Note to my fellow party members

[lederhosen]

When the GM mentions four or five times that there are FAR TOO MANY nasties in the village for your party to take all at once. And when the GM mentions that loud noises attract more of them...

...that is not a good time to pull out your automatic weapons and start spraying full-auto. No, it is not.

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(We were looking into the slavering maw of a total party kill; I ended up popping smoke grenades so we could flee in the confusion. Unfortunately one of the party had been knocked unconscious, so I then had to find him in the smoke while slavering Genestealers hunted for me. Still, nobody died.)

(Well, except for the civilians in that first building. But we're pretty sure that at least one of them was a Genestealer puppet. Probably. Besides, as our Rune-Priest helpfully reminded us, "it's nothing compared to the sacrifice that the Emperor makes every day!")

Comments

[silmaril]

Con...gratulations? For the "nobody died?"

[lederhosen]

Well, I say "nobody died", but one of our guys had to take advantage of the "permanently lose a Fate point to somehow miraculously survive" rule after getting into -10HP territory.

Unfortunately, he's been infected by a Genestealer, which is Not Good and will require a lot of medical checks to fix. Or we could just shoot him

[jenny_wren]

So... I'm not the only one who likes to commit spectacular suicides in games?

[lederhosen]

My character's backstory involves a couple of incidents in which he was the only survivor of his team. He was muttering "oh no, not AGAIN" last night.

To be fair to the others, we're trying to take on superior numbers of creatures that are known as the best close-combat specialists in the galaxy, so I can understand the temptation to shoot them before they get close. But that just draws more.

[tcpip]

Once again you've saved your party! Seems that you're making a bit of a habit of this..

And genestealers are awesome opponents.

[lederhosen]

Once again you've saved your party!

I put it down to the combination of jump pack and blind grenades - they really do expand the tactical options. Those grenades are going to be high on my requisition list next time around (assuming I live that long).

The scenario pretty much requires us to go hand-to-hand with large numbers of Genestealers, which is not a pleasant thing. Times like this I'm glad of a high Dodge score.