Completed Let's play Fallout Tactics (Completed & Repaired)

[Crooked Bee]

9 points in charisma? Hah.
Also, you underestimate your endurance, Prosper.

Also, bump.

 

[spekkio]

Mission 15 - Great Bend

General Dekker

At ease, Brother.

The time to take the battle to the robots is now.

Intelligence has located the origin of the robot that attacked Junction City and the tracks originated from a pre-war center of industry known as the Great Bend.

As our operatives moved closer, they discovered many tracks from different robots all originating from this mass of burnt out factories. Lights were seen at a distance, so it's assumed that some of the old power generators are now back on-line. The Elders believe this location is being transformed into a robot manufacturing facility.

You will take a squad to Great Bend immediately. If this is the area where the robots are originating, we must strike quickly and shut them down. If our assumptions are incorrect, you will search and destroy any robots you come across.

As always, keep an eye open to any information or technology that you come across.

Assemble your strike team and leave immediately.

Dismissed.

It's gonna be simple this time:

Which doesn't mean easy...
Lette takes a peek to the north, finds some civilian scum and three robots:

She speaks to Jack:

Jack Hammond

Shh! Keep yo ass down and lower your voice for god's sake! My name's Jake and you boys got 'ere just'n time.

'Bout two week ago, a whole bunch of dose Mr. Handy wannabees shown up and killed anything livin' dey could find. Most of da bubbas around 'ere are now livin' underground, waiting for dem to leave, but believe me, dey ain't goin' nowhere!

You better listen too, ol' Jake, and stay out of their way!

Lette ignores this pacifist propaganda and moves north. Other units keep a distance.
During computer turn Lette, Jack and Bro get shot!

These guys are good...
All units try to find some cover, Bro gets shot again! Fuckers came closer.

Lette pops out, destroys her 1st robot:

She had to shoot twice, dough...
In next turn root destroys second robot

He, Bro, Monkey and WC attack another one - this one is well lit, so hitting him is easy (~90% accuracy)

root takes him out after a while

root and Monkey do the healing. Some melee robot shows up SE but fails his PER check and ends up electrifried:

Monkey heals Jack and speaks to him:

There's some new kind of enemy visible SE

Lette carefully checks the nearby area (east), looting all corpses. Some of them have good stuff:

Monkey finds and attacks new enemy

Lette moves into the northern building, finds a switch and some weird ammo:

Other units prepare an ambush, Lette throws the switch and opens the gate. Two robots are behind it:

Bro attacks the further one

Gramps tries to score his 1st kill, but fails horribly

Due to his low AP and lack of BRoF or Fast Shot he's shitty as fuck TBH.
WC and Monkey have to do his job:

Monkey and root shoot the other one, root KOes him:

WC moves east. Shit looks serious:

WC scores another kill:

Lette does some reckon, finding another new enemy:

She moves south. There's some kind of a canal there:

Lette follows its bank west. There's some building there. The door are locked.
Warcupine to the rescue! Too bad that I've forgotten to take lockpicks with him. Still, he delivers:

Lette moves in, finds some girl:

Noelene Campbell

Hey, I always have time to chat with someone who doesn't want to end my life!

Things have been pretty dangerous around here with all the robots, but I watched a strange sight a week ago. One of the robots wandered through one of the derelict buildings and a wall collapsed on it. It was pinned down and trapped. It's still there, in one of those buildings, humming away, making all sorts of weird sounds.

I think it upset the other robots, too. They all started acting upset, running around and even bumping in to each other. Almost act like real people, huh?

Lette moves out, checks the other bank of the canal:

The gate is closed and the switch is out of reach (to the south).
The only way of reaching the other side is most likely the only non-destroyed bridge (to the east):

Lette finds some small passageway on the northern bank of the canal and moves in

It leads to some hut. Another survivor is there:

Mike Sutton

Hey! Just leave me alone! I got no love for you guys after what you did to my sister!

All she did was fall in love with some young raider. They were just hanging out. She even convinced him to stop raiding so they could settle down and live like normal people. Then you guys pop up out of nowhere and arrest them both for being raiders and take them to some forced labor camp!

She lasted two months in that hellhole! Emma was the kindest girl the wasteland's ever known and I can't even bear to think what was going on in that gulag that made her take her own life!

So go take your self righteous crap somewhere else!

Lette helps this poor guy by stealing everything from his chest:

The plan is as follows: root and Monkey (best EW users) will move south and try to snipe some enemies on the other bank of canal. Bro, WC and Gramps will go east and help Lette kill these guys:

Since the hut's door are locked, Lette has to go all the way back to the canal. She goes back to the surface using nearby ladder:

And tries to take both robots by surprise. Unfortunately, it seems that their PER is high:

Thank god that this one was a melee unit and that I was able to switch Lette to aggressive mode in time:

One enemy left:

root attacks one of the robots to the south

Remaining enemy moves closer to Lette. Bad idea, d00d:

Lette checks out the area to the east from her position. There are some robots there, but also some woman:

All robots in the southern part change their positions - root and Monkey have to move closer, which turns bad p. soon - root gets shot.
Bro and WC move east, running out of APs right in front of three Security Bots.
Bro loses some health:

Let's kill them one by one

Monkey is able to kill one of the robots to the south

But some other robot hits root hard. root tries to withdraw (only 3 APs left so healing and staying in place could be a bad idea):

WC joins Bro at shooting the Security Bot

root's withdrawal maneuver is unsuccessful:

He's KOed and has less than half HPs left.

Our next-in-line recruit (Ashery) should prepare his ghoulish ass, because I think we're gonna need him soon...

 

[eklektyk]

blood for the blood god.. err wrong thread ..

expecting more dead bodies in return trip to base

and do contiune Good Sir

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Suggestion: You should devote an update somewhere down the line where all you do is hunt the special encounters. It's not that hard, especially since you've already found one.

One of those encounters is Extreme Rape, so I'd hold this off until you've milked the missions for as much XP as possible.

 

[Oesophagus]

Well, considering that the robots here are not well armed and there aren't any behemoths, I'd say we can expect a reasonable amount of wasted meatshields fallen comrades in the coming missions

also MOAR

 

[Ashery]

Our next-in-line recruit (Ashery) should prepare his ghoulish ass, because I think we're gonna need him soon...

I always remembered this area as being a lot more difficult, but that's probably because I was using just my sniper and standard recruits at the time instead of modified ones like 'lette.

 

[Yeesh]

Mankind will always triumph over robots, for they cannot understand that thing we call "love".

 

[spekkio]

I always remembered this area as being a lot more difficult, but that's probably because I was using just my sniper and standard recruits at the time instead of modified ones like 'lette.

Even Lette will have some serious problems at ass-kicking when out of ammo.

Mankind will always triumph over robots, for they cannot understand that thing we call "love".

 

[spekkio]

Monkey will try to help his comrade:

Bro and WC keep shooting security bots, Lette and Gramps follow in their direction.
Thanks to his horizontal position, root survives computer turn (out of range). Monkey heals him and stays close, as a true BRO would:

Warcupine destroys first bot, Gramps and Lette arrive on scene

Both of them miss bots horribly. WC does not:

Lette moves in, gets shot, counterattacks (and heals):

Gramps does the same, he isn't able to kill the bot too:

root gets shot twice during computer turn!



Oh, he simply regained consciousness

He goes into hiding, Monkey heals him.
Lette moves closer to the bots, pwns both of them:

Both snipers withdraw

There's no point in fighting god-knows-how-many robots who are smart enough to use shoot&hide tactic...
Lette and WC do some looting, finding more enemies

All units move west. root and Monkey move onto the roof. Monkey gets careless - he gets shot twice (through the window):

He ducks and heals. Lette and Gramps inflict over 200 points of damage to the Load Lifter, but fucker is still standing:

Lette blows up some oil drums

Gramps scores his first kill:

Monkey takes his revenge

A couple of turns later, WC rapes second security bot

One load lifter left. All units prepare an ambush, WC takes ITZ out:

Lette moves to second floor, finds six new enemies on the ground level.
They are out of her effective range:

But:

Poor bastards move closer, Lette keeps shooting them (and hitting, thanks to burst bug):

One of them dies

Lette tries to reload and realizes that she's almost out of ammo!



It seems that I didn't took enough .50 ammo with me. Too bad that 7.62 ammo is almost useless against this metal fucks.
Still, we're gonna make it, using .50 ammo or not.
Gramps shares his ammo with Lette, all units go back to the central area. It's time to finish what Lette started:

Lette moves first, other units cover her

She attacks three robots using secondary weapon, but it does shit

root helps her. Lette switches to the main gun:

Much better. She finishes off the remaining robot using secondary weapon again.
Gramps finds another robot, he and Lette rape him:

Gramps does some reckon, finding four campers.
Our team splits into two groups, Monkey gets shot. Lette attacks one of the robots:

Too bad that these fuckers can use burst weapons too:

Lette does not forgive

She gets shot by second camper, shoots back

Monkey and root attack one of the enemies SE

He counterattacks

Damn, maybe I should try this some other day...
Gramps fails once more

Bro, Monkey and Lette kill the remaining robot in NE area

WC does the same to the south

After some more turns root, Gramps and WC kill the remaining one

root and Monkey do the healing. Some units are bandaged already.

Lette moves south and speaks with Gloria the Whore

Gloria Timmons

The worst thing about these robots are they couldn't recognize a sweet piece of ass like myself.

It's like they ain't got no dick. Believe me sweetheart, after fifty years of shaking my ass, I got it down to a science.

Bro buys some drugs from her.
Our team crosses the bridge. It's time to clean the 2nd half of the town:

One enemy visible:

Damn, I remember this part...

 

[Azira]

It's funny how "bandaged" counts as a status effect, and thus can be removed by succesful use of the doctor skill.

Good show on no deaths yet, though I doubt it'll continue like this. Load lifters are annoying with their bucket-load of hitpoints yes, but at least they lack ranged attacks.

When you face behemoths though....

 

[Oesophagus]

I think you shold invest in some rocket launchers since M2 ammo will be pretty scarce.
Surprised at no deaths, looks like that's a pretty balanced squad. Shame it won't last

 

[Black]

It seems that I didn't took enough .50 ammo with me.

didn't took

Hahaha, this LP is over, you can all go home now.

 

[Ulminati]

Bah. Just give Warcupine a decent sniper's nest and enough powercells and he'll have this place cleared soon enough.

Also:

Best. Metaphor. Ever.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

That robot went a little "Berzerk!" there for a moment.

I'd forgotten how nerdy some of the robot lines were. Like the "Im_Fucked.exe" one.

 

[Crooked Bee]

 

[spekkio]

didn't took

Haterz gonna haet.

 

[ghostdog]

 

[Yeesh]

Keep practicing for the war against robots. It's only a matter of time...

 

[spekkio]

Damn, I've prepared an update two days ago and sent it to Black for a proof-reading, since I REALLY want to avoid grammatical and spelling mistakes...
But I'm still waiting for the corrected version.

You have to be patient, dear readers - quality over quantity, etc...

 

[Crooked Bee]

You lazy troll, you!

 

[spekkio]

^

 

[spekkio]

One more thing:

Name: Pvt. Obvious

Age: 23

Sex: Male

pic:

Special:

ST 8
PE 9
EN 7
CH 2
IN 7
AG 8
LK 6

Traits: Gifted

Perks: X criticals, incr RoF, heave ho

Tags: energy weapons,doctor, throwing

Skillz: Doctor, obviously, since you're gonna need 'em

Weapons: Plasma Rifle/ Pulse rifle / Pulse nades

Proper build, too bad that you wasted one tagged skill on Doctor - we have one immortal doctor already...

 

[Oesophagus]

Well, it's good to have more than one at this stage, since punctured lungs, broken limbs and concussions should become more common. Anyway I don't think the squad needs anything else now.

 

[Black]

I've found so many errors that I'm not even bothering with reading it further. Trash.
Ever thought about, I don't know, trying harder?

 

[spekkio]

Since Brother Black gave up on proof-reading the text of next update, I have to post it in its "trash" form.



Sorry for that.

But don't you worry, people. From my exclusive sources I've learned that Brother Black is planning to start his own majestic LP, with proper English and first class content ONLY.
And babyfurs.



Now, where was I:

Lette and Gramps sneak in, other units snipe the visible robot

Lette reveals another robot to the south

Monkey pwns 1st enemy

All units move south, another robot shows up

root destroys an oil tank to the south, damaging one of the enemies

Lette tries to take out the closest one, but fails (shitty secondary weapon)

robots counterattack

Bro bravely steps in, takes the closest robot out

WC and Gramps get shot during computer turn

Lette shoots one of the robots twice using M2, but only for light damage (WTF?)

Gramps shows first symptoms of incline:

Remaining robot tries to revenge his fallen bro

Despite three shots, Gramps and Lette are unable to kill him (Lette missed once - WTF is going on with her?)
Gramps is lucky this time - robot attacks Lette during CT:

Gramps delivers eventually

Our nurses do the healing. After that, our team is ready for further rape

Lette scouts the area, finds a lone robot to the west

She goes back east, the robot follows her

Bro grants his wish

The team continues west. Lette finds two lifters to the west

And three more to the east

Our team splits into two groups once more. Lette, Bro and Monkey will take care of the eastern robots, root, WC and Gramps will take out the western ones.
root starts with a critical to the sensors

All five other units shoot this lifter as well, but ITZ still standing!

During computer turn all enemy robots move closer
It's time for Lette to kick some ass. She KOs the closest robot and rapes him further using her secondary gun:

root KOs second lifter

WC, Bro and Monkey switch to 3rd one

Computer turn: enemies move even closer!
Gramps switches to his main weapon at last, rapes the KOed robot and damages another (3rd one)

root, WC and Bro take the 3rd one out

Three lifters left, two of them conscious. All units move north and start shooting them:

Computer turn: enemies move even closer!!!
Our turn: Lette blows two lifters to pieces

After some more shooting, Bro takes the final one out

That went perfect!
Lette and Gramps loot the place, finding Envo Armour Mk. 2 and some other stuff. For example - a cattle prod.
Gramps equips it:

Lette scouts the area to the west, finds a Pacification Bot!

Luckily for her, it's immobilized (and Almost Dead):

root equips the Plasma Rifle and takes it out:

Bro opens the nearby gate. Gramps gets shot by an enemy who was hiding behind it:

root to the rescue!
Here's the reason why I prefer Laser Rifles to Plasma:

They can be less deadly, but they're much more accurate...
Lette finds another robot and brakes it right away

Other units rape him too, Monkey takes him out

All snipers switch to the previous enemy. Gramps rushes in his direction too, holding a cattle prod in his hand.
Robots tries to avoid his fate

Gramps doesn't get a chance to use his prod - Bro kills the robot

One lifter visible to the west. Gramps and Bro blow up some barricades

Bro attacks the lifter, Lette hits the newly arrived melee robot

Gramps finally tests his prod

Too bad that with 8 AP he sucks at melee combat as well...
Bro kills the robot, Lette finishes off the lifter:

All units level up.
Thanks to Lette's Power Armor, Bro doesn't have to act as mule for the 1st time in ages:

SP distribution:

Bro: EW

Monkey: EW, SW, Repair

root: EW, Throwing

Lette: BG

Warcupine: SW, Sneak

Gramps: Melee, Throwing

We move onto the Exit Grid:

During the bunker-coming we run into another special encounter:

Yeah, the invisible talking rabbits...

We reach the bunker. Once again, no new recruits to edit.
At least we can buy another Power Armor.

There's one unit in the team with some (not fully utilized) close combat potential:

Bro exchanges useless stuff for .50 ammo

And speaks with the General:

General Dekker

At ease, Warrior. I have mixed news to give!

A Reaver delegate arrived earlier today bringing news that a large robot force has all but annihilated the main Reaver camp in Newton. The Reaver's numbers have been devastated by relentless attacks and will soon be destroyed unless we intervene. Normally, the Brotherhood would gladly allow one enemy to destroy another, but the Reavers have something to offer.

The Reaver Movement has developed a new type of weapon based on robot pieces that they've been able to scavenge. This weapon is called an EMP device and it has a devastating effect on electronics.  It is this weapon that is allowing the Reavers to survive a mass robot attack, but for them it is still "too little, too late."

They have agreed to give the Brotherhood both a prototype of this weapon and instruction on its workings in exchange for rescue of their four highest-ranking officials in Newton's Junk City.

This might be the edge we're looking for against the robots. Bring back that prototype, Brother. You will be supplied with a map to Newton. Rendezvous at the extraction zone with all four Elders and they will be transported via APC and armored escort back here.

Dismissed.

I was ready to move out when I noticed something truly horrible:

How could that happen?!

I've checked old saves and it looks like we were fucked by the Auditor in previous mission - old fucker didn't register us giving him damaged power armors back.
The moment one of our soldiers speaks to him, Bro's reputation is fucked:

Since I don't know of any way to change our Karma (savegame editors don't have such option), I think we can forget about "good" ending...



If any of you has any idea how to fix this issue, please let me know...



Our team changes equipment (Lette and Gramps took Rocket Launchers with them + a shitload of .50 ammo, root and WC equipped Grenade Launchers) and leaves the bunker.
On the way to Newton we find another special encounter:

There are some crazy hostile tribals there!

Poor bastards don't have a chance:

Yeah, Monkey killed four of them with one shot...
Still, this encounter is not as shitty as it may look:

Bro equips his new, squirting weapon

Our team continues to Newton:

Bros, if you've find any errors, please, let myself know...