Running the Tactical Addendum

For Session 21, I used the Tactical Addendum to resolve the vehicular combat, which largely ended up being a holding action Alexander fought in his Warhammer against waves of vehicles.  There were two problems I had in resolving this combat, one of which radically increased the PC's effectiveness.

First, I allowed fire resolution to occur at the moment of firing, rather than simultaneously as per Tactical Action Resolution described on page 221 of A Time of War.   By doing this, I made it viable for Alexander to employ a "shoot-and-scoot" strategy when dealing with a number of opponents, which became particularly relevant when the Schrek PPC carriers reached the high ground.

The second issue I had was not using skills converted to Total Warfare for resolving Alexander's attack rolls.  At this point in the campaign, Alexander's Gunnery/Mech skill was +8, obscenely high by any stretch of the imagination, but because I was making him resolve his attacks as A Time of War skill checks (TN 8).  Theoretically, he should've been rolling Total Warfare targets as a 0/2 pilot, but when I checked the math, the actual natural rolls that result in a hit come out exactly the same.  I believe in the course of the entire engagement, Alexander fired approximately 35-40 shots and missed once, when attempting to hit an individual infantry man behind a tree at medium range.

I largely avoided 'Mech-on-Infantry engagements, with the exception of two three-man squads at the beginning of the fight, so I neatly sidestepped my concerns from earlier posts that infantry survivability might go way up using the Tactical Addendum.  I feel I may have done the readers of this blog a disservice in that regard, but I trust somebody else can run the experiments to determine if my hunches about infantry engagement are correct.