OOC

Stuff available via the ambush cache; the location of which is provided by your contact:

2x Holdout Blaster
3x Blaster Pistol
1x Heavy Blaster Pistol
2x Stun Grenade
2x Combat Knife

1x Amrored Clothing
1x Padded Armor

3x Handlheld Comlink
1x Macrobinocular
3x Stimpack
1x Binders

Unfortunately I picked a busy end of the week to start this, but that's the way things go sometimes.

As for me, I'm in the Eastern Time zone of the US and generally do not post during the day unless it's something fairly simple - I'm no good posting on here with my phone.

what's in the binder?

Doh! Should read "binders" - I’ll just make a quick edit like nothing was wrong….

Oh well, I do appreciate a good spreadsheet :)

The in game thread is open. I was going to have you arriving at the location, but I think I'll leave it open as to the type of approach you'd like to take, how you all prepare and gather, and how soon you arrive before the scheduled landing of the shuttle. You've all had the late night message on your holo-messengers, so let's pick it up from there...

I'm assuming we don't want the local police around when this goes down?
What's the difficulty to lie to them (tell them I saw a suspicious character or whatever) and get them to leave?

Whether members of the FSF are there are not when you strike is totally up to you. :-) I'm assuming everyone is arriving early enough to get set up and deal with things beforehand.

How hard they are to out-and-out lie to depends on their experience on the force. Hard to tell that through macrobinoculars in the pre-dawn hours. A couple of rookies would be 2P while a couple of old hands, each 1 day from retirement would be 2R or thereabouts.

Here is a link to a cheat sheet

Yeah, I was just going to walk up and nicely ask the cops to go somewhere else :)

In general, would you like us to guess the difficulty and just roll, or check with you first? Just wanty play to match your GM style/preferences

I’m going to suggest always going with 2P difficulty when the difficulty is unknown. I will adjust as needed with extra die/removal.

Cool, thanks

May print this one out for my FTF group. Thanks.

Just to be clear, even though the ambush site is new construction, it follows the rest of the pattern of the city, in that the roads even out this out this far a narrow. So between the two rows of flats we're looking at a roadway that is maybe 3 meters wide, a meter of pedestrian walkway on either side, and then the buildings.

A normal sized transport won't fit through most of the town. Past ambushes the Imperials have either been on foot or speeders.

just want to make sure I understand, there is someone coming to deliver something to these Imperials right? These troopers aren't the ones delivering correct

Your contact has told you that the Resource Team will be arriving just before dawn and a location at which best to ambush them. He has also stated that this particular team will be unusual and that their objective in unknown.

The Imperials arrived just before dawn and their shuttle has left.

I would say that this mission is falling apart in front of them. The most sensible thing to do would be to scrap the mission.
They are outgunned, their intel is faulty. The risk is huge compared with the possible reward being unknown.

Now I am asking the meta-question, does our GM expect us to go through with the assault? I expect that the resource team is handing off the McGuffin to the imps, and it is this McGuffin that is the centerpiece of adventure - right?

Sounds like the words of someone who doesn't have armor piercing grenades on hand. Joking aside, I think we could at least try, since we have the advantage of surprise. If things go poorly, we could run off into the side alleys.