This robot fucker down in the hangar is STILL alive. Our pistol certainly isn't going to do the trick.
This stairwell looks kind of suspect, being in the middlish of the base and having bars around it instead of solid walls. Time to send the kitty in for some recon. But also, she's probably going to need to cut down a lot of people with that plasma dagger now that we're down all the werewolves and our best gal.
Man, these turn transitions are even scarier after the troops have been whittled down a bit and morale has started going down the shitter.
Well, that's a new melee weapon in my book. I don't know why this alien has fucking Mjolnir instead of something high tech, but it has me concerned.
Luckily, Firey Predator was the one to find that cunt, and chopped her to bits before ducking into a side room. We're leaving our backs exposed to the stairwell here, but there are really no good options at this point, only calculated risks.
Slut tries taking down one of the cats with the plasma gun here but whiffs the shot.
Pulling back around the corner she turns to find... another green mistress. Fuck. We've only got 12 TUs left.
Gumsmith has grabbed another rocket launcher and tries his own potshot at the cats, but biffs it into a wall right in front of him. Fuck^2.
Tiffany here is the girl that he nearly blew up in the hallway, who'd gotten caught by reaction fire trying to get past them. I decide to just try run for it upstairs and luckily she didn't get finished off when she turned to open the door.
I was planning on trying to throw a stasis grenade in there but... the priming and throwing costs are just too high. This is the kind of thing you need two people to do safely, it really only favours enemies who can do it suicidally, not reserving any TUs to get away from reaction fire.
Lots of 'weird thingies' on these corpses. Average Manatee needs a better weapon for the rest of this mission.
Slut gets around this corner with 0 extra TUs to spare. I suspect the only reason she didn't get lit up in the process is the short snapshot range on the pistol held by the mistress to the north.
Meanwhile, echidna heads down towards the hangar.
This is, I think, Average Manatee getting fucked up here. Fortunately the laser weapons don't do much to chainmail. Generally.
I don't know what the fuck this is, but I suspect it cuts through chainmail like butter. It looks terrifying.
Almost as terrifying as a catgirl in hoverboots with a plasma dagger.
Target down.
Manatee moves into the hangar as well, to take out one of the clickors covering Echidna's escape.
Jade Witch scores another kill. I should have brought more lasguns. Like, all of them.
Gumsmith fires a rocket down the hallway here, at the general last known location of a mistress. Sadly, it doesn't blast any doors open like I was hoping for.
Our loyal doggo has woken up! And despite having 2 wounds! His morale and energy are all recovered too, good stuff.
I decide to use him as some much needed intel. Thats a lot of hidden enemies still around.
So, this thing has a 2x2 ammo that only carries 6 rounds? And the gun itself is 3x2? Christ I don't even want to know how badly this would overkill one of us right now.
Slut manages to land a shot with the wyvern, but the shields just stop it cold. Seems purple shields are also highly effective vs plasma. Really starting to feel like an underwhelming damage type honestly, armour penetration or not.
I try using one of the alien guns on a whim, but no dice. This is generally what you get when trying to wield a 'weird thingie'.
The 'Warhammer' works just fine though. 23 TUs to swing at only melee range, and not terribly accurate either. This thing must hit for an absolute shitton. Sounds great.
Our last werewolf getting shot down here I believe. Or maybe it was just an enemy going berserk? Hard to keep track of every little detail after this long.
Tiffany spots this fucker who has stopped in a very foolish position. He gets diced to bits by Firey Predator.
Who then explores across the hallway to find... another mistress and clickor. NOPE. Need more energy first.
Average Manatee ditches the alien gun and simply cleans up the clickors with ninja stars. Should have used these earlier; the stabbing damage ignores their shields and their armour isn't THAT heavy.
Meanwhile, the adventures of Ms. Kitty Fantastic, who I'd say is our MVP today.
Well fuck, this is dicey. Almost no TUs left and low energy to boot.
We COULD get into melee with this fucker, but they likely won't die in one hit, which is all we'll get with this 'dagger' that uses more TUs than a damned sword.
We opt instead to back up and hope the enemy won't have enough TUs to got down the stairs, open the door, and fire enough times to deplete our energy. Also we hope nobody comes from those doors to the north to shank us.
And our hopes hold true! One more clickor down.
We spy yet another of these. They seem to really like melee weapons. Which is good, because they're kind of terrifyingly hard to kill. They've got a lot of melee evasion, shields, and general bulk. Also, I'm certain at this point these are the enemies doing all the mind control shit. We haven't found any other sectoids.
Well fuck, this is awkward. At least we're in melee range so we can deflect a shot or two, but our energy is really low. But he's got some fucking huge gun that is probably meant for sniping tanks.
We test out the hammer on a wall and it punches right through. Nice!
Although maybe that was just a weird weak wall around that pillar. We don't get through this one so easily.
Another fucking Clickor. There sure are a lot of enemies here. It's incredibly frustrating having to hunt them all down, we could easily handle this if not for the voodoo bullshit wearing us out from beyond LoS.
Fucker managed to land his shots. Well, we should be fine, we're still in good shape and chainmail is VERY good against lasers.
Well, fuck, it's good but he just fired like 6 times. Our armour is melting.
And then he fired like 6 more times. This is some kind of laser minigun. Holy fuck. Most of the clickors had fairly shit weapons!
Yeah, we didn't even get a death message because after falling unconscious, he put like another 4 shots into the body with the rest of the auto fire. Holy fuck that was brutal. RIP Firey Predator.
Gumsmith tries to put the hammer to use, but he's taken an arm wound lowering the accuracy even further, making it hopeless.
Tiffany comes to the rescue with some timely backstabs. Spears ftw!
We manage to hold a little first aid pow-wow and get all our wounds taken care of. We're still low on health in a lot of cases though.
Not in Echidna's case though! Still hasn't taken a hit. She's now playing hide-and-seek with this quiran mistress with the katana. She seems rooted to that spot for some reason, even after we ran up, missed several attacks and went back to hide, and then made the same play a turn later but landed a hit.
Still some fucking cat men roaming around. These fuckers can fly by the way; not that there are many places in here it's relevant. Also, pretty much everyone we've knocked out is certainly awake again by now.
Jade Witch gets her hands on the gun that killed Firey Predator. It's named 'Fatty' and fires an ungodly amount of shots for only like 40% TUs.
The mistress finally decided to move after she started bleeding. Which is scary because now we need to open a door and potentially get shot with lowered TUs.
Luckily, the mistress was facing away from us and didn't have backup.
Putting the Fatty to use. Golden shields are strong against lasers, but honestly, nothing is strong against this much damage of any kind.
I finally managed to clip this. It's been happening a lot, mostly to Tiffany, Randy, and the werewolves, but Average Manatee got caught at some point too. It's hard to screencap these because my hotkey is alt+z and pressing alt removes the message so I need to remember to hold alt during the enemy turn before seeing anything noteworthy.
One shall stand. One shall fall.
We've covered almost the entire map at this point. Second floor is a little more spotty, but even so. We're in the home stretch!
Holy fuck this is bad news. Tac Armor does NOT have good melee evasion, letting this guy unload on us at point blank.
Yeeep. That's almost certainly going to be fatal. Morale is fucked too, so we might go berserk or run out to get shot or something.
We've got tons of TUs, but all those torso wounds screwed our energy. We can't move anywhere. At least Average Manatee showed up and killed our attacker.
We send Echidna over with the surgery kit... and spot two more mistress along the way. And one is right at a door to the hallway we need to be in.
Fortunately, Jade Witch did have a healing gel on hand, so she can at least survive an extra turn. Also, using a medic restores a bit of orale, so we're covered there too.
It's fine. It's totally fine. We got this!
We do, in fact, have this. Jade witch gets patched up pretty well with that surgery kit and some bandages from Gumsmith.
Slut ditches the fancy plasma gun for throwing stars. They'll bypass the shields on the mistresses, even with low throwing skill.
Oh, Tiffany is back under our control apparently.
...and she's dead, shot in the back by something. RIP.
We end up moving through a bunch of rooms using this formation, being concerned about having a character get berserker right next to an ally.
Eventually, Bug Hunt mode kicks in with just a mistress and cat man left. They take quite a while to hunt down, but eventually are slain without further incident.
Well shit. We 'won'. That was costly as fuck. Was it worth it? Fuck if I know. Probably, given my previous experience with letting enemy bases go unchecked. Could have gone better, but it also could have been a total wipe. Maybe the smart this to do would have been to capture a couple enemies and then withdraw and try again with better intel.
Our survivors. I think Jade Witch might be the last surviving member of our original 6 gals.
The loot. It's certainly impressive, at least in terms of soldier weaponry. We didn't get any crazy new tech though, like engines or weird miscellenous equipment or parts.
considering how good normal lasguns are, advanced ones must be absolute monsters. I think that giant thing was the microwave cooker. EMP minibombs will actually be absolutely vital for taking out cyberdisks without getting people killed. The Fatty was amazing. We'll try and do a proper inventory of the weaponry later.
Sadly, we didn't get a single god damned captive. I should have tried harder to capture that last mistress, or kept a robot alive to the end on purpose. Fuck.
Space Hero indeed. That actually unlocks some special training I think? And Jade is the new boss apparently.
We got a couple new titles. One pretty mediocre...
And the other outright bad. Well, at least it wasn't betrayer.
Also, it's on a dead gal anyways. RIP Gals. You sacrifice was not in vain.
The most interesting loot of all, of course, has yet to be opened. We got two of these boxes, so even if (when) the brainers destroy one in the process of researching it, we can open the other one. Unless that requires a special workshop. Can't wait to get a pack of grenades or a gun we can't fire!
Also, 'shallow depth' my ass! That base was fucking huge and had like 50 enemies!
I'll start naming the gals we're recruiting after video game and anime characters.This one shall be Ceres.
