Jman4117 Posted March 21, 2011 Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 https://img856.imageshack.us/img856/463/cyberstorm01.jpgThis is Cyberstorm. A Mech Commander style strategy game in the Earthsiege/Tribes universe produced in 1996. You take on the role of a junior officer that has just been hired on by the military arm of a megacorp called Unitech. You start with the ability to have up to three genetically engineered clones called Bioderms that have been designed to pilot mechs called HERCs much faster and more precisely than a normal human could. As you play you rise in rank and can have more mechs and pilots on the roster and better equipment. There's also a rather interesting plot that unravels as you play through the game that I'm not going to spoil here so...https://img838.imageshack.us/img838/2010/cyberstorm02.jpgWelcome to the Frontier guys, may you not get abandoned and used for Cybrid bait. (or go up in a massive explosion when your mech explodes) https://img339.imageshack.us/img339/9586/cyberstorm03.jpgThis is where they explain the protoplasmic crap we start with. We will be getting rid of those ASAP unless anyone wants to be one of those of course..https://img15.imageshack.us/img15/6508/cyberstorm04.jpgAnd the two starting mechs. The Shadow is a great dedicated scout platform so long as you can keep it out of enemy fire. The Remora should be rather quickly replaced as soon as new technology is allowed and funds are acquired for better equipment.https://img852.imageshack.us/img852/9956/cyberstorm05.jpgThis is the HERC Base. From here you can go to the HERC Bay and manage your mechs, the Bioderm Facility to manage your pilots and the HERC Command Center to select missions.https://img813.imageshack.us/img813/400/cyberstorm07.jpghttps://img813.imageshack.us/img813/8275/cyberstorm08.jpgFirst we'll go to the These are your two starting mechs, the 1 Shadow and 1 Remora, We'll keep them as default for the first mission.https://img808.imageshack.us/img808/9329/cyberstorm09.jpgHere's where we pick our missions. The only one we're allowed to go on at the moment is that training mission. I guess they don't trust us not to do something stupid like taking on the Cybrid Command and Control in this system just yet! Edit: and now we wait on the next set of images...curse you 10 image limit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 aaaannnnnd, we're back, time to pick that training mission and go on it.https://img854.imageshack.us/img854/5603/cyberstorm10.jpghttps://img218.imageshack.us/img218/7403/cyberstorm11.jpgThis is the info on the planet that this lone turret that we have to kill is on. 52% gravity means we can run about double the distance per turn. Now that the basics of the game are out of the way, let's go blast some 'brids.https://img130.imageshack.us/img130/8659/cyberstorm12.jpgTurn 1 (yeah, I'm going to be skipping these after the first)https://img815.imageshack.us/img815/8063/cyberstorm13.jpgHere we start out next to the craft that brought us to this planet, the HERC Carrier. If this protoplastic trash fails, the pilot will take off and leave them to die then Unitech will make good on that threat about leaving me on some barren moon with a beacon around my neck..https://img861.imageshack.us/img861/5985/cyberstorm14.jpghttps://img855.imageshack.us/img855/8687/cyberstorm15.jpgAnd now we move out with the Remora and quickly find that lone turret we're here to kill.https://img853.imageshack.us/img853/5797/cyberstorm16.jpghttps://img843.imageshack.us/img843/2633/cyberstorm17.jpgShields front, weapons hot. Fire at will Model 101! Annnd it doesn't die..https://img824.imageshack.us/img824/2079/cyberstorm18.jpgSo the scout comes over to help. Next turn..https://img821.imageshack.us/img821/8233/cyberstorm19.jpgOk it's dead with a couple of shots of the Remora's auto cannons and we run back to the carrier to get out of here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 https://img823.imageshack.us/img823/4323/cyberstorm20.jpghttps://img806.imageshack.us/img806/8283/cyberstorm21.jpgYes, we should get out of here before the defender finds out we shot up their turret and comes to kill our crappy mechs.https://img222.imageshack.us/img222/9783/cyberstorm22.jpgMission successful. We didn't get the bonus for Unitech coming back and mining all the ore in the area since there was an enemy still alive.https://img841.imageshack.us/img841/2498/cyberstorm23.jpghttps://img858.imageshack.us/img858/4914/cyberstorm24.jpghttps://img864.imageshack.us/img864/1665/cyberstorm25ct.jpgAhhh a promotion! Now we aren't confined to just having utter garbage. The 2 of the 3 new HERCs that we now have access to are quite good. The Ogre will be the front line fighter for the time being until something better comes along while the Giant will stay useful the entire game as a form of cheap artillery. The Sensei isn't that great. You get a mech that's a mediocre scout that gets slowed way down when you actually arm it. The key to scouts in Cyberstorm is make it light, make it fast, and keep it out of enemy weapons range.https://img145.imageshack.us/img145/9628/cyberstorm27.jpgCan't afford a bit of the new tech though since we only have about 15,000 credits...We need to go mining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 Welcome back folks. We have 15,000 credits in the bank and need to prepare for a mining mission to further gain networth to get better equipment to make more money to buy better equipment. Quite the vicious cycle isn't it? 15,000 is about enough for a second Remora and one of the cheaper pilots that we just unlocked with the promotion.https://img854.imageshack.us/img854/5219/snapshot1i.jpgThis is the standard model of Remora that we started with except that the shields were upped from 600 to 900, and life support and targeting computer improved to the best available. Downgrading the legs from reinforced to standard has given us a speed increase while dropping the total cost back down to a few hundred credits over stock.https://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7885/snapshot2su.jpgNext we go to the biovat and clone up the cheapest of the new pilots, Kyoko. She sucks, but she's miles better than the crap we started with.https://img39.imageshack.us/img39/7442/snapshot3l.jpgShe is then trained to improve her piloting ability slightly and then assigned to the new Remora.https://img834.imageshack.us/img834/4964/snapshot4d.jpghttps://img703.imageshack.us/img703/2638/snapshot5kd.jpgAfter we get our squad together, we go to select the mining mission. This world is much like the last, a barren airless hellhole infested with cybrids that are trying to take our ore.https://img696.imageshack.us/img696/6817/snapshot6rk.jpgYep, we're going to be the exterminator this time, no simply mining the quota of ore for the bonus. Here we will kill all enemies and have Unitech mine the ore for us and give us the money for all that ore we wouldn't be able to pick up with the extractors on 3 HERCs.https://img710.imageshack.us/img710/5302/snapshot7cr.jpg3....2....1...Liftoff of HERC Carrier StrategyCore on a 1 month mission of corporate imperialism https://img857.imageshack.us/img857/8661/snapshot8.jpghttps://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4355/snapshot9a.jpgAnd we touch down presumably about 2 weeks later on this barren planet. Luckily we manage to catch the cybrids in the act of stealing our ore right off the bat and prepare to attack them.https://img217.imageshack.us/img217/9675/snapshot10sq.jpghttps://img98.imageshack.us/img98/5849/snapshot11o.jpgBut first, we must drug the vat clones to compensate for the fact that they suck at this whole mech piloting thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 https://img846.imageshack.us/img846/9453/snapshot12.jpgAh, ready, and in formation with the scout hiding behind the two Remoras so it doesn't die too quickly. Fire at will drugged up clone slaves!https://img263.imageshack.us/img263/1454/snapshot13e.jpgI guess we got their attention. The Cerebrus came to point blank range and opened fire, lightly damaging Model 101's HERC. We fire on it again, lightly wounding it back. and it flanks us in the next turn and shoots her in the back where her shields are weaker.https://img560.imageshack.us/img560/4200/snapshot14.jpgFinally we get our revenge when our lasers finally take down the shields on the Cybrid and three volleys of missiles take it out.https://img641.imageshack.us/img641/9200/snapshot15g.jpghttps://img703.imageshack.us/img703/5576/snapshot16b.jpgModel 101's HERC has taken moderate damage now and she's starting to show signs of genetic instability. We'd better keep her out of enemy fire for a while and let her shields recharge before we get her killed.https://img818.imageshack.us/img818/5285/snapshot17sj.jpgNOOO! That lone Parasite, the weakest HERC the Cybrids have has just killed our Shadow and the Remora piloted by our new Bioderm. Can Model 101 keep it together and pull through for the win? Or will she die in battle with the rest of the squad and get commander Jman abandoned on this moon with a becon around his neck? Stay tuned Corporate citizens for the next installment of Vat Clone Adventures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 Welcome back folks! When we left yesterday we had two badly damaged HERCs squared off against each other fighting over an ore deposit. Our Remora was down to a rating of 36% and the pilot was about to dissociate into a puddle of protoplasm if she had to take much more of a fight. How did this battle end? Did our hero prevail? Or did the Cybrids remain in control of the ore? https://img827.imageshack.us/img827/8761/snapshot18w.jpgDespite being heavily damaged, and her two lasers missing the target at point blank range, Model 101 manages to take down the Parasite with the small amount of damage that her autocannons and missiles dealt that bypassed the shields. Another turn and she would have surely died and we would have lost the battle. https://img22.imageshack.us/img22/9425/snapshot19i.jpghttps://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9886/snapshot20n.jpgLuckily we received 51k from this mission. The scrapheap of a HERC we left the battle with is worth around 9k, quite a lot considering it was shot to hell and nearly lost. We have a value of around 60k which is more than double our net worth from before the mission. This should be enough to outfit a halfway decent squad now and not be stuck fielding Remoras as our main battle HERCs. https://img864.imageshack.us/img864/9513/cyberstorm001b.jpgUpon returning to base we go into the HERC Bay to rebuild our forces. https://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9749/cyberstorm002.jpgThis Remora is trashed but still retains about 85% of it's original value we're going to sell it to get our money back out of it and spend it buying some Ogres. https://img405.imageshack.us/img405/923/cyberstorm003.jpgHere we see Ogres for around 19k, we should be able to buy 2 of them and have our Shadow replaced since we have to have a scout or we're blind. Any left over funds will be used to tweak weapons loadouts and to buy more pilots. https://img10.imageshack.us/img10/851/cyberstorm004.jpgThese babies have 18cm armor on them, compared to the 5cm that the Remoras carry. We also added a Flexive drive system to boost speed and improved our targeting, life support and shields to the best that this chasis can equip. This pushes the total value of each up to 21k credits. Will they be as good as two 11k Remoras? We'll have to see. https://img585.imageshack.us/img585/2095/cyberstorm005.jpgNow we have just under 13k to spend on pilots. First we're going to recycle the hero of the last mission and reclaim the credits instead of healing her back to her lovely protoplasmic self. This will get us 675, you could buy another one for much less than it would cost to heal it. She only costs 740 credits new, why be sentimental? https://img821.imageshack.us/img821/4116/cyberstorm006.jpgA long agonizing death scream later we go into the Biovat to scroll through available Bioderms. Sadly Tola's 50k price tag is out of our reach...One day Tola, you will be mine! https://img703.imageshack.us/img703/3092/cyberstorm007.jpgScrolling through the Bioderms we find one in our price range that's good at piloting and energy weapons and decent at cannons. Just what our Ogres need. I'll take two, Dr. Frankenstien. https://img28.imageshack.us/img28/9207/cyberstorm008.jpgAnd we buy a Kyoko for our Shadow before finishing up here with some cannon training for Kouras 1 and 2. Next stop: The Planet Ora. A lifeless ball of grey dust that we must secure the ore on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Welcome back, when we left off yesterday we had just upgraded our fighting force from Remoras to Ogres. Much better anti shield damage, but they lack missiles. So we're sadly leaving the Shadow armed with them at the cost of a massive speed reduction. We also have 3 of the crappier new Bioderms since we can't afford a horde of Tolas just yet. More mining missions should change that though: https://img708.imageshack.us/img708/1927/cyberstorm010.jpgHere we are landed on the planet Ora. Another lifeless rock similar to the moon covered in ore that we're here to exploit. Let's start exploring the surface with the Shadow until we find those pesky cybrids that are here to take our ore. https://img163.imageshack.us/img163/6241/cyberstorm011.jpgCONTACT! Waste'em Kouras Twins! https://img824.imageshack.us/img824/3647/cyberstorm012.jpgThe Ogres take the shields out with one hit from a laser 660, unfortunately their cannons don't take the little bugger out https://img847.imageshack.us/img847/5587/cyberstorm013.jpgGood thing that Shadow has missiles, one hit and the target is dust. https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3815/cyberstorm014.jpg48k total take, not bad for 1 turn mission. That automined ore bonus was awesome that time. Remember folks, kill all the cybrids, you get all the ore. https://img833.imageshack.us/img833/8828/cyberstorm015.jpgBack at base we have enough credits to fully kit out the 4 HERCs we're allowed to have at our rank. Since missiles are what seems to be desiding battles quickly, we'll pick out the Sensei over the Giant for the time being. https://img545.imageshack.us/img545/35/cyberstorm016.jpgOur Shadow is being rebuilt to maximize its speed and sensor range with only the missiles left. With luck we'll be able to keep it behind our other three HERCs during cybrid turns and it won't be shot up. https://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7410/cyberstorm017.jpgThis is our new HERC. We only have it because it's better than a Remora. It can carry missiles that are 50% stronger than the two light HERCs can carry, and it has autocannons. Sadly, it's limited to only laser 400s for the arms. https://img828.imageshack.us/img828/1402/cyberstorm018.jpgOur Ogres are going to be outfitted to the max laser 1000s in place of the 660s and 30mm chainguns replacing the cannons. These upgrades cost about 10k for each mech leaving use with only about 6k to spend on another pilot, so we'll have to ditch the chains for this mission to get the best pilot for the money: Xian https://img834.imageshack.us/img834/4446/cyberstorm019.jpgXian is the perfect fit for the Ogre chasis. High in energy and cannon weapons. Much higher than anything else in his price range. We'll recycle one of the Kouras clones and buy two of these. The other Kouras can pilot the Shadow since he's the best in piloting skill and the Sensei goes to Kyoko since she's better with missiles. https://img856.imageshack.us/img856/6442/cyberstorm020.jpgOne of the nice things about this game is that you can name your guys. Welcome aboard Space Voyager! https://img196.imageshack.us/img196/9836/cyberstorm021.jpgHere are our HERC assignments. Hopefully the Xian clones will do the Ogres justice. https://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1936/cyberstorm022.jpgNext stop: Beran. A terrestrial world much like Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 https://img190.imageshack.us/img190/4060/cyberstorm023.jpgLiftoff! Next stop, Beran! https://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3421/cyberstorm024.jpgWe touch down next to a desert area on Beran. Gravity is 93% Earth's, so we won't have the large impressive distances covered per turn. Also, isn't Chang a nice guy? Anyhoo let's go and hunt those Cybrids! https://img823.imageshack.us/img823/4963/cyberstorm025.jpgDammit! The Sensei and Ogres went the opposite directs from where this little guy is coming from. It came into range of the HERC Carrier and shot at it. We'd better move back the other way and shoot it back! https://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3309/cyberstorm026.jpgFirst we'll need to give everyone their Jackup before they start taking these long range shots on that thing. https://img638.imageshack.us/img638/4223/cyberstorm027.jpgAll three hercs fire all they have at it, but do light damage. Hopefully next turn we'll be able to hit more accurately as we close with it. https://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1596/cyberstorm028.jpgGood going Xian, you took down it's shields! https://img814.imageshack.us/img814/4391/cyberstorm029.jpgKyoko...FIRE! Good job, now back to the carrier and return to base! https://img824.imageshack.us/img824/2603/cyberstorm030.jpgWe brought in 55k that time, more than enough to get everything upgraded, including two of the pilots. https://img854.imageshack.us/img854/3717/cyberstorm031.jpgThis is Borok, the best scout pilot in the game, he'll go into the Shadow and hopefully die of old age still piloting that HERC..but if he dies, he's cheap. https://img402.imageshack.us/img402/3167/cyberstorm032.jpgUru, StrategyCore. StrategyCore, Uru. He'll be our first Bioderm with command potential. He'll pilot the Sensei and keep the others around him more genetically stable. How this works, I have no clue. Maybe morale effects stability or something? https://img197.imageshack.us/img197/3148/cyberstorm033.jpgWelcome to the barren hellhole moon of the planet we just visited, enjoy your stay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 But first:https://img145.imageshack.us/img145/5115/cyberstorm034.jpgI dub thee FIRE WARRIOR https://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7799/cyberstorm035.jpgGreetings ladies. Welcome to Hell. A barren airless moon covered in rough terrain and crawling with Cybrids. Let's say we don't stay long, agreed? https://img16.imageshack.us/img16/702/cyberstorm036.jpgThere's ore in them thar hills, lets go see if we can jump us some Cybrid miners. https://img545.imageshack.us/img545/1482/cyberstorm037.jpgWell, we found them! A lone Parasite just came out of nowhere and blindsided Xian. Luckily nobody was hurt. Except the Cybrid... https://img821.imageshack.us/img821/158/cyberstorm038.jpgCongratulations to Space Voyager on another kill! https://img809.imageshack.us/img809/1717/cyberstorm039.jpgWow, we brought in 60k that time. I think that's the most so far and we have absolutely nothing to spend it on, hopefully we'll get a promotion soon.. https://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4221/cyberstorm040.jpgWell, no promotion this time so we'll go on another mining mission, this time back on Ora. https://img825.imageshack.us/img825/8884/cyberstorm041.jpgSheesh, I swear that carrier pilot hates us..anyways, good hunting, guys! https://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3636/cyberstorm042.jpgLooky here, Borok found our prey https://img847.imageshack.us/img847/2218/cyberstorm043.jpgSpace Voyger: Fire at will! https://img191.imageshack.us/img191/3742/cyberstorm044.jpgGood work! Fire Warrior, Xian: Next one's yours https://img121.imageshack.us/img121/7528/cyberstorm045.jpgNice shooting guys! And congrats to Fire Warrior on his first kill! https://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5086/cyberstorm046.jpgYES! Prooooomotion! https://img15.imageshack.us/img15/42/cyberstorm047.jpgAnd congratulations on not being "discontinued". https://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7039/cyberstorm048.jpgAhhhh, the god of all things cannon: Tarsus. The model of Bioderm that simply begs for a Giant Our new rank allows us to field 6 HERCs and pilots now. We have 132k in the bank more than enough for 2 more units. How does a Giant and another Ogre sound? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2011 Welcome back guys. When we left off last we had just gotten a promotion from our corporate masters allowing us to command a force of 6 HERCs. They also gave us an awesome bioderm that apparently destroyed a friendly base solo..hopefully he won't repeat that here with the Giant we're giving him *crosses fingers, toes and legs* https://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6534/cyberstorm049.jpgFirst we'll buy a Giant and equip it with the best cannons on the sides, and 2 blast mortars on the roof. What a plast mortar is is a plasma type weapon that fires in an arc and has an area effect. When we start to attack bases, these things are devistating to the shields of buildings. https://img848.imageshack.us/img848/1246/cyberstorm050.jpgThe Ogres are going to be upgraded to have compression lasers, these are the same as the old lasers expect that they do double the armour damage. Perhaps now the Ogres can reliably kill things without the help of missiles from the Sensei. In addition, the Sensei will get compression lasers on its arms and the Shadow will be stripped bare allowing it to move faster. https://img848.imageshack.us/img848/4764/cyberstorm051.jpgAfter buying another Ogre and equipping it to the same spec as the others, we'll buy another Xian for it. We'll soon be getting to the point of buying Tola clones for these things https://img200.imageshack.us/img200/5500/cyberstorm052.jpgLet's try our first official military mission. Hopefully it'll be a pie run. The objective is to destroy the small Cybrid force on this area of the planet. With luck, we won't get our asses kicked. https://img51.imageshack.us/img51/8233/cyberstorm053.jpgSeems like all the missions were for this snow covered world. I hate it, but I have to deal with it I guess. The white bits greatly reduce our movement https://img600.imageshack.us/img600/1414/cyberstorm054.jpgVermin, AKA Us, have been detected, maybe this means that they are going to come to us instead of having to walk around for them.. https://img846.imageshack.us/img846/554/cyberstorm055.jpgYep, INCOMING! https://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4429/cyberstorm056.jpgGood work Tarsus, you made your mortar land behind them and take out the shields that don't matter, grrr! https://img843.imageshack.us/img843/6443/cyberstorm057.jpgIf you can see on the map, two of these Specters are crouching just behind the edge of the hill, this makes them harder to hit. As you can see on Firewarrior's targeting system, they have part of the hill in the way. https://img825.imageshack.us/img825/4982/cyberstorm058.jpgWay to go Tarsus! Those 120mm cannons are awesome when you have 99% ability with them! https://img641.imageshack.us/img641/7970/cyberstorm059.jpgOh look, 2 more! Bringing the total to 5 Cybrids so far! https://img715.imageshack.us/img715/6016/cyberstorm060.jpgCongrats to the master of the cannon on yet another kill! https://img863.imageshack.us/img863/1072/cyberstorm061.jpgSpace Voyager takes down the shields, Firewarrior drops in a missile for the kill! https://img534.imageshack.us/img534/1973/cyberstorm062.jpgTarsus uses his blast mortars on the Cybrid, but only one connects which doesn't quite take down the shields to allow Firewarrior to fire another missile. Maybe next turn.. https://img833.imageshack.us/img833/5641/cyberstorm063.jpgThe last Cybrid closes the distance and opens fire on Firewarrior who then returns fire and takes the pesky bugger out solo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2011 https://img716.imageshack.us/img716/4384/cyberstorm064.jpgNot a huge haul this time. Mainly because we weren't fighting over a mining site. The 5000 in bounties on the Cybrids we killed is a bonus since we probably only took about 1000 in damage to the Sensei and one of the Ogres. https://img861.imageshack.us/img861/1395/cyberstorm065.jpgOk, more like 2200, that Ogre was more damaged than I thought. *presses Repair Fleet* https://img593.imageshack.us/img593/1442/cyberstorm066.jpgUp Next: A mining run to Tirith https://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4207/cyberstorm067.jpgUpon landing we begin a sweep with the scouts, hunting those Cybrids that are out there moving in on our action. https://img714.imageshack.us/img714/9107/cyberstorm068.jpgWell, we found them! Everyone NORTH! Double time! https://img35.imageshack.us/img35/495/cyberstorm069.jpgLooks like we have a Genocite, a medium Cybrid. The biggest we've seen yet! https://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2606/cyberstorm070.jpgBlast mortars finish taking out the shields, and two 120s take it into the red, excellent! https://img863.imageshack.us/img863/5933/cyberstorm071.jpgAnd Firewarrior comes in and shoots for the kill! https://img15.imageshack.us/img15/7817/cyberstorm072.jpgThe Parasite comes in to get his revenge. Sadly, he can't even dent the shields on the Sensei. Poor light Cybrid :'( https://img818.imageshack.us/img818/8425/cyberstorm073.jpgCongrats to Firewalker for being a kill hog..Stupid missile boats https://img846.imageshack.us/img846/6890/cyberstorm074.jpg60k that mission, I smell some upgrades to Tola! https://img192.imageshack.us/img192/6756/cyberstorm075.jpgThe Space Voyager clone gives a totally girly scream! https://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9103/cyberstorm076.jpgAnd his consiousness is downloaded into the uber manly: Tola https://img405.imageshack.us/img405/8902/cyberstorm077.jpghttps://img25.imageshack.us/img25/1364/cyberstorm078.jpgAh, a new planet to pillage! This one has higher gravity than Earth, so we'll have to move slow here. Hopefully the new clone that Space Voyager has will do much better than his old one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 Welcome back! When we left off yesterday we just got our first Tola! The best 'derm you can buy. While there are a couple that are arguably better, they are one of a kind and have much shorter lifespans. By the end of the game, we'll probably have a handful of unique guys that Unitech gives to us like Tarsus and about 15 Tolas. So...let's see what this 50k uber 'derm can do! https://img822.imageshack.us/img822/1322/cyberstorm079.jpgWelcome to Parsus. A world covered in a nitrogen atmosphere that will make you laugh yourself silly until your life functions cease! https://img819.imageshack.us/img819/6797/cyberstorm080.jpgUpon landing we send the Shadow around the western part of the map while the rest of the team heads east to scout there. The Sensei spots this Parasite on the second turn and Xian approaches and opens fire. A shot of 1000, 2 400s and 4 blasts of the cannons and it dies. Good job Xian! https://img838.imageshack.us/img838/6115/cyberstorm081.jpgThe Sensei approaches closer and spots the Parasite's big brother, a Genocite. Roughly the same weight as our Ogres, but with missiles instead of cannons. Making it much more dangerous to unshielded targets. Space Voyager, let's see what your new body can do. https://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3365/cyberstorm082.jpgIt takes two of our Ogres firing off all of their lasers to bring down one of this thing's shield faces. Must be packing something bigger than our 1200 shields! https://img854.imageshack.us/img854/7135/cyberstorm083.jpgAnd 5 cannon hits take it out! In summary, the new Tola clone never missed with any of his 8 shots. The Xian clone missed 2 out of 5 shots. Go Tola! https://img814.imageshack.us/img814/1539/cyberstorm084.jpgWell folks, it's late folks. See you next time, hopefully with a new promotion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 Welcome back! We're condensing things a little since the mining missions are a little boring but we need the cash from them, so I'm not showing them when I go on them and just showing the results. Fortunately, as we advance, they get more and more interesting and this business of skipping the missions with 1-2 kills can end! https://img9.imageshack.us/img9/5884/cyberstorm085.jpgExcellent! We go on only one more mission from where we left off last and we get a promotion to Squad Leader! https://img534.imageshack.us/img534/5860/cyberstorm086.jpgYEEEEEAHHH BABY! The Demon! https://img714.imageshack.us/img714/7529/cyberstorm087.jpgThere she is, the Demon. The HERC that will be our main attack unit until fairly late in the game. It can carry 4 laser 1000s, and 2 missiles, making the Ogre look like a toy in comparison. And finally we can get rid of that Sensei since we finally have missiles on practically every unit on the battlefield now! https://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9973/cyberstorm088.jpgThis guy is Qabal. Rather than being the perfect Bioderm, he's perfectly average with 60 points in just about everything. Hopefully he dies first and we can put a Tola in his spot.. https://img20.imageshack.us/img20/387/cyberstorm089.jpgWe can now can field 7 HERCs and with a reserve of 2 Bioderms. Meaning we can rotate them based on the missions we're facing. This is great since we don't have to risk special pilots on silly missions where they aren't really needed while still being able to field their HERC in the hands of another pilot. https://img716.imageshack.us/img716/9228/cyberstorm090.jpgThis is the Demon, our goal is to get 5 of these into our current squad size. Let's see what we can get after selling the Ogres and Sensei. https://img651.imageshack.us/img651/931/cyberstorm091.jpgHere is our slighly modified Demon. At 60k we should be able to buy 4 of these with current funds. It moves at about half the speed of the Ogre. has about twice the damage potential, and has about 50% more defense. In the hands of a Tola, this thing is the god of the battlefield. https://img585.imageshack.us/img585/373/cyberstorm092.jpgMay as well give Fire Walker his promotion now. https://img851.imageshack.us/img851/9464/cyberstorm093.jpgCongrats on the brand spanking new Tola! https://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8933/cyberstorm094.jpgAnd after roughly 3 missions, we get yet another promotion! https://img546.imageshack.us/img546/7017/cyberstorm095.jpgYeah! Overdrive! These things are awesome and can make those Demons move like the old Ogres we had before. They also turn our scout into an extremely fast unit. You know how our Demons are 93 and our Ogres were 194? Well, the scout is going to be about 1500 now https://img8.imageshack.us/img8/319/cyberstorm096.jpgBoto! It's a chimp derm or something, right around here is when things in this game just get a tad weird... https://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6442/cyberstorm097.jpgThe Shadow: Decked out with 4 Overdrives https://img97.imageshack.us/img97/2691/cyberstorm098.jpgTarsus' Giant, sporting the lastest tech. 3 Overdrives are added in addition to this tech level's jammer, the Variable Pulse Ghoster. https://img850.imageshack.us/img850/9551/cyberstorm099.jpgThe Demons are similarly loaded out, with 3 Overdrives pushing their speed way up. They also have a new type of laser, the SCX which takes damage way up at the cost of dropping range from 20 to 15. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2011 https://img857.imageshack.us/img857/1843/cyberstorm100.jpgAnd now for what should be the last promotion we can get without winning this system first: https://img854.imageshack.us/img854/4485/cyberstorm101.jpgWe get the usual threats about screwing up and not being prepared to take on that main Cybrid base in the system. And, some new goodies for Tarsus' Giant, Particle Guns! These are neat, they do awesome armor damage, but they can also do shield damage that the cannons couldn't do. So in a last ditch effort, you can use these to bring down a target's shields to open them up for a missile volley. https://img855.imageshack.us/img855/9117/cyberstorm102.jpgThis is one of the best bioderms you can get in the game, sucks that he only lives for about 3 years compared to Tola's 10... https://img864.imageshack.us/img864/1801/cyberstorm103.jpgAnd a list showing our current 9 allowed HERCs after the promotion. There will be 7 Demons, 1 Giant, and 1 Shadow once we get just a little bit more money. For now, we have a second Shadow since you can put one of those on the battlefield for under 30k. https://img854.imageshack.us/img854/6519/cyberstorm104.jpgNext time: Mining where the Cybrids likely have a base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2011 https://img835.imageshack.us/img835/2770/cyberstorm105.jpgInbound to Tirith to kick some Cybrid ass! https://img545.imageshack.us/img545/9786/cyberstorm106.jpgThis trip we have 2 scouts. So hopefully we can get the whole map explored in one turn. https://img846.imageshack.us/img846/1301/cyberstorm107.jpgAhha! Borok just found a cluster of Cybrids with 2 turrets. https://img848.imageshack.us/img848/4918/cyberstorm108.jpgLet's get'em boys! https://img810.imageshack.us/img810/3624/cyberstorm109.jpgThis big guy, is a Hades. Roughly the Cybrid equivalent of the Giant. Only it carries a horde of missiles instead of cannons. It's one of the most dangerous enemies you can face. If your shields are down, you're dead against one of these. https://img864.imageshack.us/img864/9260/cyberstorm110.jpgThe three Demons sent to attack the first cluster of Cybrids manage to take out the rear shields of the Hades and Tarsus moves in for the kill! https://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8551/cyberstorm111.jpgOh boy, a second cluster of Cybrids with 2 Hades and 2 Genocites, and we only have 3 Demons left that haven't fired. Hopefully we can soften them up for the next turn.. https://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1458/cyberstorm112.jpgOh hell! Space Voyager and Firewarrior don't manage to take out anything. Shields front and crouch guys! https://img857.imageshack.us/img857/769/cyberstorm113.jpgWow, it seems Qabal is a total Jackup junkie. Nearly maxes out on everything while under the influence! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2011 https://img543.imageshack.us/img543/8780/cyberstorm114.jpgOk, next turn, and nobody died, I don't think they saw us and scattered out to find where we were..Or they are just a lot slower than our suped up speed demons. Either way, whew! https://img854.imageshack.us/img854/964/cyberstorm115.jpgFirewarrior: CHARRRRGGGEEEE!!!!!!!! https://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3996/cyberstorm116.jpgSpace Voyager: Tarsus, get yer arse up here and finish this!Tarsus: Rog, boss! Weapons hot! https://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7959/cyberstorm117.jpgAnnndd a Genosite bites the dust! https://img12.imageshack.us/img12/5454/cyberstorm118.jpgGood work wasting that Genocite, Qabal! https://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1332/cyberstorm119.jpgAnd this Hades continues to mine ore even after we're killed all his buddies.. Why isn't he running? He's just going to die here if he doesn't... https://img826.imageshack.us/img826/7149/cyberstorm120.jpgOh the joys of rough terrain...it slows us down AND it makes it harder for use to hit things! https://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1899/cyberstorm121.jpgHe finally decides it's time to run, but we're here to pump it full of lead! https://img690.imageshack.us/img690/9778/cyberstorm122.jpghttps://img546.imageshack.us/img546/3499/cyberstorm123.jpgExcellent, 85k is the most we're ever taken from a mission! 12 Cybrids were killed, 4 of them the large and dangerous Hades units. If we didn't have those Demons, we wouldn't have stood a chance in that fight, but we managed to get out without losing anybody. https://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3869/cyberstorm124.jpgGo patch up your HERCs guys, we're shipping out to head off an impending Cybrid attack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted March 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 Welcome back! When we left off last we had just accepted a base defense mission. The objective is to protect a group of Unitech installations from a Cybrid attack. We will be dropped into the middle of the base and our HERC carrier will return to orbit, so no resupply will be available. https://img715.imageshack.us/img715/7631/cyberstorm125.jpgHere we are, defending our base on Parsus from those two groups of Cybrids. Let's rock and roll! https://img585.imageshack.us/img585/4012/cyberstorm126.jpgNifty, our first encounter with a Nihilus, the heaviest Cybrid there is. We don't have anything that can go one on one with it yet. Hopefully we won't get anyone killed before we can take it out! https://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6629/cyberstorm127.jpgHere's the battle plan, we'll move 2 Demons on the smaller cluster of Cybrids. https://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1407/cyberstorm128.jpgAnd 4 Demons backed up by the Giant against the larger group that contains the Nihilus. The scouts will stay behind the base, only coming out to spot further into the enemy force during our turn. https://img851.imageshack.us/img851/6336/cyberstorm129.jpgSV, waste'em! https://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4630/cyberstorm130.jpgWe manage to take down 5 of them with the larger force group. All our lasers have been shot off, so we can't start on the units further back sadly. So this force is going to have to duck and cover with their shields fully in front. https://img24.imageshack.us/img24/949/cyberstorm131.jpgNice shooting Firewarrior! You should be able to take both of those down alone and leave your buddy there with full weapons to cover you! https://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7370/cyberstorm132.jpgOk, 6 Cybrids dead, 1 Genocite with moderate damage. Let's end this turn and see how things go! https://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8107/cyberstorm133.jpgThe Nihilus and 2 more Genocites approach firing everything they have. Luckily, they can't seem to hit the broad side of a barn. We on the other hand can: https://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2629/cyberstorm134.jpgTola opens up on the battered Genocite, quickly dispatching it with a laser blast and 2 missiles. Space Voyager then moves up to the front line and unloads on the Nihilus. He takes the shields nearly down as all 4 of his lasers hit, then Tola:2 takes them the rest of the way with a 5th shot from a laser. They both then fire their missiles on it killing it! https://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8881/cyberstorm135.jpgTola:2 then drops the shields on the 2nd Genocite with 3 blasts of laser! https://img708.imageshack.us/img708/5140/cyberstorm136.jpgTarsus comes up and drills it with two particle blasts for the kill. Nice shooting, dead-eye! https://img828.imageshack.us/img828/1291/cyberstorm137.jpgQabal then engages the remaining Genosite with all his guns, crippling it. https://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4371/cyberstorm138.jpgTarsus. Smoke'em. https://img810.imageshack.us/img810/2518/cyberstorm139.jpgGotta love those particle guns. They chew right through armor even on the heaviest Cybrids! https://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8381/cyberstorm140.jpgExcellent work guys. We got out of that one without a scratch on the paint! And we brought back a cool 53k, bringing our total to about 140k! https://img546.imageshack.us/img546/9339/cyberstorm141.jpgFinally enough for an 8th combat unit. So we can sell the second scout. https://img854.imageshack.us/img854/7006/cyberstorm142.jpgThis is the new Demon. Almost ready to take on that Elite Military mission. Only changes to the unit will be nano repair in place of one of the overdrives as funds allow in the next couple of missions. Speed won't be as important there on anything other than the scout and the Giant that will be used to take out a key building in the base that will give us a lot of trouble. https://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2503/cyberstorm143.jpgThe pilot our new Demon, we'll be cloning ourselves a new Tola and giving him full training in piloting, energy and missiles. https://img101.imageshack.us/img101/7237/cyberstorm144.jpgThis looks like an interesting mission. We'll get whatever we mine, plus a 47k bonus. This one mission should pay for all the modifications to our forces that we'll need for that Elite mission that allows us to go into the second campaign! Cya next time folks as we take a high risk mining mission on Beran! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted April 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Welcome back! Today we are going to be dropped off on Beran to exploit the local ore supply. There's a lot of Cybrids there now, so we're going in loaded for bear. 7 Demons, a Giant and our little high speed scout. https://img577.imageshack.us/img577/4265/cyberstorm145.jpg3...2...1....Touchdown. Here we see a Cyrbid unit already on the map, let's go and investigate it. https://img859.imageshack.us/img859/7185/cyberstorm146.jpgOur scout finds a large turret, a Parasite and a Specter. We'll send some of our force to kill them, they can't be the only thing on the map, so we'll leave the rest protecting the carrier until we find them. https://img809.imageshack.us/img809/4734/cyberstorm147.jpgFINISH HIM! https://img862.imageshack.us/img862/6265/cyberstorm148.jpgWell, we Borok found them. They are just to the left of the first group, so we'll send the rest of the squad over to attack them. https://img51.imageshack.us/img51/858/cyberstorm149.jpgScratch one Genocite! Way to go Tola clone! https://img713.imageshack.us/img713/8103/cyberstorm150.jpgWell, crap. They all came at one of our HERCs and shot off one of the lasers. We must retaliate! https://img203.imageshack.us/img203/2716/cyberstorm151.jpgWay to go Qabal! You crippled it https://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1978/cyberstorm152.jpgAnd a long range missile volley from Tola:3 takes it! https://img837.imageshack.us/img837/1365/cyberstorm153.jpgJust now detecting the vermin? The vermin are winning! https://img816.imageshack.us/img816/3048/cyberstorm154.jpgA few turns of hunting the last Cybrids and Firewarrior takes a minor hit. Guess we found them. https://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9513/cyberstorm155.jpgA Hades.. Time to die 'brid! https://img850.imageshack.us/img850/7647/cyberstorm156.jpgAnd another Hades..let's kill it! https://img819.imageshack.us/img819/6413/cyberstorm157.jpgAnd Tola:3 kills it. Time to head back to base. https://img543.imageshack.us/img543/6569/cyberstorm158.jpgHoly crap! We took 87k that time. That should be enough to put one of those 16k nano repairs on each of our Demons! https://img15.imageshack.us/img15/3573/cyberstorm159.jpgThis is a repair module that can be used to repair up to 250 damage on a HERC. Where this damage is doesn't matter so long as the component isn't completely destroyed. I find it illogical that it takes as much out of this thing to repair a weapon as to repair a leg or the HERC's chassis, but that's how it works. *shrug* We'll be replacing an overdrive on each Demon with one of these and all shields will be taken from 1950 to 2400 as the expense of dropping speed down to 125. https://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5868/cyberstorm160.jpgThe Giant will get it's jammer replaced with a 4th overdrive. We'll need speed on this unit, since it'll be hitting a critical building in the Cybrid base. With luck, the defending HERCs will be too busy with our Demons to manage to kill the Giant when it starts its suicidal charge! https://img140.imageshack.us/img140/9265/cyberstorm161.jpgYep, we're throwing that chimp into the Giant. You usually lose someone on this mission, and I'd prefer it be Boto and the Giant! https://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3187/cyberstorm162.jpgUp next: A final mission to Beran. To destroy the main Cybrid base in this system! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted April 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 https://img197.imageshack.us/img197/4964/cyberstorm163.jpgWelcome back folks. Here we are on the planet Beran, to knock the Cybrids out of the system. This is probably the hardest mission in the game. The other two missions like this one, you have more units and much better technology against forces that are of similar strength to this one. The base is on the other side of the map from our starting point and we'll have to fight our way there. Good luck vat clones! https://img834.imageshack.us/img834/3108/cyberstorm164.jpgWe find the very edge of the base in the first turn. Here are two missile turrets behind the hill we are approaching. Hopefully we can stay behind that hill with our forces so we'll get chewed up less. https://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9148/cyberstorm165.jpgOh joy, the base defenders. 4 Nihilus a Hades and their support units. We'd better get our shields front for this turn! https://img822.imageshack.us/img822/4357/cyberstorm166.jpgAh, those little guys...they are going to be the bane of our existence in this battle. 2 are made each turn in a building that we'll have Boto destroy ASAP. What they do is charge into range with you and blow up. Over the course of the battle, it can add up! https://img815.imageshack.us/img815/8468/cyberstorm167.jpgHere we have a view of everything we've seen so far on the screen at one time. 6 Nihilus units and 2 Hades! https://img5.imageshack.us/img5/531/cyberstorm168.jpgOne of those little guys closed the distance in the Cybrid turn and exploded in the face of one of our Demons. Light damage, but it adds up. We'll use the nanorepair to fix the damage by clicking on the parts that are damaged. https://img688.imageshack.us/img688/3765/cyberstorm169.jpgSee you in Hell, Nihilus! https://img135.imageshack.us/img135/944/cyberstorm170.jpgHere we are crouched down behind the hill. Hopefully we won't get shot at by the huge horde of enemies on the other side. https://img638.imageshack.us/img638/9896/cyberstorm171.jpgOooookayyy....We've wasted 8 shots on this guy and none have hit. At our range all should hit and 1 hit would kill it but nooo, stupid vat clones can't hit! https://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1429/cyberstorm172.jpgThe Nihilus however..was not as lucky! https://img694.imageshack.us/img694/509/cyberstorm173.jpgAhha! Those two buildings next to the main base complex are what is making all those little walking bombs that we've been running into. Normally, there is only 1. So I guess we just got lucky and have to deal with 2, swell! https://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4526/cyberstorm174.jpgYeah! We've brought one of them down! https://img685.imageshack.us/img685/5360/cyberstorm175.jpgWe come over the top of the hill after killing one of the walking bomb factories and open fire on the defenders. Two of our Demons take out 2 Specters and a Nihilus with laser blasts to spare! https://img64.imageshack.us/img64/6171/cyberstorm176.jpgBoto moved up and fires on the other factory. Since his mortars are area effect, they hit all 6 shield faces at once if they hit the target. To top it off, his weapons down decrease in power with range. He does 300+ damage in each shot! Those lasers were only taking about 20-30 damage each! https://img689.imageshack.us/img689/4849/cyberstorm177.jpgSpace Voyager moves up to take point and gets a kill on the Nihilus! https://img848.imageshack.us/img848/9776/cyberstorm178.jpgWe manage to take the shields down with 2 more blasts of Boto's mortars and one laser blast takes it the rest of the way on the shield facing us, but sadly, we have no missiles to finish it off this turn! https://img706.imageshack.us/img706/2562/cyberstorm179.jpgBoto fires off one blast mortar then 3 shots from his particle guns and takes it out! https://img196.imageshack.us/img196/9311/cyberstorm180.jpgThe remainder of our force goes after the base defenses, killing 2 turrets, 2 Genocites and badly damaging a third. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted April 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 https://img402.imageshack.us/img402/3395/cyberstorm181.jpgWe finish off the remaining defending HERCs, the Nihilus and the badly damaged Genocite. Then we start to take out the laser turrets that are just starting to fire on us. Usually they would be placed so that we'd face them on the way to the base, but instead we got more walking bombs that normal, so I guess things balance out. https://img27.imageshack.us/img27/8382/cyberstorm182.jpgOk, so I guess we have more defenders that didn't come to the party when we were approaching.. https://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4601/cyberstorm183.jpgThe Nihilus FINALLY comes up from the bottom of the cliff so we can actually hit it and we open fire! https://img585.imageshack.us/img585/8166/cyberstorm184.jpgWe successfully raise the base, but the mission doesn't end! A Specter approaches, fires, then hides behind that same cliff. Let's mop up guys! https://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6998/cyberstorm185.jpgWe kill it and get back to base for that sweet promotion! https://img695.imageshack.us/img695/6894/cyberstorm186.jpg73000 for a Cybrid bounty! Holy Cow! https://img638.imageshack.us/img638/7306/cyberstorm187.jpgAnd the plot continues to unfold...Seems that the Cybrids are experimenting with Bioderms for some reason. Is it to search for weakness? Improve their own units? Only time will tell https://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7388/cyberstorm188.jpgHar Har Har! The Reaper! The primary late game combat HERC. Everything the Demon can do, it can do at least twice as well! https://img818.imageshack.us/img818/9730/cyberstorm189.jpgLooks like the Cybrids were building a protoplasm 'derm. Kinda like what we started with, but better. And with this promotion we are allowed to have 11 HERCs in the field at once now! So let's see what new tech we have access to now! https://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6496/cyberstorm190.jpgHERC Base...New technology available. Excellent! Pulse lasers and Reapers and and the SPX missile! We can now dish out nearly double the damage per launcher and the damage can be spread over more targets since 100 per missile tended to be overkill once you had a target already in the red, why waste the extra damage? https://img848.imageshack.us/img848/3309/cyberstorm191.jpgCare for a 1200 pulse laser? Yes please I'll take 4! That other puny laser that the Demons had was only 1/3 the damage of this thing! https://img860.imageshack.us/img860/1892/cyberstorm192.jpgNow that's what I call a combat HERC! more than double the firepower of the Demons and still it manages to be faster from all the extra tech increases we just got! https://img838.imageshack.us/img838/4030/cyberstorm193.jpgThe Giant gets minor tweaks. The drive system really turns it into a fast fire support unit. Now all we need is to unlock plasma mortars and it will be the uber cheap base killer! https://img849.imageshack.us/img849/5177/cyberstorm194.jpgAny Demons we keep until we get the money to outfit everyone in Reapers will be upgraded to the pulse lasers and SPX missiles. The Demons can't carry as much armament, but they should still be passable offensive units for now. https://img843.imageshack.us/img843/4817/cyberstorm195.jpgAll units are upgraded with the final mission loadout being 1 Shadow, 4 Reapers, 1 Demon and 2 Giants. More Reapers will be bought as funds allow, but they are rather expensive at 130,000+ credits while the Giant only comes in at a cheap 56k! https://img21.imageshack.us/img21/9404/cyberstorm196.jpghttps://img232.imageshack.us/img232/9419/cyberstorm197.jpgThis is Salikh a barren wasteland in the Ionis System. There was once an atmosphere, but now it's gone. And if you look carefully at the bottom, you will notice the first of many such messages that tell you about a certain weapon type not function. Luckily we don't use cannons anymore. But, some planets don't allow our missiles to work which is just plain annoying since that's what Demons and Reapers use to kill with! Anyways. Join us next time folks when we head to Salikh to make bank! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 https://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6258/cyberstorm198.jpgWelcome to Salikh. Enjoy your nonfunctional cannons, Cybrids! https://img42.imageshack.us/img42/6013/cyberstorm199.jpgWelp, we've found ourselves a Hades. Let's see what our new pulse lasers can do against him! https://img64.imageshack.us/img64/4586/cyberstorm200.jpgHells yeah! That is some nice damage you got there, Firewarrior! https://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1209/cyberstorm201.jpgThe Hades drops after a barrage of missiles, and next turn, this little guy shows up with another Hades in tow. https://img535.imageshack.us/img535/9993/cyberstorm202.jpgWheeee!!! One shot blasted through the shields and took the armor all the way to yellow! https://img30.imageshack.us/img30/522/cyberstorm203.jpgTola finishes the Arachnis while Qabal takes on the Hades taking it out with a serving of 8 missiles. https://img716.imageshack.us/img716/5853/cyberstorm204.jpgA Genocite comes in and charges! Tola uploads on him. Oddly 8 missiles are enough to take a Hades, but not the Genocite.. https://img818.imageshack.us/img818/1269/cyberstorm205.jpgTarsus fires off an MPG for the kill. Mission Accomplished! https://img192.imageshack.us/img192/5533/cyberstorm206.jpg87k. Not bad for a mission with only 4 enemies! https://img810.imageshack.us/img810/6747/cyberstorm207.jpgUpon return to the base. The last Demon is sold and a Reaper and a Giant replace it. In a few more missions, we should have a strong enough force to take on the main mission in this system. But. That would cause us to miss out on the plot development and all, so I'll we'll need to wait for the (I think) 3 promotions that we can get here. For now, I will be skipping a few of the minor missions while I "fundraise" off of some Cybrids. Cya at the next promotion, hopefully with some money! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 https://img291.imageshack.us/img291/6502/cyberstorm208.jpgOk, back. 3 missions and roughly 20 kills later, we have a promotion, and boy does it unlock some nice tech! https://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7828/cyberstorm209.jpgForemost of which, is: The AntiGravity Unit. This thing will practically double the speed of any unit that it's installed on, making the high gravity worlds much easier to fight on. And that scout? It's going to be about 2000 speed when we're done with this refit! https://img135.imageshack.us/img135/4633/cyberstorm210.jpgThis is Ma-Yuan. She's one of the better Bioderms so long as you remember to use Jackup on her every mission since her stats are so low without it. She can easily take 2-3 times more Jackup that any other unit. https://img717.imageshack.us/img717/2794/cyberstorm211.jpgHere is our current model of Reaper. We'll now go through all the new tech we've got with this promotion. Literally everything but the armor, drive system, reactor and battery can be upgraded now! https://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3910/cyberstorm212.jpgDue to the antigravity, we can now add the biggest shield available and still have a respectable speed fighting unit. This shield will boost our shields by 75 points per face and add about 150 to things if you focus our shields to the front! https://img694.imageshack.us/img694/6648/cyberstorm213.jpgNew and improved sensors! These have their range boosted from 8 hexes out to 10. They also have a slightly better chance of seeing something behind a cliff or hill. https://img713.imageshack.us/img713/7051/cyberstorm214.jpgAn improved targeting computer will add 27% to our ability to hit. The old one only had a bonus of 23. Probably the weakest upgrade in this batch of new tech, but every little bit helps! https://img200.imageshack.us/img200/845/cyberstorm215.jpgAn interesting energy weapon that is now available is the Neutron Beam Weapon. It does a little over half the shield damage of the pulse lasers that our Reapers have, but on the flip side there is huge increase in armor damage that this baby can do. We'll probably have a few units with them in the squad to reduce our reliance on missiles. https://img814.imageshack.us/img814/7581/cyberstorm216.jpgAnother weapon that will see limited deployment in our squad is the Hunter-Killer Missile. It does about the same damage per turn as our current missile, but it will last for 8 turns of fire instead of 5. The downside is that you do all the damage in one 200 damage missile instead of four 48 damage ones. https://img577.imageshack.us/img577/9876/cyberstorm217.jpgAnd finally the AntiGravity Unit. This takes our HERC that was 158 speed before we added even more weight that would slow it to 129 and raises it up to 259! Now that is speed! https://img600.imageshack.us/img600/1631/cyberstorm218.jpgThe AntiGravity Unit yields a rather shocking speed increase for the Shadow. It goes from 1126 all the way up to 2041, making an already speedy unit nearly twice as fast. If things were scaled up to real life sizes, this thing would probably be running at supersonic speeds!!! https://img834.imageshack.us/img834/6198/cyberstorm219.jpgThe Giant finally claims its place as artillery platform with the addition of Plasma Mortars! On this unit we will keep the two Blast Mortars that it had, and replace the MPGs with Plasma Mortars. Plasma Mortars fire twice a turn, and do more damage, but they get their range reduced from 20 hexes to 12. Add on an AntiGrav and you get a heavy HERC nearly as fast as the light units that we started with! https://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2255/cyberstorm220.jpgThis is our final squad loadout after everything had been upgraded and we're left with only 271 credits to our name! Everything is the same in each model except for SV and FW's Reapers. They have 2 NBWs each and will get HK Missiles when finances permit. https://img192.imageshack.us/img192/2828/cyberstorm221.jpgNext up: Field testing on Dorn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted April 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 https://img848.imageshack.us/img848/1755/cyberstorm222.jpgWelcome back! When we left off we had just accepted a mission on Dorn to kill all the Cybrids on the map. This is mainly to test the loadouts on the HERCs we just bought. We'll be dropped into the middle of a squad of Cybrids and will be without the carrier until we're done. https://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9789/cyberstorm223.jpgThere are about 9 of them in sight, hopefully we'll get them all killed quickly before they can retaliate! https://img821.imageshack.us/img821/1456/cyberstorm224.jpgFW shreds a Hades with 1 shot of pulse laser and 2 of NBW. Way to go FW! https://img156.imageshack.us/img156/3465/cyberstorm225.jpgHe then turns and fires on another one but takes some returning reaction fire since none of these Cybrids have ever moved. Scratch Hades #2! https://img851.imageshack.us/img851/7514/cyberstorm226.jpgNext up: Tola 3! He jumps up onto the cliff and fires on Hades #3 kills it dead then moves to the other side to nuke the Cerebrus with 3 laser blasts! https://img690.imageshack.us/img690/8423/cyberstorm227.jpgSV and Tola jump to the cliff and ambush a Specter and a Genocite. SV takes the Specter with two shots from lasers then they both team up on the Geno. https://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2855/cyberstorm228.jpg3 kills for SV! https://img850.imageshack.us/img850/5811/cyberstorm229.jpgAnd Tarsus jumps up to unload on the last Cybrid ripping it to shreds with his mortar fire! https://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7231/cyberstorm230.jpgCongrats guys, you all took out 9 Cybrids in one turn with 2 of your HERCs not even firing. These new weapons rock! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted April 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Welcome back folks! This time with new and improved .flv awesomeness! Just your standard kill everything on the map kind of mission. The scout advances to find targets, the combat HERCS fire on said targets. The good thing about having video is that it's easier to follow and less work documenting afterward. That mission only took about 20min of total work vs about an hour if it were screenshots and documentation. Hopefully all of the follow ups can be like that and simply added to a playlist on youtube so they can be played sequentially. I'll try to annotate the video tomorrow, nap time for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted April 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2011 Today we go on 3 mining missions, and a recon mission where we go ahead and take out the base since it'd take longer to walk back to the transport instead of having the mission automatically finish. Much fundraising is done and we acquire two Giants, a Reaper and another Shadow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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