With so little battlefield experience on show it’s very much a case of softly softly killee alien, and so I move the troops carefully forward through a building and around the left flank.Ī patrol suddenly pops up, yet we somehow remain in concealment even when a codex and a sectoid are close enough to smell Joel’s Lynx Africa. We’ve to cross a large railway yard and investigate the ADVENT facility on the other side. Especially one named Operation Hell Fall, a moniker which will prove to be horrendously apt. With a rookie, two squaddies and a Corporal, the last thing we need is a Blacksite mission. He’s not about to let his cabal of content creators slip away without resistance. None have ever seen his face, and some contend that he exists merely in our collective conscience. We need fresh blood.Īnd so steps in our esteemed leader, PCGamesN co-owner Tim Edwards. I try to pass enough time to get at least a full squad together, but it’s no use. However it was a choice between that and ‘There’s a lot of joy in Chips Ahoy!’, so maybe we are completely stuffed.īasically anyone who knows the danger end of a gun is currently in the infirmary, rocking back and forth and muttering “Never again” to themselves, or nothing more than a star on the memorial wall. It’s not so much ‘rock and a hard place’ as between the jaws of a vice that’s a half-turn from making our collective skull go pop.īut there’s still hope, and as long as there’s hope there’s fight – it’s not for nothing that the PCGamesN motto is aut vincere, aut mori. Matt has left us in quite the awkward spot. If you’re just joining us on the inevtiably doomed journey, then this is the place to catch up – links to all our previous missions are right here.

And we won’t be making plans together or conferring about tactics, research paths, builds or what we should construct next. There will be no save scumming, since we’re playing on Ironman mode.

We’ll be trying to complete the campaign on Veteran (normal) difficulty, one mission and one player at a time, while attempting to keep as many people alive as possible.

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