With the team members getting trained up and armed up it was time to bring in the help of some more allies.
A small force went out to try to bring two rival factions together to help us with our cause.
The Reapers: a bunch of stealthy mercenaries who prefer to kill things from the shadows and from afar.
The Skirmishers: A group of alien/human hybrids that seem to have gone rogue against their former masters, whose preferred fighting style seems to be up close and personal and LOUD!
Splitting into two teams our task was to bring back one of each of these new factions back to the base alive AND have them not kill each other in the process!
E.V and Lanac were tasked with meeting the Reaper representative, while Jef and Joe where to pick up the Skirmisher leader then meet with the first team and get everyone back to base safely!
This task went fairly smoothly until both teams met a group called "The Lost", these are a bunch of hybrids that were left in ruined areas of the city and exposed to some weird radiation which left them as some kind of weird alien zombie creature, their numbers were many!
The fighting was fierce but everyone made it through to the meeting point, Just as we thought we were home and free a new enemy jumped into the mix:
The Chosen!!! We don't know much about these special aliens yet, but they are for sure tough as shit and quite capable of wiping out an entire group.
With the Lost and the Chosen running around we barely made it to the evac point leaving a trail of zombie/alien bodies in our wake.
Unfortunately, the Skirmisher leader "Pratal Mox" was kidnapped right at the evac point by the sneaky chosen, we shall have to rescue him later!
Jef and Lanac bonded on this mission, giving us another pairing with special abilities when they work together.
Joe was the only rookie on this squad but racked up a HUGE amount of kills which earned him a promotion to the Ranger class by the time the mission was over, he did stand a little too close to an explosion and then stood around in some burning wreckage after that which earned him a week of rest in the medical centre!
Our guerilla training facility is now finished so it is less likely that we have to send fresh rookies out.
First to jump into training was new recruit
@Deb ! We can also now run a 5 man team on missions which hopefully will swing the fight more in our favour!
Our final mission of this session saw us going out to rescue a group of resistance members who had been attacked by surprise off the coast of Africa.
We took advantage of having a Reaper in the party and also dragged the last untrained rookie with us (me!)
The fighting went very smoothly with just some minor injuries, we rescued the majority of the resistance members with a fair amount of ease while also meeting a new terrifying shape shifting alien giant that could disguise itself as a human! This will cause us some issues further down the road no doubt!
I was promoted to Specialist with a drone while also bonding with our resident Reaper.
Everybody came away from that battle without a scratch! Things are looking up for our Xcom squad!
The entire episode can be seen here!
