Some more delay becuase I have to go to Family Bank to check for Taxes that are either Paid OR Unpaid; then going to try locate a not-so-reliable Personal Attorney 50km. from My actual location. . . Will try the FINALIZATION of the Battle-Map later this day and to be able to put it on the Thread. . . In the meantime if any of You have some good advice as to best do the "Mock Battle Training" by all means speak up. . .!!
Drawing a crude Battle Map on a "Squared Paper Sheet" as I'm still far, Far, FAR Away from My Home Workstation, now. . . Then will scan it, rework with Photoshop, elaboarate a little further and present it as an .Jpeg Attachement. . . Technically I'm NOT so expert of the "Abstract Range Zones" of Modiphius Ruleset, but You can MORE OR LESS "Extrapolate! that with a "Paper Square" Representing a "1 M. x 1M." sort of "Floor Marble Tile" (My house interior is paved with those kind of Tiles so I'm unconsciously drawn to this kind of "Square Flooring". . .) then: 1°) 30 M. / Squares (in a Straight or Direct-Diagonal direction) is "Easy Range" of Sniper Rifle / Heavy Weapons Range (40mm. HEAVY Grenade Launcher as a "Rule-Of-Thumb"); ESPECIALLY with a Precision Marksman Gun, with a Fixed Prone Firing Position, Extended Bipod and a Good Optic Scope this SHOULD be even MORE. . . While the Automatic, Belt-Feed (???) L.M.G. Mounted on Tony's Gecko Arms SHOULD be a difficult to control "Burst Fire Weapon" FOR A MOVING HUMANOID the Nomads Exoframe is sturdy ENOUGh (in "Basic Vanilla Standard" Configuration, like the ones deployed in the Tabletop Wargame, NOT COUNTING the HEAVY CUSTOMIZATION done on Pilot Rodriguez "Highly Personalized Tactical-Armoured-Gear"!!!) that it could Move AND Fire in Full-Auto, with BOTH "Fire-Arms" shooting TWO DIFFERENT Directions, without WHATSOEVER kind of MALUS (is a "Weapon Platform" AKIN to shooting a M60 Machinegun from the Braced Turrett of a contemporary Hum-Vee). . . !! Simply Tony aim a Vambrace in ONE direction, while walking / slow running, and Betty AND / OR the "Targeteer Second-Brain" On-Board L.A.I. shoot the OTHER Gun-On-Gauntlet on another. . . . .!!! 2°) 20 M. / Squares MORE OR LESS is "Basic Open Field" Range so that a Combirifle or "Heavy S.M.G." (imagine a R.W. H&K MP5 chambered with 10mm. / .45ACP ammo, with Rifle Stock and Basic Tactical Scope, just SLIGHTLY less powerful than a 5,56mm. M-16 / R4 "U.S.Army / Police S.W.A.T." Assault Rifle, so a "Infinity Vintage Rifle" like the Pseudo-A.K.47 / Pseudo F.A.L. employed by Haqqislamites and Ariadnans). . . "Single Shot Slugs" fired by a Heavy Shotgun (A.K.A. 30mm. MEDIUM Grenade Launcher) fall SURELY in this category, as well as the MORE precise ammunition of "Non Conical Scatter" type of the basic Boarding / Vulkan Shotguns (A.K.A. 20mm. LIGHT Grenade Launcher) whose TYPICAL example is the A.P. Ammo of Boarding Shotguns (A.K.A. in Real World "Solid Steel Ball" Roadblock Police Slugs, used by Cops worldwide to PENETRATE a Running Car moto ENGINE !!). . . 1°) 10 M. / Squares MORE OR LESS is "Close Range" Zones of Infinity; is the DEFAULT Range for Shotgun Scatter Ammo; the "Light Shotgun Pistols" (A.K.A. 15mm. ULTRALIGHT Grenade Launchers;IMAGINE the "Gong Pistol" invented by Masamune Shirow for the Appleseed Manga and the G.I.T.S Anime Movie "Innocence", employed by Batou of Section 9, BUT chambered for Cal.20 / .000 Mini-Shotgun Slugs) ALMOST SHOOT ONLY those Ranges (ESPECIALLY for their Subsonic "Silent Teleshot Shells") and all similar Ammo. . . REMEMBER THAT IN INFINITY DEFAULT PORTING FROM THE WARGAME the Boarding Shotguns could fie either the above-mantioned "Long Range A.P. Single Balls" or THOSE "Conical Scatter Ammo" BUT THE 10m. Scattercone EXTEND from the "PROXIMITY WARHEAD" IF THE Shooter Character SO CHOOSE (UNLESS the Shell Arrives at OVER BEYOND Medium Range, then it will detonate NONETHELESS). . . This means that the Scatter-Solid Pellets fired by Boarding Shotguns OR the Fire-Based "Dragonsbreath Shells" fired by Vulkan Shotguns (AND IN MY PERSONAL GAMEWORLD THE ARIADNAN MODELS ARE THE SAME WEAPON WITH DIFFERENT "PRE-LOADED" DEFAULT AMMO, if taken from a a Gun Rack or Fallen Enemy Corpse) have a MAXIMUM RANGE of 20m. + OTHER 10m. of Scatter. . . . .!!! 30mm. "Heavy Shotguns" and 40mm. "Super-Heavy Shotguns" kind of Scatter-Shot Shells will have a COMPARABLE Higher Range. . . AS INFINITY RULESET IS EXTRA ABSTRACT THEN I HEREBY DECLARE THAT A PLAYER CHARACTER USUALLY "WON / TRUMPS" A ENEMY N.P.C. FIRING THE SAME AMMO AT THE SAME RANGE AS MUCH AS "CONTESTED ROLLS" THAT ARE EQUAL TIES ARE WON BY PLAYERS BY DEFAULT. . . Players have ONLY their Characters (and SOMETIMES / MAYBE a "smattering" of Sidekick Allies" such as Geists, Attack Pets / Personal Drones and 1-2 ALLIED N.P.C.); the Gamemaster INSTEAD have a WHOLE GALAXY (Human Sphere AND BEYOND !!!) of Adversaries to pile up on them. . .!! So I decide to ERR on the Character Side. . . Seriously if a GAMEMASTER SO DECIDES by CONTINUOUSLY spending Heat Points could CONTINUOUSLY replenish the Enemy Garrison of "Fresh Troops" (previously camouflaged - disguised as Civilian Bystanders / exiting from Boltholes or Hidden Lifts / Parachuting or Breaking-Entering from Windows / "Teleporting" from the U.S.S. Enterprise in Orbit) and some "Nemesis Level" Enemy Lieutenants have "Character Talents" that ALLOWS THIS FOR FREE. . . Achilles could be a Human-Sized T.A.G. but his MOST LETHAL TALENT is "Summoning / D&D Conjuring" a FRESH SQUAD of Myrmydons EACH COMBAT TURN if the Gamemaster is so inclined. . . . . . . . As for Combat Pets / Drones I DO NOT REMEMBER if we decided to have WRITTEN down the Stats of the "Sidekicks" but as a RULE OF THUMB: 1°) @inane.imp Tony "Bandersnatch" Zondbot Drone is ABOVE average stats of a Tinbot Engineer Helper (+1 Armour / +2 Structural Damage Points AT LEAST) ; AS DEFAULT have a 20m. long Grapple Winch on His "Oversized" Arm but could be fitted with other "Modular Servoarms" as needed (EVEN a Assault Rifle / Boarding Shotgun that replace an Arm and feed by a Small Cylinder Ammo Box on Back, if Tony wants to go "Gung-Ho Trigger-Happy"). . . Before dropping out from the Game I allowed Danger Rose Zondbot TWO normal-sized "Manipulator Servoarms" armed with a Vambrace-Mounted "Flame Nozzle" on each, fueled by a Napalm Bottle on the back; should Tony choose so, then a PISTOL sized Firearm could be mounted similarly on HIS Zonbot WITHOUT impairing the Effective Manipulation of Servo-Hands. . . ANYTHING BIGGER as previously said need to REPLACE a Forearm; Zonbots / Tinbot Drones are 1 M. / 1,5M. High "Robo Childrens" and so UNABLE to properly grasp a Human-Sized Weapon; ARACHNOID "Vanilla Drones" like Panoceanian Bulletters / Nomads Zonds INSTEAD could EASILY carry TWIN Rifle-Sized Weapon. . . If Tony wants to have the Zonbot "Pray & Spray" on ITS OWN then a Couple of Chain-Colts (like Danger Rose "Hand Flamers" but with SOLID AMMO) would be the best "Vambrace Pistols"; anything more PRECISE than those (UNLESS a VERY TINY Light Shotgun Pistol with Scattershost ONLY) would need Tony AND / OR Betty to devote a Round aiming "By Remote Control" INSTEAD of other actions. . . . . . . . 2°) @Beodren Alistair "Cyborg Antipode K9 Beta" is BASED on Extant Antipode Enemy Stats as taken by the Manuals; it has surely +2 ARMOUR (50% of the ORGANIC BODY is TESEUM PLATES on a Silk-Based Biograft Underneath !!) on AT LEAST those Locations (Head; Upper Torso, 1 Arm, 1 Leg chosen by the Player). . . The CLAWS are sheated on the FINEST HIGH % TESEUM ALLOYS honed to Razorwire (Player Choice = "High & Critic" Monoblades would need MORE proper care and risk "Field Blunting"; simply +1 / +2 Vicious would be more "Durable" and be able to be used to shred "Hard Targets"; COULD BE CHANGED BETWEEN MISSION IN PREP-TIME). . . As the Cyborg "Frankensteinantipode" is the ONE (and ONLY) of the Native Aboriginals of Planet Dawn with a Presence on the Datasphere, then I think that an INTERESTING "Brutal Basic Infowar Attack" will be the "Barghest Howl" a "White-Noise Styled" blunt and crude "Virtual Scream" that the mauled beast could release on Comlogs and EVEN Datasphere Linked "Radio Mastoids" (ASSUME AT DEFAULT THAT EVEN THE MOST PRIMITIVE Cateran / Wulver Thug / Desperado Biker has AT LEAST a Radio Mic in one earbud) that could be likened to a "Sonic Stun Pistol" (a "Virtual" Light Shotgun Scattercone that Stun the Hearing of Organics and Scramble Comms for 1-2 Turns). . . . . . . . 3°) @Golem2God Uja's Snakewolf "Pitbull" Knucker Ruby-Scaled is based TOO on Antipode Stats, but EXCHANGING 1 (or EVEN 2) between Brawn and Agility (smaller, thinner, quicker), and maybe even DECREASING Willpower and Intelligence to INCREASE Awareness and Perception (Pack Hunters and Velociraptor-Styled Apex Predators); AT LEAST +1 ARMOUR for the rock-like scales and SURELY a Ranged "Fire Based Scattershot Cone" simulating the "Manticore Tail-Quill Throw" (Gaki Pretas have a "Organic Boneshards Chainrifle" as Ranged Attacks; the one of the Snakewolves then I think is more apt to imagine as Fire-Based "Light Vulkan Shotgun" sprays. . . . PLAYERS CHOICE !!). . . The four paws of the "Quadraped Serpent"are nothing of Special; the BITE is another matter entirely, the Acidic Venom (comprising, in crystallized form, a BIG % of the Spinal / Tail "Spike Quills") being SO CONCENTRATE on the Salivar Glands to be able to EFFECTIVELY Melt-Chew throug METAL (!!); Player's Choice to have 3 POINTS to distribute between Noxious, Vicious and even Viral "Special Weapon Effect" (is a Not-Surprise that the Hashashins amidst Minotaurs Haqqislamite Crew are busy FARMING Snakewolves on New Knossos Island and HARVESTING their Poison. . . . .even if the most "Successful Acid-Milking Cowgirl" is Uja's old Oznat Packmistress acquaintance !!) . . . . . A last discussion (TOTALLY OPEN to Players suggestions; I'm NOT DEUS-EX-MACHINA Ruling "From Above" ANY of My Homebrewed Rules / Interpretations of the "Abstract System" of D20 Modiphius !!) will be about the "Melee Range" of VERY Close Combat. . . A Human Sized Character (such as Alistair in Dogface or Tony in "Pilot Suit" OUTSIDE the Gecko) will be the default "Non-Crowded" occupant of a SINGLE 1 M. / Square "Game Tile"; while two Foes could easily "Sword Fence" form ADJACENT Squares, being in THE SAME SQUARE means they are Wrestling / Grappling / Knife-Fighting with SHORT Blades. . . Zonbots are TINIER than that and Antipode / Snakewolves are flexible and lithe; they could occupy the SAME SQUARE of a Friendly Unit without whatsoever problems or BEING in Melee with a Foe and ANYONE that shoot one of them will risk % injuring the WRONG Target (with BIGGER Targets this will be a Problem Shooting from the "Sides"; shooting on the back will ALWAYS result in HITTING the NEAREST Big Target); Complex Situations (such as a Prone / Stunned Foe IN THE SAME SQUARE) will be addressed and adjucated ad hoc. . . Uja'Rak'Se'Ok EVEN WITHOUT the Rasyat-Gaotarsos Armour is BURLY enough (imagine a "Furrier" SLIGHTLY higher and taller Dwayne Johnson, or EVEN the Russian Wrestler that He and Vin Diesel fight at the end of "Fast & Furious 6") to OCCUPY a bigger Space of 2M. / 2 Squares (EITHER in Vertical 2 OR in Horizontal 2); THE SAME apply for Alistair IN DOGWARRIOR BATTLEFORM (while LARGE and HEAVY as a Blackjack / Ratnik "Super-Superheavy Infantry Suit" is nimble and flexible ENOUGH, even Wearing the Mormaer Breastplate AND with the "Unknown Ranger Shield" on the Back !!!). . . Tony Rodriguez Gecko is PROBABLY ( !!!) the LARGEST Humanoid Target present in THIS Battle Simulation; rigid and metal-clad will occupy a "Size Space" of 2x2 M. / 2x2 Squares; comparatively a Guijia / Cutter / Jotunn / Raicho will occupy a 3x3 M. / 3x3 Squares (while a Maghariba, with their Quadraped Arachnoid Structure will be 2m. / Squares Wide x 3 M. / Squares Long). . . . . . . . Hopefully will be ALL to address any possible "Tactical Questions" BEFORE finshing the Battlemap. . . . .!!!
Still FAR AWAY from Home Workstation. . . I assume that there are NO SERIOUS downsides or misgivings about what I'm suggesting. . . . .???
@stevenart74 None at all, for now Alistair would keep his claws slightly dull, just because he has hard time trusting antipodes.
@Beodren Excellent, so they will not be so MUCH sharp, but rather EXTREMELY durable. . . @Golem2God ; @inane.imp Do You need clarifications / explanations?
That is an interesting visage. Sounds like a neat idea. I like it. I wonder how many SnakeWolves are still alive. One would think that the species is endangered and Knossos would be a place that keeps the species alive. Wopk will be seeing the Dtaurazi at times if the poison works out well.
Snakewolves are a "Genetic Mystery". . . Many of the VERY Few HUMAN Survivors of the HORRIBLE Offsprings of Antipode Cuckoo Virus on Not-Humans / Not-Antipodes (there is STILL a fierce "Natural Selection" into which an Alpha Chieftain "Infect" the pregnant Bitches of ANOTHER Packleader, by ESSENTIALLY "Rewriting" the Losers D.N.A. !!) have not EVEN considered it was a "Were-Animal" that attacked them. . . For the Antipodes of Free Savage Tribes the "Argument" is USUALLY Taboo, but the sadistic, wily "Sand Jackals" of the Southern Equatorial Deserts are maligned to create one of these "Hybrid Abominations" PURPOSEFULLY to spite and attack the other Tribal Species, who are usually LARGER and FIERCER (it is needed a COUPLE of Sand Jackals Tri-Packs to battle a "Dark Forest" Vanilla One, and EVEN THREE of them, with lethal, vicious Traps to overcome a "Winterfur Snow-Coat" Tri-Pack that are ESSENTIALLY Dogwarrior-Sized running on all four limbs !!). . . And there are EVEN WORSE Monsters hidden in "Dark Corners" of Planet Dawn, where NOT even the Aboriginal Natibes have EVER trode upon. . . . . . . . Working on the Battle-Map last details. . . . .!!!
Perhaps it is in the best interest of Dawn's two top societies to remove these "monsters" from the planet. Who are these Sand Jackels in the desert? Does Knossos have a little bit of each Antipode tribe in the pens that Wopk is head over?
"Dark Forest" Antipodes (the "Vanilla Ones" with a predominantly steel-gray fur matted / mottled by splotches of Black) are the FIRST "Specimens" encountered by the Human Colonists of the Ariadna Ships; more gregarious and organized, have the Culture more developed between the various Antipodes encountered by Humanity; USUALLY pensive and reflective, like the Native American Tribes of Old Earth ONCE their Ire and Rage is stocked it takes MORE than Generations to be somehow quenched (unless Humans start to shoot them again and capture Stragglers and Orphans to "Tame" them), they have a basic metallurgy, basic pottery and good woodworking tech levels and knows even how melt Teseum Ore with incredibly lenghty, painstaking and difficult process. . . "Dark Forest" Antipodes make the 70% of the Antipodes (either Tri-Packs or K9 Solos) that redise in the Minotaurs Kennels; a VERY few number of them are NOT "Pheromone Controlled" Lobotomized Slaves but rather WILLINGLY allied with Humans (this happens in NORMAL Ariadna usually when a SINGLE Pack is what remains of a Tribe betrayed and exterminated by other Antipodes; the Natives SOMETIMES are dastardly EVEN with other Natives !!) and trying to understand the quite difficult project of a "United Ariadnan Races of Planet Dawn". . . . . . . . "Artic Husky" Antipodes live instead near the Icecap Polar Zones or in Glaciers of high mountain ranges; they are taller, bigger, rougher, not less smart but rather "Istinctual" (known to be able to employ Tools, but just NOT fancy building them); some SUPERFICIAL studies by Ariadnan Ecologists liken them to "Native Neanderthals" but this is very far from truth, as they seem to be a RELATIVELY recent Genetic Offshoot of the most dominant Specimen, the Forest Ones. . . They could grow to ENORMOUS sizes, but usually dies before reching the Elder Chieftain Age; this is extrapolated as the ONLY "Free Not Enslaved" one is "Grand-Father Winter-Coat" the one that "Started" the Greywulf Hybrids line. . . More than 40+ Years ago the Kazak Handlers of the Stavka were selecting some "K9 Solos" who demonstrated Brawn AND Intelligence, and submitted them to EXPERIMENTAL Steroids and Brain-Enhancers imported from Bakunin, there was a mishap and Katya Volkova's mother (Svetlana, an Up-&-Coming Intelligence Officer with A LOT of enemies) was assaulted by a "Mysteriously" freed specimen, but unbeknowst to Herself, has gotten recently pregnant and, as is usual with Antipodes, was ONLY lightly bitten to infect the Unborn Daughter with the "Cuckoo Virus" (Instead, the circumstances into which infected the Mother of Wayah, the U.S.Ariadnan Cherokee Scout, are unclear !!). . . While "Grand-Father Winter-Coat" roam as He see fit the New Knossos Island compounds, showing an intelligence previously unheard of in "K9 Solos" and treat the Greywulf family as "Pack" (is in fact STRANGELY fond of the Wulver Twins; usually Antipodes totally ignore Wulvers, at best, and slaughter them mercilessly, at worst) and treat with grudgingly respect their close confidants (often laughing chillingly at LaTigre Balam antics. . .!!); provoking His ire is EXTRA unwise as a group of well-armed Chimera / Morlock Bikers with Pupniks discovered, as He as ENOUGH "Ritualized Scarring Marks" (Antipode's Blood scab-encrust with a tough scaly "Organic Kevalr" fabric if left expose to open air) to be AKIN to an ARMOURED Dogwarrior in size, shape and resilience; does NOT help the fact that the Artic Alpha Chieftain knows how to sheath His claws in Teseum and CONTINUOUSLY pilfer rough shards of lavoration, melt them in unguarded Industrial Ovens and refresh the coatings, then going to razor-sharpen them on other Teseum Metal Platings left unattended around . . . The weird, but very intelligent, behaviour of the "Greywulf's Gramps" is baffling many Expert Tamer-Handlers of the Minotaurs, as the OTHER "Artic Husky" Antipodes (ROUGHLY 10% of the TOTAL Numbers on New Knossos Island) are kept HEAVILY sedated and drugged when not controlled by POWERFUL Pheromone Collars, as they are DESTRUCTIVELY Stubborn, Aggressive and prone to "Berserk Rages". . . . . . . . "Sand Jackals" Antipodes are a RECENT discovery, made known to Ariadnan Intelligence when a Yujing Mining Colony with EXTRA White-Banner "Security" was quickly slaughtered after they planted a "Survey Camp" (A.K.A. Mobile Exploitation Strategic Base) right in the middle of their Desert Volcanic Turf (where they State-Empire Prospectors hoped to find rich, fresh veins of Malleable Teseum Ores in Natural Fissure Vents); while the other Native "Cultural Variations" (as ALL Antipode "Breeds" are inter-fertile) are savage and bloodthirsty, the Desert Ones become EXTREMELY Cruel and Sadistic to any SLIGHT perceived Violations of their "Sacred Cultural Taboos" (such as the Exploitation of Teseum-rich Volcanic Vents). . . . .There were NO survivors of the first teams sent (the few with Cubes had their WHOLE body dumped in Magma Fissures !!), and the Relief Vanguard had an HIGH % of their troops so TRAUMATIZED to need Hospitalization in Specialized P.T.S.D. Clinics in the Shentang "Green Valleys" (some recovered FULLY, some are now "Wuming Berserkers" with Drug-Dispenser Collars and some are "Elite" Kuang-Shi of PECULIARLY Vicious Disposition !!). . . The Ariadnan / Nomads High Command of the Minotaurs wanted NOTHING to do with those Sadistic Monsters, but the Haqqislamites insisted to try some Optional Tactics best suited to their OWN Desertic Homeworld, while the Tohaa Renegades DELIGHTED at the prospect of "cracking-open" their weird behaviour; 20% of the Antipodes of the Mercs Company they are QUITE difficult to Train, but are VERY Smart and Inventive; once "Bonded" to a Pack-Controller or a K9 Alpha they are fiercely loyal and steadfast. . . They are also EXTREMELY apt at Scouting and Stealth (given the fact that they are Smaller and Thinner than usual Antipodes; NO Body Fat all sinewy muscles !!) and even in "Dumb K9" they are resourceful and capable of crude lockpicking and opening secured doors; even MORE weirdly their Sadical Attitude to Torture, Bloodletting and "Anathomical Curiosity" traduces VERY WELL to "Medical Pack Attitude". . . One of their "Elder Chieftain Tri-Pack" happened on a Training Accident with a big, burly Chimera skewered by a mishandled T2 Frag Grenade and they, wordlessly and silently, painstakingly extracted, with BRUTAL but EFFECTIVE "Barbaric Surgery" ANY of the Razor-Sharp Shards, even the one so tiny to be ALMOST invisible to naked eye; this very pack, when uncontrolled somehow ambles towards the Medical Bays of New Knossos Island. . . . . . . . It is rumored that far, Far, FAR Away from the Borders of the "Exclusion Zone" held by Ariadnan Troops, where ONLY the most Crazy-Daring of "Foreign Prospectors" go, there are EVEN WEIRDER "Traibalistic Customs" that resulted in Hyper-Specialized Antipode Warriors. . . It is a known given that Antipodes FEARS the Altitudes and Heights INSIDE Aircarriers (needing a Pack be kept sedated and enclosed when deployed by Airborne Assets !!) but LOATHES Open Body of Waters as "Unholy Taboos". . . . .But is rumored amongst Irmandhinos Pirates that a Clan, ruthless and savage, that was in cahoots with "Well Equipped Strangers" SUSPICIOUSLY similar to "Zeldas & Saeligs" (the Posthuman Operatives of Svengali, each housing a "Mind-Shard" of the Rogue Criminal A.I.) was SLAUGTHERED in a SINGLE Night by previously unknown "Sea Antipodes" that attacked their fortified base, set in an old, abandoned Oil Drilling Oceanic Platform. by arriving with crude, primitive "Pirogues" made with Woodn Logs hollowed by Fire and armed with "Specialized Weapons" (mainly Harpoons with High % Teseum tipped barb-heads) and SWAM under the Sea-Level Sensor Alarms !!!! . . . . . These could be JUST "Cultural Taboos" as is rumored that there is a Tribe that thrives in the Southwestern Marshy Environmnenst that are "Louisiana Bayous" styled and if a K9 Alpha dive into water, USUALLY the "Antipode Beta" follows. . . . . . . . The FIERCE and GENOCIDAL Rivalry between Antipodes (of ALL Breeds and Tribal Culture) and the Snakewolves (that have a DAZZLING variety of "Generational Mutations") seems instead to be ENCRYPTED AT GENETIC LEVEL, much like Terran Bears & Wolves or African Hyenas & Savannah Lions; even WELL-TRAINED K9 or TOTALLY Phero-Controlled Packs postures aggressively & endlessly if not reigned in by Handlers. . . . .!!! . . . . . . . . . . Almost Finished "Scanning & Photoshop Reworking" the Battlemap. . .!!!
@stevenart74 Thanks for all of this lore for the Antipodes. I enjoy interesting posts such as this. My guess would be that Wayah's mom got bitten before Winter Coat was captured. Perhaps she and some of her USA brethren were present as part of a joint operation with the Kazaks. During the capturing of the beast she got bitten in the struggle. I think Wayah's mother wouldn't have known she was pregnant at the time since she would have been on material leave. So both Wayah & Katya would have similar origins in how they became Dogfaces due to being bitten by the same Antipode.
Sounds like the Jackals are most likely an off shoot of the 3 Winged Moth tribe who engage in similar activities & intelligence expect they do it for science. It wouldn't surprise me one bit that the Jackals were a sizable group of 3 Winged Moth Antipodes who got separated from the body of their tribe during the era where the Humans split the main continent in half. The Ariadnan book doesn't state where the 3 Winged Moth tribe resides but I'll take a guess that they are separated from the Jackals by the Human nations. Many years of living in the deserts and the 3 Winged Moth group changed over time to survive. Thus becoming the Sand Jackals in the process along with a bit of crazy that their parent tribe doesn't display.
O.K. Soon I'll have to go take back My Mother from the Hospital where She had a long, but LUCKILY uneventful, Long Serie of Exams and Medical Tests. . . Then later in the day the Map should be edited and prepared for the P.C. to decide Tactical Approaches and so on. . . Should be also ready all the various Options for Weapons & Wargear ready; woroking also on an Opposition that SHOULD be well-balanced enough. . .
Stuff Ready; as soon as I can "Boounce them there" (need a Reliable external source for hosting images; at worst will put them in My "Rough Sketches" in my Deviantart Page). . . There is a "Bird's Eye" large view from height (as if done by a Surveillance Mini Aerial Drone), good for planning avenues of approach, and narrower focus-down on the Operational Theatre (Ground Level, where much of the Action will take place, and Upper Floor Level, useful ONLY to reach Sniper Sentries and kill them stealthily in Melee). . .
@inane.imp . . . @Beodren . . . @Golem2God . . . Shitty Week for Work, Family & General Hassle, but hopefully the Weekend will be better. . .!! Decided to Open another DEDICATED THREAD to the Maps, and ONLY Maps (from the G.M. AND the Players with Annotations on Gamemaster's Stuff or THEIR OWN Original Works). . . Here, in the O.O.C. Thread, we will leave the Rolls and Stuff, leaving the I.C. for the more Roleplaying-Centered Stuff. . .!! . . . . . The "Closures" of the I.C. threads "Still Open Discussions" could be done later in "Flashbacks" and solved easily. . . . . . . . The Map for now is ROUGH AS HELL (Bear With Me, when I'm NOT Working OR caring for Relatives OR trying to solve Legal Issues THEN I'm asleep in bed with the Flu !!!!!); will follow, as soon as possible later, BETTER Copies, with Colour-Codes for signaling better the Materials of the Structures and "Sentinels Beaten Paths" and "Visible Enemies" shown. . . The one that You can see is MORE a "Municipal Archives Blueprint" rather than a "Aerial Drone's Bird-Eye" kind of "Preliminary Recons" as these would show some of the Enemies in Open Places. . . But at least You can start to discuss between Player Characters about ideas of Stealth Insertions, Escape Routes and Attack Vectors !!
