Giovanni Fazio - May 14, 2008 12:03 am (#5675 Total: 5705) Honor Thy Error As A Hidden Intention -- Oblique Strategy #29 Hi Luc, Yeah -- the temptation is to keep the Legion companies stacked and just blow away anything that appears. BUT -- you need to fan out to be able to move quickly and take the mining cities and also to prevent infiltrators from seizing the hostages again. I suspect the trick is to capture the trucks, and send one company just cruising around the mining cities blowing everything away. But to take the trucks, you really need to land at ZSA, and since there will be a Katangan unit at the Hotel Impala, your risk of casualties in the drop jumps from 10% to 20%. And each Cloue' result is a VP for the Katangan. You can't reach the trucks in time from ZSB though. The little Katangan groups are just nuisances -- they can't stack, and even the best units (CF 2) firing at the Legion in clear terrain can only hit if they roll a "9" or "10" (don't forget the -1 for firing at T.E. units, which most French are.) And that's assuming the paras don't fire them up first. French companies can defeat any single unit they face automatically. The trick is to create this situation as much as possible. The problems come when the paras face multiple attackers at once. This will happen only twice, when the Katangan PCs appear in the Vieille Ville and one of the mining cities. I assumed the Katangan PC could also coordinate fire, I'm not sure this was correct. But with 3 units stacked with him in Metal Shaba, their strength was 18 before rolling the die, with 20 being an auto-elim. They shot up 2 entire French sections instantly. There were a few questions: 1.) Can the Katangan PCs coordinate fire? 2.) Can a PC add his CF (1) to a combat when coordinating fire? (So a 3-unit French company and leader have a CF of 19?) 3.) Do jump hits (cloue') count for VPs? 4.) For assault, do you advance into the enemy's space if you elim. him? adevandiere - May 21, 2008 1:45 pm (#5688 Total: 5705) There were a few answers: >1.) Can the Katangan PCs coordinate fire? Yes, as all PC. >2.) Can a PC add his CF (1) to a combat when coordinating fire? (So a >3-unit French company and leader have a CF of 19?) Yes >3.) Do jump hits (cloue') count for VPs? Yes >4.) For assault, do you advance into the enemy's space if you elim. him? French advance before resolving assault. If successful, they stay, if not, assault by Katangaise then French go back and are pinned.