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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Operation Banished Serpent (UFO Landing Site - Canada)

Gentlesophs, I am your host, the Kid With A Pen, and welcome to XCOM:  War Interminable - my playthrough of XCOM:  Enemy Unknown, with the Enemy Within expansion, the Operation Slingshot DLC, and most importantly the Long War mod.  Links to all of these can be found on the "What is XCOM:  War Interminable?" page below this post.
Today, we're going to an undisclosed location in Canada, where a landed Abductor UFO is carrying out its nefarious mission.  We've got a strong team here with us today, so let's take us an Abductor!

So, on to the mission!  Our team today is:
Our Shogun, Chilong
Our rocketeer, "General" Van Doorn
Our assault, Caper
Our other rocketeer, Boom Boom
Our infantry, Patreon contributor Oliver "Rascal" Albright
Our scout, Stalker
Our squad leader, medic and Patreon contributor Lynne "Vixen" Triplett
And our other infantry, Zilch.
Big Sky has dropped us right next to the bridge, which for reasons passing understanding looks like it has a hole blown in the hull.  Must be an optical illusion.
What's not an optical illusion is the double Mechtoid pod Chilong just made contact with.  We're in a position with practically no cover against Mechtoids - this is not where I wanted to engage from!
Stalker moves up to a hillside and holo-targets the Mechtoid we can see.
Boom Boom shreds the Mechtoid pod.
The General follows up with a standard rocket.
Rascal gets to half cover, flanking a Sectoid...
...and he gets the kill!
Chilong kills the Mechtoid with his laser lance.
Caper makes her way to the front.  There's another Mechtoid out there.
 Zilch moves forward, and the squad overwatches.
The other Mechtoid gets a hit on Rascal, but it doesn't kill him.
Zilch zilches a Sectoid.
Stalker gets holo-targeting on the Mechtoid.
Vixen patches Rascal right up.
Rascal gets two good hits on the Mechtoid...
...but when you need to kill a mech, it's best to leave it to a MEC.  Chilong gets the kill.
Van Doorn moves to the treeline and steadies aim.
Boom Boom moves up and steadies.
The squad overwatches.
Chilong moves up, uses One For All, and reloads.
Rascal advances and reloads.
Stalker moves up behind the ramp and reloads.
Van Doorn advances and steadies aim.
There's no cover left for Boom Boom, so she has to steady aim out in the open.
 Zilch moves up, and the rest of the squad overwatches.
Stalker hears movement coming from the stasis compartment.
Stalker goes to investigate, and contact!  Five Outsiders!

Great.  The last thing I needed was to trigger the Outsider pod before I had cleared out the rest of the UFO.  Now, every pod on the map will come running to their aid.  The rest of the squad moves up to what cover is available.
Stalker holo-targets one of the Outsiders.
Vixen orders Zilch to overwatch.
Chilong kills an Outsider.
Zilch goes on overwatch.
As an Outsider prepares to take a shot, Zilch hits it with a Covering Fire shot.
It still manages to hit Chilong anyway.
Another Outsider triggers Zilch's Covering Fire while trying to take a shot at Chilong...
...Zilch hit, and the Outsider did not.
On my turn, Stalker holo-targets an Outsider.
Rascal has eyes on a Sectoid...
...and gets the kill.
Chilong misses the Outsider.
Zilch reloads his laser rifle.
Rascal also misses the Outsider.
Caper executes a daring flanking plan.
"Imagine the future, Outsider, 'cause you're not in it!"
Boom Boom misses an Outsider.
Vixen flanks an Outsider, and gets a hit!
 Zilch goes on overwatch.
Contact!  Thin Men!

Correction:  They're human!
And so, we have our first run-in with EXALT, minus the Portent mission where we recovered one of their number who survived an attack on a French military convoy.  We'd always heard rumors of a global UFO cult that seeks out alien technology and artifacts to make themselves the dominant power on Earth, but we figured that it was just a more militant branch of Scientology.  Now, it looks like they're directly in league with the aliens.  Good thing they're not a subversive force out to undermine our efforts covertly.  That would be awkward.
Zilch misses an Outsider on overwatch...
...fortunately, Caper hits it with her CCS shot...
...and it runs for long enough that Zilch gets a second overwatch shot against it, and it's a hit!  Not a kill, and the blasted thing leaps down into the port side cargo bay, but it's a start!
Caper leaps down after it.  It makes some sort of grumbling, grinding noise, probably Outsider for, "I come in peace."  Naturally, Caper's only reasonable response is, "but you go in pieces, asshole!" before blowing it away.  At least, that's how she interpreted it.
Contact!  Drones backing up the EXALT pod!
Van Doorn gets up to the doorway and steadies aim.
Vixen patches Chilong up.
Chilong moves up and overwatches.
In the aliens' turn, one of the drones holo-targets Stalker.
Another Drone holo-targets Caper.
One EXALT agent hits Caper with his laser gun.
Another EXALT agent misses Stalker.
A second EXALT agent hits Caper.
Boom Boom rockets the EXALT near Stalker, and accidentally takes Stalker's cover out in the process.
Rascal hits the EXALT agent out of cover.
He aims again...
...and brings him down.
Chilong ponderously makes his way to the front, stopping to reload.
 Zilch hits a Drone with his first shot...
...and his second shot is a kill!
Stalker gets behind better cover and holo-targets a Drone.
Vixen finishes it off for her.
"You're a disease...  and I'm the cure!"
Caper secures the Meld and reloads.
Van Doorn lets rip a shredder rocket at the mass of Drones and EXALT on the opposite side of the cargo bay.
A Drone holo-targets Caper...
...but fortunately, neither EXALT agent that has eyes on her can land a hit.
Chilong holo-targets the Drone.
Boom Boom smacks the enemy with another rocket.
Rascal reloads.
Rascal finishes off his actions with a clutch EXALT kill.
Zilch reloads.
He doesn't quite measure up to Rascal's exploits, as he only hits the Drone, instead of killing it.
Stalker reloads.
Van Doorn finishes off the Drone.
Vixen patches Caper up a little.
An EXALT heavy manages to flank Stalker, but fortunately fails to hit her.
Another EXALT agent misses Caper.
Chilong hunts down the last Outsider, but doesn't kill it.
Well, that's why we have Vixen here as backup.
Rascal misses the EXALT agent in his sights.
Zilch, however, does not.
Stalker gets to better cover and overwatches.
Vixen moves up and reloads.
"Barbecue, huh?  How do you like your ribs?"  I think Caper expects an answer from the guy, since he's still alive.
Zilch misses the EXALT agent.
Van Doorn gets a hit on the EXALT agent, but somehow he's still alive.
Boom Boom steadies aim.
Stalker advances and overwatches.
The EXALT agent somehow hits Van Doorn.
Chilong, in an attempt to get a flank on the EXALT agent by the door, accidentally runs the Heavy's overwatch.  Fortunately, he missed.
Seeing a new, tougher target, Chilong goes for a kill, but instead only holo-targets the Heavy.
Vixen patches up Van Doorn with her last medkit.
Vixen misses the EXALT agent.
Caper gets up close and personal to the Heavy.  "Forgiveness is between them and God..."
 "...it's my job to arrange the meeting," she says as the one-shots the Heavy, and then kills the second EXALT with her CCS shot.
Op Success!
Not a bad mission.  Rascal's injured, but it looks like we got some promotions!
Zilch finally made Master Sergeant, and gained Vital Point Targeting, which makes him deadlier against humans and aliens we've autopsied.
Caper made Gunny, and gained the Sprinter perk, which gives her a +4 mobility bonus and feeds her need for speed.
We got a really nice haul on this one!  Excellent work, people!
All it cost us was a suit of Phalanx armor.
So, back to the Hologlobe!
Australian air defence has detected another Abductor UFO coming in from the southwest.  This had to have been a fluke, as we don't have a satellite over Australia yet.
They've gone and begun abducting people in Cairns.  So, let's get a team together to respond to this attack!
Leading this mission is our medic, Scooby.
Special contributor Brienne Frost is our sniper on this op.  Hopefully this will get her closer to becoming an In The Zone sniper.
Plunder is our Infantry, with the standard loadout.
Bull is our Valkyrie, packing the KSM and the laser lance.
Forrughi is our scout.  Unfortunately, some of my screenshots got corrupted, but Vita, Prototype, and Patreon contributor Marshall "Banzai" Reeves are also coming along.
Strike One has reached the Abduction Site.  Standing by.
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