Re: [HoE] Balance of Power(spoiler marshals only)

[Steve Wallace <ceesrw@cee.hw.ac.uk>]

> The problem isn't really that my extras lack guns, just that they're not 
> necessarily very good with them, and that they're relatively slow.  The 
> "quick" combat system can really hose them over.  Drawing an Ace is nice, 
> but in a group of 5-6 characters where, say, half of their total cards are 
> or better cards, and your extras draw that single 7 or less, you can pretty 
> much kiss most human extras bye-bye before that 7 ever kicks in.  Not 
> necessarily a kill, but from stun recovery checks and what-not.  Just doing 
> 12 points of damage (using the simplified system) is enough to force a TN 7 
> Vigor check on each person hit.

Try giving your goons two cards instead of one each round.  
It'll take you a tad longer, but it gives your heroes a 
challenge when those half a dozen mooks can actually do 
useful things in a shootout - like vamoose and then shoot 
the heroes.

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