> > Sounds like your average FPS > Oh... do you normally die immediately when play unless you are in heavy cover with massive artillery support?
I would have said the opposite of most FPS - they normally have nigh-indestructible PC equipped with better weapons facing set-piece enemies. The posleen are a tide that engulfs regions. Perhaps you think you are playing Call of Duty and the computer is playing Command and Conquer? Seriously though; We have in the past mentioned how the section of Archers should be modelled as a machine gun, in that they are 20 "weapons" that shoot at Rof 12 for a net Rof of 120 On the same line of thought; an oolt, a Posleen unit, of 400 strong, all firing at a party of PCs with the lowest capability weapons - shotguns with notional Rof 3 per is Rof 1200. ok, this is over a much larger beaten area, and should be at skill 9 for a base but this is a +17 to hit at least. Assume suppression fire over the area locking this down to +6... That's still a 15 at base. And that's discounting a guess at the bonus for multiple projectiles. Replace the shotguns with a few of the 1mm railguns that are fatal in any body armour and able to pierce light armoured vehicles from the front. Throw in the odd 3mm railgun, Plasma Cannon or Hypervelocity Missile launcher. Armour is doomed. This will be what the Godking has so it will be aimed at decent skill - 16-20. And if mounted on a tenar (anti-grav flying saucer platform) stabalised and equipped with good electronic sights if the godking is willing to use them. If the players use trad tactics they will open fire, kill a few dozen normal posleen and die. If they are stealthier, they will kill fewer up front, get run down and die. If they make use of the deliberate weaknesses of the setting and chose the way they fight then they can kill all of the oolt and get away. [dig in deep, lay mines, pick an exposed location to make the possies bunch up, call in lots of artillery! Use heavy weapons - belt fed] One of the points of the setting was: Man meets a force that he cannot beat with conventional methods of warfare. Most of the time this type of game will be survival horror - more about what man does to man than about the posleen. Like zombies. They are the wallpaper...that will eat you if lean on it. [mental note - find wall paper like that] <McE _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
