Not really. I've already established a timeline. Even if it took 2 hours you wouldn't be able to escape weapons range.
Yes, it is. But you, since you are able to see what my side is doing from my explanations know where I am. You're using that information to make tactical decisions for your team. They don't have that information and it defies logic that they would do what you're saying without any of the intel you have.
Ok, so your train of thought is "Even though there could be a battalion waiting behind those cars over there, where they could see me and I couldn't see them (because you've already said they're running, so they aren't in cover), it's totally safe to approach."
What?
She isn't an Olympic runner. I never said anyone on my team was a gymnast, so that's just confusing.
Also, you say she is running at a pace faster than a quick march. How long exactly is this woman running at over 4 miles an hour? So far even the most expedient estimations clock this in a matter of hours. Are you really going to tell me she runs flat-chat for hours on end in the middle of a blazing hot desert with a few sips of water? That seems really unrealistic dude.
The speed she would require to do what you're saying is something Captain America could barely do.
To my flag and back to your base is 31.2 miles, even if she runs in a perfectly straight line.
Get this, the Olympic record for a marathon (26 miles) is 2 hours, 4 minutes (12.6 miles per hour). So your girl Nikita has to run for at least 2 hours and 30 minutes minimum, even if she was running at Olympic world record speed. Realistically she would run at about half that speed or less (6 miles per hour). Let's just forget the .50 cal slugs that would make a red mist where her head used to be for one second:
For her to steal my flag in the way you are describing, she has to run, not jog, run like f*ck, for 5 hours straight. What?
I wouldn't even need to shoot her, which I would have ample opportunity of. She would die of exhaustion before she made it back to the junkyard.
You have to keep in mind endurance too, if you say she can run over 8-10 miles an hour, that's great. She's on 100m sprint pace for an Olympic athlete. How long do you think she can keep that up?
You wanted speed and stealth, now you want speed and endurance. The number of irrefutable factors that prevent her from doing what you're saying she can do are piling up dude.
I actually can't remember a movie where a human outran or outreacted a werewolf. And you're not talking about adrenaline, you're talking about his movement speed over long distances. I wouldn't like to do a 30 mile hike on adrenaline. In other news, why would that even be a factor contributing to your victory? my team also have adrenal glands.
Well, you'll have to ask Luna to confirm that. I'm reading that differently. It says they get clothes but I assumed he meant more than one set. If it's the case, it doesn't affect me honestly. It's your tactics that give your team problematically low equipment stores.
Well, that is great for her. Guerrilla tactics are probably a bit harder when your approach is clearly visible though.
Hyperboles are great. Does he ever actually fight at that level?
I never said it would. All of my calculations have allowed 15-30 minutes minimum for the search. I have no problem with your team being able to search an area but they have reduced capacity to do so because of two reasons:
1. You only sent 2 people to search. I sent 5. I have more guys out looking, because I prioritized equipment.
2. If one of your guys runs into one of my guys, they will die. The opposite isn't true.
So while the rest of your team is counting on supplies, they might not get any because their teammates died looking. That is not just something that 'might' happen. You sent them into the exact same place my guys are. Neither of them have any stealth feats whatsoever. It's more likely than not that they will make contact with my teams. They will not survive that encounter. I don't like that you put yourself at an obvious disadvantage in these situations and act like it isn't an impairment. You have to take the good with the bad.
I really don't follow the logic here. So you've seen that I'm not standing on your side of the fence, so automatically everything in between is safe?
I didn't say my team had x-ray vision, I said a person running at a sprint across a barren landscape was easy to spot at a distance. That's pretty straight-forward.
He could very easily have acquired a scope with your teammates still in range. Nikita has to travel 4-5 miles just to go around the Junkyard. If Hawkeye stood in the middle of the Junkyard on top of a car, he could see her making her way toward the town with literal miles of operation weapons range to spare.
Additionally, while Bond is answering the riddles, Hawkeye could be scanning his sector with the binoculars. I have a character with really high-tier marksmanship and a rifle that can make the shot. I don't see the problem.
Under fire from what? Your team has no guns and even if they did, if you initiated a firefight it would be 5v2. Why on Earth would I retreat? Hawkeye could kill both of your guys in 2 seconds flat. It's a semi-automatic .50 cal. You were in the Army, what's a BMG round do to sheet metal? Retreat under fire won't be necessary.
I'm not fully sure how you're dropping a car or blowing me up with A) Worse equipment B) Worse combat characters C) A wild numeric disadvantage.
I have already given mathematical breakdowns of time expenditure that left your team 30-45 minutes behind being able to achieve their goals. I can crunch the numbers again if you'd like.
You're trying to bloat my characters out. I'd probably focus on how your team is going to be useful rather than how my team won't be.
I've already shown that your teammates, moving along the path you've shown, can't come close to leaving effective weapons range within any reasonable amount of time. If the sniper rifle's scope or the binoculars have even half that range then they're done for.
The inherent assumption is that you are assuming my team is either the same speed or less than your team. Otherwise that 'calculated risk' is completely impossible. If my team was faster, and I already made a case for why they were, your team couldn't do any of what you've said.
You can only go as fast as your slowest member, and Gabe wouldn't make the cut on any special forces team.
More accurately, she is going as direct as
you can get. Which is over 5 miles less direct than my team. I showed that with the map.
Exactly as I said earlier, your plan is "if she goes one way and your team goes the exact opposite way" - how likely is that?
I said 2 of my team go back to base.
You're assuming there would be some prolonged conflict between Gabriel the Unarmed Vampire Hunter and someone like James Bond holding an assault rifle. There would not. If you gave your team everything they could possibly have and it was my forward 3 (James Bond, Frank Moses and Dutch) it would still be a cataclysmic victory in my favor. If Hawkeye was there, it would be over in literal seconds.
Actually, it's the opposite. I said my guys move at the same pace as a standard British soldier. That's actually probably a lot slower than what they would do things. Additionally I took measurements for standard soldiers and greatly reduced them for Nikita since you said she was so fast and efficient. I've done the opposite of downplay your team. I just wanted to show you how what you're proposing is mathematically impossible.
Nikita would have to maintain an Olympic 100m sprint men's world record pace for over an hour (Usain Bolt WR is 27.79 MPH over 100m, you have to travel over 30 miles) for what you're suggesting to be possible. If she moved much slower, she couldn't get in and out within the time she would require for them to acquire weapons and then turn and shoot her. I just wanted to show you how it couldn't possibly work out that way. I'm not trying to puff my guys up.
If she moves at the speed you're suggesting, she's going to need a lot more than half a canteen.
We weren't getting to your base in 15 minutes either way. The time bought is negligible. Unless he's Tony Stark and can turn that sheet metal into a power suit your team is pretty screwed.
I'll take a town guarded by trip mines and perfect snipers over some broken glass caltrops any day.
Whoa, whoa. Holy crap.
You want to set elaborate death traps that only activates upon my guy doing some vague thing and it'll only activate if he does that thing, but if it does he'll definitely die?
Oh man. I am so glad I brought along the exact guy for that. In all of fiction, there is only one man who can deftly evade every single vague deathtrap he is faced with. He's a
frightfully resourceful chap.
Well, it's not in the OP. Ask Luna if you can have a well. Also, I'm pretty sure trees can live off water than humans can't.
You're right, that would be unfair. My team already has guns and explosives and your team has 'swinging log thing if you open a door here and didn't enter hostile territory with caution somehow'.