Well, basically, the only units I sent to those areas were stealth vehicle teams and spy drones, with the goal of figuring out roughly how many (if any) Intergang troops were in those areas.
Note: In real life, US 360 peters out in northeastern Virginia, because there's no place there for it to go that's particularly interesting. Here, it runs up into Metropolis from the south, crossing the Potomac River, running through the southern part of the city, crossing the Patuxent on a bridge, then merging with US 50 in a single route that crosses the Chesapeake Bay on the bridge that Intergang just blew chunks out of.
Hm. And the giant mecha are closing in on our tower, you say? Yeah, that's rough.
Darn. Well, they did the job of at least keeping the mecha busy and shooting down any Intergang fliers, so we're not as screwed when it comes to air superiority. They have a lot of long range firepower, though, so if we use the survivors in places where the mecha aren't we'll probably get a lot of mileage out of them.
OK. So, air support. Hm. We'd better warn them about the mecha; that crab mecha could kill a lot of fighter pilots in a hurry.
I probably made things worse by saying "drone fighters" instead of "automated combat aircraft."
Can we start getting interrogation reports during Turn 2, or will "secure the prisoners" take an action?
I think we have more pressing concerns at the moment. Felicity can poke around captured Intergang equipment to see if there's anything communicatory-looking for her to hack.
The pink beam that disabled the shields was an entropic acceleration ray. An early dead end in our cold research, it might have been useful in this specific circumstance but it remains prohibitively difficult to produce and operate.
Mass Hystaria. It was a hallucination caused by fumes of unknown components burning.
It depends on whether Superman shows up or not, I imagine. And it's gonna be pretty hard for Diana, at least, to blame us for what happened. Jinx's powers are the height of plausible deniability, our wards can be handwaved as some kind of force field barrier, probably nobody knows WHAT happened in Centennial Park when the plants went berserk, and that just leaves Mari to explain.
How would we know? I mean, they can try. On the other hand, while we've taken some heavy casualties, we mostly have control of the physical battlespace, and the entire city will be swarming with military, cops, and who knows what-all soon.
Screw drones. I'm tasking a platoon of security troopers to the job.I liked seeing the various mindsets of our heroes. @Simon_Jester maybe next plan have some drones watching the people we rescued in case Intergang (Blindspot) tries to finish the job. (Lets see the blueberry try to slip away with our eyes on him)
Tempting. @King crimson , how does our existing energy wand design compare to our existing laser guns?
Realistically speaking, I'm pretty sure there'd be billions in disaster relief.All the destruction in Metropolis just gives us a chance to rebuild it with our input (putting cameras everywhere, secret access tunnels, stick the Lexcorp logo on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge if we repair it next turn
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The mecha is heading towards it and could theoretically arrive next turn but it might move to somewhere else in the meantime.
It'll happen automatically. I will ask that you pick a place to put them in as part of your plan vote but they will be secured no matter what.
Somewhat. You don't over the first wave but everything that comes in after you will be able to influence (the military is going to keep sending in units every turn)
They could make it into New Troy if they chose to next turn but it's unsure if they will. Where exactly they will end up is an unknown. There's always the potential that these things could pull out a nasty trick of some kind (three of the mechas have had a gimmick of some kind. The fourth might also) that would let them move in faster. As such I won't answer where exactly they'll end up.
They basically went out and shot at the mecha which had already succeeded in destroying the highway and just backed up very quickly and the automated combat craft launched and then turned back. Neither side was damaged or suffered any losses and but the mecha there was shown to be startlingly fast.
They don't quite have the same range and are weaker overall but they can ignore certain kinds of shielding that works against lasers. In the hands of a magic user though their capability is magnified and it can serve as a bigger boost.
I kind of can't because if you roll well enough you could discover something that while not earthshattering is a genuine revelation. I can't say more without possibly revealing something. Suffice to say, there's enough that I can't just one off it.
No truly major attack on Metropolis can occur without the Daily Planet losing its giant globe.God damn, poor Daily Planet, and it is likely going to get worse.
It also gives Lex Luthor an opportunity to issue the order "see to it that Mr. Kent comes to no harm."
Something like that. We should at a minimum ward the command center. Blindspot doesn't actually know most of our forces, or know about them, but he definitely knows about Lex Luthor.
Nah. We have tactically urgent things to handle. Most of these guys are probably just mooks, not money men, anyway. Money we've got, and it would be hard to explain where we got all this money.
It'll be helpful to know if there are big Intergang force concentrations operating around there. Maybe we should hold off on voting for the Turn 2 plan, though, until we have that information... Worth preparing a draft though.
@King crimson
Hmm. Maybe it's to our advantage if Clark goes flying off on his own. It'll distract the feds' attention from yelling at us for using metahuman powers to defend ourselves.
Yeah. Hopefully we can get in on that action and profit from it, but there's no way the Feds would let this many major freeway connections stay broken for any length of time.
She could ward the command center specifically (where Lex is running things from). She can't ward the ground floor (too many people coming in and out to set things up quickly.
Hm. Bruno's mecha has the portal gimmick. The crab mecha that attacked the Daily Planet had the gimmick of lots of area-effect barrage weapons. The mecha that attacked us, uh... I don't know, it seemed like a pretty normal mecha to me. I'll review the battle post.
OK. Startlingly fast. Gotcha.
Hm. The hero decision would be to have Rebecca keep healing people.
Well, there are precedents. J. Jonah Jameson gets rich off the pictures that Peter Parker fellow takes so that he can print nasty stories about "SPIDER-MAN: THREAT OR MENACE?"
Dude. We voted for less stuff to lower the DCs for the Cold Engine. Using the Cold Engine as a bomb now would mean we wasted what we could have gotten.
I thought Mari was injured from the 1st Mech and was returning for healing?
Hmmm. You have a point. If other people chime in I'll probably drop the idea. It's just so tempting to be able to one-shot the mecha with Bruno Mannheim inside it.
Good point.
South side. It vaguely resembles an AT-ST, except with a much wider bulkier top and a tail with a stinger on the end.
The DC will still be lowered you'd just have to complete the steps again.
yes.
Buying it outright should be a lot easier with it destroyed.
Fourth, likely co-op boost with Lucy, who might be frustrated by her sister but probably isn't enthusiastic about Lois' situation.-Cerise scries for Lois Lane.
--Not Blindspot, Lois Lane. Here's why.
---Firstly, the spell works off of the law of contagion; it uses magical links between people. We don't know anybody directly magically linked to Blindspot, as far as we know. By contrast, Lois Lane's sister is right here in the room with us. You don't get much more magically linked than that.
---Secondly, if we DO rescue Lois, she may be less predisposed to think of us as a bad guy. Maybe.
---Thirdly, it's gonna make Superman feel considerably less useful if LexCorp saves Lois while he's under armed guard as a 'hostage.'
I'm vehemently against both, we aren't in a bad enough position yet for it to be necessary, the Cold Engine is a long term project and losing three stages of it is significant and if we really want to make Kryptonite a wide spread material used in batteries, cars and power plants the last thing we want is for it being used to make bombs to be the first the average person hears about it
I would also suggest maybe asking him where they arranged to send any hostages they might take
I would actually be interested in having Kate do that since she probably has some experience in interrogation, I doubt the Intergang thugs will be very intimidated by someone that looks like a child and there's a difference between cross examining someone and interrogating them
I do think having Lucy do this is better since she has some idea of how to deal with military and government bureaucracy
These I agree with
I'm actually tempted to have Pamela and a few others stay at Centennial Park since it's where she's most powerful and creates a fairly large area which Intergang either has to actively avoid, risk getting caught by some nightmarish plant or organise an actual attack against
This makes sense though we may regret it if Intergang decides to launch an attack
It might be worth having at least one of them stay at STAR Labs since there's clearly something there that they want
Agreed
If the southern mecha's main advantage is speed then sending Roxy after it is probably our best bet, especially since she has the cryo grenades
Actually, @King crimson I was wondering if we had Cerise help Rebecca would they get the wards back online quicker and if so how much quicker?
While Roxy would almost certainly get to wherever they're keeping the hostages the fastest she's also the most likely to get distracted and focus on fights than saving people, we might be better served sending someone like Rose or Mercy
If Kilgrave tells us where they're keeping hostages and Cerise can help Rebecca then we might be better off doing that
It would certainly be a good time for Blindspot to try and treat Lex like his great-great-great-great-grandpa.
Yep! See here:
The spell works on sympathetic links between people. Now, she can clearly use it on random unknown people who are only tangentially related to us (e.g. Bruno Mannheim and Vincent Edge). But it'd darn well work on a pair of sisters, I figure!
And if he doesn't know then assigning Cerise to wards would be a massive mistake.
Yes but assuming that there's some level of coordination here Intergang almost certainly has a location in mind for where to take high priority targets and as one of the few remaining high ranking members of the organisation Thaddeus is likely to know where
