Game 1160: pickupsticks, Deadlime in 'The Alien Hordes'

Hopefully I have my guys in a great position now. Hopefully.
Posted by Deadlime 14 years ago [Login to reply]

Very impressive breaking out to get there - question is, how much fire can these aliens soak up when I charge you? Don't think I have time to wait for trees to grow and provide me with some extra cover ;)
Posted by pickupsticks 14 years ago [Login to reply]

It was pure guesswork that your Alien 8 was hiding behind that "tree". I threw a grenade just in case. I'm glad I did otherwise I would have been in serious trouble.
Posted by Deadlime 14 years ago [Login to reply]

I'm guessing (or at least hoping) that these guys rips people to shreds, genestealer style. I should have a chance to land a couple of blows this time around. Far too much heavy weaponry and grenades in your firing line! If you'd hit the doors with the rockets one turn earlier that could've been unpleasant for me and my brood.
Posted by pickupsticks 14 years ago [Login to reply]

Damn, looks like you've got me here. You organised that attack impressively well, plus I made a couple of school boy errors. :(
Posted by Deadlime 14 years ago [Login to reply]

Bloody hell! I didn't mean to give you false hope, I really thought I was done for. You didn't spot my guy hiding behind the Nerve Gas, then suddenly when it really mattered my last 2 guys got there act together and pulled off some impressive shooting. Strangely the game awarded me the victory when you still had 1 Alien remaining. Realisitcally at that point I had you "surrounded" with 2 guys with Las-Rifles so there wasn't a lot your last Alien could have done. Great game, you were unlucky to lose in the end.
Posted by Deadlime 14 years ago [Login to reply]

Yeah, I knew there was someone unaccounted for - he'd have been better hidden if he didn't keep calling out "it'll take more than that to hurt me!" with every lungful of nerve-gas he drew.
My last alien would SO have finished those last guys off... boo to the client! Fun all the same though. Think I learned a lot about hiding in nerve gas today :)
Posted by pickupsticks 14 years ago [Login to reply]

Actually there is the option of Smoke Grenades to hide in/behind. That was a desperate act of improvisation. :)
Posted by Deadlime 14 years ago [Login to reply]

I meant for ME hiding in the nerve gas... sitting there thinking "how ever am I going to cross all this open space" and you kindly set up a smokescreen for me. Picking my way through without breathing it in was...... interesting, shall we say. I might need to do some work down the training ranges to figure out how quickly NG dissipates, and whether you can set an NG 'nade off with another 'nade, all that fun stuff.
Posted by pickupsticks 14 years ago [Login to reply]

Do we know why the game was awarded to you, even though I still had a combat ready unit? Is it a VPs for the units you killed, thing? Or... something more sinister?? *evil laugh sfx and lighting at the windows*
Posted by pickupsticks 14 years ago [Login to reply]

Schoolboys should have more sense than to come to a fight like this! Although some of the schools in SE London, they'd have weapons enough to hold their own.
Posted by pickupsticks 14 years ago [Login to reply]

Oh right, lol. Yeah that 1st NG probably backfired a bit. To make matters worse all of my rockets missed.

FYI - Nerve Gas dissipates at a very random rate. All grenades have a 50% change of detonating other Grenades caught within the radius. NG and Smoke included.
Posted by Deadlime 14 years ago [Login to reply]

"change" ??? I meant to say chance.
Posted by Deadlime 14 years ago [Login to reply]

Hm. Figured you could set them off like that. Was looking at that other cannister you'd planted, thinking "what's going to happen to that?".
Where were those rockets aimed? Sure made a mess of the house. Hope your insurance is up to date.
Posted by pickupsticks 14 years ago [Login to reply]

Yeah the game is programmed so any player who reaches 100 VPs automatically wins the mission. I can only assume that when the mission was created (or edited at some point) the VPs per unit were miscalculated so the Humans reach 100 VPs too soon.
Posted by Deadlime 14 years ago [Login to reply]

I was aiming for an Alien you had visible standing in front of the Nerve Gas. I figured if I missed him I had a strong chance of hitting something hiding behind the gas, and if not I might kill some of your units moving through the house, but no - NOTHING.
Posted by Deadlime 14 years ago [Login to reply]

Well if it's any consolation you frightened the life out of me when you opened fire.
Posted by pickupsticks 14 years ago [Login to reply]

Maybe my last alien was such a loser that he didn't count for any VPs. I know he's always been a disappointment to his parents.
Posted by pickupsticks 14 years ago [Login to reply]

He shouldn't be so down, the fact he was discounted from the VPs was the only reason he was your sole survivor. ;)
Posted by Deadlime 14 years ago [Login to reply]

Off to spawn a new brood, then and pass on his worthless genes! :)

And off to bed for me now. Hope to meet you on the field again some time soon.
Posted by pickupsticks 14 years ago [Login to reply]

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