Merc. Lt. Silvermasque
Photios
Lotus
Black Andy
Cannon Fodder
Na-Wa
Mephisto

Nilus
Jomo The Wild
Gregorious
Ikuk
Ludo
Payl
DeeVee

   Lotus listens to Cannon Fodder's illusion-pit-trap idea and then turns to Photios.  "Will your illusions be detected by their dog boys?"

OOC - Thought we should move the brainstorming into this thread so as not to hijack the main thread.

"Dog Boy's?"

CannonFodder appears to be unfamilar with them.

   Lotus looks at the Adarok, contemplating whether the behemoth is trying to make a joke.  After a few silent seconds pass she decides it was serious and tries to explain.  "Coalition Mutant Dogs.  Sense magic very well.  They look a lot like Karnon over there."  Lotus indicates the wolfen who is over gathering with his own platoon at the moment.

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"Interesting, I thought the Coalition was vehamently opposed to non-humans?"

Na-Wa looks up at the big creature, he was confused why things were changed and he had the big white cat as a leader now.

"Skull faced soldiers have dog creatures to smell people like Na-Wa and others here."

   Lotus stares at the Adarok towering above her and wonders if it was playing with her.  It was so alien and so huge that she wondered if it really understood what was going on.  "You understand that we mortals are in a war right?  I mean, you comprehend that there are people dying out there, right?"

Nilus stands beside Silvermasque looking straight up at him. The goblin businessman taps the cyborg on the waist.

"Let me see that map... hmmmmmmmmm..."

Nilus points at certain places on the map and mutters to himself in his native language.

Ikuk kneels down on the ground behind Nilus, then drops to his knees to see the map over the goblins' shoulder. He studies the map along with Nilus.

"hypocricy then....not so uncommon"

"They hate non-humans, as in sentient lifeforms. The Dog boys are treated like domesticated animals. Just like a dog or a riding animal not as an intelligent creature and companion. They used to send them ahead to trigger traps and take the brunts of assaults quite often... they've cut back that practice with the advent of Skelebots and realizing the Dog Boys are one of their few ways to sniff out mages."

He returns his attention to Lotus and her question, "The illusions will not fool thermal sensors but it will act as a hologram for all other visual optics. That said, most terrain doesn't have heat signatures other then the wildlife, making the thermal sensors hard to rely upon. The Dog Boys are able to pinpoint sources of magic, but if an entire area is lightly seeped in it, I'm sure they'll know something is strange and wonder whats inside it. But as for piercing the illusion itself to detect any traps we may set within it, I highly doubt it. An easy way would be to cover the terrain with one matching the real landscape... minus of course any tiger pits, foxholes, and other fortifications we might hide among the battlefield. We can hide real boulders within the fake ones and anyone attempting to just drive through the illusion will have an unhappy surprise."

"Theres also the tactic of summoning storms, I can call down a good 4 inches of rain per hour for five hours with each casting which could turn the area around the city into a giant mud pit and slow vehicular travel to a halt leaving their power armor and robots to slosh their way over. Or in the alternative a windstorm with 70 to 90 mile per hour winds would severly reduce their airborne capabilities."

"I can make myself look like a large boulder..." CannonFodder Chimes in...

 I have to admit I was waiting to change threads until we'd moved away from the others. But no worries. ^_^

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 "Is a little more complicated than just not liking non-humans... Skullheads start with desire to defend homeland from endless demon hordes, but got little confused along way. After a while they got so focussed on demons from Rifts and did not notice they were growing own demons... They are creati."

 He breaks off when he's tapped by Nilus, looks down and seems to remember what he's here for, nods and stoops, dropping to one knee and setting out the computer pad for the goblin and his team to examine. There's already the sketch-beginings of competent defences worked out on it, but only the beginings. "I am carrying ten pounds each of NG-2 and 4, as well as six pounds of NG-6 if it is being of use, and can be getting more from Tolkeen in few hours even without portal.

 He then nods up at Photios, "Da... good masrikova is as much about making things look like they are there as not there. I am thinking we can be taking post-holer and putting lot of new rabbit holes out in approaches to slow down charges, but good, thick mud will screw up lot of enemy armour. We can work out drainage and best placement of storm when we are digging in. First and foremost however, we are needing front-duty patrol to be making sure we are not jumped whilst we are digging. I know Lotus wants to join search for Jack, but if she is with us still, that's her duty. Na-wa, maybe Photios, maybe one or two of Firefly squad not immediately needed to dig if Nilus can spare them. Cannon, Black Andy, most of us will be digging and building, Mephisto I think has summoning and binding to be doing. We are being clear?"

   "Yeah.  I can take care of the patrol by myself if you need everyone  here.  I'll keep an open radio if you like."