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Okay, I've just realised that a few messages I meant for the ng have
been sent to various people...so I've tried to rescue what I meant to
post.  Here's one:

About the nastiness of aliens!

Roger.Chapman wrote:
> 
> Shaun Green (Greenish9) wrote in message
> <360EA503...@greenshb.globalnet.co.uk>...
> >Yeah!  The Apoc aliens were original, unlike those from UFO (although
> >being able to shoot little grey men was cool).  Chryssalids?  Seen the
> >'alien' films, anyone?  Of course, UFO was the atypical alien invasion
> >thing...which was what we all wanted!
> >
> >Greenish_9
> 
> Ok, so the UFO aliens weren't that original, but they were still better than
> Apoc.  Think about how nasty a Cyberdisk could be on a night terror mission.
> Shots coming out of the dark and killing your men and you couldn't find
> where they were coming from!  I can only think of two good weapons in Apoc,
> Megaspawn(a walking weapon) and Dimension Launchers(notice I didn't say
> grenades).

I liked Apocs aliens better..but maybe that was 'cos I liked the game
better!  Grenades were lethal, and devastators just as bad.  And entropy
launchers?  Killers!

> Chrysalids were much nasty than the 'aliens'.  In Aliens,
> the...well...aliens had to drag you off to an egg chambers to get you
> impregnated, and when the egg hatched it was a tiny bugger.  Chrysalids can
> perform a quick de-gutting, turn your man into an alien straight away, and
> when you kill the infected bloke, a full-sized one came out!

Yes, but the Aliens were a lot harder!  And they popped up from the
floor/ceiling/toaster quite nastily...
 
> Yes...I have to agree with you, UFO was what we all wanted.

Yup!  I thank you again for introducing me to it!

Greenish_9