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Originally Posted by tshiggins
I wouldn't care for the A-Team. The plan coming together was the gimmick, in that show, and that's hard for a group of PCs to pull off. You need help from the screenwriter, for that.
On the other hand, V would be a perfectly decent "resist the alien invasion" setting, so long as you thought about the Visitor motives a bit more carefully.
Stealing Earth's water is silly. Turning the planet into a plantation with billions of what are effectively slave-laborers, on the other hand....
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A plantation growing what, or slaves working what? What's valuable enough to be worth hauling 8 light-years back to Sirius?
V suffers from a problem in translation to a game that a lot of TV does, PCs may ask questions that characters can be carefully forbidden from asking by the writer/director.
The only thing that really makes sense, as an invasion plot, is that they want to
move to Earth, or colonize it. That can be made to make sense, if we assume that habitable worlds are rare, and it's harder to maintain artificial ecosystems and habitats than we think it is.
(These assumptions could in fact be real-world true, for all we know.)
The other big logical problem is that if they've got Visitor-level tech, facing a late 20C/early 21C Earth...resistance is futile. So you need a reason why the enemy is operating without using 99% of their potential.