For full report (including the missions on which Team AR didn't participate), see main Abandonia Apocalypse topic on AB forum.
New arrivals in Team AR:
Beefonthebone
Doubler
The aliens have infiltrated the buildings belonging to General Metro, Evonet and Technocrats. This is going to be easy.
Under orders of Major Damage, Team AB will not deploy, instead leaving the operation fully in hands of Team AR - and given that Team AR is armed to the teeth, the op is guaranteed to be very short... and very brutal.
Location: Cityclean Two
A sewage treatment facility belonging to Evonet. Beef and Doubler give silent thanks to their armor's internal air supply...
The area is small, so it's easy to locate the aliens using Doubler's standard issue motion scanner.
And how do the alien freaks manage against Team AR's firepower?
Frankly, they don't.
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Location: Car Two
General Metro has two buildings in the city. And of the two, only one was anywhere close to flight trajectories of recent UFOs. It's really a no-brainer.
Doubler stops a bunch of Hyperworms from getting to the top floor, and as soon as that is secured we descend to the garage below.
Bingo! Three Multiworms charge right at the destructive duo, but hey... how does a giant worm cope with incendiary ammunition?
Answer: it doesn't.
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Location: Cityclean Three
Another Evonet sewage treatment facility, right on the trajectory between the Dimension Gate and Car Two. It might be just a hunch, but best if we check the place anyway.
First we see a Hyperworm, but then a Popper comes into vision. Dumb critter can't understand it doesn't have the ability to fly, and is promptly dispatched.
More worms and an Anthropod. Not much of a match for us, as they all die in explosions shortly thereafter.
Location: New Empire Tower
Hurrying to secure the building entrance, we come upon the first Anthropod.
The entrance itself is guarded by a pair of Multiworms, and inside the building we fight three Spitters.
It seems there were kind of fewer creatures than normally... oh well.
(sorry, forgot to take a screenshot of the scoring for the mission)
This concludes the second week of our operation within the city.
Time for upgrades and and ammo - Team AB finally can equip with a shiny new Hawk Air Warrior, which means Team AR takes over their Valkyrie (with its extra passenger module replaced with AI targeting systems for better combat effectiveness).
Two days pass with no UFO incursions.
At 9:50 a glaring klaxon signals the end of our all-too-brief respite from alien incursions - and with a never-seen-before type of an UFO.
After a frantic aerial battle, two UFOs are downed, while the remaining three make good their escape.
Since several cars owned by Cult of Sirius just rolled out, the Hawk Carrier tries to down them... and accidentally destroys an appliance factory owned by Superdynamics. Awk.
Anyway. The Hawk moves to Abandonia Prime to pick up Beef and Doubler - we need all the manpower we can muster, since there's no telling what gribblies are waiting inside the alien vessel.
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The UFO is... well, "huge" only begins to cover it.
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No aliens outside, but Kugerfang's motion scanner shows a s**tload of blips inside the craft. We set up at the only entrance and wait.
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The aliens appear quickly - and guess what? A new species!
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Plus Anthropods and several Poppers.
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We fight off their counterattack... and wait.
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When the aliens stop coming, it's time for us to come in.
Only one way into the UFO equals only one way out of it - the trick is to draw them to us instead of the other way round.
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Eagle throws the explosive pack on the upper floor of the UFO. This seems to inspire a few Anthropods into walking right into our position.
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Then, the "big guns" of our teams group together and mop up the few surviving Spitters on the ship. This seems to have concluded the mission.
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Time to deal with the other UFO.
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Surprise - they were waiting for us.
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During the shootout, Bob was hit with some weird alien "missile". The thing didn't explode, but covered his armor and weapons with some acidic goop that dissolved them into sludge in mere seconds. Fortunately, he had enough common sense to drop the guns, tear off what was left of his armor and run like hell out of the combat zone.
Once the dust settles, Paco leads an assault into the craft... that is, he would if there was anything left to assault. All he finds is a lone Anthropod which doesn't react fast enough to prevent sizzling plasma from ripping its hide to pieces.
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Score:
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This concludes the day.
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Shortly after midnight, Abandonia Prime (the base currently housing Team Reloaded) enters a major suge of activity as both biochemistry teams from the original base move over to the newly constructed Advanced Biochemistry Lab.
Seems the eggheads are cooking up some biological warfare materials specifically targeting the Alien creatures.
It seems in the afternoon there was some incident where Team AB has blown up half of an Osiron-owned warehouse in the eastern part of the city. Apparently the soldiers responsible for the damage survived with not as much as a scratch.
At 18:55, the specs are ready for Advanced Workshop. By selling off most of the Disruptor Guns in store at Abandonia base, we have the funds to start building it right away - the problem? It'll take 9 days to complete.
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End of the day.
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Meet you in 7!