After the second reading, some more thoughts, doubt and typos (with help from Daniele Di Rubbo):

After the second reading, some more thoughts, doubt and typos (with help from Daniele Di Rubbo):

After the second reading, some more thoughts, doubt and typos (with help from Daniele Di Rubbo):

First things first, what I miss most is something more about the life in duty stations during the day, how it changes according to ranks, etc. There is something, and I have to see how it developes during the game, but after reading the rules I felt I’d have needed something more. Also about ranks: it’s not really clear to me how duties, and day scenes, changes according to ranks (I know Section Leaders have to do paperwork, for example; I’m not so sure about how to bring this without being repetitive or boring, I guess I’ll have to see what I can do during play).

Doubts:

• Pag. 20, Major: If another airwoman attains [Major] rank, one of them will be reassigned to a different command

This means one of the PC is out of the game?

• Pag. 31, Order of the Red Banner: When you earn this individually, you may choose any staff role in the Regiment other than Commander. Choose a character to be transferred into your old job when you receive the Order of the Red Banner

“Old job” as in pilot/navigator, so the PC isn’t pilot/navigator anymore? (Unless she finds a way to keep flying.)

• Pag. 42: Split 5 Harm between you however you like

How to split Harm is chosen by whoever rolled the Move? So, if I roll it, I can say “The other PC in my plane takes it all and dies”?

• Pag. 44, Murky Past: Choose two things you are hiding: valuable training, prominent family, political connections, a strange secret, portable wealth. Define them whenever you want

Just to be sure, can I also choose which one I’m hiding (valuable training, etc.) on the spot, as the details, or I have to choose them when I get the Move? (I guess I can?)

• Pag. 46, Sacrifice: When you are sent to the hospital to recover from combat injuries, you may choose your assignment, Squadron, Section, and aircraft when you return

What if she returns to a different Squadron/Section, not the one with the other PCs? Not sure about how to manage this during missions.

• Pag 46, Behind Enemy Lines: On a miss, you don’t evade capture

And? I mean: the captured PC is out of the game, returns after a while after managing to escape, it’s GM’s choice…

• Pag 107. Wayfind and Attack Run: HOW CAN I IMPROVE OUR ODDS?/Ask your Vedomaya for help

“Help” here is just the Vedomaya ability to take consequences? I’m not sure because that doesn’t improve odd of Wayfind (i.e., roll’s result), but I guess being able to return home in a piece counts as improved odds?

Typos:

• Pag. 23: MAKE AN ATTACK RUN, endure Enemy Fire, find yourself Behind Enemy Lines, or in an Informal Interview, and choose it as an option.

Not sure if it’s a choise for Moves’ names not to be bold.

• Pag. 41/42: “split 2-harm between you and your crewmate however you want” and “Split 5 Harm between you however you like” and “Split 3 Harm between you however you like”

Wayfind, Enemy Fire and Wheels Down have similar consequence, written in different ways; this could be confusing (I wondered for a while if “however you like” meant “among all planes”, since Wayfind says “between you and your crewmate”).

• Pag. 21 and 42: You are free to change a slot’s tone at any time, and you can change who a slot’s target is between sessions or as a result of the Reach Out Move

Also Wheels Down let you change your Regard (“Change an existing Regard slot to refer to your plane if you want”); not sure if it’s a typo this isn’t shown in the summary on page 21.

• Pag. 72: Consider changing GMs when:Any player chooses the “Moving West” Advance

According to Moving West, the player who choose it has to become GM (“you become the GM”), while here it seems just an option.

• Pag 109 and 111: “PASHKOV-skya” and “Pash-KOV-skya”

Pronunciation is written in a different way.

• For Engeles, it isn’t said missions are to be done in order, but since training has an order I guess the mission should be done as presented?

(I’m guessing friendly fire here works as normal Enemy Fire, since they could mess things up and hit you nevertheless?)

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  4. I’ve taken some notes for the errata, but most of these are just areas that were left open to a bit of interpretation. 

    1) There’s only one Major, so if a character chooses to advance to this rank, they’re taking the character out of play and making a new one. It’s likely that players will play multiple PCs over a campaign for one reason or another.

    2) Order of the Red Banner – upper ranks and regimental staff aren’t likely to fly, unless you can find a good fictional reason, so again, that PCs story might be over.

    3) Splitting Harm – you have to split it, even if it’s just 4 and 1, but yes, the person making the move decides who gets hurt. That said, follow the fiction- if it’s harm from a bad landing, it will be the crew in the plane, not someone else.

    4) Murky Past – you can play it either way. I’d suggest revealing the details in play, following the fiction.

    5) Sacrifice – a PC can be in a different squadron, flying with NPCs. All the squadrons are in the air during a mission, so the spotlight just switches to that player’s section when it’s their turn. That said, flying alone with NPCs can be dangerous because they can’t help you make moves.

    6) Behind Enemy Lines – getting captured by the enemy means it’s time to make a new character. 

    7) Improving your odds – yes, in a general sense, a vedomaya helps your odds by keeping you from getting shot down. The text could make this more clear.

  5. Steve Segedy, I have a follow up question for answer #3.

    From your answer it seems one could choose to split harm even between the crew of different aircrafts, while before I had understood the harm was to be split between the crew of the aircraft which was under enemy fire. Which one is the right interpretation?

  6. I was trying to make that more clear rather than less.

    Splitting harm is between the crew of an aircraft- the pilot takes some harm, the navigator takes the rest. 

    That said, follow the fiction first! If there’s only one person in the plane for whatever reason, choosing that option (taking harm) will kill the PC. 

    If another plane is using Vedomaya to cover you, they might take this consequence from you and split the harm differently (maybe even between the crews of the two planes), but it needs to make sense in the story. 

    As an important side note, if you choose to split harm between a PC and an NPC, that’s likely a death sentence for the NPC. That’s definitely the case if they get Marked.

  8. Regimental staff were not supposed to fly operationally, but often found excuses to do so anyway. Putting the chief of staff in an NPC seat is a great GM move.

    Thanks to the Wehrmacht “Partisan Order” any captured woman was supposed to be shot immediately. That is the best case scenario.

  10. Steve Segedy, another question arose during a demo: you said that if you choose split the damage, you have to split it – i.e., at least one to each crew member. So what if I choose that in Wayfind (“split 2 harm however you want”)? If I must split it, it means 1 and 1, so “however you want” is quite meaningless…

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