What they have is lots of experience playing RPGs. :) Real professionals would find this raid kind of thuggish. Then again, when you're facing bad numerical odds with gear bought from the sports shop, you can't afford to go by the book.
I simulate the characters' backgrounds by letting the players pause in risky situations in order to discuss their next move and roll against applicable skills to get clues out of me. These periodic group rethinks let the characters act smoothly even if the players aren't 100% sure of what would be best. In-character, JB is an ex-Green Beret, and Lev and Wen are also ex-military (from Israel and China, respectively); Klas is a former paramilitary border patrolman; and Paul and Zhang used to be detectives. Qoqa was involved in the Chechen conflicts and Vinnie was a Mafia "soldier," so they're used to the old ultraviolence. Anabel is a former UN interpreter, Ben used to be involved with Doctors Without Borders, Hamid was a white-hat hacker, and Jili is an ex-GCHQ employee . . . all of them rather unused to violence.
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I simulate the characters' backgrounds by letting the players pause in risky situations in order to discuss their next move and roll against applicable skills to get clues out of me. These periodic group rethinks let the characters act smoothly even if the players aren't 100% sure of what would be best. In-character, JB is an ex-Green Beret, and Lev and Wen are also ex-military (from Israel and China, respectively); Klas is a former paramilitary border patrolman; and Paul and Zhang used to be detectives. Qoqa was involved in the Chechen conflicts and Vinnie was a Mafia "soldier," so they're used to the old ultraviolence. Anabel is a former UN interpreter, Ben used to be involved with Doctors Without Borders, Hamid was a white-hat hacker, and Jili is an ex-GCHQ employee . . . all of them rather unused to violence.