[SG, DS]Landings

>DS:
>
>How do people usually run orbital landings? Do you usually use
>invulnerable landers that just deploy the troops to the table *presto*
>or do you usually let weapons engage them? Do your landers usually hang
>around and fight?

Depends if they are armed, I guess. However, I can also guess that they 
aren't cheap bits of kit, so they are unlikely to want to hang around
and 
be shot at by the other sides tanks and PBI unless absolutely necessary.

Shoot at them? Depends on the game you want to play.

>SG:
>
>Has anyone noticed the wide scatter for SG OA landings? It would seem
to
>me by this time period, you should be able to land on a dime (with grav
>chutes, thrust packs, blah blah PSB blah). I find any kind of airborne
>or orbital insertaion leaves you scattered to hell and gone.... (kind
of
>D-day ish!).

Read the opening chapter of Starship Troopers. Despite the power landing

and such like, he still ends up in the wrong place.

>BOTH:
>
>And how to you do heliborne insertion from a hover in either case
>(DS/SG)? Both the standard hover and the free-rappel variety? Would
>these (esp the latter) let you insert troops where a normal LZ could
not
>exist according to the rules?

I would say yes, though it's an option not necessarily open to all
troops.

Interesting ideas. I like the idea of ultralight insertion. In DSII,
they 
could be size one, no armour, one pilot, one passenger, no weapons...
Any 
other thoughts?

John S.

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