Amber Zone - The Bloody-Handed Commander Adventure Seed

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1999 #799

Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 01:19:07 -0700
From: "Kelly St.Clair"
Subject: Re: More Fun for the Marines

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:47:43, "Douglas E. Berry" wrote:
>Yes, he said Medical. M*A*S*H in space. Think about it, when they weren't
>being utterly silly they got some good plots in. To steal one:
>
>While supporting a Counter-Insurgency mission, the staff notices that a
>united of mixed Vargr/Human troops is taking casualties that are
>disproportionately high among the Vargr. A little detective work shows
>that the commander of the unit lost his wife to Vargr corsairs many years
>ago. Problem, the guy is a bloody hero, outranks the PC commander, and is
>a minor noble to boot. How do we get this butcher away from his troops?

DANG! This is brilliant. Now I'm going to have to find an episode guide and start trawling it for plots...

Not your standard "Merchants and Mercenaries" campaign, by a long shot.

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Kelly St.Clair
"At last we will reveal our pants to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge."

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#805

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:04:52 PST
From: Leonard Erickson
Subject: Re: More Fun for the Marines

In mail you write:
>>While supporting a Counter-Insurgency mission, the staff notices that a
>>united of mixed Vargr/Human troops is taking casualties that are
>>disproportionately high among the Vargr...
>
> Not your standard "Merchants and Mercenaries" campaign, by a long shot.

Another one I recall was a commander who incurred heavy casualties among his troops by insisting on recovering the bodies of anyone killed in action.

This can turn a single casualty into a real meat grinder.

Leonard Erickson (aka Shadow)
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