How much Combat?

[aramis]

IN Traveller about 30%, of Sessions. Active Duty Marine games, 90%.

for Comparison, Pendragon hits 95% , Buffy 100%, Mouse Guard 50% have a martial conflict and 90% have some use of conflict, Burning Wheel 10% fight, 10% Bloody Versus & 40% Duel of Wits.

 

[Chuck Anumia]

My TNE game

I run a Mercenary game.
More than half the contracts involve firepower of one form or another (security details get ambushed, grab and goes require fighting your way in or if discovered too soon on your way out, training foreign planetary defense forces, recon missions gone wrong, freeing the kidnapped, etc.)
The other half involve impersonations, negotiations, contract enforcement, Charting dangerous worlds, gathering intel, etc. do not have as much chance to involve combat.
The trick is to keep the players interested and active whether or not combat is involved in their mission parameters (they must be prepared at all time for situations to go south quickly and unexpectedly).

 

[Baltech Budapest]

50 percent of the time for me.
With kids involved I try to keep it balanced but they love shooting things.
If I was playing with just adults then I would say probably 20 percent.

 

[Timerover51]

As this is a discussion of combat, I thought that this link might prove interesting.

http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-war.html

 

[ScotHarvest]

My campaign would be LOST without some form of conflict.

With that said I also have way of restoring wounded or injured players.

BALANCE!!!

If you chose combat as a major factor, include "MIRACULOUS" healing opportunities.

If you choose a storytelling approach, offer storyline balance... and so on.

 

[JimMarn]

As this is a discussion of combat, I thought that this link might prove interesting.

http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-war.html

One I don't see in there, but I saw in a documentary written about WW2.

"Incoming artillery doesn't care how brave you are."