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4 (26.7%)

Antartica/Hawaii/Austrailia

8 (53.3%)

Total Members Voted: 15

Voting closed: December 06, 2011, 04:17:16 am

[Pray_for_Snow]

Hey everyone. I really loved playing the X-COM series in my childhood. I know many people my age, and especially those younger, never got the chance to play this wonderful game, the one which started the series. I see that there is an X-COM: Apocalypse LP here, and while I wish the LP'er good luck, I still think that the first game is much better. The second, X-COM: Terror From the Deep, is the best of the series, but I'd rather not play it due to it being infinitely harder than the first game, meaning I've never beaten it.

Anyways, this LP will be entirely screenshot based, with recaps included. Also, followers can and should offer input to the game. Whenever I end a month in X-COM, I will prompt the thread-watchers with various things in a poll: Research options, building ideas, and equipment for squads. But most importantly..... I am letting you all name soldiers after yourselves! So, you, Urist McWatcher, you can name a character in this game to your choosing and watch them get gunned down by plasma fire! If your character does die, I will be naming their replacement after your now deceased character (I like to think of this as imperfect cloning, as the stat gains are lost, and new stats are generated for your replacement; even gender and race might change!).

My next post will have more details on everything, including items, locations for our base, beginning research, and applications for character slots. Currently, the game gives you eight soldiers, and I will not hire any more than that until other people begin applying or until I build up enough extra money to spend it anywhere I want.

This is Pray_for_Snow, signing off for now.


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

For Newbs and those looking to sign up.

[Untouchable]

Name: Big McLargeHuge
Age: Unknown
Gender: Male


Personality: Your generic 80's action hero type of guy, he's here to kick ass and chew bubblegum and he's severely lacking in bubblegum.

Weapons: Auto Cannon for me. It's the manliest thing that he can use.

[Pray_for_Snow]

Spoiler: This is where I reply to all the posts inbetween updates (click to show/hide)

Untouchable: Sure, I can add you in. This post here has details for all the items and other things needed to create a character.

Okay, there will be a huge amount of photographs in these posts. Hopefully I don't break some limit. The post will be segmented into sections.

Spoiler: Base Information and GEOSCAPE Map (click to show/hide)

GEOSCAPE Map: This is where we interact with UFOs and mission areas. Pick a location for our first base to be located. It will have to have some land around it, as to detect UFOs on radar. Pick by continent.


Example of a base: This is how bases look when starting the game. It is difficult to see which module is which without any info, but I name them all, which should be enough.

From top to bottom, left to right: HANGAR, ACCESS LIFT, LIVING QUARTERS, SMALL RADAR ARRAY, GENERAL STORES, LABORATORY, WORKSHOP, HANGAR, HANGAR.

Base information screen: gives you basic info about the base, mainly resources available and used, such as living space, storage space, hangar space, laboratory space, workshop space, and radar arrays, both large and small.


Monthly Costs: These are the costs of the entire X-COM Operation. They will go up very quickly.


Item stocks:
3[THREE] STINGRAY LAUNCHER & 37[THIRTY-SEVEN] STINGRAY MISSILES
1[ONE] AVALANCHE LAUNCHER & 10[TEN] AVALANCHE MISSILES
4[FOUR] CANNONS & 9[NINE] 50xCANNON ROUNDS
5[FIVE] PISTOLS & 13[THIRTEEN] PISTOL CLIPS
8[EIGHT] RIFLES & 20[TWENTY] RIFLE CLIPS
2[TWO] HEAVY CANNON & 8[EIGHT] HC-AP AMMO & 1[ONE] HC-HE AMMO
1[ONE] AUTO CANNON & 6[SIX[ AC-AP AMMO
1[ONE] ROCKET LAUNCHER & 4[FOUR] SMALL ROCKETS
13[THIRTEEN] GRENADES
5[FIVE] SMOKE GRENADES

Spoiler: Craft and Soldiers (click to show/hide)

Squad Embarkation Screen [for SKYRANGER ONE]:


Squad Equipment Screen [for SKYRANGER ONE]:


Craft Equipment Screen [for INTERCEPTOR ONE]:


Example of a Soldier's Info Screen [for GERHARD ULBRICHT (will not appear in real LP, used as demonstration)]: The stats listed will be explained on the first battle.


Possible research available at this time: Laser Weapons allows research into the Laser Pistol, Motion Scanner is a tool to detect movement between X-COM turns during battle, and Meki-Kit will stop soldiers from bleeding to death, wake them up, or help them overcome low morale.

Spoiler: Miscellaneous Information (AKA UFOPaedia) (click to show/hide)

Starting Aircraft and Equipment:


Starting Weapons and Equipment:


Starting Facilities:


TAAAAAAAAAAAANK! These take up four spaces on a craft, meaning that each tank costs four soldiers per mission. They are mroe expensive than soldiers, but losing one will not cause you to lose soldier growth.

Those of you wishing to make a character, Give a name, equipment, and some background on hem. When choosing weapons with multiple ammo sources, please specify. If you pick too much and can't carry it all unencumbered, TOO BAD. You should tell me if it bugs you, otherwise I will not change your loadout.

[hexedmagica]

Woo! Another X-Com LP!

Name: Hexedy
Weapon: Any form of rifle.
Personality: An ambitious, misanthropic young man who is almost always angry at everyone, but most especially at himself.

[Kilroy the Grand]

Sir Hatsworth the XV, esquire
Weapon: small blasters, or grenades, those are the only two options
Personality:Low bravery, but high move.

[Itnetlolor]

"Roamin'" Roman Howard
Weapon: Sidearms (pistols) and stun weapons
Bio: When signing up to be part of the crew for a space station funded by Nanotrasen, his application got mixed up with an extraterrestrial extermination force. "This doesn't seem right." he says to himself as he is not boarded onto an experimental space station, but instead an underground base. The layout doesn't seem too different from what he initially expected since they're structured somewhat similarly. He does what he could to cope with the fact that he's at the wrong place.

[Pray_for_Snow]

Thanks for all the replies. If Antarctica/Hawaii/Australia wins by doube the votes, I will build the base in Hawaii, the worst location in the game.

[Julius Clonkus]

So I just saw a new X-Com Let's play! and thought why the hell not.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Nixios Vern
Weapon: Pistol -> Laspistol -> Plasma Pistol, other equipment your choice
Personality: A horrendously xenophobic man who loathes the display of fear on the battlefield. Frequently gets into trouble with the quartermaster for trying to wield a chainsaw like a sword. Also hates being mistaken for persons who happen to look very much like him.
History: Not much is known about him. He was put forward by the council of funding nations and for some reason they've been pretty insistent on him being added to the roster, though they did not state why.

Also, I approve of a Hawaii Base.

[Jacob/Lee]

Name: Stone Cold
Weapons: Any rifle, preferably laser when we get them because lasers are cool.
Bio: an ex-space station captain, Stone Cold went job hunting. After a job as an assassin that sunk rather quickly, he went to try and get a job at the new anti-alien organization X-COM...

[Mysteriousbluepuppet]

Oh another of thos,e give me 5 min to pull back my old char

[Heron TSG]

Name: Don Jean Crasher
Loadout: A Stun rod and some electroflares, maybe a side-arm if you're a chicken. 
Bio: A man who has time-traveled from the post-apocalyptic future where taserswords are the norm and crocodiles live in houses.

[Mysteriousbluepuppet]

Name: Ackam Babaganoush

Weapon : Some rifle-y weapons.

Bio: A young man from a VERY large family, he decided to try and join X-Com to protect hte earth from those DAMN DIRTY APE ALIENS

[Pray_for_Snow]

I will close off the voting at 15 votes or Monday night.



ALSO: Pick a name for the base.

[Jacob/Lee]

Boatmurdered.

[Elfeater]

Alright

Name: (Shocker) Max Yeskly
Bio: A short bearded, drunken man, enjoys fighting, he likes cats for their aggression.
Weapon: Rifles, preferably lazor.
Picture: Use mah profile pic