(Mission eight continued)
The aliens’ turn reveals that even more menacing threats loom around our position. The Floater thought to have burned to death from Edgar’s spray of incendiary shells fires on the HWP through the store’s window.
And where we thought only three Floaters patrolled, we see a fourth! The stakes are quickly racketing up. One mistake could take this operation for a turn toward the worst.
On our turn, The HWP scouts ahead, only to feel the hot death of plasma rounds from a hidden Floater across the street.
Next, sharpshooter James lines up his iron sights and places a carefully aimed laser blast right through the Floater in the burning convenience store.
Kevin drops another smoke grenade behind the Skyranger in order to give us cover as we move toward the park to the south of the transport. Edgar runs for cover by the front landing gear; however, he spots a Floater with its sights set dead on him. Jason is unable to get a clear shot, so Edgar tries going back to the exit ramp. Unfortunately, he never makes it.
What’s a little weird is that we see the ghost of Edgar continue walking to the back landing gear after his body hits the ground....
Not wanting a repeat of Edgar’s grisly death, Jason chucks a proximity grenade near the Floater who killed our auto-cannon wielding brother-in-arms.
But against direct orders, Kevin fires on the alien anyway, despite the risk of receiving a lethal dose of reaction fire. Lucky for him, he kills the Floater, and I let this insubordination slide.
James again resurrects his hidden sharpshooting abilities and snags an alien across the street with an auto-fire shot, which has the lowest chance to hitting the target. Where were you last mission?!
The HWP takes aim at the three Floaters down the street, but only manages to kill one of them.
The aliens retaliate during the next hidden phase, but they mostly target civilians. We hear their screams, but we can’t do anything about it yet. From across the street, another Floater hurls plasma at the HWP as it scouts forward. Thomas lines up his sights from the foot of the Skyanger and scores a direct hit that kills the alien.
Jay, who’s usually dead on with his firearms, misses another Floater beyond the park in the street. And he nearly kills Jason in the process! Now our way is blocked by deadly fire -- we'll have to walk around.
