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by audiox » Mon Feb 23, 2015 5:07 pm
Random thoughts.
1. Give all players the same equipment, and make sure that supply-drops contain AT assets. For a mission like this, where you might find yourself all alone in the night, the standard FTL/AR/AAR/AT distinction makes little sense. Make team leaders FTL loadout and the rest rifleman loadouts. Also consider special forces weapons (silencers/scopes/the shiznit). That way you don't hurt so much from not having AR/AT at your immediate disposal, and you -know- where and how to get ahold of AT assets without having to pray to rng-eeezus.
2. If you insist on dropping them as individual units, consider not spreading them over the entire AoO, but cutting the spawn-range down to 50% or less of the AoO.
3. Civilian vehicles in towns yes please.
4. The A3 Supply drop module can apparently be linked to squad leaders, making it possible for them to order in crates. This is second-hand knowledge for my part, but might be worth investigating.
5. Were there zeus slots? If not add zeus slots, it would make it possible for benevolent gods to steer the action some. (I mean, hosts can still do that, but maybe somebody else would want to.....)
You know, a lot of work has probably been put into this, but here's the problem. As host this comes way down in my list of missions i would consider adding to a session. The idea of letting a commander go in blind on this one and then having to work it out on the go is not something i find myself too interested in doing.
If somebody who wanted to CO it had presented me with a plan for how to reorganize the forces and get to stepping -before- the session, and i agreed it could work, i might entertain the idea, but to go in with blind faith in the CO's ability to provide some sort of cohesive working environment for tactical play is taking a pretty big risk with the enjoyment of a lot of people. (This is just my personal opinion, not hosts team as a whole.)
It is a very very pretty mission though, and the concept seems to have been welcomed by some. We should do it again with a prepared CO at some point and see where that takes us.