Forum Let's Play: X-COM: Enemy Within

[Eldan]

Alright, you lot!

Now, I know that there's a lot of strange ideas going around here. Some of you think that you're some kind of elite soldiers, brought out here into the middle of... Bradson! Where are we, anyway? Nevermind, tell me later, man. Where was I. Middle of nowhere, right.
You were not brought here because you are elite soldiers. You are rookies. I've seen at least three of you holding your rifles the wrong way. My assessment data here indicates that at least one of you can't wound an elephant at point blanc range.
We have elite personell here. Our engineers, scientists and pilots are all the best of the best. But you? XCOM needs you to stand still and guard doors. You will be "volunteers" for whatever Dr. Vahlen comes up with. You will test any new weapons before we ship them out to the real armies of Earth.

Will you be fighting aliens? By god, I hope not. We have armies for that. Maybe I will send you out into the field occasionally. Pray that you won't meet the alien threat. They will kill you. Or do worse. We still haven't found out why they abduct people.

So, if you see any aliens? Run.

Anyway. You there, recruit. Name?


Okay. Enough IC. We will play XCOM here. The world's premier new soldiers getting eaten by aliens on a tactical map simulator. Or rather, I will play and you will furnish me with the poor recruits who will get thrown into the brutal meat grinder that is XCOM: Enemy within, Classic Ironman.

There will be some roleplaying, but mostly, I will try to do my best on missions. Which is not much, I'm sometimes quite bad at this game. And I've pretty carefully avoided any spoilers on what new enemies and technologies will be in Enemy within, I only know the broadest outline.

So, what do I need from you? If you want to be one of the soldiers in this game,, just volunteer. I will need a nickname for you, probably your forum name. Optionally, you can also give me a first name/family name, sex, nationality, hair style etc. You will all start out as normal recruits, but later in the game, I will let you choose your soldier's skill and equipment.

We will play with some options activated that will make the game more "fun":

Operation Progeny, which seems some kind of optional side mission.
New Economy, randomizing how much money we get from each country.
Not Created Equally, randomizing rookie stats.
Training Roulette, randomizing what skills you can learn on level up.
Aiming Angles, which makes cover a bit more difficult to use for both aliens and XCOM.

So. Volunteers?

[Bayar]

Sign me up !

Doubt you have Romania as an available country, so just go with the UK.

[Cristo Meyers]

An opportunity to get in on the ground floor of an operation where I could be shot, stabbed, crushed, blown up, vaporized, burned to a cinder, punched into the next county, turned into some sort of goo, mind controlled, or impregnated by an alien parasite?

How could I say no? I'm in!

Name: Cris Meyers
County: Any
Nickname (if applicable): Rook

[ThePhantom]

Sign me up, this should be good.

[Balmas]

Sir! Reporting for duty, Sir! Please ignore any tentacles; I assure you, I am a regular human being, and not an alien sent to infiltrate your ranks. This statement is completely normal.

[Jonzac]

I'm in.

Name: Westley "Jonzac" Pallindrom

Country: USA of course "Merika"

I'm dashing and handsome and will NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, EVER be in red armor.

[Jekub]

yes sir!

Rookie Yago Martinez reporting for duty.

Country: Spain.

[Hiro Protagonest]

Johnny Deltoro, reporting for lab rat duty. Just don't turn me into a cyborg.

[Doc Kraken]

Awright! This is the part where we get the cool guns and the armor that can stop a charging rhino and, I dunno, giant robots or something? I mean, we're fighting aliens, right? Errr...we're going up against them, anyway. Even if the we're not supposed to be fighting them. So we get the good stuff? I just want you to know that I'm qualified to pilot giant robots. Doesn't matter what kind. Totally qualified, sir.

...sir? Someone appears to have given me a paintball gun by mistake. Can I get this exchanged?

Name: Jack "Doc Kraken" Mance

Country: USA

[NotAEvilToaster]

Sir! Johnathan "Toasty" Barnett, reporting for duty! Er, you want to know how I got that nickname, sir? Well.. I maaay have been operating a flamethrower, and I may have accidentally set myself on fire... but I assure you that's just a malicious rumor! These burns are from... um. Cooking! Yeah, cooking.

Country: Any.

[IthilanorStPete]

Awesome, this sounds like fun! Will you be using videos or screenshots?

Name: Jack "Manassa Mauler" Dempsey. Give me an alien to punch, and I'm a happy man!
Country: USA.

[Morithias]

Mary Custard "Mori".

Please keep me out of the way until Exalt shows up. I'm a trans-humanist in real life, so it only makes sense for me to show up after Exalt does. Unless you want to write a soldier who is kind of insane and gladly submits to testing FOR SCIENCE!

I'm technically a female from Canada, but I'll take any country.

[Eldan]

Awesome, this sounds like fun! Will you be using videos or screenshots?

Name: Jack "Manassa Mauler" Dempsey. Give me an alien to punch, and I'm a happy man!
Country: USA.

Screenshots and texts. I'm too lazy to talk while a video is running and I play really slowly, so it wouldn't be that interesting to watch.

Also, I can't say when anyone will show up. I'll start a tthe top of the thread and move down whenever someone gets wounded or killed and we need a new recruit to throw into the blender.

[MeatShield#236]

Meatshield#236 reporting for duty, the latest in the long line of personal protection clones. When you think of protection, think of Meatshield.

Just don't ask about what happened to Meatshield#210 or Meatshield#154.

[Brance_a_Lot]

Name: Brance "The Unlucky" here reporting for duty!

Country: Any English Or Spanish speaking

Sir, yes Sir, I have been called unlucky, but don't worry sir, I haven't died or killed anyone yet! I have also been called Leroy Jenkins due to unknown reasons.

Good Luck Commander!

[IthilanorStPete]

Screenshots and texts. I'm too lazy to talk while a video is running and I play really slowly, so it wouldn't be that interesting to watch.

I'm entirely fine with this; IMO, XCOM works better in screenshot form.

[Eldan]

Hm. Seems we're still stuck with random names for the first mission. That will require some weird storytelling.

[huttj509]

Hm. Seems we're still stuck with random names for the first mission. That will require some weird storytelling.

"Congratulations cadets, you have survived your first mission. Now undergo mandatory personality reassignment to further your efficiency."

[Cristo Meyers]

"Congratulations cadets, you have survived your first mission. Now undergo mandatory personality reassignment to further your efficiency."

Vahlen does seem to enjoy forcibly getting into the alien's heads...

[Eldan]

First Mission

Okay, Cadets. This is your first assingment. Welcome to... *sigh*.

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Operation Forgotten Pipe.

One of our engineering intern forgot important spare parts on a building site in Berlin, Germany. They are building a new army base, so during hte day, it's full of people who know me personally. Far too embarassing.
So, I'm sending you four, to get it. In the middle of the night. Make sure no one sees you.

Oh, and you get fake identities. I don't want anyone to associate this mission with X-COM.

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Bayar, you will answer to "Declan Kerrigan". Practise your Irish accent.

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Rook, your name is "Mahmoud Nabil".

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Phantom, you're "Khamisi Buthelezi".

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And Balmas... you'll wear this wig here. Your name's "Aileen O'Connell". You're Kerrigan's cousin, also from Ireland.

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Hm? What's that, "Nabil"? Something "shiny"? Look, just leave it there. All that alien Debris is dangerous. We're here for the pipes.

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Two of them? Okay, okay, bring them.

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Damn. X-Rays. Abort mission. Return to the Skyranger, we'll just have to order a new pipe.

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"Buthelezi"! Are you listening? We are not just climbing drain pipes because you saw it in a movie once and thought it would be cool!
O'Connell! Did all your coms just spontaneously evaporate? I did not order you to run into that situation!

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There's six of the things! Six! Dammit. They're not listening.

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Know why I told you not to climb that roof, "Buthelezi"?

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That's why! You get shot! Now come down there before...

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Oh. Damn. Why can't anyone listen.

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Like Kerrigan.

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I've had it with this mission. "Nabil", do something sensible. Like shooting the aliens from cover. I would have preferred running, but that works too.

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"Aileen" joins in on the fun. Revenge is the best motivator.

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Two down, four to go. At least they are bad at shooting.

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Very bad. Seems they used up their luck for today.

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And... "Nabil"! Was that a grenade?! I did not authorize grenades!

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Okay. Enough. Retre... nevermind. Of course she had to run straight in there, with no cover and then miss.

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That's what you get for running straight in the middle of a group of X-rays without cover! You get plasma burns!

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Okay. I've had it. Just finish this.
...
That's not quite how I meant that, but it's effective.

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One left. Go get him, "Kerrigan". No?

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Nabil? No? O'Conell? Come on, woman. You can shoot.

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Well, grenades work too.

Okay. Mission over. Back to the Skyranger. If you're not in there, I'll have you court martialled. And stranded in Germany. Branson! I did not tell you to praise them for this. Everyone my office. I'll debrief you personally.

This was a damn disgrace. Flagrant disregard for my orders, appalling fire discipline, unwarranted use of explosives and every single one of you is wounded. Phantom died.
Well, apparently, the manual says I have to promote you for shooting aliens. But you're all suspended for the next several missions, too.

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O'Conell! Some damn fine shooting there! But if you have to run in and put a gun in those thing's faces, at least get one that's made for it! Also, twelve days cleaning duty in science lab. Report to Dr. Vahlen. If you're quick, I'll tell her to give you safety equipment.

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Meyers! Seems you like grenades. So I'll give you grenades. Since it looks as if you can't see where you're shooting anyway, they are smoke grenades. To even the field. Also, six days kitchen duty, peeling potatoes.

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Kerrigan! The only semi-sensible person on that team. Well done. Report to medical.

Now I'll send those things you recovered to the eggheads to play around with. I swear, if you got Phantom killed for some alien streetlights, I'm punching one of you.

The Living:
Squaddie Cris "Rook" Meyer
Squaddie Aileen "Balmas" O'Connor
Recruit Declan "Bayar" Kerrigan

The Dead
Khamisi "The Phantom" Buthelezi

[Eldan]

Hm. There isn't way to change a soldier's sex or nationality, is there?

[Cristo Meyers]

Ah, standard XCOM operation: everything goes out the window within 5 seconds of encountering the enemy and we break out the explosives.

And I lived! This is always a plus!


Hm. There isn't way to change a soldier's sex or nationality, is there?

Not that I'm aware of.

For me personally, though, I don't mind.

[Eldan]

Mhm. It just seems I have mostly Italians and a lot more women than men. And mostly male volunteers here in the thread. Anyone got a problem with being turned female for this game?

[Cristo Meyers]

Mhm. It just seems I have mostly Italians and a lot more women than men. And mostly male volunteers here in the thread. Anyone got a problem with being turned female for this game?

I don't have any issue with it, if it becomes a problem.

[Doc Kraken]

Nope! No problem with nationality change, either.

Also, ack, man down! This does not bode well...

[Morithias]

I'm already a girl, and I fine with being an Italian. Because Pizza is awesome, and so is pasta.

come to think of it I really do love Italian food.

[IthilanorStPete]

Mhm. It just seems I have mostly Italians and a lot more women than men. And mostly male volunteers here in the thread. Anyone got a problem with being turned female for this game?

Not an issue, and changing nationality is ok too. The important part is punching!

Also, you might want to make sure the images have a consistent size, mainly their width. The biggest ones are stretching the page a bit too far for easy reading.

[NotAEvilToaster]

Nationality and Gender do not matter to me.

[Legato Endless]

Is it too late to get in on this?

[ThePhantom]

Well, that fits. I'm a ghost :OOOOOOOOO:

[Balmas]

Stardate: 310211:61:

Wonderful news! I have worked my way into the humans' confidence through a combination of wit, guile, and being a complete and utter bastard to my fellow aliens.

They were so glad to see me; one more alien to join in their cause and help them in a fight to the death. What a bunch of suckers.

As a reward for my treachery, I have been given a human "Shot-Gun." From what I can tell, it uses small amounts of crude explosives to bestow kinetic force on small metal projectiles. Despite its primitive mechanism, I am rapidly coming to enjoy the daily exercise of cleaning it. I have decided to dub it Neo.

In addition, I shall soon have the secret of what appears to drive these scientists: Caw-fee. The fools have given me access to their science lab.

[Gamerlord]

I'll sign up for the cannon fodder, sex/nationality isn't an issue.

[Grif]

Can I be the assault guy? :smalltongue:

[Hyozo]

I'll join if you have room for me. Those X-rays won't know what hit 'em went flying fifteen feet over their head and a bit to the left.

[Surrealistik]

I'll take a Heavy MEC, preferably with the Kinetic Strike Module.

[Eldan]

I can't guarantee what class anyone gets. You are named as recruits on your first mission and then the game chooses a class.

[Cheesegear]

I can't guarantee what class anyone gets. You are named as recruits on your first mission and then the game chooses a class.

Couldn't you just wait until the class we want comes up, and then change to the Forumites' name?

Preferred Class: Support, or Arc Thrower Guy (whatever class you use for that). If you don't want to wait for my class to show up, then chuck out this guy anyway.

First Name: The
Last Name: Operative
Nickname: 'Cheesegear'

Hair: 21
Hair Colour: 20
Facial Hair: 19
Armour Tint: 13, 14, 24, 25, 26. Your choice.

[Eldan]

Couldn't you just wait until the class we want comes up, and then change to the Forumites' name?

Hm. True. I'll go with that.

[Aux-Ash]

Reporting as Alexander or Alexandra Ashe, no preferences when it comes to nationality or class.

[Morithias]

Stardate: 310211:61:

Wonderful news! I have worked my way into the humans' confidence through a combination of wit, guile, and being a complete and utter bastard to my fellow aliens.

They were so glad to see me; one more alien to join in their cause and help them in a fight to the death. What a bunch of suckers.

As a reward for my treachery, I have been given a human "Shot-Gun." From what I can tell, it uses small amounts of crude explosives to bestow kinetic force on small metal projectiles. Despite its primitive mechanism, I am rapidly coming to enjoy the daily exercise of cleaning it. I have decided to dub it Neo.

In addition, I shall soon have the secret of what appears to drive these scientists: Caw-fee. The fools have given me access to their science lab.

All in favor of making this guy the volunteer?

[Eldan]

Tests seem to indicate he can take meld enhancements extraordinarily well.

[Sam cw]

Count me in on this one too, Sam Cw, no preference for character looks/class.

I'm also seconding the motion to shrink the Screenshot width, it was very awkward to read. I'd help if you could standardize the Screenshot size too, so there's no need to suddenly scroll to the right.

[Eldan]

Mission 2

Vahlen had told me that it would take the team about a week to make sense of those cannisters, so I thought we could settle in for some nice training sessions and driling.
Of course, it took less than a day before she came running into my office with a folder under her arm.
"Commander! We need more of zis stuff! And I know where ve can find it! The Chinese just killed a small army of ze aliens and if ve move quickly, ve can get it before zey can!"

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It's just grabbing a few containers from a street, then carrying them back. Piece of cake. So, I'll send a few of our most disposable recruits on this mission:

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Brandon! I need a mission name here! What? That's stupid! Oh, very well.
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The X-rays have left the cannisters somewhere around this small cluster of shops in Beijing. I'll divide the recruits in two teams to find them faster. Pallindrom and Mance to the left, Barnett and Martinez to the right.

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Apparently, not all of the X-Rays had been cleaned out by the Chinese. Martinez spots two of them hiding in an Italian fast food joint.

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Spotting, of course, does not mean actually being able to shoot them.

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Lucky for him, the aliens aren't doing any better at this distance. And only one of them bothers to shoot.

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Meanwhile, Pallindrom and Mance get on with the exciting job of investigating empty alleys around those shops.

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Martinez breaks a window and moves into the shop to get closer to the aliens and spots the cannister they were apparently guarding in one corner of the shop.


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And get in range he did:
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The alleys, meanwhile, stubbornly refused to contain any aliens.

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Martinez grabbed the container, while
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Meanwhile, Barnett finally remembers that she should help Martinez with all this and shoots the second X-Ray, then sprints through the shop to the back door.

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Behind which are another two X-rays. This is getting better and better. If Vahlen didn't tell me that these cannisters are the most important thing in the world right now, I'd tell them to retreat and let the Chinese military get the stuff.

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Since Barnett is outnumbered and Martinez busy carrying the cannister to the Skyranger, the alley team is moving over the rooftops to flank the aliens.

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Martinez tries to shoot an alien point blank and like the raw recruit that he is, misses.

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The alien, meanwhile, proves to be a much better shot.

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Luckily, Martinez is tougher than he looks and keeps upright. Trusting the rooftop team to get him out of there, Barnett goes on to retrieve the second container just at the end of the alley.

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Mance does just that, moving over the rooftop into a flanking position and firing.

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And of course, that shot is too difficult for her. Martinez, meanwhile, circles the alien pod to get into the alien's back. Very effectively.

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That just leaves the last one on the roof.

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Pallindrom solved that problem, too.

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Great job, recruits. Cannisters retrieved, aliens dead, no one dead, just one wounded. Promotions all around, I think, perfect mission.

Oh, what's that? You heard another X-Ray in the next alley? Oh, very well. You can go clean it up.

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Martinez takes the front entrance to whta seems to be a video store.

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Barnett, meanwhile, circles around to the side entrance.

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And Mance... is stupid about this. No, leaping down from the roof into unknown territory is not a great idea.

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And cover is also pretty useless when the X-Rays, two of them, I might add, are now in your back.

What follows...
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... is as sad as it's predictable.

Pallindrom proves that revenge is an efficient motivator, removing the X-ray from this planet.

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Barnett moves in through the side entrance, so that the team can take on the last two X-rays from three sides.

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The thing, however, decides not to wait, but breaks into the shop through a window and takes a very, very long shot at Martinez...

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... which it pulls off perfectly. Damn. And I wanted to make him the new squad leader. I hope this stuff in the cannisters is worth this.

Pallindrom climbs down after the alien...

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... and distributes him unevenly over the wall.
Barnett, meanwhile, spends more time slowly walking towards the last alien.

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The last alien is now in Pallindrom's back, with no cover between them.

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Luckily, it seems even more surprised than he is at this, allowing him to jump behind the flimsy cover of a nearby park bench and kill it.

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Well, that could have gone better. Still, I promised promotions, and you're getting them.

Barnett, if you have to spend a lot of time walking slowly across the field, at least carry something heavy while you're doing it.

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Pallindrom, seems your main qualification is climbing on top of tall things, then shooting stuff from there. We're handing you a sniper rifle so that you don't have to climb down to kill X-rays.

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Well, that's our first day on the job over. Hopefully, the rest of the week will be a bit calmer. In any case, I've told Engineering to start building more satellites so we can start scanning battlefields for more cannisters and to start carving out a few more rooms so we have a place to store them.

[Eldan]

Active Duty:
Squaddie Cris "Rook" Meyer
Squaddie Aileen "Balmas" O'Connor
Recruit Declan "Bayar" Kerrigan
Squaddie Joanna Barnett, Heavy weapons
Squaddie Westley Pallindrom, Sniper

Memorial:
Khamisi "The Phantom" Buthelezi
Iago Martinez
Jack Mance

About the screenshot size: my screen is 1920xsomething, so I just cut the screenshots down by hand so that only the important things are visible. That produces some rather awkward sizes, I admit. I'll see what I can do about that.

[Murska]

Hello. John(/Jackie) Winters, hopefully Canadian since the game doesn't have Finnish.

[NotAEvilToaster]

Dear Diary,

Today, I saw two of my comrades die.

Serves them, *******s. That's what you get for stealing my pancakes. Anyways, I got to kill lots of aliens! Or two. Two is lots, right? Pretty sure. Annnnyways, I got proMOOOOted! They decided my MOS should be rockets. That's okay. Rockets are fun. Rockets explode. Rockets can take out jackass teammates and pretend it was an accident. Ehehehe. That Ailleen chick is weirding me out. I'm suspicious of her, but she repeatedly told me how she's a normal human, so she's probably fine. Just weird.

Anyways, X-Com is waaay more fun than the army. Less court marshals too. I might have had to fake credentials, but I'm here! I'm saving the world! And trying to figure out how to rig C4 to the commander's chair because everyone knows if you kill the commander you BECOME the commander. Anyways, it's curfew, and I'm tired. Nini diary!

Your Pal,
Joanna Bartlett

[Doc Kraken]

"Ohboyohboyohboy I get to shoot them I get to shoot the alie - hang on, what's that noise?"

-Jack Mance, final transmission

[Balmas]

Dear Diary,

Today, I saw two of my comrades die.

Serves them, *******s. That's what you get for stealing my pancakes. Anyways, I got to kill lots of aliens! Or two. Two is lots, right? Pretty sure. Annnnyways, I got proMOOOOted! They decided my MOS should be rockets. That's okay. Rockets are fun. Rockets explode. Rockets can take out jackass teammates and pretend it was an accident. Ehehehe. That Ailleen chick is weirding me out. I'm suspicious of her, but she repeatedly told me how she's a normal human, so she's probably fine. Just weird.

Anyways, X-Com is waaay more fun than the army. Less court marshals too. I might have had to fake credentials, but I'm here! I'm saving the world! And trying to figure out how to rig C4 to the commander's chair because everyone knows if you kill the commander you BECOME the commander. Anyways, it's curfew, and I'm tired. Nini diary!

Your Pal,
Joanna Bartlett

Yay! So glad to have second psychopath friend! :smallbiggrin:

And I think that's actually a light machine gun... (http://xcom.wikia.com/wiki/LMG)

[NotAEvilToaster]

Heavy's ability is shooting a rocket. :P

[Jekub]

Ouch. Dea in my first mission. At least i took two aliens with me, so i guess
is not that bad.

Time to try again:

Jonh Hatter, Any Nation

[Bayar]

Apparently in X-COM, being the most sensible person on the team means no promotion. At least I managed to get hurt the least, thus being able to flirt with the nurses in medical.

[Eldan]

Don't worry. I have something for you a bit later. I'm just waiting for a convenient point in the story.

[Jonzac]

Ohhhhhh, I'm a sniper...my chances of living just improved from "no way in hell" to "1 in a million"

[Starbuck_II]

I'll totally volunteer. Any Country will do.
Name: Starbuck

[JustSomeGuy]

My mum sent me to the shops to buy a newspaper; yet somehow i turn up here with a scotch egg and some gin? What's this about being overqualified, and who's Allen Activity? Is he my new friend?

Yes, i'll sign some wavers and stop getting crumbs on your desk. Who am i? Just some guy, and i guess the 'personal details' section can wait until i finish drawing rude pictures in the SEX box.

[Forum Explorer]

Mhm. It just seems I have mostly Italians and a lot more women than men. And mostly male volunteers here in the thread. Anyone got a problem with being turned female for this game?

Not a problem Sir! Gender is all in the mind after all! Who am I? Your newest recruit Forum Explorer from, hmm I can't remember. Just spin a globe and pick a country. It's not like anyone cares about where we are coming from anyways.

[NotAEvilToaster]

Does this still exist?

[Balmas]

It's only been three days. No need to worry.

[Eldan]

Had a busy few days at work. I'll put in an update later today and then some on the weekend.

[Luzahn]

Heh, this looks very interesting so far. I'd be interested in a space, provided enough useless rookies valued recruits bite it.

Name: Lucas Zahner

Nationality (In order of preference): United States, Germany, United Kingdom, any

Male would be preferred, provided enough soldiers are around.

Also would like a helmet. It makes me feel less killable. :smalltongue:

[Eldan]

Well, ****.

The short version is this: game crashed, Steam decided to synch in completely the wrong way and now all my saves seem gone. All of them.

I'll spend some time tomorrow starting a new iron man game, playing through the first few missions and trying to get some squaddies with roughly the same abilities to replace those we already had in here, but right now, I'm not in the mood for this. At all.

[Forum Explorer]

Well, ****.

The short version is this: game crashed, Steam decided to synch in completely the wrong way and now all my saves seem gone. All of them.

I'll spend some time tomorrow starting a new iron man game, playing through the first few missions and trying to get some squaddies with roughly the same abilities to replace those we already had in here, but right now, I'm not in the mood for this. At all.

Crappy to hear that. Hope you keep playing.