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[Burnt Pies]

I've been using crossbows underwater to fairly good effect. They even do scratch damage to lobsters when they highroll. Otherwise, there's a handy filter in the buy or base inventory menus that will show you what you can use underwater. So far I'm limited to Staffs of Dagon, Melee, Staplers and Crossbows, but I'm sure the Gauss/Mass Driver weapons will come along eventually.

On a related note, this LP has inspired me to start playing the mod myself. It's been great fun so far, thanks for introducing it to me.

[Yoink]

Live megaworms look rather like chokos.
Also, I'm surprised to learn Mr. Beugs is even still alive, I was beginning to wonder if he'd met his end somehow.

[birdy51]

I'm contemplating not even checking if the latest iteration of Birdvig is alive. I come in and just sort of assume the last one died again.

[King Zultan]

I've got a question, I've never played X-Com so is there a chance that we could go and reclaim Ainsley Harriott HQ or is it lost for good?

[Rince Wind]

It is lost.
It would be cool if mods could make a reclaim mission, where you would find your damaged base, but it is not possible. And in most cases the enemy would want to make sure that there is nothing left to reclaim anyway.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

I would imagine the bases are rigged to blow if the aliens overwhelm the defenders anyway, especially bases with prototype weapons and anything else we wouldn't want the aliens getting their hands on.

[Rince Wind]

I think the aliens wouldn't want to dirty their hands with most of our primitive weaponry.

[SQman]

So much tuna steaks dead fishmen!

My inner cat approves ;v

Wait till we encounter lobstermen! We'll open up a seafood restaurant once it's over, I swear. Even if we lose.

I've been using crossbows underwater to fairly good effect. They even do scratch damage to lobsters when they highroll. Otherwise, there's a handy filter in the buy or base inventory menus that will show you what you can use underwater. So far I'm limited to Staffs of Dagon, Melee, Staplers and Crossbows, but I'm sure the Gauss/Mass Driver weapons will come along eventually.

On a related note, this LP has inspired me to start playing the mod myself. It's been great fun so far, thanks for introducing it to me.

I'm glad you're enjoying it!

I know all about filters and menus, but I have most stuff hidden away to make navigating the menus easier. I used crossbows in underwater missions in XPiratez with moderate success. Staplers are pathetically weak, their range is also pitiful, and the accuracy... gas cannons are a must, now we know.

I'm contemplating not even checking if the latest iteration of Birdvig is alive. I come in and just sort of assume the last one died again.

Have some faith in me, will you? Ultimate Birdvig is still functional, and what's more, he/she's actually getting useful.

Live megaworms look rather like chokos.
Also, I'm surprised to learn Mr. Beugs is even still alive, I was beginning to wonder if he'd met his end somehow.

Mr. Beugs got fired shortly after I realized how little activity his brain displays. The soldiers of Gordon Ramsay HQ had good survival rate, because nothing is ever happening in Africa, so they can just train in the gym in safety.

I would imagine the bases are rigged to blow if the aliens overwhelm the defenders anyway, especially bases with prototype weapons and anything else we wouldn't want the aliens getting their hands on.

If this was vanilla X-Com, I would say it's the aliens who blow up bases so we can't recover anything there is in there. After all, X-Com never builds anything the aliens don't or can't have. Even the Avenger is nothing compared to, let's say, T'leth. Here, where the Syndicate is also involved in base raids, I guess your explaination works better. Imagining minotaurs with shoulder-mounted laser cannons gives me the chills.

Spoiler: File 36: Terrorship Down (click to show/hide)

I'm back from my holiday, what have I missed? Nothing? Wait, this isn't Ramsay HQ! Oh no, I've been assigned to Paula Deen HQ where I'll be sitting uselessly until an easy enough mission shows up. At least I won't be alone, since...



Mr. Beugs is here with me. We're both kinda bad. We'll improve though!



Aloha from Hawaii! A welcoming commitee of a bunch of deep ones threw a welcome party for us, blasting the music of their people on their sonic pistols. Have I ever told you I hate partys? Ms. Gnelf convinced one of the fishmen to stop whatever it was doing immediately.



Goddamn gilldog! I had high hopes for Mr. Comptroller and now he's dead. Mr. Trade Wind killed the dog with a burst from Asuka.



Wish I haven't lost Mr. Comptroler, but it was a good mission nonetheless. Always good to find some sonic pistol clips.



Dart rifles have just been upgraded. The new darts aren't much better than the old ones, however they still don't require any components to be manufactured.



Gonna take a long time though. That's for later, because Paula Deen HQ needs its ammo first, stun equipment second.



How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real? Look who we managed to recruit this time. Yeah, I know his name is spelled Jaden, not Jayden. We're not keeping him.



Rio de Janeiro, a complete madlad is waving his AK in the little room of his. Ms. Receipt, a rookie, came to stop his tantrum and ground him for punching her multiple times. That guy really thought his fists were stronger than alien alloys? Impressive self-confidence.



Yeah, two tazer clips expended, 500 points gained. I also realized that the Sauceranger doesn't have dart guns on it for some reason.



A USO near Hawaii, probably choke-full of aquatoids.



We're assaulting the ship anyway. Pawnshop's got a seabot chassis which is unarmed but glowy. We haven't got gas cannons or crossbows, meaning we'll be bringing aquatoids home.



Oh no, sonic guns and shields. This might be harder than I expected. At least Pawnshop is quite resistant to concussive damage, so maybe he'll tank?



Welp, Target is dead. Better this chassis than the laser tank one, I guess. Mr. Princess disabled the shield using his wakizashi, then Mr. Hare darted the aquatoid and healed it so we can bring it home for interrogation.

I just realized - sonic guns are so powerful because they are supposed to be used underwater against enemies resistant to concussive damage. We can use them right now.



We're breaching. Mr. Assist slashed an aquatoid standing in the way, then yet another one. Mr. Recognition is now packing sonic.



Always good to try out a new gun. One shot, one kill.



The layout of the USO is kinda... you know. Mr. Hare and Mr. Princess are in grave danger, because if Mr. Hare doesn't stop the aquatoid, it will blast them both with its blasta rifle.



Mr. Hare was hit, but was okay-ish. Mr. Princess skewered the aquatoid with a wakizashi, then smothered his colleague in Monster Jell-O.



The last two aquatoids were hiding in the cockpit (hah!), where we've blasted them with our loudest WOAH WOAH!. No alien can withstand the overwhelming power of Bon Jovi.

Despite us taking over the USO, we haven't recovered much aqua plastics. Not sure if UFO construction was meant to be recoverable. Ion beam accelerators will be very useful for research AND for the future of T'leth arc.



We've shot down something huge over Nigeria, and it was full of chtonites. Is this a terror ship?



Oh yes, it is. There are silacoids crawling around, which I don't like. Those bastard rock guys are very hard to kill with anything other than explosives. Alloy ammo can wound them, even if just barely.



We gotta be extra careful with silacoids around. There's a lot of fire thanks to them, and they sure as hell can make much more.



I'm turtling very hard around here. I know it's just chtonites, but plasma is plasma, and terror ships are huge. Destroying a silacoid takes way longer than a single turn, but at least they bleed.



That's a one way to deal with incredibly tough enemies - incredible amount of laser.




Mr. Legal got sniped from across the map by a chtonite, then we sniped a chtonite from across the map.



Now, I haven't been documenting this mission too well, but nothing very exciting is going on. We're exploring the inside of the ship with a tank, and some enemies are panicking.



Double window and door trickshot, courtesy of Ms. Pies. She's either that good, or her gun is that good. I think it's the gun, guys.



There's a chtonite leader inside. We'll get him, then see just how much this ship was worth.



Not worth enough! Ms. Essay was one of the better soldiers, if I remember correctly. Mr. Cyclamen got in and destroyed the chtonite leader for what it's done. There is still a panicking navigator left somewhere on the map.



Oh god, the navigator is still holding a gun. There goes Mr. Cyclamen.



Wasn't worth it. I doubt we'll get anything useful from a silacoid corpse, but I won't be mad if I'm wrong.



According to a chtonite medic, reptilians are among us, and they are already controlling the market, among other things. They're not actually aliens; rather deep one relatives I guess. We had furries, so I guess scalies deserve some representation too.



Oh right, it's Thunderstorm not Firestorm. It doesn't have cannon slots, so every missile has to count. Electronic slots are for... targetting systems and such? Maybe?
That freed 30 scientists that we can put into researching a silacoid corpse and UFO construction.



Sectoid leaders know their tech, apparently. I refuse to understand anything about electronics or computers, so I'll leave it all to our eggheads.
Alien electronics is a very limited resource. No selling.

We can now research a psi-lab, which we will do. Psi-ops, here we go!



Good ol' vanilla floater. Fielding regular, unmodified floaters would probably bee more efficient when it comes to time and resources than modifying every single clone. The aliens should have me in charge of the invasion, not the brain on Mars. I shouldn't be saying that, should I?



Damn chtonites are salty about the lost terror ship, so they sent another one to Cairo. It's night, a bda time to deal with aliens, however there is something about this particular terror mission that will make it bearable - silacoids and their fire trails. Electro-flares are almost redundant in this scenario.



We shouldn't hurry, because we won't save people anyway. Our new drone replacing Pawnshop is called Hunger, and he hungers for alien blood.



After slaughtering all civilians, the chtonites started targetting the Guyranger. Ultimate Birdvig and Mr. Gnome peeked out from behind the plane and saved everyone.



Why are those things so hard to kill? I know, they're made of rock, but come on, they're swarming out here and I'm not, I repeat, I'm not moving out from the plane.



110 base laser damage can easily melt 50 armor with no resistance. That saves us some shooting.



Heavy plasma alien killed by Ultimate Birdvig, Mr. Trade Wind sniped another one, and Ms. Gnelf CAWSed a silacoid.

Then we got 'naded, but the door was closed. Suck it, chtonites, I'm not having any of that.



Can we boldly go where all men were afraid to go before? Not like we've got any choice, because to kill a chtonite hiding in the smoke we had to expend too many TUs to get back. Hunger and Mr. Platelet couldn't hit, but Mr. Polish hit with his UAC rocket launcher.

The chtonite Mr. Polish is standing on is a leader, so we should probably heal it and take it home.



Two more silacoids gone thanks to immense amount of bullets.



I love it when medics go berserk. It blasted itself with its stun launcher and fell asleep without our intervention.



We're taking a silacoid home if everything goes well.



We're moving into the train depot. A chtonite with a plasma pistol wanted to blast Mr. Trade Wind. The soldier pulled out a sword and killed the alien.



I can't believe it, but we've finished a night-time terror mission without anyone getting killed or even seriously hurt. We've captured two medics that stunned themselves, and a silacoid. Mr. Gnome got a whopping 6 point accurcy increase.



Spitters are terror units of the anthropods. Just like their masters, they are the weakest of their kind, and only benefit from their unusual damage type - chemical. Anthropods have no psychic powers, or maybe they expend it all on controlling spitters? We haven't seen those two species together though... Maybe I'm thinking about it too hard.



UFOs aren't all that complicated, it's just that things they are made of are complicated. Even with this knowledge we can't exactly make our own UFOs, but hover tanks are a different matter. In vanilla, hover tanks can only be equipped with plasma cannons and blaster bomb launchers, but here we can make laser and rocket hover tanks, which is really swell, considering I want to shut down a sectoid base.



A scout UFO shot down over Mozambique. It's manned by a red-caped floater I want to capture.
One improved dart and the alien is down. I don't know how they survive faling from any height, but it's good for us so I don't complain. It was a simple soldier, which means legionnaires aren't basic floater units. That's good news.



Butterstorm, the Thunderstorm of Paula Deen HQ goes on its first mission - shooting down a supply ship. Unfortunately six avalanche missiles weren't quite enough to do the job. A Raven armed with alloy cannons could do it, but the upgraded one couldn't, let that sink in. I guess we should wait for firestorms before upgrading interceptors.



Jarheads, huh? We haven't seen the actual things, only their ninja forms. According to the combat analysis, they're vulnerable to kinetic damage, meaning that we should be fine damage-wise.



We've landed near a run-down warehouse in Caracas, Venezuela. The soldiers waited a turn before scrambling out of the Saucemarshall. Fucking Donkeys really do need more combat experience.




First jarhead spotted by Ms Discrimination. When you think about it, jarheads are kinda simillar to bio-drones from TFTD in that there is no reason to use human brains in their construction. Seriously, the aliens managed to mass-produce tasoths, artificial psychic supersoldiers, yet they can't just grow a brain in a vat.



Mercury, being a 2x2 unit, has very limited mobility on this map. Fortunately his infinite ammo allows us to reshape the battlefield as we please, making wide entrances and neutralizing obstacles.



That woman holding a pocket revolver isn't what she seems to be...



In just a single burst, Mr. Show has torn down the wall, the jarhead's disguise, and the jarhead's chassis. The one enemy from earlier seems to have disappeared somewhere, which is worrying, becasue their plasma blasts are much more dangerous than any weapon they could have in disguise.



Got it. I definitely remember them being much tougher when I last played... I was actually terrible at this game back then, so there's a possibility I wasn't even using alloy ammo because I didn't feel like manufacturing them.



There's been a lot of destroying walls in this mission. Ms. Road had to do make a new door with her light cannon to get to a jarhead unmasked by Ms. Discrimination.



Another case of environmental destruction. Mercury discovered a disguised jarhead by trying to make a way for himself, then he zapped it so hard it got vaporized with its disguise.



Two more. To think back then I was afraid to engage them without laser miniguns.



We might have found the factory. It was guarded by two jarheads. No doubt there's more inside.



Here it is, the lab. We can't get inside because Ms. Octavo has destroyed the stairs.



Jarhead pretenders count as two enemies for kill-count, because as far as the game is concerned, they're separate entities from terrorists that emerges from them. We've captured one live terrorist, which was a part of the plan from the very start.



FUCK! We've moved all alien alloys we had to that base! No matter, we'll rebuild.



New Kitchen in Hawaii, namely on Kaua'i island. If the aliens come here too, we'll just pull the lever and let the lava in.



We're winning the war despite that minor setback. We're filthy rich even without USA's help.



Maintaining high temperature requires great amount of energy, so whatever silacoids eat must be very energetic. Acid and enzymes seem like a better way of digestion than fire, but what do I know?

This research was useless. Next is advanced rocket launcher and knockout grenade.



So it's called Calypso. It's free and has auto-doors, so I have no reason to complain. Shame we don't have diving suits for dogs though.



10 choke damage? A smoke grenade does more! Even a fire extinguisher is stronger in this matter. All right, maybe there is some hidden stat I don't know about.



The Cyberweb fortress assault is one of the missions I'm not doing right now. We don't have any Dimension X suitable armor, we're surrounded, and I didn't know there could be night in here.



Psi-lab, just what we needed. All labs will be equipped with one so we can train our psi-ops the right way.



Cyborg ninjas at it again. Jarheads need the money to rebuild their factory, and we need this money to rebuild The Kitchen. We've got new rivals, floks!



We're stopping a bnak robbery with a tank; a logistical nightmare, but with some effort we can make it work.



Mercury is in! The only thing that we achieved by that was destroying the tables.



We're in danger. Mr. Show and Ms. Go-kart are in range of the entire ninja arsenal.



Okay, that ninja passed out. This situation is much worse, though, because this ninja cyborg isn't even wounded.



However, it insisted on throwing knives at melee range, which didn't work out so well.

This time we didn't have to walk all the way to the corner of the map to do anything, so we got positive score.



I can't get out of this menu. God damnit, we should have sold the live ninja outright instead of hoping it would tell us about assassin clans. Or we can just build an alien containment in Ramsay HQ.

[birdy51]

Oh, no worries! I'm just entertained by how many Birdvig corpses litter the morgue. Hopefully Ult. Birdvig finally does what all other Birdvigs failed to do... Live!

[Burnt Pies]

Not too surprising the Avalanche armed thunderstorm couldn't down a supply barge, I think. The avalanche is a nice 100 damage, but you only get 3 of them per mount. Compare that to the light missile stingray mount dealing 60 and having 6 ammo, or the heavy missile stingray mount 60 and 12. Avalanche is a niche sniper weapon for attritioning enemies without having to close under fire, if you're wanting a brawl fit two heavy stingrays.

[SQman]

Heavy stingrays exist, of course! I completely forgot, to be quite honest. The thunderstorm is made for speed, so I guess it was a big mistake to arm it with long-range missiles.

Spoiler: File 37: Making Aliens Cry (click to show/hide)

I don't know what that bug was about, but the game autosaved in a way that I could load to the geoscape view right after the bank robbery mission. That's good, nothing was lost.



If the jarhead research was at fault, then let's hurry it up.



This is ridiculous but amazing. Thanks to our knowledge of "the dreamers" we could research dream-walking through psionics. No idea what it's all about and how it's supposed to help us save the world from aliens.



Shooting down UFOs is directly related to our war efforts. A large scout shot down over Brazilian rainforest.



A regular floater soldier goes down after a single rifle shot. Mr. Tune-up, a worthless rookie, killed two in one turn.



We're leaving a trail of dead aliens on our way to the UFO. Ms. Chamber is leading the charge, Mr. Bridge and Ms. Octavo are following her closely, and Bro Kaos is watching their backs. Rookies with rifles are covering them all from around the Saucemarshall.



*Hacker voice* We're in! Literally neither of the three floaters inside were watching the door. We've killed them.



We've killed them good. It sure would be harder to fight them in the Amazon rainforest would have been harder if they didn't fly.



Our good friends, the hybrid, have encountered some problems during their travel through the Kalahari desert. We might be able to help them stop worrying about it. There were six, but we've only recovered four corpses. Mercury is a bit overzealous.



Grav modules extracted from floater corpses, usurprisingly, can be used for flying. This might be the key to assaulting vampire castles, even if it's a bit too late for this.



You know, it must suck to be an alien leader. You have been doing your ridiculously dangerous job since you got taken out of the cloning vat, then the commander notices you and puts you through rigorous training and extra brainwashing, given access to knowledge that only makes you a priority target, then sent back to the battlefield where you're likely to get captured and probed.



A supply ship shot down again! First Troll Doll Beta softened it up with Avalanche missiles and cannons, then Butterstorm had arrived and finished the job with a barrage of Stingrays. Bamako is in Mali, right? We're going to Mali then.



Haha how nice. Have fun, gazers, because I sure as hell am not clearing this crash site.



A USO by the Nigerian coast. This time we've got gas cannons, actual weapons that don't drain stamina ad don't make soldiers go unconscious.



There's a long way to go to get to the USO, and aquatoids can see at a long distance.



Fuck, we really need to get some underwater armor. Mr. Assist was hit with a single sonic blast. We're turning back and running to the sub.



It's better this way. Mr. Polish was hit too, and he wouldn't have lasted long.



First I tested the real combat capability of Butterstorm armed with heavy stingrays. It managed to shot down a supply ship on its own, but it went into the ocean. Thanks, Burnt Pies.
Now we're in Argentina, trying to find the pilot of the small scout. Mercury was set on fire with a plama bolt, which is unforgivable.



It was such a nice chassis... Pretty sure tanks can be repaired, but we gotta replace the AI unit.
The floater was taken care of permanently. Twenty-something points in the negative, but whatever.



The advanced rocket launcher is theoretically the first launcher able to fire guided projectiles, but we don't have knowledge of any rockets of that kind. It's only slightly better than the basic rocket launcher as it is now. For now UAC rocket launcher is good enough, but it's hardly a high-powered weapon.



Africa is seeing a lot of action as of late, huh? There's a hybrid settlement somewhere in the south. We'll try to capture the boss here, but I won't know who that is until I put him to sleep. Having said that, there's a hybrid with a MAC-10, so maybe that's him.



'nades aren't very effective agains alien drones apparently.



Bro Kaos got hit with chemogun, which drained his morale completely. Mr. Tune-up healed him, then Mr. Bridge minigunned all three hybrids in the orchard.

I got a message about a hybrid specialist panicking. We need him more than anything.



Caught it. There's a drone to take care of, and it makes me seriously worried about Bro Kaos.



Three arrested, one of them was a specialist. I've never been so far into the hybrid arc, I think.



Puerto Rico is being attacked by mutant herrings, and this time we landed almost on the ritual place.



Well, that was a massacre. Also a great training mission for rookies.



We might have killed a woman, but it was a necessary sacrifice. After all, we can't shoot a fish-freak if there's someone in the way.



A small scout over Belarus. What could it be?



Sectoids, that's alright. That means we don't have to worry too much about anything on this mission.




I feel bad for the sectoids. They have proven ineffective on scouting missions, yet ethereals keep sending them over because they're cheap to mass-produce. A large scout full of mutons could easily conquer the whole world no problem.



A lot of activity over South America. We've already shot down a tiny scout directly over Paula Deen HQ, and now we're probably chasing fighter escorts.



We've destroyed yet another scout, and two fighters, one of which is recoverable. The ships were staffed by floaters.

The fighter had two navigators in them, and Broccoli, the new tank, vaporized them both. The scout was also no problem, one CAWS shot to the back of the head.



Our first hovertank model - much harder to destroy than a regular tank, and with a flight ability.



You're gonna catch those hands, game, if you don't stop that tomfoolery. Even if I can't save everyone, I guess capturing a chryssalid, or at least recovering a corpse could be beneficial to our cause.



Tough guard beasts? Is it lobstermen, triscenes, tentaculats? Whatever that is, we're not ready for it.



I don't know if we're super lucky or if it's karma catching up to me for all these good things I've done in my life. Mr. Sniffle sent two bursts of alloy rifle bullets into the monster, and made it bleed badly enough to fell it. We're bringing the corpse back to Gordon Ramsay HQ. Who knows, maybe it's edible.



The world is grateful for stopping a potential 'lid infestation.



Woah there! The Butterstorm discovered a whole cluster of UFOs over western Europe while chasing a scout ship. It was another scout defended by two fighters. Our favorite Thunderstorm has destroyed all of them.



Ammo for sonic-blasta rifles. Being hit by a sonic blast from a rifle is deadlier than dynamite exploding under your feet. Sonic-blasta rifles are also basic weapons of aquatic aliens. Fun times ahead.



Now, there's something I don't get about giant spiders: they appear in monster missions and monsters were supposedly created by aliens and distributed by the Syndicate as bio-weapon. Or were they creted by the Syndicate? Whichever is true, we now learn that they're in fact a naural occurence, and they came out to the surface because of the alien activity. Which one is true then?

Sentient Earth arthropods are the subterranean equivalent of the deep ones, but they refused the alien's offer of alliance, and decided to remain hostile to everything ever.



The death squad is approaching the downed fighter. Mr. Gnoblin, Mr. Dip and Mr. Drake will soon find out who was after this scouting mission.



Sectoids, fortunately. Sweeped the floor with both of them, and recovered the ship with the intact reactor full of elerium.



The other fighter was the same, no point talking to much about it.



Actually, we did catch both alien navigators thanks to Ms. Search's dart gun. This ship had a supply of elerium in addition to the reactor.



Our minds are our weapons, the aliens' weapons are our weapons, our weapons are still our weapons. Nobody can stop us now! I immediately started training psi-ops in all three staffed bases.



Toxi-suits are a step up from the bio-exosuit, at least when it comes to defense. It lowers reactions, stamina, and accuracy significantly though.
Thanks to our advancement in the field of psionics we can start figuring out hybrid control circuitry. If I'm not mistaken, thiw will allow us to recruit hybrid soldiers of our own.



A terror ship shot down!



Do I see a reaper? I sure do! That means we're dealing with floaters, or as they're also known, free grav modules.



One of the floater knocked on the door. Mr. Dip opened, and in a fit of antisocial rage, he stabbed the alien with an alloy sword.



Ah crap, we might lose Mr. Drake because he lost TUs spotting a floater and was one step away from safety. There are two floaters and a reaper posing direct danger to him at the moment. On the brighter note, Hunger has shot down a green-caped floater, probably leader.



How do they have so many TUs? Six mortal wound, more than a single pack of Jell-O can heal. We can try to save Ms. Gnelf, but unless she stops burning, she's beaned.



Serves you right, grav unit fodders.



Now let's see how flammable reapers really are. I think it was Mr. Gnome who threw a napalm 'nade. Other reaper got a knock-out grenade that we still have to try out.

The knock-out 'nade obviously wan't enough. The reaper attacked Hunger, and the tank rataliated by disintegrating it with laser barrage.



After a few turns of defensive sniping, we're marching through the burning jungle among corpses of alien mutants and monsters. If anyone is worried, Ms. Gnelf is alive and well, and Ms. buyer is making sure she's not going into overstun.



Mr. Dip passed out, so I had Ultimate Birdvig carry him inside the UFO so he doesn't suffocate on smoke. Ms. Feast and Mr. Trade Wind are taking care of the last remaining reaper, while Mr. Gnome blasted a floater navigator that was on fire for some reason. I think it went berserk and blew up a reactor or something.

The reaper was sneakily sniped by Madame Abandonne and her Asuka.



Ultimate Birdvig couldn't be bother to pull out a sword. He just punched a floater engineer in the face hard enough to knock it out.



We're taking control, there's no way around it. Nobody was shooting at us, so it's probably a matter of clearing the cockpit.



The leader, I assume? We'll get him.



And we did. Someone reaction fired at point-blank, or maybe hit with his fist. Either way, we've got an engineer and a leader, not to mention the terror ship itself. It was worth sacrificing Mr. Drake for those points.



Some gazer action in Canada. I hope Hunger can deal with that alone, because I really hate gazers, and a small scout is hardly worth expanding any ammo.
The alien has passed out after being hit with two laser blasts. We can bring it home.



Aliens are gonna get pissed for that. One harvester over Gobi desert, one over Brazil, a large scout also over Brazil, and something entirely different but also small over, you guessed it, Brazil Peru.



Oh my! Futbols are getting involved more and more. Let's see what a napalm grenade can do to that one.



Black spandex mutons are engineers, apparently, and fire makes them go bonkers. Also, it's a mixed crew mission, mutons and gazers. The gazer was quickly disposed of by Hunger who's becoming proficient at this.



I feel like this tank is carrying the whole organization on its threads. It took down a muton and two gazers, but it's not over yet, Snake!



I meant: It's not over yet! Snake! Three species on the same ship, interesting.



Madame Abandonne put a few bullets in the snakeman. There must have been an unconscious muton engineer somewhere in the crashed ship, because we've recovered one.



The first mission for the poorly equipped chumps of Paula Deen HQ, and it's gazers.



We can pelt them with grenades, for what that's worth. We also have a few UAC rocket launchers on board, but having them and being able to hit anything are two wildly different matters.



This may be the first victory for Paula Deen HQ chumps, let's call them Diabetes Marines.



Some rockets took care of the aliens. Apparently it was a mixed crew ship, because there was a snakeman corpse on board.



More action, more mutons.



Again, mutons, gazers and snakemen. Madame Abandonne got hit really badly with a plasma bolt to the back.



Hunger is dead! Hunger is dead! He was the most valuable soldier we've ever had! We've killed them all except for this one whom we left for the end. Two sword, one muton, quick work.



Oh my god, I really don't feel like doing it... today.

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Non-stop action! Scouts, fighters, harvesters, terror ships, we can take everything! We've also developed psychic powers and... that's pretty much all that happened in this update.

[Haspen]

That one image with white X's all over south america was delightful uwu

[NickAragua]

From what I remember in Vanilla, the Firestorm kind of blew chunks - it had very short range and wasn't very fast (except compared to the standard interceptor). I usually skipped it and the Lightning and went straight for the Avenger, which could fly around the world several times and the only thing that gave it pause was battleships.

I'm guessing, given the amount of detail this mod has, that they balanced the Firestorm a bit better.

[Rince Wind]

More kills to the Wind!

Can't wait to see a dream mission.

[Hanzoku]

That’s an accurate summary of the ships in Vanilla. Looking forward to how they stack up in this mod once we get there.