The kind of thing that probably starts with at least one feat of Phobia trickery before maybe giving Phobos to Spike and taking up Boreads. No suitable tricks come to mind yet.
Good idea, I'm going to amend Shock and Awe to include cloaking Brick's car before everything else. Hide the getaway car, give him some more protection. Maybe allow him to be closer.
First off, I really don't like the sphaghetti qouting version of debating, and I'm pretty sure it's actually against the rules. I'd appreciate if you didn't that, atleast with my posts.
Anyway, I don't know how much you actually know about firefights generally end up conducted, but i'll give you a layout. Most deaths even when it comes dealing with trained military, much less gang shootouts, happen in the first few moments before the people who have the attack initiated are able to properly get into cover. Then firefights usually revolve around either retreats, or more likely in this sort of scenario, using burst of suppressive fire to keep a certain or targets pinned down, while your squadmates reposition to their flanks to get a shot off on them that their cover doesn't help with. In many ways, this superior mobility is better in a gunfight then merely being 'bulletproof' because it gives superior ability to actually down your enemies along with making it very hard to actually get a kill shot on you.
Even aside from just the ability to reposition to better tactical positions via taking advantage of cover, you'd be extremely hard pressed to get most trained infantryman to get anything close to a reliable hit off on something with the profile of a person that never the less moves as fast as a 4 wheeled vehicle considering the rates of accuracy we can look at in the real world.
It's pretty fine to leave Zane cardless for measures of time given he both will be using brawler to double his combat roll and will also have a brawler in the tank to make sure he gets away. We've already seen that he's capable of dealing with armed gunmen while not literally being bullet proof in this very quest. Moreover, while yes we won't literally be within five feet of eachother during the fire fight at all times because that would be absurd, it's somewhat different then leaving one person a block away, alone in what is likely not a bulletproof getaway vehicle where any aggressive enemy will definitely leave him screwed since unlike in the Team scenario it'd be unlikely for Zane or Spike to be able to give the guy ranged support to keep his aggressors heads down while they get away or retaliate or vice versa.
More over, any position they got into with Boreads is one a dude with superhuman agility who can outrun a car isn't going to have trouble getting themselves back from. Also, just to be clear, optimizing for power and versatility literally is optimizing for survivability in the context of assaulting a gang hideout with forty armed guards.
Alright, let's do this without spaghetti posting, I'll try to not miss anything.
If most casualties occur before getting to cover, you're still leaving someone without cover when going in. Probably Zane. This isn't a problem with Shock and Awe, as it doesn't leave someone without bulletproof armor.
Brawler of Midwood - Once per story Arc or major event, double your odds of winning in any situation even remotely resembling physical combat. If this ability goes on unused, its use will be spent automatically should the character "die" to a bad roll, in order to save them and let them survive instead.
Brawler isn't a 'Zane Wins Everything' button. It has limited uses, and it saving his life and doubling the odds of success will take up two of them. You're both having Zane go in with no protection and relying on Brawler to win. Instead, you should try to make it so Zane doesn't have to use his 'don't die' effect.
Cover is good. Being able to get to cover quickly is good. It still doesn't beat being bulletproof. With the Arms and Northwind, Zane and Spike can charge the shooters and beat them up without bothering with cover. It's built in. I'd much prefer Spike turtling and causing panic while Zane charges in, both bulletproof, to Brick and Zane charging in, neither bulletproof. What the enemy lacks in accuracy, they can make up in weight of fire. There's a lot of them.
You can't rely on all three of them having access to the cards. Say Brick is playing Batman with a group over
here, and Zane gets shot over
there. More than one thing can happen at a time.
Zane has shown the ability to take out gunmen, yes. Hiding and using illusions. He's even taken out a Carded or two. And yet I'd prefer him to be bulletproof- or even with the ability to make illusions!- when going up against three dozen people with guns.
Shock and Awe will be changed to cloak the car.
Edit: This is the current formulation:
[] Plan Shock and Awe
-[] The Docks [+5 Ambrosia]
-[] Activate Brawler
-[] Night Duet
--[] Spike can have Phobos and fight with us.
---[] Before switching to Boreads, Zane should cloak Brick's car with an illusion.
---[] Zane should use his enhanced mobility to check out the area before Spike goes in loud.
---[] Spike should mostly use his defensive armament, Shield and Armor, to defend himself, draw attention, and cause widespread fear while Zane uses his enhanced speed and skills to surgically take out braver opponents.
