"Whites of Their Eyes" challenge!

[xdesperado]

Think 15 is going to be a very good score for anyone.

By my count the max possible score is a 33, but pretty sure that is a near impossibility to get. (Would have to play on Brutal, Soloing the Captain, no restarts, getting more "squad kills" than full teams and only using either melee or ranged attacks.)

[slayernz]

Soloing the captain early on is baaaad for many reasons.
1) You won't have the accuracy for range, or melee skills to be confident in hitting. If you have beefed up a single skill, it usually won't be your evade skill, so if you do miss, you get eaten.
2) The biggest value you can get early on is XP, and if you solo your captain, your squad don't get any development skills, and you'll need them for the last mission of the tutorial!
3) You'll run the risk of beating my Lone Wolf challenge score of 31 kills

[xdesperado]

slayernz you do know the Tutorial doesn't count for chalange points right?

Well perhaps the overall squad kill count and individual kill counts include it, but otherwise it's all based on the other 3 campaigns.

[Lt. Hathaway]

slayernz The rules say nothing about which three levels you have to lone wolf to max that portion of scoring.

xdesperado Can't find where it says in johndramey's rules that the tutorial doesn't count.

Glad I asked the question beforehand.

What I read is that we have 21 levels to:
Pass three missions with 3, 2, and 1 Templar : 18 points
Pass three campaigns without restart. 3 points
Pass three campaigns without losses. 3 points
Pass three missions mêlée only. 6 points
Pass three missions ranged only. 6 points
Oh, and up to 4 points for difficulty, although of course it'll be easier to get the other 36 points above on normal, sacrificing 3 points. Anyway, it adds up to 40 points you can control, and if you're clever, you'll never leave a level with ammo, and only one Templar makes it out of the last level, etc. Just making sure we're all playing the same game.

[xdesperado]

Lt. Hathaway I think the confusion in our scoring is semantics.
johndramey says mission and I'm thinking the entire campaign not just one individual level of a campaign.

Since he said max of X3 for each of those awards I figured he was reffering to the 3 official campaigns and not counting the tutorial campaign for those scoring oportunities.

Note if you just count individual levels as a mission and include the tutorial, the Captain can get his first Solo with zero risk on the first level.

[Cyrus]

Captain Power and his soldiers of the future stand ready to compete!

They're somewhat confused that their shiny CGI outfits have been replaced by giant lumbering heaps of metal. But hey, anything's better than being canceled and these guys are ancient relics as much as their gear, so they'll be fine...

I'll go for normal mode and see how far I get.

[rsgong]

Welcome to the fight Cyrus. Good luck (and watch out for that last scenario in the tutorial).

[johndramey]

Cyrus! Welcome to the challenge. Like rsgong said, be careful on the last mission of the tutorial, have fun, and welcome to the challenge!

The challenge will be starting today! Good luck everyone, have a good challenge. If you still want to join up then please feel free to start up and just post here. Everyone is welcome.

[triedge]

I am completing the 'normal nelly' achievement and 'I AM IRON MAN' achievemint

[triedge]

I also completed two maps with three templars only.

[johndramey]

triedge - Nice! Welcome to the challenge.

[rsgong]

Duke's Dukes and I'm from Texas should be per campaign.

[triedge]

I AM IRONMAN, Three's a crowd, Birds of a feather, Baths?! What are those?, Ranger Rave, Duke's Dukes, and i think i've completed stalin step since the only templar remaining on mine was the captain.

[triedge]

Challenge was completed on tuesday

[triedge]

how did i become a curator?