You are not the grand heroes of this story. You are not the legendary and nearly unstoppable X-Com, more myth than fact. You, each and every voter are a member of a small Texas town. Advent came to take away your weapons and to enforce their new global laws and "communication" (monitoring) devices. It was already a tense situation many of you wanted to fight them to resist and rebel. It would be foolish though and even if the story of X-Com gave you hope it means little if they are not there.
For a time it seemed that this would not end in disaster, that they would take your weapons and leave. Then one home refused with force, everyone they could get was inside and peeking out with rifles. A standoff developed until late into the night. An Advent trooper saw someone sneaking around the home and with what looked like a rifle. He fired without hesitation, killing a 12-year-old girl named Sally. She had been trying to sneak some of the guns out slowly to help end the standoff she just wanted everyone to be okay. People saw this, having been watching the standoff. Phones sent pictures, texts, and calls. A riot started to form and Advent troopers fired into it. Pistols and knives where drawn other people came running from there homes with rifles or shotguns. The Advent squad was surrounded and outgunned. They died quickly but they had not been alone. Other Squads came running and with heavy vehicles and advanced weaponry, it seemed like it was about to be a bloodbath.
Then the helicarrier appeared. Mother fucking X-Com arrived. The legends didn't live up to them, you saw one of them make a headshot with a sniper rifle while fast roping down the still moving helicarrier. Genetic modification? Cybernetics? Just that damn good? Who knows but they came down like the hammer of god. They joined the state troopers that were making up the bulk of the fighting forces and walked through the battlefield with no fear. It took them only a few minutes to turn it from a slaughter of the town to a slaughter of Advent.
As fast as the came they left again, leaving only a few parting words of wisdom and gifts. They told you that aliens are unlikely to use aircraft, you are a small fish in a big pond a lot of major cities are revolting as well even if they aren't reporting on it. Not to mention most aircraft were hunting them. They gave you blueprints on how to build a radio tower that would put you in contact with X-Com and other points of resistance and finally they gave you one of the arc throwers they use as a sidearm recommending you use it to learn how to make your own.
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Every turn there will be a vote for which projects the town should focus on (one of each type).
The winners of that vote will have all of the towns base resources spent on it ( If finished leftover points get applied to the 2nd, then 3rd place etc).
Asides from that vote, each person may vote on a project to work on personally, applying points directly to that project.
Omakes DOUBLE the value of a vote and may if particularly good unlock other bonuses.
Events may happen that give omakes special votes as well. (in previous threads there was an omake only vote option temporarily for a special resource)
Projects are divided into three types:
Construction: Building, walls, buildings, trenches bunkers. Projects of this type tend to be very expensive but very powerful. These will massively change the battlefield.
Production: Building or modifying things, mostly personal equipment. An army or defenses does not work without guns, grenades, armor and so much more. Also used for some upgrades
Research: Scientific understanding, this unlocks new things to be produced or provides various bonuses.
Town Current Resources:
Base Construction: 100
Vote Construction:5
Base Production: 100
Vote Production:5
Base Research: 100
Vote Research:5
Primary Weapons: (Long Range/ Short range bonus)
Rifle: 4/0
Assault rifle: 3/1
Smg: 2/2
Shotgun:1/3
Big ass sword:0/4
Units:
HP:10
Veteran Level +2 has been around the block a few times
Long Range Strength +1 (3)
Short Range Strength +4 (6)
-----------Other Skills
Courage: 3
Medic: 0
Live Capture: 2 Years of police work has its perks.
-----------Equipment Weapons:
Shotgun:+1/+3
Pistol +0/+1
Armor:
Kevlar Vest: -1/-1
HP:10
Veteran Level +2 has been around the block a few times
Long Range Strength +1 (+2)
Short Range Strength +4 (+6)
-----------Other Skills
Courage: 3
Medic: 0
Live Capture: 2 Years of police work has its perks.
-----------Equipment Weapons:
Shotgun:+1/+3
Pistol +0/+1
Armor:
Kevlar Vest: -1/-1
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What advantage does your town have?
[]Community College: You have a real scientific center, with real laboratories and people who know how to use them. You're not Harvard by any means, but you are way more suited to R&D than most towns would be. Knowledge is your weapon.
+100 Base Research Points per turn
+5 Research Points per research dedicated vote
[]Technical College: You have a much more practical college focused on engineering, gunsmithing, automotive repair and similar. Weapons are my weapons.
+100 Base Production Points per turn
+5 Production Points per dedicated vote.
[]Developing Town: Your town was starting to grow before the aliens arrived. You have real construction vehicles around town and an unfinished mall.
+100 Base Construction Points per turn
+5 Construction Points per dedicated vote.
[]National Gaurd Base: You town held a small national guard base. It didn't have anything like tanks or artillery, but it does have a pair of armored jeeps and a few trained men with weapons.
+2 Up-armored Humvees
+2 Squads of trained soldiers.
X-Com Communications Tower: The tower that X-com told you to build. It will give access to the black market, resistance network and of course X-Com. (200)
Level 1 Trench: Just a few foot hexagon trench dug out of the ground to stop Advent from just driving up and murdering everyone. It is the first step in forcing the location of any battle. Also, materials pulled out will be convertible into Adobe to build walls later. (600 CP)
Level 1 Hydroponics Center: Food is not an immediate concern, but your home may soon be a war zone, not only are you worried about the shipments stopping to your various stores because of rebellion but you may in the future be under siege. (200 CP)
Level 1 Military Shooting Range: A place where your squads can train their long-range combat skills. The town has shooting ranges, but not to the standard needed.(100 CP)
Level 1 Gym: A place where your squads can train their short-range combat skills. (100 CP)
Level 1 Expanded Construction Center: Adding a living area and other neccisities near the work station can greatly increase the amount of work doable in a day. (200 CP)
+50 Base Construction Points per turn
Level 1 Expanded Production Center:Adding a living area and other neccisities near the work station can greatly increase the amount of work doable in a day. (200 CP)
+50 Base Production Points per turn
Level 1 Expanded Research Center:Adding a living area and other neccisities near the work station can greatly increase the amount of work doable in a day. (200 CP)
+50 Base Research Points per turn
Hardened steel ballistic plates: There is a surprisingly easy method of making ballistic plate body armor. A major step up from a Kevlar vest, and once you have Kevlar production you can use it to carry these. (50 PP per squad)
Guns: Currently you don't have any guns stockpiled, if you ever want to produce more squads or equip them differently you are going to need to produce some primary weapons: (100 Points per squad)
Weapon Customization: Every member of every squad has a wish list for there weapon. Jungle style magazines, red dot laser sights or custom stocks you can knock out the better thought out of any given wish list to give them a bonus in ranged combat. (50 PP per squad)
Ammo Stockpile: Everyone has a few magazines at the moment but extra ammo could be spent to enhance training and make soldiers feel a bit better knowing they have more ammo than what is on their person. (20 Points Each)
.50 Cal: A thing of destructive beauty a single .50 Caliber machine gun to be bolted to a truck bed, or a fixed heavy weapons position. (200 PP each)
Level 1 Extra Construction Tools: With so many volunteers you need to quickly build the most basic tools so they can have a bigger impact. (100 PP)
+5 Construction Points per construction dedicated vote
Level 1 Extra Production Tools: With so many volunteers you need to quickly build the most basic tools so they can have a bigger impact. (100 PP)
+5 Production Points per production dedicated vote
Level 1 Extra Research Tools: With so many volunteers you need to quickly build the most basic tools so they can have a bigger impact. (100 PP)
+5 Research Points per research dedicated vote
Alien Alloy Basics: When the Advent soldiers were killed they exploded shortly afterward leaving only a pile of gore and what shards you could find of there next generation material, now if only you can learn to use them. (250 RP) Unlocks Alien Alloy
Kevlar Production: While Alien Alloy is rare Kevlar with some research can be produced as fast as you are willing to invest in it. It may even be usable with other materials for better armor eventually. (100 RP)
Reverse Engineering Arc Thrower: The ability to capture advent troops alive would mean valuable information and possibly equipment and it is probably a good idea to know how to make more arc throwers before risking your only one in combat. (500 RP)
Melee weapon experimentation: X-Com does it! Well more importantly many of the aliens rush into close combat, having a decent stabbing implement on hand may be the difference between life and death. This is designing a bladed weapon for melee combat with those aliens or advent troops. Long enough to matter short enough to wear practically. (50 RP)
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Most turns will allow up to 4 votes, this turn has 5 for the one-time bonus.
Remember, voting for priority is just what you think the town should do with it's automated resources.
Personal action can be any project and add points automatically. (Doubled for an omake!)
Town Perk:[]
Construction Priority:[]
Production Priotiy:[]
Research Priority[]
My personal action:[]
You are in the middle of nowhere Texas. The terrain is softly rolling arid plains. Not quite a full-fledged desert but not far from it either. It has enough vegetation that you may be able to crawl to hide, but most certainly it's not tall enough to walk or drive. The town has a few ranches surrounding it, they are each several hundred acres each with natural gas, cattle, turkeys or other resources that work in the climate.
You have hundreds of miles in every direction that is almost entirely just open land high way and low shrubbery.
The War Machine:
The Workshop:
You have converted an old self-storage facility into a major industrial center. Some storage units now hold supplies, with people who go through them organizing and recording them. The larger units got turned into workshops, some with the walls knocked down to expand them. With everyone in one area, you have removed most transportation times, and people are quickly teaching each other and learning how to work together to produce much more.
The Construction Center:
The once simple building for the organization and planning of city construction has grown quite a bit. They have been given cots and had the building expanded so more people could work as well as having a variety of new tools.
The Lab: Yes they are working out of a double garage but it's far better than the small basement they were in before. With real desk, computers, and most of the walls painted to be chalk boards they are making far more progress than before.
Hydroponics Center: Rows upon rows of fruits and vegetables are being grown in the large warehouse-like building. Simple controls let someone change what plants receive water as well as when. Many townspeople have already planted and are steadily growing all of their favorite things turning it into part community garden.
Proper Gunsmithy: Formalization and training of a large number of gunsmiths in an appropriately large specialized workshop will massively increase your ability to arm your squads.
Defences:
Trench: Just a few foot hexagon trench dug out of the ground to stop Advent from just driving up and murdering everyone. It is the first step in forcing the location of any battle. Also, materials pulled out will be convertible into Adobe to build walls later.
The Military Base:
X-Com Communications Tower: The tower that X-com told you to build. It will give access to the black market, resistance network and of course X-Com.
Level 1 Military Shooting Range: A place where your squads can train their long-range combat skills. The town has shooting ranges, but not to the standard needed.
Level 1 Gym: A place where your squads can train their short-range combat skills.
Specialist training center: Making a proper facility where the various experts can teach, and manuals and training grounds can be placed for the various classes will greatly enhance their effectiveness.
Town Perk:[x] Developing Town
Construction Priority:[X] X-Com Communications Tower
Production Priotiy:[x] Hardened steel ballistic platesx2
Research Priority[x] Kevlar Production
My personal action:[x] Construction X-Com Communications Tower
Building Town! Make the biggest small texan town ever! We shall make a dyson shell around our solar system!
Make the Tower! Commander'll like not having to make a tower himself for once! If we're the last for the continent bonus that'd be sweet too.
Plate armor for our vets to remain vets and not dead! Also to better defend against archers while they ride upon them from horseback with lances!
Kevlar for the sake of making swarms of squad guys!
Town Perk: [X]Developing Town
Construction Priority: [X]Level 1 Expanded Construction Center
Production Priority: [X] Level 1 Extra Construction Tools
Research Priority: [X]Kevlar Production
My personal action:[X] Construction X-Com Communications Tower
So with the Developing Town perk we get the ability to build 1 of the construction boosters a turn, and first turn I'm voting to use it on getting even more construction points to keep this snowball rolling. For Production priority? Hey, we can get a thing that effectively allows our personal votes have two effects whenever we do research. What's that you say? even more construction points? Why yes, I would like to keep this snowball rolling hard. We can also finish that in one turn.
Research for kevlar because it's relatively quick and easy and can help us, personal action for melee research, though taking one of the production actions could be worth it.
Edit: Trimmed words to make the vote easier to read.
Edit 2: Due to the way the QM is speaking bellow, I believe that the tools are supposed to be +5 points of construction per construction related vote for the production item. Which is still amazing as it makes our personal actions much more effective. I have changed my personal action to reflect this bonus.
Level 1 Extra Construction Tools: With so many volunteers you need to quickly build the most basic tools so they can have a bigger impact. (100 PP)
+5 Construction Points per research dedicated vote
I interpreted this as 'every person who does a research dedicated vote contributes an extra 5 points to the overall construction pool'. Is it supposed to mean that every dedicated construction vote will have 5 points added to it instead?
I interpreted this as 'every person who does a research dedicated vote contributes an extra 5 points to the overall construction pool'. Is it supposed to mean that every dedicated construction vote will have 5 points added to it instead?
[]Developing Town: Your town was starting to grow before the aliens arrived. You have real construction vehicles around town and an unfinished mall.
+100 Base Construction Points per turn
+5 Construction Points per dedicated vote.
Level 1 Extra Construction Tools: With so many volunteers you need to quickly build the most basic tools so they can have a bigger impact. (100 PP)
+5 Construction Points per construction dedicated vote
Okay had to make an edit, because I missed a copy paste error.
But yeah, developing town, and extra construction tools, but add a flat +5 to the value of personal action votes.
Which starts at a base of 5.
Omakes double.
So 30. I'll check over my work (again) when I wake up. Since I was drinking and all.
Town Perk: [X]Developing Town
Construction Priority: [X]Level 1 Expanded Production Center:
Production Priority: [X] Level 1 Extra Production Tools:
Research Priority: [X] Alien Alloy Basics
My Personal Action: [X] Alien Alloy Basics
Town Perk: [X]Developing Town
Construction Priority: [X]Level 1 Expanded Construction Center
Production Priority: [X] Level 1 Extra Construction Tools
Research Priority: [X]Kevlar Production
My personal action:[X] Construction X-Com Communications Tower
Just checking- but establishing a story about a character in this town would count as a decent omake right? I'm way out of practice with this but it's worth it for the bonus points.
Town Perk: [X]Developing Town
Construction Priority: [X]Level 1 Expanded Construction Center
Production Priority: [X] Level 1 Extra Construction Tools
Research Priority: [X]Kevlar Production
My personal action:[X] Construction X-Com Communications Tower
Just checking- but establishing a story about a character in this town would count as a decent omake right? I'm way out of practice with this but it's worth it for the bonus points.
@Zedalb How do we go about recruiting and training additional squads of troops? I'm assuming building the Shooting Range and Gym will help with training squads up to higher levels of skill but what about recruiting them?
@Zedalb How do we go about recruiting and training additional squads of troops? I'm assuming building the Shooting Range and Gym will help with training squads up to higher levels of skill but what about recruiting them?
Sorry about the low quality here.
Omake: Construction Plans
John Clark had always been a malcontent.
It shouldn't been him working the stupid construction tower. Who cared if he was a construction worker? Everybody acted like just because aliens had invaded and threatened to kill them all he should work without pay! It was so unfair!
"Would you stop your bloody whining!"
That was Jane. The Tyrant Maximus, also known as John's Mum. She'd trained him in construction so much that he was competent at fifteen, but that didn't mean he liked her. After all, wasn't it child abuse to force kids to learn to work?
Whatever. John would just complete the tower. Then he'd alert XCom or somebody and find some people out in this world who were opposed to slavery. John owned his own food patches after all- if he just grew his food he'd leave them alone and they'd leave him alone! Stupid mother pointing a gun at him to make him work...
[X]Developing Town
[X]Level 1 Expanded Construction Center
[X]Hardened steel ballistic plates x2
[X]Kevlar Production
[X]Construction X-Com Communications Tower
@Zedalb As I understand this, if Developing Town wins (as it seems to be doing so far) we get 200 CP as our base amount every turn, plus 10 CP for every personal action vote, while Production gets 100 PP per turn with 5 PP per personal action vote, and Research gets a base 100 RP per turn with 5 RP per personal action vote. That's not counting bonuses for Centres built by Construction or Tols built by Production. Is that right?
[X]Developing Town
[X]Level 1 Expanded Construction Center
[X]Hardened steel ballistic plates x2
[X]Kevlar Production
[X]Construction X-Com Communications Tower
@Zedalb As I understand this, if Developing Town wins (as it seems to be doing so far) we get 200 CP as our base amount every turn, plus 10 CP for every personal action vote, while Production gets 100 PP per turn with 5 PP per personal action vote, and Research gets a base 100 RP per turn with 5 RP per personal action vote. That's not counting bonuses for Centres built by Construction or Tols built by Production. Is that right?
Town Perk:[x] Developing Town
Construction Priority:[X] X-Com Communications Tower
Production Priotiy:[x] Hardened steel ballistic platesx2
Research Priority[x] Kevlar Production
My personal action:[x] Construction X-Com Communications Tower
Town Perk: [X]Developing Town
Construction Priority: [X]Construction X-Com Communications Tower
Production Priority: [X] Level 1 Extra Construction Tools
Research Priority: [X]Kevlar Production
My personal action:[X] Kevlar Production
Town Perk: [X]Developing Town
Construction Priority: [X]Level 1 Expanded Construction Center
Production Priority: [X] Level 1 Extra Construction Tools
Research Priority: [X]Kevlar Production
My personal action:[X] Construction X-Com Communications Tower
Town Perk: [X]Developing Town
Construction Priority: [X]Level 1 Expanded Production Center:
Production Priority: [X] Level 1 Extra Production Tools:
Research Priority: [X] Alien Alloy Basics
My Personal Action: [X] Alien Alloy Basics
