Following in the tradition of @Guap 's QT3 games, I feel like running one of these. Let me know if you’d like to participate.
I’m doing XCOM2 WoTC, Commander difficulty, Ironman mode. But I doubled the Avatar timer and the Mission timer, because fuck that noise. I’m skipping the DLC story missions. I completed the intro mission where you blow up a statue, and it went well, only half the squad died. Haha, just kidding, only half the squad got wounded.
Copied from Guap’s 2018 post -
Sign up an me know a few things about your character, detailed below.
First name, “Nickname”, Last Name
Nationality
Colors or color scheme.
Gender
You can chose random for any of these. Let me know if you’d prefer a spec, including Reaper / Templar / Skirmisher, and I’ll try to give it to you. No guarantees.
Hot “Freakchaud” Freak
French or French Canadian or Cajun or Haitian
nothing gauche for color scheme, understated yet sexxy in the way that evil is sexxy (with lots of x)
boy, young man, man or non-binary
Please Reaper me.
p.s. understood if you can’t reaper me. :) looking forward to it!
Second pod is an ADVENT Officer and a Trooper. And Zappa takes out the Trooper like its nobody’s business. Skirmisher Au uses his grapple to get a flanking position on the Officer, takes aim with a ridiculously high chance to hit… and misses. Truculent tosses a grenade to wound the Officer and remove his cover. Chick takes aim with a ridiculously high chance to hit… and misses. But on the next turn Chick is able to flank the Officer and take him out!
Third pod is another Sectoid and Trooper… activated at a bad time. Truculent manages to wound the Sectoid in overwatch, but the Sectoid Mind Controls Au. Meanwhile the trooper wounds Zappa. Zappa moves up and is able to toss his grenade to take out the Sectoid and free Au. He has full cover against the Trooper. Chick wounds the trooper, can’t take him out, takes some fire, but finishes him on his next turn. Victory!
Edit - Left to right is Zappa, Truculent, Chick, and Au
Chick is promoted to a grenadier, Truculent to a ranger, and Zappa to Corporal but Gravely Wounded. Zappa and Au form a soldier bond. Aww, how cute. #nohomo Or maybe #homo, whatever.
Though I admit to being a little miffed that I spent so long on my Guile-hair and didn’t get a soldier bond. I feel like the good-hair portion of the team deserved that as much as the no-hair portion of the team. :D
Edit: Oh and best wishes for Zappa’s speedy recovery.
2 - OPERATION MOUNTAIN FACE
Gather Survivors from Abandoned City. Rewards are a scientist, some intel, and two squaddies.
Team Members -
Squaddie Truculent - Ranger
Squaddie Chick - Grenadier
Rookie Lufkin
Squaddie Au - Skirmisher
This is a Lost mission. Our first Lost mission, so there should be no ADVENT. Chick takes out the first Lost pair with ease. Oh look, seems Commander Balasarius was wrong… Squaddie Au walks right by a pod with a Sectoid and a Trooper. Truculent runs up the Sectoid to melee it, but it isn’t enough. Now he’s exposed. Lufkin flanks and takes out the Trooper. Au manages to finish off the Sectoid before it can move!
The second pod, also a Sectoid and Trooper, walks into range. Truculent one-shots the Sectoid with shotgun blast to the face! Chick flanks the Trooper and chainguns him down! Lufkin headshots a couple of Lost. Au hits a Lost but can’t finish it off. The Lost close in and wound Truculent. But now Truculent has them right where he wants them. Surrounded by 100% to-hit Lost, he clears out all six in the immediate vicinity.
Chick rescues a random Squaddie on the map. There are no visible enemies so the team starts to make for the extraction zone. We spot a lone Lost, but no one has a clean shot for it, so two team members have to go into overwatch and hope for the best. The lone Lost moves in, Au takes the shot… MISSES! But hits the explosive tank behind the Lost, killing it, and the new random Squaddie we found. The noise brings the Lost to bear. The team sucessfully evacs after rescuing the Scientist, suspiciously named… @Papageno. heh
So one of the squaddies we were supposed to rescue died and I didn’t find the other one. Alas.
(From left to right)
Lufkin is promoted to Squaddie (Specialist), Au is promoted to Corporal, Truculent is promoted to Corporal (and has Genius level intelligence!), and Chick, showing off dat ass, is promoted to Corporal.
3 - OPERATION SWEATY TOME
Our first Retaliation mission! Aww shit, here we go again…
Team Members -
Corporal Truculent - Ranger
Corporal Zappa - Sniper
Squaddie Lufkin - Specialist
Corporal Au - Skirmisher
Our first pod is a Sectoid and a Trooper. Zappa takes out the Trooper with ease. Aaand our first Chosen has arrived. The Hunter. At least one of his weaknesses is Skirmishers!
Lufkin wounds the Sectoid while in overwatch and Truculent moves in for the melee kill. Truculent activates the second pod, an ADVENT Priest and a Trooper… and he’s exposed. He has to fall back. Zappa one-shots the Trooper. He’s getting rather good at this. The Priest puts Truculent in Stasis.
A faceless appears, and Au grapples up high to get a good vantage. He shoots it twice, but is unable to drop it, due to his lackluster weaponry. The Hunter prepares to snipe Zappa with Tracking Shot so he’s gotta move, which means he can’t return fire this turn. Lufkin manages to finish off the Faceless. Zappa CRITS and one-shots the Priest! I think (hope) that just leaves the Hunter and his 20HP.
Au get close to the Hunter to toss a grenade at it, and he’s got the ability that adds +2 DAM to grenades, so the Hunter takes 6 damage. The grenade also lowers the Hunters cover, and Lufkin is able to capitalize and hit him for another 4 damage! But the Hunter summons a Trooper and then grapples behind us… fortunately his shot is wide. Au plays the same game and grapples above the Hunter, then shoots him for another 4 damage. Unfortunately he can’t make a second shot this time, as he must reload. Truculent walks over and melees the Trooper to death and collects its loot. Two items! Thanks Hunter! Zappa flanks the Hunter and pistols it for 3. The Hunter has 3 HP left… and only Lufkin is left to move. If he moves to flank the Hunter he’ll be completely exposed. Can he hit it and finish it off?! His life may depend on it. Aaand… he does it! The Hunter is down, the mission is won. No casualties.
