"An' here we go again on our own
Goin' down the only road we've ever known
Like a drifter we were born to die alone"
Sung to the tune of Whitesnake, of course. Thanks for all the replies and no worries, I'm sure there will be openings for all the new hopeful recruits in the (near) future! :D
Considering difficulty and alien-races: I've only encountered Aquatoids and Gillmen (and their terror-mates) and you've all seen how badly I've been raped. And this is still only 3) Veteran - there's TWO harder difficulty levels to explore.
Re: guys close together - I do it so that when I spot an alien, I can take it down. Since they require several hits. On the other hand, it does cause bad casualties. So, now that I have sonic blasters, no more tight groups!
Finally: the night missions are completely insane. Aliens can see perfectly well during either night or day so they have an enormous advantage over humans. Oh well, hopefully I can stick to daylight missions from now.
Enough excuses, let the battle continue!
Machine Spirit is sent to scout ahead since he's so good at it.
Moving south, he spots an Gillman but misses the snapshot. DUH! Alien just parade around, so he moves bit closer until second alien is spotted, as well as the spit. And when Machine Spirit misses the aimed shot, the obvious happens.
Yeah. One hit from that sonic cannon or whatever it is that the Gillman carries. Lovely. Time for grunts to earn their pay.
Hory takes instant revenge for Machine Spirit.
InsanePsychic tries to shoot too but misses the Gillman who gets pissy and shoots back, though in a strange twist of fate, it hits Hory instead! Whoa, talk about a short service. Thanks anyway Hory, atleast you took one of the nasty buggers with you.
Brave Sovy Kurosei steps over Horys still warm corpse and with steady hands pops the bastard away:
Team spreads around and starts to flank the USO. Four turns pass in exciting silence. Then a Gillman pops out of shadows, takes a potshot at TheVeryBigSlayer, misses, TVBS shoots back but unfortunately misses too. Alien steps back into shadows but our hero won't give up so easily! He takes a step forward, sees the hostile AND POPS ITS DISGUSTING HEAD OPEN! FUCK YEAH! Gotta love these new guns!
Sovy Kurosei and Mahdi take a peek through the broken hull and see two corpses. With the three other aliens killed, it means that there's probably only one left.
And the foolish soon-to-be-fish-food reveals itself! It's hiding inside the USO.
Sovy Kurosei is pointman, so he lobs a 'nade inside and YES it's exactly next to the Gillman. Hopefully there'll be an awfully nice explosion soon.
(Pulsar grenade is at cursor location. Alien is next to it, most likely)
Oh bollocks. The grenade goes off but the frigging bastard is STILL walking inside. Oh well, Hanoverf will repeat the trick.
Yeah, take it and weep, bugface! Second pulsar did the trick:
I order replacement for Hory and 10 more scientists. Now we just need more successful USO-missions to offset Port Said and all would be good. I decide not to use tanks anymore since they are pretty expensive, take the space of four troopers and obviously are no longer a match for the gooks.
More research, soon we'll get sonic cannons into use!
Our new recruits arrive:
And last but not least, one surprising recruit, who will hopefully give us good information about the aliens and their intentions:
I must be doing pretty good if Aquatoid switches sides!
More research:
Yes, I got 3 of these babies. They are instantly transferred to Triton. 11 guys with Blastas and 3 with Cannons. No more Mr.Nice Guy!
Finally a sonar contact!
I send both Barracuda's to hunt it, which turns out to be a good call since Barracuda-1 can't down it even after expending all of its missiles and rockets. Barracuda-2 does the job though.
And here we go again!