"Are your soldiers on the menu?" Topic
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| Bashytubits | 20 Apr 2019 3:58 p.m. PST |
When you have a scenario with wild beasts do your soldiers ever wind up on the menu?
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Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 20 Apr 2019 5:08 p.m. PST |
Usually not. I did have one game where there were logs (actual twigs that I'd harvested) floating in a swamp. When enough soldiers were in or at the edges of the swamp, the logs were revealed to be that planet's version of crocodiles, which immediately attacked the closest personnel. Everybody was in Traveller battle dress, so no one was in danger of being eaten, but turns and surprise were lost and there were some steam explosions from firing fusion guns near the water. |
 etotheipi  | 21 Apr 2019 3:11 a.m. PST |
Yeah, last week in fact. Only in fantasy/scifi/pulp scenarios, though.
Real world cannibals (societies, psychopaths, etc.) don't eat people during tactical engagements, so while the forces could be "on the menu", that wouldn't happen during the game. I suppose you could start a scenario with the cannibals surprised during a meal. |
Roderick Robertson  | 21 Apr 2019 7:49 a.m. PST |
And then there's this: link
(The current story of the poacher stomped by elephants and eaten by lions)
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| Covert Walrus | 21 Apr 2019 11:53 a.m. PST |
It's a possible feature of soem SF scenarios I played and planned – usually an added "bonus" to sweep and clear missions is findign a samll nest of local pack hunters, ambush predators or so forth. |
| Stryderg | 22 Apr 2019 9:50 a.m. PST |
Sometimes, if playing certain alien species. But lunch comes after the bullets and laser beams stop flying. |
 Legion 4 | 22 Apr 2019 2:35 p.m. PST |
Well some of the aliens I have are said to eat the enemies' death. E.g. the Tau Kroot allies, etc. But generally the game would end before the feasting begins … |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 22 Apr 2019 4:57 p.m. PST |
I guess if you're doing a cannibal scenario, a good starting point would be shortly before food preparation, while the food is still alive and capable of being rescued. |
| Legion 4 | 23 Apr 2019 7:53 a.m. PST |
I think in the old 40K Fluff … Ork would eat humans ?  |
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