by exalted » Fri Nov 11, 2016 11:52 pm
I think it's a natural tension that was going to arise due to the composition of the squad and time we had to work out characters before the mission. There's three characters from vastly different backgrounds trying to fit different sized cogs into one machine to make it work. It will take time for process to ease and the gears to mesh.
Also without knowing what people read from previous posts about the planning and situation is difficult to juggle with current or future posts. i.e. Smalls was expressly informed that the scouts only have light weapons and can't engage World Breakers, which removed them from covering fire/suppressive fire role in her plan. Smalls never expressly told this to her team, I got lazy and didn't want to repeat giant blocks of text and just said 'informed them of the plan' and hoped the team would read the 3 or 4 posts where I had walked through the plan with the GM in detail. Fast forward to the intro of the Scouts, no description of equipment, and Maiza interrupts a meeting between 2 military officers to ask the scouts to do something Smalls has been told they can't do. I think I explained Small's mindset in the subsequent past.
That being said the team has a complete civilian, a bandit guerrilla and elite SF soldier... protocol was always going to be a mess and it will shape the team how they move on from this. OOC, and as Smalls said IC, freely share ideas and options in the team, I don't want to force actions or refuse discussions, just don't make us look like ass hats in front of other teams.
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