It's not about him being the equal of anyone.
We... never really used Bito. Bito is still out there.
A reasonable approach- though as we just saw, it's possible for Lady Vic, or any assassin, to simply fail.
The queen? Run that by me again?
That exposes us to his men and gives him a plausible opportunity for revenge.
If we wanted to use him as a commando leader of a mercenary unit, it'd probably work, especially since his men are so well armed. The problem is simply that he's too proud to work for us- we'd have to do something like integrate his men into our PMC and put him in charge of that, I think.
Attempts to sway Jonah Hex to the Luthors' side would probably have been more an issue for Leland or Leonardo.
Yes, but other crimes like "spying on everyone with a cell phone" and "having nuclear missiles" are harder to explain.
Fact: Whale's existence as a loose end is in fact on some level a problem. They may become a threat.
It's not about him being the equal of anyone.
It's about whether Lex Luthor is the kind of person who throws good money after bad.
For whatever reasons, we decided that killing Whale was better than anything else we could have done (e.g. giving him an ultimatum to get out of town, bribing him to get out of town). We hired a pretty good assassin. She gave it a good shot. She failed. Whale is alerted, vengeful, and afraid. It turns out that Whale was able to exploit loopholes in our defenses and get information that could seriously hurt us. Now he's trying to barter that for his life.
Why do we want him dead badly enough to accept a major setback? Why did we want him dead that badly in the first place? I doubt many of us would have voted to assassinate Whale in the first place if we didn't expect to get away with it cleanly. Now we're almost sure not to be able to get away with it cleanly.
There are reasons for Luthor to change his mind about killing someone other than "this person is my equal." Luthor's presumed superiority does not necessarily have to express itself through killing everyone.
We... never really used Bito. Bito is still out there.
Also, Bane clearly has a very great level of pride, and a fixation on destroying Batman that would seem weird* if we weren't playing a character who's about to do one of the things you proverbially do not do, and tug on Superman's cape.
We may be able to get him to do things for us as a mercenary, but there are going to be sharp limits.
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*(I'd have expected him to only develop such an obsession after arriving in Gotham, or at least the United States)
A reasonable approach- though as we just saw, it's possible for Lady Vic, or any assassin, to simply fail.
The queen? Run that by me again?
That exposes us to his men and gives him a plausible opportunity for revenge.
If we wanted to use him as a commando leader of a mercenary unit, it'd probably work, especially since his men are so well armed. The problem is simply that he's too proud to work for us- we'd have to do something like integrate his men into our PMC and put him in charge of that, I think.
Attempts to sway Jonah Hex to the Luthors' side would probably have been more an issue for Leland or Leonardo.
Yes, but other crimes like "spying on everyone with a cell phone" and "having nuclear missiles" are harder to explain.
Fact: Whale's existence as a loose end is in fact on some level a problem. They may become a threat.
The catch is, Whale's existence is a smaller problem than some other problems. Whale apparently put considerable time and effort into making sure he could create a situation where once he knew we were after him, he could make us regret it. And he succeeded.
So now Whale is a threat, but he's a threat that becomes actuality, that causes us real harm, if we continue to attack him. He's poisoned meat; if we chow down, we make things worse. Killing him right away in a decapitation strike might have worked, but Whale had good enough bodyguards that our attempt to do that simply failed.
I believe the reference is to Perdita who is technically a queen now that her parents are dead despite being a toddler.
So Bane's a little weird but his Batman obsession started while he was in prison. Basically as a child he was plagued with nightmares of a monstrous bat-like creature. Then as he grew up he learned to take strength and that if you were the strongest you were in charge and such. Eventually he came across a tough prisoner from Gotham. This man was a hard fight for Bane and was unafraid of him. The man was however terrified of the Batman.
What makes you think he hasn't already set up contingencies? He's obviously been planning this for months, maybe even since before he made his original offer to us.
I think that would be out of character for Whale. Whale has consistently been shown as a cautious, even cowardly man who takes his own safety very seriously. I don't think he's going to want to challenge us or risk creating a situation where we decide we want him dead again.
Right, but in practice, being a regent whose princess mysteriously dies means you probably LOSE power. Count Vertigo would need to take considerable time to secure his own grip on power before he could make a bid to rule the country himself.
Bane would be a poor choice because he does have the ambition to run organizations... but sees himself as a king of his own thing, not as a part of someone else's organization. He'd probably run it fairly well, but sooner or later he'd make decisions we'd dislike, because he views it as his own property.
Maaaybe?
Huh. Wow. Wacky.
Yes I did. I thought it would have been really neat especially since it would have shattered Batman's perception of his parents as perfect individuals.
Oh yeah. Adeline Kane was a US Army squadron leader and drill instructor. She may actually be a better choice as head for our PMC. If Rebecca can heal Joseph Wilson's voice we will have her unshakable loyalty.
Well, they'll probably be a hard person to find, but we can try.
I think Bane would be more practical and functionally competent than Nygma, but also more capable of building an independent empire within our company and turning it to his own purposes.
So really we should concentrate on sweeping up all the useful underutilised minor/one-shot characters under our umbrella. Instead of chasing after the big named Hero Units, lets take in all those people who already have a good impression of LexCorp. Ozzy has been a godsend on that regard.
I'm still not comfortable with it since I'd have to constantly make dozens of shifts to that one option especially since supercomputer special actions cannot be countered. I'd literally have to spend half an hour minimum on just that one option editing around the DC values since some characters are still actively burying themselves or moving or hiding meaning it would be a different value every turn.
Yes there are a few that would be much higher on a supercomputer than by spending an action point (Richard Faulkner is the best example I can think of where using the supercomputer would give you much, much higher DC's to overcome) and some would have to be higher as I calculated the initial DC with things like them moving around and thus adding a roll against your own to it (The Seven Men of Death actively move around and take actions to hide themselves almost every turn).
