UPDATE 41:
Fortunately they manage to reach it before the aliens can dust off.
Despite even the polar twilight, the alien craft glistens among the endless fields of snow.
Eklektyk spots a hostile. Sectoids in a medium UFO can mean only one thing - a psionic Leader!
MMXI kills the creature.
An alien grenade-analog takes out Hellraiser! RIP Hellraiser
kazgar berserks at the sight and starts shooting blindly around him.
TNO quickly discovers the likely culprit.
His autocannon brings swift retribution to the gray creature.
RK47 then sees two other hostiles on his camera feed.
TNO kills one of them.
While trying to aim at the remaining one, eklektyk discovers one more!
He disposes of the newly discovered threat.
And MMXI takes out the last one.
kazgar sees an alien lurking in the shadow and panics!
But Hartman is there to kill the big scawy Sectwoid
kazgar goes berserk once more. Maybe something more sinister than simple battlefield fatigue is afoot?
Comrade Commissar decides to disarm kazgar. Just to be sure.
eklektyk spearheads the team storming the UFO and faces no less than four Sectoids! Looking over his shoulder, MMXI manages to drop two of them.
And eklektyk dispatches the other two.
Deeper within the UFO Sergiu67 finds...
...and kills another Sectoid.
Meanwhile Donaroriak faces another hostile.
The grey creature doesn't stand a chance.
Now the Sectoid Leader tries its malicious tricks on MMXI!
A Sectoid rushes out of the craft's bridge...
...only to be mowed down by Darthowicz's laser fire!
The intrepid captain then spots another creature.
He kills this one too.
Ending the mission.
PrzeSzkoda is promoted to replace Hellraiser.
Hellraiser VII joins AsiaCOM
Just as Team Kwa's Skyranger was approaching the other medium UFO's crash site, one more medium alien craft was detected over Asia.
It disappeared from our radars for some time, but was then picked up again, dirtside.
As Drakron's Interceptor was running low on fuel, Drog was sent to pi the UFO to the ground.
Apparently aware of the approaching Skyranger, the aliens decided to dust off anyway.
The fuckers outrun our Interceptors
And disappear from our radars.
So it's back to Team Kwa's original mission - recovering the crashed UFO.
KickAss immediately spots a Sectoid on his tank's camera feed.
No more Sectoid.
KickAss also locates the UFO.
Fat Boobs spots...
...and shoots a Sectoid lurking near the Skyranger.
This alien tried to shoot Slips.
Slips repays in kind.
KickAss locates another hostile.
Malakalov feeds it some high explosive autocannon rounds, killing another alien in the process.
KickAss doesn't appreciate aliens trying to wreck his tank.
Oh no he doesn't.
So the UFO *was* damaged in the crash.
Slips reports hearing strange whispers in his mind.
The alien nearest Azira damaged the tank considerably.
Bad Sectoids! Down! Both of you!
PrzeSzkoda faces a horde of aliens.
But JoKa flanks them and takes two of them out.
PrzeSzkoda kills the third one, leaving the fourth one to Medic.
PrzeSzkoda spots...
...and executes another hostile.
Medic faces an unarmed alien at the UFO's upper floor.
The creature is executed without mercy.
What the... what happened here? Why is the door destroyed?
Hello there.
And goodbye.
Predictably this was the last alien.
I think we made the aliens angry...
Fortunately the Battleship only scouts the immediate area of the old Potato Base and appears to be unable to locate the new one.
Finally we unlock the secrets of Elerium-115!
The Floater Engineer we interrogated several updates ago told us enough about alien tech before succumbing to Azira's interrogation techniques that we can now research alien grenades and UFO Power Sources.
They managed to slip one of their Terror Ships past our radars!
Team Kwa to the rescue!
RECRUITMENT OPTIONS:
EuroCOM 2 has no openings at present.
NorthAmCOM has now openings for:
1 Sargeant
6 Rookies
1 Tank/Rocket Lanucher remote pilot
AsiaCOM has now openings for:
8 Rookies
AfricaCOM has now openings for:
1 Interceptor pilot
X-COM TROOPS ROSTER
Code:
EuroCOM 2
Drog Flight Officer Interceptor-5 pilot
NorthAmCOM
Ripper Commander
chzr Major Fighter Interceptor-3 pilot
Pope Amole Colonel
Malakalov Captain
Slips III Captain
Dextermorgan III Captain
Desmodus III Captain
KickAss Lieutenant Tank pilot
U-Cat 2 Sargeant
JoKa IV Sargeant
Warcupine Sargeant
Azira III Sargeant
Fat Boobs Squaddie
PrzeSzkoda Squaddie
Medic Squaddie
AsiaCOM
TNO Colonel
Drakron Major Interceptor-4a pilot
Slaughter II Colonel
Hartman Captain
MMXI Sr Captain
Darthowicz Captain
RK47 Lieutenant Tank pilot
eklektyk II Sargeant
Comrade Commissar Sargeant
Sergiu67 Sargeant
kazgar VI Sargeant
Donaroriak Sargeant
Steve Sargeant
Hellraiser vII Sargeant
RIP
Hellraiser Squaddie (posthumous promotion)
Jaedar Squaddie (posthumous promotion)
MMXI Squaddie
pounded_anus Squaddie (posthumous promotion)
dextermorgan Squaddie (posthumous promotion)
Malkal Captain
JoKa Sargeant
Azira Sargeant
Slaughter Squaddie
Slips Squaddie
Thrombone Squaddie
Desmondus Rotundus Squaddie
Derper Squaddie
Jaedar Jr Squaddie (posthumous promotion)
dextermorgan II Squaddie (posthumous promotion)
Merkwurdigliebe Squaddie (posthumous promotion)
Garfunkel Squaddie (posthumous promotion)
Desmondus II
eklektyk Captain
Hellraiser II Squaddie
Cheddar Squaddie
Lightbane Sargeant
U-Cat Squaddie
kazgar Squaddie
RK74 Sargeant
Mal Sargeant
Slips II Squaddie
JoKa II Sargeant
Roxorowski Commander
Darkbane Squaddie
Jaedar II Squaddie
Sergiu64 Sargeant
Thromclone Squaddie
golgepapaz Sargeant
Sergiu65 Squaddie (posthumous promotion)
pounded_anus II Sargeant
RK47 II Squaddie
MMXI Jr Captain
Kazgar II Squaddie
Jaedar Mk3 Squaddie
Sergiu66 Squaddie
Spider Captain
PrzeSzkoda Squaddie
NewBee Squaddie
Hellraiser III Captain
Hellraiser IV Squaddie
poundedanus III Squaddie
Korenzel Colonel
Bee Major Interceptor-1 pilot
ironyuri Captain
Merkwurdigliebe II Captain
Gondolin Lieutenant Tank pilot
Drog Lieutenant Interceptor-3a pilot
toastboy Sargeant
JoKa III Sargeant
Roxorowicz Squaddie
BLOBEERT Squaddie
PrzeSzkoda 2 Squaddie
Hellraiser V Rookie
Jaedar Mk4 Squaddie
kazgar III Squaddie
Azira II Captain
Hellraiser VI Sargeant