October 14, 201015 yr Why am I sweating like a pig?! I don't like seeing a chrysalis, two don't make it any better!!! https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/Smiley/fear.gif
October 14, 201015 yr We're good - relatively speaking. We only have to worry about one of them as the other is boxed in by the hedges. At least, that should be the case unless someone decides to do some hedge trimming. - NKF
October 14, 201015 yr It's a shame Chrysalids can't make their own exits through hedges and thin walls - they looik tough enough, but I suppose that would ruin their image as silent, stealthy killers.
October 14, 201015 yr It's a shame Chrysalids can't make their own exits through hedges and thin walls - they looik tough enough, but I suppose that would ruin their image as silent, stealthy killers. As soon as the AI figures out how to make their own exits/entrances, I'm screwed. Being able to side-step ambushes by taking the wall out instead of going through the door has been the one thing that's saved my hide time and time again.
October 14, 201015 yr That lost me quite a few sentinels missions. Getting shot through walls, closed doors, windows, ceilings, being perforated through the floor from the cellar... the joys of a holable environment. Hrm. Thankfully, sectoids are less calculating than those thor's hammer bastards. *gulp* Cyberdisks.
October 15, 201015 yr Nice! I can't believe I've been missing out on this... Well, except for that kamikaze stun rod charge. I could've lived without that. Really, I could still be alive dammit! Best o' luck to the rest of you chaps! And may you continue to be blessed with firearms... laser weapons... grenades... Because all I got was a frickin' cattle prod. Oh yes, fear the poke.
October 19, 201015 yr Jetpacks, man. Jetpacks.Yeah, I remember one night terror mission where the scouts got new jetpacks. They were flying around pretty cocky, leaving the chryssies snapping frustrated below. Then they got shot down by snakemen with plasma rifles. That ended with the last two survivors throwing everything out of the Skyranger that would explode, before dustoff. Wipe!
October 19, 201015 yr Yeah, I remember one night terror mission where the scouts got new jetpacks. They were flying around pretty cocky, leaving the chryssies snapping frustrated below. Then they got shot down by snakemen with plasma rifles. That ended with the last two survivors throwing everything out of the Skyranger that would explode, before dustoff. Wipe! I had a similar experience on my second real ironman attempt. Well, the first half. The second half was prevented by one of the scouts being my Commander. Who happened to be that rarest of X-Com gifts. The unkillable trooper. She finished all the snakemen left after they reaction killed the tank, the other scout, and, in an incredibly improbable shot, the guy behind her in the skyranger. Man, sometimes you get a good one.
November 4, 201015 yr Would you rather be filled with hot plasma death? I get the impression SOME of us were...
November 4, 201015 yr Author Novosibirsk. Daytime.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm1.pngCrazy Photon, faced with a landing zone occupied by an alien burning plasma death wagon (this is how 'welcome' translates into Alien), lathers the place with hot painy stuff. A Floater caves under the incendiary insult. A Reaper burns stoically.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm2.pngAnother Floater peers through a window at the carnage until Space Voyager beans him on the head with a laser rifle shot.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm3.pngCrazy Photon gets hit in the alien's turn, and Space Voyager, obviously hitting the eye steroids hard in training, kills the Floater with reaction fire. Gimli kills off the burning Reaper, chortling at the concept of mercy killing a burning alien invader. Crazy Photon is first out the door, and comes face to head-hole with a Floater.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm4.pngAt such close range, incendiary rounds could prove to be bad for the skin, so he quick-draws his laser pistol and guns the Floater down.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm5.pngAnd accidentally kills the Floater behind that one. His slack-jawed amazement swaps instantly for nonchalant cool as other troops come pounding down the ramp. "Yeah, there was two of 'em." Captain Birdseye-View.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm6.png ulairion spots an incoming Reaper and gives it the good news, hoping to burn through the AP mag and get to the good stuff. Four out of six rounds hit, the Reaper remains not dead.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm7.pngMatri lets a Floater get exactly one shot off, before drilling it dead centre. Crazy Photon takes a little time out to raid a dead civilian's fridge.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm8.png"CP, man, what's the hold up? The house clear or what?" calls ulairion. "Oh, yeah, totally clear." CP rummages around looking for frozen goodies. "Not of delicious ice creams though." Exiting the house, he spots a far-off Reaper and lets fly.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm9.pngIce creams hamper aim. Zombie II is unceremoniously sniped and killed outright as he passes by a window. Slaughter tentatively probes forward and is shot for his trouble. ulairion, cover destroyed by plasma blasts, falls back and is promptly de-spined by the same sniper.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm10.pngNKFTWO moves cautiously into action, medikit at the ready, and sorts out Slaughter's wounds. "You'll just feel a tiny prick..." Gimli takes a risk, stepping out in front of a gap, and a plasma bolt slices by. Two bursts of laser fire miss the Floater, slicing to the left and right of the bobbing purple figure. "Five espressos really should be my limit." Gimli mumbles as the hand tremors get out of control.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm11.pngStrike takes a knee as Gimli turns to find his cover has been destroyed. "Don't worry! I know what I'm doing!" he cries, and lasers slip right by Gimli's quivering form. Those six miss too.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm12.pngMitsuMishi the 2nd moves up, hoping to get an angle on the same Floater, and is picked off by the sniper, his corpse crumpling over ulairion's. Space Voyager, sneakily flanking away, kills the Floater, and his heroic brow furrows as he scans for the sniper. Strike attempts to exit the warehouse and is culled by the sniper. Gimli mops beige sweat from his brow. "Boys, we're in a tight spot. Grenades!" Before a boom egg can be thrown, Bomb Bloke v2.0 is picked off.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm13.png"God damn it, every one stop dying and that is an order!" SV commands. "I believe the sniper's position to be in the street, north-east of my position. My intent is to blow that bastard into little tiny bits that a small creature such as an ant or wasp could swallow without chewing, if they even stooped to eating alien filth which of course they do not. Gimli, Matri, two grenades into the street please, quick as you like. DragonHawk Jr. and NKFTWO, observe the effects and then deploy your own grenades to cover the areas not already scoured of repulsive alien scum! Now!"https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm14.pngExplosions scar the street, without result. Next turn, SV spots the sniper.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm15.pngNo-one has any grenades ready, and SV is too clever to try shooting and possibly incurring reaction fire from such a murderous shooter. He retires to cover as grenades are prepped.
November 4, 201015 yr Author Gimli, faced with the unenviable situation of a charging Reaper, deploys a proxy as a safety net, and lasers it up. Hopefully, the explosion will take care of the sniper, too.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm16.pngBut it doesn't, and even as the Reaper crumples to the ground, Matri folds up under Heavy Plasma fire from the sniper, who has cunningly changed position. Gimli charges out, manages to miss the sniper consistently, and slinks back inside, depressed.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm17.pngSlaughter, the only soldier within range, pops out of the warehouse and burns the sniper to the floor. As his just reward, he is killed by an alien grenade. CP, faced with another charging Reaper, burns it with desultory bursts from his laser pistol.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm18.pngHe blows vapour from the lens, and burns his lips. Gimli picks off the last Floater when it reveals its position by shooting at SV, and it's all over bar the hilarious japes that will be played with the cremated remains of the dead.https://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/FullAuto_2006/X-Com/ntm19.png
November 4, 201015 yr Want. Moar. Now. You are hereby excused from work to write more hilariousness for our consumption
November 4, 201015 yr Awesome, dude. You can make another Sgt. Strike. It may help if I could actually make it to Sergent, as well.
November 4, 201015 yr Aw goddammit. I loved that spleen. Still, better than a face full of alien wing-wang.
November 5, 201015 yr Wow, I never felt so manly in my life. Plasma shots are actually scared of me, sort of like a dwarven Chuck Norris. The shaking hands comment - so true, minus the espresso.
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