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[E. Albright]

Well, if you have to train everyone in tactics, that at least counts for something... and if they're just random mules, they may not have the juice for a high Tactics skill. While it wouldn't perforce suddenly make sieges little slices of Hell, they'd at least make the old "grab 40 untrained Hippies with .38s and become invincible" trick infeasible.

I'm less bothered by a squad that's trained and drilled defeating sieges than one that has no preparation or organization doing the same.

Also, we can make Tactics a bit scarcer, and ensure you'll never find any random person with more than 1 or 2 under most circumstances... so the only way to end up with someone  with an 8 or so to train yourself a Hippie hedgehog would be to weather multiple sieges. And at that point, you'd have earned it, if ya ask me.

[Guy Montag]

Maybe make a new Arch-Conservative unit. a General or something. He would have high leadership and tactics and could be brainwashed into training your hippies to defeat police seiges. HE could also attack your liberals by giving rousing speeches on patriotism and explaining the importance of national security.

Maybe you could scale the % that an individual in the back could fire by the number of guys you have. You would have a result of diminishing returns the more hippies you have in the back firing. With say, 10, almost all would be firing. With 100, almost nobody would be able to fire in the confusion.

Not that more people in the safehouse would be WORST, but higher numbers would end up being less useful.

The seigers ambushing you and firing first should be implimented as well.

Also was thinking of somehow replicating attacks against your guys from long-distance. A sniper shooting your squad, or a tank firing its main gun or coax at you from two blocks away. Helicopters could attack your squad with nigh-impunity.

Maybe the tactics skill could mitigate the chances these "free" hits could damage your squad. Better grasp of tactics would have your guy moving in cover and manuvering in ways that makes it difficult for a sniper or helicopter to get a clear shot on your sqaud.

[mainiac]

The tactics could contain a tradeoff between the effectiveness of extra fighters and the amount of indirect fire recieved.  In a nutshell: v. loose formation, only your six member squad fires but you don't loose any members to random shelling, airstrikes, snipers, etc.  v. tight formation (human wave) tons of liberals get to fire but casualties from more distant enemies skyrocket.  Then have a few levels in between.

[Little]

The tactics could contain a tradeoff between the effectiveness of extra fighters and the amount of indirect fire recieved.  In a nutshell: v. loose formation, only your six member squad fires but you don't loose any members to random shelling, airstrikes, snipers, etc.  v. tight formation (human wave) tons of liberals get to fire but casualties from more distant enemies skyrocket.  Then have a few levels in between.

I'm Little, and I approve of this message. 

[mainiac]

I'm Little, and I approve of this message. 

Y'know, they can fix that.



...sorry, I can't resist a cheap shot.

[Deadmeat1471]

Been wanting LCS continued for ages! win!