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"central,, this is big sky. we are picking a lot of heat down there, the cell has sustained heavy casualties but some of our boys are still fighting for their lives, i see a new captian. requesting further orders..."

>bug out, big sky, the battle is already lost
>tactic+roll

>>44857642
So, where are we on the pic? Did they detect us yet? Is that a faceless? What are the ayys with the downwards C supposed to be, gulpers?

>>44858112
hello anon.

we haven't landed yet.
they haven't detected us.
yes.
Chryssalids.

>>44858162
What equipment do the ones already fighting have?

>>44858293
An assault rifle, that's it and/or weapons they might have salvaged/smuggled in Egypt. Pretty shitty either ways.

forgot my trip, sorry

>>44858325
No explosives?

>>44858402
nope, they are all Rookies, their main job is to guard the FO

>>44858441
I don't know man, I'd love to help them, but I'm really bad at making tactics, so it means we'll most likely get wiped out, so I'm kind of hoping for another anon to show up

>>44858580
We can wait. if you want to

>>44858604
>>44857642
Where is Strike Team landing?

>>44858635
wherever we want,

>>44858604
What's that groups of Advent in the center supposed to be? Shielded Advent?

>>44858669
New and dangerous unit, Advent Shield captain. the upgraded version of regular Advent shield bearers

Can provide mobile shield to troop with a fortified shield of his own and can flush units out with some sort of their gas grenade.

>>44858726
Last time, didn't we find that the Advent Shield can't block explosives?
Wouldn't a rocket get past the shield?

>>44858726
Is the cover in the middle of the map low enough that we could fire a rocket over it at the Shield Captain?

>>44858750
it can. but we will require 2 rockets/nades to get through him since he has two shield of his own. He is slow as fuck though.
>>44858760
you can say that

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Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>44858778
>>44857642
Drop down and have LOKI-1 immediately pop smoke to provide extra cover.
GOLIATH-2 starts firing on the approaching Chryssalids.

Fire a rocket to catch the Faceless and the Chryssalids next to it.

Adhira to fire on that close Chrysallid to the east; remember that she has a Hybrid Sniper Rifle.
Oleg and Malik, also take shots at the other targeted Chryssalids.

Everyone else, unload everything on the Faceless. If that thing reaches us, we're all dead.

>>44858778
Are we giving orders to the Rookies, too?
If so, add to >>44858862
Fire on the Chryssalids, they're the priority targets.

>>44858918
they are disorganized, there is little time for communications

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>44858862
Eh, why not, seems like it could work.

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>>44858862
2 rockets, 1 bulletstorm later, the faceless and most of the chrysaalids were down.

Then things started to go sour real fast.

4 rookies were killed in a matter of seconds, 2 were incapacitated by the agile stun captain. The shield captain kept his slow formation onwards flushing the rookies out only for the magnetic projectiles to end them.

"Strike team, the aliens are calling for back up to extract the mind controlled soldier, DO NOT let them get away with them!"


>tactic+roll

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>44859224
send the shiv to free them
meanwhile, throw grenades at the shielded formation

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Rolled 49 (1d100)

>>44859224
Have LOKI-1 move to the eastern group of XCOM and provide cover by releasing smoke.

Throw Hand/Scatter Grenades at the Shield Captain, while we put down the Chrysallid coming at us.

Have Hugo fire his last rocket towards the wall protecting the Psi Captain/Shield Bearer, to kill them and break down the wall. If the blast area is big enough, also try to catch the other two Shield Bearers with it.
GOLIATH-2 will rush for that opening, firing as it goes.

Malik and Oleg take out the two Advent that could actually hurt GOLIATH-2, Yousef takes out that approaching Stun Captain, and everyone else take out the Advent blocking GOLIATH-2's path.

>>44859478
With this roll
>>44859482
and this plan, we might have a chance.

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>44859482

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>>44859564
>>44859503
>>44859482
>>44859478
the rocket blast was so powerful that it accidentally took the two rookies with it. Most of the rookies were dead by now. your team stood strong against this calamity , no losses so far. The hostile forces are growing thinner

>tactic +roll

>>44859940
Is the left smoke cloud still up, or is it about to dissipate?

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>44859940
exterminate the hostiles, tell the few rookies left to go in the skyranger

>>44859989
it takes time to. yes

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Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>44859940
Have Yousef take out that close Stun Lancer on the left; Cavalry has a Hybrid Assault Carbine which should let him do it.

Oleg and Malik, take out a Stun Lancer each. That last person there (I think it's Hugo) takes out that last Stun Lancer.

Throw whatever Scatter and Hand grenades are left at the Stun Captain.

Take out the Advent trying to flank us.

Adhira take out the Advent shooting at us, and someone shoot the Stun Lancer trying an endrun.

GOLIATH-2, full fire on the Shield Bearers to get to the Sectoid.
If possible run those Shield Bearers over.

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>44860169
I like it. also have everyone start to fall back as well

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>>44860169
>>44859940
fearing for its 'life', GOLIATH-2 quickly maneuvered around the forces ahead of it, shredding everything from his flanking position.

The shield captain and his posse was dealt with . only a handful of stunlancers and others remained.
>roll+tactic

>>44860313
;_;7
To die is a better fate than to suffer what the aliens had in mind for those Rookies.
You will be avenged!

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>44860313
Shiv fall back and take out the advent dead ahead from behind. Everyone takes precise shots from cover while the skyranger gets ready to bug out

Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>44860313
this: >>44860392

>>44860313
>Don't let them take the captured soldiers!
>Killed them all by accident instead
Really guys?

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>44860313
GOLIATH-2 make full speed back and slam into the rear of the Advent forces, and shoot them up.

Yousef take out that Stun Lancer. Oleg, Malik, and Hugo have their Stun Lancer targets.
Everyone else find cover and fire on the Advent Grunts, then the Stun Lancers.

LOKI-1, provide smoke to give our troops cover.

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>>44860474
Heres the map.

>>44860464
Better dead than red

>>44860313
Would those Rookies have died anyway, or could we have given GOLIATH-2 specific orders not to kill the Rookies?

I mean, the orders we gave it were to fire/run over the Shield Bearers to get at the Sectoid, so I'm not sure why you had it also shoot the Rookies.

>>44860493
>>44860488
>>44860474
>>44860464
>>44860392
Soon, all the forces were dealt with. Your squad was tired nd weary but they did what they were told. 4 men were saved, none got captured. that is all what matter now.

[mission was a success?]

>Start Research
>Start some projects in the workshop
>Contact Exalt
>Visit grey Market
>Lay low for ____
>Establish contact in____
>Wait for certain opportunities around the globe
>Ask for an advice from _____
>Visit training school
>other
>>44860522
they were shooting it. It did what it the best for the team and itself. Independent Mechs can have it cons sometimes.

>>44860557
Are the 4 that were saved Rookies, or is one of the Field Operatives among them?

What did we recover from the battle?
What were the equipment losses?

>>44860612
4 ROK
nothing, we bugged out.

A rule of thumb: Salvaging takes hours, More Advent would have come meanwhile

Some grenades, 3 rockets, i am editing the pastebin.

>>44860671
forgot the trip. sorry.

>>44860557
>Start some projects in the workshop
>Arm Skyranger [10 Engi, 200k, 5 LMG, 2 Rocket launcher, 3 days]
I think the last battle might have gone better if we could have had the Skyranger do a fire mission as it dropped us off.

Also, since we lost the Egypt cell, we should consider creating another contact somewhere.
Just don't pick Asia; Advent is currently scanning there.

>>44860694
[the project has started]

>Start Research
>Start some projects in the workshop
>Contact Exalt
>Visit grey Market
>Lay low for ____
>Establish contact in____
>Wait for certain opportunities around the globe
>Ask for an advice from _____
>Visit training school
>other

>>44860816
>Establish contact in Russia
>Establish Dud Base in Korea
> Wait for certain opportunities

>>44860869
>>44860816
Wait, don't make the contact.
Instead, make 1 of the Rookies into a FO.

Didn't Robert say that more FO's means better intel?

>>44860891
yeah, i think so

>>44860891
yes.

>>44860891
dud or wait?

>>44860946
Make the dud, make the FO, and then wait.

>>44860970
>>44860970
[Dud base is under construction]

"Commander, Exalt offers us some sort of aid after our loss in Egypt, should we accept it?"

>Yes, tell them we want____
>Don't need them

>>44861045
>Yes, tell them we want recruits and engineers

>>44861045
Let's ask them for a few scientists and/or engineers.

>>44861086
>>44861094
They offered:
25 SCI and ENG for our researches/projects

>Start Research
>Start some projects in the workshop
>Contact Exalt
>Visit grey Market
>Lay low for ____
>Establish contact in____
>Wait for certain opportunities around the globe
>Ask for an advice from _____
>Visit training school
>other

>>44861197
Wait, for all of our research?

This could be bad; who knows how powerful the Exalt forces will become if we give them all of our research, and how they'll turn it against us.

>>44861197
>Wait for certain opportunities around the globe
ETA on One's awakening?

>>44861262
as a gift anon, not in exchange.
>>44861287
About a month and 1/2 weeks

>>44861197
I'd say let's get some intel from the grey market.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>44861287
>>44861580
1=intel
2=wait

>>44861287
>>44861580
[2 days has passed, the skyranger is now armed.]

"Commander, the our 'jolt' demands any available wreck we have for a 'potential breakthrough'....what should we do, commander?"

>Sell ___
>keep our wrecks for now
>other

>>44861742
Sell some but have a small team watch the drop off point to see who our contact actually is.

>>44861742
>Sell 3 Wrecks

>>44861823
Don't do this. This is a stupid fucking idea.

>>44861742
we should try negotiating something
how about we offer him this shipment of wrecks for free, but in exchange he has to share whatever breakthrough he makes?

>>44861860
>>44861823
like _____.clnt, he is discreet about his work. he probably won't try to make any contact with us nor would he share his lifetime projects for some wrecks

>>44861860
Given how secretive the buyers on the Grey Market are, that's probably a dumb idea to even try.

>>44861851
>>44861823
either ways, i need a specific number/type of wrecks

>>44861742
>Sell 4 turrets and 1 mech wrecks

>>44861897
ah well, nevermid

>>44861897
No. Have the team hidden in the hills or surrounding aria. Just to watch. Do not make contact at all.

>>44861928
We need Turrets for making UAR chips. We can't make any chips if we don't have any Turrets.
We can get Alloys from different sources, but the chips can only be made from Turrets.

>>44861928
anyone else?


>>44861929
he won't be even there

>>44861926
>Sell 3 Mech Wrecks, 1 Turret Wreck

>>44861988
This

>>44861929
You idea is stupid, so stop posting it.

>>44861988
you sold the wrecks for 2 MIL
>Start Research
>Start some projects in the workshop
>Contact Exalt
>Visit grey Market
>Lay low for ____
>Establish contact in____
>Wait for certain opportunities around the globe
>Ask for an advice from _____
>Visit training school
>other

>>44862036
>Build gene labs [1.5 MIL, 30 ENG, 1 week] I don't like tampering with our soldiers commander but we can build this facility designated with toying with god's creation.

>>44862036
>Lay low for
5 days

>>44862036
>Wait for certain opportunities around the globe

>>44862101
>>44862116
>>44862161
[5 days has passed, the serum has been completed]

"Commander, we have a urgent message from the council..."

"Hello commander, due to your recent failure in eliminating the director, he is alive making another movie tampered with the subliminal messages.With tighter security, you will find it a bit difficult to eliminate him and his associates. Failure in this mission will leave some of our backers with certain....disappointment"

>Accept
>Refuse

>>44862318
>Accept
We'll assassinate the director, and destroy the movie data. But we're not going to kill people who had no idea what was really being done.

Have Robert identify the people we need to kill, and no more.

>>44862318
>Accept
well then, just assassinate the director and things should go alright

>>44862318
while we are at it suggest a new research

>>44862420
>>44862364
>soldiers/loadout

>>44862458
Before we go, I want to give the new serum to our soldiers.
Also, as for research:
>Stun Captain Autopsy I [ 20 SCI, 1 MIL, 1 Stun captain corpses, 1 week]

>>44862532
please specify we have lots of soldiers

>>44862458
>Sectoid autopsy [30 SCI, 2 sectoid corpses, 1 mil, 1 week]

this is going to be a stealth mission, right?

>>44862611
nope

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>44862611
>>44862532
1=sec
2=stun

>>44862458
>Soldiers/Loadout
W-014 Alk.Serum injections for all = 5MIL
We need 3 more Advent Body Armor, so use up 6 Damaged Advent Body Armor and 300K to make them.

GOLIATH-2
LOKI-1

>Jurgen Kai - Assault
- Modded Assault Shotgun (Auto-Reloader)
- Advent Armor
- Hand Grenade
- Secondary Nexus Chip

>Munn Lake - Field Medic
- Advent Body Armor
- Modded Assault Carbine (Extended Barrel)
- Scatter Grenade
- Secondary Nexus Chip

>Yousef Khaleed - Scout
- Advent Body Armor
- Hybrid Assault Carbine
- Smoke Grenade

>Baris Adrian - Infantry
- Assault Rifle (ACOG Improved Scope), Silencer
- Advent Body Armor
- Hand Grenade
- Secondary Nexus Chip

>Oleg Nestor - Sniper
Sniper Rifle - Auto-Reload (allows two shots at same AIM if does not move), Computerized Scope, Silencer, TAG Module
- Magnum
- Advent Armor
- Smoke Grenade
- Anti-Distortion Goggles
- Primary Nexus Chip

>Adhira Pajeet
- Hybrid Sniper Rifle
- Mod Body Armor
- Smoke Grenade
- Secondary Nexus Chip

Abd Allah Malik - Sniper
- Mod Body Armor
- Modded Sniper Rifle (Improved Scope), Silencer, TAG Module
- Magnum
- Scatter
- Secondary Nexus Chip

>Derek Aren - support
- Assault Rifle (ACOG Scope)
- Mod Body Armor
- Smoke Grenade x2
- Scatter Grenade x2
- Secondary Nexus Chip

>Nadia 'Ritcher' Mamoun
- LMG (Recoil Compensation)
- Mod Body Armor
- hybrid rocket launcher (3 rockets)

>Jabar Al-Fatihi - Grenadier
- Assault Rifle (Recoil Compensator)
- Grenade Launcher
- Advent Body Armor
- Scatter Grenade x4
- Hand Grenade x4
- Smoke Grenade x2

>>44862807
>so use up 6 Damaged Advent Body Armor and 300K to make them.
Or, pay Fortunefinder to get us some more Alloy and Damaged Advent Body Armor first. We need 20 Damaged Advent Body Armor to do the next research project to let us mod better armor.
It might be worth it to buy the things we need, since we haven't been able to scavenge the battlefields recently.

>>44862709
OP, will we get to scavenge the battlefield after this, or are we bugging out immediately?
If we know we won't get salvage, then we don't have to be careful with explosives.

>>44862871
probably bugging out

salvaging=mostly in desolate areas since it takes up to hours to secure everything

>>44862807
hm, i like this, but i agree with >>44862871

>>44862946
>>44862871
Fortunefinder is mostly random, it will give us a random assortment of artifacts

>>44862917
>probably bugging out
Alright, then.
Liberal use of grenades and rockets it is.
Let's change the loadout:
>Nadia 'Ritcher' Mamoun
- LMG (Recoil Compensation)
- Mod Body Armor
- hybrid rocket launcher (5 rockets)

Change all instances of Smoke Grenades to Scatter Grenades.

>>44862971
And let's go to the Grey Market first. We're burning through our money really fast; has the worm that we put into the Director's computer and network told us anything about how much money he has now? Or of what's on their data network?

>>44862971
well, we have a lot of dosh, we can always roll a few times

>>44862992
>>44862993

>>44862992
Alright, After paying 2 MIL, you got:


-15 MELD
-80 Alloy
-200 Adv. weapon fragment
-5 Alien fragment


pop another 2 MIL?

>>44863086
Yes.
Here's hoping for more Alloys and Body Armor.

>>44863086
yes
we need a fuckton of weapon fragments anyway, this isn't really wasteful

>>44863116
Another transaction gave you:

-5 Meld
-190 Alloy
-5 ELR-GEN power source
-20 Advent weapon fragment

Another one?

>>44863162
yeah, let's try a last one, we should already be good if we disassemble a few mech wrecks, but might as well

>>44863162
Yes, one more. Then we can add up everything and see if we have enough for the upgrades we need to do.

Since it was the Director that had the 500MIL last time, should we bring a Field Hacker along again?

We can sneak in first, grab the money and data, then kill everyone and bug out.

Or will we not have that kind of time?
And since we aren't sticking around for salvage, can we have Raven-2 bomb the area right before we land?

>>44863211
>>44863215
The third transaction gave you:

-160 MELD
-45 Alloys
-10 Alien weapon fragment
-35 Advent weapon fragment

one more? that's 6 MIL

>>44863242
we already put a virus in his computer, right?

>>44863282
Yes but he is not stupid to repeat the same mistake, i reckon.

>>44863282
Yeah. So before we go in, maybe we should see if that worm can either get us into the security system of the place we're hitting, get us more money, or both.

>>44863279
that should be enough

so, we just got 315 alloys and a lot of other shiny trinkets

add to that 3 mech wrecks and we should be able to make the armors we need without depleting the stock

>>44863086
>>44863162
>>44863279
Hmm...no corpses or wrecks.

We got:
255 Advent Weapon Fragments
315 Alloy

We need 600 Alloy for 3 Advent Armor, so we'd have to use up all of our remaining Mech Wrecks to have enough.

>>44863361
>>44863297
The pastebin shows we have 5 Mech Wrecks left.
Shouldn't that be 2, since we sold 3 to Jolt?

>>44863361
>>44863366
Alright. Should we end it here for the night. is one mission enough per thread?

>>44863396
they were 8

>>44863419
it's up to you, but i'm up for more

>>44863440
Me to!

>>44863440
>>44863451
I am not tired but i feel like i am sapped for some reason. strangely i have an urge to draw. Maybe we will start a bit later than usual next time.

How do you feel about the variety of the enemies so far? would you like me to just stick to what we already knew in XCOM?

Sorry anons and thank you for participating. We are slowly gaining grounds in the campaign``

>>44863419
Okay.

So if we break down 3 Mech Wrecks, we get 360 Alloy.

675 Alloy - 600 Alloy = 3 Advent Body Armor
With 280 Advent Weapon Fragments, we can make a Hybrid Grenade Launcher for our Grenadier.
Or we can save them for >Advent weapon fragments III [50 SCI, 50 ENG, 1.5 Mil, 500 Advent weapon fragments, 2 weeks]
With how dangerous this mission sounds, I think we should make the Hybrid Grenade Launcher.
We might need the extra explosive firepower.

>>44863522
The variety seems right.
It's frustrating that we can't grab bodies (both friend and foe alike) and run with them back to the Skyranger even if we can't do a complete salvage of the battlefield, like we saw in the XCOM 2 previews.

>>44863522
thanks for running, i'm fine with the enemy variety

>>44863530
i think we should save it for fragments III research

>>44863573
i think that was also possible in the original games (but to be honest it's probably our fault for never ordering our soldiers to grab the corpses before falling back

>>44863573
Some nasty reinforcements might come, the soldiers won't just dump and cram the corpses in the skyranger, this process takes quite reinforcement.

But i can give the option in the future to do so if you want

>>44863680
>>44863680
quite some time

>>44863680
I can understand that it would take time to retrieve turrets, mechs, Faceless, and other big and heavy corpses.
But Advent Grunts and XCOM soldiers should be able to be recovered.

This is something for the next thread but i think we should attempt to start a secondary base/contact in Australia.

As the Advent/greys sweep through the earth, we should start building contacts/bases where they have left.

We need a secondary base where we can begin relocating parts of our operations, especially the more fragile/time-consuming to move.

That way we can make our current base a fucking death trap.

Turrets (maybe conventional ones, ones that don't require alien fragments. Just big ass guns wielding rockets and large calibre rifles) out the wazoo, enough to require an army to cut through, an empty base and a base reactor set to explode when they penetrate too deep.

>>44866093
OP said that building a cell/base where Advent already scanned won't give it any advantages.

Dud bases presumably already have all of those things.

The only thing that will really help is researching the Cloaking Field Generator project and installing it in a new base. Currently our only option is the USS Aegis.

>>44866171

Huh.

Well on the first point i conceed. I thought it would just make more sense to put it in a location where they werrnt actively scanning.

And the point of the other base is also to partially begin decentralising parts of our operations, have cells begin small scale targetting/recruitment instead of just being a contact.

>>44866415
With Advent actively looking for XCOM now, it's not just active scans but all surveillance.
If our field offices were to step up operations, that would expose them to discovery.
OP already said that having the cells do anything more than what they're already doing will expose them, and then we have Chryssalid and Faceless missions.

As for getting another base to decentralise operations, that's fine and dandy, but that means increases maintenance costs in a time when we're only making 4MIL from our Council funding, and with running missions where we can't salvage corpses or equipment, where we're running low on both so we can't afford to sell any.
That's on top of the fact that the Brazil base is the one that's hardest to discover. Every other base will be easier to discover, until we have Elerium Generators and the Cloaking Field operational.