Posts by McGran

Yeah. that'll do.

Hi Ian. Steve and Dave will be going along. I’ve given them your books.

You can give Craig’s cash to them.

Cheers

Yeah, Rik is typically a Friday gamer.

I'll bring the droids along.

McGran started a new event:

Game Night Extended Hours Sun, Jan 15th 2023, 3:00 pm - 11:00 pm Event

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McGran started a new event:

Game Night Sun, Jan 8th 2023, 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Event

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Mechanoid

Type - Xeno Option

Applies to - Any

Cost - 0

Effect - Ignore Stun Weapons, +1 Free action (Move/Shoot/Attack), -1 to Ordered Activations, No courage tests, At half strength lose all Free Actions & unit dies if double is rolled for Ordered Activation

Issue

• No courage test rule means that Mechanoid units typically have to be destroyed to the last figure (excepting doubles on Ordered Activations below half strength)
• Since VPs are awarded for destroyed units, Mechanoids have an inbuilt advantage

Proposed Solution

• Half VPs are awarded for units at, or below, half strength (7, 5, 2)
• Full VPs are awarded for units at, or below, one third strength (5,3,1) or one quarter strength (3,2,1)

Mechanoid

Type - Xeno Option

Applies to - Any

Cost - 0

Effect - Ignore Stun Weapons, +1 Free action (Move/Shoot/Attack), -1 to Ordered Activations, No courage tests, At half strength lose all Free Actions & unit dies if double is rolled for Ordered Activation

Issue

• No courage test rule appeared particularly powerful for large units numbers (15 figure Militia Rabble) in concert with the Spotting Rule (unactivated unit within 12" of enemy unit can forego its Activation to improve Support Infantry Shooting to 3+
• By this rule a cheap, badly damaged (below half strength) unit was able to continue having value without risk of dying

Proposed Solution

• Mechanoid only - Spotting units at, or below, half strength must pass a Move Ordered Activation

This creates jeopardy that:

• the spotting unit may die (if it rolls a double)
• failing the Ordered Activation wastes the Activation of the Shooting unit
• failing maybe also ends the turn?

Xenos Rampant includes the possibility to move into cover instead of a straight retreat when failing a Courage test.

However, since Cover is only defined in the context of Shooting to Attacking, how should Retreats be applied in the case of a failed Rally where the unit was in view of multiple enemy units and, while it could move into cover from some of them, it could not move into cover from all of them.

Relevant rules - Retreating (p71)

• If the unit is already in cover, it does not need to move unless it has just been involved in an Attack (whether as Attacker or Defender)
• If the unit is able to reach cover, it may choose to move into that cover and halt
• Alternatively, if there is no cover within half its Maximum Movement, the unit will flee directly away from the unit that caused the Retreat, or back towards its own deployment zone, if no specific unit caused the Retreat

Possible Solutions

• The unit can move into Cover so long as they would gain Cover from any one enemy unit in range
• The unit can move into Cover, but must do so in the direction which provides Cover from the greatest number of enemy units
• The unit can move into Cover, considering only the closest enemy unit
• The unit can only move into Cover if they would gain Cover from all enemy units in range

In all instances I would suggest that Suppressed enemy units can be ignored for this determination.

Armour Piercing

• Type - Option
• Applies to - Elite, Heavy, Light, Support, Fighting Vehicle, Transport Vehicle, Soft Skinned Vehicle (with Technical)
• Cost - 1
• Effect - Reduces target's Armour Value by 1

Extreme Range

• Type - Rule
• Applies to - Shooting units with range greater than 12"
• Effect - Can shoot at unlimited range. Target gains +1 Armour

Issue

• Enables shooting with net 0 change to Armour at unlimited range
• Artillery, by contrast, costs 2 and extends standard range to 48". So, double the cost for less effect

Proposed Solutions

• Remove Extreme Range rule entirely
• Limit Extreme Range to Standard Range plus a third.

  
  

  Range	Extreme Range
  <=12"	No
  18"	24"
  24"	30"
  48" (Artillery)	64"

First prints of the camp followers.

These are just some of the prebuilt full models. In the multi-part there are 34 heads and 40 arms!

No indication of timelines but better than nothing.

https://wargamesatlantic.com/pages/release-schedule

I've ordered a dozen in black and in grey. This brings the price down to under £3 per can. Let me know if you want to take some of them off my hands.

Hi folks.

The Miniature Wargaming forum was beginning to get a bit unwieldy, so I've re-constituted it into three parts:

Historical

Fantasy

Sci-Fi & Space

I've moved all the sub-forums to their relevant new home (Gaslands has moved to the Sports category and Xenos Rampant has now been created in the Sci-Fi & Space category).

I've divvied up the discussion into the three categories too.

All existing internal links continue to work for each forum, regardless of its new location, and I think external links will work too (but not 100% on that).

If you find some oddities, ping me a note and I'll get them tidied up.

Yep, sounds good.

Sounds good

I’m in

If it's a straight XP race, Alex did win - by 7 to 6.

If victory is determined by the conditions of the scenario then I maybe won. Alex killed the only ghost while I "rescued" the Arcanist.

Doesn't really help that the concept of "winning" a scenario isn't in the game.

Yes, the Spanish will be there.

How about,

At the end of the turn when the last non-monster clue is revealed any remaining monster clues are also revealed

They spawn as per scenario instuctions (or at the site of the remaining clue)

They make one move towards (and attack, if possible) the nearest player controlled model, regardless of LOS

The player owning this model is credited with discovering the clue.