Hey folks, I was wondering if you would read the following and let me know what you think. It is the first draft of a set up story for a combat based board game where the players play (on their turn) a Squad of Marines(3) fighting Vampires and Werewolves (up to 6 per board, always played by the player to the Marine's left) I'm in the middle of a big smoothing out of the rule book at the moment and if there is interest will post it when I'm done. Here is the set up story though, tell me what you think.
Night Fight
2035, after centuries of thinking them to be nothing more than myth, they emerged. Vampires, Werewolves, there was nothing better to call them. For the first few months we couldn’t even figure out where they were coming from. After the third raid on New York City our intel finally found an entrance to one of their underground caverns, some of them as big as the human cities that were above them. We’ve located dozens now, how long have they been there, how did we miss these things below us, and worse, why are they coming after us now? They don’t seem to want anything from us, except to use us as food, they don’t take prisoners that we can tell, at least we’ve never had to face one of our own on the other side.
Some of the initial counter attacks went bad, real bad. We severely underestimated their numbers and capabilities. Whole Brigades, four Squads strong, were lost to the first Masters that the Marines ran into. The new Mozu and Taka battle armors we got from our allies in Tokyo went into the development fast track after that. The Brasses’ paranoia of our weapons falling into the wrong hands finally paid off though, if it wasn’t for the electronic keying systems placed in the weapons those “things” might be able to use our own tech against us. That is a nightmare we don’t need.
Rumor is the next mission is to be a doozey, two to four squads going into one of the smaller hives. Intel seems to think they’ve located a possible leader, as if the Masters weren’t bad enough, god help us if we find it , we’re going to need it. Semper Fi.
Questions, comments? Thanks.
Thanks for the look. I see what you mean about half and half, I guess I got to overdone about describing why the Monsters couldn't use the weapons and such. I'll have to run the spell/gram ck again, thought I had gotten before I posted it here, oh well. I think I'll try a couple different versions, I like the gritteir idea mixed w/ the "new recruit" thing. Thanks for the outside perspective.