<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104036.msg5372108#msg5372108">Quote from: Christopher28 on 21-10-2011, 23:05:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I can understand if you're frustrated, TGT, by us being a little more military minded than swashbucklery minded...<br/><br/>But I TRIED swashing the buckle... Harlock was doing his darnedest to save the day the heroic way, was promptly flatted like a pancake with his own War Walker, and lost a permanent fate point for his trouble.  I suppose instead of trying to kill the bad guy, he should have swung off a rope and dropped a piece of scenery on the insane AI?  Quite possibly cutting the cables linking it to the ship was the correct tactic... except that there was no reason to believe that cutting those cables would hurt the creature at all, and Harlock was trying to LIVE.  Which doesn't usually include making the monster both more mobile AND more angry at the same time....  I really did figure that, if he cut the cables he would STILL have to kill it afterwords, so simply killing it in the first place would save a LOT of time and running around.<br/><br/>Then, we had an imminent threat... from a miles long enemy spacecraft, attacking our own, crippled spacecraft.<br/><br/>I honestly don't know what the swashbuckling method for saving the day in that case would be.  As far as I could tell, the Kobras Aquaire was about to get blasted to bits killing all the players and the tens of thousands of crewmembers of the Aquaire in one fell swoop.   I have no doubt there was an swashbuckler's option for saving the day... but I didn't see it.<br/><br/>What did you think would have been the more appropriate action, TGT?  I'm curious.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>For that matter, Arkhah had an excellent backup plan, by shoving explosives into the crack opened by Jason's power sword - but apparently Inquisitor NPC had to save the day first.