Eagle's Fall: Difference between revisions

Outnumbered and outgunned, GDI troops dig in and pray their foxholes don't become their graves, continuing to resist the turian invaders, holding out for relief.

 

 

Written by Char Nobyl, ''Eagle's Fall'' is a gripping account of the Battle of Shanxi, with GDI replacing the Systems Alliance.

 

* [[Amazon Brigade]]: Captain Pelayo's Zone Raiders, and an Asari commando squad.

* [[Badass]]: A lot of them, but most prominently Specialist Locke, a GDI commando, {{spoiler|who kills a biotic Asari commando single-handedly, while being hit with Warp.}}

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Mammoth tank callsign "Inferno", which appears early on and then is sidelined due to the risk of orbital strikes; it returns to combat in the endgame.}}

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Lance Corporal Ulrich Kastner, shown in Chapter 2 as a close friend of both Specialist Reese and PFC (later Sergeant) Findlay, disappears without fanfare in the same chapter. {{spoiler|Chapter 8 reveals he was captured by Nod and transformed into one of the new Marked of Kane.}}

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Specialist Locke, natch. {{spoiler|How popular? Peptuck has confirmed he will appear in Renegade.}}

** {{spoiler|[[He's Just Hiding]]}}

* [[More Dakka]]: The Grinder .50cal machinegun, which has finally replaced the old M2 HMG. It's powerful enough that it can kill a turian light tank.

* {{spoiler|[[Screw Destiny]]}}: {{spoiler|A Nod commando team engages Locke, using probability calculator augmentations to "see" into the future. Except that Locke is so badass, he lives when he's supposed to die.}}

** [[Army of Two|Sergeants Salem and Rios]], who continue to be bros.

** [[Modern Warfare|Captain Pelayo]] commands a force of Zone Raiders.

*** There's also an Orca pilot who goes down while providing CAS; Pelayo and her Zone Raiders rescue him, in a callback to when her original version was rescued.

* [[Tank Goodness]]: GDI continues to use Mammoth tanks. It's also deconstructed somewhat: Mammoths outgun and outmass turian tanks, but are large enough to be easily targeted for orbital strikes.

* [[Time to Step Up Commander|Time To Step Up, Sergeants]]: ''All'' of the senior officers of Frank Company were little more than Sergeants or even Privates. Phillip Dante steps up the most, as he goes from Staff Sergeant to acting Captain because ''every other officer'' in his company had died in the initial bombardment by the turians.

 

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