I want to have a reasonable plan on the table as early as possible. Please comment. In particular, I think the tactics aren't optimal, but it's hard to know what works for ninja. Maybe leave this stuff to our team?
[X] Action Plan: Be Zabuza
Outline
Fulfill nominal objectives, then proceed to knock out as many of the other candidates as possible, with the intent of inflicting maximum legal point penalties. Steal their word halves.
Team Talk
- Word half custody. Our teammates deserve a share for their effort, but word halves will be very dangerous to possess after this round. We're willing to pay in explosive tags for others' share. If someone insists on taking theirs, we won't protect them later, and we do plan to be very public about our possession of the word halves.
- Friendly event participants. There's one Leaf squad we'd like to avoid knocking out and stealing word halves of, though we'll still trash their event objective and teammates. Ask if any of the others have similar wishes.
- If Doigama doesn't mention his Wolf compatriot on his own, confront him about it.
- Noburi checks the chakra reserves of our teammates under the pretense of it familiarizing himself with them in order to make further transfers easier.
- If Kato lied about his reserves, confront him and strongly consider just draining him to unconsciousness and depositing the body in the medic station.
- Chakra Sharing: May need some chakra from teammates to start with to bootstrap Pangolin summoning. Donated seals demonstrate our good intent.
Pangolins
Summon Pankurashun, Pandajouru, Pangaya and Panashe. Panashe can be delayed until after our designated Blue Team is defeated.
Seal use
- Distribute explosive tags, both training and the weapon:2 variety for demolitions, among teammates. Encourage liberal use.
- Each teammate gets a Oxygen Mask seal to avoid friendly fire from Doigama's poison and an Earmuff seal for Banshees.
- Frontline fighters get Banshees/Goo Bombs. Stress that these are valuable and that we're going to want them back if unused.
- Be willing to use Pangolin pepper Macerators if a good opportunity presents itself.
Roles
- Scouting and Interference: Panashe, Doigama and Kato
- Support and Ranged: Keiko, Noburi and Gomi
- Assault: everyone else
Strategy
- Always scout ahead, prioritizing obtaining a broad view of the situation and avoiding capture.
- Accept surrender from non-top candidates - drain their chakra, but leave half words alone.
- Destroy enemy documents, put red team members into cells. Inflict moderate consequences on everyone, ideally by draining their chakra. Steal their word halves.
- Focus on breaching our designated Blue facility first, recovering the key and documents.
- While Noburi redistributes chakra, use the signal for Team Asuma and send scouts to the other sites (where Team Asuma isn't). Deliver documents to the proctor station in full force.
- Prefer to attack the softer target. Prioritize taking down Red Teams, as they're more difficult to pin down.
- Rinse and repeat after the given site is clear, or mostly clear.
- You're willing to let Team Asuma remain conscious and keep their word halves. No event objectives for them, though.
Combat Tactics
- General idea: Shock and Awe. Explosions to distract and intimidate, area disabling seals to soften up targets, attack with overwhelming physical force.
- Open engagements with Goo Bombs or Banshees. Ideally Ranged do this in open spaces; inside buildings, Assault can also throw the seals into rooms with likely enemy presence.
- Interference and Support can use explosives for distraction and intimidation. This includes Keiko throwing Firelog Macerators above the enemies' heads.
- Assault squads engage the stunned or immobilized enemies, with Pangolins leading the charge.
- If assaulting a building, breach from multiple directions simultaneously, and clear room by room. Focus on enemies, let scouts look for traps after they're down.
- Support and Interference keep an eye out for retreating enemies and reinforcements.
- Chase fleeing enemies, but don't waste time on individuals if they're hard to track.
Contingencies
- Be willing to fetch proctors in case of blatant rules violations by enemy teams.
- Careful not to leak too much information around Doigama and Kato.
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