So, I was playing Terror from the Deep. I was doing fantastic, shot down and destroyed a couple UFOs, had a couple extremely successful Terror missions (single digit casualties, civvie AND soldiers COMBINED) then suddenly something happens. I still have a single base, and I get this message:
An alien craft has touched down near your base.
Oh fuck.
Do I have proximity grenades? Yes, yes I do. (First thing I buy everyone round, I buy about six of them.) All my 13 or so soldiers have either a proximity grenade and a gauss pistol, or a sonic pulsar, a high explosive, and a harpoon gun (Manufacturing on gauss weaponry was slow in getting started.).
First turn begins, my men are scattered throughout the base. One guy moves, sees an alien in the Living quarters that is quite unfortunately still connected to the airlock/sub pens, and kills the alien. We toss a prox. grenade in there and back off, but one guy is inbetween the airlock and living quarters. He gets ganked by several aquatoids at the end of their turn.
Second turn, I've started stacking my soldiers up in the passageways leading into the base proper. Two chokepoints, one in the airlock, where I hide two soldiers, one with a gas cannon loaded with AP rounds, the other with a harpoon gun and grenades. The living quarters I had two soldiers with gauss pistols and prox. grenades, as well as a couple soldiers that came from the armory.
Deeper inside the base, I set up a final strongpoint in the radar station with my Lieutenant, who was wielding a gas cannon, flanked by two men with proximity grenades and gauss pistols.
The aliens stormed in, in pairs and trios, mostly aquatoids but a few calcinites as well. Most of them died to proximity grenades and other tossed explosives. One or two passed the optimal grenade range, so we shot them to death with extreme prejudice. Finally I defeated them completely, with (drumroll) a SINGLE LOSS. ONE.
Terror From the Deep