Time for
Mission 2. 'Stealing the Steel'.
Music
Macmillan has avoided capture by the enemy forces. But he's still in more danger than he knows.
Somewhere in Siberia, some 2,000,000 years B.C.
Our group enters a new area and breaks into chat.
: How did our ancestors get this tooled up? Their weapons are better than ours.
: They’ve got to be from the future same as us. Probably Russians....
: Like every country has a time machine these days!?
: You got a better explanation? Whoever they are they want to stop us.
And promptly get ambushed...
: (appears from grass by Macmillan) And it won’t be hard! You wanna be more careful. Lisa Lawson, sir. (two engineers appear from behind trees)
By friendlies, thankfully.
: Lieutenant John Macmillan. Can you tell me what's going on here?
: Sure, we've got an order to wait and see what happens. That’s all the info I’ve got and I don’t like it.
: Hold on, they’re trying to get through.
: (weak signal over radio) Alpha Base here. Listen up. The enemy are based seven miles North of you and we are beyond them.
: This just keeps getting better!
: Shut up and listen, Parker.
: (over radio) Survey the area and contact all other survivors.
: (into radio) And then what?
: (over radio) I warned you, Macmillan! Try to capture an outlying Russian building, consolidate your position and await further orders.
: Great idea! We’re outgunned and outnumbered, at last we die heroes!
: It’s crazy, if we kill their guys we’ve got to wait for their friends to come looking?! Let’s put a bullet in our brains now?
: Size of yours it’d be hard to hit.
: You heard the Colonel. He gave an order. We do what the man says.
So they actualy are Russians... Well my apemen theory bites the dust :-( Also Powell is still a dick. I begin to see a pattern here...
So we got 3 new members to our group, Lisa Lawson - a pretty good soldier (but not at all a pretty lady) and 2 engineers (faceless grunts from now on, we won't be seeing them further into the game).
Only way to proceed is north.
Quickly we meet our first scientist (and a such a medic). Hes name is Paul Khattam and he is a filthy kebab. But hey, we need a medic.
: Allah be praised! I cannot believe the EON worked ! I thought I was going to die.
: If we hadn’t got here you would have. The Russians are killing our people.
: Russians?
: Don’t ask me how they got here but they’re good soldiers with good kit.
: I owe you my life Lieutenant. I hope I can repay you.
: Tell me what you can do and you can make a start.
: I am a nuclear physicist, my name is Paul Khattam.
: Great, you were working on the EON and you thought it wouldn’t work?
: When you know everything that can go wrong it takes a lot of courage to get inside! Even scientists need faith now and again.
: You sure will now.
: I can see some of you already saw action. I'll have a look at the wound if you remove that filthy rag.
I order him to heal Bobby and after that we continue our journey northward. Also I just love how nuclear physicists know first aid and trained soldiers don't :D
Soon our eyes see this atrocity.
: Christ, I’m going to puke. Take a look at the bodies.
: All our guys and all dead.
: They’ve been like this a few days.
: We’ve got to keep moving people. Let’s go.
We start to move eastward and get to this little surprise.
: There’s no way we’re going through without more firepower. Retreat!
A damned bunker. I order my guys to retreat. Two foolish Russians follow (a soldier and a scientist) and get gunned down. Good for us, bad for them.
I order my A-Team to heal up and move out southward towards that river you see on the minimap in hope to find a alternate route to attack the Russian base.
On our way we find a place where we can ford the river. I send the soldiers first and they find another American soldier getting gunned down by 2 Russians. We jump in to help him, promptly kill the assailants and heal the ally.
Unfortunately his friend got killed.
We heal everyone and move eastward. There is a little forest directly south of the Russian base so I decide to creep through it, far enough so the bunkered Russian can't get hits on us. Two soldiers show up and get gunned down. This way the base is only defended by this one asshole behind the sandbags.
I heal everyone and move back into the forrest and continue to move east. We find ANOTHER bunker, this is not getting easier. I order my guys to get on the deck so they are harder to hit and press the attack.
The bunker get's demolished and the guy hiding in it got filled with lead. As you can see I ordered one of our soldiers to fallback when his health was low, so our kebab medic can heal him. We move further east.
After killing 2 guards and a driver we find a small motorpark with 2 tanks, I order Macmillan and Brandon to get into the vehicles (I want Macmillan to improve his driving skill and Brandon is just good).
: Weird vehicles man. Ain't seen nothing like this before.
: Check them out Bobby, they’ve gotta beat walking our way through the front-line. So? How does it look?
: I’ve driven worse boss. But if this is the fuel gauge, we’re running on empty!
: OK go easy, the next gas station’s two million years away.
: So what do you think, lieutenant?
: It’s a hell of a machine! Looks more like a bulldozer than a tank.
Another mechanic in this game is building capturing - the building must be unoccupied for this. You send your engineers in and they paint it your colour, done :D
We have a little chat with Alpha.
: (into radio) Lt Macmillan reporting to Alpha. We’re now in command of a Russian installation. Where do we go from here Colonel?
: (over radio) Once we establish your exact location we’ll be on our way. Till then maintain your position and gather deposited supplies...If you’re where we think then you’ve one more base in the area. Try to capture it.
: You want to stop talking to that guy Lieutenant, he has some really bad ideas.
Nobody likes Powell.
Okay we prepare to level that second damned bunker.
Tanks will attack first and infantry will strike after that.
After we kill this last Russian soldier we capture the enemy base and repair the bunker, we might need it later. We radio in our success.
: (into radio) Lt Macmillan calling Alpha. We’ve captured the second Russian base. Awaiting further instructions.
: (over radio) Maintain your position and gather as many crates as you can in the northern base. Transport the crates from the eastern base there too. We’ll be in touch.
: (into radio) Sir, I’d appreciate it if you could fill me in on....
: (over radio) I told you to stay off the air Macmillan! You can ask questions when you get here. Your call sign is now Cobra 1. Await further instructions and don’t contact me. Have you got that?
: (into radio) Yes sir.
: (over radio) You better have Macmillan.
: (cynically) Cobra 1 out.
: Let’s get to it. Keep your eyes open or the only material we’ll collect is lead.
We create a logistics patch between our 2 depots, transporting crates to our newly taken base, as per Powell's orders. (I forgot to make screens how to do it, but it will be used again sometime).
There is a second forest between the two bases. Before you capture the second base it is empty and safe, but just after you begin transporting the crates, bam, it spawns two sabretooth tigers in it just to fuck with you, the game is a BITCH like this. So I sent my soldiers to clean it up (also forgot the screenshots, sorry).
After a while a Russian driver materializes up right at our doorstep and is promptly caught.
: What happened? Who are you? Where is Sasha?
: See you in hell comrade.
: Please! Don’t shoot. I am not soldier...
: Course not. You’re just taking a vacation!
: I can explain...
: Not with a bullet in your head. Time to die soldier.
: I am NOT soldier! I am civilian! Please, listen to me...
We take him prisoner and interrogate about what the hell is going on here.
: Good work soldier.
: I am not soldier.
: No-one’s talking to you Sputnik!
: I am no Sputnik. I am Mikhail.
: If you’re not a soldier what are you doing here?
: I am engineer, from Moscow Institute. I not want to be here. I have no choice. Comrade Solyanov says our duty to save resource.
: Solyanov?
: I like American, hamburger, good food...
: Shut up! Who is Solyanov.
: Alexy Solyanov! President of Russia...
: I’ve never heard of him buddy.
: He was elected, 2002 you must know...
: I was there in 2002 Prokhorov was President.
: Solyanov – President fourteen years. But you want Prokhorov is Prokhorov.
: What do you make of it Lt?
: Either the guy’s full of shit or he’s from a different future.
: How do you make that out sir, you mean it’s already changed?
: I don’t know and right now I don’t care. We’ve got here and now to deal with. We’ll interrogate the guy later. Lock him in the depot and make sure he doesn’t move.
Mikhail is a pretty cool guy, he's not Sputnik, likes hamburgers (good food) and all that. So we lock him up in the depot and post a guard. Just to be extra sure he stays with us, Americans, that he likes so much ;-)
In the meantime a enemy truck drove into our base and promptly ran away when the driver saw that something is not right (it was red yesterday!)
Russian Driver: Nastasa Styepanovna, we are here, open some vodka!
Russian Driver: This isn’t possible... something bad happened here, something terrible...Quick, Nikolay, we must return.
Nameless Grunt: Their commander’s gonna be happy when they get home.
: So happy he’ll send troops down here to take us out. Let’s make sure we’re ready for them.
We build some additional bunkers and started to wait for enemy counterattack.
Didn't have to wait for too long actually, enemy had one tank and four soldiers. I targeted the soldiers first as they are squishier but still deal considerable damage, tank went next.
We get a transmission from Powell and a mission accomplished screen.
: (over radio) Alpha calling Cobra 1. We picked up the Russian broadcasts. Sounds like you did a good job. Time to move. Take what you can then destroy the depots. Head North East and after one mile you’ll be met by Captain Cornell, he’s in charge of a second group. Await further orders there.
: (into radio) Andy Cornell..?
: (over radio) Macmillan!
: (into radio) Cobra 1 Out. (mission accomplished)
We get all the medals
- lots of resources
- minimal losses
- succefully guarding the prisoner
And the intermission screen.