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Why Hobbes?

This question keeps popping up from time to time. And the answer is two-fold: - Hobbes, as in the stuffed tiger in the comic books Calvin and Hobbes. - And as Thomas Hobbes, an English political theory writer of the XVI century (which was the inspiration for the above mentioned tiger).

In real life my name is André, that I am from Portugal and that my age is 43.

Any questions regarding me, myself and I can be made on my talk page :)

Why do I love X-COM?

Scroll back in time to when computers had the fabulous memory of 48K, namely the ZX Spectrum. The would be creators of X-COM released a game named Rebel Star, followed by Laser Squad (the predecessor to the current Laser Squad Nemesis). I like those so much that I even used some of Rebel Star's names for my fan fictions as a nod to them. A big time afterwards I got a PC and bought X-COM:Apocalypse, followed by X-COM:UFO Defense and X-COM: Terror From The Deep. Voila, love at first sight. And this relationship has continued due to Firaxis release of XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within and XCOM 2, and with OpenXcom, the open source remake of the original game.

Fan fictions?

I've been writing a whole series of stories concerning the X-COM universe:

X-COM: The Unknown Menace - Covers the 1st Alien War (based upon UFO Defense). Long novel (692 pages)

X-COM: Eulogy - Set between the 1st and the 2nd Alien War. Short story based upon the return of X-COM to Mars.

X-COM: Abyssal - Covers the 2nd Alien War. Unfinished.

X-COM: Destined Alliance - Pre-Apocalipse story set upon the 2nd return of X-COM to Mars. Will eventually be a part of the 3rd novel, which covers the 5th Alien War, based upon X-COM: Genesis.

All of those can be read at the fanfiction.net site

Bad Things Happen in XCOM

UFOPaedia projects (work in progress)

The Mysteries of X-COM - published, discussion page for unexplained aspects of the whole series

X-COM History Notes - work in progress

Part I - X-COM Organization

Part II - The Alien War

Part VII - The X-COM Files - work in progress (fan fiction)

Murphy's Laws (X-COM) - work in progress

Blitzing (Apocalypse)

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 ===Why Hobbes?===
 This question keeps popping up from time to time. And the answer is two-fold:
-- Hobbes, as in the stuffed tiger in Calvin and Hobbes.
+- Hobbes, as in the stuffed tiger in the comic books Calvin and Hobbes.
-- And as Thomas Hobbes, an English political theory writer of the XVI century (on which the above mentioned tiger is based btw).
+- And as Thomas Hobbes, an English political theory writer of the XVI century (which was the inspiration for the above mentioned tiger).
-It will also be mentioned somewhere that my real name is André Galvão, that I am from Portugal and that my age is 33. This are all desinformation, of course, meant to distract you from my real identity as a member of Omega Team.
+In real life my name is André, that I am from Portugal and that my age is 43.
 Any questions regarding me, myself and I can be made on my talk page :)
-===What is the Omega Team?===
+===Why do I love X-COM?===
-Bigger than Above Top Secret. Even more secret than the proven fact that the Earth is flat, not round despite what they might tell you. For more information present yourself at the server of [http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net/ UFO2000], a multiplayer remake of UFO Defense. You will know but I will shoot you afterwards.
-===Why X-COM?===
 Scroll back in time to when computers had the fabulous memory of 48K, namely the ZX Spectrum. The would be creators of X-COM released a game named Rebel Star, followed by Laser Squad (the predecessor to the current Laser Squad Nemesis). I like those so much that I even used some of Rebel Star's names for my fan fictions as a nod to them.
 A big time afterwards I got a PC and bought [[Info (Apocalypse)|X-COM:Apocalypse]], followed by [[Info|X-COM:UFO Defense]] and [[Info (TFTD)|X-COM: Terror From The Deep]]. Voila, love at first sight.
+And this relationship has continued due to Firaxis release of [[Enemy Unknown (EU2012)|XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within]] and [[XCOM 2]], and with [[OpenXcom]], the open source remake of the original game.
-===Terrain Mods===
-If you are using XComUtil then you can try some of my terrain mods for something different. It should be easy to use them:
-) Make a backup of the XComUtil.cfg file
-) Download the [http://area51.xcomufo.com/HobbesTerrainMods.zip Terrain Files] and unzip them to your UFO folder
-) Run XcuSetup. Make sure you choose Yes to the option: "Do you want to be prompted before every ship attack?" DOn't choose Yes to any of the options afterwards (or the one where it asks you if you want to use the new Desert and Farm terrains) or it won't work.
-) During the game, when you are about to raid a UFO, it will show you a list of terrains using the original but some of the terrains have been replaced: Farm is now Native (village in the tropics); Urban has been expanded; Forest is Apartment (a different city); and Mountain is the HWP factory (it might not work the first time, just try it until you see it)
-===Fan fictions?===
+==Fan fictions?==
 I've been writing a whole series of stories concerning the X-COM universe:
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 All of those can be read at the fanfiction.net [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/55654/ site]
-==UFOPaedia projects==
+==Bad Things Happen in XCOM==
+[[File:Bad Things (EU2012).jpg]]
+==UFOPaedia projects (work in progress)==
 [[The Mysteries of X-COM]] - published, discussion page for unexplained aspects of the whole series
-X-COM: A Military Analysis - work in progress
+X-COM History Notes - work in progress
 [[X-COM: A Military Analysis|Part I - X-COM Organization]]
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 [[The Alien War|Part II - The Alien War]]
-[[The X-COM Files]] - work in progress
+[[The X-COM Files|Part VII - The X-COM Files]] - work in progress (fan fiction)
 [[Murphy's Laws (X-COM)]] - work in progress
-==Apocalypse Diary==
+[[Blitzing (Apocalypse)]]
-March 31st, 2085
-Over the past three days there has been lots of fighting. X-COM forces average 20-24 soldiers but most of them are on the medical bay since casualty rates have been high. My soldiers are equipped with Megapol Armor, Toxinguns with type B and Disruptors and the tactics have been storming the aliens in real time, which can lead into some nasty situations. Opponents are Anthropods, Skeletoids and Poppers, with the occasional Megaworm. Last mission the aliens started appearing with Shields but managed to catch one and I'm researching it right now to finally get X-COM armor.
-Getting enough soldiers to missions has been a pain. Last mission consisted of 7 soldiers, all others were injured and I barely keep up with losses from recruting. No hybrids or androids available anymore.
-And the aliens rule the skies. I've stopped trying to take down UFOs after I managed to shoot down an alien Destroyer for reach. And I'm down to 5 Hoverbikes and 1 Valkyrie.
-Second base is starting to get built but there's not short term solution for money shortage.