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Detonate <deto...@NOSPAMdetonate.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:953997144.17740.0.nnrp-03.c2deb095@news.demon.co.uk...
> > Is it strange to remember your best soldiers name from the first time
> > you ever played UFO? Like, 7 years ago?

Lost 10 men to my first ethereal battleship.
A stylish tactical advance on the battleships legs was interrupted first by
a sectopod killing a primed and ready grenadier causing four other men to be
exploded and then by a blaster bomb from the engine room causing another
three to be vaporised.
A hail of plasma from unidentified sources wiped out two more... eventually.
As the commander, left on his own with no support sprinted back to the
skyranger a barrage of heavy plasma shots took his legs off and then killed
him.
Jungo Akira and one other were left in the skyranger...
it would have been sensible to lift off and call it quits... but I was angry
with them.
So the other one set off into the thick of things and got shot in the head
by a sectopod upon leaving the ship.
This left Jungo Akira huddling in the back of the ship with nothing but a
stun rod and jelly legs.
This again would have been a good time to lift off and head home...
but no!! I thought if you're gonna go down, you should go down fighting, so
Jungo ventured forth, running like a madman from the ship to get some
weapons, unfortunately before he could reach the few corpses remaining,
(Blaster bombs make it hard to find remains) an ethereal stepped out from
the bushes and shot him in the arm.
I thought this was most unsporting behaviour so he got rudely poked by a
stun rod. A very handy aquisition of a heavy plasma, unfortunately it only
had about 3 or 4 shots left.
3 or 4 shots later, a new and shinier heavy plasma with a much greater ammo
stock, and the commanders .38 pistol.
He continued hacking, slashing and slaughtering his way through the
battleship (with regular breaks to allow him to wet himself) until no
ethereal was left standing. Since the rest of the squad had been wiped out
he ended up being rapidly promoted (after a few more troopers had been
recruited) to commander.

Trajen