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I don't think there is much explanation needed, whenever you have questions about rules not worth to open a whole thread you can ask them here and someone will answer them.

So let me Start:
Since the Kuang Shi Control Device seems to be lootable, can a scavenging troop use it to let all kuang shi explode present on the table?

The Scavenger rule states:

Scavengers may use and benefit from any looted item they carry (for example, they can make full use of a Hacking Device)

Well, as per the rules the KSCD allows you to blow up all the Kuang Shi in the same Combat Group as the user, so unless you have some Kuang Shi in the same combat group as your looter...

How boring -.- I hope there will be some editing in HS

We had a question come up the other day and I can not seem to find the answer.
I shot his TAG and took 2 of its 3 STR points. Could his engineer try to fix those points or do you have to wait until it falls unconscious?

I think you can. At least the more experienced players I know have repaired their tags when they were only damaged.

Unlike Doctor , Engineers can "heal" something that's not unconscious

Yes, in N3 you can fix a STR unit before it goes Unconscious, you can even keep fixing it up to full STR.

In N2 it was like Doctor, so that might of been confusion.

Good to know. Thanks

Noir wrote:
In N2 it was like Doctor, so that might of been confusion.

That bit was unchanged between editions. As Scarface knows all too well from the (many) times his sister failed her Engineering roll and put him Unconscious.

Something else I am not clear on.
I am working on a NeoTerran list that has both Fusilers and Bolts in it. Can I make a link team that is made up of 2 Bolts and 3 Fusilers? Reading the rules and the wiki are not clear to me on this.

No, unless explicitly specified you can only link troops from the same unit.

Bolts with bolts or fusiliers with fusiliers.

No mixed fireteams in NCA. That is restricted to QK and Tohaa.
(with Hafza who can link with any other fireteam, and Tohaa that can form links with any models with the right skill, regardless of unit).

IIRC, the rules do state that only models in the same regiment can join a Link Team*. Of course, what you have to figure out is that "regiment" is the troop type; Neoterra Bolts are one regiment, Fusiliers are another, etc.


* With the inevitable exceptions, but those aren't important here.

New to Infinity, had a game yesterday with my bro inlaw and we felt this was a little unfair and so thought I had best check we are doing it right.

We are doing the first mission from Ice Storm so 3 dudes each. It got to the stage where we were both down to our last man.

It was his turn and his model started the turn in my guys LOS.

He declaired he was going to Move+BS.

I decided to do a BS reaction and we did a Roll off, the result was that I cancelled out all his shots as I rolled right on my BS.

He managed to roll a 20 and so saved.

It then went to me so I declared I was going to BS straight away, we again did a roll off but I scored higher and so my shots hit.

He managed to do a save and in the end kill my guy.

We felt it was a little harsh that my guy basically got 4 shots on him pretty fast, my opinion was that in a normal game you would have more dudes to move and so not have to activate the person and avoid the reaction shots or be able to take my guy from afar.

Did we get it right? The starter book really dosnt go into too much detail on the ARO's.

Also question 2....

If the roll off is a tie what happens?

As it was the first Icestorm learning mission, yes you did. As you move on to the full game rules like Retreat, will make a end game like that way less likely. Heck, even the out come of the first shot out would change once you add Crits, as you rolled your target number exactly he would not of got a ARM roll.

Ties cancel each other out.

The general TL;DR of face to face rolls is,

You want to roll equal to or under your skill while also being over your opponents rolls. If a roll is under your skill value needed it will cancel out all your opponents dice that were successful but lower than your roll. Ties cancel each other out. Critical rolls cancel all your opponents rolls. Critical rolls cancel each other as well.

Think of it as a 'Blackjack' Mechanic. Like the card game.

Ties cancel, unless one of the rolls is a critical. Then it is not a tie ( even though the dice show the same number.) Criticals cancel each other.