> As luck would have it, I did get a response... > > "If you're referring to a story by Chris, he left the site and asked that > his stories be taken down. > > Ian"
Hey - fair comment! Whatever he prefers. > I sent a reply to him asking for the Author's email addy, but it looks > like you don't need that from me :) Glad it worked out in the end. > Always good to hear from you Nigel. > > Hal No worries :) On the topic of the Aldenata, err, Posleen Invasion anyway, its quite the tactical puzzle to deal with. One which the GM is probably unable to handle [I think, :)] For those unaware: The enemy is a race of carnivorous reptilian hermaphroditic oviparous centauroids whose genetically manipulated caste system and artificially organised society works only for war. They came to earth to literally eat mankind. Only 1 in c.400 are truly sentient. These God Kings dominate the remainder by a pheromone release (afaik). They are born with all their core skills, including language, weapon skills and starpiloting. In battle the godking attacks and the normals follow. More accurately; the godking aims fairly well and the 400 - 20000 normals instinctively shoot where their godking shoots mostly debatably well. They are irregular cavalry armed with TL10-12 weapons. The lightest weapons are shotguns with rifle ranges. The moderate ones will kill TL8 tanks from the side. The best ones will kill TL8 tanks easily front to back. In melee they have carnivore teeth and claws and are pony sized - but almost all are armed with monomolecular machetes sized to them. Better equipped God Kings ride on flying saucers armed with _serious_ heavy weapons equipped with excellent sensors that act as maximal range CIWS, networked between all Godkings in a formation. Formations are sometimes [usually incompetently] supported by various sizes of starship often armed with nuke range kinetic weapons. Against them aircraft are simply doomed. Powered missiles are doomed. Artillery works as its missiles are unpowered. Posleen attack by the hundred thousand. They breed to adult in 2 years. They are basically immune to fear unless you kill most of them. When you open fire: they attack, over run you and eat you. You are always outnumbered a thousand to one or more. That's 1 squaddie vs 998 horse sized carnivorous morons and 2 smart flying-saucer-riding railgun-armed bossmen who don't really care if all 998 of the normals die to kill the 1 squaddie... The GM may be toast. McE _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
