Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 (edited) Note: Mods, if this somehow is against forum rules PM meh Ok this mission is a downed Terror ship, Snakemen/Cryssalid, during the day (game difficulty Superhuman, but this is a super advanced file... so i am rich by now). I just randomly decided to record it with a few key pictures. Tons of rookies with a few Sargents and my Uber Psyonics guy (he is in the flying suit) Edited December 4, 2003 by Trevelyan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 (edited) 1st turn begins... First wave deployed. First guy out sees a snakemen to the left, MCed him, turned around and walked till reaction fire from aliens seen. Saw a snakemen on the roof, MCed him, turned around and saw ANOTHER snakemen. Disarmed the 2 MCed Snakemen and threw a bunch of rookie fired autoshots at the 2nd snakeman on the roof. Sent a few men out to the right when i found a snakeman hiding in the building right next to the avenger. MCed him and only found one other snakeman behind the building he was in. So far 2 Dead Snakemen, 3 disarmed and harmless snakemen, still haven't set up a defensive perimiter around the BS lift. Edited December 4, 2003 by Trevelyan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 (edited) Turn 2 Contained the North side of the BS by setting up some people looking around each corner with reaction TUs saved. Started a northward rush towards two buildings to the left of the avenger where the first snakemen were. Moved out enough to allow room for a small 2nd squad to be deployed safely. Edited December 4, 2003 by Trevelyan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 Turn 3 Lift area is parcially (sp) secured here... at least i will know if anything comes out in that direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 (edited) Turn 3 (continued): 2nd squad rushes north to support the guy i sent up for cover to set up a search of the building those snakemen were on. Doing the same to the east of the avenger, nothing found in shacks east of the avenger, so i moved them to start sweeping around the bottom of the battleship to clear the west side of the battleship. Edited December 4, 2003 by Trevelyan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 Turn 4 BS's lift area totally secured from all angles... finishing up search of northern house after this turn and then that squad will sweep the last bit of the level i didnt expore west of the BS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 Turn 4 Pic of first squad searching northern houses, clear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 Turn 5 Soldiers guard the lift as the first squad finishes up exploring. Nothing has come out of the doors, but noises of doors and elevators are heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 Turn 6 Search team finished it's job, it returns to lift area to await any aliens willing to leave the ship. Turn 7 snakemen comes out gets shot by 3 different people and dies. Turn 8 Another snakeman does the same, Cryssalid seen inside lift. Soldiers near doors are pulled back as far as possible. Turn 9 Cryssalid comes out, gunned down by an impressive Xfire from my Riflemen. Turn 10 Nothing Turn 11 Doors heard Turn 12 Nothing but movement Turn 13 Nothing Turn 14 Nothing Turn 15 Door Turn 16 Cryssalid comes out, dies much like the first. Another seen inside through open door, dies to reaction fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 Turn 17 Blasterbomb launched from inside lift area, alien screams heard GG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imperialus Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 nice mission. I'd probably give it a 7/10. For a BS mission it was pretty easy only 11 aliens killed. I expect that it is due in a large part because the ship looked quite damaged after crashing. Would have been higher if the mission was more challangeing, ie a landed BS. Lack of agression also lost you marks. It was a very concervative method for fighting a battle and wouldn't always work. I think that becomeing accustomed to thinking in concervative terms would be very detrimental on a mission where speed is important such as a terror mission involveing the same snakemen chryssalid combo or even a BS assult with Ethrels or Sectoids. I have also found that relying on the recation fire of rookies is a very dangerous roll of the dice. They just arn't reliable enough untill you start getting average reactions in the high 30's and accuracy scores of 50+ This was a really cool idea. If the mods arn't against it I'd enjoy posting some of my missions both good and bad to get feedback on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupSuper Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 (edited) nice story. all that was missing was the soldiers talking Edited December 4, 2003 by Trevelyan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 (edited) ummmm errr.... i posted that! Edit, posted my text in my post. "nice story. all that was missing was the soldiers talking" dont give me ideas "It was a very concervative method for fighting a battle and wouldn't always work." I agree, but this was a training mission with all rookies and a few sargents with my uber psyonics guy (who did nothing but MC the mission), and i didn't know how many cryssalids there were. Also note the lack of casualties on my side, thus everyone lives to fight again to get better and better . It took about 5 minutes to complete in real time, so i thought it went fast enough. The only reason i think the admins would be against this is because on especially longer missions, you take lots of pics just to get the bare bones of the story (notice i described often what was happening off screen). Those pics take up webspace, so perhaps when they die (ie roll off the page) they could be deleted or stored elsewhere. But hey, if the admins are cool with it, i would be more then happy to show you a real mission with the best of the best, or perhaps i would start a new superhuman game from the beginning (also it would rule to see how you guys play ) Edited December 4, 2003 by Trevelyan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breunor Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 The size of your pics was good, try to keep them to 20K or less and having up to 5-6 per review isn't an issue. I would suggest a pic of the final score screen, and then just pics that show something hard to describe with words. Decent BS assault considering the use of rookies. I agree that points are lost for not entering the BS, you could have sat there quite a while if they didn't come to you or kill themselves. Imagine an imporved AI that only fires blaster bombs when the door's open, and you might have lost a couple per shot. I would have given brownie points if you had sent a single brave soul in to get MC line of sight, then controlled the rest in the ship, brought them down to the entrance and open the door, then have all your soldiers lined up like a firing line to mow them down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[stewart] Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 There; made it a proper poll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 (edited) Thnx stewie, never thought of that. Ok so if you want to post your own missions you have to: A.) Convert the pics into Jpegs (should keep them under the limit) B.) Post no more then 10 pictures, try to keep them around 6-8 if you can. C.) take One picture of the end mission screen D.) Go do some! i wanna read someone else's mission Edited December 4, 2003 by Trevelyan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikker Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 hpw do you take screenshots? I cannot do it with print screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 (edited) hpw do you take screenshots? I cannot do it with print screen.Jordos explained it to me in This thread Edit: Which is a roundabout way of saying F12. -Breunor Edited December 4, 2003 by Breunor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 Fine... make it easy on him why dont ya? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark0 Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 i give you a 8/10i wish you had more aliens. but what i like in your mission is the way you surrrounded the entrance and camped are those the only soldiers you have or more left at the base?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl. Facehugger Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 I give you a 3/10. You relied too much on psi, and didn't actually go inside the UFO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[stewart] Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 There's nothing wrong with a conservative approach, at all; they do it in the real world. I can recall watching Gulf War II this spring they showed an american tank unit dealing with some Iraqi defenders in some warehouse they took about 3 hours to deal with them; the Iraqis only had small arms and the Yanks had tanks. As for rushing in terror missions, bah humbug. Civilians be damned first priority is keep your soldiers alive, second is kill aliens, civies come third. Recall that somewhere else in the forums I said one of the best strategies for dealing with terror missions is to not. In my case if I'm willing to let the aliens have their fun at a terror site then if I bother to show-up what do I care if civies die. Go slow, the only thing wrong with the strategy is that it's more boring than being reckless. You lost no one not even injuries and it was a battleship ... 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadTaco Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 9/10 very nicely done, could have been camping snakemen (or worse, Chryssies :whatwhat: ) in the farmhouses which wouldn't have been nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupSuper Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 Thnx stewie, never thought of that. Ok so if you want to post your own missions you have to: A.) Convert the pics into Jpegs (should keep them under the limit) B.) Post no more then 10 pictures, try to keep them around 6-8 if you can. C.) take One picture of the end mission screen D.) Go do some! i wanna read someone else's mission you'll probably see some in my The Superhuman Experience thread.i save in PNG since it's the best relation between size and quality. a 640x400 screenshot (i resize them for better viewing) with full quality is 15kb, smaller than your JPEGs of half the size Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 i save in PNG since it's the best relation between size and quality. a 640x400 screenshot (i resize them for better viewing) with full quality is 15kb, smaller than your JPEGs of half the size Could you provide a link so other people can use that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupSuper Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 most graphics programs can save in PNG. even MS Paint can (although doesn't compress much) so you should go for XnView Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j'ordos Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 don't forget PNGCRUSH, for squeezing that extra few kb out of pngs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevelyan Posted December 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 Thnx Jordos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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