From:	Jani Fikouras <feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
Subject:	Re: Who would survive.
Date:	Mon, 26 Jun 1995 12:37:16 +0200

> > Yep. Woa we actually agree :)
> Heh. That's worth replying to, in itself. :-)

:)

> But I actually just had an even nastier idea.
>
> A much cheaper form of security, attainable by many corps,
> would be to use their hypothetical 4 hermetic mages to have summoned
> their Charisma in Force 6 elementals, and to use them just like
> I'd suggested for the one big one - but to send them all at once.

The problem with this idea is once again the availability of magicians.
Lets just say that no midle-sized or smaller corp can afford 4 mages
on a routine basis. But on the whole the idea is not bad.

> That's maybe 15 attackers for the poor runners, each one pretty
> hard to deal with, and with a reasonable attack skill, right?
>
> But the killer is that even those people who aren't out-reached,
> the runners are outnumbered and suffer the bad end of the friends-in-
> melee penalty!

Well you can push this only so far, you canot have all 15 attack
a single runner. And the runners will most likely come up with a
strategy that allows them to avoid the attacks of most of the
ooponents (like fighting in a hallway :)

> And the mages likely even have a few spare services, so they
> could have the elementals clean up all the blood afterwards...

And if they die, who cares :) you dont have to pay their widows,
you dont even have to bury them :)

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