AAR for 2nd round of july 5th alpha test ( alpha Standard marine)

[warwolf0315]

Alpha gameplay from the POV of a alpha marine

( please excuse how terribly written this probably is it's been 3 years since I last wrote and AAR for anything)


The round begins with me waking up in cryo and being assigned to alpha. After I finished eating several muffins I got my armour and the rest of my marine gear from alpha barracks. I moved onto collecting my weapons from the vendors outside the barracks .
( side note perhaps there should be class walls in between each vendor as nothing is more annoying than getting pushed around while vending weapons)
The selection of weapons was nearly identical to the current gameplay but I choose a pump action shotgun for my main weapon. I had heard in OOC after the previous round that the pump shotgun could now be pumped with shift click which gave me the desire to use the shotgun. Other then that I also packed an smg for a backup weapon a sidearm as well as my knife and the accompany ammo for each of the weapons. The previous round taught me flares are very important on the ground map so all extra space was filled with flares.
After finishing gearing up I proceed to briefing where alpha was given orders to build a FOB no location given to the squad so we were given free rain to pick.

The briefing ended and the entirety of the marine forces travelled down to the hangar and got inside the shuttles due to a lack of communication half of alpha ended up on one shuttle the other ended up on another.

We proceed down to the planet and during the ride I noticed I had been stabbed with a throwing knife by somebody in the chaos in boarding the shuttles.
Once the landing was complete our squad medic Carson "viking" removed the knife from me and insisted I return to the ship for anti toxins a the wound had become infected I told the medic I would be fine and we traveled on in an attempt to find out scattered squad.

After wandering for awhile we managed to find out squad waiting in the area between robotics and the dorms. We heard weapons fire from the robotics lab and rushed inside to have our first confrontation with the aliens that match besides random sightings of runners. The first skirmish with the aliens was quick and indecisive with no deaths or captured by either side. The friendly units procceded to retreat to the dorms and began to fortify our position

Our squad medic Carson "viking" had to treated a wounded marine which depleted nearly all of his medical supplies which caused him to request to go scavenge supplies from the near by infirmary I went along with Carson to guard him while he collected medical supplies.

After a short time of scavenging for medical supplied we returned to the dorms just in time for command to order a retreat to the sulaco stating a heavy loss of marine lives. The marines retreated quickly while trailing wounded marines behind them. Once reaching the shuttles the marine proceed to board and during the boarding process someone locked the blast doors down on the shuttles which locked out several marines and wounded. The marines managed to open the blast doors and the rest of the marines board and proceed to launch the shuttle. ( during the ride there was sudden lag spike ) we discovered the cause of this lag spike when suddenly someone cried over the radio about the supermatter engine exploding.

We arrived on the ship with not single word from the ship beyond the beginning panic. We learned that comms had gone during the explosion as well this leading to utter chaos onboard the ship as medics tried to help those injured.

The commander managed to get a message out via Bounced station radio about forming a defensive at the hangar to hold back the aliens while evac was coming to save the marine forces.
When the shuttle launched from the ship to the ground the marines formed a defensive line all along the hangar. The shuttle returned with a wave of aliens on board many of the marines retreated up the ladder out of the hangar. I stayed and fought with my shotgun managing to kill a runner before I was knocked down and my head was cut off ending the round for me.


ROUND RESULT
ALIEN MINOR VICTORY

[mosshadow]

That sounds pretty fun!