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18 4 $begingroup$ The Situations Fiction is full of moments when instead of facing an enemy head-on in an open Conflict, an attacker prefers a sneaky approach that, if fully successful, bypasses combat. Whether it's Léon sneaking from the floor below and suddenly pulling the ambushed gangster down the stairwell to his death, or Agent 47 sedating the target's Very Combat Capable bodyguard, or a dangerous assassin getting taken out by a bomb under the bonnet, or a sniper aiming for a one shot one kill, the unifying characteristic of all these situations is that the attacker goes through some additional preparation in order to bypass the conflict (and often also remain undetected in the process, thus not alerting other opponents). But while Conflicts seem like a situation for which the game-mechanical su...