Letting him die does sound like too much of a blow to the Arabians. Altough it occured to me if it was a secondary objective then this:Antitheus wrote:It's important to get the full loyalty of UPF. Without their force, Arabians are underdogs.
could end in some of UPF leaving without Gensher to keep them in line, giving the player fewer people to play with.In the preparation part of the mission a scientist (Christina or Khattam if possible) tells Omar and Heike that calculations suggests that contaminating the motherlode could have dire consequences. Omar wants to keep this a secret but Heike refuses. She will condone no more lies, thus she tells everyone else about this and says that those who are not ready to accept the consequences are free to leave. No-one leaves.
And why would it be dramatic for the player? Seeing how antagonistic (sort of) he was to Heike, it'd be more like "Finally, he's out of the way!". Killing him like that seems awfully repetitive to Powell's death, too damn convenient, but that could be just me.
Also, as much as this makes sense:
...there was no real intent on huntig him down actually shown in pro-Legion missions. Wouldn't adding that be inconsequent?vanimpe wrote:Legion hates Gensher (as we see in mission 13 pro-Legion) and their first objective would be his death.
Another reason for, would be that it's a good opportunity to kill Farmer, in paralel to killing Gensher, JMM or Burlak in other missions. (I know it says otherwise in the script, but we haven't got to exact details of it yet) Someone proposed to give the player a chance to kill JMM or Burlak before, but that seems to lie in the context of their long mutual hatred (only in Rus campaign but still), ending either in reconcile or demise. Heike was more related like that to Farmer and Gensher, so it makes sense to join one and kill the other depending on side choosen (though the fact that Farmer is killed in 14a anyway breaks the pattern a little).
Rolf was supposed to be Genshers friend, so the Legion wouldn't really trust him, he would have to desert first himself to join them. The idea sounds good if Gensher really has to die though.
I was thinking about including Gordon or the Friend (willard fields or whatever he was changed into) in Ar14, as a consequence of Ar10 choice - Gensher could send Heike some UPF people (assuming he didn't do so in previous missions) and it would only be fair to give the player some bonus from the opposite too. Maybe Gordon/Friend could give Heike some tip for getting easy resources off Russians (this option wouldn't simply be there in Gensher variation)?
Are these the people from first mission intro? It sounds like they would be "Gensher's" people so it would fit to include one/some of them in Genshers reinforcements Heike would get or be present with along Gensher in the ambush.Vanimpe wrote:What's about Hans Gluckman and/or Oskar Butler from the first mission?