WisdomLS wrote:


ZM forces are selected using detachments as normal but you can only select from the following detachments: Close Contact, Patrol, Auxiliary Support & Super Heavy Auxiliary.

Close Contact Detachment
HQ: 1-2
Troops: 1-3
Elites: 2-4
Fast Attack: 0-2
Heavy: 0-1
Restrictions: All must be from the same faction.
Command Benefits: +2 Command Points.

Do not roll to hit against the door in melee combat, all attacks hit automatically. Roll to wound and save as normal.

Dangerous Arrival: If this unit isn't deployed wthin your own deployment zone or within 3" of one of your other units roll a D6.
On a roll of 5+ the deploying unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.
If the unit consists of a single model minus -1 from the roll, for every 5 models in the unit add +1 to the roll. If the unit consists of 10 or more models increase the damage to D6.

Confined Space: Units containing models which move more than 9" in a phase must roll a D6.
On a roll of 6 that unit takes D3 mortal wounds.
Add +1 to the roll if the unit contains models that move more than 12”, add an additional +1 if the unit contains models that move more than 15” and add a further +1 if it contains models that move more than 18”. If the unit contains 10 or more models increase the damage to D6.

Walls and closed doors may not be climbed, moved over or moved through under any circumstances regardless of special rules to the contrary.

Reaction Fire: Overwatch shooting that does not hit automatically hits on a 5+ instead of the usual 6+.
Models that did not fire overwatch due to being unable to see the assaulting unit when the assault was declared but can see them when the assaulting unit has finished its assault move may make an overwatch attack at that time but only hit on 6+ and halve the number of hits that weapons that hit automatically do.

ZM Stratagems

Homing Beacon – 1CP: Use when deploying a unit from Tactical reserve. That unit ignores the Dangerous Arrival rule.

Watch Your Corners – 2CP: Use before making overwatch attacks for a unit. Add +1 to hit rolls for that unit’s overwatch attacks this turn.

Breaching Charges – 1CP: Use when one of your models is within 1” of a door. Destroy that door.

Cut them down - 2CP: Use when an enemy unit falls back from one of your units. Any models in your unit able to do so may resolve close combat attacks against the enemy unit except that a 6 is always required to hit regardless of any modifiers or the attacking models WS.

 WisdomLS wrote:
Thanks for the well thought out comments Wyldhunt, really appreciated. I'll go through and give my answers a a few comments from the experience of our first game using the rules at the weekend.

Detachments - Firstly your completely right about the Vanguard detachment, will add that in. Not sure about the outrider, the reason fr the restricted detachments was to try and keep the forces reasonably fluffy and fast attack and especially heavy options don't really fit.
The Superheavy Detachment was mainly in there to let people have an option to take Bobby G, he fits nicely in the ZM and him leading a boarding action would be pretty cool.

Door - I'd agree, after playing my first game with the doors they really improved the ZM experience and automatically hitting them at range would be fine, I'll add it in. Whilst Im talking about doors one thing that came up in our game at the weekend was that charging doors kinda breaks the movement in the game. We had quite alot of doors so decided that units could attack a door in close combat if they were within 1" but didn't get to assault move towards them or consolidate or anything. Worked well, and seemed more thematic as well, what do you think.

Deepstrike - The dangerous arrival rule is only one dice per unit, it was an attempt to get away from the rolling for each model. This was done to cut down on dice rolling and because 8th edition doesn't do the per model rolls much anymore. I'll try to neaten up the modifiers a little so they seem more streamlined.
I did think about the flight rule and to be honest just decided to not go into making various exceptions for a couple of reasons. Firstly those models have paid for those abilities, denying them makes people not want to use them. It's pretty easy to fluff away "my jump pack squad uses a teleporter this mission" and also I didn't want to try to make a list of things that can and can't deepstrike into a ZM as something would always get missed out.

Movement - this was similarly done with a single dice roll in mind and not having to roll per model but I realise now I completely forgot that keywords exist, Doh! I shall go back and alter it so that its there to punish bikes and models with fly which is the real reason the rule exists. I'm glad you noticed this as the rule was bugging me but I could see why.

Overwatch - That was my original idea, just have it as a 5+ and a 6+ if you couldn't see but it lead to weird situations. The rule is there to give some protection against things running at you from around corners but allowing all models that can't see the charger to fire lets whole units shoot at things they can't see at any point. The current wording is clunky with two sets of shots but also protects hidden chargers who don't make the charge. It works well for what I want it to do but could be clearer, again I'll try to clean it up.

Stats - Banning other stats is an interesting idea, something to discuss further as I don't forsee the full implications of it at this moment.
The Cut them down is kind of there to replace the old no retreat rule that made it harder to run away, perhaps reducing it to 1CP as we didn't use it in our game. A general no retreat wyches style rule would be cool but would counter lots of unit special rules to have as a standard blanket rule I think.

Thanks again, I'll repost some reworded rules when I get the time.