Ran a pick up game of The Sprawl at the Millenium Falcons, Southampton Guild of Roleplayers last night.
Used the Kurosawa Extraction from the book with some corporations that we brainstormed. Game went well as three of the players soon got the hang of how things should work and only one had some problem grasping the concepts behind a PbtA game.
The team opted to hit the convoy on the access road to the airport (I was describing a cross between the access road from the M4 to Heathrow and the access road to Washington DC International) so straightish road with grassy areas either side. The plan was for the bunch of Thugs who formed ‘Handsome’ Johnson’s posse to act as a distraction while the Driver and his three vectored thrust panzers attacked the armoured limos having been transported nearby under a tarpaulin on a flat bed truck.
The action opened with the minibus full of Arsenal supporters driving across the median to cut off the first limo throwing smoke grenades and lager cans. The panzers (the player opted for three vehicles the same for odd reasons – he said why not and I thought it would be fun in a one off game) then attacked with a rocket at the first limo – it missed. The second panzer fired another rocket and this damaged the first armoured limo and the third panzer used a magnetic grapple to stop the second limo.
The Arsenal supporters then attacked again and threw lager cans at the windshield of limo #2. The windshield cracked and they took some damage from the assault rifle armed security guards. The Killer then got into the act and blew away the security goons but took 1 Harm damage as his armour kept out the assault rifle fire.
The armoured limo keep out the crew until the Killer blew the door off. Mitchell was dragged off to the nondescript vehicle they had waiting as the vectored thrust panzers left in a hurry. One of them took an anti-materiel rifle round to the engine and blew away the police SWAT team with a rocket in reply.
As the team exited they saw the road blocked by the two gangs of South American drug cartels members who they had arranged to turn up and grab each other’s latest shipment. This had slowed the police response and stopped anyone else getting through to the scene.
Excellent ideas from the team included Fast talking a contact in the traffic department to arrange the traffic lights going to red after the convoy went through ala Italian Job. Also getting a contact, Frank the Tank, to supply the flat bed truck transporting the covered panzers and Fast Talking a police department contact to find out about the drug gangs.
A great session and much enjoyed.
I’ve never had a Driver want a posse of panzers like that. Sounds like a fun concept!
At first he was confused by the wording of Right Tool for the Job “two additional cyber linked vehicles (each built in the same way as your custom vehicle)” thinking they had to be the same not realising it meant build them as you would a custom vehicle. I let him have three panzers as it was fun.
Nigel Clarke oh! Interesting.