Stay at range and return fire

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From: At the Command of the (Airship Name)


They hang from stalactites and deploy stone, mortar and vast hunks of amber. Safety now depends upon your aim.

Game Instructions: This will never shake off or otherwise defeat your attackers.

Unlocked with Under Attack!

Locked with Damage to your Airship 8, Fuel Depletion of your Airship 8, Far Afield from Station IX (30 + Sighting of a Landmark on the Roof × 25)


Challenge information

Broad, Aerial Armament 50

  • 35 - very chancy (42%)
  • 43 - chancy (51%)
  • 51 - modest (61%)
  • 60 - very modest (72%)
  • 68 - low-risk (81%)
  • 76 - straightforward (91%)
  • 84 - straightforward (100%)

Broad, Aerial Prowess 50

  • 35 - very chancy (42%)
  • 43 - chancy (51%)
  • 51 - modest (61%)
  • 60 - very modest (72%)
  • 68 - low-risk (81%)
  • 76 - straightforward (91%)
  • 84 - straightforward (100%)

The difficulty for both is equal to 50 + Far Afield from Station IX / 3 (rounded).

Success

Steady, steady...

You keep the [Airship] at a distance [...]

Meanwhile, you tip your head to the gunners. A few agonising minutes and then the Starved feel at liberty to emerge. A mistake [...] [T]he loss of one more citadel, posed against London far below.

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Failure

The void, howls

A scatter of stone across the deck; another crewman screaming into the dark. A howl from the navigator, now pierced with [...] bone. [...]

The rubble is partially carved. [...] They have torn it down to rain misery on you and yours. And succeeded. You drift on.

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