I had one of those moments last night in my D6 Star Wars game. Background info: the timeline is about a year after the events of the prequel trilogy. The Empire is still mopping up separatist groups and most of the galaxy doesn’t think ill of it yet. Our party is with a mercenary company that often works for the Empire and our party in particular are somewhat of a special ops squad that infiltrates enemy strong points and neutralizes high priority targets before the cavalry gets there. I play a Gand martial artist in smasher armor, antigrav boots and I also use a lot of grenades. We have a Hut in the ridiculously nasty Hut power armor (also our main social guy,) the reason he is with us is a bit complicated. Our captain is a human who is decked out in cybernetics and also in power armor and a jet pack, a verpine who is our tech and demolitions guy and an ardennian who is a bit of a jack of all trades but focuses on survival stuff. The 2 bugs are also very sneaky.
Okay. So we are on an ocean planet and we have to get to the capital island which is covered by a shield which we have to disable before the Imperial fleet arrives. We managed to get under the shield with submersibles and after a rough fight with some quarren mercenaries got to land. We managed to get through the jungle to the shield generator’s location without much difficulty. Sadly there were only 2 ways in. Either climb down a ravine and cross a river, most likely filled with quarren, and then fight all the way to the top of the installation, or cross the light bridge, over a 5 story drop, to the heavily fortified gate. We decided to listen to comm chatter and found out about a small convoy that would be leaving the installation and while not ideal it was our best option for conning our way in. We set up an ambush site a ways down the road. The convoy was an AAT droid tank and a repulser lift cargo truck. The Hut and I jumped the tank and the others took the truck. I took the tank out in one turn by jumping from an overhanging tree onto the hatch, using my martial arts move, piercing strike, and my smasher armor to rip off the hatch and tossed an ion grenade in, wrecking the droids inside. The cargo truck also went smoothly. We commandeered the vehicles and commed in that a tree had fallen and heavily damaged the tank and we were told to come back to the base. By this point I was almost positive that our cover was blown. From com chatter they had known that there were infiltrators somewhere thanks to our earlier run in with the quarren. I was proven correct. The droid sentries at the light bridge let us pass with almost no questions. Halfway across the gate started opening and we were greeted by 2 walker scale ion cannons. We gunned the engines. Both vehicles dodged the 1st shot but the truck, which was in front, took the 2nd shot head on. Then the light bridge was turned off. Our captain and Hut were in the truck, the Hut hiding in cargo obviously, and the rest of us were crammed in the tank. The truck started falling but thanks to the momentum it was falling forward towards the cliff. This was when my “improv Action Movie” sense kicked in. I told the driver “keep it gunned, ride the truck into the base!” It took a heroic difficulty check, and our driver passed the check by 1! We rode it, got a couple shots off while we were at it, heavily damaging one of the ion cannons and we got lodged in gate! The Hut’s armor was ionized in the truck but he just barely managed to grab a handhold on the tank as went went over him. The captain’s armor also got ionized but his jet pack still works and he is in the process of bailing out of the truck. We had to end the night there because this is probably going to be a multisession combat.
One of the things that I love about role playing is that, in many games, it really pushes you to think on your feet and outside of the box. No one else in the party had any idea what to do but it came to me immediately. I’ve noticed that this skill might just be something I’m good at.
Sorry for the wall of text. If anyone else has great/over the top moments that stick out to them and that you’d like to share feel free!