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Originally Posted by WallShadow
No objections, but my first reaction to the rolls is "Poor bastiches. How're they gonna brew enough fuel?"  |
Now, you're getting to why they are in cantonment - their encampment is built to defend the 1-3 large stills used to develop fuel for these beasts.
Oh, and some farmland to fuel the stills.
Oh, and some peasants to work the farmland, in exchange for defensive cover.
Oh, dear. Now you have a nearby village to write up, too. And a mayor/leader/councilor or...
And devise some reasonable relationship between the two:
Did the village volunteer labor in exchange for protection?
(Magnificent 7 gambit - "We are just poor Polish farmers threatened by an army of bandits; we do not have gold, but we can feed your bellies and gas tanks")
Were they made to accept it at gunpoint?
("Mr. Mayor, you will supply us with three men every other day to work our fields or we will send the tanks to flatten yours. If you do this without a fuss, we will see to it that no one unwanted visits your village.")
Or more directly "Resistence is fuedal. You will be assimilated." (Sorry, couldn't resist)
The next question is... do all three tanks still run? How well?
Engine?
Suspension?
turret?
main weapon? (weapon out or ammo out?)
targeting system?
I understand this is a source book, but, especially if you are making them up as if it was a large group of PCs...
- One or more systems being out makes for an interesting problem for the NPCs (or for PCs trying to figure out NPC behavior)
- Search for replacement parts provides a hook for why part (and only part) of this unit might be encountered (wandering the countryside looking for salvage; in a market town looking to trade) as means of introducing them to a PC team.
An expansion of what the author had in mind, but you would have a more interesting sourcebook, yes?
Uncle Ted