X-Piratez, with the Bay12 community

[Boltgun]

Hello everyone,

I have been doing a play through of Piratez extended for quite a while with the Bay12 Games community. It turns out that Dwarf Fortress players do enjoy xcom, namely because the games share the ability to name units about their friends and watch them die horribly.

This is the story of Eve Jobs-sama the Big Boss, who is trying to show the trade guild, the government, even the star god themselves that they are threading into the wrong neighborhood, with distant help from the mutant alliance and the occasional friendly enemy. She celebrated success, suffered heavy losses. Rivers are flowing with the blood of swabbies. But she never gave up her Grog induced adventure.

Will she end up ruling the world? Perhaps not, but we can dream.

So without further introduction :

Chainsaws!


Bikinis!


Terrible Weaponry!


Explosions!

Let's play X-Piratez
Because X-COM was too serious

Here is the episode list:

SpoilerEpisodes list:

Introduction
Setup, The X marks the spot

Year 1
Jan 2601, Flintlocks and bombs
Jan 2601, Introspection
Jan 2601, For fun and profit
Jan 2601, Haha! Time for a pogrom mission!
Feb 2601, Walk the plank
Feb 2601, BOOM BOOM BOOM !!!
Mar 2601, Getting rich and die trying
Mar 2601, Super P
Apr 2601, Pirates vs smugglers
Apr 2601, Who is who?
May 2601, Rocket dinosaurs
May 2601, The mutant alliance
May 2601, Let’s kill some killers
Jun 2601, Doggy the heroic canine
Jun 2601, Building Hell Hole
Jun 2601, RIP doggy
Jun 2601, Wolfenpiratez 3D
Intermission #1, bases and stats
Jul 2601, Hail Sirius!
Aug 2601, Big plunder means big losses
Aug 2601, Operation NOPE!
Aug 2601, Back to school
Sep 2601, Enslaving the competition
Oct 2601, No more pogroms
Nov 2601, Wako defense
Dec 2601, Mercs are dicks
Dec 2601, Losing Hell Hole
Dec 2601, Fall of the misfire queen
Intermission#2

Year 2
Jan 2602, Super Star God Puncher Turbo
Jan 2602, Swabbie squad, away!
Jan 2602, The boring update
Feb 2602, Shredded suits
Feb 2602, Runts at work
Feb 2602, Back in business
Mar 2602, RIP in pieces Godslayer
Mar 2602, And now... mini nukes!
Apr 2602, Kraken and blunderbuss
Apr 2602, Where's the gold?
Apr 2602, Bigger Lazor Beams
May 2602, Euchre Jane is OP plz nerf

SpoilerPirates:

Cave of Booty
Pirate queen Angel (Archangel): medicgal
Baroness Rince Wind: snipergal
Baroness Snapper (Taricus), heavygal
Mistress Darkening Kaos: pyrogal
Mistress Kat Walker (Itnetlolor): meleegal, cat claws + acid
Mistress Amperzand: demogal
Mistress Chylie (Hanzoku): riflegal
Mistress Boka (Boksi): assaultgal
Mistress Ema ninjaston (Sheb): grenadegal, fuso sword
Boss Scorching Tina (Solarius Scorch): assaultgal, pistols
Boss Tah Tah (Athath): grenadegal
Gal Chunky Brewster (Harry Baldman), heavygal
Gal Roadkill (Strawbarrel), assaultgal
Gal Mother Oab (RAM), demogal
Gal Natty Compa (Nuttycompa): medicgal

Wako Base
Baroness Euchre Jane (EuchreJack): riflegal
Boss Lita Boyl (RAM), assaultgal
Boss Helga Kraus (birdy51): heavygal
Boss Ivanaya Dogobitch (IvanDogovich): pyrogal

Troy
Gal Martian Max (Arthanor): riflegal
Gal Diesel Princess (Ruludos): heavygal
Swabbie Lo Raine (somemildmanneredidiot), troy

Memorial
Swabbie RAM: Pogrom #1 by guild security
Swabbie Athath: Pogrom #1 by cyberdisk
Gal Giselle Kraus (birdy51): Landing #10 by guild security
Doggy: Landing #7 by Church neophyte
Gal Hat-hat (Athath): Landing #10 by Giselle Kraus
Gal Lorelle Harker (Iithuem): Landing #10 by power armored security
Gal Jehanne: Crash #6 by power armored security
Boss Bushmeat (Strawbarrel): Pogrom #11 by sectopod
Baroness Fatima-ann (RAM): Pogrom #11 by star god
Gal Paladinia (drkpaldin): Pogrom #11 by sectopod
Gal Princess Axespendable (Iituem): Pogrom #11 by sectopod
Custom Snippin’ Gun Godslayer Mk.2: Pogrom #14 by Tank

I want to participate!

That's great because there is a new base called Troy. It is ready to terrorize the nearby countries but it lack one important thing: strong gals to show who is the boss. So if you wish you can be named there go ahead and ask.

You can also vote for a new base, after all there are factions who has been left free for too long and deserve some spanking.

[Arthanor]

Ha! Nice! You've been doing what I wanted to do, but much better than me it looks like. Congratz! It takes levels of dedication that I (visibly) don't have.. And to think of doing an actual LP..!

Martian Max reporting! Ideally a close-ranged support, decent/good accuracy and reactions (especially reactions!) with a rifle/LACC or whatever you are using that's good at snap shots and a melee weapon on the belt (pipe if not very fighty, or something like a short sword type otherwise). All of that, strength permitting, of course. If very weak, just a rifle to cover the crazy gals who charge forward!

[Boltgun]

Ha! Nice! You've been doing what I wanted to do, but much better than me it looks like. Congratz! It takes levels of dedication that I (visibly) don't have.. And to think of doing an actual LP..!

Martian Max reporting! Ideally a close-ranged support, decent/good accuracy and reactions (especially reactions!) with a rifle/LACC or whatever you are using that's good at snap shots and a melee weapon on the belt (pipe if not very fighty, or something like a short sword type otherwise). All of that, strength permitting, of course. If very weak, just a rifle to cover the crazy gals who charge forward!

Alright, I'll add you at the beginning of the next update.

New episode, where we breach higher tier weapons : Jan 2602, The boring update

Edit:

SpoilerMartian Max:

[Boltgun]

New update : Shredded suits, where scary enemies gets what they deserve.

Oh, and dead academicians, plenty of them. Thanks to Martian Max.

[Arthanor]

Ouh! Man I need to catch up on this But I'm scared of spoilers.. 

[Solarius Scorch]

Yeah, Boltgun is a very meticulous spoiler. I like it, since I'm already pretty familiar with early to mid game.

[Boltgun]

This LP is spoilerific, I post every research I go through, which gets funny sometimes because some updates made it backwards.

[Boltgun]

Feb 2602, Runts at work

Not much happened, the radars detected nothing fun, but this gave me the ability to focus on the workshops. I got 2 custom guns on Troy, lots of metal armor and synthsuits on the Cave of Booty, and replaced all cutlasses and axes with tech blades.

So it's was good uneventful update.

[Boltgun]

Feb 2602, Back in business

It occurred to me that Asia is always super busy.

[Boltgun]

Mar 2602, Smoke and tech swords

Using an interceptor for ground battle is a stupid idea and that's what the pirates did.

[Arthanor]

Nice to see Max being useful! Good work on taking on the shippin' with only a predator's crew! I don't think I'd try that (I prefer overwhelming force: the more one-sided a fight is, the fewer wounded I bring back).

Have you had any luck with transport ships? I'm at a similar game point (~a year) and still flying about in the Bonny waiting for an upgrade. Got a few interceptor types but no transports :/

[Boltgun]

Nice to see Max being useful! Good work on taking on the shippin' with only a predator's crew! I don't think I'd try that (I prefer overwhelming force: the more one-sided a fight is, the fewer wounded I bring back).

Have you had any luck with transport ships? I'm at a similar game point (~a year) and still flying about in the Bonny waiting for an upgrade. Got a few interceptor types but no transports :/

This combat was like a pokemon battle when you bring the right critter to fight a guy who uses only one type. The gals were resistant to piercing and the enemies only had assault rifles. The only dangerous enemy was a guy with a flamethrower but smoke grenades are OP and ensured that he could not attack until he was too close to survive.

I did not have any new transport ship and the gals are still flying on the Bonny or a skyranger. The best I can produce is a Kraken and it's a better interceptor than a transport. I have unlocked a topic for a 'long range interceptor' so that's what I'll try next.

[Arthanor]

lol! What does it tell about us that we can explain things with pokemon analogies?

This feels like a reunion of the "Piratez Capt'n Union"! Meet your peers and exchange experiences to increase your booty to body rate!

In my game of Piratez, before it moved to extended, I had managed to get a bigger lander than the Bonny (bit faster too!). I think crafts depend on getting info on many enemy crafts. So I guess the answer is to catch lots of engineers/pilots and question them? I was interrogating a lot more last time.. so I'm trying that now. I had a lot of blueprints, but apparently not the right ones.

[Solarius Scorch]

The best I can produce is a Kraken and it's a better interceptor than a transport.

As an insider reporter, who already played the super secret next release, I'll give you a controlled leak: Kraken's passenger space will increase from 6 to 8! (Hopefully Dioxine won't sue me now.) But it's still more of a fighter than a transport.

[Arthanor]

That's good news! With that speed, it's not like it can act like much of an interceptor either.. So upping the transport is nice. If you have good enough gals and gear, it can replace the skyranger as it is faster, can down its own small shippings and carry the gals too.