Welcome back to the next three mission of the Aeon & Allies XCOM2 Experience!
If you're like me you have been dying to see who fucks up next
Unlike last time I won't spoil if someone died right at the start so that you will be as surprised as me when it happens!
Before we start, this was the roster after loading the savegame:
As you can see we had one new soldier, tri2killme! we were severely lacking a ranger and another grenadier tho!
First Mission
Operation Knife Tomb (whats with all the tombs holy shit)
The objective was clear. A resistance haven was under attack by the evil nazi enemies and so we had to assemble (read: scramble) a squad to help defend the outpost.
The way this mission works is that there are civillians all over the map and the enemies kill one each turn and we have to save a total of 6 and/or kill all the aliens- easier said than done.
The mission started out with a nasty surprise that quickly dimished my hopes of anybody surviving this mission.
That's one of the three "Chosen". Minibosses that are supposed to start showing up in your game to spice things up and to wreck ur shit.
I've usually only encountered them after the 6th or 7th mission
in a campaign. this one showed up on the 4th. bad news. at least he is the easiest of the three
Undaunted, we push ahead and spot a small enemy group, lead by one of their "priests". These dudes in white are alot more mean than what they sound like, being able to stun your soldiers, mind control them, panic them and even cheat death
They spot us and the priest moves up and promptly puts tri2killme to sleep
Thank god he didn't actually mind control him since that would have been bad.
After we dispatched of the priest and his altarboy, the turn ends and we are informed that a group of three aliens lead by a sectoid is very close, killing civillians indiscriminately
They hadn't spotted us yet though, so TheAnimal quickly greeted them the old fashioned way
They didn't appreciate. (note the poster in the background in memory of budsi)
We move ahead to engege while on the low ground, Azure saves the first innocent
The enemies rush us and we get some free overwatch shots as tri2killme shoots and misses a trooper
The sectoid uses this opportunity to revive the priests altarboy as a zombie altarboy. I called him jesus
Another enemy goes around the right side of the group and puts himself right next to azure in a very dangerous flanking position, only to turn around and shoot a civillian instead. Needless to say azure had his priorities in proper order instead.
The second of trooper dies in a hail of bullets from TheAnimal's minigun
Inspired, TheAnimal attempts to do the same to the remaining sectoid but misses
Unfortunate for him, but even worse for Pranit, who moved up to secure a civillian, thinking the sectoid would be dispatched. The sectoid was not stupid and shot him, making him bleed out.
This sudden turn of events made TheAnimal panic, who was tired from the start (low will because he nearly died back in those tunnels), and forced him to cower down and cri for his mommy.
at the same time our friend tri2killme gets ripped a new arsehole by the psi zombie our sectoid friend resurrected earlier. If only your name hadn't challanged him to tri (badummtss, he ded)
We are now down to effectively one person. tri2killme is dead, pranit is unconscious and dying, TheAnimal is pissing himself and only Azure was able to do anything. But this was when our friend
the Chosen Hunter started fucking with us, he used his sniper rifle to mark azure, forcing him to move and stay off the high ground or risk being sniped.
But azure had to move and he also had to kill the sectoid or the psi zombie jesus would also kill TheAnimal. In an all-or-nothing move, Azure moved as close as he possibly could without getting sniped
and pulled off the shot of the century, killing the sectoid and psi zombie jesus by extension (azure was down out of frame below the tower, and the sectoid was all the way in the back infront of the car)
down to two people able to shoot, i decide to evac instead of risking a squadwipe at the hands of the Chosen Hunter. Live to fight another day or so I'm told
There were some promotions at least. Azure was promoted to become a specialist and pranit became a ranger.
The first month of the Aeon Resitance against the evil clan council has ended and we get scolded by the big bad bald man hampa about how bad we did yada yada
Only two failed missions out of 4 total is pretty good anyway, its a 50% success rate! /s
We also get a report of the fun things we can look forward to in the meantime! The second one sounds like it would be great to make you guys fail even harder at killing the enemies!
With the monthly paycheck collected, I used some more supplies to fatten up our roster a bit. I hired Ele, Tyr and iSpeed, and promptly sent Abyss and Gautatyr off on a covert operation to do something i'Ve already forgotten whoops
DONT READ IF U DONT WANNA KNOW WHO DIED FIRST MISSION
Second Mission
Opeation God Walker
This mission was bound to be the easiest one yet, as you can see on the left we had a Location Scout, which meant we had complete intel about the whole map and could see all the enemies right away
First and closest to us were these three guys, a trooper and one sectoid
Further behind and to the right of us was the second and probably nastiest group, two troopers and one of those bloodthirsty officers again
The last group was right behind the objective, and it was two troopers and another sectoid
Our objective is to blow up that big purple orb thing you can see on the left side, a psionic transmitter that is helping the clan council plan their evil activity checks!
We only had a limited timeframe but we were able to extend it by shooting smaller relays along the way, so that was no concern at least this time
Trying to set up an ambush on the first group, ofc things immediatly go wrong and the aliens spot us too soon
They spread out too far to take out with one grenade now, but thankfully I took our unnamed friend with the funky name along, and sectoids just happen to have one weakness: thicc womenweird hatsmeele!
The sectoid came so hard he dropped his shit
I tried to take out the other trooper and one of the smaller relays he was hiding behind with a grenade, but ofc he survived at one health and ran off to alarm his friends!
This was Rumour's time to shine, a sniper is made for this, surely he would never miss!
This was TheAnimal's time to shine! A grenadier is not made to snipe long distance but surely he would never miss!
This wa- wait what he hit? holy shit
Our efforts were too late though, as the second group was already upon us
At least everyone was in full cover, there's no way they could do anything to us! I said as one of them somehow SNIPED RUMOUR THROUGH A SOLID WALL AND ALMOST KILLED HIM.
Right on time of course, Azure panicked and went berserk
And of course he missed. twice. I won't complain though, free shots are free shots!
"What is that you said? Azure panicked? Well I'll be damned I can't let him steal the show!" said TheAnimal, as he also went berserk because Azure went berserk
Oh and of course he also missed twice. I'm not even surprised
Rumour wasn't that easily shaken however, and quite visibly pissed at the advent guys using such blatant wallhacks, so he turned on his very own
The officer was too far away and in too good a spot to shoot at, and he was also on overwatch. I had to get rid of him fast though otherwise he was going to stall us for too long.
I decided to try my luck with our unnamed friend and her super amazing meele skills! I totally didn't intend her to soak up the overwatch fire, I knew that the officer would miss!
However she was one damage off and now that the officer was pissed, he decided to use a grenade instead. Ouch.
Nevertheless we dispatched him on the next turn and then went about healing the worst of our injuries before moving to take the last group
We were lucky because between us and the last group, there was a very conveniently placed door that we lined up on, and once Azure opened it...
Rumour missed... fuckin' hell Rumour!
At least TheAnimal didn't miss!
The sectoid, now alone and desperate, wasted his turn summoning a zombie
And so after dispatching of him with meele-girl, we destroyed the Relay and finished our first mission without a single death!
END OF MISSION
Casulties:
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MVP:
Meele-girl
After our fifth mission, the first friendships/gay relationships started to blossom
We also recruited Threedog2 with the supplies we got as a reward!
BUT THE HAPPY MOOD WAS QUICKLY DISPERSED AS WE WERE MADE AWARE THAT WE ARE IN A DIRE RACE AGAINST TIME BECAUSE THE EVIL CLAN SQUAD
IS PREPARING...
THE AVATAR PROJECT! ACTIVITY CHECK! IF THEY FINISH THEIR PLANS, IT WILL BE THE END FOR ALL OF US!
Third Mission
Operation Fallen Whisper
The goal of this mission was to steal supplies from a clan squad depot before they could airlift them out. pretty simple stuff. There was 12 boxes total and each turn they would attempt to airlift two boxes out.
We either kill all the Aliens before they extract all boxes or we grab as many as we can and fuck off
Taking a tactical position ontop of a roof, we spot the first group: two stun lancers (annoying pricks with electrified dildos who run up and stun ur people) and one officer)
We quickly prepare to ambush them and it actually works out quite well for once: we open with a well placed grenade
After that, our newest recruit Threedog2 takes his shot and kills one of the stun lancers
The officer falls to Habeeb's sniper rifle and only one stun lancer survives. However he manages to get on top of the roof and swings his electrodildo at Dexx, disorienting him!
Dexx however does not approve
Moving ahead, the enemy managed to airlift the first two crates as we find the second group: A trooper, a priest and one more stun-lancer
Pranit takes a shot at the trooper but misses
Dexx shows him how it's done instead
The priest decides that the best way to turn this situation around is to supercharge the stun-lancer with very erotic thoughts transmitted directly via psionic link
We tried to stop him using overwatch but we failed
Thankfully it turns out using erotic images to supercharge people tends to distract them, so the stun lancer doesn't manage to electrocute pranit with his electronic wang-jang
Habeeb decides this is the perfect moment for his Clint eastwood impression
We kill the supercharged stun-lancer and i move pranit up dangerously close so he can get a shot at the priest. of course he misses and the priest moves around to flank him instead.
I've already started my singing prayers when the priest in his infinite wisdom decides, instead of shooting pranit, he may aswell just stun him for a turn.
Now it was Habeeb's turn to get rid of that Priest fast
Being unable to relieve pranit of the priest on his flank, in a desperate move I used another iFlashbang™ to stun him and hopefully make him miss a point blank shot at pranit.
HO-LEE-SHIT my plan worked!
Pranit wasn't going to miss this shot
After that kill, we managed to secure a total of 6 boxes before we decided not to risk facing another group and evac since there were no crates left
That concluded the sixth mission of this campaign and the second one with no deaths!
END OF MISSION
Casulties:
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MVP:
Pranit
That's all for now, here's the look at the roster after those three missions:
Dont look unless u know who died
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Originally Posted by Grohenbird
if this isn't long war, it doesn't count
if it is, I'm sorry your operators can't roll dice
there is no long war mod for war of the chosen yet :c
Last edited by Chirs; Sep 20, 2017 at 06:44 PM.
Reason: <24 hour edit/bump
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Welcome back to parth three! This time with only one single mission because i have been busy playing stellaris blame me okay!
GEOSCAPE:
We start off where we left off, scanning for some more soldiers
After our first covert operation, we have located the "Skirmishers" Parrot-Clan!
They're basically ex-ADVENT ex-staff which you can easily see because they are so ugly they only wear face masks!
Oh and Abyss and gautatyr were promted!
We immediatly send iSpeed and Ele off to another Covert Operation to get some skillzz
MASS HIRING PEOPLE!
Oh and we also finished scanning for rookies and we found Sparky and SXDave! And two randoms who we'll turn into revived people later down the line!
Our next hint: some special grenade and ammo to be found! OFF WE GO!
Month ends, we don't get scolded for once!
The Chosen Hunter is gettin' some KNAWLEDGE too
And also more fun events! YAY! /s
Having constructed the resitance ring facility, we can also pick out one resitance order that will give us a boon. I picked the one that makes hackin' the world easier
Look at all these rookies! so much potential death
Oh and also the activity check is still progressing. gotta hustle
First Mission:
Operation Summoned Mist
Our objective was to go in, reach some resitance VIP and help him escape the ninja turtles or something. eazy
As soon as I saw the map though, I panicked. I remember this kind of mission, and I knew I wasn't ready. I was prepared to die now
Anyway moving on, we've spotted our first group
Rumour opened the ambush with a nice shot
The second trooper dies to owerwatch ond only the captain is left. one grenade later and he's down to 4 health
TheAnimal shows us again that he actually wanted to become a sniper
Moving on we find the second group, one sectoid and two of those annoying stunlancers
Rumour takes his shot and botches it
Time for a grenade instead
Now all you've gotta do is crit him Abyss, you've got a 40% chance!
Okay then maybe we can take out one of the stun lancers at least?
And it was at this point that I saw what was going to happen and I wanted it to end.
The sectoid attempts to mind control Rumour but find that there's not alot to take control of
The stunlancers advance and stun both Pranit and Abyss. both get away alive though
Pranit takes a point blank shot in revenge
AND MISSES!
TheAnimal uses his second grenade to at least to some damage to the stunlancer and sectoid
Can at least Abyss land his shot?
Nice crit!
Rumour wasn't going to be outperformed!
He tried. Unfortunately for him, so did the stunlancer
Rumour was unconscious and bleeding out now. I could stabilize him but I couldn't get him back on his feet. Someone would have to carry him for the rest of the mission.
But first, revenge
Moving up on our VIP, I decided to put Rumour down inside of the compound behind the desk, in hopes that nobody would bother shooting an unconscious soldier
Wait what...
FUCK AMBUSH!
Pranit takes one down, the sectoid gets hurt badly running for cover. in the background there is two more troopers
Shit even more enemies incoming...
At least we're landing our shots for now
Sectoid down! nice job Pranit!
TheAnimal also takes a shot, 70% are good odds
maybe you should stick to stellaris
Here they come, four more troopers!
One of them ran right inside the compound, the others moved to flank!
Incoming!
They both missed. but there's more where they came from
We have to kill the one inside the compound. pranit attemts a stab
No kill! What the hell? your new nickname is Darkness!
Don't let me down Abyss!
*is let down*
Go TheAnimal!
...
Here comes even more!
Incoming again!
Lucky pranit!
Abyss isn't as lucky
Another miss! Pranit needs new pants by now
One last incoming!
jesus christ pranit that's what I call luck!
But the situation is dire. We're down to TheAnimal and Pranit and the enemy has established overwatch. we can't move or risk getting shot at.
There's also still that trooper inside the compound and ofc every turn there is several more incoming!
We need nothing short of a miracle to finish this mission
Pranit takes care of the enemy right infront of the window and TheAnimal takes a shot at the one closest to him
They just don't stop coming. where the fuck is the EVAC?
Pranit's luck was only going to last this long
Now the've come all the way around and are even shooting the VIP!
TheAnimal get's hit three times in quick succession and...
dies a heroic but utterly meaningless death
It was at this moment that EVAC became available but we've lost the whole squad. The only person left standing is the VIP and he's facing down at least 12 troopers, one of which is on overwatch
and right infront
thinking "YOLO" I send him to the evac anyway
AND OFC THE BASTARD MAKES IT
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Of course that's not how I was going to let it end. If we would have lost our entire squad, this campaign would be over. So at this point I reloaded the mission and tried again from the start.
In the interest of brevity i will now fast forward to where it became interesting again
RELOAD #1
Fast forward to the second group. The first group delt with with no injuries whatsoever, the second group proved to be much more of a prick
The Sectoid thankfully died first, but both stun lancers were alive and had descended upon TheAnimal, injuring him and also disorienting him
I have an idea how to take them both out, but I need RNGesus on my side. Abyss moves up to take a shot
Would have really liked more damage!
Rumour's turn
Low damage roll again! fuck! we still have options though
TheAnimal is next, please do more than 4 damage
*sigh* well at least nobody missed?
At this point, one of them was guaranteed kill (1hp) with a grenade (3-4dmg) while the other one was a chance for a kill (4hp).
this is the moment where I need a high damage roll!
... It's not over yet, h-he may miss or run awa-
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RELOAD #2
Fast forward to the ambush, this time I'm prepared!
First trooper down, sectoid at 1hp!
Here they come!
Pranit delivering death from above!
Rumour finishes off the sectoid
Can we get more?
All but one are down! nice job! First wave was a success
Second wave we've only managed to get one of them in overwatch
A sectoid attempts to mind control pranit but hee resists, unfortunately he still panicks and runs up
and actually takes one down!
Rumour again
This just isn't my day is it?
TheAnimal shoots aswell
at this point i would have been more surprised with a hit
...
Good news! The sectoid wastes his turn summoning a zombie
Abyss gets shot in the face. I'm not saying you deserved it but you did
TheAnimal is also under fire
It was at this point that I had the brilliant idea to just run away to where the EVAC appeared last time and hope that it appears in the same spot
Hiding behind a wall, I pray to Jesus to let us survive this fucking mission or else I might go berserk. They're firing at TheAnimal now
FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
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RELOAD #3
Losing TheAnimal was somethign I wasn't going to let happen (and neither would he, I assume) so I reloaded and tried my retreat again
This time I moved everyone back as far as i possibly could and left the one with most health (pranit) the closest but still in full cover
The bad guys fell for it and shot at him instead, sorry pranit!
First miss! You can do it just dont let them hit you!
"Second miss! you're doing great!" I say, my heart racing, at this point i was so focussed I forgot I was streaming this all to Icky
The next trooper moves up right next to pranit, I was expecting a flanking shot but what happens next may surprise you
He shot at Abyss! and missed! could this be it?
Fuck. Abyss was killed, but he was only a squaddie. At this point I was so done with the game I just went with it. Sorry abyss!
The rest of the squad thankfully made it our alive
MISSION END
ATTEMPT #3
Casulties:
Abyss
At least there were two promotions...
Glamour shots:
That'S about it for this update. Let's hope i'll never have to do that again.