After missing a session, my Monday crew were back at Pashkovskaya today. We had a few disasters, had to perform in a talent show (it was a total disaster), and finished off the duty station with mission C.
This week our daytime misadventures went from bad to worse, and only scrambling for that final mission saved us from facing some nasty consequences. My pilot Galya blew up her hand with some illicit munitions (she didn’t know about them – spoils of previous scrounging), Vera was malingering in the infirmary and ran into a keen young doctor with lots of treatments he wanted to try out. Everyone else was working on this stupid show we had to put on. Then we screwed that up, in front of the Lt General too.
Galya also saved the life of our mechanic, hit by debris from a failed wheels down roll. That was a bit of a turning point for her, from “everything is fucked and we’re all going to die” to “maybe some of us will make it through”. I guess time will tell if that’s optimism or pessimism.
We lost Captain Liza Vorapeyeva to flak on that last mission, although it was otherwise successful. She’d been there from the beginning, and from being hated by the others had finally gotten some respect from those under her command, so it was quite a loss.
Our replacements have all hardened into natural-born Soviet airwomen now, although rather fatalistic and traumatized with it. I’m looking forward to seeing how our new squadron commander handles things (in fact, one character might take the promotion to Major advance, which would be… interesting).
We’re also switching GM again, to Liza’s player now that she’s no longer with us.
Also, we’re halfway through now. Woohoo!
What happened with the doctor?
Bershanskaya isn’t going to step down without a fight. She’s old school. She suppressed Kulaks. She owes Raskova a debt of loyalty.
Mauro Ghibaudo a scary electricity treatment. Our airwomen didn’t wait for his next one after that didn’t work.
Jason Morningstar Hm, I hadn’t considered that aspect of it.
There can only be one Major, so if you want the job you need to get the old Major out of the way.
Yes. Just hadn’t thought through all the implications.
Thanks for the info, I’m always interested in this kind of things, it’s good for ideas ^_^
About Major: me too, I just assumed Bershanskaya would be transferred O_o Daniele Di Rubbo
It is unusual to be promoted to a command position within your own regiment, and there’s nowhere for Bershanskaya to go, really. She’s in charge of one of three novelty regiments, from the Red Army Air Force point of view.
Cool, I never thought of it that way.
Thanks for the info Jason Morningstar.
Advice for anyone running this game…if you want to bring the pain….Have them perform a talent show and make it matter! It worked even better than I expected. What I expected to happen pretty much did, it was just more extreme. Dodging duties and attempting to put acts together for the show soaked up a lot of the downtime. Downtime that the Soviet Airwomen would have otherwise spent building mission pool! So be warned it is not unlikely to get someone killed. As an aside, I was sad I didn’t get to try the Radium treatment on Vera.
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I’m not sure about how to manage the talent show in game, but I’ll keep that suggestion in mind!
Mauro Ghibaudo there was a lot of “tempting fate” involved, as well as scrounging up supplies and (as noted) skimping on other duties.
Mh, Tempting Fate is a move I’m wary about (on a miss it’s a Mark, twelve Mark and the character is dead, so it’s kinda huge), I still have to really see it in game.
Like Daniel Steadman said, it turned into a very high stakes talent show 🙂
Another good way to demonstrate their diminished position is to order them to bake a cake to celebrate some milestone of a brother regiment. The stakes can be equally high, sugar needs to be scrounged,the whole thing is broadly insulting. Definitely a hard move.
Keep going the good ideas, I’m taking notes ^_^
We’ve baked a cake too, although that was as a favour for an airwoman in another section. That went okay, comparatively speaking.