Spinoff: The Great Guild XCOM

I decided a bit back to create an XCOM: Enemy Unknown game with the Guild members and their allies and enemies. This clusterfuck is the result.

The Great Guild Fortune: XCOM Edition
Difficulty: Normal Non-Ironman
Second Wave: All but Marathon and Absolutely Critical

This council of funding nations has approved the XCOM Project, a paramilitary group to defend Earth against the extraterrestrial threat.
They hired the Great Guild Fortune to achieve this goal, and all of their "friends".
This is gonna be interesting...

As you might expect, the XCOM base is in ASIA.

The first members of the XCOM FORTUNE squad are as follows:
Sniper Yuwen Fortune, leading from behind
Heavy Amanha Tiamat, working with Fortune for some reason
Rookie Hyuna Ka-Nan, might die soon
Rookie Yamato Hibiki, we'll see
Support Lo-Muna Vahni, injured in the first mission saving Hyuna

FIRST CONTACT
The site is a graveyard, much like the scene of the Guild's first major action. The group scouts forward, quickly uncovering two Sectiods.
Yuwen takes down the first at range, with surprising skill. The second cries for help-- and two more Sectiods come close to flanking Tiamat. However, Tiamat is ready, and uses Overwatch to gun one down before it can attack.
Yamato has surprising accuracy, but misses anyway on most of his shots. Hyuna has stupidly low move speed for some reason. Yuwen takes two more shots and misses. Hyuna tries to rush in and attack, but she misses too-- and Tiamat takes her kill. Yamato finally gets his act together and shoots the last Sectoid.


Mission Success. Deaths: None Injury: None
Yamato has been promoted to Assault. How fitting.

OPERATION BURNING SKULL
Team: Yuwen, Yamato, Lo-Muna, Tiamat
Destroyed UFO Infiltration

The game crashed here, but I had saved just before. Thank goodness.
Second site is in a forest, hunting for UFO remains. Hyuna was left home. She is upset.
Contact is made. Yuwen is shot, despite being in high cover and hunkering down. Fortune, indeed. Then he misses.
Lo-Muna takes out the alien that shot Yuwen, and finds two more. On the next round they flank her but don't shoot for some reason?
Tiamat finally gets to use the rocket launcher, wordlessly blowing a Sectoid to bits with all of its cover.
Then some other aliens flank Yamato, and he gets injured, Tiamat saves Lo-Muna (what a twist), and a bunch of aliens get shot.

Mission Success. Deaths: None. Injury: Yuwen(9) and Yamato(5).
Everyone but Lo-Muna is promoted.
From here on I think I'll only stick to really important or funny missions.

STUFF SO FAR
Dead: None
Units
CORPORAL AMANHA TIAMAT, Heavy. Kills: 6. Saves people all the time, such compassion.
SQUADDIE LO-MUNA VAHNI. Support. Kills: 3. Selflessly takes bullets and such, but not with reckless abandon. Medikit-equipped.
ROOKIE HYUNA KA-NAN. Unclassed. Kills: 0. Rushes in too much.
CORPORAL YUWEN FORTUNE. Sniper. Kills: 2. Inaccurate and unlucky.
CORPORAL YAMATO HIBIKI. Assault. Kills: 2. Good tactics but he keeps missing.

MISSION: OPERATION LONE HAMMER
Squad: Yuwen, Tiamat, Yamato, Hyuna, Lo-Muna
Hilarity Ensues

An alien pops up, and Tiamat shoots them quickly. She's probably the most able alien killer in the group.
Then everyone misses a single alien :I
In the next turn, Yuwen of all people kills the damn thing. Hyuna then silently curses the lack of Chi in this game, and her pitiful move speed.
Then Hyuna misses at point-blank range with a shotgun. Good job, Hyuna!
That batch of aliens does not shoot, and is promptly slaughtered. Stupid aliens.

More aliens-- Thin Men-- attack! They poison and shoot Tiamat which is probably the first time Tiamat's been injured. Yamato kills them because Hyuna is too slow and Muna missed.
One of the Thin Men escapes to a rooftop, but is shot by Yuwen in a sudden burst of heroism. Yuwen was actually quite competent in this mission.

Mission Success
Dead: None Injured: Tiamat

PEOPLE'S STATS
Dead: None! Wow!
SGT. LO-MUNA VAHNI 'Hare'. Support.
SGT. YUWEN FORTUNE 'Failure'. Sniper.
SGT. YAMATO HIBIKI 'Cobra'. Assault.
CPL. HYUNA KA-NAN. Assault.
LT. AMANHA TIAMAT 'Penetrator'. Heavy.

OPERATION DRIVING KING
Squad: Yuwen, Terra, Hyuna, Muna, Yamato

The mission starts with a big fight and never scales down. Lots of aliens get flanked and killed by the combined assaults of Yamato and Hyuna, and Fortune does well in his sniping somehow.
Hyuna moves too far ahead, and is shot twice and critically wounded-- but not killed, yet. Hopefully, it's a lesson in tactics (that canon Hyuna recently learned as well).
The fighting is heavy as XCOM Fortune moves in on the UFO, shooting as they go. Muna stabilizes Hyuna as they fight, so she does not die today. The rest of the battle is smooth.
Terra does nothing useful for the whole mission. Way to go, Terra.

Mission Success.
Dead: None
Critically Wounded: Hyuna
Wounded: None

OPERATION EMPTY JESTER
Squad: Yuwen, Lo-Muna, Yamato, Terra, Amanha

This is a slow crawl through the woods, with little to no action. The team meticulously searches the wood-- until Yuwen finds aliens after everyone's moved. How Fortunate.
Yuwen then proceeds to take all the hits somehow, and mops up the little group with Muna and Yamato. Muna outsnipes Yuwen on several occasions.
Another little group of aliens is taken down by those powerful three while Terra and Tiamat coordinate a UFO breach. They are surprisingly effective-- and flank out the last alien, who dodges all their shots.
Yamato comes to the rescue by dashing in at the last moment and taking the last alien down.

We need to capture an alien, dammit.

Mission Success.
Dead: None
Wounded: Yuwen (9) and Lo-Muna (2)
Terra has been promoted to HEAVY (seriously?)

XCOM MEMBERS
LT. YAMATO HIBIKI 'Cobra'. Assault.
LT. AMANHA TIAMAT 'Penetrator'. Heavy.
SQ. TERRA HIMINE. Heavy.
CPT. YUWEN FORTUNE 'Snortune'. Sniper. (He finally got higher rank than anyone else.)
LT. LO-MUNA VAHNI 'Hare'. Support.
CPL. HYUNA KA-NAN. Assault.

Nobody has died!

OPERATION DEVIL'S PYRE
Squad: Rumelis, Tiamat, Terra, Ann, Sunaarashi, Yamato

This was supposed to be an easy mission. The sweep was through a diner and its outskirts, a small area packed with aliens. The fighting was rough-- Ann was injured quite a bit early on, and had to fight from the back.
Floaters ambushed Yamato, who had to withdraw near a car-- that exploded, killing him and Rumelis. They might be reincarnated later.
After Tiamat blew up the diner's front end, the rest of the motley crew mopped up-- but not before Sunaarashi was killed by a lucky shot.

This is a bloody day for XCOM Fortune, indeed.

MISSION SUCCESS.
Dead: Yamato, Rumelis, Sunaarashi
Wounded: Ann'Razul

Terror struck then.

The True Ending
OPERATION BRUTAL HAWK
Squad: Terra, Tiamat, Tuying, Cha'Valkar, Orion

A terrifying mission, to be sure. While the floaters were of little issue, the chryssalids struck Tuying, killing him. He then rose as a zombie, and slew Cha'Valkar.
Tiamat barely survived being eaten herself, and Terra shone in the mission, fighting off many floaters.
Orion was of little use, but didn't die.

Mission Success
Dead: Tuying, Valkar
Wounded: None

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TIME PARADOX: WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE GAME CRASHED
OPERATION BRUTAL HAWK
Squad: Terra, Tiamat, Tuying, Cha'Valkar, Orion

It went well, all things considered. The first sweep was good until a Chryssalid killed Tuying, who zombified. Valkar, who'd wisely strayed from the main fight, saved Orion-- who then succumbed to the poison. How sad.
Tiamat panicked! So much for being an invincible alien slayer... she made up for it by taking the explosion of a rocket herself in order to slay two Chryssalids.
And, somehow, Terra was a hero and held off the worst of the force. Strange.

Mission Success.
Dead: Tuying, Orion
Wounded: Tiamat
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THE TEAM
CPT. AMANHA TIAMAT 'Penetrator'. Heavy.
CPL. TERRA HIMINE. Heavy.
SQ. ORION SHAN. Heavy.
CPT. YUWEN FORTUNE 'Snortune'. Sniper.
LT. LO-MUNA VAHNI 'Hare'. Support.
CPL. HYUNA KA-NAN. Assault.
RK. ANN'RAZUL. Unclassed.

DECEASED:
LT. YAMATO HIBIKI 'Cobra'
RK. TEN FISTS TUYING
RK. CHA'VALKAR
RK. RUMELIS MORENDE
Rk. SUNAARASHI
Reincarnation is not yet available, some characters still not used.

OPERATION SPECTRAL NIGHT
Team: Tiamat, Hyuna, Jensu, Ann, Fortune, Lo-Muna

The first of the larger UFO drops to infiltrate. The mission began with the group splitting into pairs, to sweep the ship.
Jensu and Lo-Muna found the targets to stun first, setting them into cover that Yuwen and Hyuna could hit from. However, when
Hyuna went to sweep and stun, she encountered a large mob of enemies (7, all told), and was forced to retreat. Yuwen got shot.
Ann and Tiamat encountered more aliens, who were promptly killed, but not before two of them flanked themselves to attack Yuwen-- who
barely escaped alive.

Hyuna moved to stun again, and did-- but was attacked by a Chyssalid. She failed to kill it with a shotgun at point blank range-- again.
This is what happens when Chi doesn't exist, I guess.
The chryssalid proceeded to be harmless (literally 1 damage, thanks to Damage Roulette) and Hyuna killed it.
The rest was a simple, procedural sweep.

Mission Complete.
Wounded: Yuwen, Hyuna
None Dead

OPERATION DARK SHIELD
Team: Tiamat, Hyuna, Terra, Ann, Orion, Jensu

A very Heavy-focused mission. Expect explosions!
And explosions were had. Mutons were introduced in this mission, and were easy cannon fodder. Hyuna stunned one to make up for her point-blank miss.
Floaters flanked the group. They were shot. More floaters flanked. They were exploded.
Three thin men attacked. They, too, were exploded.

Mission Success.
Wounded: Ann
None Dead.
NEW RECRUIT GAINED: CPT. GRIDIRON 'Iron'. Heavy.

OPERATION CRYSTAL STRANGER
Team: Tiamat, Terra, Hyuna, Lo-Muna, Orion, Maiya

A simple bomb disposal (that ensured India stayed in the Council). There was a lot of poison-related stupidity as both Orion and Hyuna failed miserably to capture a single alien.
The reinforcements at the end were immediately killed, which was nice.
Standard fare but lots of people got hurt.

Mission Success.
Wounded: Maiya, Terra, Hyuna, Orion
None Dead

THE XCOM TEAM
COL. AMANHA TIAMAT 'Penetrator'. Heavy. Highest Rank.
MAJ. LO-MUNA VAHNI 'Hare'. Support.
CPT. GRIDIRON 'Iron'. Heavy.
SGT. JENSU 'Pirate'. Heavy.
RK. MILLIE
RK. SUIKEN
RK. MALACHI GABRA
RK. MALAO
RK. KEEFLO
RK. SHIISAN
CPT. YUWEN FORTUNE 'Snortune'. Sniper.
CPT. HYUNA KA-NAN 'Falcon'. Assault.
LT. TERRA HIMINE 'Witch'. Heavy.
SGT ORION SHAN 'Zapnipple'. Heavy.
CPL. ANN'RAZUL. Assault.
SQ. MAIYA. Sniper. (Finally, a sniper that isn't Yuwen.)

DECEASED
Lt. Yamato Hibiki
Rk. Ten Fists Tuying
Rk. Cha'Valkar
Rk. Rumelis Morende
Rk. Sunaarashi

Reincarnation not yet available.

ALIEN BASE ASSAULT
OPERATION: SECRET ENGINE
Team: Yuwen, Tiamat, Hyuna, Lo-Muna, Terra, Ann

The base assault has finally arrived! Set to face it is the Great Guild XCOM's best and brightest.
The XCOM team shows surprising competence, with Hyuna taking down the first alien, and Tiamat and Fortune working together to take the second. No wounds so far...
The next batch of aliens falls to a reckless assault by Hyuna, who takes the first hit.
I think she has take-no-damage Chi, because she was barely injured by it.
Meanwhile, Ann and Muna demonstrate a lovely bug by having a brief gun duel with a Thin Man, through a solid rock. Not sure how that one works.

Everyone rises above their usual failures here. Hyuna makes two long-range shotgun kills, Fortune hits things while sniping.
Hyuna takes another hit for the team. The damage still hasn't gotten past her armor, though.

Terra takes the first major hit, from a chryssalid that Hyuna failed to kill. Fortune snipes an enemy with a pistol (how?) and kills it.

The psionic sectiod appears, and mind-controls Yuwen! (I expected Hyuna, but whatever.)
Then it panics Hyuna, and runs off somewhere. Yuwen snipes Terra (still alive). The game devolves into a cat-and-mouse run-- Yuwen is useless if he must move, so the remaining XCOM troops dart about to force him to do so.
Finally, Muna flanks the psion, shoots it to near death, and heroically takes a bullet to allow Hyuna to stun it.
Psions, ahoy!

Mission Success
None Killed
Wounded: Terra (2)

XCOM TEAM (This will be long-- everyone now starts with a class, so everyone is listed)

COL. AMANHA TIAMAT 'Penetrator'. Heavy.
COL. LO-MUNA VAHNI 'Hare'. Support.
MAJ. YUWEN FORTUNE 'Snortune'. Sniper.
MAJ. HYUNA KA-NAN 'Falcon'. Assault.
MAJ. TERRA HIMINE 'Witch'. Heavy.
CPT. ANN-RAZUL 'Nobody'. Assault.
CPT. NOXCHI TIAMAT 'Gridiron'. Heavy.
LT. ORION SHAN 'Zapnipple'. Heavy.
SGT. MAIYA 'Raven'. Sniper.
SQ. MILLIE. Assault.
SQ. SUIKEN. Support.
SQ. MALACHI GABRA. Heavy.
SQ. MALAO. Heavy.
SQ. SHIISAN. Assault.
SQ. NEE ME-HYUNG. Heavy (!?).
SQ. PELE MELE. Sniper.
SQ. MILLIE KIYARE. Heavy.
SQ. RO. Support.

DECEASED

LT. YAMATO HIBIKI
SGT. JENSU
RK. TEN FISTS TUYING
RK. CHA'VALKAR
RK. RUMELIS MORENDE
RK. SUNAARASHI
RK. KEEFLO

Ressurection Unavailable.

Note: Due to advances in training procedure, Squaddie is the default rank, and soldiers immediately get a class.
Edit: Apparently I am terrible at names