This is part of an ongoing series about the preparations I've made to
run Mongoose's revised edition of the Bayern campaign for 2300AD.
Spoilers for Interlude 2.
The gravity of the moon is not given. I put it at 0.25G.
The small tactical maps on page 20 do not quite mesh with the larger
map on page 16, even when they're rotated to match the orientation.
Well, the large map isn't meant to be exactly to scale, I suppose.
Why are the two northern domes in the residential complex not visibly
connected to anything else?
The main landing pad is covered with small débris, enough to take
cover behind if one's lying down, which will be handy ixf a Type A
shows up.
If the party doesn't have suitable skills, George Stahl (Bayern's
communications officer) will go along as linguist, and Yvonne Rourke
will fly the lander. Yvonne is utterly fearless, but she lives to
fly: if there seems to be any danger to the lander she will take
off, in the unspoken hope of retrieving any of the team left on the
surface later in a hot pickup rather than letting the lander be
attacked on the ground.
My main problem here was a matter of atmosphere. Clearly the surviving
Vitruvians have a pressurised environment. But where is the pressure
boundary? Is the whole habitat pressurised, or just the bit where the
Vitruvians are living? Why can't the robots just crack the habitat,
kill the pesky organics, then make repairs as needed? We know they can
operate in vacuum because of the surface attack, and surely military
robot sent to an airless moon wouldn't be models that needed air
themselves?
I suspect, in the end, that the airlocks marked as "3" on the maps on
p. 20 that are the effective pressure boundaries. I argue that the
power plant machinery is delicate enough (especially considering its
age) that the Type C believes it would be at risk of damage through
sudden depressurisation, and therefore the robots will cycle through
the locks rather than blasting them. Even the smallest locks, in the
Main Access corridor, are 3m × 4.5m; it'll be a bit of a squeeze for
types B and C (which crafty players can use to their advantage), but
two Bs can use it at once with no problem.