Re: Character discussion thread
There only four of you actively posting. Not sure what happened to Captain Anderson.
That means 2 men to either side, the sailor in the back midline ahead of the outboard. This isn't a rib boat. It's a straight up two cell inflatable. It's about eight feet long and not quite four feet wide. But it does weight nearly 850 pounds with fuel, outboard, motor mount, oars, and lines. Add in 1000 pounds + for 5 men and gear.
It cramped, you 4 are 2 men to each side for balance and rowing is done on your knees without removing paddles from the water. Blade fore, flat aft rowing in slow, cadenced strokes to prevent much noise. The sailor is using an oar as a rudder to keep the boat straight and close to shore.
Noise is the issue. Its a bright moon out, you are on water. Anyone who can see you can see from around two hundred meters away. Its monochromatic like a black and white picture that is overexposed.
Even with night vision you are looking into dark patches surrounded by brighter light, and there is reflected like on the water. Known as light or moon haze. Welcome to early gen night vision of the 1980s.
Point is the real way you locate hidden people like sentries and observation posts is by noise. People get bored, tired, anxious, fidgety, and flat out uncomfortable. Then they move and make noise that gives them away. Noise discipline is your greatest asset on the boat.
The boat is small, you can't truly sit up, if a firefight breaks out it will be very hard for more than one person to respond with return fire. In the event of trouble the steersman cranks up the outboard and roars away at about sixty mph, you need to be hanging on.
Ingress is all about getting to the point of insert/execution without getting compromised. Since the plan is what it is for this op. If your insertion is blown you will dropped off at a secondary insertion point and still carry out the mission. There is no going back to the ship.
Welcome to operation East Wind, the invasion of Soviet controlled central Florida.
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:04, Sun 03 Nov 2019.