Re: [HOE] The Night Convoy (MARSHALS ONLY! My posse had better scram!)

[Brett Dixon <balance@tubas.net>]

On Jan 9, 2004, at 3:24 PM, Shawn Willett wrote:

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> Ok That should be enough. Here's the situation, fellow badge wearers. 
> My posse is in Arizona, holed up in a survivor settlement. I basically 
> reused the story from the Deadlands Weird West Dime Novel Night Train 
> ( ie Group of hunters, one's a murderer who gets caught, lynch mob, 
> etc,etc). My Night Convoy is a group of four heavily armored and armed 
> semis. Three of them are dry box rigs and one is a reefer unit with 
> meathooks hanging from the ceiling. The NC live in a truck depot built 
> near a series of caves and raid out about twice a week. They have 45 
> nosferatu, 4 master vampires, and about 10 human servants. My 
> questions are this: 1) What tactics should the baddies use to take 
> down a settlement? 2) Has anyone come up with rules for human servants 
> of vampires? 3) Since my group is fairly smart and has found two 
> scenes where the Convoy hit before, they know they are facing a 
> massive amount of vampires. The junker in the group would like to 
> build Blade-style UV flashlight! s. Any ideas on how she could do this 
> would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help y'all can send my 
> way.

I'd start by loking at the powers for 'energy weapons' and 'spirit 
weapons' (Flash Gordon, IIRC, and maybe 'Spirit Weapon?').

Give him a discount (in slots and/or materials) for the drawback of 
only working on vampires.

I'd ask for a reliability roll every time it 'attacks.'

This is just my top-o-the-head thought, however, and I don't have TJC 
with me.