Oh right, jargon. [He forgets that nine out of ten people think magic translator-comms jewelry is perfectly normal, but they don't know what a radio is.] A distraction. Some sort of random, meaningless noise going through a whole area, to drown out quieter stuff.
The first one. You might be able to disrupt them if things get loud enough--they're sensitive. And you can draw them away if you really know their hunting calls. [Which he kind of did, but his Monster Screeching probably had a horrible accent.]
Lights, too. But they've got some blind ones that can pair up with the others to flush people out of lit areas. [It was effective. He remembered that much.]
[He can imagine. Everybody got caught off-guard by those buggers last time. It ended up being absolute hell. Reviewing that can be helpful, but he wants to pull it back around to plans for the future.]
So, their main tactics are coordinated assaults and harrying their targets. If we can get them into situations where they can't do that, we'll have the upper hand. We need to identify places where we can limit the avenues of approach, and keep them overwhelmed. [He'd have to start looking over the place more critically. Shame they weren't closer to the mountain, getting dug in would be easier there.
Still.] These lords are used to just swinging in and hitting soft targets. If we can fortify, we'll have a defensive advantage.
[ Harrying their targets is certainly something Wrathion has first hand experience with. He takes a breath, one hand lifting to rub at his beard. ]
A fortified location with limited entrances would work for that, as you say. However limited entrances also means limited exits.
[ Easy to trap themselves in, and there's certainly solutions to 'everyone hidden in one building' that someone with little care for innocent lives could enact. ]
Yeah. But these things will likely have advantage in numbers and speed, and we don't have any transports that could handle evac. ...But most everything around here being made out of wood is a problem. [All the more reason to look into whether magical fireproofing is a thing that can happen. He has no idea if it is, but it feels like something that should be possible.]
[ Mmmm. The comment about everything being wood has Wrathion flinching a little, looking back towards the village and gauging how... flammable everything is. ]
I meant more in the sense of that, being trapped in a building could become dangerous quickly.
[ One entrance? Block it, set it on fire or block it and send something mobile in to cause havoc. It could certainly go downhill very quickly. ]
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sergeant_slick) wrote2021-08-04 06:28 pm
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To make it more difficult to locate people hiding, or to disrupt them? Do we know if they can hear, or if they track by some other method?
[ Heat? Scent? Some other signature? ]
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Lights, too. But they've got some blind ones that can pair up with the others to flush people out of lit areas. [It was effective. He remembered that much.]
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I didn't have much chance to vary my tactics while they chased me. They did not appear to tire.
[ Which is... bad. It's bad when the thing chasing doesn't tire. ]
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So, their main tactics are coordinated assaults and harrying their targets. If we can get them into situations where they can't do that, we'll have the upper hand. We need to identify places where we can limit the avenues of approach, and keep them overwhelmed. [He'd have to start looking over the place more critically. Shame they weren't closer to the mountain, getting dug in would be easier there.
Still.] These lords are used to just swinging in and hitting soft targets. If we can fortify, we'll have a defensive advantage.
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A fortified location with limited entrances would work for that, as you say. However limited entrances also means limited exits.
[ Easy to trap themselves in, and there's certainly solutions to 'everyone hidden in one building' that someone with little care for innocent lives could enact. ]
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I meant more in the sense of that, being trapped in a building could become dangerous quickly.
[ One entrance? Block it, set it on fire or block it and send something mobile in to cause havoc. It could certainly go downhill very quickly. ]