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But then, Alberico realizes that his spotters may not have that long. While most of the enemy infantry had been dismantled by the bombardment, killed by bursts of grenade fire, or picked-off by his own troops, it had not escaped his attention that the villagers emerging from the remaining tunnels looked less and less human. When last few villagers trickle out, hunched and corpulent, they are accompanied by a creature representing the aggressive pinnacle of natural selection. Dewclaws plunge into warm earth. An armored carapace glimmers beneath heat-haze. A bulbous head tracks back and forth before locking onto his squad, cutting through millennia of optical camouflage technology with the sense-organs of an apex predator.
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The missile launcher detonates after your laser array sweeps over an armed warhead, scything down an entire weapons team with hot shrapnel. Seconds before you switch focus to engage the last two squads stumbling through the smoke, you see it.
Your optical array scans the creatures as they exit the tunnels, probing at their internal anatomy. Summary readouts burn red in your tactical display. Six legs. Alloy-reinforced exoskeleton. Claws tempered to a transparent, razor-thin sheen. Large cranial capacity, suggesting considerable intelligence.
The creatures split into two packs, dashing towards the mercenaries at an oblique angle to flank and avoid fire. You watch as one stumbles after taking several las-carbine hits. It stumbles but survives, continuing to bound forward until focused MMG fire from a pair of combat drones reduces its carapace into a perforated husk.
You estimate that you have seven seconds before the creatures reach your irregulars. You consider your options:
The enemy force consists of:
《3x Mech Refit 》[HP:4/AV:3/EV:2][x2 Rocket Launcher: AP:6/DMG:4/ACC:1/RNG:1][Two are currently targeted by ATGMs]
《2xHybrid Mob》[HP:1/AV:0/EV:1]
《2xGenestealer Pack》[HP:3/AV:1/EV:7][Melee: AP:4/DMG:2/ACC:10/RNG:0]
Hit Probabilities:
《2xGenestealer Pack》[ACC(5)-EV(7)-1 Active Evasion[Moved last turn]+1 Stabilization Bonus= 50% Hit Rate for the SQUALL, hits twice]
《2xGenestealer Pack》[ACC(9)-EV(7)-1 Active Evasion[Moved last turn]+1 Stabilization Bonus= 100% Hit Rate for the LASER EMITTER, hits twice]
《2xGenestealer Pack》[ACC(1)-EV(7)-1 Active Evasion[Moved last turn]+1 Stabilization Bonus= 5% Hit Rate for the AGL, hits five times]
《2xGenestealer Pack》[ACC(8)-EV(7)-1 Active Evasion[Moved last turn]+1 Stabilization Bonus= 100% Hit Rate for the ICARUS, hits two times]
《Hits on all other targets are guaranteed》
You can boost your accuracy by +1 COMBAT AI BONUS if you can think of any creative ideas for targeting the stealers. Otherwise thresholds are shown as-is.
