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Just wondered if anyone has an opinion of this game, I just downloaded it from GZG. Might use it for my 40k minis.

Well, I had a chance to look at this ruleset. I'll enlighten you all.

1. players alternate squad activation and action. command squads can allow you to activate squads more than once.

2. smallarms fire looks like it will likely suppress or pin down enemy squads and random casualty removal.

3. snipers are concealed unless thay fail a "sneaky" roll when they fire. Can pick off leaders, heavy weapons if make a good roll.

4. Leadership and morale are very important effecting about everything.

5. close assaults seem like they'll be pretty quick and bloody.

These look like fun IMO. promote some realistic tactics at least. No rules for aliens or giant monsters though so if I really want to use these for 40k background alot of house rules would need to be made up. But they are free rules anyway.

Playing Stargrunt is kind of like Vietnam era warfare but with energy weapons, power armor, and railguns as props. Bascially the goal is to pin 'em, flank 'em, bleed 'em, and then assault 'em before they call in the armor/artillery/air/space support to blow you up.

It's pretty fun once you master the basic mechanics. ( draw a counter from a cup to see how hurt you are, no points oriented "build your own balanced force" system, choose the appropriate shooting die type when attacking).

It works well up to about the short platoon level. (imagine about thirty guys a side with a vehicle, some support weapons and saws tossed in to liven things up.)

I've got both a Neu Swabian League and Krava'ak force for SGII. Aliens can play "essentially" like any of the human factions.

Krava'ak use mainly railguns, plasma and grav vehicles (like 40k tau).

It's not a game for "power gamers" and a lot of stuff you just have to agree with your opponent.

I still play it now and then, like Full thrust (I used to use my NSL fleet in BFG as well. The blocky shapes with eagles emblazoned make fine substitute imperial ships.).