I myself find it curious that we were blowing motes and WP left and right to use the DOOM COMBO on all those walls when we really should have been able to bust them down simply by using IEU-enhanced feats of strength. Takes all of 10 seconds per wall, and probably not even that as we go through more of them as we get progressively better at knowing just where to hit the wall for maximum effect.
One word: Unfamilarity.
Marrow has yet to train her Charms, so she is operating sub-optimally, and spamming the only moves she KNOWS work.
Just like Taylor's lack of meditation on her Charms cost Jotun and Penitent their lives when she couldn't operate on Noelle after the nanothorn knife broke.
It would likely have been worse if we hadn't bought that dot of Occult.
I have my issues with the update, but the combat actions aren't it.
Shouldn't be. There's no real reason for an Exalt to not have full control. This is like saying that if you have Monkey Leap Technique up you must double the length of all your jumps even if you don't need to jump that far.
See above.
You have a Combat-specced Exalt who still does not understand most of her Charms, how much power they consume, or how they work together.
She likely doesn't even understand stunts yet.
It's a testimony to just how badass she is that she survived being thrown into the deep end of the pool.
Are you denying that the debate about saving PRT vs Tourists would have gone differently had players known that Vox was broadcasting?
Actually, speaking as someone who voted for PRT workers?
If I'd known it was being broadcast, I would have voted for Tourists.
It's FANTASTIC PR for the PRT, and for us.
In all fairness, it's not like they didn't have security measures for Bezalel, (e.g. Chevalier's override codes for the drones), it's just that Bezalel overrode them.
No they didn't.
Those were standard anti-hacking overrides.
If they had measures against Bezalel, they wouldn't have been activating his combat drones, or there would be EMP weapons in play.
The - other - thing that bothers me about this update is that Vox conveniently neutralized one of the bigger tactical choices made by the players - to make Marrow an Adamant and thus use the illusion-based anima to hopefully gain a small edge against the Nine. It'd be one thing if they all blew the WP to ignore the Illusion effect, but we didn't even get to try this once against them. It's particularly frustrating since this is based on a suspiciously narrow interpretation of the Adamant anima. It is the equivalent of saying that you can ignore a Dawn's anima because you're sniping him via remote-controlled drone, or that you can avoid a Night's sense-muting aura via remote viewing, or that you can avoid being bound by an Eclipse oath because you were using a prop fake hand when you shook on it - you should not be able to so trivially defeat these effects through something as small as the mere application of mundane technology. It is too clever by half.
Lemme note that Marrow's anima does not take effect for several hours; see the testing scene in the Labs.
There is no indication that the S9 will remember what she did, or how she did it.
Out of curiosity, but does Gallant qualify for Exaltation?
Yes.
He'd probably make a pretty good Starmetal, but I'm still holding out for more options than Tattletale.
I'd much rather have Exalted!Chevalier. We already have a stealth expert in the team, and have a more pressing need for highly-charismatic, great leaders who can go into melee with Behemoth.
Rather have Alchemical!Who; we already have a tank who can melee Behemoth, and Aisha fills a much needed hole in our Assembly.
Chevalier serves us better as a human ally than as an Exalt at the moment, and he competes both with Vista for Jade, and Armsmaster for Orichalcum.
