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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: The Rime: a Frostpunk Western RPG (IC)
« on: August 15, 2018, 11:01:15 am »
Cormac nods and considers things for a moment. Their target is still the engine, but that doesn’t mean they can’t prepare for it.
“Okay, there ain’t nothin’ important in the passenger cars, least not for the folks who want the train. They’re headin’ for the this here engine car, an’ we gotta stop ‘em, ‘less you wanna be chewin’ ice for dinner.
‘cause of Anders here, we know they gotta be comin’, so we’re gonna hole up near the car that big gun is on so we don’t lose that. The last thing we want is for the bandits on the hill to help out their friends on the train, okay? We got more than just ourselves to worry about here, and I’ll be damned if I’m walkin’ the rest of the way to Stalwart.”
He addresses the crew for the engine car.
“You got any sheets of canvas or anything back here, big enough to hide a person holdin’ a weapon? I’ll need enough for each of us, and some smaller ones too.”
Find a defensive position around the gun car, preferably that allows an ambush to be set while also allowing me to keep an eye on the accountant. If I get a canvas sheet, set it in such a position I can hide under it and clearly see the door the bandits are likely going to come through, but also easily roll behind cover after I reveal my position. If I get more sheets, hand them out to the other side so they can hide too, and throw the smaller sheets over things in the car so it doesn’t look quite so obvious.
Once that’s all set:
“I take the first shot, then you guys shoot ‘em all up ‘til they stop twitchin’”
There can’t be too many of ‘em, too hard to keep a large group organized. Likely be good shots too, gotta be careful...
((Not really sure how to set up my action from here in such a manner that it can be easily processed and not be meta or anything...))
Wait until a bandit enters and is either about to see one of my colleagues, or gets to the middle of the car, and start shooting, favoring the one either closest to me or most likely to shoot one of the other defenders.
“Okay, there ain’t nothin’ important in the passenger cars, least not for the folks who want the train. They’re headin’ for the this here engine car, an’ we gotta stop ‘em, ‘less you wanna be chewin’ ice for dinner.
‘cause of Anders here, we know they gotta be comin’, so we’re gonna hole up near the car that big gun is on so we don’t lose that. The last thing we want is for the bandits on the hill to help out their friends on the train, okay? We got more than just ourselves to worry about here, and I’ll be damned if I’m walkin’ the rest of the way to Stalwart.”
He addresses the crew for the engine car.
“You got any sheets of canvas or anything back here, big enough to hide a person holdin’ a weapon? I’ll need enough for each of us, and some smaller ones too.”
Find a defensive position around the gun car, preferably that allows an ambush to be set while also allowing me to keep an eye on the accountant. If I get a canvas sheet, set it in such a position I can hide under it and clearly see the door the bandits are likely going to come through, but also easily roll behind cover after I reveal my position. If I get more sheets, hand them out to the other side so they can hide too, and throw the smaller sheets over things in the car so it doesn’t look quite so obvious.
Once that’s all set:
“I take the first shot, then you guys shoot ‘em all up ‘til they stop twitchin’”
There can’t be too many of ‘em, too hard to keep a large group organized. Likely be good shots too, gotta be careful...
((Not really sure how to set up my action from here in such a manner that it can be easily processed and not be meta or anything...))
Wait until a bandit enters and is either about to see one of my colleagues, or gets to the middle of the car, and start shooting, favoring the one either closest to me or most likely to shoot one of the other defenders.