Irdiumstern wrote:
The pdf is working for me.

Attack resolution seems needlessly complex. Attacker and Defender roll their custom dice to determine successes and expertise results, check the expertise against a table to add more results, subtract defender successes from attacker successes, and then the attacker can use those successes to go down their stance tree for various effects and damage. Did I get that right?
To be fair, you'll probably work out what tree segments are optimal pretty quickly, and then hopefully it won't slow down the game too much.
Getting movement or other bonuses for a good attack does sound like fun. Have we seen the stance tree of a ranged unit yet?

I can understand movement tools, but why aren't we just using a tape measure for range? The push/pull rules do reference using the range tools as movement tools, but this could have been avoided.

Looks like we're at a reasonable amount of counters, that's something at least. The conditions also look like fun. They're all debuffs on the next time the unit does a particular thing, and go away after that.

LOS seems a little funky, in that if you're on a terrain piece, and enemy is lower, you ignore any terrain that isn't higher than your character. So if you're on a wall, and an enemy is hiding behind another wall, you can shoot them no problem. They do seem to get cover . . . Hopefully I'm misunderstanding something here.

 privateer4hire wrote:
5 range tools. Wow.

 rybackstun wrote:


Attack resolution doesn't seem too complicated to me, honestly. It'll take some time to get down quickly, but once you actually get to the point where you know what you are doing, combat should be super easy.

I'm hyped for this game and can't wait to get the starter put together when it drops!

 Tabletop_Magpie wrote:

 rybackstun wrote:


Attack resolution doesn't seem too complicated to me, honestly. It'll take some time to get down quickly, but once you actually get to the point where you know what you are doing, combat should be super easy.

I'm hyped for this game and can't wait to get the starter put together when it drops!

Agreed on attack resolution. Interesting how damage stacks, though as I used to play a lot of Guild Ball (RIP, Gone Too Soon) I'm a bit surprised you can't 'wrap' if you get more successes than hit boxes. Still, once you have a few games and are comfortable with your squads it'll take no time at all to resolve.

 rybackstun wrote:
I think the biggest thing for me will be how wound resolution plays in game. I like the fact that a unit can't just be wiped off the board with no recourse, and you'll survive at least 2 actions with most characters, but it'll be interesting to see if that turns into a zero sum game with characters just blasting each other into oblivion with nothing left on the board after all resolutions.

Can it be release date yet?

 LunarSol wrote:

 rybackstun wrote:
I think the biggest thing for me will be how wound resolution plays in game. I like the fact that a unit can't just be wiped off the board with no recourse, and you'll survive at least 2 actions with most characters, but it'll be interesting to see if that turns into a zero sum game with characters just blasting each other into oblivion with nothing left on the board after all resolutions.

Can it be release date yet?

So some quick dice math. Since expertise messes with the results a LOT, lets just assume you get exactly the facings. Attack dice seem to be around 7 with 8 sided dice, and defense seem to be 5 with 6 siders, so you're roll looks similar to the actual dice distribution.

Attacks: 0-1 Crit, 2-3 Hits, 1-2 Expertise, 1-2 failures
Defense 1-2 Blocks, 1-2 Expertise, 1-2 failures

Lets say on the low end attack we're talking 3 Hits, 2 Expertise, 2 Failures and jump up to 1 Crit, 3 Hits, 2 Expertise, 1 Failure, vs 1 Block, 2 Expertise, 2 Failures and 2 Block, 2 Expertise, 1 Failure. Obviously things CAN got much higher or lower, but I'm trying to avoid TLDR as much as possible.

Lets take Maul vs 501st. 2 Expertise is 1 Crit and Damage so we're looking at 2 Crit, 3 Hits, and a Damage on the upper end. 501st on the lower are looking at turning 2 Expertise into 1 block, so they block 2 of those hits and Maul gets 3 success total plus a bonus damage. That's enough to one shot the clones on his Dark Rage side, but comes up just shy in his more cunning stance. Feels about right, but I'd have to try it out to see. The inability to attack twice for most characters definitely seems to limit the death toll.