Now that was a mission
It is May of 2015 and the second month of a war with an alliance of aliens launching an invasion of earth. The XCOM forces responded to a request by the Canadian government to investigate a fishing village with a recently docked ship that had mysteriously lost all contact, even a rescue team sent in gave no response.
The XCOM forces arrive in the middle of the night, the docks were dark, quiet and empty. The night air was still as the squad progressed slowly through the village advancing towards the docks when zombies started to emerge from the buildings. The town had been attacked by chryssalids but none were around. The zombies were dispatched until the team stumbled upon a trophy shark dangling from a hook above the dock.
The shark burst open revealing a chryssalid. The ship had recently returned from a deep ocean fishing trip so the team went inside. A whale carcass had been turned into a hive and dozens of chryssalids poured forth. The team called for an air strike  as teh horde descended upon them. Fighting their way to the transponder in the bridge of the ship soldiers dying one by one. The beacon was activated and the survivors saw the massive distance between them and safe evac. They fought hard but they fell, as the last one fell the airstrike came, destroying the town, the ship, everything.Â
The team was lost but the chryssalid swarm was stopped.
This is why I LOVE XCOM I went into a mission not knowing what to expect and faced an army of chryssalids, my entire squad was killed but because I had activated the beacon I forced the battle to a draw. My worst mission in a long time but one hell of a great story.
