Wing and Sword: a d20 Modern military campaign [METAGAME]

[The Shaman]

Marcel keeps at it, switching his tune to "Le Boudin" (ooc: ). He interjects word of encouragement when ever somone looks his way.

ooc: You were right about the choice of song, Shaman. Rolled a 21. That should give +1 to attack rolls and skill checks for 3 rounds for all my buddies.

I'm tellin' ya, it's all about the playlist...

 

[Barak]

Good grief Normand has been unlucky this whole encounter.

On the "good news" front, he only has a couple cullets left, so he won't be missing for too long now!

 

[The Shaman]

Good grief Normand has been unlucky this whole encounter.

Credit the fellaghas for using the terrain to their advantage - if they'd been up and moving, you'd haven taken out your target.

I half expected Normand to grab his brass knucks and charge!

As the legionnaires on the hill watch three of the fells swarm Sgt. Duval – two of them swing their rifles like clubs while a third, clutching a knife in his hand, slashes at the sergent-chef. The ancien legionnaire rolls with the blows, and suddenly the fell with the knife goes flying and crashes to the ground as Vidal trips him with a swift kick to the leg.

Man, I love the Defensive Martial Arts tree! Improved Combat Throw rocks!

 

[shadowbloodmoon]

Quick question Shaman. The map shows that there are still fells in F4. Is that correct or an oversight? I ask because you never mention them, and Pyotr's has been keeping them in mind with his tactics. Thanks...

 

[Bobitron]

I have to be honest, the map is killing me this time. I can't read it at all. It doesn't really affect Marcel, so no biggie, but maybe we should look into a different method in the future.

 

[The Shaman]

Quick question Shaman. The map shows that there are still fells in F4. Is that correct or an oversight? I ask because you never mention them, and Pyotr's has been keeping them in mind with his tactics. Thanks...

The fells are still there - they are firing at Pyotr, Sgt. Neumann, and Gonzalez. With the range and the legionnaires' cover, they haven't been hitting much of anything, though a lucky roll could change that...

I have to be honest, the map is killing me this time. I can't read it at all. It doesn't really affect Marcel, so no biggie, but maybe we should look into a different method in the future.

You've already seen the first of two maps for the next engagement, The Farm - it was the one I made using CC2Pro awhile back. With a few exceptions all of the future maps should appear in that format, with a real 5' or 10' grid to make it easier to see exactly where everyone is.

If you recall I uploaded the map as a zipped file, but I'm also looking at hosting on a site so that you can see the maps in all their non-jpg'd glory.

This engagement I made the map post hoc as I was working from a flowchart to determine the course of events - I really wasn't sure what was going to happen myself, so I didn't have any maps prepared, only a general sense of the terrain. It will be much cleaner in the future - in addition to site-specific maps, I'm pulling together a few 'generic terrain' maps that I can plug in as needed if the encounter is run from a flowchart again.

Addendum: Bobitron, if save the map as a file to your machine, you may be able to open it with Paint and zoom in to see a bit more clearly where everyone is. Chances are you've already tried this, but I'd feel remiss if I didn't offer it as a suggestion anyway.

 

[Bobitron]

Cool. That map was a big improvement. I didn't mean to criticize, it was at least as good as my Paint map in Bad Moon.

 

[The Shaman]

Cool. That map was a big improvement. I didn't mean to criticize, it was at least as good as my Paint map in Bad Moon.

No worries - the kindest thing I can say about our current map is it's "functional." :\

 

[Barak]

I half expected Normand to grab his brass knucks and charge!

Believe me, I seriously considered it! I sorta was under the impression those fells in F4 were doing some covering fire on Normand, though, and well, with his low HPs, he really can't be running under fire all that much.. But with his low number of bullets, his rifle inaccuracy, and the new knowledge that they aren't, in fact, firing on him.. He very well might go into melee pretty soon.

 

[Bobitron]

Believe me, I seriously considered it! I sorta was under the impression those fells in F4 were doing some covering fire on Normand, though, and well, with his low HPs, he really can't be running under fire all that much.. But with his low number of bullets, his rifle inaccuracy, and the new knowledge that they aren't, in fact, firing on him.. He very well might go into melee pretty soon.

Marcel will happily donate any ammo he has left to a happy home. Not helpful right now, but maybe later?