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In Progress Let's play: 10 brave souls vs the Terror From The Deep
- Thread starter RealDDc
- Start date
Update: March comes to an end
A very small update...
Sales revenue from the base supply cruiser grants us a good money balance...
... and lets us expand. I want that alien base under control and build an outpost with transmission resolver
right next to it, in the hope they wont find the base until the defense is ready.
Tindrli as the new science-chief reports the breakthrough on the newest invention.
Loads of activity all around the world the second half of the month, but no luck tracking those down.
Magnetic Ion Armours for the remaining soldiers are ready, and shortly after the medi-kits.
Days pass... the secrets of Zrbite is revealed...
... M.C.-Labs are done...
... Pulse launcher and ammo shortly after.
More activity towards the end of the month again unable to track any down and the radars remain silent.
But then this is reportet, triton is send out and arrives its destination in the deepest night.
Sure, sure
Wanted to put more in this update, but im way too tired... sorry. Soon more to come.
A very small update...
Sales revenue from the base supply cruiser grants us a good money balance...
... and lets us expand. I want that alien base under control and build an outpost with transmission resolver
right next to it, in the hope they wont find the base until the defense is ready.
Tindrli as the new science-chief reports the breakthrough on the newest invention.
Loads of activity all around the world the second half of the month, but no luck tracking those down.
Magnetic Ion Armours for the remaining soldiers are ready, and shortly after the medi-kits.
Days pass... the secrets of Zrbite is revealed...
... M.C.-Labs are done...
... Pulse launcher and ammo shortly after.
More activity towards the end of the month again unable to track any down and the radars remain silent.
But then this is reportet, triton is send out and arrives its destination in the deepest night.
Sure, sure
Wanted to put more in this update, but im way too tired... sorry. Soon more to come.
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meat for the grinder... mmm, crab meat :homer:
Dun dun dunnnn!
Update: Terror Mission
One got to do what one got to do to survive.
The tanks spot nothing in the surrounding area, attempting to get some vision the crew randomly throws flares
into the night.
Even with decent vision no targets are spotted so I skip that rest of the turn instead of moving the tanks forward.
The next turn the tank spots this calcinite, so there must also be aquatoids around.
Advancing the tanks some more they spot one, and closely look what weapon it does carry.
GreyViper takes him down.
The tank spots another one I then hook up with a primed grenade.
During the aliens turns this sneaky one jumps out of cover fires two shots at the tank and returns back in the
building.
The Aquatiods start their mind tricks...
... and the tank takes a critical hit to the side.
Awesome sniper potential, but weak minded it seems.
I retreat the tank that took heavy damage and shoot the calcinite down.
Azira throws a grenade timed to explode on the aliens turn on the roof of the small building.
Before ending the turn I removed any weapons and grenades from the crew, except for GreyViper who does
not have any TU's left after his panic.
Another calcinite appears out of nowhere ignoring to attack the tank and directly moves in front of the Tritons
doors.
And again it is GreyViper to freak out.
Overboard grabs the weapon on the ground, kills him and we carry his remains into the Triton.
Overboard is send out to salvage that thermal shock launcher, lead by the gas cannon tank.
The damaged aqua jet tank blocks the pathway out, I don't want mind controlled soldiers in panic to run all
over the place.
The tank takes a few hits but minimal damage inflicted.
Azira is the next one to freak out.
The tank executes the aquatoid and reveals a calcinite behind it...
...who's then killed by Overboard with a well aimed shot.
Protected by the tank Overboard rushes forward, grabs the prestigious gun and makes his way back to ship.
Even though I may have gotten away with it, I left anything else on the ground, even the extra ammo for the
thermal shock, just to avoid risks.
And we ran off. No way I'd try to finish that night mission.
Fuck those civilians and stuff, this may not appear as victory but it is! Calcinite body for melee weapon invention
and finally the thermal shock launcher.
Next update is the monthly overview... Woo! Who had expected this to last another month.
One got to do what one got to do to survive.
The tanks spot nothing in the surrounding area, attempting to get some vision the crew randomly throws flares
into the night.
Even with decent vision no targets are spotted so I skip that rest of the turn instead of moving the tanks forward.
The next turn the tank spots this calcinite, so there must also be aquatoids around.
Advancing the tanks some more they spot one, and closely look what weapon it does carry.
GreyViper takes him down.
The tank spots another one I then hook up with a primed grenade.
During the aliens turns this sneaky one jumps out of cover fires two shots at the tank and returns back in the
building.
The Aquatiods start their mind tricks...
... and the tank takes a critical hit to the side.
Awesome sniper potential, but weak minded it seems.
I retreat the tank that took heavy damage and shoot the calcinite down.
Azira throws a grenade timed to explode on the aliens turn on the roof of the small building.
Before ending the turn I removed any weapons and grenades from the crew, except for GreyViper who does
not have any TU's left after his panic.
Another calcinite appears out of nowhere ignoring to attack the tank and directly moves in front of the Tritons
doors.
And again it is GreyViper to freak out.
Overboard grabs the weapon on the ground, kills him and we carry his remains into the Triton.
Overboard is send out to salvage that thermal shock launcher, lead by the gas cannon tank.
The damaged aqua jet tank blocks the pathway out, I don't want mind controlled soldiers in panic to run all
over the place.
The tank takes a few hits but minimal damage inflicted.
Azira is the next one to freak out.
The tank executes the aquatoid and reveals a calcinite behind it...
...who's then killed by Overboard with a well aimed shot.
Protected by the tank Overboard rushes forward, grabs the prestigious gun and makes his way back to ship.
Even though I may have gotten away with it, I left anything else on the ground, even the extra ammo for the
thermal shock, just to avoid risks.
And we ran off. No way I'd try to finish that night mission.
Fuck those civilians and stuff, this may not appear as victory but it is! Calcinite body for melee weapon invention
and finally the thermal shock launcher.
Next update is the monthly overview... Woo! Who had expected this to last another month.
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Update: March is through
The last days of March fade out silent, but the aliens have scored plenty points this month.
The work on the Transmission Resolver get finished, now we can savely avoid risky missions until we are ready.
Overview of the main base, time to remove the outdated sonars and fill all the remaining cells with defense
facilities.
Overview of the outpost, as soon as the P.W.T. defense is aviable im gonna secure this, hopefully they don't find
this base till then else this comes costly.
Base at the end of March
- 100 Scientists
- 94 Technicians
- 6 Soldiers remain, one still recovering from his wounds
- Every soldier in magnetic ion gear
- 304 Zrbit in stock
- 2 Tanks
The M.C. implantations begin.
Progress of the crew:
Addition of a grotty 675k$ to save the world, hrmz, but them are happy.
The last days of March fade out silent, but the aliens have scored plenty points this month.
The work on the Transmission Resolver get finished, now we can savely avoid risky missions until we are ready.
Overview of the main base, time to remove the outdated sonars and fill all the remaining cells with defense
facilities.
Overview of the outpost, as soon as the P.W.T. defense is aviable im gonna secure this, hopefully they don't find
this base till then else this comes costly.
Base at the end of March
- 100 Scientists
- 94 Technicians
- 6 Soldiers remain, one still recovering from his wounds
- Every soldier in magnetic ion gear
- 304 Zrbit in stock
- 2 Tanks
The M.C. implantations begin.
Progress of the crew:
Addition of a grotty 675k$ to save the world, hrmz, but them are happy.
Things are progressing nicely. Almost too nicely...
Is april lobster-season?
Is april lobster-season?
They can appear in February and March but rarely.
More common from April onwards.
http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Alien_Appearance_Ratios_(TFTD)
I think that's accurate.
nice work with the tactical retreat in the night terror mission 
Update: The fourth month Part 1
Lots of activity, alien massacre as daily routine.
April starts out with some alien activity in the North Atlantic.
The Transmission Resolver detects it and reveals its objectives.
Them Baracudas hunts and shoots the aquatoid ship down somewhere around the shores of New Mexico.
The Triton patroled that area for a couple of hours to avoid a night mission.
Rocking a Pulse Launcher into battle, incase of a sticky situation, but I'd rather not waste the prestigious and
expensive ammo.
The alien vessel is located right next to our landing spot.
After the Tanks inspected the close area, CappenVarra scores the first kill in this mission...
... and Azira prepares a Grenade for this one.
The aliens take the AquaJet Tank under fire, but most of the damage gets absorbed.
CappenVarra fails a aimed shot floating above ground.
Me also fails to hit but Azira takes him down. Not enough TU's remain to seek cover, that means three
floating prime targets.
Unwariness let me skip another turn, and this Aquatoid moves out of the ship and opens fire...
...Azira takes a frontal hit...
...reactionfires and busts it down.
The armour absorbed the damage completely.
Azira shoots another one down right before invading the alien ship.
After taking the first one down the other reactionfires and Azira is hit again.
Serious damage inflicted, a scratch... that'll grant him a few weeks holiday in the hospital.
But first he finishs the job.
All in all a good mission, more Zrbite and no fatalities.
And 22 days is almost acceptable.
Two days later a tiny survey ship get in detection range, to case the area for a possible base attack.
We lose track and are unable to spot it with the ships build in radars patroling the area.
A couple of hours later the exact same alien ship returns heading towards the main base.
The lightely armed Baracude swiftly takes it down so it won't have chances to detect the base.
A single Aquatiod, should be an easy job even as a night mission.
The alien ship is quickly found and the Aquatoid does try his best...
CappenVarra storms in and executes it.
Not mutch but easy loot with minimal risk.
Few days pass and work on the Transmission Resolver at the outpost get completed...
... and a day later Tindrli presents us this baby. Research on P.W.T. defences are initiated.
Mass production of P.W.T. cannon initiated, they are fairly quickly produced for a good income.
Some more activity the next days in the South Atlantic im unable to track down.
The first load of P.W.T. cannon is ready for sale.
Blagrar almost recovered from his wounds after he spend nearly 2 months in the hospital.
After some activity I couldn't track down another tiny survey ship comes into detection range.
Shortly after this...
... and this as well.
And them Baracudas are still not refueled, most of them pass freely and roam the area.
This one land close by the base, the triton is miles away trying to track down one of the others but
then lost them.
Finally the Baracuda is ready and patrols the landing spot until it lifts off, the alien ship goes down
again but some damage is taken.
A moment before the Triton arrives at its destination, the other small alien ship on base attack mission
returns and get shot down but this Baracuda also taking some small damage.
Triton arrives at the first ship wreck, should be an easy mission. Those Aquatoids are just too fragile.
I am sorry for my viewers, I have nothing to report but this easy Aquatoid missions.
I'd wish they send lobstermen or tasoths to spice things up.
Dead.
Boom.
pew pew.
GreyViper kills a few more inside the alien ship.
CappenVarra snipes this one from the other side of the map, and Azira kills a few with a trip mine.
This alien guy nearly converts the AquaJet tank into a pile of trash.
But then panics and throws his gun away..
The gascannon tank finishes him off.
Easy mission, nice loot once again.
Lots of activity, alien massacre as daily routine.
April starts out with some alien activity in the North Atlantic.
The Transmission Resolver detects it and reveals its objectives.
Them Baracudas hunts and shoots the aquatoid ship down somewhere around the shores of New Mexico.
The Triton patroled that area for a couple of hours to avoid a night mission.
Rocking a Pulse Launcher into battle, incase of a sticky situation, but I'd rather not waste the prestigious and
expensive ammo.
The alien vessel is located right next to our landing spot.
After the Tanks inspected the close area, CappenVarra scores the first kill in this mission...
... and Azira prepares a Grenade for this one.
The aliens take the AquaJet Tank under fire, but most of the damage gets absorbed.
CappenVarra fails a aimed shot floating above ground.
Me also fails to hit but Azira takes him down. Not enough TU's remain to seek cover, that means three
floating prime targets.
Unwariness let me skip another turn, and this Aquatoid moves out of the ship and opens fire...
...Azira takes a frontal hit...
...reactionfires and busts it down.
The armour absorbed the damage completely.
Azira shoots another one down right before invading the alien ship.
After taking the first one down the other reactionfires and Azira is hit again.
But first he finishs the job.
All in all a good mission, more Zrbite and no fatalities.
And 22 days is almost acceptable.
Two days later a tiny survey ship get in detection range, to case the area for a possible base attack.
We lose track and are unable to spot it with the ships build in radars patroling the area.
A couple of hours later the exact same alien ship returns heading towards the main base.
The lightely armed Baracude swiftly takes it down so it won't have chances to detect the base.
A single Aquatiod, should be an easy job even as a night mission.
The alien ship is quickly found and the Aquatoid does try his best...
CappenVarra storms in and executes it.
Not mutch but easy loot with minimal risk.
Few days pass and work on the Transmission Resolver at the outpost get completed...
... and a day later Tindrli presents us this baby. Research on P.W.T. defences are initiated.
Mass production of P.W.T. cannon initiated, they are fairly quickly produced for a good income.
Some more activity the next days in the South Atlantic im unable to track down.
The first load of P.W.T. cannon is ready for sale.
Blagrar almost recovered from his wounds after he spend nearly 2 months in the hospital.
After some activity I couldn't track down another tiny survey ship comes into detection range.
Shortly after this...
... and this as well.
And them Baracudas are still not refueled, most of them pass freely and roam the area.
This one land close by the base, the triton is miles away trying to track down one of the others but
then lost them.
Finally the Baracuda is ready and patrols the landing spot until it lifts off, the alien ship goes down
again but some damage is taken.
A moment before the Triton arrives at its destination, the other small alien ship on base attack mission
returns and get shot down but this Baracuda also taking some small damage.
Triton arrives at the first ship wreck, should be an easy mission. Those Aquatoids are just too fragile.
I am sorry for my viewers, I have nothing to report but this easy Aquatoid missions.
I'd wish they send lobstermen or tasoths to spice things up.
Dead.
Boom.
pew pew.
GreyViper kills a few more inside the alien ship.
CappenVarra snipes this one from the other side of the map, and Azira kills a few with a trip mine.
This alien guy nearly converts the AquaJet tank into a pile of trash.
But then panics and throws his gun away..
The gascannon tank finishes him off.
Easy mission, nice loot once again.
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Funny how I was injured after saying things were going too easy. 
Injured? That is nothing more than a scratch. Takes a dive for the holidays.
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Weird. I remember retreating in Terror Missions costing me the country.
Seems like I almost did it on purpose then?
*snipe*
That happens if you ignore or miss an infiltration. Ignoring a terror mission subtracts about 2000 score points, failing or retreating from a terror mission cost whatever many points the outcome is. Retreating from a terror mission with a positive score doesn't have any negative effects at all.
Next update this evening.
So much has happened, btw in the previous segment when lots of people went brezerk I had the first impression that you gunned the brezerkers down.:D The lack of bravery is becoming more apparent, guess that's hwy hes a god sniper, he wants to have long distance between enemy and himself. 
Update: The fourth month Part 2
Business as usual.
And it continues...
... with fragile Aquatoids.
Dropping like flies.
The Tank finish it.
No injuries no fatalities.
A few days later the P.W.T. defenses are ready to construct.
The previous missions and the production and sale of P.W.T. cannon grants a healthy
amount of money...
... and let us start the construction of enough defense facilities to make the bases
secure once they are finished...
... they'd require to send Tleth itself to break through this.
Suspicious activity around Japan and India makes me send the Triton towards the
South Chinese Sea.
At about the same time this sub moves into detection range.
The Triton is still on its way towards Japan.
Science on Vibro Blade can begin.
The graphs show loads of activity all around the world, this one appears in detection
range and I send the Barracudas.
Bad idea, got to retreat them heavily damaged.
The Triton is recalled for this earlyer shot down small escort ship.
The mission runs smooth, CappenVarra scores a few kills.
A good training.
Overboard got hit, but the armour absorbed the damage.
CappenVarra and Overboard finish the job and remove the remaining defenders inside.
Another smooth and easy mission plus more Zrbite.
The activity all around the world continues, but only around the south chinese sea
the activity skyrockets.
After this is detected things are obvious... Once the Triton is refueled it makes
its way again towards the south chinese sea.
At its destination I have to realise that it is too late to fend the infiltration off.
Few uneventful days pass and then another small cruiser appears on the sonar.
One Baracuda runs out of ammo, the other out of fuel but the Triton is hard on it's heels.
In the middle of that pursuit, Tinderli reports us that the Vibro Blade is ready to use.
Troublesome pursuit and it finally manages to escape.
A little bit later it returns, at least I think it to be the same...
... and it manages to escape again!
With the Triton I manage to recover the detection and once more pursuit it until the
Baracudas are ready.
And it escapes and escapes and escapes...
But finally!
Better be good loot for all that trouble.
The tank spots these two on the first turn.
CappenVarra primes a grenade for Blagrar and toss it over...
... wait... What?
He did it again!
Everyone had to grab some of the gear on the ground and moved out, except for
CappenVarra who did not have had enough TU's remaining.
Strangely even the items I had to leave on the ground are unscratched, didn't
know that the box CappenVarra loves to drop primed grenades in blocks completely
explosive damage... good to know nevertheless.
We continue with the program.
Lovely, more Zrbite.
Finally a refreshing change near the end of the month, not much better but those
Aquatoids slowly got very boring.
It manages to escape but lands shortly after and the Triton is also on its way.
A night mission, stay tuned, maybe I fuck this one up.
Business as usual.
And it continues...
... with fragile Aquatoids.
Dropping like flies.
The Tank finish it.
No injuries no fatalities.
A few days later the P.W.T. defenses are ready to construct.
The previous missions and the production and sale of P.W.T. cannon grants a healthy
amount of money...
... and let us start the construction of enough defense facilities to make the bases
secure once they are finished...
... they'd require to send Tleth itself to break through this.
Suspicious activity around Japan and India makes me send the Triton towards the
South Chinese Sea.
At about the same time this sub moves into detection range.
The Triton is still on its way towards Japan.
Science on Vibro Blade can begin.
The graphs show loads of activity all around the world, this one appears in detection
range and I send the Barracudas.
Bad idea, got to retreat them heavily damaged.
The Triton is recalled for this earlyer shot down small escort ship.
The mission runs smooth, CappenVarra scores a few kills.
A good training.
Overboard got hit, but the armour absorbed the damage.
CappenVarra and Overboard finish the job and remove the remaining defenders inside.
Another smooth and easy mission plus more Zrbite.
The activity all around the world continues, but only around the south chinese sea
the activity skyrockets.
After this is detected things are obvious... Once the Triton is refueled it makes
its way again towards the south chinese sea.
At its destination I have to realise that it is too late to fend the infiltration off.
Few uneventful days pass and then another small cruiser appears on the sonar.
One Baracuda runs out of ammo, the other out of fuel but the Triton is hard on it's heels.
In the middle of that pursuit, Tinderli reports us that the Vibro Blade is ready to use.
Troublesome pursuit and it finally manages to escape.
A little bit later it returns, at least I think it to be the same...
... and it manages to escape again!
With the Triton I manage to recover the detection and once more pursuit it until the
Baracudas are ready.
And it escapes and escapes and escapes...
But finally!
Better be good loot for all that trouble.
The tank spots these two on the first turn.
CappenVarra primes a grenade for Blagrar and toss it over...
... wait... What?
He did it again!
Everyone had to grab some of the gear on the ground and moved out, except for
CappenVarra who did not have had enough TU's remaining.
Strangely even the items I had to leave on the ground are unscratched, didn't
know that the box CappenVarra loves to drop primed grenades in blocks completely
explosive damage... good to know nevertheless.
We continue with the program.
Lovely, more Zrbite.
Finally a refreshing change near the end of the month, not much better but those
Aquatoids slowly got very boring.
It manages to escape but lands shortly after and the Triton is also on its way.
A night mission, stay tuned, maybe I fuck this one up.
No, I did not.
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As tempting as it would have been, sooner or later they do that anyways. When those mind games get unavoidable, warfare in a mix of mind control, panic and berserk breaks out within the own team. In the next update you'll know why.
Uhm, I hereby volunteer never to throw another grenade again?
(I blame the P2k bug)
(I blame the P2k bug)
Let me guess, you gave me another grenade to throw?
irrelevant, was my 2000th post
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