Let's battle the terror in X-Com TFTD Superhuman Ironman

[Heclapar]

Yea you forgot to say that the tanks cost half a million and are can be one hit killed easily
But i am gonna take your suggestion into consideration.
Also, i need more meat for the meatgrinder, i am almost out of names, even considering the auto-clone ones

 

[Overboard]

Just make a list in the first post of everyone who wants to be in

I would happily do that, but i dont know how , PM me the instructions.

PM sent anyway.

 

[Imperator]

sign up for another mission

 

[Average Manatee]

Yea you forgot to say that the tanks cost half a million and are can be one hit killed easily
But i am gonna take your suggestion into consideration.

It's much luck of the draw (90 armor vs 0-160 damage range). But it's still an amazing scout with the TUs and it will usually not be destroyed outright, so you can bring back a half-health tank and lose nothing. If the tank can perform by far the most dangerous task for 2-3 missions before dying, it's probably broken even. Just don't go looking to fight with it, use it purely as a way to locate your enemy and then back off with the extra TUs it has.

 

[Zero Credibility]

Well, at least I got to throw a grenade before dying horribly. Volunteering my clone for another suicide mission (and keep me on autorespawn if you can from now on).

 

[Azira]

I'm still a bit disappointed I haven't been shot in the back yet, but I expect it's just a matter of time.

 

[eklektyk]

I'm still a bit disappointed I haven't been shot in the back yet, but I expect it's just a matter of time.

i hapilly volunteer myself [and any of my future clones] for that glorious task!! FOR HOLY TERRA!!!!!

 

[Zero Credibility]

I'm still a bit disappointed I haven't been shot in the back yet, but I expect it's just a matter of time.

i hapilly volunteer myself [and any of my future clones] for that glorious task!! FOR HOLY TERRA!!!!!

Hell, I'll do it for a beer.

 

[Kashmir Slippers]

Woo! Promotion!

 

[Heclapar]

UPDATE 11:The Tank
A while back, i got an anonymous letter stating that as a military force, we should use tanks. I took that into consideration, and then thought "How do you use a tank underwater". The lead scientist heard me, and presented me a prototype of an underwater tank, called the Coelacanth. It uses a gas cannon, a pretty useful and powerful weapon.So i asked the price of it.A whooping 500 grand. We are a bit short on money thanks to the casualities of the previous mission. I bought it anyways.And btw, here are the new recruits.

We also bought some solid harpoon bolts to arm the Coelacanth.

And we armed everyone with gas weapons, as the gauss rifles have yet to be researched.

Yay its done!We still have to research its clips before it sees battle ofcource.I won't research heavy gauss until later for profit, its a waste of research time better used in sonic weapons.

Like this one for example.

This month seems to be pretty ca.. ITS TERROR TIME.

Let's see what this baby is worth.

It spots 2 aliens.

It misses them, and they shoot at it,but it takes no damage

Marc gets out of the triton, shoot a deep one and gets back inside.

Next turn he shoots at this fellow,but elevation foils his plants.

The Coelacanth, while having been shot 2 times more, hasnt received any noticable damage, and it kills a gill man with ease.

While most of my guys seem to have 30 tus thanks to the gas cannons, manatee is Hercules himself, having 39 strength enables him to have 60 tus despite the heavy gas cannon.
During the next alien turn,no civilian death screams are heard, thats GOOD.

The Coelacanth finally prevails against the bug exploiting deep one. Is that what they teach them at Innsmouth?

Sergei continues to scout with the Coalacanth.

It kills another deep one.

Sergei gets a bit cocky and scouts ahead.Bad decision. R.I.P Sergei,you were nearly as strong as manatee

It spots the killer and a deep one, but misses,but on the following turn the gill man hits once,but the mighty Coelacanth is not even dented.

The gill man is not so lucky.

Manatee spots this deep one, misses and two other soldiers i take out of the triton miss it too.

Another gill man is spotted, but everyone fails to kill it, althrought the Coelacanth hits it once.

It kills another deep one.This tank operator will get a promotion when we get back from this mission.

The fools try to use their grenades against us,but elevation works against them this time.

The gill man falls before the might of the Coelacanth.

And another one bites the dust.

Do i even need to say what happened here?

Or here?

But even the glorious Coelacanth has its limits,as its ammo is limited.The straglers will be hunted down by the aquanauts.

Manatee blows up a deep one,but a death scream is not heard.

While Manatee and Tatyana get ready to storm the house, the Coelacanth spots an unarmed Gill Man inside.

The resulting explosions kill him,and another one hiding in the closet.The stairs are blown up too, they have to find another way in.

A stray deep one kills Manatee. R.I.P Manatee MKII, you would have been an excellent heavy weapons user

Tatyana shoots at it,but gets damaged by the splash damage, but is left without any fatal wounds so she can go on.
During the next turn,an alien shoots at her but misses both shots, and a deep one death cry is heard.

The Coelacanth gets ready to soak up its damage.And for 3 turns, it gets hit multiple times without taking a scratch.

Mark erases it from existence.

Having no other way to get in, and having seen a gill man throught the windows, Tatyana blows up the wall to make progress
Also, a gill man squad leader panicks.
Another alien throws a grenade at Marc,but misses.

He then gets shot. R.I.P Marc

Tatyana blows the Gill Man's squad leader shit up.
The Coelacanth is shot by a Gill Man's sonic cannon,and it does a meager 10 damage to it.

Slippers makes sure it wont fire at the Coelacanth ever again.
Then the Coelacanth continues to scout for the last of the aliens.

And finds it in that pit over there,but takes heavy damage in the process, so it will have to retreat to safety.

While scouting the balcony of the house, Tatyana gets killed by reaction fire. R.I.P Tatyana

Slippers finally manages to find it,holed up and cowering.
i accidently missclick, and the Coelacanth goes infront of it NOOOOO.

It survives a sonic cannon shot to the back without a scratch?

Storyfag kills two gill man that were hiding inside,but there are more aliens apperantly.

They blow a hole in the wall to search the house once again.Storyfag inflicts 2 fatal wounds on himself accidently.
He falls unconsious.And dies from his wounds. R.I.P Storyfag, could not find the last alien in time
During turn 95, while i was still searching for the last alien, Gondolin found it, threw a nade and got killed by it thanks to a missclick. R.I.P Gondolin

YEA THE END IS NEAR

What the.... THEY CAN TELEPORT?

Somehow it teleported outside,overboard shot at it but forgot he had explosive ammo, and team kills Bulakov.R.I.P Bulakov
The casualities were big,but the reward bigger.

Manatee your tank idea was EPIC

 

[Overboard]

Don't let the tank get all the kills, it doesn't improve whereas the aquanauts do.

overboard shot at it but 'forgot' he had explosive ammo, and team kills Bulakov.

fixed.

 

[Gondolin]

The silver line on the soldier's health bar is smoke inhalation, not splash damage.

Also: turn 95? WHAT. THE. FUCK?

 

[Heclapar]

Also: turn 95? WHAT. THE. FUCK?

DUDE STFU I HAVEN'T GOTTEN OVER THAT YET.
Ahem, the alien was glitched, as you saw it teleported and it was holed up in those things in the ground and it was IMPOSSIBLE to find.

 

[Storyfag]

Storyfag Mk III is ready and eager to die for Mankind

 

[lightbane]

Lightbane is ready to fight for Mankind... As many times as it takes.

 

[Average Manatee]

Yes, the tank can do wondrous things at times. Or it can take 60 damage from the first shot and require you to stuff it away for safety on turn 2.

Do try to use it more for spotting and less frontal assaults though. You were really lucky to take this many shots and come out alive. Ideally you want to position your troops well, sneak forward with the tank, then have every soldier possible let loose with the grenades and the high explosives. You can clear large parts of maps with a bunch of super-strong grenade lobbers who can hide in the shuttle while the tank scouts, then step outside and throw grenades across half the map whenever an enemy is spotted.

Sad to see my death, 61 accuracy and 39 strength was a pretty good roll. Hopefully the next clone will surpass him.

 

[hoverdog]

Where's comrade HoverdogII?

 

[Absalom]

Sign me up again as Achitophel plox

 

[Heclapar]

UPDATE 12:Teamkill
From now on,in each new update i will list the aquanauts menu to see who is alive


It seems i made some mistakes.First of all, Storyfag MKII is still alive despite the killed by fatal wounds notification, but wounded for 20 days.Also, i had mistaken Gondolin for someone else , they are both ok.Also, i WILL be doing such mistakes, because as i have already said, my memory sucks.Also, this may be the only update for today as i feel a bit sick.

Anyways, here are the new recruits, ready to be slaughered.

Also, the additional sub pens were added, and the previous ones destroyed.

A sub is spotted next to our base.Those aliens have some nerve.

Our aquanauts are ready to crush them, or be crushed trying.

The Coelacanth will come out first, to attract any reaction fire.

It spots an aquatoid,misses it, but Absalom doesnt.

The Coelacanth moves a bit further, and gets trashed by one shot. R.I.P Coelacanth, you were unlucky this time

I try to take potshots to where the shot came from,but none hits.

Eklektyk, while scouting with Absalom,ends the turn and dies from alien fire. R.I.P Eklektyk, still havent shot anyone in the back

Slippers spots an aquatoid, and Absalom blows it up.

Hoverdog spots another one.He shoots at it, Lightbane shoots at it, Absalom shoots at it and Manatee shoots at it. All miss.

Now that was a big fail.I move outside either Absalom or Manatee, and instead of shooting straight, he shoots on the wall of the Triton, killing themselfs and making lightbane go unconsious.R.I.P Manatee and Absalom, friendly fire is a bitch Also they mortally wounded slippers.I abort the mission,so they will survive.(I am not sure who took that shot,but whetever

The flying sub tries to escape, i intercept it,but it lands again and escapes later.

We research the sonic pulser, and then continue on with the sonic cannon.

Well that terror mission saved my score.

If thats good,what is terrible?Anyway, we buy some more scientists and a Coelacanth with the MONEYS.

We got two more rookies, Javier and Spencer.
Also, we stop researching the sonic cannon and go for the sonic BLASTA rifle, as we have more of these.

Aha a very small ufo.

I send both interceptors just to be sure.

The crew is ready.

I accidently took away some gas cannons, and some people are armed only with pulse grenades

The Coelacanth spots an alien.

And kills it.

That's it.

We research the blasta rifle, soon everyone will have one of these.

No why now , could you not have waited for me to get the rifles?

Anyways, let's do this.

Calcinites?That means that its an aquatoid terror mission. MC INCOMING.Also this calcinite was hit twice by the Coelacanth and it didnt die.

Not even an explosive gas cannon round killed it.Is that Chuck Norris?

A calcinite sneaks up on Collete and murders her , and dents the Coelacanth a bit.Two shots are fired at it, but again it doesnt die.WUT

Spencer is under MC,kills someone, and gets out of the Triton.Also 3 shots are fired at the calcinite and it doesnt die once again.So i abort the mission.
I need sonic weapons.

Luckily, there were only 3 civilians on the site.But i lost my tank and 3 soldiers.I hope Spencer enjoys his new life as the aliens breeding slave.

Now its time to melt their faces
I also got a batch of new rookies,so i have plenty of space for new guys.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Not even an explosive gas cannon round killed it. Is that Chuck Norris?

No, but Chuck Norris once sneezed into his old diving suit and then threw it away after the snot wouldn't wash out. That ball of snot grew and evolved and became the Calcinite Father, which since then has spawned all the other Calcinites.

Calcinite Father was last seen west of Australia in 2032, wrestling a Megalodon on the ocean floor.

As for the game itself, if you're forced to start over again (which is likely) then I suggest looking into some of the modded or unoffcial patches for TFTD beforehand. Check the Strategy Gaming sub-forum for further info.

 

[Heclapar]

I suggest looking into some of the modded or unoffcial patches for TFTD beforehand

Havent experienced any bug, and i know how to avoid the research tree one, so why do it.

if you're forced to start over again

Probably will,althrought if i fail again, most of the guys in this thread supplying me with meat soldiers will leave, and i will have to abandon it

 

[Night Goat]

I can't help wondering what the aliens are thinking, when the humans blow themselves up before even leaving the sub.

 

[eklektyk]

I can't help wondering what the aliens are thinking, when the humans blow themselves up before even leaving the sub.

"shit just got real" ???

ps im dissapoint in not shoting anybody in da back yet ...really dissapoint

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Heclapar: Take a look, judge for yourself.

 

[Heclapar]

Take a look, judge for yourself.

Well that looks fancy , in case of a re-restart of this i am gonna use that.
Also, if i ever finish this LP, i am gonna do an UFO Defense one.