XCom: Brutesquad vs. the Sectoids
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On the 25th a medium UFO was shot down over the Sahara and the Skyranger was loaded up with rookies and a few vets including the two longest serving ones.
JMDiller was off first - he never stood a chance, a floater gunned him down with ease. More rookies followed, but JM was the only one to die, two floaters later the mission was
over.
A day later the research in UFO construction paid off and plans for a new fighter craft were ready to be made. However I shifted focus to researching the Heavy Plasma rifle.
Soon the month was over. A small funding decrease was made by those pesky French! But otherwise everything was good except for the discovery of an alien base in Antartica!
Another of those bastard bases! Plans were drawn up to send the men back down again. Sounds of whimpering can be heard from Da_Toad’s corner.
A medium UFO was spotted landed in Kazakhstan on May 1st and the men from Australia suited up. True they were farther away, but hell they need some experience!
Chris Grenard stumbled upon the first alien, a snakeman! He was out of APs so Gryndyl was called to save him. He preformed that duty with ease. The snakeman down with a single
shot to the neck. The men had by now advanced to the craft itself and had begun drawing straws for who would go in first. However Grenard ran into a second snakeman. Gryndyl
again took it out with long range marksmanship. The men got back to picking straws.
Drazzil was unlucky, he got the short straw of this deal. Darkfyre got his motion scanner out first though and scanned the area, detecting two aliens left alive in the ship.
Drazzil would need luck!
And lady luck was with him! He took both of them out with a burst each. However there was one left at least!
Gryndyl tracked it down to the only farm building on the map, and with help from the alien’s own gun, took it out!
Only minutes after the Skyranger lifted off from Central Asia reports started coming in from the South American city of Santiago; it was under attack! The twelve able bodied men
left at the Corsican base lifted off within a half hour, arriving in the city’s downtown center slightly before 5 AM local time.
Bud was off first and rushed for cover, seeing no enemies. Then Eightball was off; he spotted a sectoid and took it out, a large root canal was preformed on its chest! More men
got out, and Da_Toad eliminated a second sectoid. Pipboy unfortunately suffered a date with the grim reaper, a shot nearly killing him, however he had two health left and three
critical wounds, he panicked after the sectoid MIND BLASTED HIM!
HOLY COW! This is the real test boys! I will shoot men who get messed up with mind blasts. Mental wussies are not allowed on the team!
Bud ran into a second sectoid in his area and took it out, no more mind blasting for that rat bastard! Pipboy was by then down and out, a second plasma blast doing what the
bleeding was about to do, he died a hero, but more importantly a newb!
Eightball soon located Pipboy’s killer, a cyberdisk which had a clear view of the craft from an apartment complex. SuperDarkDude took it out after Da_Toad weakened it. The aliens
were quick to fire back, a sectoid charging out of the smoke to hurl a grenade at the landing ramp. It is my sad duty to report that SuperDarkDude did not survive, Da_Toad was
injured a great deal as well, and now Lyno was close to the breaking point!
Da_Toad received attention for his head wounds quickly, I’m sorry Toad, you have no nose left. Meanwhile the men advanced no matter the cost! Eightball took out the sectoid that
threw the grenade and TNB took out another alien on the other side of the road.
Eightball soon spotted a second cyberdisk, and Siljanus and his ever-handy throwing arm took it out from long range! Lyno had regained himself as well after panicking the round
before and hurled a grenade himself for a kill.
Eightball once again spotted the next aliens, two of them, sectoids both, one with a stun gun, the other unidentifiable. Ghoul took out the one with the stun gun and TNB used
that’s right -a grenade - to take out the last sectoid!
Santiago is saved!
With the losses suffered on the last mission I needed another batch of 8 recruits! You unlucky bastards are....
Charlatan, Bakhtosh Redclaw, Guildboss, Ralph-Wiggum, Kagath, Grifman, DreamShadowMecha, Lassr.
UFO-22 soon came over the Sahara, apparently they haven't learned to stay away yet! Our interceptor shot it down, and the men waited for dawn to head out. It would be a half
rookie, half veteran mission this time, hopefully some of them would survive!
It soon became apparent to me that, alas, I hadn't given the rookies armor yet! Ah well it would just prove that the weak ones would in fact, die horrible deaths! Eightball was
off first and KO'd a floater with a stun gun, it was only stunned though and he killed it for good the next turn. Charlatan and Siljanus had by now started scouting out when
Charlatan was hit! The kevlar however somehow saved his life, and he was uninjured! He tossed a grenade at his attacker and waited. Siljanus in the meantime had spotted a second
floater unseen by Charlatan; it was soon dead and gone.
Meanwhile Eightball and Bakhtosh had found the UFO, its reactor had blown as it was shot down, so no Elerium-115 today. The men were soon in a position to breach the door, and
Bakhtosh did so. He spotted a floater, but was out of APs. Therefore Papageno came in took it out and received fire from a floater behind the killed one! He was injured but
Eightball was right behind and took it out!
That ended the mission, and Papageno was promoted to Sergeant! However his wounds will keep him out for 25 days.
Next mission—Antarctica Base -- Good news and bad news. Bad news is half of you are psi-wussies. Good news, half of you aren't.
Ghoul was the first one to die. He had taken out two sectoids at his starting position before a third got him after coming down a lift. Guildboss was quickly taken over by alien
mind control. As I stated before anyone who has that happen to him, well, you’re officially KIA. So sad to see you leave Guildboss, we hardly knew ya!
Bakhtosh was soon down the lift and eliminated the now alien controlled Guildboss, as well TNB and Byrns took out Ghoul’s killer with laser and grenade fire. Shortly after a
cyberdisk approached, but Bahktosh was able to get a shot to its side off destroying the craft and it exploded, taking a large area of the base with it. Byrns and TNB advanced.
However, soon the sectoids mentally attacked Bakhtosh and the mild mannered hardware guru soon broke and ran! The men were all down off the lifts by now and the heavy resistance
could be explained, the lifts were close to the command center itself! TNB was under heavy fire, a sectoid and cyberdisk giving him fits.
Binky came to the rescue as he saved TNB from certain DOOM! His Heavy Plasma rounds carving up the cyberdisk which then exploded taking out the sectoid with it!
Men continued to panic under mental attacks, first Byrns then Lyno! P.S. Your probably gonna be sacked soon. Lyno then succumbed to the alien influence. MaxZero soon followed! MY
GOD IT’S ALL FALLING APPART! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!
*CSL slaps himself*
Wait........no we won't! However, Lyno once again reverted to alien control! MaxZero was once again mine though. TNBs men had by now taken out two more sectoids, Binky was
slightly injured in the attack and Siljanus himself took injuries as he destroyed a cyberdisk that was defending the command center. Despite the losses the men advanced! MaxZero
then was lost to us as a cyberdisk cut him down, a second later Lyno went down with him. Losses were mounting.
Byrns was then controlled by aliens, another lost to us! TNB cut him down at the same time Kagath had destroyed that last Cyberdisk.
Kagath went to the aliens next. Bud tried to cut him down but was unsuccessful, his body adding to the pile of victims! Eightball took Kagath out the very next turn and by now the
fight was as much among the men as it was against the aliens. However the ragged group of survivors had now formed for the assault on the command center itself! Little over half
of them remained, more of them like Guildboss and Bakhtosh had been confirmed as being psi-weak and would be relegated to base defense when we got out of this hell hole.
The men were starting to break now! I'd have to finish this off before we all were doomed!
Siljanus led the assault onto the second floor of the command center, taking out the last two sectoids! Victory was ours!
However, we lost 7 men altogether. Was it too high a price?