Slayer Command: XCOM with Monsters and Mecha
- Thread starter ShieldCrown
- Start date
- Original
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I feel like Slayer-scale Halberds or other polearms are something we should invest in in the future-having a big axe-spear would likely make killing this spider-titan a lot safer for our pilots without risking as much collateral damage.
- Location
- USA
There is a Research Action to expand Slayer Arsenals.
- Location
- USA
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Operation Fallen Star, Operation Phase Part One
- Location
- USA
[X] Plan Listen to Addams
-[X] Alicia Parks/Slayer-01
--[X] Dual Swords
-[X] Rebecca Rogers/Slayer-02
--[X] Machine Gun
-[X] Ryan Anderson/Slayer-03
--[X] Single Sword
-[X] Task Force 1
--[X] 3 Slayers
-[X] Task Force 2
--[X] 23 Mechanized Infantry, 2 Combat Helicopters, 2 Transport Helicopters, and 2 Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV)
-[X] Task Force 3
--[X] 1 Combat Tank and 3 Experimental Tanks
-[X] Utilize Tanks to defend routes to evacuation sites for civilians, use Transport Helicopters to pick up civilian survivors out of combat zones while Mechanized Infantry, Infantry Fighting Vehicle, and Combat Helicopters are utilized for rapid deployment and engagement against Biomorphs to cover the evacuation of civilians and assist National Guard and Military Forces. The Slayers meanwhile are deployed to all fight the Titan Biomorph(s) and destroy any Biomorphic structures that could be maintaining the Breach.
-[X] Alicia Parks/Slayer-01
--[X] Dual Swords
-[X] Rebecca Rogers/Slayer-02
--[X] Machine Gun
-[X] Ryan Anderson/Slayer-03
--[X] Single Sword
-[X] Task Force 1
--[X] 3 Slayers
-[X] Task Force 2
--[X] 23 Mechanized Infantry, 2 Combat Helicopters, 2 Transport Helicopters, and 2 Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV)
-[X] Task Force 3
--[X] 1 Combat Tank and 3 Experimental Tanks
-[X] Utilize Tanks to defend routes to evacuation sites for civilians, use Transport Helicopters to pick up civilian survivors out of combat zones while Mechanized Infantry, Infantry Fighting Vehicle, and Combat Helicopters are utilized for rapid deployment and engagement against Biomorphs to cover the evacuation of civilians and assist National Guard and Military Forces. The Slayers meanwhile are deployed to all fight the Titan Biomorph(s) and destroy any Biomorphic structures that could be maintaining the Breach.
New York City, USA
The thunderous roar of tank cannons firing into a small horde of Biomorphs charging down the streets of the City That Never Sleeps greeted the transport helicopters as they flew over them, their cargo holds filled with the initial evacuees that task force two managed to rescue in the opening minutes of the operation. Combat helicopters were maneuvering carefully between the city buildings of Manhattan, maintaining distance from the creatures on the ground as they provided aerial fire support for gatherings of civilians that were being protected by NYPD and National Guard forces that were previously being overwhelmed.
Additional transports to evacuate the civilians would be arriving shortly, but until then your own forces would have to provide the means for escape from the massive horde of Biomorphs spread out across Manhattan.
"This is Delta Platoon, we and Charlie require evac for a dozen armed civilians in sector-"
"This is Task Force 3, Biomorphic forces are increasing their assault on our positions! We request air support!"
"Our vehicles are down! I repeat, Foxtrot Platoon has lost out vehicles are being overrun! We need support-!"
That last one went into static as vital signs for the soldiers in Foxtrot Platoon began to rapidly flatline one after the other. You grimaced at the loss of an entire unit of Mechanized Infantry, and the feeling that it won't be the last.
"Task Force 1, what is your status?" You called out through the comms towards the Slayers. You had needed to use most of your transport helicopters to carry them close enough to the Breach area in such a short amount of time, leaving only two able to assist in evacuation in the initial stage of the operation.
"Making our way closer to the Breach, Director!" Rebecca's voice crackled, the sound quality fluctuating with a degree of static that got more and less intense at random intervals. "Ryan and Alicia are cutting through some really thick webs in order for us to get closer, we haven't run into the megarachnid yet!" You looked up the screen showing the Slayers' point of view, with Rebecca scanning her surroundings with her Slayer-Scale machine gun as the sword equipped Slayers hacked away at some walls of webbing that were left in between skyscrapers and other buildings.
"Be very careful, you might outnumber it, but we don't know the full capabilities of this Titan." Adams piped in while also keeping an eye on the situation of your conventional forces. He then seemed to notice something. "Victor Platoon, what am I seeing?" He asked, drawing your attention to the screen for the platoon's body cams.
"Sir, it seems we have some Metahumans acting to fight off Biomorphs. We are moving in to support!" The leader of the platoon reported as they moved in and fired on the Maulers and Ultra that were attacking a group of ten civilians that were being protect by a pair of Metahumans who were either blasting the Biomorphs with some sort of lasers or creating a hard light barrier to keep the civilians safe, through the cracks in the barrier made it clear they couldn't keep it up for long.
"Do we have any other reports of Metahuman activity in the AO?" You asked, pointing the question to the technicians manning the consoles, who quickly got to work pulling up what they could from the chaos of communications.
"Sporadic reports across various media platforms, Director." One of them said, before an alert popped up for the Slayers. Immediately you turned your attention towards their live feed and froze up at the sight of a massive spike covered spider attacking the Slayers in what seemed to be an ambush.
"How does something so big act sneaky!?" Rebecca cried out as she quickly made distance after getting a deep gash into the side of her Slayer's torso from one of the Tsuchigumo-Class' spear-like legs. The massive arachnid had moved in like a blur, its legs slashing into the hull of the three Slayers from what seemed to have been a flanking position.
"Focus!" Alicia reprimanded as she struck out at the titanic spider, only to give an expression of shock when her two swords failed to penetrate the carapace of the Tsuchigumo as multiple warning of hull breaches rang out, showing the Titan had maneuvered itself to catch her Slayer's arms on its spikes. Ryan moved in and tried to cut at the legs, but the Tsuchigumo simply disengaged and leapt into the path of his Slayer, effectively body checking him and stabbing the slayers with its spiked carapace. The momentum knocked Ryan's Slayer back, numerous holes in the torso region. Just as it seemed ready to attack again, Rebecca fired a burst of her Slayer's Machine Gun into the Tsuchigumo's face, taking out some of the eyes and a mandible as an eruption of green-purple blood burst out from the impact sites, like small geysers of alien viscera.
As the Titan screeched in agony, you were brought back to the command room as one of the Comms operators called out to you and Adams. "Director, Commander, the US military reports that additional aircraft and armored units are inbound to the AO, ETA in three minutes!" They said, to which Adams nodded while you regained your bearings.
"Good, with that we can hopefully reorganize and move our own forces deeper into contested territory and deal with the Breach in Central Park while they take over for evacuations." He said. "Slayers Zero One and Zero Three have already taken significant damage, with Slayer Zero Two being not that far behind. Redirecting our helicopters to assist in providing fire support in a timely manner is my recommendation, Director."
You looked over your forces and considered the options.
Give Orders to the Task Forces, use the following Format.
[] Plan Name
-[][Task Force 1] Orders
-[][Task Force 2] Orders
-[][Task Force 3] Orders
-[][Request]
Requests are optional additions that you can use to ask local forces to perform, though whether they go along with your plans or not is a gamble as they are not part of your chain of command and it is possible for them to ignore you depending on the circumstances.
NaanContributor
Provider of delicious flatbread, and nothing else.
- Location
- Hawaii
Sounds like some unfortunate rolls for our Slayers. Maybe I should've given Ryan a shotgun instead of a sword after all. At least all of our other forces are carrying out their duties well so far, even with the unfortunate loss of an MI unit.
[X] Plan Regain Momentum
-[X][Task Force 1] Alicia and Ryan fight defensively, only attack to parry and cut the legs instead of getting close enough to get stuck by the body spikes. Let Rebecca focus on shooting the main body.
-[X][Task Force 2] Combat Helicopters move to support Task Force 1 (don't get caught like flies in any webs). The rest continue as they are while coordinating with any Meta Humans encountered during evacuations, until support is able to relieve them and let them push forward.
-[X][Task Force 3] Continue defending evac routes until support arrives and frees them up to start pushing into Central Park as planned.
-[X][Request] Support Task Force 3 to secure evac routes from Biomorph hordes first, then evacuations with Task Force 2. Airstrike on Titan while our forces keep it pinned.
[X] Plan Regain Momentum
-[X][Task Force 1] Alicia and Ryan fight defensively, only attack to parry and cut the legs instead of getting close enough to get stuck by the body spikes. Let Rebecca focus on shooting the main body.
-[X][Task Force 2] Combat Helicopters move to support Task Force 1 (don't get caught like flies in any webs). The rest continue as they are while coordinating with any Meta Humans encountered during evacuations, until support is able to relieve them and let them push forward.
-[X][Task Force 3] Continue defending evac routes until support arrives and frees them up to start pushing into Central Park as planned.
-[X][Request] Support Task Force 3 to secure evac routes from Biomorph hordes first, then evacuations with Task Force 2. Airstrike on Titan while our forces keep it pinned.
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Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
- Location
- Indonesia
No one wants to ask for Fighter jets to bombard the Titan with missiles?
NaanContributor
Provider of delicious flatbread, and nothing else.
- Location
- Hawaii
I mean, if that's actually an option then sure, it's just that it was never mentioned as an available option in any of the updates? I assumed that the additional incoming aircraft were Combat Helicopters and the like, much like what we have (I assume there's a reason for why our organization has never had any fighter jets nor the option of acquiring any for ourselves, even if it's just genre convention). Would jets even be able to safely get to the Titan's position in the middle of NYC? Trying to fly at speed between skyscrapers is already recklessly suicidal even before the thing wove massive webs between the buildings where it's hiding.
- Location
- A place
[X] Plan Regain Momentum
-[X][Task Force 1] Alicia and Ryan fight defensively, only attack to parry and cut the legs instead of getting close enough to get stuck by the body spikes. Let Rebecca focus on shooting the main body.
-[X][Task Force 2] Combat Helicopters move to support Task Force 1 (don't get caught like flies in any webs). The rest continue as they are while coordinating with any Meta Humans encountered during evacuations, until support is able to relieve them and let them push forward.
-[X][Task Force 3] Continue defending evac routes until support arrives and frees them up to start pushing into Central Park as planned.
-[X][Request] Support Task Force 3 to secure evac routes from Biomorph hordes first, then evacuations with Task Force 2.
-[X][Task Force 1] Alicia and Ryan fight defensively, only attack to parry and cut the legs instead of getting close enough to get stuck by the body spikes. Let Rebecca focus on shooting the main body.
-[X][Task Force 2] Combat Helicopters move to support Task Force 1 (don't get caught like flies in any webs). The rest continue as they are while coordinating with any Meta Humans encountered during evacuations, until support is able to relieve them and let them push forward.
-[X][Task Force 3] Continue defending evac routes until support arrives and frees them up to start pushing into Central Park as planned.
-[X][Request] Support Task Force 3 to secure evac routes from Biomorph hordes first, then evacuations with Task Force 2.
Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
- Location
- Indonesia
You can ask and see if the US military answer, you aren't limited on the amount of stuff you can ask for help here when both sides want this battle to end as quickly as possible. You are helping in defending their city, so you have a lot of leeway. This is near future USA with a 7.8 billion dollar budget, you can ask for a lot. Whether there are any jets available nearby to get here in minutes is another question, but very likely as every jet that can reach New York would have been scrambled by now.
Your organization did have a chance of getting F-35s but you decided to go with another Perk instead, like Cybernetics. You can get them, but you need to buy them yourselves and you barely have any money so that option is locked until you can get more. Helicopters are much cheaper to buy and maintain as well as can be refueled anywhere.
Jets don't need to fly between buildings, they can just fly over the buildings and then lock on the spider with laser guided bombs/missiles. You just need the Titans to stay in place long enough that they don't take cover behind buildings or just dodge out of the way.
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NaanContributor
Provider of delicious flatbread, and nothing else.
- Location
- Hawaii
Looking back, they were VTOLs rather than F-35s, but I see the point. We've actually been building a fair amount of money now that we've been getting Biomorph/Titan bounties from fighting Breaches instead of living budget-to-budget off our regular income, and I can't imagine the option to buy a few units of such things being that many times more expensive than the other Martial Unit acquiring actions, so I hope to see it soon.
But yeah, I'll add a Request to airstrike the Titan into my plan then.
Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
- Location
- Indonesia
You were going to get the VTOL capable F-35 that was made for the US marine corp cause you don't have a runway.
- Location
- Arizona
- Pronouns
- Him/His
[X] Plan: Regain Momentum
- Pronouns
- Zack
[X] Plan Regain Momentum
KnightDisciple
Love God. Do Right. Fear No Man.
- Location
- Midwest, USA
[X] Plan Regain Momentum
- Location
- USA
Well, this seems like a landslide vote.