The Stress System in Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers is functioning by RTS roles where units have stats they do the thing you position them. And then they take damage and if they get, you know, hit enough they dive very simple straightforward stuff which makes it feel kind of grindy. I think the thing they've hit on with aliens dark descent is that it's actually all kinds of ways people can get damaged by the alien. Getting clogged by the alien that's pretty bad. But spending time around the alien spending time shooting at it seeing it contemplating your impending death at its hands also does damage. Then you're just constantly constantly constantly talking from the alien like it's never heard of how to be positive. That