XCOM 2 SQUAAAAAADD

[Dane Regan]

I did a lot of playing in one go. So I'm mostly going to skim over these missions. Also, I updated the top post to say who's in the squad and added some stats for the Sgt.+ ranked people. It's worth noting that people like Summer who have a stupidly high number of kills went on more missions with The Lost (basically zombies). Whereas Dawn, who has less, has only been on usual missions against normal aliens. Also, I'm not going to really mention promotions outside of key milestones. In this case, that's sergeant (because the game auto-generates a photo when that happens, although I could manually make one if I wanted for any promotion).

Another thing to note: Legend difficulty is hard. Especially on Ironman.

Mission 4:
Guu, Dragunova, Alex and Jeff are sent to defend a resistance haven. I would write you a story, but in this case, it's simpler to say it went flawlessly:
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Mission 5:
Dawn, Clownpiece, Elena, and Enel infiltrate an ADVENT (alien) facility to take some supplies we need. Furthermore, the area was loaded with explosives and cars and such across the whole map (things we didn't need). I brought Elena since I knew about the explosives before the mission, and she has a skill that allows her to shoot vehicles and explosives with high accuracy to detonate them. She dominated this, with everyone else barely scoring any kills. As before, the result:
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Photo (I'm quite happy with the background I found):
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As a result of this mission, Elena and Enel are both promoted to Sergeant:
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Mission 6:
Guu, Elena, and Alex go to an alien facility hoping to free Mox from captivity. Only 3 soldiers go since stealth is required. The result:
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Photo (I'm beginning to notice a pattern with Guu and Elena's positioning):
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Somewhat unsurprisingly, after the mission, Guu and Elena become pretty good friends.
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Mission 7:
Jeff, Summer, Alex, Mox, and Elena (I got a squad size upgrade) go into an area infested with both aliens and the zombie things to try and get some supplies. I took a few risks to get them. Also, the Chosen Assassin appeared. There was a slightly comical result as Alex threw a lure towards said Assassin. The zombies ended up surrounding her and allowing the squad to finish her off easily, killing her off for a short time. Alex got the final shot. The result:
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Mox, Summer, and Jeff were wounded. But damn. Summer seriously carried, killing about 9 zombies in one turn by himself with his pistol (they were all swarming him) and managing to secure quite a lot of supplies. Elena stayed stealthy most of the time and also flanked round taking the rest.
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Mission 8:
It was an interesting mission. Guu, Chara, Dawn, Alex, and Clownpiece ventured into some underground tunnels to save a VIP. They had to hold the area for a while, and a lot of aliens dropped in at once. More than it was possible for the squad to kill even if they landed every shot. As a result, everyone was wounded, at least lightly. Chara critically so. Still, everyone came out alive. I consider that a win.

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Also, Clownpiece and Dawn got promoted to Sergeant:
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Mission 9:
Summer, Guu, Enel, Jeff, and Goku work together to protect an important transmitter device. I'm not going to describe the result because it's fairly obvious by the background of the photo:
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We got two promotions to Sergeant, Jeff and Guu:
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Goku and Enel become pretty good friends after that mission:
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Mission 10:
Guu, Enel, Elena, Clownpiece, and Summer work together to protect a new resistance outpost. It started off easy enough, with the squad easily dispatching of a small group of enemies. Then "The Warlock" another member of "The Chosen", the select few super strong alien people, appeared. He mostly left the group alone as they scouted about trying to save as many civilians as possible. However, every few turns he set an annoying minion towards us, teleporting it in. Naturally, with it being right in front of Clownpiece's face, she shot it. It exploded. She got hurt. Guu panicked and moved to immediately try to fire on another alien, instantly killing it. Clownpiece's cover was also destroyed, so Enel used his drone to generate a small shield around her.

From here, I moved Elena to try and save one of the last civilians, however upon going too near to The Warlock, she was instantly revealed from her concealment. With Summer being the only person with his move remaining, he had to move into a better position for his sniper rifle, as he was too far back to help.

Elena Dragunova got mind-controlled by a Sectoid. No one had a clear shot on it, and while Summer had a flashbang he was still too far back to use it on the alien. So instead he used it on Elena to stop her hurting the squad too much. Everyone else cleared up all the nearby aliens they could.

Elena, while mind controlled, shot the last unsaved civilian. The Sectoid then resurrected that civilian as a zombie. Summer and Clownpiece took potshots at the Sectoid. Enel then moved to get the Sectoid in his line of sight, and used his drone to finish it off. People were mostly wounded, but Guu, Enel, and Clownpiece had medkits. All that remained was The Warlock.

Moving ahead slightly, Elena got a line of sight. The Warlock saw her, and closed in on the group, summoning a grunt to help him. I moved everyone into position, with Guu killing the grunt with a somewhat lucky shot and Clownpiece going on overwatch. Everyone was hunkered down or in good cover so I was feeling safe.

He then mind-controlled Clownpiece. Clownpiece was on overwatch and right next to the whole group. The enemy was in good cover, and the squad had no way to flank him or destroy the cover. There was no way anyone would be able to break the mind-control. And, since Clownpiece was on overwatch and right next to Summer, Enel, and Guu, if either of them moved they would instantly die, or at least had a very low chance of survival. They had upgraded shotguns (Guu and Clown benefited) but didn't have better armour yet.

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But instead, the squad took the only option I could think of to save Clownpiece.

I set up an evac point further forward, as close to The Warlock as I could get it so that everyone could still reach it in one move point.

Further from Clownpiece, Elena ran as far as she could away from both her, the Warlock, and the Evac point. This drew Clownpiece's shot. If it hit, Elena would have died. After that, everyone besides Clown and Elena moved onto the evac point and fired their shots at the Warlock. Enel's hit, which was good. Everyone else's missed. From there, Enel, Summer, and Guu evac'd.

Clownpiece, while mind-controlled, ran towards Elena, but Elena was too far for her to get a good shot in her turn. The same happened for the Warlock. Elena ran away again and again and again. The same thing occurred, the enemies just chased her until...

The mind-control wore off. Clownpiece shot the Warlock in the back. And luckily he was right next to a vehicle (I had been attempting to make them chase her near one). One Elena could detonate, which killed him. At least temporarily.

Mission result:
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Elena Carried:
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Summer also got promoted to Sergeant:
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Mission 11:
This mission was mostly a "go in and kill the things" type of thing. So Dawn, Guu, Elena, Jeff, and Harry Dresden went to kill the things. Elena's "I can make cars do big explosions" perk carried this. Dawn and Jeff did get wounded though. And when the squad started to get pinned down after killing some of the things, Harry and Guu got some lucky shots that really helped.

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Mission 12:
Clownpiece, Victor, Elena, Guu, and Mox go on a supply raid. It goes fairly smoothly, but Guu does take a small hit.

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Mox is also promoted to Sergeant:
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Mission 13:
Jeff, Clownpiece, Mox, Alex, and Elena go to escort an important engineer back to The Avenger (XCOM's base). It goes fairly smoothly, but Alex takes a small hit.

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Mission 14:
Enel, Summer, Elena, Clownpiece, and "Scorch" (the Templar) go on a fun zombie slaying mission while also hacking some things. Assassin shows up again, but as before the squad use lures to manipulate the zombies to attack her. She does, however, do heavy damage to Enel, and "Scorch" and Elena take some light damage from Zombies. Elena gets the finishing shot on her.

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Mission 15:
Jeff, Mox, Alex, Dane, and Harry go to kill the aliens that are attacking a Resistance Haven to protect the civilians. The result:
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Mission 16:
"Scorch", Dawn, Alex, Goku, and Enel go on a mission together to assassinate a key alien commander. "Scorch" and Goku both take some wounds, but besides that, it goes pretty well. Still no soldier deaths. Some of these missions were more stressful than I'm likely leading you to believe though.

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Mission 17:
I don't think this needs much more description than "we're saving an important dude and their bodyguard who got pinned down by a horde of The Lost". I'll let this:
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And the photo (Enel, Dawn, Summer, Guu, Harry, the bodyguard of the VIP):
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Do the talking.

Also, Harry got his promotion to Sergeant:
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Aaaand that's all I've got so far. Notably, the new grenadier wasn't an OV character. Nor were they a story character. So she's up for grabs as a quick way into the XCOM squad if anyone isn't in the list of characters new the top of the post and wants to join. I can customise them fully to fit your character as needed.

The character post near the top is updated with fresh info. Although I'm only really tracking soldiers of Sgt. rank or higher. If you want me to change your character a bit and think they're a tad off from what you saw from the photos, tell me and I'll do what I can.