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The time to overhead did matter once in a GURPS game.
I recreated the movie "Tears of the Sun" and set it in the more appropriate time, during the Nigerian Civil War when Biafra tried to secede. February 1968 to be precise so I could have USS Oriskany be the jumping off point.
The players would be a SEAL team catching a ride home on Oriskany. Why didn't they fly home? One of the team had angered an admiral so the ride on a carrier was punitive.
So we have our carrier and SEAL team in position to rescue the missionary, just like the movie and...
It went really well! I even wrote a properly formatted opord!
Better than the movie, in fact, because the captain of the carrier actually understood his orders to support the teams and the players remembered they had radios and called in air support at an appropriate time.
In my notes I have:
Expected air support is mostly withdrawn after VF-111 Crusaders engage and shoot down a Nigerian MiG-17. RA-3B provides intel that pursuing force did not stop for the night on day two.
Emergency CAS: F-8Es can be on station for CAS ten minutes after being called, they can only loiter for about five minutes. A-4Es can be on station in twenty minutes after being called and can loiter for half an hour. A-1Hs can be on station forty minutes after being called and can loiter for an hour and a half! Party leader will be made aware of this and must make the call. Political situation prevents attacking pursuit before 10km of Cameroon border OR 1km of party whichever comes first.
Party could force the situation by calling for CAS and laying an ambush. Waiting for the bad guys to break the 1km boundary makes the support legal...
So the party, seeing the bad guys were catching up, made the call when they were about 15 minutes from crossing the 10km line AND ambushed the pursuit just about the same time the Skyhawks were overhead. They told Dr Kendricks and Ibo refugees to keep going when they stopped to set up the ambush.
Better than the Hollywood version, I thought!
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