<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104036.msg4605216#msg4605216">Quote from: The Great Triangle on 07-05-2011, 00:41:38</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'd say the group has been inserted for 35 minutes.  The hornet's nest is starting to wake up, so it's probably best to take care of things quickly before the Reavers really figure out who's attacking them and where.  If they really get their act together, they can crush you guys, but none of their patrols are coming back alive and they don't have micro-beads to report their positions.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>It was this quote from TGT, that had me convinced that we were badly outnumbered, and, given time, the bad guys could overwhelm us with numbers...  But just to make sure, I went back and did some checking.<br/><br/>We know, thanks to Delila and our scouts, what numbers we will be facing.  There are about 22 mutants remaining between us and the 20 or so Imperial guard we are attempting to rescue.  5 of those are about to die in a crossfire, and Cortez and his squad haven't even fired yet... So that leaves 17...<br/><br/>Between us and the vault are two patrols of 5, a group of 10 in the munitorium, and, the hardest nut to crack by far, 34 holed up in front of the vault with VERY nice cover... And facing a damaged corridor that will severely hamper our attack options...<br/><br/>But TGT could not be talking of the mutants between us and the vault when he warned us that the Reavers would "crush us" once they figured out where we are, as obviously we'd be a whole lot better off if the 34 Reavers guarding the vault left their supremely defensible postion to attack us...<br/><br/>He has to be speaking of another group, or lots of other groups, that would get involved if we take too long with our own assault... As we already have firm plans to attack every mutant listed on the map, simply because every one of them is between us and an objective.<br/><br/>So off the map, elsewhere in the station, there are, TGT seems to imply, enough reaver reinforcements to make the small numbers of reinforcements we can get by simply waiting, insufficient...<br/><br/>We know, from reports, that "several dozen" Reavers live in the airless part of the station... But "several dozen" Reavers wearing vac suits and carrying imperial lasguns can't be what would "crush us" if we delay, can it?  We get 24 more armsmen and guardsmen in half an hour, and three more sentinels...  And presumably we could continue to bring troops at this rate till we could crush all opposition...<br/><br/>I am forced to conclude that there must be a lot more mutants in the pressurized section than we currently know about... (off the map?). Or that saying that there were only several dozen Reavers in the airless section was a very lowball estimate....<br/><br/>Or that I am overthinking things way too much... and I've invented threats that don't actually exist because I'm overanalyzing things.<br/><br/>Hopefully, it turns out that I am just a paranoid with too much free time on his hands...