this time we took down a ship over the middle east, which means no more forest terrain for us. this mission took place in desert, with no trees to provide cover aside from the occasional cactus. this proved a little problematic, as much like our very first mission this UFO contained seven survivors, all of them snakemen with a shoot first and ask questions later approach.
these snakemen were fairly conservative in the main, although there was one stood right in front of the ship's door as we disembarked, taking out
@Burkhard before we could react. there were further casualties, as will be detailed below, but eventually we cornered three aliens in the ship and patiently picked them off. the final extraterrestrial was some kind of invincible predator motherfucker, standing in the middle of his ship facing the door and continuing to fire back even after taking multiple rifle shots.
@TechnicalBarbarity eventually grew impatient, walking up to the door and firing a rocket into the hull, an effective strategy albeit one which probably destroyed some precious loot.
the others to fall were
@Anom@nder Rake, who finally got a kill on his
fifth mission before tragically taking a stray bullet intended for
@arg, and the newly promoted sergeant
@Baroque. rest in peace, brave soldiers. arg, meanwhile, was the most effective here with two kills; wainds, oz, krig and tech got the others. arg, wainds and carpe are promoted to squaddie.