There is a lot of new stuff in MP4
Well the war is now 2017 and its a smaller war. Maybe 100 warheads and the warheads are more modern and much smaller in yield. There is enough bombs to go around with the US + Canada getting hit to the dark ages with both ground, air, and EMP bursts.
And to make matters worse, a Giant Asteroid hits earth about 3 months after the war and screws up everyone else.
The Asteroid part is interesting as everyone on earth knows its going to hit at least 1 year in advance, so I would say that a LOT of people would not be in the major cities and would have "bugged out" before the war and a lot more survivalist groups would have been around as would both NG and US military units.
The Other big thing is that players have a LOT more skill points and the way the basic system works you now have a base of X2 a stat as the base + your Skill points. And Stats are in the 24 for an average range. So this makes most characters with a 48 + 15 (Skill points spent) = 63% with Rifle or such.
So expect the bad guys to be in that range as well, so a LOT of players will be hit very often.
So its no surprise that teams get IBA to start (which if my 4th edition game is normal) they will need as death is right around the corner when you do not wear body armour in the new rules.
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