Activation Card Questions

[soldado]

So I got to play a larger scale game using the cards over the weekend and some questions arose from it about the cards.

We blind assigned the cards out so this may be the first mistake

1) Troops in a transport, Where the squad inside goes before the transport. Does the squad lose it's activation?

For the purpose of the game we house ruled that when the 2 cards are dealt the higher card gets swapped to the transport (subject to other influences such as jupiter cards etc) then where combined actions such as a dust off move is used the squad is activated out of sequence.

For other more normal embark/ disembark actions then as normal the transport lands then the squad has to wait for its turn.

2) Squads in a continuing assault, due to some fairly poor dice roles we had an assault going on for three turns before anyone hit anybody

This may not be related entirely to the cards and just my poor understanding of the assault rules.

If a squad react assaults does it lose its activation card? Or is this not a standard activation, As if when they (finally) hit and the other squad doesnt react they would lose and potentially have to retreat.

For the purpose of the game we house ruled that the squad in defence could react assault without losing its card and when its turn came it could continue the assault and the now defender could also react assault despite having already activated for this turn.

3) Commanders abilities

Push move - this one is a bit contentious but we felt that as some of the cards had instant move functions then the commander would be able to to use the push in the same way, however it would not stack with card based ones.

Take the pain - If a squad has a supression marker the commander can remove as normal if he activates before the squad but not after.

So is any of this right/ sensible etc or have I managed to misunderstand some of the system.

Any advice on this would be greatfully received.

[squinch]

Hi Soldado,
I'm not an expert but I'll offer my thoughts.

1)If you assign the cards specifically to a unit then they technically miss their action- kinda crappy as it they would only go 1/2 the time. I would do just as you have and allow re-arranging the cards.

I suppose you could play the hard-line way if the transport was borrowed- playing it like the vehicle crew isn't coordinating well with the troops, forcing the vehicle to stop or move slow, in advance. Could be a neat scenario effect.

2) As far as I recall, react assault does not cost an action so during each attack/defense phase (two per turn, one for each participant) both sides get to go, in order obviously.
Wow, are your stats low compared to the other troop cards on the site? I would say with average stats (4's and 11-12 guard) you should see a number of hits at least. Kills about the same as the higher soak usually is countered by a higher base strength.

3)We're pretty liberal with our commander actions. We would allow the push move in any combo since the occasional stacking with a card effect is random. Plus we really like to see cinematic actions in the game.

We would allow Take the Pain before or after the squad moves as it's really a function of the commander expending time to organize/calm/beat/whatever the gruntz into action.

At the end of the day I think you played everything just perfect, in fact, your 'house rules' turned out to be close to the real thing. Nice job.
Squinch

[soldado]

Hi Squinch, thanks for the reply

Good to know that someone thinks im doing it sort of right

As for the stats they're both fairly mid level but there was some atrocious dice that day

Its an interesting thought about the push, next time we'll see how that plays out.