In Progress Open X-Com Genius Level Test (Ironman) - August, Mission 25

[Zero Credibility]

-Zero Credibility the most senior recon guy got shot, was doing quite well but scouting is dangerous

Well shiiit. But not to worry - you have the technology, you can rebuild him.

 

[Edward_R_Murrow]

-Edward R Murrow blows up a civilian at the same time as a Reaper

Obviously he was an alien sympathizer...

 

[Hobbit Lord of Mordor_]

Two more:

Power suits and plasma rifles


MISSION 12 (crash site)... ignore the vid saying it's 11, I got it wrong



-Snakemen
-no casualties


MISSION 13 (another crash)



Highlights
-Yes, the point of Aleksandra was to die. I need a Power Suit 'corpse' in order to research these new drones (basically fixed up and robotized power suits) in a mod I'm trying.
-Brazilian Slaughter II died
-machine guns really suck. Don't know what the point is

 

[Hobbit Lord of Mordor_]

If it's not too much of a bother could you perhaps post the stats of those new weapons?

Sure

What's with those extra soft non lethal rockets btw, 2 went off right in the middle/just besides a group of agents and none had even a scratch on them

Yeah, not sure. I noticed that too. That's why I was checking the nearby soldiers health and armor. Might have been a smoke rocket I loaded by accident (luckily) but doubt both were. Probably a bug

 

[Hobbit Lord of Mordor_]

Strategic update

Current bases

Crete will just be a radar/interception base for now. Haiti is a construction base, moved my engineers there and building an extra workshop


Research slowly but steadily progressing

New craft!

The Thunderbird is a modded human-tech faster interceptor. Only has one weapon pod tho (avalanche for now, won't be good enough for anything bigger than small UFO in the long-term)

And now also an 'Improved Interceptor'. I think that's slightly better than the Thunderbird since it uses alien tech

May score

And... what have we here?

 

[Hobbit Lord of Mordor_]

ALIEN BASE NEAR MOSCOW

Turn 1



-Edward R Murrow kills an alien but gets reaction-fired by alien's hidden buddy


Turn 2





Start of turn 3





Strategic map

 

[tindrli]

private Tindrli reporting for duty

 

[Nevill]

If it isn't too late, I would like to join as well.

I would prefer being assigned weapons that do explosive damage, be it Rocket Launchers, Blaster Launchers, High Explosives (my favorite) or just Grenades, with a pistol for a backup weapon. But if you have other ideas for the rookies, that is fine as well.

 

[Hobbit Lord of Mordor_]

Alien base invasion #1 complete!

Great mission... Pretty heavy losses, nearly all of our most senior guys. sser and WhiskeyWolf are the only two members of the original squad left

The good news: an Alien Commander (Floater) was captured. I am now thinking of focusing everything on getting the Avenger and doing Cydonia as early as possible

Video is quite big (45 mins) so will take a while to upload

There's that 2nd base in France to take care of... not sure I want to do it right away with only 8 soldiers squaddie level or higher

 

[Hobbit Lord of Mordor_]

Rest of mission 14:




New feature (only started counting when installed update)

...half the squad wounded (Azira, Desmodus and SmartCheetah) or dead (Eddy, Unkillable Cat, Overboard and Hobbit)

...SmartCheetah got two veterans killed trying to resurrect him. Not sure it was worthwhile, with firing accuracy of 9

...really lucky WhiskeyWolf was not blown up by his own high explosive... priming for 2 means the end of the turn after next

...extremely lucky: 1/ Floater commander berserking and it occurring just within my field of view, 2/ correctly guessing which of the remaining two floaters was the Alien commander


Roster update

SURVIVORS:

Original squad
sser (recon) - captain - 9 kills
WhiskeyWolf (sniper) - commander - 9

January recruits
Imperator (sniper) - sergeant - 5

February
Cleveland Mark Blakemore (auto-cannon) - colonel - 3
Johannes (sniper/heavy) - squaddie - 8

March
Average Manatee Mk II - sergeant - 8
Azira Mk II (recon) - squaddie - 8

April
hostergaard Mk II - sergeant - 2

May
SmartCheetah Mk II - rookie - 0
Desmodus Rotundus - squaddie - 2



DEAD:

Original squad
ERYFKRAD
Average Manatee
Brazilian Slaughter
JoKa
Hobbit (support) - sergeant - 2 kills - Russia alien base
Edward R Murrow (auto-cannon) - captain - 16 kills - Russia alien base

January
hostergaard
Azira
Jester (recon)
SmartCheetah
Random (recon)
ZeroCredibility (recon) - died in Melbourne
Overboard - MIA

February
Kashmeer Slippers - Novosibirsk
ERYFKRAD Mark II - Novosibirsk
Brazilian Slaughter - Mark II - squaddie - 6
Unkillable Cat - Captain - 13 - Russia alien base

March/April
Kashmeer Slippers - Mark II
JoKa - Mark II
Overboard - Mark II - squaddie - 1 - Russia alien base
Random - Mark II - got in way of Johannes' rocket, Melbourne
Kashmeer Slippers - Mark III - eaten by Reaper, Paris
Jester - Mark II - sergeant - shot on first turn in Skyranger, Paris

 

[Nevill]

What's up with Desmodus fainting after you took a shot at the alien (02:24)?

Can you check if the stun damage from the smoke applies only at the end of the turn (as it should), or if there are events that can apply it during the turn? The original X-COM had a bug with fire/smoke damage on every tile affected by such an effect reapplying once another fire/smoke round is fired anywhere.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Nice, second-highest kill score of them all! And made Captain as well.

 

[Desmodus Rotundus]

Guess that shot hit me since I was missing some hp after being healed up, although it didn't look that way.

 

[Nevill]

Nah. You were missing those HP before - look up 01:26. After the stun bomb hit, your stun bar looks like it had reached your health bar, too (02:04), so, theoretically, you should not be conscious at that point. Maybe the game did not check that fact properly before another shot was fired, and only noticed it during Imperator's turn.

 

[Jester]

hmm am i scheduled for cloning vats?

 

[Hobbit Lord of Mordor_]

What's up with Desmodus fainting after you took a shot at the alien (02:24)?

Can you check if the stun damage from the smoke applies only at the end of the turn (as it should), or if there are events that can apply it during the turn? The original X-COM had a bug with fire/smoke damage on every tile affected by such an effect reapplying once another fire/smoke round is fired anywhere.

Nah. You were missing those HP before - look up 01:26. After the stun bomb hit, your stun bar looks like it had reached your health bar, too (02:04), so, theoretically, you should not be conscious at that point. Maybe the game did not check that fact properly before another shot was fired, and only noticed it during Imperator's turn.

Yeah, that's my guess as well. I'll report that on the OXC forum

Strategic decision time: should I go and invade the next alien base as soon as Skyranger is re-fueled and equipment resupplied? Or ignore this base until next month when rest of power armors are done (risk more European countries leave the funding council)?

 

[SmartCheetah]

I would go all in to actually fill the memorial screen

 

[Desmodus Rotundus]

Do it while I'm in the hospital

 

[Nevill]

Strategic decision time: should I go and invade the next alien base as soon as Skyranger is re-fueled and equipment resupplied?

Yes, please.

Seriously, there is nothing that rookies with HE satchel charges cannot do.

For the Motherland!!

 

[Overboard]

Clone me again, for great justice!

 

[Random]

Random MK II did pretty poorly... but Random MK III will probably be slightly less unsuccessful.

 

[Hobbit Lord of Mordor_]

L1berals are messing with my internet connection and lost my post

Anyway trying again

New recruits:

Some new tech thanks to Edward R Murrow and Unkillable Cat (these techs recycle power suits, basically robotize them)

Yet another interceptor I probably won't use (less good than the Thunderbird)

Alien base invasion #2 France



Not extremely interesting, was being very cautious.

Jester Mk III and Nevill died

 

[Nevill]

Jester Mk III and Nevill died.

Doesn't matter, I have brothers!
Enter Nevill Jr., the Rocketeer.

Do they have Blaster Launchers at this point?

 

[tindrli]

ALLRIGHT!!!! IM IN

 

[Hobbit Lord of Mordor_]

3 more

MISSION 16 - small crash site, Mexico



-scout drone, seems kind of overpowered and not fun
-no losses
-Unkillable Cat 2 promoted to sergeant

MISSION 17 - night crash site, south west France

UFOs were going crazy




-don't know why map is in a built-up area, makes missions much more deadly
-3 casualties

MISSION 18 - night crash site, somewhere

Oh fuck... looks like Floaters have really upped their game (or has it switched to Superhuman difficulty?)



-pretty deadly mission
-sser dies from an alien grenade. WhiskeyWolf is the only survivor from the original squad
-tindrli very lucky to be alive

deaths:
ERYFKRAD III
Zero Credibility II
sser


Just after this mission there was a terror site, in Kinshasa, just as the Skyranger was returning. By the time it had refuelled terror site was over so we'll lose a bunch of points

Still