Rating Very Good [:D]
Balance 3.925 million
Researched 1 item, a new weapon for the troops!
Missions 5 (scout, fighter, base assault, base recovery, Terror)
Contacts/Shotdown
Scouts 3/3
Fighters 6/2
Type 3 craft 2/1
Top Go Getters
CPL Amra Corsair _____ 8 kills (recruited in JUN)
CFC Susan Day _______ 7 kills
SGT John J. Johnson ___ 6 kills
Total War to date Trooper Kills = 183 (plus 26 for the lt tank)
Sarah is now SFC
Trooper strength, total 13, 7 active, 6 in sickbay
Rating Excellent [:)][8D]
Balance 4.161 million
Researched 4 items
Missions 5 (fighterx3, base recovery, Terror)
Contacts/Shotdown
SCT 3/1
FTR 6/4
Kills total for the Month = 44 (no tanks were used)
Top Go Getters
CFC Alyssa Carlyle 10
SGT B.A. Barackus 7
CFC Brad Masters 7
Total Trooper strength not changed (13)
5 active, 8 in sickbay
Funds are up, we are saving for some big ticket items to build.
The enemy has been kicked off-world, for now.
Trooper training going well as all troopers strive for a solid balance across the skills.
The enemy conquers our base in Thermos often. We counterattack and make experience. Having a base on the other side of the world allows us to get funds from that region. If the enemy attacks closer to home, and lands a ship to conquer a region we lack a base in, we are close and can quickly launch a recon mission to discover the enemy base.
We have bases in the following regions:
Ilyria (Main Base)
Medie (Medieval base)
Stratos (Starlight base)
Thermos (Inferno base)
Building more bases right now seems unnecessary. We direct the action by forcing the enemy to take what is available. Of course, sooner or later the enemy will attack either Stratos or Medie base.
We have not sold a single artefact. Only 1 Lab and 2 Workshops grace Main Base. We have 3 Raptor air squadrons, with exceptional missiles and cannons. We are keeping a slither commander on ice for now.
Note: Yes, this is a restart. Yes, it is still on HARD difficulty. Max funds from any region is 467k. Only regions with bases give that amount, otherwise the max is 292k.
Rating Very Good [:D]
Balance 4.080 million
Researched 2 items
Missions 3
Kills total for the month = 32 for the soldiers
Top Go Getters
SGT Juma M'binga with 6 kills
CFC Susan Day with 6 kills
SGT Alyssa Carlyle with 5 kills
Total Troopers 14
9 active, 5 in hospital at end of month
4 interceptors and 4 bases
Overall this was a light month. General Hawken is concerned that the aliens have some tricks up their proverbial sleves in the near future, so we added a 4th interceptor. The new rifles work wonderfully, and ammo supply is very high (80+ rounds for new rifle, 25+ for the heavy gun).
High Command is wondering if the politicians and press even read the reports. Still, HC is pleased to be able to keep track of accurate records.
Rating Excellent [:)][8D]
Balance 4.249 million
Researched 2 technologies
Missions 9 __ war total of 38 succesful missions, 5 aborted
Type Contacts/Shotdown Missions/Success
Scout ______ 5/4 __________ 3/3
Fighter _____ 3/2 __________ 1/1
CA _________ 4/2 __________ 2/2 (one was a recon mission to Patria)
Base Assault _______________ 1/1
Base Recovery _____________ 1/1
Terror ____________________ 1/1
Total Monthly Kills
89 for soldiers, 0 for tanks
(war totals 348 for the soldiers/26 for the tanks/combined total of 374)
Top Go Getters for SEP
SGT Amra Corsair ____ 12 kills
SFC Sarah McIntyre __ 11 kills
SFC Nancy Perry _____ 11 kills
CPL Kelly Thompson __ 9 kills (recruited in SEP)
Very active month. Many large missions occured after the usual training runs in the early month. High Command made the mistake of exploring a late-month scout and had 3 casualties (Amra out for 42 days, he will miss all of OCT). Only two techs researched but they add up to less time in sickbay, eventually (once built). The scout where Amra bought it was 1 day before the new building came on line ([:(]).
The enemy conquered Patria with a CA so we went and investigated. Many Bugs. Immediately after refuel we went and smoked out the Base they had there. Enemy also retook Inferno base in Thermos, as usual. We had to retake that again, (monthly occurance). In the middle of the month the aliens terrorized Pulsar, but they were annihilited.
Rating Very Good [:D]
Balance 3.752 million
Researched 4 technologies
Missions 2 (fighter, base recovery) (40 for the war so far)
Contacts/Shotdown Missions/Success
Scout _____ 2/2 ________ 0
Fighter ____ 4/4 ________ 1/1
CA _______ 1/0
Base Recovery __________ 1/1
Total Monthly Kills
20 for soldiers (0 tanks were used)
Total War tally for kills is now 368 (plus 26 from light tanks, 394 ttl)
Top Go Getters for OCT
SGT Michelle Hillsdale __ 3 kills
CPL Neo Matrix _______ 3 kills (including a kill that was 4 screens away! what a scroll!)
six others with 2 each
Very slow month. The warriors kinda needed the time off after September's furious action. We made key breakthroughs in tech and it looks like R&D is going to have a field day. We still have not sold any artefacts. Finance department thinks we can get like 4 million for our stockpiles of alien junk.
16 total troopers
14 active and 2 in the tank
enemy owns ZERO regions
we still have only 4 bases (MB and the three others) Inferno base in Thermos Region falls often but we take it back (training mission! [:)][8D][;)])
4 interceptors (Raptor squadrons)
1 transport [;)][:D][;)]
1 Lab and 2 Workshops (Lab about to be scrapped in 25 days)
Rating Good [:)]
Balance 3.792 million
Researched 2 techs
Missions 8 (1 sct, 2 ftr, 2 ca, 1 base aslt, 2 terror)
Contacts/Shotdown Missions/Success
Scout _____ 8/7 ________ 1/1
Fighter ____ 5/4 ________ 2/2
CA _______ 5/1 ________ 2/2
Base Assault ___________ 1/1 (Syrtis Major)
Terror ________________ 2/2 (had 4 terror in one month, could only do 2)
Top Go Getters
SFC Joe Mama _______ 16 kills
SFC B.A. Barackus ____ 13 kills
SFC Sarah McIntyre ___ 9 kills
SFC Amra Corsair _____ 9 kills
Total Kills for the Month = 80 (war total 474)
Things heated up and became nasty. We had multiple targets over Ilyria this month and lost a Raptor. We no longer have air supremacy. Although all missions were successful we had to pass on 2 of 4 Terror missions. The scout was not worth the effort as a floater hid on a lvl 3 building while throwing green goo at us (we could not see it and had to go get it, easy enough but still [:'(].) Warriors were in the tank often, and even with the latest tech 30 days is again the norm for a downed soldier. Still, we are doing fine. We passed on the super tech increase, but we may get it this month.
Rating Excellent [:)][8D]
Balance 2.110 million
Researched 3 techs
Missions 4 (3xFighters, 1 Base Recovery, 52 successful missions in the war)
Contacts/Shotdown Missions/Success
Scout ____ 1/1 ________ 0
Fighters __ 3/3 _______ 3/3
Base Recovery ________ 1/1 (Thermos base, again [X(])
Top Go Getters
SSG Sarah McIntyre _____ 7 kills (as usual, had no choice)
SFC Nancy Perry ________ 5 kills
CFC Kelly Thompson _____ 4 kills
Kills for the Month _______ 36 (war total 510)
Nice quiet month. After Nov., we needed it. Only 3 troopers in the tank out of 18, so Jan will be busy. Still kept the old Lab and 2 workshops. Built new fighters, air control over Ilyria regained (for now). Spent much money. Now that we have an SSG, things will get tougher.
I noted that the game gives easier missions if the rank averages on missions is low as opposed to high.
End of Year summary will be posted tomorrow after work [:)]
END OF YEAR SUMMARY 2108
SSG Sarah McIntyre __________ 73 kills
SFC B.A. Barackus ____________ 54 kills
SFC Nancy Perry _____________ 53 kills
SFC Amra Corsair _____________ 37 kills
SFC Joe Mama _______________ 32 kills
SGT Alyssa Carlyle ____________ 30 kills
SGT John J. Johnson __________ 30 kills
SGT Brad Masters _____________ 28 kills
SGT Susan Day _______________ 27 kills
SGT Juma M'binga _____________ 27 kills
SGT Michelle Hillsdale __________ 26 kills
SGT Slim Humult ______________ 22 kills
CFC Kelly Thompson ___________ 18 kills
CFC Neo Matrix _______________ 18 kills
CPL Dave Thorman ____________ 10 kills
CPL Robert Alliston ____________ 9 kills
PFC Zen Fuchida ______________ 6 kills
PVT Janet Gray _______________ 2 kills (MIA in JAN 2109 [:(] )
TOTAL = 528 (plus 26 for light tank, so far)
CONTACTS/SHOTDOWN/MISSIONS/SUCESS
Scout ____ 64/49/11/8
Fighter ___ 76/50/23/21
Type 3 ___ 12/3/4/4
Base Assault ___ -/-/5/5
Base Recovery __ -/-/7/7
Terror _________ -/-/8/6 (did not go to 2)
After I get Bman's mod, hopefully I won't have to use paper and pencil for this [:)]
Rating Very Good [:D]
Balance 3.915 million (finally sold some artefacts, only for 2.7 mill, saving the rest)
Researched 1 tech (not many left, VIP CO and CA and a few others)
Missions 8 (botched scout, 1 ftr, 2 ca, 2 landed ca, 2 base assault)
Total interceptors 6 (3 raptor)
Bases MB + 4 others
Top Go Getters for JAN
SFC B.A. Barackus _________ 10 kills
SFC John J. Johnson ________ 8 kills
SFC Amra Corsair ___________ 7 kills
SSG Sarah McIntyre _________ 7 kills
month total 81 (609 for the war)
successful missions now at 58 of 64
Research is going slow but we are nearing the completion of all initial technology, plus all tech from Scout and Fighter. Interrogation Room has had a slither commander for about a year now, so looks like we might try that in a few months. We will also have to research the Type 3 alien ship soon. We are still fighting shooter-grays, floaters, brown monsters and slither things. We have not seen anything else yet. Three Advanced Interceptors with better cannons than advanced grace our hangars. A new shield awaits us. We built a base on the north pole (gonna try that out). Enemy conquered Pulsar and Peloponesia, but we kicked them out. Not much activity, very few contacts this month. (3 sct, 3 ftr, 4 ca).
lost a rookie when I messed up my loadout on the trans, ah well, there are always more rookies ...
It is now 00:02 hours 10 FEB 2109. Air space lost over whole planet. Many alien ships, including a new, huge craft, have taken over the air lanes of Esperanza. Multiple alien sorties plague the planet. Furthermore, new aliens have arrived and casualties are very high. With these new aliens have come new tactics, and even the old, well-known aliens have received new command training resulting in superior alien tactics (Bman's AI mod setting on Improved). 15 soldiers are currently wounded in just 4 missions so far this month (casualties higher than 15, some were in the tank for only a few days). Most missions result in 70-80% casualties out of 10. Currently there are 4 active troopers at base.
Simulated Battles against the new alien types have resulted in 3 total mission failures with all ten soldiers lost and very light alien casualties. Luckily these were only simulations. (Yes, I have reached this point in the game before, and beyond, up through AKEW, but with the mod it is a LOT harder.) [:)][8D][;)] [:D]
R&D efforts seem behind all of a sudden. Although there were few projects left to research, these new aliens have serious protection and very high health. Standard Rifle, Laser and Shotgun blasts seem to do little to the alien's new armor. Many targets now take 10-15 or more direct hits to take down. Also, the aliens are now using grenades much better than before and a new weapon type that kills our soldiers with one hit (average 72 health per soldier, far too little).
High Command urges caution in all missions. CAF will continue to battle as much as possible. Morale is shaky amongst the troops but holding.
To All Commands Alert Downgraded to Yellow - Hostile Standby for Updated Missions Orders ...
25 February 2109 7:54 hours local Ilyrian time
Air-Space Superiority momentarily reestablished over Ilyrian main continent. Supremacy no longer viable option.
CAF Trooper missions proceeding. Currently at 8 missions for the month and several days left ...
Kill Count at 96 and rising. One Raptor squadron destroyed. Advanced interceptors outfitted with new technology.
Enemy new aliens dealt with but still a major problem. All command personnel instructed to view Standing Combat Tactical Orders Maunal version 23.b/11.
All CAF troopers continue to learn new tactics mission-by-mission. All personnel continue to follow Command Order 11-FEB/C.
All personnel standby ... enemy base in Seathopia located by Air Reconnaissance. Trooper strength better than adequete. General Hawken issues Base Assault attack mission for 25 Feb.
(11pm here, ROUGH month, even for this game, and I am tired ... [>:] )
Rating Excellent [:D]
Balance 4.262 million
Researched 5 techs
Missions 9 (ftr, ca, bcx3, base assault, base recovery, Terrror 2 of 3)
Top Soldiers with Kills in Feb
SSG Saraha McIntyre _________ 14 kills
SSG B.A. Barackus ____________ 11 kills
SSG Joe Mama _______________ 11 kills (error: SSG Nancy Perry had 11, Joe had 7)
SFC Amra Corsair _____________ 11 kills
Total War kills to date = 711 kills
EDIT: Kill total for Feb was 102. end edit
OOC
Well, I had to redo a few missions since I was unfamiliar with the mod. Also, I had not figured that on HARD difficulty that the aliens in tech era 2 would be so formidable. I had fought them before, on Normal game mode in an earlier game, but this time I could not deal with them. I am not certain if I will keep the mod. It does not make any sense when my soldiers are never down for more than 6 days.
IC
Well, a new, larger ship class showed up, with new and improved aliens. We could not engage most of the larger ships we saw. We did, however, manage to shootdown 2 of them, but at the loss of an Interceptor squadron. Research finished up almost all of the tech 1 items, only a base defense is left. We are now starting on the type 3 alien craft.
The battles were very tough and very long. No longer could we sweep the enemy bases with 2-3 troopers in separate squads. We stayed together and never used less than 4 in a squad. Still, casualties were very high. Especially when the new weapons deployed by the aliens were able to kill a soldier in one hit.
Oh, we are using 3 Workshops and 1 standard Lab. We are on alien artefacts for funding.
MARCH 2108 End of Month Summary
Rating Good [:)]
Balance 2.521 million
Missions 3 (ftr, base recovery, Terror)
Contacts 4 (kinda low)
Researched 4 techs
Top Kills for the Month
SSG Nancy Perry _______ 6 kills
SFC Kelly Thompson _____ 6 kills
SSG Joe Mama _________ 5 kills
Total Kills for the Month = 33 (744 total)
Started out hot. Enemy came in on the 2nd and took Thermos base. We recovered it. Then things were quiet. Only had 1 scout and 2 fighters after the base recovery mission. Was only able to go to a scout. One fighter escaped off-world but the other one landed alien pods after being shot down. This was a Terror mission. We won the battle but all civies died.
Supplies of flammable rockets were kinda low but we fixed that. Building new defenses at bases. Added a new base in Pulsar at the beginning of April. Somehow Patria Region is not worth much, 18k tops. We have a base there, too. With a Raptor. Dunno. Base kinda expensive. 20 troopers, 20 active. Wounds seem to heal fast now.
Ratings Excellent/Excellent/Excellent [:D] [:D] [:D] (dunno how, but we pulled it off!)
Balance 2.445/2.451/4.219 million
Missions Total of 21 during this time period (6 sct, 8 ftr, 1 ca, 2 landed bc, 3 base rec, 1 Terror)
Top Kills for Each Month
April ________ SFC Joe Mama _______ 15 kills
May ________ SSG Joe Mama _______ 8 kills
June ________ SSG Joe Mama _______ 9 kills
Top Go Getters for the Quarter
SSG Joe Mama _____________ 32 kills
WO Sarah McIntyre _________ 24 kills
SSG Nancy Perry ___________ 21 kills
SSG John J. Johnson ________ 18 kills
SSG Kelly Thompson ________ 18 kills
Total Kills for the Quarter = 219 kills (War Total of 963 kills)
Big Joe sure racked up the kills, didn't he! Guess when the others were in sickbay he had to lead the squad. That shotgun sure works well, and the flamethrower. [8D]
Nancy always has the hvy laser, Sarah and Kelly have lsr rifles, but John J. has a stock projectile Rifle (sometimes he has chem, sometimes RL, sometimes FlmThrwr, but always with a Rifle!) [;)]
Not much new, other than MANY alien contacts in May. We had to pick and choose our missions with care since fuel on the transy was low and many soldiers were in the hospital. June was a bit touchy, as the aliens attempted to locate our bases in Ilyria and Medie. We went to 2 landed BC for Ilyria. We also had to fight the machines on a Golf Course! Those aliens had us surrounded, somehow we pulled it out. Many missions during this time period resulted in high casualties. We had 8 out of 8 go to the hospital several times. Good thing the training specialists have helped to augment out troopers Health!
Machines are still a problem but we are holding our own against them. Incend. Rocket production is very high. Most troopers have lasers, and some still use the standard Rifle and Shotgun.
Research - only 6 technologies were researched in this quarter. We have 1 standard Lab and 3 workshops.
All troopers have brain defense. New armor almost researched. Ammo supplies high. 6 medikits and 6 adv medkits keep our soldiers healthy. We have 5 bases besides main base.
Interceptor Strength
3 advanced ltn
4 raptor
Contacts/shotdown
Scout 19/17
Fighter 13/10
ca 4/3
bc 7/0
zero aborted missions (several were kinda close tho!)
Funding is still a concern. We would like to add another lab, maybe advanced, but cannot afford the cost.
(I am actually trying to get thru the HARD game with just 1 standard lab. We'll see if I can ...)
Air-Space Force Monitoring Station Ilyrian Main Base
"Large enemy contact materializing over southern Ilyria!," the radar monitor's voiced was filled with shakiness as a huge enemy, alien vessel popped in out of thin air from across light years who knows how far. The aliens had somehow managed to harness plasma and use it to 'jump' across space. They could not be tracked until they appeared in Esperanze airspace.
"Heading and Speed," stated the Colonel in charge of that shift's watch.
"Heading directly this way!", stated the radar monitor.
"Calm down, and give 10-second updates." The OIC was anxious as heck but you had to watch your military bearing around these young soldiers.
"Aye-aye, Sir!" was the reply.
The enemy Battlecruiser was definately heading for Ilyrian Main Base area. Although highly unlikely that the aliens would invade main base, one could never tell. All enemy recon missions to Ilrian region were thwarted by the ground-pounders, bless them.
As the enemy craft zipped through the air the OIC waited. And waited. Patiently. The enemy vessel passed was going to pass very close to Medie Base. Hopefully it will keep coming on in, thought the Colonel.
"New enemy contacts! One scout over southern pole region .... One cruiser West of main continent! Both heading this direction!" Radar Monitoring was a slow, sometimes boring job, but when things heated up they really cooked!
The Air-Space Force (ASF) Colonel only nodded. "Stand by all interceptor squadrons main continent," he ordered.
"All INT squadrons check in," ASF squadron communications officer stated.
Three advanced Lightning interceptors with highly advanced tech weapons stood by. Also in the area where three Raptor squadrons with advanced cannons. Unfortunately, these older craft only had stock shields and missiles.
The huge alien vessel closed on the central Ilyrian area. When it did, the Colonel in charge of all ASF operations ordered the Raptor from Pulsar to launch. It had the furthest to fly and needed extra time to get to the target.
Only one BC had ever been downed by the ASF. All of the others had landed unopposed. If the enemy moved correctly, the ASF forces would be in perfect position to hit it with all interceptors while still being close to home. Of course, no one outruns these monsters anymore, any squadron attempting to do so would simply be shot down from behind.
