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Nope, it's just destroying all Alien Bases in the world. A pretty tall order, as the Main base has 15 main units and 5 terrors, split between all researched races, and any constructed have 17+4 of the race that built 'em.

I think a human in Personal armour can take a single Alien 'Nade, so a Muton will walk out of the smoke cloud looking at worst slightly singed. You'll likely be looking at 3-5 for a kill. I can't imagine Heavy Rockets will do much more than cover a Muton in smoke.

Other things we've discovered are that Chryssalids are no longer an Instakill on humans; their attack actually has to kill the Human with damage to turn him into a Zombie. This meant a lucky escape for Orb's Captain, as Flying Armour can block 3-4 hits from a Chryssie, and I only had the TU for 2.

Also, Celatids are awesome. Orb tried for the BB again, and both Celatids were in position to Reaction Fire people coming out of the Ranger. 4 Casualties in quick succession, and it's dust-off time. Just wish the numbers weren't random; Silacoids are awful in comparison.

He did look absolutely awesome. And he dropped a bunch of green level 14 gear for us, which means I'm going to become a whirling dervish of destruction as soon as I gain a level.

I found he rarely attacked you if you were under him. A few rocks to dodge, the occasional purple aura of painful death (I couldn't avoid those things worth a damn), but much less than you get fighting him from the front.

I'm on Petrified Forest - EU, playing Aurora Belliqua, Human Warrior with Rifle, although I'm putting exp into all the weapon combinations so I'll be more flexible later. Sword and Mace is my secondary, mainly for the vulnerability attack the mace gives.

Loads of fun.

I agree, the Askold looks like a solid choice.

Another 1-0 victory! I kicked off in the first half, which promptly devolved into a squabble on the halfway line, each team jumping on anyone who looked like picking up the ball. Injuries were sustained on both sides (For a change), with the Orcs picking up a serious concussion for a linesman and a Pinched Nerve on the Thrower, the Ogres got a dead snotling and I can't remember what else. I was playing 1d and occasionally -2d blocks a lot, the majority of which went my way (Including one on a caged snotling ball carrier, where I rerolled to get 2 defender downs. That felt good.), pushing Ogres out of the way and snotlings into the way (Curse side step! Curse it!).

Receiving in the second half meant I got about half way into Alstar's territory before the meat grinder started up again (And KO'd my secondary Gobbo, who had the ball at the time :I). Morru the Blitzer and Tuffgang the Gobbo, with their MA of 6(!) broke away but were promptly clobbered by an Ogre one square away from a TD. Undaunted, Morru got up and blitzed the ogre, pushing his tackle zone off the ball, and Tuffgang promptly made his pickup roll (After fluffing it hilariously earlier and bouncing the ball between members of my team around 10 times) and 2 dodge rolls, scoring the only TD in turn 14.

Alstar figured the only way to salvage the game was by throwing a snotling (With ball) into my endzone, and I almost let him, accidentally kicking the ball out of bounds for my kickoff, but his concerns over accuracy meant he moved forward, where I managed to blitz his ball carrier with a Linesman (Maybe green skin blends in to grass?), and then the way my guys fell over meant he couldn't get another Snotling to pick up the ball and make it to an Ogre to be launched.

Luck was once more firmly on my side, I think.

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