted, i sent in the skyranger hoping to get to it before it took off again

finished constructing the additional small radar facility

the skyranger landed right next to the ufo, the team hoped that this mission would go as well as the last

The tank moved out of the skyranger

Spartan deployed a smoke cover

as the soldiers moved out of the skyranger shots came out of the darkness towards the tank

Spartan tossed a flare into the orchard just out of the tank's lights. revealing an alien

Hugh Mann took his chance and fired at the alien, taking it down with his second shot

As myroc stepped out of the skyranger, green blasts came at him from around the ufo. a flare was thorwn near it and it revealed another alien and that the ufo was larger than the last one

Cerapa decided not to take any chances and covered the area in explosive rounds

Disaster struck as shots came at the team from behind, taking out razorwire

Mr. Apples throws a flare into the field next to the nearby farm house, revealing the ambusher!

Mr. Apples takes a shot but RAM 1 guns down the alien in a rage.

Spartan takes the flare razorwire had prepped to throw, begrudgingly, the team needed the light.

The tank moved towards the alien ambusher and spotted another in the farm house

Tamunshin stepped up and fired a high explosive cannon round at the house, trying unsuccessfully to take out the alien's cover

Hugh man grabbed his grenade and threw it at the window next to the alien

Steve moved to cover the left side of the ufo and spotted another alien, firing towards him

He gripped the trigger and gunned down the alien with surprising accuracy

glowing green shots flew towards myroc and steve, one hits steve squarly in the shoulder and throat, taking him down

the order was given and the tank fired on the farm house to dislodge the cover

Cerapa, pissed, gun downed the alien with his auto cannon

Myroc picked up the flare and threw it past the ufo, it landed in another orchard, revealing another alien, he opened fire, hit it but failed to take it down

meanwhile, h barbarossa, ram 1 and mr apples breached the ufo

the alien gets a solid shot at myroc, downing him instantly

Hugh mann moves through the smoke and lines up a shot "you son of a bitch!" he takes down the alien and checks myroc for life signs

Spartan tosses a proximity grenade towards the ufo on request from h barbarossa

Hugh man finds that myroc is unconscious (actually dead but status pending based on continuity of other x-com LP. myroc and warhammer i need to know if we care about continuity between authors, keep in mind if I'm not sick of x-com by the time i take out mars, i will continue to TFTD myself), he looks up as he see's movement in the orchard again, he quickly takes cover around the ufo

h barbarossa arms and tosses the proximity grenade next to the left door as he and the others set up to breach the next room on the right

cerapa moved on alone to secure the south, grabbing a flare to help light the area behind the hedges

On either side of the door, mr apples and ram 1 ambushed an alien as it came through the door, filling it with pistol round until it fell to the ground

Tamunshin decided to take cover on the second floor of the farm house

Hugh Mann peaked around the corner and spotted the movement again, it was the gray man he had just shot down, it was wounded but alive.

He decided to take it down while he had the chance (it had no weapons) so he could circle back and support the rest of the team

Mr apples breached the door and spotted an alien at the far side of the ufo

He had caught the alien off guard, took aim with his pistol and shot the alien in the face

Mr Apples finds what looks to be an intact power source for the ufo

The team searched the area and could find no more aliens, they called in the clean up crew and mourned their losses.

As a team member goes to recover myroc they find him breathing but unconscious, the shot connected at his hip but the damage had spread to his back

back in the geoscape i purchased a couple of cannons, ammo and more flares and prepared for a difficult task

Purchased more avalanche missiles and recruited more soldiers

medkit research completed, production started

Living quarters completed (sun 17th)

research completed on jan 19th started research on laser pistol

23rd of jan, not enough money to produce med kit, sought ways to increase funds

auctioned in private, 10 sectoid corpses, mind probe, and one of each plasma weapon and clip

also sold 2 med kits and the spare avalanche missile launchers, found med kits have a good turn around profit

recruited 10 more engineers to facilitate med kit production and ordered for more med kits to be produced

jan 24th, laser pistol developed, ready for production, held off for now in lue of producing some med kits to show and offer to the funding nations

started research on laser rifles, prototypes look promising

UFO 5 detected, small, 1800kt/s, heading south east out of northern Canada

intercepted north of Florida, mac dodged it's plasma based weapons and managed to damage the ufo but it managed to speed away at 2700kt/s

mac chased ufo up to the Yukon (Canada) and re-engaged, taking heavy damage but managing to down the ufo

i decide to wait until sun up to engage

also i need to know if you really care if your soldier is male/ female. i cant work miracles (especially with how little cash i have to work with right now) but i can at least try to not hurt your sensibilities.

i have researched laser pistols, i'm going to research rifles but what should i research after that? i vote personal armor

[Frelock]

I'd either vote for that, or heavy plasma if you've got one to examine (mainly because heavy plasma=>PLASMA CANNON!!).

[Archangel]

Well, I'd much prefer it if Archangel was male, especially as I envision him as a him of the big, strong, silent type.

[Myroc]

>_O

[RAM]

And here I was trying to plan out RAM 2 when it turns out I actually took out 1 and 1/2 aliens... Now that I'm a hero I don't want to die anymore, still, at least it will be suitably cinematic when it happens.

I was perfectly happy with the pictures as they were.

Yeah, personal armour, it is a pain to be weighed down like that, but without it you don't really have any alternative to 'explode into gore'...

[cganya]

>_O

it is a sad fact of this game that even your favorite soldiers will die. feel free to request another dood though or like i said earlier, some other x-com personnel. maybe you could help the scientists out since your one of the first ever survivors of the alien weapons

[chaoticag]

Hmmm. I don't mind if Norman turns out female, in that case, she would be Ashely instead. Same backstory and everything, I believe a woman has every right to be like a man. Very brave and very dead.

[cganya]

Hmmm. I don't mind if Norman turns out female, in that case, she would be Ashely instead. Same backstory and everything, I believe a woman has every right to be like a man. Very brave and very dead.

thank you, since you stepped up first, you get a soldier with some very nice stats, who just happens to be female (seriously, i bought 8 soldiers and 3-5 of them are female)

[warhammer651]

Quote from: Myroc on Today at 06:45:26 AM
>_O

it is a sad fact of this game that even your favorite soldiers will die. feel free to request another dood though or like i said earlier, some other x-com personnel. maybe you could help the scientists out since your one of the first ever survivors of the alien weapons

and you still get to drive the tank. Thouh it could use more dakka

[cganya]

Quote from: Myroc on Today at 06:45:26 AM
>_O

it is a sad fact of this game that even your favorite soldiers will die. feel free to request another dood though or like i said earlier, some other x-com personnel. maybe you could help the scientists out since your one of the first ever survivors of the alien weapons

and you still get to drive the tank. Thouh it could use more dakka

we have a tank driver already but soon we will have another sky ranger and will need a second one.

[Myroc]

Quote from: Myroc on Today at 06:45:26 AM
>_O

it is a sad fact of this game that even your favorite soldiers will die. feel free to request another dood though or like i said earlier, some other x-com personnel. maybe you could help the scientists out since your one of the first ever survivors of the alien weapons

and you still get to drive the tank. Thouh it could use more dakka

we have a tank driver already but soon we will have another sky ranger and will need a second one.

I'm gonna wait until anya finishes the "story" update. Then I'll continue with some story fluff and additional signups.