most tragic soliders deaths

[Barr]

disscus

[SquarelyCircle]

How about a soldier that runs through 5 enemies with overwatch, barely survives, and then you accidentally throw a grenade that they step into. I guess that's less tragic and more facepalm.

[Nerevars Goat Univeron]

The most tragic would have to be this one sniper, who I'd been training the entire game, and who I've developed a fatherly love for, primed to become the canidate. He died just before we finished researach on the Gollop Chamber, mind controlled by an Ethereal and forced to kill his own friends (3 other soldiers I'd also been turning into my A-team. One Mec, one soldier and one heavy. He killed the heavy, wounded the mec and was killed by the soldier. The soldier took his place as canidate, for his fallen brother)

[red255]

if Only you had the piece of mind to just ghost armor ghost mode and walk away....

[happy]

i once had a rookie...she sucked but was cute

on her first mission she decided to make a very unexpected curve instead of simply positioning herself behind her teammates, she of course triggered 2 pods and my squad,of course, had all moved

one died
she then went for full cover which, of course, was blasted away leaving her panicking in the open with 4HP
a thinman somehow only did 3 damage on her,if i recall right another one missed, she was alive!
so my squad did its best to save her...she made it though the first turn, but panicked again the third turn after a heroic comrade gave his life to save her butt
stranded in no cover again she was

i saved her...but lost 3 good men

she became an engineer(LWmod) and...blew herself to oblivion on the next mission, somehow, her grenade bounced on the wall and dealt her a magnificent 6 damage

stupid girl, i do miss her

[Space Coward]

Well, I was one turn away from failure at a bomb disposal. The only one who was in range was a single assault, no turns used yet. Her cover had been blown up and I had to pick-- get behind the bomb timer to cool it, or hide behind a distant wall and fail the mission. She runs forward, goes behind the bomb timer. And the reason I was so reluctant? Five floaters, two mutons. Everyone else had already used their turns. The bomb timer was pressed, she throws a grenade to kill one of the floaters and heavily damage a muton. Over the aliens' turn she gets her health chipped down but does three Close-and-Personal reaction shots to kill two floaters and wound the berserker that seemd to be lurking off to the side.

Cleanup was easy, but I lost my colonel.

Oh, and then aliens terrorized Buenos Aires and I had all my best troops wounded, so I lost 5 squaddies and rookies. But hey, who gives a ♥♥♥♥?

[Girheim]

Earlier tonight when I was investigating the small fishing village in Canada.

Everything was going well, except for the death, zombification, and subsequent execution of my best field medic. Then I foolishly decided to rush my best man ahead to hit the transponder while leaving the rest of my squad to cover the stairs. Bad move. After rushing the rest of them upstairs to counter a group of Chryssalids who had went straight for him (I forgot they could jump like that,) they managed to distract and fend off my foe long enough for my lead man to hit the transponder. But by the time he ran back out onto the deck, his comrades were getting overwhelmed. And so was he. Out of ammo, and out of time, the rest of my squad fell except for my second support.

With no chance of winning a fight, the only hope was an all-out dash to the EVAC zone. She almost made it, and it genuinely looked like I would have a survivor, outrunning the Chryssalids with apparent ease. That is, until one of them managed to close the distance and initiate a successful attack which brutally killed her. Mission accomplished, but at the cost of my entire squad, all having fallen, risen from the dead, and fallen again when the airstrike came.

It was a horrifying and memorable experience. The worst part was watching my zombified soldiers, once the cream of the crop, flop down mindlessly from the top deck as my last man (woman, rather) made her almost-but-not-quite-successful dash for EVAC.

[SquarelyCircle]

Cue the bagpipes.

[Space Coward]

WEEW, WA-WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW!
<scottish music goes here>

[Kash]

Originally posted by happy:

i once had a rookie...she sucked but was cute

on her first mission she decided to make a very unexpected curve instead of simply positioning herself behind her teammates, she of course triggered 2 pods and my squad,of course, had all moved

one died
she then went for full cover which, of course, was blasted away leaving her panicking in the open with 4HP
a thinman somehow only did 3 damage on her,if i recall right another one missed, she was alive!
so my squad did its best to save her...she made it though the first turn, but panicked again the third turn after a heroic comrade gave his life to save her butt
stranded in no cover again she was

i saved her...but lost 3 good men

she became an engineer(LWmod) and...blew herself to oblivion on the next mission, somehow, her grenade bounced on the wall and dealt her a magnificent 6 damage

stupid girl, i do miss her

That is priceless!

[Rodso]

i just did a light abduction and lost 3 solders and a shiv and yes it was a light on normal but its also long war i knew how 3 of them died 2 of them was from bloodly drones :( the other got flanked but the 4th im not even sure how

[Space Coward]

After my terrible attempt at doing the Memorial song via text, let's cue the bagpipes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vx_RdaFHeE

[red255]

Oh I got one I remembered, was on a terror mission I think. killed the last alien map ended and after it told me the soldier deaths a car blew up and killed one of my guys.

[gizz]

The first time I played XCOM I had this one heavy, Bubba. He was stuck out in the open(due to an accidental right click) and three chrysalids dropped down around him. they were going for my squad but I had people on over watch. The chrysalids were wounded but not down and probably would have killed the last of my squad in the next two turns. Bubba had one rocket left and chose to fire it instead of letting his squad get implanted. The chrysalids were killed in the blast allong with him. The rest of the squad got away but were killed by the outsiders. The only survivor was a support class called Mr. Clean.

Rest in peace soldiers

[gizz]

The mission after that I had a squad of only rookies. The UFO had a crew of just Thin men apparently and I had deployed my guys badly. All of my team was poisoned and this one guy panniced and killed the last three aliens, he died shortly after. There were only three survivors.

[SevenNiner]

The Mission to save the VIP with the Bridge across the street. My beloved Assault was on overwatch under the bridge. Suddenly the Alien I expected to walk around the corner took the way over the bridge and had my assault exposed. To save him I fired a Rocket at the Alien .....

Also everytime I miss a rocket shot (10% chance) and it hits the ground right in between my troops.