An Excess of Chocolate

My first proper job for the Shadow of the Rose, regrettably, was rescuing the evidentially unsecure assets I'd just acquired. Both Ms. Kawavie and Ms. Nikola were captured by brigands associated with Lunk Thunderchin that had tailed us to Drinax. However, they were unable to make a clean escape with their hostages as they were blasted out of the sky in orbit over the world Twix.
 
I haven't been able to make sense of the events that lead to the fire fight, but there seems to have been evidence of a great number of crash landings on this world. Perhaps some other cell of Pirates has claimed this patch of space for their own? I tasked Ferrus Blackclaw with hauling the bodies floating in the void back to our ship. Fortunately the two women where not among the dead, and a few had managed to survive being jettisoned in their vac-suits.
 
The surface of the world of Twix, was perplexing. As I mentioned before, there was an abundance of other crashes which made it difficult to determine where to go. Twix is a low tech world with very little integration with the stellar community. The most confusing element of the world is that all life and fluid on the world seems to be made out of chocolate. The indigenous were accommodating and confirmed they'd recovered the women from the wreckage and brought them to a doctor. They agreed to lead us there in the morning, but would not risk travelling by night due to highly aggressive predators (Unbeknownst to me at the time, one of my crew had nearly been killed by one of these beasts attempting to "rescue" a bird that had been impacted and instantly killed by one of Oswald's reconnaissance drones).
 
Nothing is ever so simple. By morning, we learned that the doctor's ranch had been attacked by off-worlders. I enlisted the locals and flew over to the site. I quickly laid out a plan to my improvised force. I would infiltrate the ranch from the rear, and give the signal to initiate a full frontal assault. Admittedly, it wasn't my finest plan. While I was able to eliminate all of pirates inside their hastily constructed fortifications - a lone sniper on the roof outside my line of sight absolutely devastated my own force.
 
I've identified a significant vulnerability in my tactics. Ironically, I'm likely to struggle against opponents of diminished technological sophistication. I've come to rely very heavily on using the security systems of any compound I'm assaulting against my foes. These backwater pirates had no cameras for me to remotely view, no doors or security shutters for me to forcefully lock, and not com badges for me to triangulate off of. I was essentially blinded by having to rely only on my own senses. I need to make better use of my subordinates, as even though none of the pirates posed any threat to me, I would have nevertheless struggled to eliminate them fast enough to protect the hostages from harm.