After Action Report: the Eggshell Campaign

[Phil Masters]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Wasn't half of Europe On Mars about diplomatic bureaucracy?

It was about diplomacy, but at the sharp end. The sort of diplomacy that involved people getting shot at remarkably often.

I don't recall any contract negotiations, but I suspect that a scene like that would have consisted of something like "Roll against Law (International Contract) ... Made it? Okay, there's some dodgy conditional stuff in there ... Right, roll against Merchant... Sorry, they won the quick contest; you're stuck with a penalty clause."