Most robust moments as Marine?

[Survivor]

What are your guys' most robust moments as marine? I'll start off with mine.


I was a late join Commander, and my XO had the operation settled. He was having trouble rallying the marines for one final push, so I told him that I could rally them. A few failed pushes later, we are just south of the max security lobby. I was having a discussion with a predator, when the xenos started to assualt the marines. After a bit into the fighting, the Elite Empress showed up, and on her second Screech, I managed to take her down on my own before marines could pick up their guns off the ground. The predator cut up the queen and gave me the remains.


This same round, the XO volunteered to call evacuation, as the marine force was lower than the alien force. We parted ways, and I moved to the pods to help the civilians get out. Sadly, the Alamo crashed directly into the CIC, and evacuation was never called. Out of pure instinct, when the aliens attacked the pods, I jumped down the ladder and ran to the Hanger. On the way, I met a marine, and shortly lost him because he wasn't able to outrun the Ravager. A couple of Crusher dodges later, I got on the Normandy and hit launch...


I was on Flyby, because I didn't look before I launch it. The DS landed on the Almayer again, and the sixty seconds to launch felt like a year. Finally, I hit launch again, and turn around to see a Lurker and a Ravager inside of the dropship with me.... shit. I dodged the ravager, and locked it in the Cockpit with me. It didn't last long, but it got a few good hits on me. The lurker, however, was a lot more troublesome. I missed a done of shells, mostly just to supress it, but eventually I got a point blank. I tried to shoot it again... I was out of ammo. Quickly, before it stood back up, I pulled out my Mateba and put two extra shots into it. I sat down with my medkit in hand, patching up my wounds. I said one last thing to the beast before parting ways. "I'm the only winner in this story", The sole survivor of the Almayer...


Definitely my best round I've ever had in CM, and one I probably will not forget. So, what are some of your robust moments? I'd love to hear.

[Gnorse]

There was this one time I managed to kill a xeno. that was pretty cool, I guess.

But if we're talking seriously, I'd say it was the one time I was able to escape from a nest that was being guarded by an ancient drone and an ancient spitter. Ended up flanking xenos while they were attacking the marines and UGL'd half of them, allowing the 'rines to mop up.

[BillyBoBBizWorth]

There was this one time I managed to kill a xeno. that was pretty cool, I guess.

500 posts later, 1 xenoe kill hahah.Happy 500th post Gnorse, 300 for me now.

Theres one certain event as a marine i cant seem to forget :

Max Dallas, Big Red, Stalemate between the marines and xenoes at location of southern medbay and north admin

Xenoes are swarming the absolute fuck out of admin like they do sometimes and its extremely effective and hard to break even with all the flanks leading into it, they are all thin hallways = DEATH

The xenoes are starting to really push hard and break containment of admin which the marines are desperately trying to hold back and if not, push and engage.

"ITS NOT WORKING, WE CANT PUSH IN!!"

UNTIL

Max Dallas with a M4 and two tube nades loaded in his UGL sneaks into the acid breached north admin wall parallel with the hallway the xenoes are using popping both grenades in succession and Boom, BOOM, dropped two of them, one was a Ravager and something else.

"MOVE IN MEN! TAKE ADMIN! GO GO GO!!"

It broke the stalemate and we got inside, moved south and ended up winning the round later on.Also done something very similar in the yard on Prison moving south.

Done some other impressive maneuvers that have been even better than this, yet this is more memorable for some reason.

[DriedMilk]

I killed a young drone once!

[Survivor]

I killed a young drone once!

Jesus fucking Christ. How?

[DriedMilk]

Jesus fucking Christ. How?

I shot it a few times and it died! It was aweaome, I'm the best CM player ever!

[Sora9567]

There was a round on Prison Station where it was an hour in and both sides took heavy losses. The Xenos were bombarding North Kitchen with Gas and screeches, and the defenses were about to go. I rush over to North FOB and I try to get a flank organized to keep us from getting overrun and deadlocked into a retreat; I see like 5 PFCs from Alpha standing there watching a door. I yelled at them to stay on me to reinforce our charge into the main xeno force and we ended up cutting off their retreat since they committed too much to the siege. We ended up killing both boilers and their only crusher as well as the usual T1's and T2's. We later killed their Empress in our sustained push and we wiped out the stragglers after a while. Being able to coordinate a flank and actually get good results out of it felt really good.

[Survivor]

There was a round on Prison Station where it was an hour in and both sides took heavy losses. The Xenos were bombarding North Kitchen with Gas and screeches, and the defenses were about to go. I rush over to North FOB and I try to get a flank organized to keep us from getting overrun and deadlocked into a retreat; I see like 5 PFCs from Alpha standing there watching a door. I yelled at them to stay on me to reinforce our charge into the main xeno force and we ended up cutting off their retreat since they committed too much to the siege. We ended up killing both boilers and their only crusher as well as the usual T1's and T2's. We later killed their Empress in our sustained push and we wiped out the stragglers after a while. Being able to coordinate a flank and actually get good results out of it felt really good.

Damn straight, I know the feeling. I had a round like this where the Commander ordered my squad on some suicide push north of the Nexus, which was infested. Despite the odds, even with my Lieutenant, Clancy Long, telling me that if it was impossible to not do it, I gathered up men from all squads, and we pushed out killing all the boilers, a bunch of T1s, a couple of T2s, and eventually the queen. Definitely one of my better Squad Leader moments.

[Avalanchee]

When you really don't want to die


Don't mind the blood

[Survivor]

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I remember that first picture. Was a couple months ago, but I thought it was funny. Rip those types of cades, though

[Avalanchee]

I remember that first picture. Was a couple months ago, but I thought it was funny. Rip those types of cades, though

Yup, I made that fort but sadly the MT went SSD

[RunAwayScientist]

They say in the 'Book of Unga' there is a chronicle from the Deltas of yore that our prophet, 'Dee' Jackson, once held out in SD and murdered nay forty and five xenos or more.

They say in our Holy Book that he didith imbibe of the Ultrazyne and visit Dunga's Wrath upon the unholy creatures.

Nay, not even Comrade Sentry could claim to have a fifth of the kills that were visited upon the monsters that day.

[LaKiller8]

Queen was trapped, I locked myself in and 3 PB's later.

I am not robust at all so this was a literal miracle for me.

[MrSenpai]

My most robust moment isnt a personal feat of skill or strength but rather being part of a squad of badasses. 8 Bravos, 1medic,engineer Spec and 4pfc and our Lt. We held down SD against 40 xenos a long ass time, forming wave teams to deal with the Skreee. The teamwork on display was off the charts and we went down fighting with bayonets once our guns were dry.

[BruceJuice69]

One round as PO I didn’t do anything PO related, instead I deployed in search of tac Binos. Instead of tac binos I found two preds who kidnapped me and took me to their space ship sex dungeon. I was then given a GRORIIUS ANCIENT BRADE and engaged in GRORIOUS SINGLE COMBATU with a pred. Then he ripped off my handu so I went ham on his ass. After I had believed I won, covered in pred blood and praising my grorious ancestors for my victory, the DISHONOROBU pred cut me downu as I was talking.

I kill beno too

[MessageCypher]

Somehow ended up facing an ancient lurker by myself and won through sidestepping and getting a lucky midair PB with cuckshot loaded in my shotgun. Proceeded to die to his other lurker buddy soon after, then revived because this all happened directly south of our FOB, just a bit off screen.

[MattAtlas]

when I killed (read: shot once while it was in crit because of 5 other people) a big screecher (read: young queen) while wounded (read: orange health)

[Awesomesauce935]

Came across a pred, but he didn't know i had found the B18's nade bandoleer, so during the fight he removed one of my arms, but i only need one arm to throw. Caught him with a good HEDP, and he went flying, at which point i saturated him in Incendiary, and once that burned out i knifed him in the face till he died.

Another pred showed up afterwords, and just sighed, shook his head, and gathered the dead one's gear, i guess he didn't kill me because we were awaiting map restart.

Overwatch saw the whole thing and i got a medal, OOC was pretty funny too after the round.

[Falderal]

I've got a good one.

I was enrolled in Bravo, on a one-way trip to Prison. Being a PFC in Bravo nets the chance to be part of a QRF and do something other than staring at the ground. Fortunately, it was my chance to do that.

Me and a couple of my Bravo butt-buddies moved to crashed ship, where the rest of the squads were held up in the fighting. A medic from Delta was asking if I could cover him to the FOB because the benos were surrounding our position. I was getting ready to head off while he took the charge eastward and proceeded to get mauled by a Ravager and a Praetorian(?).

We scared them off but I was the only one with the knowledge that they were out there, so I headed out into the hallway they were going and spotted their unconscious corpses. Yelling for covering fire, I dragged the medic out and left the wounded behind (I presumed he was ABSOLUTELY DEAD at the time).

Dragging him back from the scary darkness of that hallway, the other medics quickly went to work fixing his beautifully dead ass up. The situation went from, "aww geez," to, "AWW GEEZ," for the other squaddies as we began to hold off a supposed encirclement. I talked to him, apologizing for letting his derriere get capped by overgrown fauna and promised to get him out of the encirclement. Queen showed up on the southern flank, I started panicking, I decided, "FUCK IT," went NORTH of the crashed ship, and pulled him along on a roller bed through the dark complex.

Apparently, I had found the only route the benos hadn't covered during that encirclement and was trailed by a medic from my squad, and another from Alpha(?). Navigating as the modern day Moses in all of his point man grandeur, I managed to reach the FOB, and get to the Alamo.

In LOOC, Corporal Jackson Dee of Delta Squadron sent me this link: https://youtu.be/38OrYAAYISk

[simonset55]

Once as a doctor i was being chased by the queen on the Almayer, i was in the hallway outside the upper deck medbay and the queen was in the medbay area. I did some quick big brain thinking and crowbar'd the door so the queen was forced to solo screech me. This gave me a chance to PB the hoe, which i did until it went into crit (totally not lucky that all the neuro shots missed me). I was about to finish it off but a drone dragged it off while i was too slow to follow up due to the pain. Turns out it was only the queen and that drone left, and we later lost because no marines chased the drone. Also turned out that the queen was Symbiosis.

TL:DR Nearly solo'd symb queen with big brain door shutting skills and shotty PBs as a doctor.

tbh i just love PB'ing queenies dead solo

[simonset55]

EDIT: managed to post twice and i can't delete this post. Story above

[Survivor]

These are all good stories above.

[Papa_Pollard]

>Survived nade spam on the Alamo

Can you even get more robust?

[Survivor]

>Survived nade spam on the Alamo

Can you even get more robust?

Right there with you, man. Those were some terrible ass nades

[Jarek]

I was a medic on prison station. We were blitzing Civ res, as usual. Got myself beat the fuck up and had like 3 broken limbs, near paincrit and slow as fuck. Decided to head off back by myself because I figured marines were stomping so I was confident I could make it back to the alamo by myself with a bit of tramadol.

Turns out I was wrong. Got ambushed by a mature spitter and slashed into a broken leg. Then it tried to eat me several times but a runner kept bumping it. A second spitter came along and also tried to eat me, but as it turns out later, it had a marine devoured already. The marine randomly just appeared when the other spitter was trying to eat me, and got up and started stabbing the spitter that had eaten him with a knife. both the spitters and the runner were now trying to deal with him and I somehow managed to recover from paincrit long enough to inject some oxy. The spitters were kinda dumb and tried to disarm me thinking I was wounded enough already, and I point blanked one of them with my trusty shotgun, which insta-crit it. The other spitter went down like a sack of bricks the same way.

The runner was a little more intelligent and tried to hit and run me and the devoured marine who was badly injured from acid blood RNG, same as me. The PB's had melted a splint off and the broken bone that was already unsplinted was giving me foggy vision with oxy injected. That, plus the slash wounds, caused me to worry pretty badly. I ended up point blanking the injured marine and killing him by accident. Eventually. after like 2 minutes of this nonsense of this runner trying to disarm/slash me, it made the mistake of running towards me in a straight line and I managed to cuckshot it and kill it. The spitters, who had been bleeding out on weeds this entire time, were then cuckshotted as they still hadn't recovered, somehow. Don't know how, honestly. I think the injured marine had been stabbing them before I shot his ass. In pain crit and barely alive, I managed to self-administer enough medicine to recover from foggy vision hell with a mix of oxy and tramadol and some good luck with the splints. I revived the marine who I'd brutally murdered and hauled his ass back to the alamo.

Now that I think about it those xenos were probably bald minus the runner, but hey it was still pretty cool. Round ended in a marine major and I ended up saving that same marines life two extra times during the round.