Completed Let's play Fallout Tactics (Completed & Repaired)

[spekkio]

Lette moves south

Phoenix and Monkey move east

Phoenix finds some .50 ammo in the chest. She continues north into the next building

Some camping mutant shots her, but only for minor damage. Phoenix shoots back:

Bro, Wolf and root follow Lette, moving to the ground level

Lette takes out the rpg-holding mutant

root and Wolf board Scouter and go back to the previous area near the 2nd generator.
They continue SE, reaching the area where Phoenix and Monkey are. The road is blocked by barricades:

Two guards can be seen in the nearby building

Bro and Lette reach the entrance to the final part of the map

root drives south, Phoenix replaces Wolf and switches equipment

Besides, there's still that small lingering regret that comes from every Super Mutant I kill with bullets rather than fire

It's time to burn some mutants! root drives back north, Phoenix kills 1st mutant (with bullet, sadly)

2nd mutant fucks up our ride p. bad

Phoenix cripples him, he moves closer, Phoenix shoots him once more but fucker is still standing!

Wolf and Monkey miss him, he does not.
root and Phoenix use their ninja skills to escape Scouter before it blows up

And I was hoping for two smoking casualties...



Phoenix purifies the mutant with fire:

Scouter can't be used any more, but we can still access its trunk

Phoenix collects over 200 .50 ammo and finds new armor in one of the buildings to the north

She continues north, revealing another mutant

Wolf, Monkey and root join Bro and Lette

Lette equips Environmental Armour

Bur since it decreases Sneak greatly

She switches it for Bro's Metal Armour Mk. 2

It's time to continue north using Lette and Phoenix.
Lette goes first and takes out 1st mutant

Phoenix joins her, finds and engages another enemy

Lette kills him

And tries to loot his corpse. Another enemy is there:

Lette pops out and... holy fuck!

Yeah, I was even able to use Overwatch mode (by accident, but still...)



I end battle, but another mutant shows up!

I sense Charlotte's spirit in this girl!

Lette moves north. Two mutants are guarding this area:

Lette waits till they move closer and attacks

They were guarding a door leading to the final building

Let's check the rest of this area before moving inside.
Lette moves close to the 3rd generator, Phoenix covers her.

There's another Enviro Armour in the chest. Wolf joins our strike team, equips new armour and heals Phoenix

Phoenix carefully opens the door leading to the generator and blows it up

The nearby gate is now open. Our cowardly boys join our brave girls.

Lette moves through the gate but is detected by the mutant commander

After clicking "Done" button, Lette's killer instinct kicks in:

Oops...

Bro and Lette move inside the final building. It looks quite similar to General Discussion IMO:

Lette speaks with the scientist:

She continues to the 1st floor, loots the area and blows up the final generator:

Lette goes back to the ground level and finds another non-hostile mutant

It's probably time to ask you what should we do with the mutants - kill them or spare them. Right?

Right...

Knowing you, that would be a total waste of time:

:D

Lette moves downstairs

Nothing of great interest there, except some chest

We should try to access this area from the other side. All units except Bro go back to the Scouter

Wolf and Lette take some Rad-X and Rad-Aways with them

The entrance to the underground passage is (still) guarded

Lette takes out the guard

Fucker got 120 .50 ammo!
Wolf goes underground

And opens the chest

Lette joins her. Since this area is broken (it's very hard to go back to the surface using the entrance), they have to move all the way to the laboratory

Lette got radiated a little, but not serious

Alright. It's time to leave this place.
Bro positions himself on the exit grid, other units dump everything into his inventory

We take everything from Scouter's trunk and move onto the exit grid.
Mission Ends.

General Dekker

Good work Brother.

It seems the scribes were mistaken. The mutants were conducting research on irradiated DNA and not manufacturing weapons at this location. But, you did the right thing by completing your objectives and destroying their power generators. There is an old Brotherhood saying, "Better to err on the side of caution". This is war, and they are the enemy.

Further reports indicate that our maneuver was successful. The mutants are pulling out of the area in droves with the main force divided into four separate groups, each heading in a different direction.

Two of the smaller groups seem to have an erratic course, quite possibly a decoy tactic. Of the remaining large groups, one is traveling deep into the wasteland, while the other seems to be heading towards a small town.

We will have to investigate both.

What I do not understand is why you chose to destroy the mutants' laboratory equipment. The research towards the problem of mutant sterility could have proven to be a strong bargaining chip in our dealings with the mutant army. Repo Squad has been analyzing what is left of the wreckage, but preliminary reports have so far been worthless. In the future, you might consider putting the Brotherhood's needs ahead of your destructive impulses.

Dismissed!

Goddamned fucker: a leftist and probably a muslim too!

We go back to the Bunker Gamma.
No new recruits in the RC so Ashery and marooned will have to wait...

Bro sells all unnecessary stuff and buys one Environmental Armour Mk. 2 for himself

And some fuel for Phoenix's flamer

Monkey equips Enviro Amour. root, Phoenix and Lette equip Metal Armours Mk. 2.

It's time to hit the road again...

Oh, and sorry about the images in three previous updates being very big size-wise (~500 KB).
It seems that I botched ACDSee's JPG-convertion options somewhere in the past.
I was probably resizing and converting some high-quality porn images, you have to excuse me, BROs...

 

[marooned]

I see you're (over)enjoying that M2, aren't you?

Good work.

One of the stupid things about destroying the retarded mutant lab is that it also lowers your reputation. WTF??

 

[hoverdog]

no deaths?

 

[lightbane]

Oh well, there goes my mutant recruit...

 

[Undead Phoenix]

 

[spekkio]

Oh well, there goes my mutant recruit...

They will probably show up in RC no matter what we do during the campaign...
The Hivemind will decide whether we're going to accept these impure creatures in our ranks or not.

 

[Ulminati]

The Hivemind will decide whether we're going to accept these impure creatures in our ranks or not.

Was there ever any doubt?

 

[spekkio]

Continue the good fight, bro.

Found a good read about Sacrifice.

 

[lightbane]

I found that article some time ago. Tl dr, it tells that games like that cannot exist anymore, games like Sacrifice, Messiah, MDK 1, Evolva, Heart of Darkness and other games with original settings/ideas/etc are too strange and complicated for the mainstream mass of consoletards, but that's something you already know


Also, I vote for allowing mutant recruits, it's better to use their strength than executing them and they'll die sooner or later anyways, so it's a win/win situation.

 

[Ulminati]

Purge the mutants.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Oooh yeah, Kansas City!

Can I get a Halle-Neutron?!?

*grabs the popcorn and Nuka-Cola*

 

[spekkio]

With only two BG specialists in the team it's gonna be piece of cake for sure...

 

[spekkio]

One of the stupid things about destroying the retarded mutant lab is that it also lowers your reputation. WTF??

Yeah, Bro went from "Shield of Hope" to "Sword of Despair". But I think it was worth it.

Mission 11 - Kansas City

General Dekker

At ease Brother.

Scouts have followed one of the fleeing mutant groups to Kansas City. As we suspected, we have discovered another mutant base. But, an assault on this compound will have to wait, for our scouts have made quite a discovery.

One of our scouts stumbled upon the ghoul town of Gravestone. What little is known about the town suggests that it was a major nuclear launch site before the war. The peaceful ghoul population, which resides there, are suspected to be directly descended from the original silo staff.

They are seeking our help due to Super Mutant attacks. These attacks mean the Super Mutants are after something the ghouls have. This leads us to believe that "something" might be an intact nuclear bomb. I shudder to think what the Super Mutants would do with such a destructive device.

You will go to Gravestone and talk with the ghoul Bishop. Assure him that we will defend him and his town in exchange for the very bomb coveted by the Mutants. An attack is imminent and it will take some time to get enough squads to fully safeguard the town. Your squad must hold off the mutants until Smear and Shadow Squads arrive. Protect the ghouls of Gravestone and don't let the Bishop die. His knowledge of the nuke will be all we have. We will send Repo Squad to collect the Nuke when the Bishop consents.

The Quarter-Master will supply you with some Rad-X and Rad-Away. We advise you to monitor your radiation levels at regular intervals.

Dismissed.

We should start by entering combat mode right away.

There are three gates to the "city": northern, western and southern one.
The northern one is mined and well guarded, so ghouls should manage to guard it on their own.
The western gate requires some BG specialist and a sniper backup. Phoenix, Bro and Monkey should guard it (1st group).
The southern gate is where most of the action will be taking place. Lette, root and Wolf should go there (2nd group).
And it's about time for them to do so:

2nd group moves SE, 1st group prepares to give the muties approaching from West a warm welcome. There are at least 5 of them ATM:

Three of them are melee units. Bro and Monkey attack the 4th one - he's holding a MG.

We receive some fire support from the ghouls (computer turn takes forever at the start of this mission).
Phoenix waits for enemies to move closer and opens fire:

Too bad that she can only shoot once...



Bro and Monkey continue shooting the mutant holding the MG. 2nd group continues south:

Ghouls manage to kill 2nd mutant (and shot Phoenix in the back). Another melee units show up to the west.
Phoenix reduces mutant numbers:

Bro kills 4th mutant, Monkey attacks the one that showed up

Ghouls manage to shot Phoenix again. 6th enemy shows up. Phoenix shoots him, Monkey kills the 5th one:

2nd group is ALMOST there!

They show up at the gate just in time to witness some mutant killing two poor ghouls:

Phoenix kills 6th mutant

Two more show up. Bro and Monkey attack the one with the gun.

Lette targets the rapist, but he is too far away

She moves closer and... OMFG!

There are at least 16 of them in this area!



Lette makes it 15 (7th kill):

root and Wolf start shooting too. Another three mutants show up to the west. All melee mutants in the southern area rush in.

Poor ghoul bastard to the east probably isn't gonna make it. Still, to avoid friendly casualties, Lette moves south and shoots other mutants, killing one of them (8th kill):

Wolf KOs another one

Maybe this ghoul will survive?
Bro and Monkey keep shooting their victim

Phoenix cannot hit enemies due to 0% accuracy. But since they're in range, why don't we use the burst bug against them?

The brave ghoul survives enemy turn. Three mutants move close to Lette. Bad idea (kills #9-11):

Lette targets another mutant with 0% accuracy and voila:

root takes out the mutant standing close to the ghoul (#12)

Wolf kills another one thanks to critical (#13)

Phoenix attacks the large group of enemies, Bro finishes off one of them (#14)

It's time for Computer Turn. One of the eastern ghouls rushes forward

One of the southern ones shots Lette in the back, killing one of the mutants.

Lette kills another two enemies (#15-16)

Wolf kills the remaining one (#17)

1st group shoots all four mutants but without a single kill

Luckily ghouls deliver some kills during their turn.

We receive over 3800 EXP, all units level up.
It's a Perk Time!



We should invest into our Action Points this time.

Bro picks up Action Boy (obvious reason: two shots and reload in one turn)

Increases Barter and SG

Wolf picks up Action Boy, increases SG

Monkey chooses BRD (he already has 10 APs), increases EW

root picks up Action Boy, invests into First Aid and EW

Phoenix picks up Action Boy too, increases BG up to 133%. Going even further costs 3 SPs, so it's probably not worth it. She increases Throwing and Lockpick

Lette picks up BRD (10 AP already), increases BG

Enjoy your new perks, fuckers. Some of you won't see the next ones probably...



We should continue our Holy War!
Bro kills enemy #18

Phoenix shoots another two, killing one of them (#19) and hurting the ghoul

Monkey shoots the remaining conscious one

Meanwhile to the south: four mutants keep a distance. Do they think this will save them? Not with us having two snipers:

The conscious mutant kills the ghoul, Phoenix punishes him for that (#20).
Bro kills the unconscious one (#21), we receive another experience bonus:

Two more enemies visible to the east:

We should end our business to the south before venturing there.
Ghouls take out one of the four mutants, Lette kills another one (#22).

Wolf moves east, attacks visible mutant, another one shows up

Lette moves east to help Wolf, root moves south (one of the mutant hid himself).

Wolf kills her victim (#23)

She shoots the other mutant using Charlotte's shotgun. Lette finishes the job (#24):

Wolf spots another mutant to the east and moves in his direction

root and Lette rape the only mutant visible to the south, ghouls end him, and his friend as well.

1st objective completed

Another mutant shows up to the west

We have also one to the east (Wolf is sneaking up on him) and some more hiding to the south.

Our team and the ghouls killed ~30 supermutants so far. And we've lost only three ghouls!



See you next time!

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Oh yeah!

I usually had one squad member posted at the north gate, but made sure it was the fastest one, so (s)he could join up with the west gate defence when the stragglers were dead.

If you want, take the time to search this map thoroughly, there's loads of stuff to be found.

 

[spekkio]

Take the time to search this map thoroughly, there's loads of stuff to be found.

But of course, we haven't got any casualties yet...

 

[Azira]

Yet..

 

[Scream Phoenix]

Why didn't you pick colors for your squadmates names.

Half of the fun in FT was putting <Cr>, <Co>, <Cy>, <Cg>, <Cb>, <Cv> before the names and roleplaying your squad as some sort of rainbow-themed gay liberation team

 

[spekkio]

One mutant in range. Phoenix softens him up:

Ghouls finish him off during computer turn. Bro and Monkey move west:

They have two stationary enemies to take care of

root moves SW, finding one of the commanders

Wolf and Lette move east - their target is the mutant from before (east)

Phoenix sneaks to the west

Bro attacks 1st mutant (equipped with M2 Browning)

Monkey shoots the other one (RL specialist)

Another mutant shows up NW

Since his previous target went into hiding, root picks up another one

Monkey gets shot! (god-damned burst bug - Bro was probably a target). He heals and shoots back

Bro hits the other one, Phoenix continues north, finds another mutant

Lette and Wolf prepare an ambush

All root's targets are hiding. He bravely crawls south.

During enemy turn Monkey gets hit by a rocket, Phoenix is detected and shot too

Monkey heals and retreats, Phoenix shoots her enemy once and retreats too. She has to be very careful...

Lette is ready to kill. Let's hope the enemy won't find her during his turn...

root spots an enemy commander again and blinds him

Enemy turn - nothing happens

Lette joins the fun

Phoenix heals herself. Bro and Monkey continue raping the M2-holding mutant:

root keeps shooting the commander, Monkey almost dies

Yeah, a warm greeting after going back to the game.
Bro shoots Monkey's rapist. Phoenix carefully leaves her sanctuary, kills the RL holding mutant:

Another one is still there, though

Wolf continues north (this area is mutant-free AFAIR)

Monkey hides and heals, Bro and root continue their job

Phoenix cannot sneak

She tries to run past the mutant (this works perfectly most of the time)...

Lette loots the tent of her last victim. Phoenix heals herself, Bro and root continue shooting. Monkey joins them, which quickly turns out to be a bad idea.
This mutant fucker has 11 HPs but is still dangerous as fuck:

Finally, Bro knocks him out

Phoenix tries another sneaky approach

Bro and Monkey switch to the next target

Lette moves south, Wolf reaches an empty building in the NE area:

Bro kills the KOed supermutant, Wolf finds some weird gun

Lette loots and empty tent to the south, root takes out an enemy commander at last!

Damn! We're unstoppable!

Phoenix tries to take her enemy from behind. She ends up in his range, but undetected (I wasn't expecting his FOV to be so big )...

With his main job done, root crawls back north

Enemy turn: the mutant detects Phoenix, and...

Fuck! She's crouched so withdrawing is not an option (not enough APs probably). Still, she can shoot the fucker twice, and he's wounded already. Let's try that:

:/

Fuck. Maybe her favorite flamer will save her?

Fuck. Maybe the enemy will miss her...

R.I.P. our albino-supernegro. We're gonna miss you!
(At least she knew what killed her and was holding her favorite weapon till the horrible end)

Bro kills the RL specialist finally

We end the battle. Wolf continues west, ghouls in this area rape some mutant.

Bro and Monkey try to withdraw to the east. Suddenly, Phoenix's rapist shows up! It's counter-raep time!

After some shootout, Monkey takes our revenge:

Wolf scouts the NW area (it's empty)

She reaches Phoenix's corpse finally

We end the battle, Bro goes to speak to the ghoul leader:

Bishop Defcon

(Shouting with religious fervor) And Plutonius said to Atom, "He who collides with another particle will, in turn, split the air asunder with shimmering power until his enemies are vanquished!!!"

By purging our lands of the decadent, you will prove yourself worthy of taking the sacred mortal form, of our god "Plutonius", and deliver the flesh of my mighty Lord to your "Bunker of the Holy Brotherhood!"

This is how He decrees His Will be done!

Bishop Defcon

Blessed are those who understand the Divine Release of Charged Atomic Particles. For those who do not shall be plagued with incapacitation and forceful vomiting.

'Welcome' to the radiant silos of Plutonius. Defend his irradiated flock of devoted gamma caretakers and be rewarded with an idol containing his heavenly fire.

Take these. For His power is harmful to mere humans.

What a talkative fella...

Bro goes to church's roof and inspects the northern gate

Alright. The plan is as follows:

1) Bro, Wolf and Monkey will go west and south from the western gate

2) Lette will go SE (sneak & surprise buttsex), root will go south (snipe till it dies)

Four enemies visible, some of them already wounded:

Warcupine will join us ASAP but we also need one new recruit (Big Guns specialist preferably)...

 

[spekkio]

 

[ghostdog]

Lemmy Kill-Meister reporting for meat-shield duty !

Name: Lemmy
Age : 40
Sex: male

ST 8
PE 8
EN 8
CH 3
IN 5
AG 9
LK 6


Gifted, Small Frame

Big Guns, Energy Weapons, (whatever you need)

Big Gun : M249 SAW
Energy : P94 Plasma Rifle

 

[spekkio]

but:
1) pick up some different portrait since this one was taken by Ulminati AFAIR (Warcupine),

Maybe:

2) you still have one CP available...

 

[ghostdog]

Lemmy Kill-Meister reporting for meat-shield duty !

Name: Lemmy
Age : 40
Sex: male

ST 8
PE 8
EN 8
CH 3
IN 5
AG 9
LK 7


Gifted, Small Frame

Big Guns, Energy Weapons, (whatever you need)

Big Gun : M249 SAW
Energy : P94 Plasma Rifle

fixed.

 

[spekkio]

^
Welcome to the grinder, Brother!

 

[spekkio]

First group spots their enemies (four or more)

root and Lette reach their positions too. Five enemies visible:

Lette sneaks south. After a long crawling she finds another enemy:

She scouts the nearby area, but it seems that starting with this building is the best idea for an attack.
Lette pops out close to the 1st guardian and pwns him

2nd guardian starts looking for her. She hides for a moment and kills him too:

She moves inside the building. Four or more mutants left:

root gives Lette some fire support

She kills another mutant

Bro attacks one of the mutants in western area

Other units keep their positions to avoid burst bug raep.
root kills his victim (as you can see "More Criticals" does wonders here)

He continues south

Lette cannot sneak. root finds the reason:

Bro moves south and continues shooting his target. After a while, the mutant leaves his position and tries to kick Bro's ass up close:

Wolf comes to the rescue!

root KOs the mutant who was trying to ambush Lette

Bro continues south, finds another two enemies

root kills his target. Wolf moves closer to Bro's victim:

Lette crawls south, reveals another mutant. Thank god that root did not continue south...

Wolf tries to take the mutant from behind, but has to withdraw:

Shortly after that, the mutant runs OOA and stands up. Bad idea:

Second mutant rushes in Bro's direction to avenge his comrade, ends up in Wolf's range. She hits him twice and hides, Bro hits him too:

Lette finds some heavily guarded building

Another commander should be there...
Wolf and Bro rape the mutant (poor fucker kept shooting Bro, allowing Wolf to play shoot & hide):

I end battle and switch to Lette. Suddenly, her aggressive sentry mode kicks in. My reaction:

She killed a mutant who was guarding the entrance:

The problem is, her attack pissed of another mutant to the north, who leaves his position and finds root:

And by "finds" I mean "shoots him in the face"
root withdraws to the north

Thank god that this mutant didn't follow him.
Lette spots another victim through the window. By "spots" I mean "pulverizes":

She moves around the building clockwise. It doesn't look good:

She waits for the patrolling guard (root's rapist) to move close and pops out:

Guy is all talk - he stops looking for Lette after a while and goes back to his post.
Let's switch to the other group.

Bro tries to loot the building to the north, finds a mutant (who wasn't facing the door, thank god), retreats.
Too bad that we don't have a BG specialist with us. But we have Wolf equipped with Charlotte's shotgun...
She should be able to kill him using burst shot or at least hit him and withdraw:

Let's try this!

I guess trying that while crouched wasn't the smartest idea...
Still, he has only 40 HP left. Bro makes it 30! (Too bad that Monkey is too far away to help).

Maybe there's still some hope for Wolf?

R.I.P. Sister Wolf, our last survivor from the initial team.
A brave medic who patched our asses many times and was able to survive 10 9 missions in the field...

I guess we'll gonna need another recruit...

 

[Azira]

Blood and carnage!

Yeah, big guns are lovely against super-muties.
The next enemy faction you encounter should be more amenable to small guns, but energy weapons is where the fun is at, if you ask monkey.

Then again, why would one ask monkey?