Simon is a coward

[mjr511]

Firstly, OpenXcom is ace. Big thanks to the coders for letting me replay this awesome game.

I've been playing it this last week or so, and being bad at playing games, I cheated by amending my save game file to give a bunch of my characters better stats.  The thing is, I'm lazy, so I only amended a few of them.

So, the hacked characters are tougher and faster than the rest of my troopers, and they tend to venture out further than the normal folk, and get shot.

And die.

Anyhow, one of my colonels, Simon Mathis, has started being... careful.  Despite being able to run further than the other troopers, he lurks behind, hides behind walls, and basically lets the others get shot and die, before stepping out of cover and finishing the alien scum off!

https://thoggy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/simon-is-coward.html

[Shoes]

This might interest you : https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,1718.0.html, so that you can keep track of how successful or not your soldiers are :3

[mjr511]

I saw that mod last night,  it looks awesome!  I've always loved thinking about the story behind the game I'm playing.

[Mr. Quiet]

That was a good read. Laughed so hard when I saw the 4th screenshot.

[mjr511]

I love OpenXcom

Strange thing was, Simon did actually die in the end, about three missions away from the final one.  Despite two troopers going into a crashed UFO in front of him, the aliens ignored them and blew Simon away instead.  Meanwhile Dustyweaver, my insane commander, survived right to the end, even though one of our last Earth fights was a struggle in the Xcom base, with the base design being such that Dustyweaver was trapped alone and nearly unarmed with a whole pack of aliens.

if you really want to read the whole story, the blog posts, including my genocidal defense of Russia, are below:

https://thoggy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/simon-is-coward.html
https://thoggy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/further-xcom-adventures.html
https://thoggy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/fighting-good-fight-xcom-part-3.html
https://thoggy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/the-final-victory-openxcom.html