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The Long War, Part IX - Ogbomosho
Previous: The Long War, Part VIII - The Phony WarOgbomosho was on fire.Home to over a million souls, the city was a funeral pyre. If it had been day a thick pall of smoke would have been visible - in...
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The Long War, Part X - Terror in Nigeria
Previous: The Long War, Part IX - OgbomoshoContactAt approximately 6 am local time on 7 April 2016 a medium-sized UFO touched down in the Nigerian city of Ogbomosho. Its arrival grounded nearby air...
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The Long War, Part XI - Crisis in Africa
Previous: The Long War, Part X - Terror in NigeriaInsurgency in NigeriaThe developing crisis in Nigeria coincided with a massive Boko Haram uprising already underway in Borno State in northeast...
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The Long War, Part XII - The Battle of Ogbomosho
Previous: The Long War, Part XI - Crisis in AfricaThe Battle of OgbomoshoThe Skyrangers arrived in Ogbomosho early evening Nigerian time on 7 April 2016. By this point the chryssalids had been running...
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Wrestling with X-Com
This is a break from the Long War story, and it's just going to be a bunch of stuff from my head about the difficulties I'm having with both the game and the story. I'm not going to reveal the...
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The Long War, Part XIII - Escalation
Previous: The Long War, Part XII - The Battle of OgbomoshoThe battle of Ogbomosho marked a turning point in the global perception of the alien threat. The pathetic ineptitude of the sectoids in combat...
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The Long War, Part XIV - Battle for the Skies
Previous: The Long War, Part XIII - EscalationThe Air War IntensifiesMilitary commands all over the world were determined to wrest back control of the skies from the aliens. Since the German attack on...
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The Long War, Part XV - The Enemy Within
Previous: The Long War, Part XIV - The Battle for the SkiesThe Rise of EXALTIntelligence analysts initially believed that the massive Boko Haram uprising that coincided with the chryssalid outbreak in...
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The Long War, Part XVI - Advent Rising
Previous: The Long War, Part XV - The Enemy WithinThe French ConnectionIn May 2016 the Western intelligence world was shocked by the revelation that France was exporting arms and supplies to the...
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The Long War, Part XVII - Resistance
Previous: The Long War, Part XVI - Advent RisingFranceSyl was dumbstruck at the sight of the millions assembled in the Place de la Republique. She had never been in a crowd that size before, and the...
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X-Com War Diaries, Part I - Long War Incomplete
The date is March 2017. It is one year after the X-Com project was activated. Our interceptor fleet has three brand new Firestorm aircraft, and even our modified Ravens are shooting the aliens out of...
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The Long War, Part XVIII - Awakening
Previous: The Long War, Part XVII - ResistanceJapanIt started as an indistinct glimmer on the furthest edges of her vision. A mote in her mind's eye, she didn't really notice it until it had become a...
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The Long War, Part XIX - Mirage
Previous: The Long War, Part XVIII - AwakeningSeveral kilometres from Yarmouk a large convoy of UN trucks laden with food, supplies and fresh drinking water waited in a depot guarded by Syrian...
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X-Com War Diaries, Part II - March 2016
Previous: X-Com War Diaries, Part I - Long War IncompleteSo here I go again, starting campaign number seven of the Long War. Because of the fiasco of the corrupted save file I'm not going to play...
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X-Com War Diaries, Part III - April 2016
Previous: X-Com War Diaries, Part II - March 2016In April 2016 Japan was visited by seven UFOs. This time around five of the visitors were medium sized raiders, along with one scout and an abductor....
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X-Com War Diaries, Part IV - May 2016
Previous: X-Com War Diaries, Part III - April 2016In May 2016 X-Com detected six UFOs, shot down three and completely destroyed one. Destroyed craft cannot be recovered (obviously), but they award a...
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X-Com War Diaries, Part V - June 2016
Previous: X-Com War Diaries, Part IV - May 2016With no satellite coverage X-Com was blind for most of the month. My lack of foresight in keeping a satellite in reserve cost me dearly - UFO activity...
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X-Com War Diaries, Part VI - July 2016
Previous: X-Com War Diaries, Part V - June 2016My favorite soldier through the recurring campaigns has always been Shingen "Okami" Takeda. Unimaginatively named after a famous Japanese daimyo during...
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X-Com War Diaries, Part VII - August 2016
Previous: X-Com War Diaries, Part VI - July 2016As with July, X-Com's increased coverage of the world meant that we would be seeing much more UFO activity. 15 contacts were tracked. Two abductors were...
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X-Com War Diaries, Part VIII - September 2016
Previous: X-Com War Diaries, Part VII - August 2016Back.I was AFK from the blog from about mid-July to the end of August, but am planning to return to posting regularly this month. In terms of content...
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