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Disclaimer: because I accidentally closed the tab with almost finished gun, I put the details and a bit of the silver part of the bayonet on a WIP pic of the gun with MS Paint!

We had gained a bit more knowledge about our foe and his technology. We weren't closer to finding out his motives or where he came from exactly.

We redoubled our scouting efforts, and finally... finally, we found a settlement on a planet we called Xanthe. At least we thought it was a settlement...

We knew that the Urkradach had superior sensor arrrays, so we used a new type of troop deployment. These new drop pods could be launched from quite a distance away from the planet and would fall onto the surface like a swarm of meteorites.

We "landed" the pods in an area well away from the settlements we had found on Xanthe. A thousand troops deployed and began to march towards the biggest settlement.

They had to cross through a relatively small patch of woods. We knew that, if the foe was forewarned, it was a dangerous path to choose. Going around the woods, however, would have given the foe too much time to prepare defenses. So we went straight through, confident we could handle any Urks we might encounter.

It was a massacre...

We knew the Urks were ruthless fighters. We didn't know they were also very skilled in guerilla-like hit-and-run attacks. We lost about 140 men. Most of them literally torn apart by the vicious blades the Urk apparently like to put on their weapons.

We didn't score any confirmed kills in the woods. However, we were able to keep the force together and get out of the woods quickly.

After the horror of the woods, we advanced towards our target, always keeping a lookout to our backs, making sure we weren't followed. We weren't and we weren't even attacked on the plains that lay between the woods and the settlement we wanted to attack.

When we approached the settlement, we noticed that it wasn't a settlement at all. It was a boot camp.

And it was full of troops...

Done in PMG 0.6 and MS Paint.

Description
Disclaimer: because I accidentally closed the tab with almost finished gun, I put the details and a bit of the silver part of the bayonet on a WIP pic of the gun with MS Paint!

We had gained a bit more knowledge about our foe and his technology. We weren't closer to finding out his motives or where he came from exactly.

We redoubled our scouting efforts, and finally... finally, we found a settlement on a planet we called Xanthe. At least we thought it was a settlement...

We knew that the Urkradach had superior sensor arrrays, so we used a new type of troop deployment. These new drop pods could be launched from quite a distance away from the planet and would fall onto the surface like a swarm of meteorites.

We "landed" the pods in an area well away from the settlements we had found on Xanthe. A thousand troops deployed and began to march towards the biggest settlement.

They had to cross through a relatively small patch of woods. We knew that, if the foe was forewarned, it was a dangerous path to choose. Going around the woods, however, would have given the foe too much time to prepare defenses. So we went straight through, confident we could handle any Urks we might encounter.

It was a massacre...

We knew the Urks were ruthless fighters. We didn't know they were also very skilled in guerilla-like hit-and-run attacks. We lost about 140 men. Most of them literally torn apart by the vicious blades the Urk apparently like to put on their weapons.

We didn't score any confirmed kills in the woods. However, we were able to keep the force together and get out of the woods quickly.

After the horror of the woods, we advanced towards our target, always keeping a lookout to our backs, making sure we weren't followed. We weren't and we weren't even attacked on the plains that lay between the woods and the settlement we wanted to attack.

When we approached the settlement, we noticed that it wasn't a settlement at all. It was a boot camp.

And it was full of troops...

Done in PMG 0.6 and MS Paint.