[TML] Which combat system do you prefer?

[Richard Aiken]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Leon Wu <Leon.Wu at newswire.ca> wrote:
>> Of course, maybe your group lacked a rules lawyer to calculate the
>> (incredibly low) odds of PCs accidentally dying.  In which case, I
>> envy you!  :-)
>
> Oh we were green, so green. At the time I couldn't tell the difference between an M-16 and an AK. I remember we spent a bundle of our starting "cash" on a LAV with a chaingun only to discover afterwards it wouldn't stop a tank.

No, but it's a lot easier on fuel, spare parts are much easier to find
(at least, they were when I ran the game) and it can easily run away
from anything it can't fight.  Nothing can go toe-to-toe with an MBT
(Main Battle Tank) except another MBT.

> I believe our GM was exceedingly kind in not killing the entire party in the first firefight.

<snicker!> My first party bought a LAV, too.  They didn't try to go up
against a tank in it.  But they did charge into the middle of a
village occupied by Soviet regulars.  Right in the middle of the
village square, they came to a FULL STOP and began to rake the
surrounding buildings with their chaingun.  They were incredibly
surprised with someone popped up from a spider hole and put an AT
rocket up their rear end.  They all died gruesomely, screaming amidst
the flames . . . only to wake up in their bedrolls in the pre-dawn
mists, having all suffered the same horrible nightmare.  Then I had a
party NPC gasp: "What kind of idiot STOPS a tin can during a
firefight?!"


-- 
Richard Aiken

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