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I know the fanboiz will hate me, but:

It was working fine for me in November. I found comprehensive care for ~$100 a month that is now in effect.

Masters didn't train apprentices for free unless they were family. Those apprentices coming in from outside would pay a hefty amount of money to the master to cover the costs of training the apprentice (room & board, botched material, etc.). Apprentices would be doing the rote drudge work of the...

The Los Angeles and Houston bases were dumbfounded at the silence from LaCroix and the department heads hastily drew up plans, figuring they'll deal with him when he decided to make new plans. "Get the In-Base Transport project going. It'll be fast and we won't lose time with it." "Ge...

The atmosphere in Ft. Good Hope was heavy as Phoenix Company laid its first casualty to rest. Given the paucity of men, a recording of "Taps" was going to have to do for Wolfgang. "All gave some, some gave all. Some stood through for the red, white and blue . . " "Hey! I tho...

Also, recovery would have been a lot slower without the New Deal's abandoning the gold standard. The faster a country was off the gold standard, the faster its recovery from the depression as the governments could then freely devalue the excess money and get it out of the market to where prices coul...

COE FT GOOD HOPE Gumbo and his fellow crewmate rest up from their exposure to Twilight spores courtesy of a sporeblower. Phoenix Company get paged out for a pilot recovery, leaving Gumbo as the only man in infirmary. An orderly comes by, scribbles something on his chart and leaves. A few hours late...

Afterblank is much more forgiving than XCOM in soldier casualties (we also had a bit of a bumper crop thanks to the Goodwill Mission). It also helps that transgenants typically don't shoot to kill.

Well, you wanted to be a scout.

Also, it doesn't help you're near the front of the group and thus you're on the front lines for the close encounters of the suicide bomber kind.

COE BASE LOS ANGELES http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/af266/CaiusWickersham/UFO%20Aftermath/sshot_2013-11-05_14-00-31.jpg The information helped the engineering team figure out a bit on how these alien weapons operated. That they were more grown than built mean they'd have to design a laser weap...

COE BASE FT. GOOD HOPE Two more bases have been established by Phoenix Company: Ft. Good Hope and Churchill in Canada. Their influence was growing in Alaska, but they had taken injuries. Gumbo and Brian took a balloon fish to the face, putting them in sickbay. With an influx of new recruits, many d...

COE BASE DENVER Gumbo came into the armory after a 36 hour romp in the mountains with the scouting instructors. While the "accelerated course" took a toll on the body, Gumbo did find that he was better at spotting and remaining hidden as well as able to move faster. Looking at the growing...

COE BASE HOUSTON The techs looked through the body bags that piled on the freezer when another piped up, "Hey, this cudgel's still kicking! Grab his dead bro and we can do comparisons." With that, a hastily selected group of doctors donned biosuits and started slicing up the two transgena...

COE BASE HOUSTON January 6, 2005 The transition was fairly seemless. Along with the equipment for research and the transfer of personal came trunks full of hard drives, films, slides, and all sorts of media. The main scientists busied themselves with reviewing the events of the Twilight and Fall, p...

COE BASE HOUSTON January 3, 2005 It took two days, but the scientists managed to get the current radar systems to detect any UFOs that may be overhead. Their range is limited, however, given that the UFOs have some sort of stealth technology as the returns are faint and the techs need to squint to ...

OK, UFO Detection selected. It will be a few days before it's completed. COE BASE DENVER Recruits Malcolm McLean and Brian Rowley opted to keep the weapons they came in with. McLean did drop his pistol off to conserve weight, took the flak jacket and helmet and a few more frag grenades. Rowley kept ...

Let's get this started proper, then. http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/af266/CaiusWickersham/UFO%20Aftermath/sshot_2013-09-27_15-12-17.jpg COE BASE HOUSTON Head Scientist LaCroix sits in the large conference room surrounded by the heads of the departments within the engineering base. The departmen...

Okay, LaCroix, I should also mention that the research trees in Aftermath are a bit more elaborate than in XCOM. Taking the screenshot above, I have Gobber Autopsy highlighted. In the middle, there's two things under "Needed." The alien head means a biological specimen or artifact recovere...

http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/af266/CaiusWickersham/UFO%20Aftermath/sshot_2013-09-25_17-12-35.jpg Here is the soldier screen. Every soldier is given a random score in six stats (Strength, Agility, Dexterity, Willpower, Intelligence and Perception). These stats control the level of the soldier...

On May 25, 2004, a giant spacecraft approached the earth. Silent, it hovered ominously over the world and began to release great clouds of spores into the upper atmosphere. Rapidly multiplying, the spores soon darkened the skies, and before long obscured the sun completely. In later days, this peri...

That's nice, Your Holiness. Now, let's see you reverse course on the "snitches get stitches" attitude the Vatican has towards pedophilia among priests.

Wow, a whole week of silence. I take it there's no interest, then?

There's a thought going through my fevered brain and it has found root in a glorious concept. Another Let's Play! Rather than the XCOM games, I decided to do one of its spiritual successors: UFO After[blank] series. Why? Because Kikoskia got me hooked on it and I have the urge to one-up the little g...

And since English professors can't be bothered to give a little historical background ...

If I knew the background as a young college sophomore, I would have felt more pity than disgust in reading the poem.

2) The Charge of the Light Brigade. I don't think this one needs an explanation. The Charge of the Light Brigade was not that much an epic fail in reality. The Light Brigade was ordered to engage an artillery unit that was withdrawing, something light cavalry was very good at doing with their speed...