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[syvarris]

((See, this is why I sent the pepsicopters in first!  It'd have been terrible if our chopper were taking all those hits.

@Nirur
NO.

@Killerhellhound
Buy thermal for both you and your mook, buy a ton of smoke grenades and teargas--like fifty or something, they're cheap enough--buy at minimum lasguns with several reloads, and buy a bunch of extra medical supplies.  Maybe buy a hardsuit and light autocannon, if we have the funds.  You should have a bit more than 600k to spend, going on past purchases.))

Order the two surviving pepsicopters to retreat and regroup fifty meters northwest of point C (intersection of King and 1 Ave), with some rousing inspirational speech.  The "blinded" pepsicopter really shouldn't be; I bought thermal for all the pilots.  Our command chopper will head to the same location, and then retreat to a safe distance once everyone is unloaded. edit: actually, have it unload two mooks, Trump, and any players that don't say they want to go to the second drop.  Then it'll fly to the northwest and make a biiiig circle around to the north of king street and 5th avenue.  The rest will be dropped here, as a flank guard.  Reminder, heavily smoke every landing zone before disembarking; each person might as well toss a grenade, Trump has plenty to spare.

If Emma insists on charging our most valuable equipment into the dead center of the enemy formation, chaisma roll her into landing and put a gun to her head if she fails to listen.  Have Sokolov commandeer the chopper if necessary; I'd rather a poor pilot fly than a suicidal one.

Edit 2: Also, order the mooks and pilots in the two choppers going down to try and jump out, maybe they'll get great dex rolls.  They have parachutes, I asked.  Make sure they know to drop smokes while falling.

[Nirur Torir]

Follow the new plan. While dodging erratically.

[Aigre Excalibur]

Sounds interesting and in the spirit of Xcom I'll join as an Doorkicker

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Giglam Havock
Description:A excitable and merry solider his ever present grin is only matched by the metal mask he insists on wearing into combat. He
Reason for joining:For the big guns, the big money and the fountains of blood

Life:0+2
Sanity:0

Inventory
Weapons
Hand axe (Dam 2)                       $1000
Auto gun (Dam 2) (ammo 100 1000)    $1000+1000
Armor
Flak armor (Tough +2, Life +2)    $2000
Gas mask (Gas protect)               $100
General Gear                             
2x Frag grenades (Blast 1)           $ 25?
2x Smoke grenades                     $ 25?
First aid kit                                 $100
Ration                                        $25
Beer                                           $25
Thermal Camera
Total $14,400

Stats:
Strength:3
Dexterity:3
Endurance:6 (+2)
Charisma:1
Intelligence:1
Willpower:3
Intuition3
Skills:
Ballistic Skill 3
Weapon Skill 3
Occult Knowledge 0
Engineering 1
Auxiliary 0
Medical 1
!science! 0

edit seeing how we have shit tons of money Can I get some thermals as well?

In! You spawn somewhere inside the Mi-26 heavy copter where you had been incubating all this while.

[killerhellhound]

Grab a satchel charge from the helicopter and grab one of the door guns gun down any confirmed hostiles or anything moving near the UFO

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Giglam Havock
Description:A excitable and merry solider his ever present grin is only matched by the metal mask he insists on wearing into combat. He
Reason for joining:For the big guns, the big money and the fountains of blood

Life:0+2
Sanity:0

Inventory
Weapons
Hand axe (Dam 2)                       
Auto gun (Dam 2) (ammo 1000)   
Armor
Flak armor (Tough +2, Life +2)   
Gas mask (Gas protect)               
General Gear                             
2x Frag grenades (Blast 1)         
2x Smoke grenades                   
First aid kit                               
Ration                                       
Beer                                         
Thermal Camera
Satchel charge

Stats:
Strength:3
Dexterity:3
Endurance:6 (+2)
Charisma:1
Intelligence:1
Willpower:3
Intuition:3
Skills:
Ballistic Skill 3
Weapon Skill 3
Occult Knowledge 0
Engineering 1
Auxiliary 0
Medical 1
!science! 0

[syvarris]

Spoiler: Things learned while arguing with Aig in IRC (click to show/hide)

Smoke grenades, as the OP somewhat implies, do not grant any form of concealment.  They just grant light cover to anyone within their AoE, no matter how many are used.  Yes, if you deploy a smoke wall with 100 grenades, and then go prone three hundred meters away on the other side, you are still easily targetable and only have a 1/3rd chance of not being hit due to the smoke.

Parachutes are free and we all have them.  I should've had the soldiers parachute down to their drop point, since the helicopters can hover far outside of small arms range, and do not provide protection superior to flak armor.

It is DC 15 to convince already zealous people to volunteer for a suicide mission.  If he survives this mission, Trump will have +8 to charisma rolls, and by dint of who he is has ready access to zealots across the United States.  Somalians are more expensive and have worse morale; we won't be using them any longer.

All our pepsimen's explosives were upgraded to satchel charges, with 5 blast damage and an AoE of 50 meters in a flat plain.  Trump has remote detonators for all of them.

I've discussed using the above three things to essentially create dirt cheap guided bombs; at $500 a pop, zealots with satchel charges airdropped from helicopters would be far more economical than any other weapon we have access to.  Aigre shot down this plan by deciding to implement a mook limit--no word on how high it is, though he does seem to have decided we aren't allowed to hire NPC pilots, and thus have a limited number of seats to fill with mooks.

A decent alternative to helicopters would be the Cessna 208 Caravan.  It costs $2 million, can carry fourteen passengers, and is a plane.  It's nice for being more pilot efficient, while still cheap.  Maybe we can mount armor and weapons on it too, I'unno.

As insane as it is, since aircraft range and payload aren't actually things that matter, another aircraft option would be something like a Cessna 150.  It's a two seater that costs ~$30k, and Aigre says that we can slap a light autocannon on it.  That's an amazing price for air support, though the pilot might not be able to wear power armor while flying the thing.  Maybe.

[Aigre Excalibur]

No we're not spamming suicide bombers. And the market price of a parachute is about 3000 dollars... Cheap, and nowhere near the kind of cost of a whole aircraft. And no heliborne troopers don't usually wear parachutes and they aren't getting them retroactively.

Two helicopters crash go up in flames, blast 4 to everyone inside! D10:(5, 6, 10, 1, 4, 7, 6, 3, 6, 6, 4, 7) vs DC 15 1 unharmed, 10 wounded, 1 insta-dead! That and they are trapped in extremely cramped burning helicopters.

It's as if this was a way to get rid of the npc spam!

Grab a satchel charge from the helicopter and grab one of the door guns gun down any confirmed hostiles or anything moving near the UFO

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Giglam Havock
Description:A excitable and merry solider his ever present grin is only matched by the metal mask he insists on wearing into combat. He
Reason for joining:For the big guns, the big money and the fountains of blood

Life:0+2
Sanity:0

Inventory
Weapons
Hand axe (Dam 2)                       
Auto gun (Dam 2) (ammo 1000)   
Armor
Flak armor (Tough +2, Life +2)   
Gas mask (Gas protect)               
General Gear                             
2x Frag grenades (Blast 1)         
2x Smoke grenades                   
First aid kit                               
Ration                                       
Beer                                         
Thermal Camera
Satchel charge

Stats:
Strength:3
Dexterity:3
Endurance:6 (+2)
Charisma:1
Intelligence:1
Willpower:3
Intuition:3
Skills:
Ballistic Skill 3
Weapon Skill 3
Occult Knowledge 0
Engineering 1
Auxiliary 0
Medical 1
!science! 0

"Can we land now? That would be nice. I think I want to be on the ground now thanks."

*groans*

That didn't work out terribly well...
Yeah, let's land.

((See, this is why I sent the pepsicopters in first!  It'd have been terrible if our chopper were taking all those hits.

@Nirur
NO.

@Killerhellhound
Buy thermal for both you and your mook, buy a ton of smoke grenades and teargas--like fifty or something, they're cheap enough--buy at minimum lasguns with several reloads, and buy a bunch of extra medical supplies.  Maybe buy a hardsuit and light autocannon, if we have the funds.  You should have a bit more than 600k to spend, going on past purchases.))

Order the two surviving pepsicopters to retreat and regroup fifty meters northwest of point C (intersection of King and 1 Ave), with some rousing inspirational speech.  The "blinded" pepsicopter really shouldn't be; I bought thermal for all the pilots.  Our command chopper will head to the same location, and then retreat to a safe distance once everyone is unloaded. edit: actually, have it unload two mooks, Trump, and any players that don't say they want to go to the second drop.  Then it'll fly to the northwest and make a biiiig circle around to the north of king street and 5th avenue.  The rest will be dropped here, as a flank guard.  Reminder, heavily smoke every landing zone before disembarking; each person might as well toss a grenade, Trump has plenty to spare.

If Emma insists on charging our most valuable equipment into the dead center of the enemy formation, chaisma roll her into landing and put a gun to her head if she fails to listen.  Have Sokolov commandeer the chopper if necessary; I'd rather a poor pilot fly than a suicidal one.

Edit 2: Also, order the mooks and pilots in the two choppers going down to try and jump out, maybe they'll get great dex rolls.  They have parachutes, I asked.  Make sure they know to drop smokes while falling.

The team sets down on King's street. We're 100 meters from St Patrick's church and 300 meters from the last known enemy positions. If you run for it, you might be able to save your wounded.

Under the cover of the big church building, you don't see any hostiles about, for now.

The damaged copter limps back and sets down with the team.

Alien scouts fire a volley at the smokey helicopter. (9, 5, 16, 16, 13, 8, 15, 14, 2, 3) (9, 9, 3, 8, 1) scoring 5 hits and 3 pens, it explodes and crashes and explodes some more... (7, 7, 5, 4, 3, Kill one instantly, and injuring the other 5. Who are also trapped in burning shell of a helicopter.

Spoiler: killerhound Giglam (click to show/hide)

Name: Giglam Havock
Description:A excitable and merry solider his ever present grin is only matched by the metal mask he insists on wearing into combat. He
Reason for joining:For the big guns, the big money and the fountains of blood

Life:0+2
Sanity:0

Inventory
Weapons
Hand axe (Dam 2)                       $1000
Auto gun (Dam 2) (ammo 100 1000)    $1000+1000
Armor
Flak armor (Tough +2, Life +2)    $2000
Gas mask (Gas protect)               $100
General Gear                             
2x Frag grenades (Blast 1)           $ 25?
2x Smoke grenades                     $ 25?
First aid kit                                 $100
Ration                                        $25
Beer                                           $25
Thermal Camera
Total $14,400

Stats:
Strength:3
Dexterity:3
Endurance:6 (+2)
Charisma:1
Intelligence:1
Willpower:3
Intuition3
Skills:
Ballistic Skill 3
Weapon Skill 3
Occult Knowledge 0
Engineering 1
Auxiliary 0
Medical 1
!science! 0

Spoiler: Trump (click to show/hide)

Name: Actual President Donald J. Trump
Description: That must've been one yuge rock you've been living under.
Reason for joining: "Join?!  Hah!  I created this great organization, it's mine, nobody else is as smart as I am, I knew how much of a threat the aliens were, I've known for so long, nobody else knew, those liberal morons especially, they kept screaming about abortion and global warming and their other stupid stuff, but I've been working on the real problems, the real disaster of this century, I knew the aliens were coming, and I'm going to get rid of them, send them back to their disgusting home!"

Inventory:
Combat Hardsuit Mk1 (equipped)
Light autocannon
4000 Light Autocannon bullets
80 more teargas nades
40 more WP nades

1x VSS Vintorez (Silenced Autogun)
100x 9x39mm (Ammo for VSS) - $200
1x Flak Armor - $4000
4x medic bag - $2000
5 Smoke Grenades: $500
10 Hand Grenades: $500

Thermal cam
1x ration
8x beer
12x medic's bags
rebreather
2x katana
lasrifle (10/10) + 2 spare batteries
10x teargas
7x WP smoke
5x Ch smoke
8x frag



Life: +4
Sanity: 0 seems like an accurate assessment, yes.

Stats:
Strength: 0 (-1)
Dexterity: 0 (-1)
Endurance: 1 (+0)
Charisma: 19 (+6) ( Can talk his way into being leader of the free world on a hate platform )
Intelligence: 0 (-1)
Willpower: 0 (-1)
Intuition: 0 (-1)

Skills:
Ballistic Skill: 7 (+2)
Weapon Skill: 0 (-1)
Occult Knowledge: 0 (-1)
Engineering: 0 (-1)
Auxiliary: 1 (+0)
Medical: 0 (-1)
!science!: 0 (-1)

Name: Nickolai The Mook
Silenced Autogun
100 Bullets
Flak Armor
4 Medic Bag
5 Smoke Grenades
10 Hand Grenades
Flak armor
10x laser batteries

Thermal cam
1x ration
8x beer
12x medic's bags
rebreather
2x katana
lasrifle (10/10) + 2 spare batteries
10x teargas
7x WP smoke
5x Ch smoke
8x frag

Life: 2
Sanity: 0

Toughness: 1
Ballistic Skill: 1
Weapon Skill: 1

Spoiler: Glass Nox (click to show/hide)

Name: Vladimir "Nox" Golubev
Description: Expert sniper, claims seniority from a previous, similar organization.
Reason for joining: He's good at it.


Inventory:

Lasgun
10 Power packs
Flak Armor
Gas Mask
Thermal cam

Life: 2
Sanity: [does this also start a 0?]

Toughness +2

Stats:

    Strength:1
    Dexterity:3
    Endurance:3
    Charisma:1
    Intelligence:3
    Willpower:3
    Intuition: 6

Skills:

    Ballistic Skill:6
    Weapon Skill:0
    Occult Knowledge:2
    Engineering:0
    Auxiliary:0
    Medical:0
    !science!:0

Name: 1st Mate Nox

Inventory:
Autogun
Autogun

1000 Bullets
1000 Rubber Bullets
Boiiler Suit
Gas Mask

Fighting Knife, Strength 2

Stats:

Life: 1
Sanity: 0

Toughness: 1+1
Ballistic Skill: 1
Weapon Skill: 1

Spoiler: Nurir Emma (click to show/hide)

Name: Emma Ace
Description: Emma is annoyingly cheerful and has absolute confidence in her piloting skills. She has never turned down or lost a game of Chicken. She is also an adrenaline junky, and swears she flies better after a drink.
Reason for joining: She wants to be the first to fly the fastest alien ships, and 'knows' she will survive this.

Inventory:
Flak Armor +2 Toughness
Autogun
200 bullets
Gas Mask
12 Beers
Helicopter Repair Kit & Manual
Thermal cam

Life: 2
Sanity: 0
Toughness: 2

Stats:
Strength: 0
Dexterity: 6
Endurance: 1
Charisma: 1
Intelligence: 3
Willpower: 3
Intuition 6

Skills:
Ballistic Skill 1
Weapon Skill 0
Occult Knowledge 0
Engineering 1
Auxiliary 6
Medical 0
!science! 0

Name: Halthor

Inventory:
Flak Armor +2 Toughness
Autogun
200 bullets
Gas Mask
Thermal cam

Combat Knife: Strength 1

Stats:

Life: 1
Sanity: 0

Toughness: 1+2
Ballistic Skill: 1
Weapon Skill: 1

Spoiler: Smokemirrors Han (click to show/hide)

Name: Han Jee-Han
Description: A professional gamer (South Korean), Tall, lanky, and geeky, he built his own custom laptop and taught himself programing. His experience with guns is limited to what he learned in training and playing first person shooters. He does have some medical training as his parents wanted him to be a doctor and he went to school for it before entering the professional gaming scene.
Reason for joining: I have a sponsorship from a gaming company, they want me to get some hologram technology they can work in to their new system.

Gas Mask
2 Medic bags
2 First Aid Kits
Boiler Suit (+1 Toughness)
Autogun
1000 Bullets
3 Kg Plastic Explosives
Scalpel
2 dwarvern beers
ration
Thermal cam

Life: 0
Sanity: 0
Toughness: 1+1

Stats:
Strength:2
Dexterity:3
Endurance:3
Charisma:3
Intelligence:3
Willpower:3
Intuition:3

Skills:
Ballistic Skill 1
Weapon Skill 0
Occult Knowledge 0
Engineering 1
Auxiliary 0
Medical 3
!science! 3

mook: Shin Sun-Il


Toughness: 1
Ballistic Skill: 1
Weapon Skill: 1

Flak Armor
Lasgun (10/10)
Gas Mask

Spoiler: Egan Nina (click to show/hide)

Name: Nina Goredaniels
Description: Little Redhead of irish descent, fresh out of grad school. Passionate about science and also a great many other things. Enjoys stabbing things, but is terrible at combat so better get people to round up some corpses.
Reason for joining: Turns out that getting funding is actually a little hard. From a certain point of view, getting shot at isn't worse than being homeless. And hey, aliens! Very exciting science. But please hand out the paychecks first. Oh, and Pepsi is pretty good.

Life: none
Sanity: who needs it

Stats:
Strength: 1
Dexterity: 1
Endurance: 3
Charisma: 6
Intelligence: 3
Willpower: 3
Intuition: 3

Skills:
Ballistic Skill: 0
Weapon Skill: 0
Occult Knowledge: 0
Engineering: 1
Auxiliary: 0
Medical: 1
‼Science‼: 6

'quipment:
Flack Armor
Belt of ~5 WP smoke grenades
Hand Cannon (Desert Eagle. Cool looking and stupid and impractical.)
1000 Bullets
Sharpened Machete
First Aid Kit
Bag of "Sciency Stuffs"
Walkie-Talkie (Tuned to Helicopter Radios)
Gas Mask
Thermal Goggles

14575

Walk-In Freezer 10,000
Surgical Theatre 2,000,000
Surgical and Autopsy Tools - included in surgical suite cost
Decent Supply of Body Bags - complimentary with the surgical suite
Sciency Centrifuge - 20,000 - you got the kind that can enrich uranium
Reserve $500,000 to buy stuff I suddenly realize I need

2,530,000

Mook: Alexandria Goredaniels
Description: Nina's sister. She's more down to earth, and also a bit stronger. From a certain point of view, shooting xenos for money is better than shooting humans for money, though if you happen to need that she's happy to help.

Toughness: 1
Ballistic Skill: 1
Weapon Skill: 1

Gear:
Hardsuit
Light Autocannon
1000 25mm rounds
Gas Mask
Thermal Goggles

[Egan_BW]

Alexandra shall advance and slay the ayy away with large bullets!
Nina shall find better cover.

[killerhellhound]

Advance moving to cover, shooting any spotted ayy's

[Glass]

Advance carefully, moving from cover to cover, staying at each location for a few moments to see if I can spot any aliens. If I do see aliens, alert the rest of the squad, and then fire.

[syvarris]

((Not used to you changing prices after I get a quote, oh well.  Parachute spam was already ruined by seat limitations.))

Send twelve mooks, in the heavy chopper, around in a big circle to the northeast.  I want to drop them at king street and 5th avenue, then have them slowly advance while watching our eastern flank.  The chopper will then retreat out of range, but stay in the air, ready to come assist if needed. Nirur Torir has carte blanche to do as he pleases with the chopper.  Sokolov is in the chopper, manning a door gun, and will not disembark.

As for Trump, he'll advance aggressively southeast, deploying smoke for cover, and shooting at any ayys that are visible using thermal.  He'll make an effort to stay at the front of the team.

[Nirur Torir]

Emma follows the flight plan. Restricted to trivial tasks, she cracks open a beer upon landing.
My mook will remain at a door gun, ready to fire on an hostile in range.

[syvarris]

((...Sorry, I forgot that we have a PC flying the main helicopter.  Since I've found much cheaper alternatives to the helicopter, we're no longer entirely screwed if we lose it; feel free to act as aggressive air support, but please do try to keep the chopper alive.))

[Smoke Mirrors]

We dropped to page 2, we need a turn, and my action is to go along with Syv's plan, he seems to be very good at this.

[syvarris]

((The game's probably dead, Aig usually abandons his games after two or three updates.  He'll very occasionally run a full mission, but it's not looking like he's gonna do that for this game.))

[Glass]

 
But I was enjoying this...