It was fun!

There were a few frustrating bits but I'm gonna blame that more on the module than the GM

Fuckin' spec ops template is bullshit

BUT BESIDES THAT

We got stranded on a real shithole of a planet because our ride out had his ship's NHP stolen

We had to go through a whole investigation to find it

During which we found a guy who was going to mash a bunch of NHPs into a blender and drink the juice to become god

Monist-1 felt like stepping in to nudge us in the right direction to put a stop to that

In the end we saved the NHPs, then a bunch of spec ops guys who wanted to steal them tried to have us whacked

And we kinda wiped the floor with them

We had a Calendula, a Caliban, and ah....Sherman variant?

svensational I don't have Tara friended what was taht thing?

Tagetes! From Shadow of the Wolf

And yeah it's the Sherman Variant Frame

the Enkidu to Sherman's Tokugawa

right

As I said to Tara though

it's funny that only in the optional fight at the end of the module

doe it put proof to my thing about Calendula's general weaknesses

Waht is the Calendula's general weakness?

a fucker beyond my sensor range who can just hit me every turn for respectable damage

aka That Fucking Death's Head

ah, yes

yeah I do recall you mentioning that you would have almost no counterplay against artillery

AND, AS IT TURNS OUT

I SURE DIDN'T

I do think it's pretty funny

That this whole module was designed by an asshole to make players feel like the core book options are woefully underpowered so he could push his overtuned bullshit expansion

but that by complete coincidence, we happened to all choose the set of builds that countered everything in there pretty well

a lot of it came down to mission sitrep, too

every map that was a holdout map that wasn't the final fight was literally cakewalk because the Calendula loves to force you to get close to it

Even with our build countering a lot of shit the module threw at us it was still pretty brutal

Trying to remember everything the spec op template gives you

it's like

- Can turn invisible until the end of your next turn as a protocol

- Immune to reactions and engagement

I think the two things it gives you are that + the bonus activation

- Gets a free bonus turn at the end of the round

like what the fuck

only the boss lady was immune to reactions and engagement

that's so powerful

the rest of it was the fact all the spec ops ALSO had veteran template

and veteran template is just

Really Good

you should not be giving everything veteran

let alone Veteran and ALSO one-shot invisibility for what amounts to A Third Of The Combat