Protecting the Future

[silencer_pl]

Team 2 arrives at the Temple.

 

 

Not too soon and we find aliens.

 

 

And Cultists.

 

 

This critter fails to spot us and runs away... I don't like chasing those things.

 

 

Hiding in the corner will not give you advantage. I have grenades.

 

 

A surprise attack almost depletes shields of one of our agents.

 

 

If we can't mind control - we kill.

 

 

Decimating the cultists leaves the rest in panic.

 

 

And the multiworms are one less threat to worry about - now where that Brainsucker went.

 

 

Oh, hey - fancy you meeting here.

 

 

Next one?

 

 

And brainsucker appears.

 

 

 

 

[silencer_pl]

We wait a bit for another infiltration group to show their faces. It's Psyke again and Megapol. So we are off for yet another mission.

 

 

Hyperworm spotted.

 

 

Psykers too.

 

 

Now this is wierd kind of bug. Although it says he has 23 TU's left - he can't shoot nor move anywhere.

 

 

In the other building - more psykers.

 

 

Katrin and Veki clear this floor while SV and Wintermist move up.

 

 

I don't know how this worm pass through. But it didn't live long enough to take advantage of it.

 

 

Meanwhile inside the building NKF puts a sword to use.

 

 

Sgt. Strike sends his best regards alien.

 

 

Back in the first building - SV and Wintermist have some opposition to shoot at.

 

 

Looks like enemies of our kind also bring Heavy Ordinance.... guess I should too.

 

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[silencer_pl]

Second team should have quite mission as we are now in friendly place.

 

 

Slowly advancing forward aliens are spotted. Just three.

 

 

Easy mission.

 

 

Rest of the week we spend on training.

 

 

Our weekly income looks quite nice. We buy another Hawk Air Warrior.

 

Medium Disruptor is no longer a mystery.

 

 

Monday is all quite.

 

 

Personal Cloacking Field is ready for selling.

 

 

And we pay Transtellar so we can transport those scientist - there was a recent fight between Megapol and Diablo. Diablo used Pheonix to demolish Psyke buildings... guess where those repair vehicles went first.

 

 

Aliens use heavy firepower now....

 

 

Dropping his shields ain't problem... I don't do high enough damage to the UFO itself... probably will have to use Alien tech on ships. I will fiddle with our weapons more and check it again. I need this battleship shot down to get Annihilator.

 

I might try using all Linage plasma or even use Retribution missile. This is one shot missile that does hell of a damage. Problem is it is slow and you should fire it manually.

[silencer_pl]

We arrive at the school - again.

 

 

This time map is bigger because of the large infiltration squad. Slowly advancing forward team spots skeletoids.

 

 

They drop fast as we shoot.

 

 

Few turns later we found rest of the aliens skulking about.

 

 

Sgt. Strike and Astra swiftly deal with most of them, till Thorondor haul his fat ass into position

 

 

Further ahead some spitters, poopers and eggs.

 

 

Not much effort put here.

 

 

[silencer_pl]

No additional infiltration squads created which means more R&R and training.

 

 

Out ships now can have some small protection.

 

 

Before we go for Disruptor Armor, we need that Dimension Probe because it unlocks Advanced Workshop which we need anyway.

 

 

Later that day another infiltration mission.

 

 

This time we manage to shoot down Battleship and one of the escort ships. Things look quite interesting.

 

 

 

 

[silencer_pl]

In this UFO there will be new kind of alien - pretty tough one and I was amazed how good human weapons work against it.

 

 

We start in the very end of this map. This UFO is so big that it covers most of it. Upon entering some kind of underground bunker we spot lonely Anthropod.

 

 

Astra is able to mind control him and we move it to the other team so they can shoot him later.

 

 

More aliens exit the UFO as we approach.

 

 

Again MC works like a charm.

 

 

Even more aliens come down the lift.

 

 

There it is - Megaspawn - very tough and powerful alien that can shoot both Devastator Cannon and Dimensional Missile or rather their counterparts since they are his biological "arms".

 

 

There are three of those on this ship. Pretty much I thought that it will eat my ammo but surprisingly Power Sword just needs to use half of its energy and two soldiers with AC-AP ammo can kill it fast. Of course Toxigun with Toxin Type C kills it in few shots...

 

 

Last of this Megaspawns will be captured.

 

See ? No problem at all.

 

 

NKF slices additionally through some poopers.

 

 

More successful mind controlling - nothing like to use aliens as personal shields.

 

 

They are using demolition weapons and so will I.

 

 

After that there was quite a hide and seek with remaining 2 skeletoids. I don't know how they slipped through. No teleports were used and here they are.

 

 

Last one.

 

 

 

The path for Annihilator is secured I think.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[silencer_pl]

Rearmed and restocked we move in for the Escort UFO.

 

 

This should be fairly quick mission as this is small UFO and there is not a lot crew.

 

 

When we close by, a pooper pops up.

 

 

Lucky NKF reaction shot stopped his mad charge. And If I say lucky I mean so, NKF's reactions are almost non-existant.

 

 

Upon entering UFO, Thorondor spots another pooper and makes a ventilation hole out of his arse - literally.

 

 

The team gathers near the elevator. First go in the psykers for MC opportunity.

 

 

Whole team just now assaults this floor.

 

 

A little mayhem through destruction.

 

 

That wasn't that hard - we out gunned them pretty much.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[silencer_pl]

Captured Megaspawn is transported to the Science base.

 

 

And aliens live us be for the rest of the week.

 

 

Now that is done - 9 days of building

 

 

We can now go for the best armour.

 

 

Talking about HWP.

 

 

Week 7 almost at end.

 

 

 

That week went rather quietly.

 

 

But in this one....

 

 

Alien feel bit too sure about their mothership. It dropped the payload in the Mall.

 

 

And we managed just barely drop it.

 

 

I am not sure but in mothership there might be Psionic type aliens.

 

 

 

 

[silencer_pl]

We arrive at the mall again and right from the start we spot aliens.

 

 

We kill as many as we can.

 

 

Some of our agents got blasted by poopers and Dimensional Launcher - they are lucky to be alive.

 

 

Spitters in walkway (or whatever you can call it)

 

 

This guy here thinks he can take us.

 

 

Guess he didn't thought about this.

 

 

We kill the spitters in a matter of seconds.

 

 

Anthropods in sight - MC succesfull.

 

 

Let them kill each other - by the way - that is a lot of Launchers I've seen in this mission. Gets pretty scary if they shoot at you.

 

 

Nutrivend is also deploying demolishion squad but of course any damage is going on my account - the bastards.

 

 

That is the last of them.

 

 

And I guess one of the aliens escaped.

 

 

 

With that kind of load out enemy is serving you could demolish almost whole map.

 

 

[silencer_pl]

Alien Mohtership here we come. It is a bit smaller than battleship.

 

 

Upon entering the UFO, Psymorphs are waiting. Those are Apocalypse equivalents of Etheralas only they can't shoot but with current psi system every human can be his weapon. Our best Psionics have 8% chance of Mind Controlling him right now and I believe our best Psi-Attack value is something near 80.

 

 

Of course we want at least 1 alive. Guarding the entrance are 2 Megaspawns.

 

 

But they don't scare us.

 

 

It's raining poopers - that is not good sign.

 

 

Anthropods hiding in one of the wings. Demolish them.

 

 

Sgt. Strike and SV kill skeletoids in other wing.

 

 

I'll demolish this UFO if I have to.

 

 

SV has a tough situation. He asks Veki for some fireworks.

 

 

Those brainsuckers had a tough time jumping on our heads because there was no free room above them.

 

 

After so much destruction we search for the remnants of the crew. On of them gets a surprise attack but she was carrying two shields.

 

 

This final alien eluded me for like 20 turns.

 

 

 

That was one explody mission

[NKF]

Disrupter armor! Yay! Just imagine the extra TUs you'll have after outfitting the team with these.

 

Can you get any mid-explosion screencaps? Seeing the remains of the big engine block, I imagine the fireworks was impressive.

 

- NKF

[silencer_pl]

Captured psimorph gets delivered to our science boys.

 

 

No further spread of alien scum after the incident in mall. Could it be that Battleships / Motherships don't generate multiple infiltrations?

 

End of day.

 

 

Before this day ends we uncover what lies behind this new creature.

 

 

 

Finally, now I have to wait for workshops to be constructed and we can start being almost invincible.

 

 

Now we need to study this UFO type 3 - it will get us our own inter-dimensional transporter that will carry our troops.

 

 

Looks like aliens decided to downgrade their infiltration fleet.

 

 

We are almost close to strike back at the alien dimension ourselves.

 

 

 

 

 

Disrupter armor! Yay! Just imagine the extra TUs you'll have after outfitting the team with these.

 

Can you get any mid-explosion screencaps? Seeing the remains of the big engine block, I imagine the fireworks was impressive.

 

- NKF

 

Next time I will promise to deliver some. Your avatar will not get that much of a boost because in Marsec armour you are loosing I don't know 6-12 TU's.

[Sgt. Strike]

Disruptor armor mixed with the Marsec chest piece makes for awesome flying soldiers, all around.

[Space Voyager]

Wow, this was one huge update, Silencer! A lot of progress made. I'd just like to hint that lately I feel very vulnerable. I'd like to apply for the new armour as well.

[silencer_pl]

Disruptor armor mixed with the Marsec chest piece makes for awesome flying soldiers, all around.

 

True but I don't like mixing armours. Teleporters should soon be available. Probably week 9 and those are far better than flying suits.

 

Wow, this was one huge update, Silencer! A lot of progress made. I'd just like to hint that lately I feel very vulnerable. I'd like to apply for the new armour as well.

 

Like I said I need to pick up the pace and finish all before new XCOM arrives.

 

::

 

We arrive at the Car Factory.

 

 

There are some Anthropods nearby.

 

 

Sgt. Strike kills them and squad carries on.

 

 

What luck.

 

 

And a multiworm.

 

 

Skeletoids sighted.

 

 

And dealt with.

 

 

I've spent 6 or 7 turns finding them. This is like (*Barney impersonation voice"):

 

"-Yhhh maybe we should wait here and those X-Com guys go away?"

"-Sure, yhh great idea"

"-Oh noes, the see us, what do we do?"

"-I don't know, panic maybe?"

 

 

[silencer_pl]

Next mission - warehouse.

 

 

Enemies in sight.

 

 

Kill them, kill them...

 

 

The last one runs away strangely. More aliens.

 

 

Better run close to him - this should prevent him from firing.

 

 

The last brainsucker killed.

 

 

Mind controlling is fun. You can make them drop bombs on each other.

 

 

More launchers - I hate when they are using them.

 

 

Yes go panic and die.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[silencer_pl]

Mission 3 - UFO.

 

 

They've learned to come quick to the door.

 

 

So lucky, and once again lucky.

 

 

Preparing to enter UFO.

 

 

Incoming party.

 

 

God damn it - 4 poopers blasted through I hate them.

 

 

They almost killed one of their own too.

 

 

Shoot yourselves will you?

 

 

Operation bum rush initiated:

 

 

And I didn't get the rest of the pictures....

 

Finishing of rest of the crew.

 

 

 

No further infiltration spread - very strange - either I am rolling a good dice or maybe they stopped doing it after my many counter attacks.

 

Anyway day ends.

 

 

We can now make our transportation vehicle.

 

 

And we start on this powerful weapon.

 

 

Another day ends.

 

 

The last of the UFO that we can know. It also contains Micronoid Aggreaget alien - another Psionic type alien though slightly weaker than Psimorph. You can compare it to sectoid commander.

 

 

This looks like a subversion fleet according to ufopaedia. Which scares me a little. They have dropped some rain into this Police station. Now ufopaedia says it is random, but clearly there should be some formula about taking over whole organization. Afterall infiltration is at 0% and Megapol is huge what chance is that they will not turn over?

 

[Wintermist]

Phew, that was some tough fighting. How about a payraise? This is more than I signed up for!

[silencer_pl]

Phew, that was some tough fighting. How about a payraise? This is more than I signed up for!

 

I think you must recheck that agreement. Technically by joining X-Com you officially case to exist. Your soul is now in the hands of X-Com commander. If you are ordered to die - you die, simple as that we will then later clone you. So fall in and keep killing those aliens.

 

::

 

First we target those older UFOs which we encountered previously.

 

 

This should be fairly easy and too boot we start at the front door. We go in, kill aliens and before the next UFO get colder we will be enjoying some tea in our base.

 

First aliens spotted.

 

 

NKF scouts ahead.

 

 

That is a nice gathering there. Let's take advantage of it.

 

 

What happened here is that the alien carrying Dimensional Launcher got hit by Enthropy launcher. That left quite a nice boom in that room.

 

 

Only this one skeletoid remained.

 

 

 

 

[silencer_pl]

Team 2 arrives at second UFO.

 

 

They are not that skilled like we are but their battle value is good enough. Upon entering UFO a lone skeletoids guards it. We kill him.

 

 

Some Anthropods show and one of them shot a brainsucker pod. Lucky for us it hit a wall and is unable to get free.

 

 

I failed at this one... but he will live.

 

 

Let's make it nice and easy.

 

 

More targets.

 

 

Cleaning up.

 

 

 

 

Now for the new UFOs.

 

 

 

 

 

[silencer_pl]

This is small UFO with small space. We should be careful because those Micronoids are nasty.

 

 

Entrance is clear. Poopers spotted on upper floor and so are some Anthropods.

 

 

Poopers are more dangerous so NKF slices them and hides behind the wall while other take care of the Anthropods.

 

 

Something is fishy here - too little aliens opposing us.

 

 

Right...

 

 

NKF does hit and run tactic for few turns while other can gather for operation bum rush.

 

 

We use stun grenade to help stun those micronoids. We capture one and kill the other. Veki here hit those missiles. Explosions destroyed his and NKFs shield on both slightly wounded.

 

 

 

Other team should also don't have problems.

 

 

 

 

 

Last UFO.

 

 

This time they meet us properly on entrance. Lucky those didn't do a thing, let's waste them.

 

 

Nice gathering here... I'll give you a hand.

 

 

How did you survive.

 

 

That is how

 

 

 

That was too easy.

[NKF]

I get paid better than anyone on the team. I get paid in nuts.

 

Something in the back of my mind's telling me I'm being had....

 

- NKF

[silencer_pl]

If you mean that I used your psionic immunity against those micronoids you are probably right. But you are such an excellent berserker I am pretty amazed of what you are achieving.

 

 

Edit: Moved last part because of the image limitation.

 

Micronoids delivered to the egg heads.

 

 

Day ends. Megapol isn't converted.

 

 

Dimension Launcher now ready to use.

 

 

And I am quite surprised... that is very very good news. After that and Disrupotr Armour any mission will be piece of cake.

 

 

But what is this? Who dares !?

 

[Thorondor]

No alien piece of filth will be tolerated at our sparkling, well kept facilities.

 

Scientists and engineers be damned - they should have made sure our perimeter couldn't be breached in the first place.

 

Safeguard the nurses!!

 

::

 

Let's kick some invader behinds!

[silencer_pl]

Ok no blue armour of magnificence for you

 

Our base is under attack. NKF and Brett are assigned to safe guard and escort if possible our Engineers out of the harms way.

 

 

This is our base - we all start closeby the main entrance point. So all go and try to secure it for engineers to exit.

 

 

The exit looks clear so we rush them out of the battle field. Next we search for the invaders. They are gangsters from Osiron group. They lately went hostile on us because of the collateral damage we have done to the city. Well they loss. If the main entrance is clear then this means they are somewhere in the repair bay.

 

 

Almost whole gang there. Let's start shooting.

 

 

One of those sneaky gits fired enough shots to disrupt Azraels shield and slightly wounded him (her), but he died a painful death.

 

 

We continue with the massacre.

 

 

Now we have them surrounded, this means that it's almost over for them.

 

 

And they succumb to our might Psionics.