Again Alpha Squad. Again a map where you cannot advance and get cover within the first turn.
In their turn the aliens crawled out of their holes from all around. They move, fire and can still use RF in our turn. There is nothing I can do than crouch and pray in the first, and shoot and pray in the second turn. While shooting and praying, we managed to kill three of them, while Crystan, Geisthund and Julia Kuzmin on our side were wounded by RF.
ChemBro, although he had good cover, was hit by a bolt from a Plasma Rifle during the aliens turn and the mission is a disaster by now. Thanks to the improved range of the GL Julia Kusmin could take revenge and kill the armoured Taman that was hiding inside the building.
The injured veterans stay back, while the rest of the squad moves foreward. John_dArc takes lead.
And Jon proves to be a good leader. He kills the last alien by simply lobbing a Frag Grenade between its feet.
We won the mission, but Geever (Of course we wont risk loosing him on the battlefield, but he posted itt, so he is now Base Commander of Phalanx HQ.) can only shake his head if he looks down at this -
Crystan, ChemBro and Julia, three of the very best, are near death, Geisthund, Allison and Pranjeeta are also out of duty. And still nearly two weeks for replacement to arrive. Geever will have a hard time bringing Alpha Squad back to the battlefield.
At least Crystan and Allison are together now.
