Sathra

14 boots it is! This will be fun

Its planned to just be able to right-click a crash-site and it'll disappear. Don't get any points from it, but you don't lose any either. Its not the base defenses themselves, its more the various allied nations bombing the bejeezus out of the site with cruise missiles or something.

Lol. A fine pun.

And there we go! Up to date and copied over. So, last question before I send COBRA to attack a snakey base: Will we bring a tank or just throw a full squad at it?

Chapter 24: Part Two (If you do listen to the music links, just continue it for this post as well) Sathra: Wow, they're pretty aggro about us shooting stuff down. Waffles: Its understandable though. Sathra: Oh? Waffles: You do get the troopers to crucify dead sectoids and broadcast images over the crashed ships' Hyperwaves. Sathra: They're still doing that? It was only meant to be a one-time thing. Waffles: Going to tell them to stop? Sathra: I don't want to ruin their fun. Waffles: Of course you don't. --- Lucy: Ugh, night. Lucy: There we go! Kenji: Uh, Commander? Is it safe to be starting wildfires when not everyone is wearing power armour? Dix II: You've got faceplates and slimline rebreathers for a reason. Dmitriy: We do? Marty III: Well, yeah. What, you think the huge pecs are just for the looks? Dix II: Ooh, I see one! Dix II: Dammit! (9 Plasma Pistol shots and not a single hit. And from a mere screen and a half away. Appalling) Lucy: You are trying to snipe with a pistol you nitwit. Proper tools trooper, proper tools. Lucy: Or not. Damn their armoured hides! Dmitriy: I've got it. Sathra: Huh, its almost cinematic. How they're advancing out of the flames and all. Waffles: Its also tactically stupid and insane. But yes, very cinematic. Kenji: Wuffles has spotted some more further back! Firing! Dix II: Supporting! Lucy: What the hell. Twice the distance, and you hit it in the face twice with a burst. Dix II: Havoc's tips were only for extra-long shots. Marty III: Got a runner! Let's light it up everyone! *KABOOM!* *KABOOM!* Dmitriy: Ah, this warms my Ukrainian bones. Gudrun: You're insane. Oh, look at that! I see a flaming target... *Crack-ak-ak* Gudrun: Flaming corpse. Evelyn: Oi! No shooting Wuffles! Eat plasma you stooge! Dmitriy: Aww... Jean: This should probably be more, uncomfortable? Gudrun: Shh! You'll spoil our surprise attack! Gudrun: Shit! Grenade! Gudrun: My face! I'll kill you! Lucy: We're missing one! Burn it all! (2 turns of bombing the map with HE packs later) *KABOOM* Dix II: Heard a scream. Lucy: Right! Get the frames up! Chop chop, we don't want to have to...deal...with any locals or environmentalists again. Everyone: Sir yes Sir! ----------Mission End----------- Sathra: Waffles: Wait, did Commander Ferr just say they've been killing witnesses? Sathra: I dunno. I have no knowledge of this. Waffles: Really. Sathra: Yes. Oh look! Sweety! Sweety: Hello Tyrant. Joseph. Markus. Markus: Yo. Waffles: How long have you been there! You nearly gave me a cardiac! Markus: Once worked as a janitor. You learn things. Sathra: Makes sense to me! Reports? Markus: We've switched to selling personal armour, due to demand. Profit's not quite as good, but we've got higher demand,so it balances out. Oh, and we're building extra Plasma Cannons. We ran out, so scheduled some production time so the Firestorms aren'te left unarmed when they're done. Sweety: We've finished the Grav Shield technology. Next up is that Mind Shield idea. Sathra: Ha! I told you we'd get you Gravity! Ahahaha! Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go see Martin off. He's off to visit Cobra and give some rookie a new face! *wanders off* Waffles: None of his behaviour concerns you? Sweety: Nope. Markus: Nope. Waffles: Why? Sweety: There are extenuating circumstances. You wouldn't know about it though. Before your time. Markus: Sweety...ah well, its true. There's...reasons for how he is. Good ones. Just don't ask about it Joseph. Its not worth the pain. Waffles: Because I'll be killed? Markus: Eventually. Might take a few days. -------------------- So there ya go! Updated! And we've got new troopers in Cobra! New Research order: Mind Shield, Fusion Defences, Ultimate craft, Small launcher. After that's done, I don't think I'll ask anymore. All that's really left is the fluff stuff (random items like food, mind probes, autopsies), and the Alien Plan tech series. They're all pretty quick. So...anyone want to attack a base? We've got 2 Snakeman and a Floater base, ripe for the plucking. They're all too far away from current bases to reliably farm them too.

Chapter 24: Lots of gray cafeteria meat. Announcer: Fighting continues to rage throughout the Arabian Peninsula. As you know, this conflict has been notable for both the scale of civilian death and the increasing use of energy weaponry by the combating forces. The group referring to itself as the Children of the Sun has been the major antagonist so far, forming as a result of the massacre by unknown forces in Tehran earlier this year. The source of the group's weaponry is unknown, as it does not match any of those recently introduced by major nations. The massacre earlier today of Saudi civilians as 'american lapdogs' has increased calls for international intervention. However, recent internal troubles- Waffles: The CHILDREN OF THE SUN!? That's where they've been getting all that stuff? Sathra: Children of the Sun, True Unionists, those "Liberation Army" groups. All, at least partially, supplied by us with energy weapons. Mostly Laser Cannons though. They've been pretty ingenious rigging up power supplies on the backs of pick-up trucks. Waffles: But...those are all terrorist groups. How can we still be allowed to run? Sathra: What part of "no direct oversight" do you not understand? CoFN only found out about 2 months after we started. By that point we had sold so many that stopping us was pretty pointless. Its why all the CoFN armies 'revealed' their developments into laser weaponry last month. Waffles: But... Sathra: Hey, CoFN's mostly okay with it. We aren't so dependent on their funding. They're also going to reveal research into particle weaponry soon, to 'counter terrorist advances'. Waffles: Plasma weapons? Sathra: Yep. Of course, the elerium is a problem. For now at least. They're trialing some kind of heavy metal antimatter encapsulation thing. Should be some interesting fallout from that. Waffles: I'm guessing you're being literal about 'fallout'. Sathra: Obviously. So, those interceptors arrived yet? Waffles: Nearly...there we go. Sathra: Launch the Lightning! Waffles: Lightning Away! Sathra: --------------------- Assoonasitis: Scout, Bugeyes, Farm. Easy. Assoonasitis: Hehe, a painful death. RavenX: Argh! Frakking feth-wipe! Hunterhavoc: Ahaha, keep drawing that fire Raven buddy! RavenX: Shut up Havoc! Its not funny! RavenX: *incoherent scream of rage* Kirmu: The armourers are getting pretty pissed about that Raven. Orski: Hurr hurr. Got him for yer Raven! RavenX: I'm getting shot at from INSIDE the ship you big...idiot...person....guy... Hunterhavoc: Rage make Raven not talk well. Zap! Hunterhavoc: That's a fine brain-pop right there. Hopenight: Urghh. That's...*shudder* Swe_Raccoon: Here I go.... Swe_Raccoon: Ah shit! Swe_Raccoon: UFO cleared! RavenX: You stole my kill! I'm gonna get you for that! Swe_Raccoon: We're working as a team man. I'm supporting you! RavenX: You'll get yours.... Kirmu III: We've got alot of buildings here! Tatyana: Oh? Let's try this thing out then. Hunterhavoc: I give it a 6. Maaybe an 8. Kirmu III: Spooked one! Kirmu III: Missed! And now I can see you.... Jean-Luc II: And that's a wrap people! Back in the party boat! Marren: Raise da roof! Whoop whoop! Assoonasitis: *facepalm* Waffles might be right. Waffles: Well? Sathra: I don't care Waffles. I really just don't care. Waffles: Raven threatened to kill one of his fellow troopers. Sathra: Raven threatened the chef this morning. He just tazed the guy and locked him in Containment. Some therapy and the guy will be fine. -------------- Quick break here. Going to continue this update in the next post (Its COBRA!). Raven got shot roughly...4 or so times. He's fine, somehow. Got to use a blaster bomb, did nothing useful. Fun though! I actually saved, changed the Heavy Laser settings, then came back so Kirmu got to overkill massively on that Sectoid. The joys of using a loader.

Chapter 23: So what's with these delays eh? Waffles: I've got the reports from the Markus and Sweety. Sathra: Feels like its been ages since I last heard your dulcet tones Waffles. Waffles: What? We last talked a couple days ago. Sathra: Feels like longer. Anyways, the reports? Waffles: Here sir. Waffles: Sweety's people have finished their study into psychic ability for humans. Plans are ready for testing centres, but it doesn't say how they actually work. I'm assuming classified, magic, or alien bio-mechanicals? Sathra: Yes. Waffles:...Of course. Well, some new concepts have been produced through the research. Sathra: Hmm, Grav shields. Waffles: Any particular reason? Sathra: Gravity has had it too easy for too long. We must enslave before it turns on us completely. Waffles: Ugh. Very well. Waffles: Markus' reports? Sathra: Who? Waffles: The Engineering Head. Sathra: A head that- Waffles: No, the...boss...of the engineering department. Sathra: Ohh. Carry on. Waffles: Of course sir. Work has begun on the new South African base. Waffles: Why did you choose that name by the way? Sathra: I foresee the eating of ham and jam and spam alot. Waffles: *snicker* Wonderful sir. We've also increased manufacturing capacity in The Coil. Sathra: Does that mean?! Waffles: Yes, yes it does sir. Sathra: Oh frabjous day! Waffles: Glad to see you happy sir. Shall I release the whip-hawks and open the armoury? Sathra: Let it be so! This is a time for celebration! And bloodshed! Waffles: You may want to sit down for this next part sir. And breathe a bit slower. Sathra: Why? What happened? Waffles: Here. Sathra: AHAHAHAHA! Transfer everything over. And gear up Waffles, we ride to mock-battle. Waffles: The Knight-bulls? Sathra: Just so. ---------Two days later--------- Sathra: Ah, what fun that was. How are your injuries Waffles? Waffles: Healing well sir. Although, this dermo-weave is slightly creepy. I thought it would have reduced sensitivity, but it's like normal skin. Well, a bit heavier, and grey. Sathra: It can also turn a knife. No more worrying about glassing eh? Waffles: I guess not... Sathra: Stop poking it. You'll grow hair on your palms. Waffles: What? Sathra: Oh look! I'm changing the subject! Waffles: Why do you always- Hmm, retaliation. I wonder why they're going to South Africa though. Sathra: Eh. Shoot it down, send the Lightning. Sathra: And ----------Battle Start----------- Marren: I miss Coco. Kirmu III: We all miss Coco. All that wonderful armour plating and cheerful demeanour. But the door's too small for him. Her. It. Assoonasitis: No use moping. Let's get started with the clearcutting. I know just where to begin. Hopenight: That's a bit excessive, isn't it? Mariko: Excessive, funny. Depends on your point of view. Jean-Luc II: You all know the drill. Jungle means? Orski: Set it all on fire? Jean-Luc II: Darn-tooting. Kirmu III: Come on rook, we'll take the ship while the rest start fires. Swe_Raccoon: Shouldn't someone more experienced do it? Kirmu III: We're meant to capture these intact. *BOOM* *BOOM* Kirmu III: The other veterans aren't it the right mindset. Go on, I'll cover you. Swe_Raccoon: They're far too enthusiastic about that. Going in. Swe_Raccoon: Holy shit! AA- AAA- AAA- AAA- Kirmu III: *shove* Rookies. Kirmu III: How many of you are there! Swe_Raccoon: Watch out sir! Kirmu III: Goddamit rookie! What part of intact don't you understand? Swe_Raccoon: At least we're both alive. Sir. Kirmu III: Eh, dying ain't so bad. Swe_Raccoon: Sir? Kirmu III: Nevermind. Shit. I hope this doesn't come out of my pay. Swe_Raccoon: Wait, Sergeant? After one mission? Assoonasitis: Pretty much. Our order of battle doesn't make much sense. Like the whip-hawks. Swe_Raccoon: Those things are hawks!? Hunterhavoc: Were. Past tense. -----------Mission End----------- Sathra: Whoo-eee! What a first mission eh? Waffles: Were they all inside that ship? Sathra: Most of them. I think only one was actually outside. Very odd. Waffles: Yes, yes it was. Sathra: Oh, did we finish eliminating all the whip-hawks yet? The engineers and scientists are complaining. Waffles: Coco and Wuffles 06,07 and 08 are hunting the last of them down. They seem to be enjoying it. ----Over the next few days------- Sathra: Hah! Not a chance. Waffles: Hmm. That seems to have pissed them off a bit. Sathra: Very, very true. Waffles: Oh I've been meaning to ask. What happens to all these laser weapons we build? Waffles: They never turn up in the base stores. Sathra: You...wouldn't like to know. Waffles: Ugh...what do we do with them...? Sathra: You know the Children of the Sun?... Waffles: WHAT!? --------------Wrap-Up--------------- Yay! Big post. Another one coming in a while, maybe tomorrow. Writing is hard when you've got a blinding headache (literally, eyes keep unfocussing. Its a novel experience). That scout was funny as hell. Only one sectoid actually got a shot off, and it missed. Its a first mission to be proud of. And we've started a retaliation sequence for Cobra, so should be getting a good stream of ships soon. Maybe even a base attack, with Chryssalids! Yeah, Grav Shields weren't really on the list, but they're a dead-end project. Needed something to research so I could actually have a mission for this update. Psi-Labs in construction for every base with soldiers (Area 01, Serpent's Nest, Cobra HQ and The Coil). Shall we use psionics? I don't like them. 3-4 missions of training and then its easy street.

Just a quick update to get myself back into the flow. Few pics of the last ufo of the base fleet: Scanners loaded up. Crazy weapon loadouts. And the new troopers in their kit. (yeah, Swe_Racoon, I know I spelt the name wrong. I also forgot to load extra grenades onto the ship, always have spare HE packs though...) Orski and Hopenight get their first kills. Assoonasitis in his usual place. Marren (other trooper on the roof with him) is standing next to a smoke grenade. Much safer with smoke everywhere. Hopenight firing the final shot. Promotions. Yeah, Swe_Raccoon didn't get to fire a single shot. He was off scouting with Hunterhavoc and missed all the fun. I promise to throw him into the thick of the fighting next time. He will be a hero or die in agony. I SWEAR IT! And now, Stat Updates! Assoonasitis (Most accomplished killer) Jean-Luc II (Best all-round trooper. Scarily so) Kirmu III (Yeah, probably going to use you as a primary breacher. Its good for the stats Unless there's any objections.) RavenX II Marren Ridth Hunterhavoc (Why do you not get promoted!?) Animal II (Yep, still injured.) Dix II Marty Marillo III (Doing well considering he's died twice) Lucy Ferr (Look at that accuracy. Magnificent)

Chapter 22B: Do my bidding! Lucy: Telementry good. We're ready Tyrant. Sathra: Have fun! Lucy: Always. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/195/0herewego.png Sathra: Battle Music! Lucy: Standard protocol! Do it! Marty III: Wuffles-06, go! http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/834/2enemy.png Dix II: Target spotted, kill it you scumbags! Brett: Firing! Dix II: Passable. My turn. *Skrak* Dix II: Soup! Lucy: I got it. Dix II: Say nothing Brett. Or Violence will ensue. Dix II: New target. Dix II: Crap! Get down! http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/853/7agrenmissagain.png Dix II: Damn, they really can't throw, can they? Brett: Taking the shot. Brett: Yeah! Lucy: Shut it maggot! Grenadier spotted. Kill it you idiots! Dmitriy: Alien down. (No idea why his name is like that, just noticed) Brett: Moving up! Holy- Marty III: Rookies. 06, hunt! Franz, act as chaser. Alan: Aaah! Lucy: Idiots. Lucy: All you dead failure. Alan: What? Lucy: I'm talking about Parker. Shut your hole Wright! Dix II: Got a new one. Dix II: And now we don't. Move up you fleshy failures! Wuffles-06: *Snarl* *Kra-koom* Dix II: I've got it Wuffles. Wright: These guys are even more psycho than when we're at base. Kenji: I heard the main base is even worse. Like a zoo run by a madman. Vicious animals, rogue cybern- Lucy: Hey! Focus! Dix II: Into the ship! Slackers get a HE pack to the face! Evelyn: What? Dix II: MOVE! This thing is live! Dmitriy: Run! Marty III: We're in Commander. Marty III: I see one. Moving in! Marty III: Skort! *Krak-ak-ak* Lucy: You're such a girl Marty. Kenji: Team Two in place! Dix II: You heard that. Now get in there! Dmitriy: But sir- Dix II: NOW! Dix II: Whoops, timer's getting a bit low. Lucy: Advance! Dix II: Got a target, upper floor! Go get it! Franz: Target down. Wright: Clear this side. Moving to next floor. Snakeman: ZRRRRAAA! Kenji: What the hell was that? Other side of this wall. Alan? Wright: On it. Kenji: Chuck downed. Lucy: Upper floor clear. Middle? Dix II: Still clearing. Lucy: Marty, go help out. Marty: Snakes! Kenji: Sir! Marty III: Gah...my guts. Need a medikit here! (3 shots. Lucky he didn't die.) Wright: *muttering* Damn crazy officers. *mocking* Patrol the bridge, don't worry the smoke isn't toxic. Pfft, like they'd know, what with their fancy armour suits- Wright: Wait, where did that body go? Wright: Holy crap! *Ska-thoom-thoom-thoom* Lucy: We're done. Lucy: Someone grab a couple dead Chucks, I need a cape. Dix II: That looks bad Marty. You'll need surgery. Marty III: Surgery!? Martin: SURGERY! Ahahahaha! --------------Wrap-Up------------- Victory Music! Whoo! Casualties! Marty is going to be in medical for a long while. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/28/9999953weeks.png He'll be out before Animal though, who still has another 24 days to go. Stocking up for further operations at Cobra: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/202/999994stockingup.png Should last about a month or so. And last but not least, the new Coffin Stuffer lineup. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/41/999996loadedupandready.png

Doc Martin: Vicious beatings usually. Solves most problems. Just ask Sweety. Researcher Sweety: Its Grreat! Waffles: Are you all insane? Sweety: Dunno. Martin, you're the base psych. Are we? Doc Martin: In my perfectly sane opinion, we're functional. That's close enough to sane. Well, besides Joseph, he seems to be having trouble adapting to anti-alien operations. Waffles: So you're saying I'm too sane? Doc Martin: How the hell do I know? What am I, some kind of Doctor?! *Storms off* Chapter 22A: Let the killing begin! Waffles: Multiple contacts! Moving towards South Africa! Sathra: What's the HWD say? Waffles: Base mission. Its a Foothold fleet, like we had a couple months ago. Sathra: Launch Interceptors! Waffles: Sir, we only have one in range to get there in time. Its the one at this base. Sathra: What happened to the other one? Waffles: We transferred it to Coil, so we could build the Lightning here. Sathra: Dammit. Launch it! Pilot, its all up to you. Do not fail me. Pilot: Goddamn it. Pilot: There, all 3 down. Happy? Sathra: Well, yeah. Good job, you're getting a keg of whatever. Whisky? Pilot: ...I'm so happy. Waffles: That's actually a nice thing. And yet, its still demented. Sathra: Hush. Coffin Stuffers, you're up! And someone contact Commander Ferr, time for Cobra team to make something of themselves. Waffles: They cleared that bugeye scout last week. Only 1 casualty. Sathra: Pfft, Scouts. And now- Waffles: *deranged cackling* --------------Mission Start---------- Assoonasitis: LET'S KILL SOME SHIT! (Bit hard to see, but the tank reaction-fired into the snakeman.) Mariko: Nice one Coco! Mariko: My turn! Assoonasitis: For blessed killing! RavenX II: Under fire! RavenX II: Oh no you don't! I've got a present for ya! RavenX II: AHAHAHA! Akinori: Do not shoot at Coco. Mariko: I see you... Jean-Luc II: Oh hello! Jean-Luc II: And goodbye. Kirmu III: Target spotted. Assoonasitis: Dibs! Kirmu III: Grrr. Jean-Luc II: Team One has breached. One of the engines blew, killed a couple of Chucks. Assoonasitis: Ready up here too. Marren: What's the minimum safe distance for these again? Assoonasitis: Hehehe. We'll find out soon enough. Jean-Luc II: Something moving towards the other door. Hunterhavoc: I got it. Hunterhavoc: Blark! Goo on my faceplate! Mariko: Watch out! Mariko: Got it for you. Tatyana: Chyort voz'mi! Jean-Luc II: Looked the wrong way buddy. Alan: *Gasp* How do those guys keep up this pace in these suits! Akinori: Click. *Skrak* Tatyana: Too noisy. Now dead. Assoonasitis: Let's go! (Had to blow 2 holes in the roof, since the first one was in the wrong place and the chairs were in the way. Damn chairs. Oh, and chucked another HE pack in as well.) Marren: Gotcha! *Bzzt* Jean-Luc II: And stay down! Snakeman: SKREEE! (It berserked) Akinori: Quiet down. Jean-Luc II: Clear here. Assoonasitis: Agreed. -----------Mission End------------- Sathra: Finally over. Time for some relaxing music. *Click* Waffles: Cobra team is yet to arrive though. Sathra: Shhh. Music. --------Wrap-Up----------- I have nightmares with the opening to that song. The first proper anime (besides pokemon) I ever watched. That's probably really bad. Funny though! Now for the new recruits: Part 2 tomorrow! With even more fanservice!

Chapter 21: We have the technology Waffles: Sweety forwarded a report on the motion scanners. Waffles: It doesn't actually describe how they work though. Sathra: Probably magic. Waffles: That's your explanation for everything. Including the colour orange Sathra: I blame warlocks. Them and dolphins. Waffles: That's makes less sense than normal. Are you even listening? Sathra: Not really. Waiting for the system to register everything. Sathra: There we go. Anyways, the Scanners work via interfacing with the alien UFO's spatial detectors. Waffles: How can that work? Wouldn't the aliens notice something like that? Sathra: Magic I guess. Oh, look at that! Sathra: Git 'em pilot! Sathra: Good boy! Pilot: ...thankyou sir? Sathra: *whispers* Have him beaten, but only lightly. Waffles: With...? Sathra: Pillows of course. Unto unconsciousness. Waffles: Send the troops? Sathra: Obviously. And now, Battle Music! Waffles: You had coloured strobe lights installed in here?! -----------Mission Start----------- Assoonasitis: Lots of new faces. Well, faceplates. Anyways, why weren't you on the last mission Tatyana? Tatyana: One of the bulls got loose. A mighty to bring it down, so...power armour. Alan: A bull... Assoonasitis: Oh yeah. You're new. Jousting bulls. Alan: How does that make sense. Why not horses? Jean-Luc II: How the heck would we bring a horse into the base? Alan: How did you get a bull into the base then!? Mariko: This is not the time for this discussion. *Skra-thoom* Akinori: The Tyrant is _appy that the HWP's aren't being damaged anymore. Alan: The mini-tanks that keep growling at people? How is that related? Akinori: We rode them before we got the bulls. Very amusing. Tatyana: These pinkies are minor annoyances compared to that enraged armoured animal. Jean-Luc II: Oh, someone woke up. Yeah, still not sure implanting dermo-weave glands into the bulls was such a good idea. *Krak-ak-ak* Jean-Luc II: Hah! Double-kill! Marren: Before Doc armoured the bulls, you guys kept crippling them. How'd you get the engineers to make lances out of al-alloy anyways? Jean-Luc II: Walkmans. Apparently the boss plays crazy music while watching mission footage. Jean-Luc II: Gotcha. Marren: Oh yeah, I heard that when I was in medical. Creepy stuff. RavenX II: Dammit! Hunterhavoc: Just breathe kiddo. Hunterhavoc: Anyways, its not like there isn't enough alloy to spare. Heck, I think the boss stuck some lances on the interceptors, in case they crash into the UFO's. Marren: Wouldn't surprise me, he makes Akinori seem normal. Akinori: Up yours maggot. Marren: Bite me, shiner. Hunterhavoc: Hey! Marren: Doesn't apply to you Havoc, you got a transplant. Hunterhavoc: Partial transplant. There's cybernetics under these scales, not meat. Marren: Wait, that's Chuck-skin? Hunterhavoc: The doc's crazy, you know that. Besides, you're a shiner too. Marren: Mine are internal, I'm not missing half my face. Akinori: Hey, you get lashed by a targetter and see how much gets left. Those things are sharp. Mariko: Are you guys even paying attention to what you're doing? Hunterhavoc: Not really, its nearly automatic now. Hunterhavoc: Last one. Hunterhavoc: Let's grab the Sparkle and get out of h- Mariko: Captain! Kirmu III: Is he alright? Assoonasitis: Looks unconscious. JL? Jean-Luc II: Yeah, he's stunned. Looks like now we know what those purple balls do. -----------Mission End--------- Sathra: Victory Music! Waffles: Did they really just clear out a UFO while making idle chatter over their radios? Sathra: Looks like it. Waffles: I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing... Sathra: Magic probably. Waffles: What? Sathra: Hmm? Oh, hello Markus. Engineer Markus: Finished making those scanners. I think. Waffles: You think? Markus: When we put the last piece in, everything shifted itself around. Looks like the final blueprint said they should though. Waffles: Well sir? Sathra: I dunno. Whatever, send a couple to Cobra. What about the ship? Markus: Already started. Sathra: And the base? Markus: Well in hand. Sweety: Ah, everyone's here. Finished on the fusion missiles. Sweety: We'll be starting on the interrogation of that psychic bugeye now. I'll need Aki for the next few days. Sathra: Granted. Make sure to film it, always need something to watch before going to sleep. --------5 days later-------- Waffles: Terror ship inbound! Sathra: Take it down! Sathra: Idiots. Not that far down. -----Next day---- Sathra: Oh hell. Ready the troops. Waffles: Looks like its making a search pattern. Sathra: Dim the lights, we're running quiet till it leaves. Sweety: Ah damn! My shin! What's going on with the lights? Sathra: Battleship looking for us, keep your voice down! Sweety: Why? They search for brainwaves, not noises. Sathra: How do you know? Sweety: We finished the interrogation. Sweety: We've got a scientific basis for its powers now, so we can try to see if they're possible for humans. We're starting to design the basic equipment for it now. Sathra: Oh, that's interesting. Waffles: Should I cycle up the lights now? Sathra: Not just yet. I like the ambience. ---------------------------Wrap-Up--------------------- Hmm, can't help but feel the Victory and Battle musics are the wrong way round. *shrug* Yeah, mostly research, so lots of talking instead. This update was very, very delayed. Busy with RL stuff, then the new builds, then Minecraft. Finally escaped (for now). Psi-labs being researched. Thinking that I won't actually use the psi-amps for the LP. Oh, and I actually used a BB in this mission (blew up a random house out of boredom, it was empty). Forgot to take a picture though. New month! One more update to catch up (its the snakeman base fleet I mentioned before). Till then! Doc Martin: Brain transplants!? That's insane. We use the [REDACTED] into [REDACTED] through [REDACTED]. Of course, there's [REDACTED] [REDACTED] so that's why the troopers sometimes say Chzerht instead of [REDACTED]. Pretty simple really. Waffles: What?

Does anyone know where this picture comes from? Cause its awesome, and makes me happy.

Chapter 20: We probably need more HE Packs. Sathra: Waffles, I think this HWD thing is broken. Waffles: What? No its not. We keep Wuffles 03 and 04 in here specifically to keep the animals out. Sathra: But it hasn't detected anything. Waffles: Well, there's probably nothing to detect. Oh, wait a sec. Sathra: Launch sky-dragons! ---------Mission Start------------ Marty III: Hot LZ! *Ska-thoom* *BOOM* Assoonasitis: Wow, Sweety wasn't kidding about the heavier armour. Tatyana: Bugeye armour! Dix II: And a bugeye! Let's make a splash. Tatyana: Ugh. Why must it be literal. RavenX II: Aaah! Who was that! I'LL KILL YOU! Assoonasitis: Nice rampage there Raven. Got a sniper here. Assoonasitis: And now we don't. Marren: Another bugtank. C'mon heavy plasma! Assoonasitis: No dice. Let's have a go. Jean-Luc II: Upper farmhouse clear! RavenX II: RAAARGH! (He went berserk. Didn't fire though oddly.) Hunterhavoc: Run. Kirmu III: Why? Hunterhavoc: He's got alot of explosives. Kirmu III: Run! Hunterhavoc: Just a sec! Hunterhavoc: Right behind you! *BOOM* Assoonasitis: Hole made, time for a gift! Assoonasitis: That's alotta secondaries. (Eight to be precise.) Assoonasitis: Anyone alive in here? *Skrak* Assoonasitis: Guess not. Dix II: Ease! Tatyana: Ease! Hunterhavoc: Wonder if Raven's okay. (Only one is actually due to RavenX. I got bored.) Dix II: What a mess. Lucy: Move in! Assoonasitis: Ambushed! Sathra: Commander, finished yet? You've got a new mission. (Yeah, yeah, its really 2 days later). Lucy: You heard the Tyrant! Mount up! Grab spare ammo if you need it! Assoonasitis: A jungle ey? Kirmu III: Bombs away! Kirmu III: Skort! Kirmu III: e-Krrrt. Lucy: Burn it all! Marty III: Runner! Marty III: Too easy. (Marty seems to be able to kill Snakes with one laser rifle bolt, when no-one else can.) Snakeman: Urr? Snakeman: Zkorrt! Marty III: This should probably be terrifying to be in the middle of. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/5/99994hmmexcessive.png Marty III: Hey rookie! Come clear this ship already! Mariko: If I die, I'll haunt you! http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/835/99995stopshootingme.png Mariko: AAAAH! STOP SHOOTING ME! (She got shot about 12 times, mostly plasma pistol I assume.) Mariko: Revenge! http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/847/99996gotcha.png Marty III: Backing you up! http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/710/99997finisher.png Lucy: Clear. Or on fire. Whatever, I'm tired. ---------------Mission End--------------- Sathra: Victory Music! Also promotions! http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/821/999promotions.png (I have no idea why Hunterhavoc isn't being promoted.) Sweety: Research done! http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/823/newtech.png Waffles: And The Coil's workshop is done! http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/835/coilonline.png Sathra: Yay! Time for new ships! Waffles: Er...not really. There's isn't enough room yet to make them in a reasonable time. We can make one in Area 01 though. Just have to shuffle some stuff around. Sathra: Ugh. Fine, do it. -------------Wrap-up---------------- Huge update! The jungle mission was great fun. Most of the map was on fire, that's to the Loader boosting the Fire/Smoke limit. Of course I only realise now that I could have been building Firestorms at Area 01. Oh well, another 16 days till The Coil can start churning them out. I'll do another quick update after this for tech choices and some other stuff. Like Cobra HQ being fully functional and ready for transfers. Oh, and I missed the screenshot, but the Alien Base in Central America is Floaters.

Chapter 19: Wherein gravity's defeat is nigh. Sathra: So, why did that Interceptor just launch? Waffles: Another scout-class ufo near the base. We assume they're the reason for the base attacks. Sathra: Any proof? Waffles: None. Doesn't matter anyways, its been shot down already and the team should be arriving soon. ------------------Mission Start--------------- Assoonasitis: New tank. Name-plate says Mr...Coco. RavenX: *Snrk* Mr Coco: *growl* Lucy: Don't tease the flying biomech with the plasma cannon Rookie. Lucy: Coco! Hunt! Coco: Woof! *BOOM* Assoonasitis: Coco's under fire! In the stable! RavenX II: I've got it. RavenX II: Damn body! Kirmu III: Like your aim was any better in your old body. (For the next few missions, I turned off the MG Heavy laser so the heavy mob can get more shooting in. Boosted the accuracy a bit, and its not a bad weapon actually. The modded Heavy Plasma isn't massively better like in vanilla.) *Ska-thoom* Assoonasitis: How dare you shoot at me! Eat plasma! (Heh, Assoonasitis survived being shot with Heavy plasma without a scratch). RavenX II: Incoming! *Crump* Hunterhavoc: Pfft, didn't even scratch the armour. (Raven is fine too). RavenX II: Ha! Hit ya! Kirmu III: Its still up Raven. Kirmu III: Finished it off for you pet. RavenX II: -.- Jean-Luc II: Ship's clear. ------------Mission End------------- Sathra: Promotions! Waffles: Good news sir! Sathra: Finally! Sweety: And we've also completed our study of the alien missiles. Sweety: Remarkably complex munitions. Self-guided, inertia free explosives with as much power as our X-com Infantry Specials, in half the weight. Load a target path, and the missile will do the rest. It's given us some new ideas too. Sweety: We can also put one on a hovertank! *One Week Later* Waffles: Cobra HQ is nearly ready for operations sir. One more week. Sathra: Its been a boring week so far. Waffles: We've also started on two more intercept bases. (Yes, the names are lame. Its hard to think up good ones. Only one continent left un-covered, so if no-one disagrees the next will be in South Africa and named Kamelot. Keep forgetting to name one that, sorry JL.) Waffles: Sweety's also finished his report on the aliens' grenades. Sathra: We have the Specials Waffles, how are these useful? Waffles: They can be thrown twice as far. Sathra: Eh. Hmm, wonder if we can get our captive aliens to play keep-away... --------------Wrap-up---------------- Yep, no music for this one, its too short. New tech. Still haven't used the Blaster Bombs. No reason to, Infantry Specials are much more fun and risky. The blast range is smaller, but the edge of the blast still does ~140 damage. Easily capable of killing...pretty much anything (maybe not sectopods). Next update should be bigger. I did spend most of the next 2 missions laughing to myself, enjoyed them alot. Something weird did happen in the mission though. The smoking rubble is normal of course, its Animal II's health that's odd. I have no idea how it happened. Didn't hear a shot, so I assume he got caught in one of the (many) explosions and somehow survived. He'll be in medical for a while.

Chapter 18: For Great Violence! Sathra: The aliens have really upped their game. Do we have any idea what those alien cannon things do? Waffles: None whatsoever. They've never been fired. Sweety's crew will be looking at them after the new armour is done. Sathra: Hmm, are they sure this 'flying suit' is even going to be tactically useful? Waffles: If it doesn't, lots more troopers will die. Does that concern you? Sathra: No, not really. So, how is the Scout recovery going? Waffles: Easily. RavenX was shot at a few times. Again. He's playing with HE currently while the smash-team is dealing with the UFO. Sathra: How did he bury the charge that deep? Waffles: He didn't. Sathra: Huh. Even physics is defying us. Waffles: .... Sathra: What? Waffles: Nothing. That's a plausible explanation. For us. -----------The next day------------- Sathra: Time to send the troops after that other UFO. Waffles: The aliens are still there? Sathra: Yeah. We've been periodically sending waves of rabid dogs and wolverines at them. Its kept them very distracted. Waffles: Supplied by PETA. Sathra: Yes. Battle Music! Waffles: Hmm. ------------Mission Start----------------- RavenX: Good Morning Aliens! Assoonasitis: Hello sugarplum! Wuffles: *snarl* Marty III: We still love you Wuffles. RavenX: Incoming! *BOOM* RavenX: Missed. My turn. (By this point, 3 turns in, RavenX has been shot at twice, and nearly blown up by that grenade. It landed with everyone juuust out of blast-range.) *Skra-ka-kak* *Screech* Marty III: Mtenu Krrrt. Assoonasitis: Stables clear. Lucy: Are you sure? Assoonasitis: Am now. RavenX: This is fun. Jean-Luc II: Alien! Animal II: Ugh, messed up my throw. Forgot how heavy they were. Assoonasitis: Ugh, orchard. Take this agriculture! Skra-koom *Crunch* Lucy: Wuffles! Noo! Sniper in the barn! Animal II: Holy crap! (Never been so glad of my tendency to scout with HE. If I sent troops in they would have been shot in all likelihood) Dix II: So much for Sparkle. Dix II: Better chuck some HE in, nothing to salvage. Assoonasitis: We're out. Stripped the base clean, and the new shipment is still en- route. Dix II: We must have some. Havoc? Hunterhavoc: None here either. Dix II: Where did it all go? (amused chuckle) Dix II: Oh well. In you go Marty! Marty III: Fine. Marty III: Skort! *Blam-blam-blam* RavenX: Having fun? Assoonasitis: In we go! RavenX: Heh, in the butt. Let's see what up there! RavenX: Plasma in the face! Assoonasitis: Ready guys? Jean-Luc II: Yep. *Aaargh* (My bad. RavenX ended up with 0 TU after killing the second Snake, and was stuck with his side armour to both doors.) Dix II: Raven's down! Going up! Dix II: Vengeance! Marren: Er... (Missed the next screenshot. It came back, then moved into the shaft with Marren. And ran out of TU's. Cue point-blank HP burst from Marren.) *Skrak* *Screech!* Assoonasitis: Upper level is clear. Dix II: Boo! Dix II: Hey, come back here! Dix II: Violence! Lucy: We're done. Nice work everyone. Assoonasitis: Raven's dead. Lucy: Eh, he'll be back. Leave the body for the Recovery teams. -------------Mission End--------------- Sathra: A dirge for the lost. *Click* Waffles: What is...eh. Sweety's report for you Tyrant. Sathra: Ah, so it was finished. Waffles: Yes, first few suits have come off the production line. Waffles: And we got our delivery of explosives. Sathra: Hmm, somehow I can't help but feel that RavenX would have lived if it had arrived earlier. Waffles: We found another base too. Sathra: Where? Waffles: Er... Sathra: Of course... Waffles: Oh, and Sweety forwarded a preliminary report on those alien cannon things. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/231/99994bb.png Sathra: Its a missile launcher? Waffles: An extremely advanced one. The missiles are very complex, much more than the launcher itself. It'll be a while. Sathra: Hmm. Wonder how powerful it is? --------------------Wrap-Up--------------------- For RavenX: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/825/ravenorigstats.png http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/94/raven2stats.png On RavenX, I'm frankly surprised that he survived so long. He got shot at soo much. Hunterhavoc hasn't lost his touch either. He got shot in the face with a Heavy Plasma, and came out unscathed. Poor, poor Wuffles.

Chapter 17: This aerial conveyance is devoid of ophidian passengers. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/18/0ughanotherscout.png Sathra: Ugh, another scout. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/29/1sameoldstuff.png Waffles: Ah, it crashed into the Channel. Sathra: Oh well. Waffles: Hmm. We got a message from The Coil. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/24/3ohthecoilmakesacontrib.png Sathra: Ha! That radar plane was a good investment! Empty Skyranger actually Sathra: So what is it? Waffles: Not sure. Picking up elerium radiation signatures consistent with engines, but thee source is about 60 metres underground. Sathra: What an odd place to park a ship. --------------- http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/28/4cobrahqcomingonline.png Waffles: Cobra HQ reports phase 2 of construction has started. Sathra: Bully for them. Waffles: And CoFN has given us our monthly evaluation. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/94/5aprilover.png Sathra: Now that's a pretty good payrise. ----------- Sathra: New month, more scouts. RavenX: Holy crap! Tatyana: This is such a bizarre experience. Jungles are so flammable . There were only 3 aliens, so didn't get to torch the whole place. Sweety: Good news! Sathra: Huzzah! Begin production at once. Waffles: Sir? We can't. The Coil doesn't have the production capacity as yet. Sathra: Sigh. Back to badger pit fights again. Waffles: Sir? About that, shouldn't the badgers be the ones actually fighting? Last I saw, it seemed to be power-armoured soldiers throwing badgers at each-other in a pit. Sathra: Its more interesting that way. *Alarms* Waffles: New contact! Small size! Sathra: Ugh. Waffles: New contact, Large size! Sathra: Wait, what? 2 contacts! Waffles: And another one! And another! Sathra: Scramble all fighters! Contact Serpent's Nest and scramble theirs too! Pilot: What is this thing? Waffles: Two down! Just a Large and the Very Large left. Waffles: Second Large is down! Oceanic splashdown. Vectoring the all interceptors to the Very Large. Sathra: Wait, the Very Large just landed. Sathra: Send the troops. -------------------Mission Start------------------- Assoonasitis: Trees. Gonna mess up my sight lines. Tatyana: Enemy spotted! Chucks! Tatyana: Dasvedanya. Marty III: Another one! Lucy: And another. Marty dropped the unarmed one the previous turn. Lasers had alot of trouble killing stuff in this mission. Actually, everything except Heavy plasma and Plasma pistols did. Assoonasitis: Right in the face! Marty III: Demon Mantis! Lucy: That's a terrible comic book char-What the hell is that! Kill it! Lucy: What the hell was that thing made of!? Half a dozen las-bolts and a few plasma. Superhuman Chryssies can take a punch. Tatyana: Flanker down. Jean-Luc II: More contacts incoming! Hey, Marty's friend is back! Lucy: How much laser-fire can these things take!? Assoonasitis: Plasma has trouble with them too. Jean-Luc II: These Chuck's aren't pushover's either. Marren: Another Mantis! Marty III: Flanked! Marty III: You too! Animal II: Its still up! Assoonasitis: Got it! Tatyana: Commander! Lucy: I defy you alien! The light of my soul is inviolate! Suffer the light of SCIENCE! Tatyana: Mantis! Marren: I got it. Lies, the tank had to finish it off. Lucy: Go on Wuffles. Lucy: Seven hells this is a huge ship. JL II had a field day firing up the shaft. Killed 3 snakes. Kirmu III: What is this thing? http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/24/99993whatisthisthing.png *Krakoom!* Two bolts. Dix II: Heh, spineless snake. Jean-Luc II: What is the point of this? Lucy: Eat Science! http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/585/99998leader.png Lucy: That's a fancy torc you got there. Marren: This is the stupidest ship ever. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/853/999991sweeet.png -------------Mission End------------- Sathra: Sathra: Got quite a few prisoners there. Waffles: Indeed. Last mission brought in 2 Officers, a pilot and what appears to be a regular soldier. Sathra: So what's next? Waffles: The scout and one of the new Large ships. Captain Hunterhavoc will be ready to join the team for those missions. Sathra: Wonderful! How's his arm, by the way? Waffles: ...fully functional. He's still annoyed about it though. Sathra: Bah! Its better than ever! Lovely colour too. ------------Wrap-Up-------------- Been a while since I had to fight Superhuman Chryssalids. Forgot how much firepower they could take. Not even a Heavy plasma could drop them in 1 shot. Also captured 5 blaster launchers. Good thing Snakes have such crap TU's or that would have been bad. So, we got a new alien base located, a supply and scout ship recovery missions to do, and possibly another alien base just built as well. Got Plasma Hovertanks ready for manufacture. Shall we replace Wuffles? Oh, and what is going to be researched after Flying suit? Current vote is 1 for Alien Grenade. -New Fighter-Transporter -Alien Grenade -Motion Scanner -Alien Origins -Flavour techs (Corpse research, interrogations, alien entertainment) -Blaster Launcher (We have ammo for it now!) -Mind Probe -Defense Emplacements (Laser and Plasma, useless though)

Chapter 16: I scream! You scream! Sathra: So...are they there yet? Waffles: No! Stop asking! Oh wait, yes. They're there. Sathra: Battle Music! Waffles: How is this possibly battle music? Sathra: War chant? ---------------Mission Start------------- http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/199/0hptrooper.png Marren: Sweet. Now this is a gun! Lucy: Stow it Trooper! Get ready! RavenX: Soo...Tatyana. First real combat mission, eh? Tatyana: I served in both base defenses Raven. Battle is battle. *BOOM!* Assoonasitis: Tank's under fire! Assoonasitis: Get 'em Wuffles! (There was another one, but I have no idea who killed it. Marty I think.) Lucy: LZ clear, Move out! *BOOM!* Animal II: Stables are clear! Dix II: Enemy Armour! Firing! *BOOM!* Dix II: Holy crap! It exploded! Assoonasitis: Clearing the farmhouse! Tatyana: Another foe moving in! Tatyana: Bye-bye. (yeah, these HP's are very effective on Aimed Shot. So are vanilla ones, but there isn't much reason to use it .) Marty III: Tzaun ve-taus! *Crack-ack-ack* Marty III: Got it! Kirmu III: Scout! (Not sure why its body is messed up.) *BOOM!* Assoonasitis: Hahaha! Dix II: Sniper on the roof! Dix II: *blinks* Wow. Glad I upgraded. *crump* Lucy: Did that get it? Jean-Luc II: Still active! (Yep, screwed up the grenade timer. So annoyed. And now that an alien has spotted one of our units and survived...) Kirmu III: Nu-Tzaun! Vonr-nutaus! AAAAAH! (Congrats Kirmu! First psi-victim!) Lucy: What the hell is he screaming about! Tank! Track and kill! Marty III: More armour! Tatyana: No shot! No shot! Marren: Call it for me! *Skrakoom* Lucy: Freakin beautiful. Didn't blow either! *Meanwhile* Jean-Luc II: Moving into the ship! Jean-Luc II: Holy *shoe*! Assoonasitis: HE out! Fall back! *BOOM!* RavenX: Did it work? (That scared the crap out of me. Cyberdisc's have really good reactions and accuracy. Spent nearly 5 minutes trying to figure out what to do.) Assoonasitis: Move in! RavenX: Target! *Skrak skrak skrak* *BOOM!* Assoonasitis: How many of these things are there! Jean-Luc II: We're pinned down! Assoonasitis: Got the armour! *Screech!* Assoonasitis: Waay too close. (Assoonasitis actually got shot too, and somehow survived. Cyberdisc shots are as powerful as our HP's, 130 dmg.) *Other side of the ship* *crump* Lucy: Tank! Check it out. Animal II: What the hell? Wuffles! Kill it! Lucy: Phew. No boom. Dix II: Another one!? Dix II: C'mon Plasma! *BOOM!* Dix II: *Sheep*! Assoonasitis: AAAAAAHH! Sectoid: GNYURRRR! Assoonasitis: AAAAAAHH! Marren: AAAAAAHH! Dix II: Gotcha! Dix II: Maybe now those two will stop screaming. Dix II: Hmm, oh! You can come too. *whack* *BZZZT* http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/834/99996bamgotamedicsomeho.png (Got a navigator,leader and a medic, but no idea how.) Sathra: Victory Song! ----------------Mission End--------------- Sathra: Enemy field armour. Interesting. Waffles: Disturbing, more like. And what was with the troopers screaming in terror. Sathra: Not quite sure.... *crak* *crak* Waffles: What the hell! Doc Martin: Sorry Joseph!. Oh! Have you seen a liver recently? Waffles: A liver? Doc Martin: Yes! It ran off with part of my boot! Waffles: Liver...with your boot. Running. Doc Martin: Bah! Useless! Aki! Come on! Waffles: Tyrant...Doc Martin just ran by chasing down a rogue liver... Sathra: First a spinal interface, now a liver. He really needs to watch those things better. Waffles: You knew about this? Its happened before?! What's going on? Sathra: Oh, well. The Xeno-augs can move independently. They go to...well....'sleep' if they're kept in oxygenated fluid of some kind. Waffles: And you still allow them to be implanted in the troopers? Sathra: Of course, very useful. They're not that hard to implant either. Waffles: Yes, Martin mentioned they were user-friendly. Sathra: User-friendly, self-installing. Same thing, ------------Wrap-Up------------------- First off: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/221/99997congratsqz.png Welcome back to Sergeant, Marty! There were alot of Cyberdiscs in this mission. Heavy Lasers and Heavy Plasmas work quite well on them thankfully. More surprising was how half of them didn't explode. Or that laser pistol fire even worked (took him about 5 bursts though.) Anyways, Firestorm research is still ongoing, and Flying Suit is up next. Cobra HQ (North America) should be up and running as an assault base in a month or so, and transfers (and recruiting) will be open when it does.

Chapter 15: Phase 2 Sathra: Another Medium Scout... Waffles: Yeah. Fleet signal is a bit odd though. Sathra: You mean the fleet signals we can barely detect and can't translate because the DECODERS TAKE A MONTH TO BUILD!? Waffles: ...yes. Sathra: Oh, alright then. Send the Coffin-Stuffers. Waffles: Already on the way. Sathra: *grins* -------------Mission Start---------------- RavenX: What the hell is that?! Assoonasitis: No idea. Wuffles! KILL! Marty II: Bombs away! RavenX: Got another one. RavenX: Eww, its all full of goo. Marty II: Sniper! Marty II: I got him! Eventually. Marty II: There's something wrong with my deathray's si- Dix II: Oh you sonofa! Dix II: Did...did it just pop? Kirmu III: Let me try! Hunterhavoc: Haha, that's awesome. Animal II: Stables are clear! Jean-Luc II: Hunter! Get down! Hunterhavoc: MY *fishing* ARM! RavenX: Hey, that's not cool! I saw where you went! Jean-Luc II: Fixing you up Hunter. Hunterhavoc: It better not get replaced. Assoonasitis: To the ship! Hello! *Skrak* Dix II: Ugly thing. ------------Mission End-------------- Sathra: Waffles: What were those things? Sathra: Giant snakes, obviously. They shall be known as "Chucks". Waffles:...for the teeth? Sathra: How does that make any sense? Waffles: Then why-New contact! Sathra: Scout? Waffles: Too big. Vectoring interceptor. Waffles: It looks like the ships that do the Terror Strikes. Sathra: Huh. Well, its crashed now. Send the troops! *In the barracks* Marty III: Eszt makkam! ...I need a drink. ------------Wrap-up------------- Yay! Snakemen! Who for some strange reason are even easier to kill than Floaters. And we got a new terror ship crash recovery lined up. I'll wait a couple days for people to make any equipment changes they want, and to decide a new path for research for after the Firestorm research is done. -Flying Suit -New Fighter-Transporter -Alien Grenade -Motion Scanner -Alien Origins -Flavour techs (Corpse research, interrogations, alien entertainment) -Blaster Launcher (We have no ammo for it though) -Mind Probe -Defense Emplacements (Laser and Plasma, useless though) And a sneak peek of what the next mission holds:

Chapter 14: And the confusion begins. Waffles: New contact, small size. Sathra: This would be alot easier if those decoders were online. Waffles: They aren't easy to build sir. Sathra: Yes yes. Hmm, tell the transport pilot to follow the UFO. Waffles: Sir? Sathra: We're running low on the shiny stuff. Waffles: Isn't that dangerous? Sathra: They ignore our interceptors till we start shooting at them Waffles. It'll probably be fine. *Several hours later* Waffles: Ah, UFO landed. In Sri Lanka. Sathra: Finally! -----------Mission Start------------ Lucy: Now, just have to not go mad with power.... Jean-Luc II: Colonel? Lucy: Do my will! Kill my enemies! Marren: We got bugeyes! Marren: I got it. Marren: I missed the splattering so much. Dix II: Tank's under fire! Dix II: I see the shooter! Dix II: Firing! *crakakak* Hunterhavoc: You are a terrible shot. Watch me. Pretty much what actually happened, though Dix did manage to hit it once. Worst show of marksmanship she's ever had. RavenX: Gah! RavenX: Grr, I'll get you! I've forgotten to mention this, but RavenX gets shot at alot. He's rarely hit, but it is getting worrying. Hunterhavoc: What is Raven snarling about? Something abou-Gah! *crak* Hunterhavoc: Damn thing scared the crap outta me. Hard to see the victim in question. Its right in front of Hunter. Marty: Boo! Marty: Ahahaha-oh crap! Kirmu III: I got it. *Crack* Lucy: Gotcha! Through 2 windows, at an angle, with the first shot. Magnificent RavenX: Hey! You stole my-Whoah! RavenX: Now you die! Hunterhavoc: I like these pistols. Dix II: Oh come on! That's just showing off! From 2 screens away. Utterly absurd. *KA-ROOSH!* Lucy: What the hell was that! Hunterhavoc: Some weird launcher. Bit dizzy, but the bugeye that fired it is out cold. *kick* -----------Back at base------------- Sathra: Congratulations Commander Lucy Fer! Lucy: Er, thankyou Commander. But isn't this going to be confusing? Sathra: Not at all, I got new insignia and a new title. Lucy: It looks like an armoured first holding a whip. Sathra: Yes, its Tyrant Sathra now! Waffles: I really hate to say it, but its true. CoFN approved it for some bizarre reason. Sathra: And as my first announcement, I give you this! Sathra: A new phase to our grand and increasingly demented war has begun! -----------Wrap-up------------- Yep, that promotions screen was the entire point of this update. In truth, the way I captured that sectoid was the simple tactic of sending a couple troops in to stare at it and blocking the door with Marty's shapely back. Nature took its course. Firestorms away! THE TYRANT COMPELS YOU!

Chapter 13: Oh Goddammit. Sathra: Oh goddamnit. Waffles: This is not a drill! Everyone to your places! Wake up the tanks! Sathra: ------------Mission Start-------------- Lucy: Team One, ready for ambush and repel. Hunterhavoc: Team Two, moving up! Jean-Luc II: Here they come! Lucy: Volley fire! Kirmu III: Mten-vras nu-Chzerht! Assoonasitis: What the hell is wrong with Kirmu! Lucy: This is not the time! Tanks! Move up! Tatyana: Iron-Hounds report more foes moving up Captain. Sarah: Gah! O...k, new glitch for this Base Defense. For some reason, when the reapers died, they'd finish half their death-spin, then another one would spawn directly on top of them, facing SW. Very odd. Also, almost nothing left behind a corpse. Hunterhavoc: Okay, split up guys. Fireteam with each tank. Wuffles-03: Vrrr. Sarah: Hey, no scaring the terrifying creations of a madman! Jean-Luc II: In position! Eat laser! Lucy: Hah, they've broken! Into them! And then the aliens started shooting each-other for the rest of the battle Marty II: Ahahahaha! Assoonasitis: Bam! Right in the metallic nad-equivalent Lucy: Face the Light! Assoonasitis: Gotcha! Assoonasitis: Oh, come on! Dix II: Pfft, watch this accuracy, sniper. Assoonasitis: Oh yeah? One shot, no aiming. Across 2 Hangars. Jean-Luc II: Bloody children. Come Wuffle-03! Jean-Luc II: Nooo! JL killed this with reaction fire. 2 shots Assoonasitis: Last one. Cross-base shot! No joke, he was on the exact opposite side of the base. 3 hangar widths. Aimed shot of course Sathra: How the hell? Waffles: So you don't know either? --------------Mission End------------- Sathra: Victory Song! Waffles: Oh dark tentacle-laden gods. WHY!? Sathra: Probably cheese. Sweety: Ah, Commander! We've finished our research! What the hell is this song? Sathra: You finished the research while the base was being attacked? Sweety: Yeah, sure. That. Sweety: We've got enough to try making our own UFO's now. Sathra: Excellent. ---------------Wrap-up--------------- Another base attack. We got a Blaster Launcher from this one, but somehow no actual Blaster Bombs. Other than that: Congratulations to (nearly) everyone! Scary thing is, I was actually hoping that it was Snakemen. There's something deeply wrong with that.

Chapter 12: Wherein someone dies *Skrak* Awk! Waffles: Sir, what are you doing? Sathra: Skeet shooting with a plasma rifle. Waffles: With live pigeo-Oh...I get it. Sathra: Get what? Waffles: You're meant to use clay pigeons. Sathra: Where's the fun in that? *Skrak* Awk! Waffles: *shakes head* Where did you even get live pigeons from anyways? Sathra: Same place I get the weasels. PETA. Waffles: What? Sathra: Yeah, People Enjoying Torturing Animals. Or whatever. Waffles: You know what. I'm not going to ask. The team's nearly arrived at the crash site. Sathra: Ah. Aki! Finish these off for me, would you? Akinori: Of course sir. *crack* *crack* *crack* *boom* Waffles: Grenades aren't sporting you know! Akinori: Faster. Sathra: Classic. --------------Mission Start------------------- RavenX: We really get to do this every time!? Hunterhavoc: You think all these demo packs I carry are for the fashion? Marty: LZ is cle- Kirmu III: Marty! Pinkie gonna pay! Assoonasitis: Got another further on. Plasma don't fail me now! So accurate. Kirmu III: This seems like a great idea. Jean-Luc II: Target down! Clearing the house! That floater was charmed. Took 4 of you, firing on full auto from 12 tiles away to hit it twice. Lucy: Tank's under fire, can't get a shot! Someone, get to it! Jean-Luc II: *runs* In my sights! Took 3 turns to get someone in LOF to it. If it wasn't for it having a Plasma Pistol, would have lost the tank Dix II: Make a hole Wuffles! *Krakoom* Good biomechanical monstrosity! Hunterhavoc: Moving into the ship now! New target! Hunterhavoc: Clear it out! Kirmu III: Ready to take nu-vhirton Captain. Hunterhavoc: ...Good? *stomp stomp stomp* *Kzzt* Hunterhavoc: Oh, prisoners. Hmm, is that a toolbelt? Jean-Luc II: Aah! Jean-Luc II: Stop it! *Krak* extra info about this in the wrap-up Jean-Luc II: My damn arm! ----------------Mission End------------- Sathra: Well Doc? Doc Martin: Easy fix. Just some weave and electro-muscle. About a week. Sathra: Wonderful. And we got that new base started too! Waffles: Oh, its a theme. Sweety: Ah yes, finished with the Heavy Plasma research High Commander. Sathra: Powerful? Sweety: Excessively. Its like a hand-held howitzer. Heavy though. Sathra: Anything else? Sweety: We'll start interrogation one of the alien pilots now. See if we can get a better handle on what those strange signals are. *Over a week later* Sathra: So very bored. The only contact we've gotten was that Small scout we disintegrated. Mr Waffles? Waffles: Nothing. No UFO activity reported. Anywhere. Sweety: Interrogation finished. We got alot out of it. Squaddie Akinori was very...persuasive. Sathra: Brutal beatings? Sweety: Joyously so. We did it to the sound of Cher. It eventually died. Geneva convention doesn't include aliens does it? Sathra: Probably not. I'll make up some garbage about truth drugs, befriending and how it iced itself when it realised what it did for the CoFN. Waffles: Utterly barbaric. Sathra: Hmm? The beatings or the Cher? Waffles: Uhhh. Hmm...Err...The Cher I guess? You've been blasting them with grindcore for a month before the interrogation. The beating probably was befriending by comparison. Sathra: Ha! Won't be complete garbage then! Oh! Sweety, start with that Decoder thing, would you? Sweety: Of course sir. *Yet another boring week* Sweety: Done! Got the plans right here. It'll automatically decode the fleet data of everything that comes into range. Sathra: What kind of fleet data? Sweety: Mission, Ship class, Crew, infractions, lots of stuff. Sathra: Wonderful! Here, have a badger! Sweety: Uh, thankyou. Its very...cooked. Sathra: The stuffing is pigeon! Sweety:...wonderful. Ah, I see the pigeon is still alive. I can see it trying to escape. I'll go...show the research team. We're looking at trying to understand the UFO systems. Waffles: *giggling* Quite a culinary feat sir. By the way, radar picked up a contact. Getting the data now. Sathra and Waffles: Shit. -------------Wrap-up----------------- Now if you've got a some good EU experience under your belt, you'll know exactly what the next update will be. There's only one thing a Very Large contact could be doing at 5k speed. And as I mentioned before, some more info about how JL II got wounded. What happened was, a floater appeared out of nowhere and fired a burst into his side. JL II turn, got shot again, fired back. Then the alien fired, then JL, then alien, then JL, then the alien died. 6 or something plasma pistol shots at point blank range. Most stupidly funny thing I've ever seen. Oh, and for MickeyC: POW POW POW POW! *demented cackle*

Yeah, needed a scientist, and the phrase 'Thank-you Sweety' still makes me giggle. Here ye go: P Rifles are more accurate, but also more TU to fire. More powerful too. P and L rifles should weigh the same (8 for an L, 5+3 for a P), but due to the clip weight glitch P Rifles often weigh less. Alien grenades: Not researched yet. Roughly half the power, but much easier to carry and throw. MotSc: Maybe? They'd be useful for ship breaching. Xeno-augmentation: Yes. Specifically, not all the A-Cybernetics are from Floaters (just most of them, due to the sheer number of floaters killed so far). Purple/pink paradox: What? Chapter 11: 4th state of matter eh? Waffles: I've been wondering sir, how does Doc Martin even know what the Xeno-augs do? He started implanting them 15 days after we first encountered the aliens! I mean, we haven't even done a proper autopsy. Sathra: Oh, that. Classified. Waffles: Well, what about what happens when some of the soldiers die. One of the troopers was...possessed...by Kirmu when I was talking to him. Does that have something to do with 'The Link'? Sathra: Also classified. Waffles: Which part exactly is classified? Th- Sathra: All of it. If you really want to know, ask the CoFN for clearance and the relevant data. Waffles: I'll go do that then! Sathra: Not that they actually know anything about it. They don't want to know about it. They'll have you executed for even mentioning it to them. Waffles: WHAT?! You mean none of this has actually been approved!? Sathra: I approved it. I am the final authority. CoFN just funds us and runs security and misinformation. Waffles: But...you're insane. Sathra: *shrugs* Eh. Anyways, the team's probably landed by now. Lets see if we unlocked the plasma weapons properly! -------------Missions Start-------------- Hunterhavoc: Let's power up these plasma guns then. *cringes* http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/571/1plasmaassoon.png[/url] http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/16/2plasmamarty.png http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/202/3plasmaravenx.png RavenX: Why did you cringe? Assoonasitis: They might have exploded. Anyways, chuck some HE out and lets get rolling! Lucy: Wuffles' got targets! Bugeyes! RavenX: I see one in the stable! Plasma away! Assoonasitis: Tank's under fire! Kill it! The one dead in the pic took 3 plasma bolts. There's something wrong with every gun Assoonasitis fires, this happens all the time! Oh, and Marty killed the other one I think. Dix II: Who's up for BBQ! 2 bolts to die, damn tough sectoids Jean-Luc II: Ship's empty, that's all of em. There was another one, Lucy threw a HE pack at it. Forgot to take a pic. Hunterhavoc: Nice easy mission. And the plasma guns didn't explode! Lucy: Yeah, they- Sathra: Troops, new orders. There's been a terror attack. Get to it! Lies, had to go back to base, then to the mission. Lucy: Oh great, night. Damn you timezones! Bombs away! Hunterhavoc: What an incredible surprise! Its pinkies again. RavenX: Heh, in the butt. And again with feeling! Lucy: Feeling lucky Animal? Animal II: You just had to remind me. Kirmu III: Spotted a Chzerht! Firing! Hunterhavoc: A what? Waffles: A what? Sathra: Ignore that. I order you! Kirmu III: A floater! Are you deaf or something? Jean-Luc II: This ones killing civilians! Jean-Luc II: Not letting you do that! Jean-Luc II: Gotcha! Lucy: Found the main squad! HE out! Dix II: Lethal suppressing fire! Animal II: Get down you idiots! *BOOM* RavenX: We got a survivor! Dibs! Dix II: Oh no you dont! Lucy: I'd feel better sitting in a crater. This park is creeping me out. No joke, it feels wrong not taking up position in a crater Animal II: Damn civvies, YOU'RE LUCKY I'M A GOOD SHOT! Assoonasitis: *flavoured* recoil! Marren: Haven't got a shot! It near the phone booth? Assoonasitis: Yeah? Why? Assoonasitis: Nice shot! Lucy: Anyone seen Wuffles? Animal II: Yeah, it's carving its way through a warehouse. Marty: That poor family. Bombs away! Marty: Now for the cremation! Marren: Ack! What the heck was that! Marren: YOU! Dix II: Damn buildings! Kirmu III: I got it! 1 1/2 screens away pistol kill. From a rookie. Good show! Marty: Sleep well. Jean-Luc II: What? Marty: Nothing! Hunterhavoc: Got the final tally sir. Sathra: Thank-you Captain. I'll forward it to the CoFN. Back to base now! ------------Missions End------------ Sathra: Victory Music! Waffles: Forward to the CoFN eh? Sathra: Yes. Waffles: Officially, there are no civilian survivors of Terror Attacks, are there? Sathra: No. Waffles: This is a dirty war, you realise. Sathra: Depends. If there are no witnesses, its all hearsay! HEARSAY I SAY! -----------Wrap-Up------------- Soo very sick of seeing Floaters. Sorry the recent chapters haven't been as humorous, I blame Black Library books. I'll try to get back into it. The plasma rifles were quite useful in the terror mission. They kill Reapers in 2 shots or so, compared to a Laser Rifle's 5. The map was really cramped, which was a bad thing. P Rifles are best used like sniper rifles, on snap shot. Oh and the alien that was shooting Marren had a shootout with Hunterhavoc. Plasma pistol duel. Hunterhavoc hit it twice, it hit him 4 times or something. He's fine, and currently holds the record for "most shot without injury or death" at 12 or something.

Alrighty, done. Modded Heavy Plasma Details: Holy damn they are heavy. Its about 19 units loaded (EU has a glitch where a loaded weapon's clip isn't counted for weight sometimes). That's about as much as an unloaded Autocannon. Snap and Auto accuracy is down, and they cost more TU to fire in those modes. Aimed shot is the same though. Clip size is reduced to a third of the original as well (12 shots compared to 35). They're actually heavy weapons now, rather than really powerful assault rifles. For comparison: http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Heavy_Plasma for the vanilla version. Edit: Is it strange that I'm now considering making them even more powerful? (130 power sounds good, nice and killy)

Chapter 10: Plasma-47s! For Everyone! Sweety: We've gotten a handle on this alien weapons technology. Using the laser cannon as a base, we've been able to replicate the effect. Its still a bit crude, but it'll be more than effective as a ship-to-ship weapon. We'll start on the infantry equipment now. Sathra: Thank-you Sweety *In the Commander's Office* Waffles: We're meant to be defending humanity! Sathra: We are. There will be casualties Joseph! Waffles: But we're-Wait, you used my real name. Sathra: That's how serious this is. Casualties are expected. As long as the species survives, individuals are expendable. Waffles: But. Sir... Sathra: Do you want to know what my contingency orders are in case we lose? Hmm? Waffles: Sir? Sathra: I go to my office, open a panel, use this key and type a code. It'll launch the CoFN's stocks of nuclear weapons to every populated portion of the planet. Waffles: ... Sathra: Losing isn't an option. We win, or we ALL die. ----------Missions------------- Lucy: Its going to be strange without Animal. Hunterhavoc: He'll be back soon Lucy. Assoonasitis: New tank. Says "Wuffles". Wuffles: Woof! Assoonasitis: ...Alright then. Ready for some killing Wuffles? Waffles: *pants* Marty: Done playing with the team pet? Cause these bombs won't throw themselves. Lucy: Goddammit! THROW THEM! Note, this is a waste of a HE pack in vanilla EU Hunterhavoc: This ship is a wreck. Akinori: _ow did you survive? Marty: Not for much longer. *Interlude* Crashed in the English Channel Plasma Beams *Back to regular programming* I like these cannons Well, they can cut down a skyscraper. I'm still angry about that by the way. You get angry about everything. *mocks* "Don't throw badgers at the engineers", "Stop shooting the Reapers with paintball guns" "Floater's aren't shuttlecocks" Nag, nag, nag. Lucy: Er...welcome back Animal. Animal II: Good to be back. What're your orders? Lucy: This is....gonna be weird. Animal II: Let's try this body out! Assoonasitis: *speechless* So cool. Akinori: Under fire _ere. Lucy: Don't you ever get worried? Akinori: No. Hunterhavoc: I feel much more comfortable in blast craters. Assoonasitis: These pinkies just won't die! Kirmu II: I know! No kidding. This floater took 5 laser rifle hits and 2 HL blasts Kirmu II: Nooo-! Lucy: Die damn you! Such...terrible luck. It did die this turn, after 2 more Laser rifle bolts Lucy: Damn. Kirmu...what a waste of a suit. Marren: *chuckling* Animal II: Plink! Throwaway snapshot, and he hit and killed it. The game remembers him I think. Jean-Luc II: Oh, awake are we? *Crack* Jean-Luc II: Goodnight. Assoonasitis: Ship's clear. ------------Missions End-------------- Waffles: I'm going to see to the troops. Sathra: Hmm? Oh, off you go then. I'll be here, looking over these reports Sweety sent up. *In the barracks* Waffles: So Trooper Davies, how has the training been? Alan: Its not too bad. Not sure about the surgery though. I mean, the upgrades are nice, but that Doctor is a sadist. Waffles: It has to do with making sure the implants link up properly apparently. Alan: Yeah, about the implants. Where are they from? I swear I saw the last one moving in the jar. Waffles: Er...the aliens. Alan: The ali-ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL Waffles: What the fuck! Alan: UPLOADING. Aaaahh! Waffles: Trooper Davies! Alan! AlanKirmu III: Mr Joseph? Who the hell is Alan? Waffles:...Never mind. Good to...see you, Trooper...Kirmu? Kirmu III: Yessir. I have to go get fitted for my armour now. *walks off* Waffles: What the hell just happened. -------------Wrap-up------------- Condolences and Congratulations Kirmu! That floater took a stupendous amount of firepower and still managed to kill you, but on the bright side, you're the first to reach third iteration. Will there be personality damage? Who knows. And that's the end of March. Next month, hopefully we'll get something other than Floaters all the damn time. Oh, and Plasma Rifles and Pistols are now available. The pistols were also modded at some point, so they're a bit more useful (cost less TU to shoot, part of the failings of vanilla PP's). Place your orders! Heavy Plasmas should be ready after the next update. Excited to see what the heck they were modded to! ------------------------------------------------ Oh, some other stuff to add. This is one of the interesting functions of the loader. Its Auto-sell mode. Don't really need it for this playthrough, but I've got nothing to manufacture anyways (20 odd spare suits of power armour and a bunch of extra laser tanks). It does mean we can expand faster though! Time for a new base? America (North and/or South) I'm thinking. Take your pick, and suggest some names people! That and research. Heavy Plasmas are in the pipe with HWD after. But what's next? -Small Launcher -Alien Grenade -Motion Scanner -New Ships (and Flying Armour) -Alien Origins (from the live Navigator) -Or some fluff techs. Currently we've got Alien Entertainment, Reaper (live and dead), Floater (live comes with HWD), Sectoid corpses and Mind Probes. Edit: Hmm, odd question, but the colour I'm using for laser weapon fire, is it yellow or green? It looks yellow to me most of the time, but sometimes it looks green.

Chapter 9: All turns to silver glass. Waffles: Y'know, its Tehran. We could....forget...to save them. Sathra: That's quite callous of you Waffles. Sadly, Iran is a pretty good scapegoat for our excessive violence. Waffles: Really!? Sathra: Ehh, kinda. We also get fined if we don't respond. Damned regulations. Animal: We've arrived sir. Sathra: Waffles! To the ops room. Waffles: Battle Music! Sathra: *sniff* I'm...so proud. -------------Mission Start------------- Assoonasitis: Hello Pinkie! Tank, KILL! Civvie: چه کسی پرداخت برای خانه ام! Aiiiee! فرازمینی ربات ها! Animal: Landing protocol! Ahahaha! Vindication! The fun you can have when grenades don't destroy each-other. Lucy: Move out. Clear the LZ! *extended lasfire* Marren: Clear! Marren: Akinori! Hunterhavoc: THE COLONEL'S DOWN! Eat laser! Hunterhavoc: Someone check on Aki! Akinori: I'm fine sir. Returning fire. Jean-Luc II: Assisting! Jean-Luc II: Oh merde. Sorry Akinori! Akinori: For w_at? Jean-Luc II: I accidentally shot you in the back. Akinori: Oh. W_en? Jean-Luc II: ....Nevermind. Jean-Luc II shot Akinori twice in the back at point blank range. Did nothing. Charmed life right there. Lucy: Oh damn, the Colonel. Sathra: Captain! Pull yourself together! Lucy: But sir! Sathra: No prisoners Captain. Gloves are off. Lucy: ...Thankyou sir. *manic giggle* You heard the Commander! Killing Animal's actual killer. With a HE pack to the face. Lucy: No prisoners! Lucy: No retreat! Marren: You picked a bad time to show your faces. Jean-Luc II: This is wrong. Hunterhavoc: Holy crap! It ate the tank! Seriously. That reaper ate the tank. Never seen it happen. *crump* Floater failed to throw a grenade again. Floater: Mrrrrzii! Marren: No. Hunterhavoc: Someone kill that Reaper! Marty: Eat this! Assoonasitis: Got a runner! Escaping are we? Assoonasitis: Not a chance. Lucy: BURN IT DOWN! Assoonasitis: AHAHAHA! Marty: This is fun! Catch! Floater: Mikta. Waffles: Sir! Tell them to pull back already! Sathra: You really want them on the base as they are? They'll run out of explosives soon anyways. Waffles: Dear. God. Sathra: -----------Back at base----------- *Watching television* Earlier today the city of Tehran in Iran was rocked by a series of explosions. Information is sketchy, but rumours have been coming out that unknown black-clad military forces have been attacking civilian targets in the region. The Iranian government has been slamming these events as acts of 'American terrorism'. Waffles: Dear god. But...our troops don't wear black uniforms. Sathra: The Enforcers do. Waffles: The CoFN is doing this!? Sathra: Iran isn't one of our funding nations. Secrecy is paramount. Waffles: But that's...that's.... Sathra: Necessary. --------------Wrap-up------------- Damn, lost Animal. And it seems we're under the troop requirement for a Colonel with his death as well. Such a lame death too. Fun as hell though. Ran out of HE packs at the end of that mission, and I load 12 on the Skyranger as standard. LB, if you want Animal II to switch to Power Armour, just say so. Couple of interesting screenshots. Look at all of those P-Rifle Clips. And this one. Not sure what happened. I think one of the blown up bodies glitched and ended up re-appearing outside the map boundaries. That's a new one.