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Robert Bohnenberger DMD <rtb...@erols.com> wrote in message
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>
> Shingles?  It's adult chickenpox y'know.  Comes from poxy chickens it
> does! :P

Fortunately, it's not contagious.  But it can give people chicken pox if
they've not already had it, huhahaha.

> You've *never* finished it??  It was superior to the original in many
> ways....

I only got it a few months ago.  I started playing it, and stopped before
even reaching my first shipping mission.  That was before all the cool stuff
that I just described happened.  <g>

> I think the best sub weapons are the sonic cannon thingies, IIRC.  It's
> been a while.

I've gotten PWT stuff before reaching the sonic ship cannon, weirdly enough.
<g>
Mind you, I never got psionics when playing UFO (always reached them last on
the research stakes, and could never be bothered to wait two or three months
when I did get them, sicne I could already get to Cydonia!), so having them
in the third month in TFTD is nice.

> > My first shipping mission was a passenger liner.  I think I saved about
75 %
> > of them, with a single casualty.  But that was only against feeble shit
like
> > gillmen, calcinites and other pansy-assed stuff.  It was much, much
worse
> > taking on Tasoths on a cargo ship.  But I still did it, albeit with more
> > civilian deaths (about 40 % dead), and four casualties.
>
> Yikes.

Rar.

> Wont fit anywhere but the starting room on the 2nd level of the ship
> terror mission, but it's worth taking for the additional firepower in
> there.

Heheh, this is one of the first coelacanth - the aqua jet one.  I've not
gotten any more advanced ones yet.  Or any armour better than plastic
aqua-armour.  Which is annoying, to say the least.  I've nearly researched
everything I've got and have still not reached better armour...

> I used to blow a hole in the middle of the roof where the lift/transport
> squares are.  follow up with a few more and taking the building is a
> whole lot easier.

Hmm, good point.  Get rid of all the annoying psis.  <g>

> > I  also got shitted up on turn three or four when two of the vast
jellyfish
> > things (still don't know what they are; don't tell me :-)  )
>
> They're called....T......Te.....Ten.......Brain Thingies. ;)

Nope, tentaculats are floating brains with tentacles.  The vast jellyfish
things are some sort of four-square terror monster.  I haven't researched
them yet... you don't recover the 'upstairs' corpses from the base, so I
can't yet.

> burst out of a
> > building and BOTH finished right next to some of my troopers.  Still, on
> > that first level, I lost... hmm... NONE of my fourteen aquatoids,
although I
> > confess to reloading saves (never did that before on TFTD) when
disruptor
> > pulses blew five or six of my core aquanoughts away.
>
> Use liberal amounts of explosives on these things.  Worse than
> chryssalids they are.

Explosives on what?  The 4-square jellyfish?  Two blasta pulses put paid to
them.  If you mean lobstermen, hell yes, I agree.

> > thirty turns, I found nothing.  Then I found one brain-thing (uhrm...
> > <thinks>... nope, can't remember what they're called; no weapons but
> > powerful psis) and grenaded it (out of boredom <g>).  By this time 80%
of
>
> No psi....but very powerful weapons...better get it straight or you're
> going to be toast.

Nooooo.  You've gotten me confused.  These are useless ickle floating brains
with tentacles.  Tentaculats.  They're good psis, but have fuck-all else to
attack you with.  :-)

> My first lobsterman was encountered by a group of lightly armed and
> armoured troopers....<ctrl> <alt> <delete> <reload>

ROFL.
I wisely researched everything I could before sonic weapons, to avoid
lobstermen.  Unfortunately, this meant taking on tasoths with gauss, but
hey...

> I always travelled in threes at least. One with grenades, one with a
> heavy rifle, one with a dpl.

Hmm, it's an idea.  I don't like threes, though - anything less than that
and the bugs won't use grenades.  I tend to use ickle fireteams of two men
each.  Also great for sweeping a map quickly.
Anyway, on this map I did at first travel in fiar-sized groups, but after
the twentieth turn of nothing I got a bit bored.  <g>

> > I think four or five casualties and one wounded is a fair exchange for
one
> > base's worth of equipment captured intact, one alien colony knocked out,
and
> > one captured lobsterman commander, hey?
>
> Awfully dark down there, though.

Quite so.

> > Robert B - woah!  Best psi of the starting lot.  Plenty kills, plenty
> > experience.  Bright future ahead...
>
> What else would you expect? <g>  Wouldn't it be a lot easier to call him
> Dr. B.?

Nahhhh.  It's always fun to have your name contending with the Russian
troopers' names.

> > There were others of you named in the first crop, but nothing notable
> > occured to those troops.  There's only me and Bob left now.  <sniff>  No
> > save-reloading for me!
>
> Just don't get me killed. :)

You nearly got lobster-ised by four bugs.  But fortunately, one of them
stopped right in front of you (sonic cannon fodder), and the others were
dpl'ed to oblivion.

> > Wow, I just wrote all that?  Blimey.
>
> See how Det got that way?  TFTD did it to him!

<screams in horror>
It's a terrifying thought...

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