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- Sep 25, 2019
8. Mission 4: The Cyber Hordes
I could somehow afford what everyone requested this time around. A-Z-09 and Genichiro were armed with the new L80 Lasgun that will hopefully prove itself better than the diminutive L50 Lasgun used previously.
This map is, again, fucking massive, though thankfully the enemy will only be coming at us from a single entrance. There are multiple power cores we need to defend, including some a fair distance away to the extreme west of the map that we cannot possibly hope to save in time.
I do my level best to get everyone spread out. Arm_of_the_lord is sent east on his own to cover a possible flanking location while the rest of the squad is concentrated on the numerous hallways leading from the airlock to the center of the base.
This is what we're up against. If they're anything like Regnix's droids, then we might be in trouble.
Genichiro spots our first enemy and lands a good clean hit, but unfortunately misses the second shot. i actually have enough AP left to have him step back and out of the line of fire.
I score first blood on the next enemy. The L80 seems like a decent weapon though I notice it has no autofire.
After the enemy turn passes I have Genichiro step back into the line of fire to see what we can get a look at.
He spots the biggest robot any of the Squad has ever seen. This can only be the Battle Droid, a heavily armored unit designed to mow down whole armies on the battlefield. Fortunately its not designed to maneuver in tight corridors and thus at something of a disadvantage, but its still going to be the closest thing to a boss fight this game has.
Genichiro scores a hit but it just bounces off the droid's thick armor plating. Wtfneedsignup, hobbled as he is by the immense weight of his autocannon, manages to join the battle and gets set up. Hopefully the high explosive rounds of the Autocannon will be able to bring the monster down.
While that's going down I get Goyaanisqatsi set up one hallway down, and keep Arm_of_the_lord headed towards the southeast.
A turn passes without incident and I'm finally ready to have Wtfneedsignup step in and take a shot.
Direct hit! The Autocannon round goes off with roughly the force of a regular grenade.
Shit, it tanked it! The Cyber Droid behind it wasn't even destroyed!
I used up all of Wtfneedsignup's AP getting him into position, so he's just a sitting duck now. At the very least I manage to get Arm_of_the_lord into place, but if that dreadnaught steamrolls my heavy weapons I have no idea how we're going to bring it down. I move Genichiro down more incase the Battle Droid has a rocket launcher or something, better safe than sorry. I did have enough cash to equip Disc with an AP75 heavy grenade, but I have no idea how I can possibly get him close enough to use it.
Goyaanisqatsi shows us all that the Heavy Laser is useful for more than just spraying from the hip as he takes out one of the weedly little Patrol Droids with a precision Aimed Shot.
The enemy turn passes without Wtfneedsignup getting wasted by the Battle Droid, much to my relief.
I finally get A-Z-09 into position covering the third hallway, while also moving Arm_of_the_lord over to cover a pair of hallways to to southwest. If the enemy comes at Arm with any serious amount of force he's probably fucked though.
Wtfneedsignup scores his first kill on a Patrol Droid that stupidly wanders into his line of fire.
Goyaanisqatsi scores another kill, taking out a Cyber Droid.
Jesus! The Battle Droid returns fire, and whatever that thing is packing, it is indeed explosive. It hits Goyaanisqatsi right on the chin and blows up in his face, though surprisingly it only manages to kill @Genichiro who ended up being caught in the blast after I moved him away from Wtfneedsignup to avoid this exact thing.
Goyaanisqatsi does get the chance to answer in kind with reaction fire, though this of course bounces off the Battle Droid again to no visible effect.
Wtfneedsignup at least adds another enemy Patrol Droid to their list of casualties.
The enemy turn still isn't fucking over yet though, as the Battle Droid was just getting warmed up earlier. It opens up again, blowing @Goyaanisqatsi to pieces and then landing a round right on me. Fortunately my armor manages to tank the hit like Goyaan somehow did his with first hit earlier.
It's finally Laser Squad's turn again, and I decide to bank on the Battle Droid already being heavily damaged by the other hits it has sustained. I land two shots with the L80 rifle right on it.
No dice.
Having used up all of my AP on that hopeless attack, I move Polyboros back up to cover the gap that my inevitable death will leave in our defenses.
Wtfneedsignup adds to his rapidly expanding killcount by taking out a Cyber Droid on the enemy turn.
The Battle Droid, as predicted, makes short work of me.
More bad news arrives when the enemy wipes out two of our power cores.
The enemy score went up fucking 40 points just from those two core kills! We've killed six enemies and barely made it to 30.
Polyboros moves up to cover the gap in our defenses, hopefully he can prevent Wtfneedsignup from being flanked. I move Disc up too, but ignore his repeated requests to have him charge down the hall so he can "hit them with my sword!".
Wtfneedsignup bags another Cyber Droid, even taking out a Patrol Droid behind it in the blast!
Evidently each Droid is worth 3 points.
Moving my troops would be suicide at this point so I just have everyone remain in place. Wtfneedsignup is basically a turret right now given how little AP he has to move with, but he excels in this role, bagging two more kills.
A-Z-09 gets reaction fire on the enemy turn and then has a clean shot on my turn.
But I decide not to risk a third shot even though she has a fair chance of killing the enemy.
Wtfneedsignup, Hero of the Rebellion, stands his ground and manages to bag two more kills. His ninth quarry, another Cyber Droid, shrugs off the last shot in his belt
The enemy returns fire and scores a hit, which the paper thin Armor 1 shockingly absorbs. Wtfneedsignup is able to duck out of fire and reload his Autocannon.
As Wtfneedsignup is getting back into position, the enemy A-Z-09 was trying to take out comes up the hallway. It turns out the enemy was not only one shot away from death as it absorbs a third hit. Then a fourth.
Fuck.
The Cyber Droid waxes @A-Z0-9 but fortunately runs out of AP.
I take no chances and have Polyboros magdump into the bastard, we can't afford another loss. He gets him.
Arm_of_the_lord is probably no use to us where he's at, so I have him cross the base to meet up with the rest of the squad since we could really use every extra gun at this point. I have him move into that hallway just to his left in the second screenshot, which should give him sufficient angle to cover anything that comes at him from either side or through that central door.
Polyboros magdumps into a Patrol Droid that rolls in. His down to three shots in his magazine, but at least he's got another kill.
Wtfneedsignup bags two more Patrol Droids himself. I have no idea where that Cyber Droid he was having a showdown with earlier got to.
Disc's Light Sabre and grenades are of little use with the layout of this map so I have him pick up A-Z-09's L80 Lasgun.
Wtfneedsignup continues to reduce Patrol Droids to slag.
A Cyber Droid successfully circumvents our defenses and wipes out two more Power Cores, bringing the Droid team's score up to 80.
However, the explosion from the Power Cores going up also blows the doors off the small room, giving Arm_of_the_lord a clear shot straight through. The Cyber Droid dies in only one pistol hit, leading me to believe this is the one Wtfneedsignup had a showdown with up above.
Disc manages to get in on the carnage by junking a Cyber Droid that comes down the hallway at him while Wtfneedsignup slags another Patrol Droid.
Wtfneedsignup has managed to achieve the only actual fucking Running Riot I have seen in any of my LPs, with an astonishing fifteen kills with his autocannon. The title of this mission did not lie, the enemy seems almost endless, and that Battle Droid is still lurking around somewhere.
Polyboros engages a Cyber Droid that came up his hallway, using aimed shots since he's down to the bottom of his magazine.
Both are good hits but the Cyber Droid is still on his feet. @Polyboros2 is gunned down.
Even worse, when I move @Arm_of_the_Lord up to assist, thinking the Droid has got to be out of AP, it scores reaction fire and wastes him too!
I'm about ready to quit and savescum at this point, but I keep it going just for the Hell of it. Wtfneedsignup may be down to just one squad member left and about half a belt of ammo, but he's not done yet. He takes out another Patrol Droid and manages to land a hit on a Cyber Droid. There's apparently enough enemies on the map now that their animations are starting to glitch out.
Disc isn't out of the fight yet either, he wastes another Cyber Droid.
The enemy turn passes without the surviving Cyber Droid taking a shot at Wtf. He thanks him kindly by turning him into shrapnel.
...which to my surprise ends the scenario, as apparently 100 Victory Points is all we needed. I guess I should have paid more attention to the manual.
Casualties (Total Kills):
Llama King (0)
White Devil (0)
Moths (0)
NerdShamer (0)
Genichiro (0)
Goyaanisqatsi (2)
L50LasPak (1)
A-Z-09 (0)
Polyboros2 (2)
Arm_of_the_Lord (1)
Survivors (Total Kills):
Bookmark Cuck (2)
Neo-Holstien (0)
JongleJingle (3)
Mooger Meng (1)
SilenceIsViolence (2)
JohnDoe (4)
ChucklesTheJester (1)
Disc (2)
Wtfneedsignup (17)
Observations:
This mission was a gigantic bitch to complete. On the plus side I did figure out how to savescum like a bitch in this game; this is the bugged out Save/Load screen of the game. Editing the screenshots to add character names also took me significantly longer than I expected due to just how long the mission went on for, which is why it also took me forever to get this thread updated.
Only one more mission to go, then this bitch is toast and we can get back to XPiratez. I'm still well ahead of my "before the end of January" target time so I'm thinking next week will be the last.
I could somehow afford what everyone requested this time around. A-Z-09 and Genichiro were armed with the new L80 Lasgun that will hopefully prove itself better than the diminutive L50 Lasgun used previously.
This map is, again, fucking massive, though thankfully the enemy will only be coming at us from a single entrance. There are multiple power cores we need to defend, including some a fair distance away to the extreme west of the map that we cannot possibly hope to save in time.
I do my level best to get everyone spread out. Arm_of_the_lord is sent east on his own to cover a possible flanking location while the rest of the squad is concentrated on the numerous hallways leading from the airlock to the center of the base.
This is what we're up against. If they're anything like Regnix's droids, then we might be in trouble.
Genichiro spots our first enemy and lands a good clean hit, but unfortunately misses the second shot. i actually have enough AP left to have him step back and out of the line of fire.
I score first blood on the next enemy. The L80 seems like a decent weapon though I notice it has no autofire.
After the enemy turn passes I have Genichiro step back into the line of fire to see what we can get a look at.
He spots the biggest robot any of the Squad has ever seen. This can only be the Battle Droid, a heavily armored unit designed to mow down whole armies on the battlefield. Fortunately its not designed to maneuver in tight corridors and thus at something of a disadvantage, but its still going to be the closest thing to a boss fight this game has.
Genichiro scores a hit but it just bounces off the droid's thick armor plating. Wtfneedsignup, hobbled as he is by the immense weight of his autocannon, manages to join the battle and gets set up. Hopefully the high explosive rounds of the Autocannon will be able to bring the monster down.
While that's going down I get Goyaanisqatsi set up one hallway down, and keep Arm_of_the_lord headed towards the southeast.
A turn passes without incident and I'm finally ready to have Wtfneedsignup step in and take a shot.
Direct hit! The Autocannon round goes off with roughly the force of a regular grenade.
Shit, it tanked it! The Cyber Droid behind it wasn't even destroyed!
I used up all of Wtfneedsignup's AP getting him into position, so he's just a sitting duck now. At the very least I manage to get Arm_of_the_lord into place, but if that dreadnaught steamrolls my heavy weapons I have no idea how we're going to bring it down. I move Genichiro down more incase the Battle Droid has a rocket launcher or something, better safe than sorry. I did have enough cash to equip Disc with an AP75 heavy grenade, but I have no idea how I can possibly get him close enough to use it.
Goyaanisqatsi shows us all that the Heavy Laser is useful for more than just spraying from the hip as he takes out one of the weedly little Patrol Droids with a precision Aimed Shot.
The enemy turn passes without Wtfneedsignup getting wasted by the Battle Droid, much to my relief.
I finally get A-Z-09 into position covering the third hallway, while also moving Arm_of_the_lord over to cover a pair of hallways to to southwest. If the enemy comes at Arm with any serious amount of force he's probably fucked though.
Wtfneedsignup scores his first kill on a Patrol Droid that stupidly wanders into his line of fire.
Goyaanisqatsi scores another kill, taking out a Cyber Droid.
Jesus! The Battle Droid returns fire, and whatever that thing is packing, it is indeed explosive. It hits Goyaanisqatsi right on the chin and blows up in his face, though surprisingly it only manages to kill @Genichiro who ended up being caught in the blast after I moved him away from Wtfneedsignup to avoid this exact thing.
Goyaanisqatsi does get the chance to answer in kind with reaction fire, though this of course bounces off the Battle Droid again to no visible effect.
Wtfneedsignup at least adds another enemy Patrol Droid to their list of casualties.
The enemy turn still isn't fucking over yet though, as the Battle Droid was just getting warmed up earlier. It opens up again, blowing @Goyaanisqatsi to pieces and then landing a round right on me. Fortunately my armor manages to tank the hit like Goyaan somehow did his with first hit earlier.
It's finally Laser Squad's turn again, and I decide to bank on the Battle Droid already being heavily damaged by the other hits it has sustained. I land two shots with the L80 rifle right on it.
No dice.
Having used up all of my AP on that hopeless attack, I move Polyboros back up to cover the gap that my inevitable death will leave in our defenses.
Wtfneedsignup adds to his rapidly expanding killcount by taking out a Cyber Droid on the enemy turn.
The Battle Droid, as predicted, makes short work of me.
More bad news arrives when the enemy wipes out two of our power cores.
The enemy score went up fucking 40 points just from those two core kills! We've killed six enemies and barely made it to 30.
Polyboros moves up to cover the gap in our defenses, hopefully he can prevent Wtfneedsignup from being flanked. I move Disc up too, but ignore his repeated requests to have him charge down the hall so he can "hit them with my sword!".
Wtfneedsignup bags another Cyber Droid, even taking out a Patrol Droid behind it in the blast!
Evidently each Droid is worth 3 points.
Moving my troops would be suicide at this point so I just have everyone remain in place. Wtfneedsignup is basically a turret right now given how little AP he has to move with, but he excels in this role, bagging two more kills.
A-Z-09 gets reaction fire on the enemy turn and then has a clean shot on my turn.
But I decide not to risk a third shot even though she has a fair chance of killing the enemy.
Wtfneedsignup, Hero of the Rebellion, stands his ground and manages to bag two more kills. His ninth quarry, another Cyber Droid, shrugs off the last shot in his belt
The enemy returns fire and scores a hit, which the paper thin Armor 1 shockingly absorbs. Wtfneedsignup is able to duck out of fire and reload his Autocannon.
As Wtfneedsignup is getting back into position, the enemy A-Z-09 was trying to take out comes up the hallway. It turns out the enemy was not only one shot away from death as it absorbs a third hit. Then a fourth.
Fuck.
The Cyber Droid waxes @A-Z0-9 but fortunately runs out of AP.
I take no chances and have Polyboros magdump into the bastard, we can't afford another loss. He gets him.
Arm_of_the_lord is probably no use to us where he's at, so I have him cross the base to meet up with the rest of the squad since we could really use every extra gun at this point. I have him move into that hallway just to his left in the second screenshot, which should give him sufficient angle to cover anything that comes at him from either side or through that central door.
Polyboros magdumps into a Patrol Droid that rolls in. His down to three shots in his magazine, but at least he's got another kill.
Wtfneedsignup bags two more Patrol Droids himself. I have no idea where that Cyber Droid he was having a showdown with earlier got to.
Disc's Light Sabre and grenades are of little use with the layout of this map so I have him pick up A-Z-09's L80 Lasgun.
A Cyber Droid successfully circumvents our defenses and wipes out two more Power Cores, bringing the Droid team's score up to 80.
However, the explosion from the Power Cores going up also blows the doors off the small room, giving Arm_of_the_lord a clear shot straight through. The Cyber Droid dies in only one pistol hit, leading me to believe this is the one Wtfneedsignup had a showdown with up above.
Wtfneedsignup has managed to achieve the only actual fucking Running Riot I have seen in any of my LPs, with an astonishing fifteen kills with his autocannon. The title of this mission did not lie, the enemy seems almost endless, and that Battle Droid is still lurking around somewhere.
Polyboros engages a Cyber Droid that came up his hallway, using aimed shots since he's down to the bottom of his magazine.
Both are good hits but the Cyber Droid is still on his feet. @Polyboros2 is gunned down.
Even worse, when I move @Arm_of_the_Lord up to assist, thinking the Droid has got to be out of AP, it scores reaction fire and wastes him too!
I'm about ready to quit and savescum at this point, but I keep it going just for the Hell of it. Wtfneedsignup may be down to just one squad member left and about half a belt of ammo, but he's not done yet. He takes out another Patrol Droid and manages to land a hit on a Cyber Droid. There's apparently enough enemies on the map now that their animations are starting to glitch out.
Disc isn't out of the fight yet either, he wastes another Cyber Droid.
The enemy turn passes without the surviving Cyber Droid taking a shot at Wtf. He thanks him kindly by turning him into shrapnel.
...which to my surprise ends the scenario, as apparently 100 Victory Points is all we needed. I guess I should have paid more attention to the manual.
Casualties (Total Kills):
Llama King (0)
White Devil (0)
Moths (0)
NerdShamer (0)
Genichiro (0)
Goyaanisqatsi (2)
L50LasPak (1)
A-Z-09 (0)
Polyboros2 (2)
Arm_of_the_Lord (1)
Survivors (Total Kills):
Bookmark Cuck (2)
Neo-Holstien (0)
JongleJingle (3)
Mooger Meng (1)
SilenceIsViolence (2)
JohnDoe (4)
ChucklesTheJester (1)
Disc (2)
Wtfneedsignup (17)
Observations:
- Assuming you don't need to go anywhere with it, the Autocannon is the most hilariously broken weapon in the game, with a fairly accurate aimed shot, a decently large belt size and a shockingly low AP cost to fire. Wtfneedsignup could fire two aimed shots per turn, allowing him to basically smoke anything that made it into his line of fire. He did get lucky a few times with enemies not taking him out though.
- The Autocannon's balance is that its extremely heavy however, I could barely move Wtfneedsignup around most of the time. If this were a mission where he had to be mobile instead of just camping like he did, I somehow doubt he'd have performed as spectacularly.
- The L80 Lasgun is a definite improvement over the L50. It's very accurate, packs a decent punch, and most importantly is fairly light. I named myself after the wrong weapon. Then again L50 rolls of the tongue better.
- I have genuinely no idea if the Battle Droid was invincible or if it was just particularly badass and I didn't have the right equipment to deal with it. I also have no idea if it respawns or not. I fucking hope it doesn't given how tough it is. In the 2 Player version of this mission, one player does have access to the Battle Droid so I presume it can eventually be whittled down and killed.
This mission was a gigantic bitch to complete. On the plus side I did figure out how to savescum like a bitch in this game; this is the bugged out Save/Load screen of the game. Editing the screenshots to add character names also took me significantly longer than I expected due to just how long the mission went on for, which is why it also took me forever to get this thread updated.
Only one more mission to go, then this bitch is toast and we can get back to XPiratez. I'm still well ahead of my "before the end of January" target time so I'm thinking next week will be the last.
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