YEAH NO getting people killed would be. Bad. I'm figuring a panicked evening trying to pull together what he can... and just barely setting foot out of camp as the bomb goes off. As long as he gets to try, I'm super okay with him failing. I can keep it to PCs as well - Miles will be frantic and in no mood to try and explain himself to any Barrayarans anyway, so that will work.
Re: strategy: he won't be against retaking VV per se, but he will be noticeably reluctant about committing more troops to the city with that reluctance ratcheting up to outright advising against it the more he hears that Cetacanda is pulling out. The tipping point is still the full withdrawal, but you better believe he'll start acting screwy before that point. He just doesn't know for sure the city is doomed until Cetaganda's gone. I am A+ okay with him reading weird to anyone watching, especially if it leads to interesting consequences.
Thank you for working with me on this btw, I don't want to derail anything obviously. (But this is one of the few events he can actually predict, so I wanted him to do something, even if it's futile.)
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Re: strategy: he won't be against retaking VV per se, but he will be noticeably reluctant about committing more troops to the city with that reluctance ratcheting up to outright advising against it the more he hears that Cetacanda is pulling out. The tipping point is still the full withdrawal, but you better believe he'll start acting screwy before that point. He just doesn't know for sure the city is doomed until Cetaganda's gone. I am A+ okay with him reading weird to anyone watching, especially if it leads to interesting consequences.
Thank you for working with me on this btw, I don't want to derail anything obviously. (But this is one of the few events he can actually predict, so I wanted him to do something, even if it's futile.)