He is? I was kind of in favor of putting him on Cassandra social since she is so eager to be out and about. Either meeting one of the friends actions or a debutes. We could use Lucy instead, but even then I'd just attach him to Lexpo.
Honestly, I don't think that Cassandra's thing is a matter of socialization as much as it is that she wants to go around and do stuff. Keep in mind that Cassandra is no longer a child (she's a teenager) so Oswald won't be rolling with a 39 Diplomacy like he did on turn 26.
Plus, weren't we planning on doing the musical production stuff for Siobhan? This is kind of a big deal....
I'd say she is more likely on stewardship.
This is actually a so-so. There aren't really enough Learning to go around to help Casandra nail a big action, and gameplay-wise teams of two are preferable to teams of 3 whenever possible. I'd rather stick her on the military strategy and tactics action with Cassandra right now since the timing aligns for that significantly better than any other time in the near future.
Again though, it's far too early to say that for sure.
Not necessarily. We have a minimum 3 doctors, likely more. Odds are we grab at least one with a knack for diplomacy. We also have an actors subvotes, with a decent chance of at least one becoming a full employ, and Daphne Dean signing on as Director. Odds are high for at least two with decent or better diplomacy. You've also forgotten lance and Talia.
What you are saying is not impossible, though Talia is a bit of a wild card so I don't overly rely on her in assumptions unless it's for intrigue stuff. Diplomacy and marketing aren't her specialties by any means, she can do it but she far likelier to believe that her talents are better used elsewhere.
I was hoping for one of the Doctors to have good Stewardship so that they can help build us a hospital if we ever wanted to go through with it, but this is far too early to say one way or the other.
That's about a +70 to rolls when applying marie's coop with Lex. We've had two double down actions this turn which fell short of 30, so I'd put Lance as a third hero at minimum, though frankly while recruitment was a part of each action so was expansion. There is enough of a difference in the nature of the actions that I'm not sure it would earn Marry a trait, especially with the high ceiling of success inherent in recruitment actions.
As we see here that Lucy and Paige, who despite all their success, have earned not a single point increase in diplomacy. Recruitment actions just aren't mechanically designed for trait development or stat increases. We can certainly try it, but it's likely we'll instead need to put her on an expansion action to get her trait.
We can put Lance (and maybe we should), but that's not how probability works (rolls are independent and thus past successes or failures don't say anything.).
I am fairly confident that with a double down we can get at least at one reroll, and we have decent odds to get two so I'm fine with it.
At any rate, I don't think that your example means that she can't get a trait off of this action. She did get closer to one from hiring a bunch of war veterans, and it's very easy to argue that both Lucy and Paige are not as close as she is in developing a trait for this sort of stuff (We used Marie on quite a few recruitment/expansion actions historically, the most recent of which is Future Construction).
I'm pretty sure this will be an auto success action as a result of our finding her and facilitating her reunion with her family. Honestly, given we have seen how one Lord of order might Entrust earth and the larger galaxy to Lex, I could see Amy choosing to meet Lex herself to come to an arrangement for him to look after her father. Best to send someone well intentioned and relatively decent, so Lana.
Honestly I'm not sure if I want to assume an auto-success. It can very easily be argued that she "wants to spend time with her family" and thus isn't as available as she could be, though I can see how we would get a priority to meet her since we were the ones who returned her home and her dad would help us in setting this up. I think that there will be a DC for this action, but that it will be fairly low (up to 20 at most, possibly far less).
Lana and Lucy can probably cover that, yeah.
I'm not sure Cassandra can mingle unless we debut her, and
@King crimson may rule she has to be debuted at least one turn prior to Lexpo to attend it.
The idea of debuting her is that we control the narrative around her. We can have her go to the event (which should be a closed event with a fairly limited guest list) and pretend to be a worker's daughter or something. Starfire can accompany her
Keep in mind that Cassandra did attend the previous Lexpo and did talk to at least Diana so that doesn't seem to be a limiting factor.
I'm not so sure we can say with confidence where we'll want double down until we see our actions as a whole. If we take the Cass special advanced mathematics action I could see that supplanting this in importance, particularly with Carol and Roxy's Nat 1 in recent memory. Voters may also be sufficiently fed up with repair metropolis's slow crawl to apply double down, or put it on zeta stations depending on the team we assign. There is also a chance people opt in favor of continuing to sabotage STAR Labs, this time with a double down and stronger team.
We can't say anything with confidence, strictly speaking, but with all things being equal, debuting our team to wide success is important enough to justify a double-down. If it's important enough to be a priority above other potential issues, I couldn't say.
Honestly it would be best if we pulled Roxy and Carol of Martial and has them work together for this one. Carol being a major part of the teams actual formation will have symbolic significance, with Roxy as social lubricant to keep things headed in the right direction.
Their Diplomacy is too low for that IMO.
Having these two handle the Lexpo is a little foolish. Leslie is provocative and Irritating, and Lisa is a professional clout chaser. neither of them understands science even if Leslie understands showmanship.
I don't agree. I think that it's well within their prowess to organize an event successfully since Leslie is actually fairly good with this sort of stuff and has organized events in the past (her rallies, the debate with Lois and Clark etc) and Lisa would view this as a feather in her cap and be afraid enough to mess this up to do anything truly stupid.
A significantly better team would be Pamela and Talia. Pamela knows the science and is familiar with enough of the staff from her long years at Lexcorp, while also being a veteran at pitching renewable energy to uncaring politicians. Talia has numerous international connections she can lean on to track incoming spies, and is well suited to arrange security. Both have a personal stake in nature conservation and will do their absolute best to sell the cold engine as highly preferable alternative to power sources like coal, gasoline, radiation which can be harmful to the planet. Talia's own stake in the preservation of the planet will make it highly likely she joins the action. Together they'll have about + 44, though we may incorporate an Oswald or an actor as the third member of the team for the sake presentation.
I don't really buy this.
For one thing, we can't reasonably assume that Talia will take this action (since this isn't her expertise), and for another I don't think that Pamela has any particular advantages in organizing events aside from knowing people in the scientific community (which she isn't really involved in) and her obviously higher Diplomacy.
Even if it does work, a Pamela + Talia team isn't so significantly better than a Lisa + Leslie team to where it can justify putting such high-impact units here relative to the more expandable Lisa and about as expandable Leslie.
Pamela is probably better served elsewhere depending on our resources. I think that a best-case scenario is that she finally starts tackling the Gingo fruit stuff which we have been delaying for way, way too long.
I doubt we'll be able to use them in this fashion. None of them will be full hero units after all, and some may be independent minded and need to be convinced to join. That said, once the team exists, taking an auto success/roll to see how effective action involving them giving something there support as a team.
We'll need to see how the recruitment works out and who we grab, but as a general room of thumb being socialable and charismatic is a very valuable trait for us when all things are equal i.e if there are 2 heroes with roughly the same power level (for example, Flash and Guy Gardner) then we should go for the charismatic and sociable one with all else being equal. I'd even go as far as to say that I'd prefer a sociable but somewhat weaker hero vs an "independent" but stronger one (coops are a bigger power multiplier than raw stats, and the sociable heroes are both more marketable and somewhat easier to control)
At any rate, this was just a speculation and we can't say or know anything for sure here.
I'm in favor of a Leslie lead push against stars labs with a stronger team and potential double down. It makes sense to keep up the pressure. Otherwise I may pair her up with Soibhan for a force based Brainiac tech collection action. Send Leslie to infiltrate some criminal organization collecting the tech, have Soibhan bust the front door down and round up the criminals alongside some Lexcorp security.
We'll probably need to assess the damage on S.T.A.R labs to understand how far off we are from a buyout, but we probably aren't ready to take them down completely in the next few turns (i.e free an Intrigue team for sabotage efforts + a stewardship team for a massive buyout thereafter) so we shouldn't really rush this
Grabbing Brainiac tech by force from criminals is certainly viable though, but I can't imagine that a lot of people will be happy with us if we just took it for ourselves rather than handing it over to the authorities. We'll need to see though, it's far too early to make any absolute judgments.
Also, Enoch is an old man approaching the end of his life, who we need to convince to trust Lexcorp with his work and come back out of retirement. It would need a more diplomacy capable intrigue team than we will be free to spare this turn.
I'm not really amazingly big on him myself but other players really wanted the guy, so now is honestly as good a time as any. As far as I understand though, Enoch Brown is roughly in the same boat as Louise in that he made some really brilliant work but had others shun him for stupid reasons. IMO the validation aspect of things is important and should be enough to convince him if we make some concessions for him, but I'm not really amazingly familiar with the character.
I do know that he has an amazing growth formula that can also give humans physical superhuman abilities and really improve our agricultural efforts, which is just inherently valuable, and that he is supposed to be a really good geneticist. I can easily see an argument for this being the equivalent of spreading things too thin though.
I think that this action is more about finding him and doing a general background check for him and not approaching him outright. As I said, I'm not amazingly big on him but the thread really wanted the guy for a while and right now is a very good opportunity for it so I thought I should at least bring it up.
