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Re: Let's Play: X-COM: UFO Defense

Post by GeneralOfDeath » Sun Jul 07, 2013 2:08 am

Looked up OpenXcom, and I'll label it interesting, but I already sank too much time into DosBox to try something else.

Also: imgur may not be as bad as photobucket, but it still sucks balls.

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Ten new names, ten new troops.

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And something that took me way too long to remember to do.

And a few days later…

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These ten will make up Bravo team, which will alternate deployments with Alpha team, the other ten soldiers.

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Ah, a new challenger.

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Ladies and gentlemen, our first UFO shot down!

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Bravo team is quickly deployed to the crash site.

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UFO 3 crash site
0946Z Friday 15 Jan 1999
Spain
Crash Bandicoot, Wren Ghastman, Miles Van Der Meer, Knife Billions, mgb519, knolli, Arkbrik, Silva SilverSilvs, Jules Barbicane and Silverdream attending
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This time, Silver gets RNG blessed.

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The tank rolls off and notices an alien.

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Behold: The skull-shaped explosions of death!

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Target down.

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Wren spots an alien, and fails to do anything about it.

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And then Crash follows suit.

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Finally, Miles Van Der Meer puts it down.

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The team begins spreading out through the area.

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Bastard wasn’t dead! (That’s what I get for not having the sound on. At least it left its weapon behind.)

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Knife Billions fixes this problem.

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The team continues to spread out, and the tank finds the UFO.

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knolli, mgb519 and Wren Ghastman begin moving towards the crash.

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How things stand at the moment.

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A few turns pass without incident, and Silva and Knife are preparing to breach this building.

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I also found these houses down here. I will clear them before moving on to the UFO.

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Silva and Knife breach the house without incident. They still need to clear the upper floor, though.

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mgb clears one of the houses while Jules wonders why that wall was put there.

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Silva and Knife finish clearing the building, and that leaves us with only the UFO to go.

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By virtue of being there first, knolli gets to be the sacrifice.

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Could be worse.

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Perfect.

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Perfect except for the part where aimed fire eats up so many TUs that it leaves him immobile and blocking the door.

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But, hey, we don’t need to worry about that after all!

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Losses: None
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Re: Let's Play: X-COM: UFO Defense

Post by Silverdream » Sun Jul 07, 2013 3:25 am

More names:

Jinder Kwiir
Bindur Dundat
Jill Peeny
Drill Turnington
Joe Smokey
Abel Workman
Lagantis Primavex
Steven Magnet

Also, a dime to those who tell me the names that are references to my favourite things. Hint: There are three.
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Re: Let's Play: X-COM: UFO Defense

Post by Tzan » Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:57 am

Silverdream wrote:More names:

Jinder Kwiir
Bindur Dundat
Jill Peeny
Drill Turnington
Joe Smokey
Abel Workman
Lagantis Primavex
Steven Magnet

Also, a dime to those who tell me the names that are references to my favourite things. Hint: There are three.
Jinder Kwiir: is spelled like Kinder Qweer and you like d a p p e r children
Bindur Dundat: sounds like your favorite phrase - Been There Done That
Jill Peeny: You like girls with a penis
Joe Smokey: you like to smoke
Abel Workman: a guy who likes to work, you like being the opposite of that
Steven Magnet: you like magnets because they are "magic" and hold your ear rings on

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Re: Let's Play: X-COM: UFO Defense

Post by knolli » Sun Jul 07, 2013 11:59 am

Ha, look at this.! Among the newbees, I am the most persevering, strong and accurate (thowing doesn't count!), and I am in the top three in speed, bravery and strength. And you want to sacrifice such a fine soldier. Pah! If you have to use a sacrificial lamb, use Knife Billions or SilvaSilver. These wussies wet their pants at the sound of their own gun reloading.
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Re: Let's Play: X-COM: UFO Defense

Post by GeneralOfDeath » Mon Jul 08, 2013 1:02 am

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I took a look at the graphs, and it said that there was a lot of UFO activity over North Africa. Thus, I have decided to send a fighter out to patrol the area,

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But after 24 hours and two patrols, nothing is detected.

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But on the bright side, mah lazorz r redy 2 fire!

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Finally, after several days, a large UFO passes by.

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…And escapes…

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But undaunted, I order the fighter to the last known enemy position, and it reacquires the target over Saudi Arabia.

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But then it jumps up to maximum speed and breaks for the upper atmosphere. Cowards, the lot of them!

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The days drag on, but we do manage to complete our alien containment facility!

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Thus, the skyranger’s loadout has been changed to this.

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Days and days worth of boring patrols go by over Africa, until we finally find something…

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…over Europe…

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It lands in Romania, and thus begins our first night mission.

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UFO 5
0125Z Friday 22 January 1999
Romanian coast
Ellen Kataiser, Sue Robinson, Doge Barke, Shoot Killington, Ave Gunfist, Ghost Spokygun, Gun Shootman, Kathryn Ripley, Mann Mannington and Apollyon attending.
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Standard night mission gear. (Note that several of these idiots are too weak to carry all this, and so either forgo the flare or stun rod.)

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Once again, we have put down right beside the UFO.

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I decide to play it safe this turn, and simply pop a smoke grenade to block the alien’s broken night vision abilities.

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Over the next two turns the squad disembarks without problems, and begins to scout the area.

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After four all-too-quiet turns, Shoot Killington finds an alien right as he runs out of TUs.

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A tank shot manages to miss horribly, but fortunately not cause friendly fire.

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Sue Robinson takes four shots and hits with one, and somehow manages to not be hit by the reaction shot.

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Doge Barke elects to simply grenade the alien.

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Shoot: :byzero: Where’d he come from?! (It walked out of the UFO and turned left. Lucky Shoot.)

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Well, it didn’t take a shot, so…

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Here goes nothing!

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Whooo!

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Ace: AMBUSH!

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Ace: GUNN! :no:

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Ghost hucks a grenade through the door, while…

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Doge prepares to storm the UFO.

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Hey, that went well!

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The grenade killed nothing, and the alien turn resulted in more shots fired than any print screen could hope to capture.

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It could be worse, though.

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Never mind.

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Ghost kills one alien, but four reaction shots are fired at him from elsewhere.

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Doge leaves the UFO, and moves to help Ghost.

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Sorry, I got caught up in the moment and missed Mann’s rampage that left one alien dead and one wounded.

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Ghost: Doge? DOGE!!!!!!!

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Ghost: DIE YOU BASTARD!

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Ellen marches into the engine room and kills the last alien on the UFO.

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Losses: Gun Shootman, Ace Gunfist, and Doge Barke (all to the same camper)
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Re: Let's Play: X-COM: UFO Defense

Post by Arkbrik » Sun Jul 14, 2013 4:05 pm

Keep shooting them aliens. This game reminds me of Liberal Crime Squad, except it has graphics.

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Re: Let's Play: X-COM: UFO Defense

Post by GeneralOfDeath » Sun Jul 14, 2013 6:30 pm

If you notice a change in image quality, that's because I accedentally took JPEGs instead of PNGs this chapter.

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These three poor fools will replace the three members of Alpha team recently killed in action.

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Both teams will be carrying as many of these as I can push out.

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Looks like we’re going to have one last UFO to wrap up the month.

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Scratch that, we’re having our first terror mission to wrap up the month.

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I have a very bad feeling about this.

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Verrry bad.

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Alien Terror Attack
Friday 29 Jan 1999 0831Z
Crash Bandicoot, Wren Ghastman, Miles Van Der Meer, Knife Billions, mgb519, knolli, Arkbrik, Silva SilverSilvs, Jules Barbicane and Silverdream attending
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Unfortunately, the lazy bastards in engineering only punched out a single laser rifle, which I have elected to give to the most accurate member of Bravo team.

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This is going to be bad.

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The tank rolls off to find not only an alien, but a mini UFO floating behind the creature.

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One missile later.

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Unfortunately, the tank is now partially blocking the ramp, so I elect to pop smoke and delay primary deployment until the next round.

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Civilian running around on the upper floor of the building the tank just shot.

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The tank finds another target, and knolli proves that lasers are indeed a viable battlefield weapon. The alien’s body falls under the husk of the mini UFO.

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Civvie on the bottom floor, too. Lucky he wasn’t by the other wall last turn.

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Well, crap. There’s another.

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The tank misses, and on the alien turn, it retreats. The tank follows, and finds this lovely scene.

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Crash scouts out the other side of the landing zone, and finds yet another target.

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Jules Barbicane breaks out the HE ammo, but fails to hit anything with it.

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The troops then proceed to spam rifle fire at it, and even make a hit or two, with no visible effect whatsoever.

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Well, crap.

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At least we finally got one of theirs.

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That done, I shift the troops to the other end of the LZ, and set up a firing line, hoping that the aliens march into it.

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Crash Bandicoot dies, caught between two aliens.

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The rest of the squad sets out to avenge him, but bad aim combined with this alien requiring a bullet and two lasers to kill hampers progress.

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I don’t even want to count how many shots were made at this one.

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Miles: Contact!

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Miles: It’s one of the big ones!

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knolli: Got you covered!

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Silva: knolli!
knolli wrote:"Here, *cough* take my rifle and.... avange my death!"
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Silva: YOU BASTARDS KILLED KNOLLI!

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Silva lasered the alien tank with such malice that it exploded, killing a civilian in the process.

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Alien turn, and Miles is knocked out by alien fire from nowhere.

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Seconds later, mgb is killed by another one of the damn things.

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And Miles is obliterated by the grenade throw I screwed up.

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Jules rounds the corner and finds an alien waiting.

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One HE round later, the alien is no longer a problem.

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Fun fact:

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Explosions

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Travel upwards, but not downwards, a fact that saved Silva’s life when she lasered the mini UFO.

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Knife knocks out the alien that killed Miles.

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We then corner the last alien in this building, where Silva manages to screw up grenade tossing.

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Next turn, she simply shoots out the walls before pegging it with a laser. Mission complete.

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Technically.

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Losses: knolli, mgb519, Crash Bandicoot and Miles Van Der Meer
A few days later:

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The month wraps up with things turning out well in the end run, and I grab us some more personnel for the coming storm of plasma and blood.

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And it begins now.
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Re: Let's Play: X-COM: UFO Defense

Post by knolli » Mon Jul 15, 2013 4:58 am

:no:

"Here, *cough* take my rifle and.... avange my death!"

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Operator: "We need a new knolli!"
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Re: Let's Play: X-COM: UFO Defense

Post by GeneralOfDeath » Sat Aug 03, 2013 3:39 am

Sorry for being a lazy bastard about getting this up.

Also: The game seems to be throwing a lot of female troopers at me, and I'm down to two female names. So if you guys could come up with some, that'd be great.

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Due to Bravo team getting the heavy weapons blown up, Alpha will be deploying without HWP support. Here’s hoping they can take it.

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I have decided to shake up the loadouts a bit, so this is how things are now. Note that everyone is holding an electroflare because I’m not quite sure if I got here before it got dark.

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UFO 7
Southern Germany
1 Feb 1999 1555Z
Ellen Kataiser, Sue Robinson, Jill Peeny, Shoot Killington, Wikus Quaritch, Ghost Spokygun, Shadowscythe, Kathryn Ripley, Mann Mannington, and Apollyon attending
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Good, it’s not dark.

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I’ll admit it: I got tense for a moment as I made my first infantry-first deployment. On the other hand, WHY IS THE UFO ALWAYS RIGHT THERE?!

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That white mark is an alien Jill saw and killed.

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That last step triggered a barrage of reaction fire that somehow managed to not kill anyone.

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Sue then retreats a step and sets up reaction fire.

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So, by crouching, Wikus can see an alien that nobody else can see even though they’re closer to it… whatever.

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Not shown: Me not having anyone else who can get a shot off, the alien missing Wikus, and another one killing Jill.

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Wikus hits it, but fails to kill, and Sue steps in to fix the problem.

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There’s the other bastard!

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Wikus!

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Kathryn unleashes HE hell on the alien, but fails to take it out. Nearly took out Mann, though…
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Shadowscythe’s rocket, on the other hand, puts the bastard down good.

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All outside aliens done with, we move in for the breach.

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One. And it’s facing away.

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*BZZAP*

Sue: Gotcha, sucker!

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Losses: Jill Peeny, Wikus Quaritch
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Re: Let's Play: X-COM: UFO Defense

Post by mgb519 » Sat Aug 03, 2013 6:34 am

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Re: Let's Play: X-COM: UFO Defense

Post by Silverdream » Sat Aug 03, 2013 11:55 am

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Post by GeneralOfDeath » Sat Aug 03, 2013 6:39 pm

Well, what else do you expect from Silver?
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Re: Let's Play: X-COM: UFO Defense

Post by Arkbrik » Sun Aug 04, 2013 6:38 am

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Sasha Mori
Amberley Cleat
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Woo sergeant! And one of my names as captain!

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