02-14-2017, 03:05 AM | #11 |
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Re: Coast Guard response to distress call on Jewell Island, ME
If they take fire from emplaced crew-served weapons, I'm betting that a second trip will be made only when they can show up with a cutter fielding 20+ mm, two M2HB and a tactical team. Also armed helicopters and plenty of federal tactical support coming.
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Alternately it sounds like the GM watched the last season of the BBC's Sherlock Holmes in prep for this adventure... |
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02-14-2017, 08:39 AM | #13 | |
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He even successfully resisted her non-magical Sex Appeal. Too bad that he's Charitable, with a Gallant quirk and her plight ticks several boxes of his other mental disadvantages. And that his backstory establishes her as someone he once had strong feelings for and now feels responsible for not trying harder to get her treated right... So Taylor, despite being fully aware that she could influence his mind somehow and that her most powerful mental attack was touch based, decided to ignore all the warnings not to approach the bars and refused to treat her like an animal in a cage. In the process of an emotional, intimate dialogue with locked eye-contact, he pretty much voluntarily failed his Will against her Sex Appeal while giving her several attempts to use her powers on him as he caressed her hands and promised her not to leave her behind and never to allow anyone to cage her again, not without caging him with her. And ignored a potential combat situation, which she was clearly trying to distract him from, not because the distraction strictly speaking worked, but because he convinced himself that no matter what she might have done to the guards, she was clearly the victim here. As far as he's concerned, illegal detention is no better than kidnapping and it's a victim's right to resist any way they can, especially if all legal ways to end it proved ineffectual. Add what appears to him to be pretty convincing evidence of crimes of sexual nature against her by the guard force and there is pretty much no way that Taylor could blame her for whatever she did to them. He's aware that she is manipulative, deceitful and cunning. He's noticed that she has been trying to affect him since he arrived, both with 'regular' flirtatious behaviour and attempts to make him jealous, and with some form of touch-based superpower that he guesses will mess with his mind if he doesn't resist it. It's just that he doesn't blame her for this. He still feels she's worth saving. He interprets her behaviour as coping mechanisms by someone hurt, perhaps even broken, someone who has been mistreated for most of her life and been without any positive human contact, company or friends for longer than he cares to think. Someone who had no choice other than rely on social skills and, yes, manipulation, sexual or otherwise, to survive in a hellish place, without help from anyone who isn't just using her to get what they want from her. And he blames himself for not having tried hard enought to prevent this from happening to her. It's almost as if someone deliberately designed the PC so that his nature will inevitably lead him to try to save the mentally ill, crazy dangerous, budding super-villainess, despite it being the irrational choice and exposing him and his fellow PCs to weeks of dangerous adventure, instead of them going back to their pre-adventure lives and leaving professionals to handle everything. Could be. I didn't watch it myself, so that wasn't a spoiler for the adventure. :-)
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Re: Coast Guard response to distress call on Jewell Island, ME
The implication was not that it was not needed. It was that a sharpshooter was.
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02-14-2017, 10:32 AM | #15 |
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Taking the word "sharpshooter" literally, they do have a markmanship course where high scores earn you a Sharpshooter or (better) Expert marksman ribbon. Graduates of this course are probably more common than the specialized anti-terrorism units. It's a skill in addition to your regular job, rather than a full-time task like the units in the first paragraph, so I'd think a GM could get away with assigning a decent rifle skill to a Coastie as needed. Last edited by Anaraxes; 02-14-2017 at 12:53 PM. |
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02-14-2017, 01:21 PM | #18 | |
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If you all recall there was a hostage situation off Somalia a few years ago. The US Navy units on scene had to call for US Navy SEALs to act as snipers. The Navy & Coast Guard don't really use snipers. They are for anti-ship combat. The US Marines are technically a part of the Navy. The provide security on Navy ships & facilities. Snipers would only be part of the SEALs or Marine units. I don't know if the USCG has a SWAT team (I doubt they do) but if they did they would have snipers too. |
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02-14-2017, 03:12 PM | #19 |
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Re: Coast Guard response to distress call on Jewell Island, ME
They'll be able to detect it, see High-Tech, p212. There isn't very much they can do to improve their ability to pick up a transmitter that's being jammed with white noise unless they can use a highly directional antenna from a position that lets it "see" the transmitter but not the jammer. The person operating the transmitter can try some things, see that page in High-Tech.
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02-14-2017, 03:20 PM | #20 |
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Some comments on Coast Guard --
Remember that to the Coast Guard the "Great War on Drugs" was NOT just an attention-getting title.
Years ago I talked to a retired Coast Guard petty officer (I forget the grade.) He said that operations in the Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean against drug runners were hazardous, demanded lots of good judgment & courage, and often involved shooting. The USCG apparently rotated many of their sea-going personnel through the "drug war zone" and so many of the personnel on your helo & cutter will be effectively veterans. That said I expect that a search & rescue helo in Maine would not have a machine gun & ammo mounted on a regular basis. Choppers are pretty weight sensitive and even c. 40-50 lbs of gun & ammo might be better used to carry an extra 8 gallons or so of fuel. Also, there is the public image issue -- citizens upset by a "militarized" rescue force might be less likely to encourage their representatives to vote for the next budget increase. Again, I'm sure that the crews of rescue helos would have sidearms & (I'd guess) one M-4 or shotgun just in case they found a rescue mission was some sort of trap. . . Also -- take a look at the modern large cutters -- there's a overview at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...sses_and_types ' The Hamilton's have a 3" OTO/Melara rapid-fire gun & other weapons. Also, there is a Sector Command in South Portland, Maine. According to the usual suspect (Wikipedia) this command includes an intelligence staff and an enforcement division. |
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