The battle begins!
The Selenians have improvised defences with light digging in and some sci-fi equivalent of sandbags to provide their lines with one point of cover fron frontal atttack. All Jedi can start in those trenches. The flip side of this is that you are not on the attack and Federation artillery is now blasting anything that moves on the valley sides, which makes starting in a flanking position impractical.
(A reminder that no matter what seems logical, you may never attack multiple targets in an attack unless you are using a power that specifically says so or you have been given a special move due to careful planning etc. Game baalnce trumps what you might think a Jedi can do with Force powers.)
Vulture droid losses from the last scenario means they have pulled back for now as they fix damaged ones; there will be no enemy air power for this scenario.
Five squads of battle droids are makig the first move forwards in the ground, as a bunch of STAPs swarm in from above (more droids got blasted down just before we start the action here). The other droids are covering the tanks, who are standing off providing fire support. As is their tactical point, the STAPs are fast enough to move to any part of the battlefield they wish in a turn.
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MOPET VALLEY BATTLE (ROUND 2), START OF TURN 1
Battle Droid progress up valley: 6/10
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Central Battlefield- Selenian Artillery line
Light Artillery pieces x5: 0
Field Guns (HW 6) x5: 0 (one point of cover)
Selenian infantry (G 6) x50: 0 (one point of cover)
Vlad (G 7/ FP 2): 1 (1P)/1/21 [Balanced Guard/Eye of the Storm/Carnival of Carnage]
Vera (LS 10/ FP 10): 3/3/0 [OrthodoxGuard/Cleave/Block]
Sean (LS 9/ FP 7) 3/3/34 [Orthodox Guard/Reflection/Gunslinger]
Battle Droids x10 (G 5): 0- two turns from lines
Battle Droids x10 (G 5): 0- two turns from lines
Battle Droids x10 (G 5): 0- two turns from lines
Battle Droids x10 (G 5): 0- two turns from lines
Battle Droids x10 (G 5): 0- two turns from lines
STAPs x10 (P 5): 0- in air
Battle Droids x50 (G 5): Four turns from lines
AATs x5 (HW 5): Four turns from lines
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Now, by default I assume you are statying in the trenches, but fi you want to start in a different position let me know.
Meanwhile, at the Command Centre, the Marshall will make the same comment to you, Xeth, about the apparently conservative deploym ent of the Federation. He says that these merchants and scientists, whose entire idea of strategy comes from computer programmes and simulations, have no feel for the flow of a battle- and as he says, no guts at all.
"They keep so many forces back as they like to erect wall afetr wall around their precious selves," he says. "They put so much shielding on their vessels that thery can barely move through hyperspace and call them impervious, and still they hold their swarm back in case of attack. I think Naboo unnerved them, despite the design differences you tell me they have made."
I am supposing that attacking a STAP in the air involves making an agility roll for Jumping up at them. Or just shooting the droids off of the things, of course.
We should start in the trenches for protection purposes, since Vlad and Sean are going to start off gunning. You should tap out your Gun schticks at the STAPs.
Ush, can Vera-Kin use Saber Throw with Cleave to attack two STAPs in a turn, using her masterful control of the Force to guide her lightsaber through both targets?
Vlad looks over Vera and Sean after he spots the incoming droids. "May the force be with you, lets hope this goes better then how it did at the guns"
Vlad will get behind the cover draw his heavy pistol and tap carnival of carnage to attack two STAP's, two attacks per each.
Hopefully the Eye of the Storm Parry and the cover parry will keep me safe.
"Indeed, they are trying to keep a defensive posture while making an offensive game," Xeth says, hobbling to the Marshall's side. "From what I understand the Naboo were triumphant when they removed the Federation's command ship from the equation. Now the Federation is attacking a world that possesses a formidable fighting force, unlike the typically peaceful Naboo. They are playing it safe, which we should try to take advantage of."
Xeth will also see if he can procure a cane to walk with, to ease up on his useless leg.