Just a quick point of inquiry: Wasn't Skirmish 3 supposed to be pure PC vs PC fighting, no NPC's involved directly? To me, the setup seemed to read "NPC's are involved but abstracted into a conflict with each other whilst PC's face off with each other"
Instead of trying to prove me wrong just for the sake of one upping me, why don't you work with me to make this a better story? I was reigning in your opposition to make it easier for the GA participants to say they assaulted the perimeter without being killed. If this drop zone isn't temporary, then the Mandalorians and Imperium would have dug in to secure the area for an extended duration... that means heavy weapon emplacements, prefabricated towers, walls, and bunkers. If that were the case, this GA assault force would be throwing themselves at permacrete walls and blast doors while repeaters mowed them down by the hundreds. I wanted your forces to be able to slip in quickly and get right to fighting the Mando and Imperial participants without any fuss beforehand.
We could have nuked the planet to hell, but then there wouldn't have been anything for the GA to role-play except instant death. Since you're feeling smart, we'll just say the area where this drop zone was established used to be one of your bases that was flattened and reduced to ash by an orbiting warship. Is that better?
Just a quick point of inquiry: Wasn't Skirmish 3 supposed to be pure PC vs PC fighting, no NPC's involved directly? To me, the setup seemed to read "NPC's are involved but abstracted into a conflict with each other whilst PC's face off with each other"
Well rules were meant to be broken. Also we just have NPC's blowing up shuttles, I guess we could have NPC's all of a sudden turn their attention only toward each other and then go PVP from there.
That's what I was thinking would eventually happen, just wanted to see if that's what others were thinking.
Okay, I'm not one to nitpick, but.. really? Max managed to shoot a fast-moving and already en route micro-missile dead on while riding on a combat speeder bike in the midst of battle? And to top it off, he was in the distance when his HUD identified Sam's character? Bro, that's almost incomprehensible, and this is Star Wars.
And then here, I'm also puzzled by how a certain tactic is suppose to have worked. He dodged an incoming homing-rocket by rolling on the ground, and didn't suffer from - not only any direct hit - but not even concussive AOE damage which would have resulted from it? And I know he was still quite close to it, because you directly make reference that he's using the chemical smoke as cover. Rolling to dodge a missile isn't something that'd ever feasibly work, but even if it somehow did, there's no way someone can just sit toasty next to a flying bomb going off without ill effect.
That is not happening. Even a Jedi Master can't pull that off too easily. This needs an edit.