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Tactics Tuesday: Solid Decking

At the heart of your game of AD is your deck. No matter what units you bring, build or ‘borrow’ from your opponent, using them to their fullest depends on the tactics you employ on them. More than that, though, what cards you choose to bring with you will make or break your game plan far more thoroughly than any other element of your game. So let’s take a look at how to select your deck.

Before we get started, a couple of points.  We’re only looking at a 1-commander set in this article, so just the 30 card deck and only the one commander’s units to use them on. We’re also looking at a generic deck here rather than going into more detail on different builds.

So how should you build your deck? Let’s start with the fundamentals, or more accurately, the fundamentals of deck-building that we won’t be using. Unlike other games that might include a deck-building element, in AD you’re not shuffling and drawing from your deck. You won’t need to worry about what percentage of your deck has cards of type x, so that you’re more likely to draw them. There are also no restrictions about what to put into your deck, so if you really want to you can just take 30 copies of the same card and just spam it. Of course, that’s not really going to be all that helpful to you… unless… (*sits down and starts drawing up a plan for an all-Cougar force that plays nothing but Redline and rams the enemy to death*)

When choosing your cards, you want to have a nice spread of different options to play with. There will be many hard choices when deciding your deck composition, and those choices will only get more difficult as your collection of units (and therefore cards) grows. So which ones will you go for?

I like to build a deck around a few concepts. The portion of your 30 cards you devote to each element will differ, but here’s what I keep in each:

- The Basics. This is the set of cards that you find yourself reaching for time and time again.
- The Response. This is a collection of cards that you can take to respond to what your opponent will bring. Tailor it both to your opponent and to whatever vulnerabilities you’re likely to have.
- The Focus. Whatever you’re looking to do a lot of in a game with your commander, playstyle, forces and strategy, this is your set to build on what you brought in The Basics.
- The Specialists. These are cards that are closely linked to one or two of your units that they can’t live without.
- The Opportunities. This is a set of cards that you might need to use occasionally if a particular situation comes up, or else exploit a great setup for fun and profit.

The Basics.
There’s probably very few surprises in this lot. These cards are basically all out of the core set and are already the ones that get highest rotation in your hands each game. We’re talking about classics like Move, Shoot, Assault, System Crash, Redline, Rapid Fire and Precision Fire.
With these cards, you’ll want to choose enough that you can throw a few of them around in a turn. This usually means 2-3 of each card, and no more. Remember that your maximum hand size is usually 6 cards, and even if you’re going hard for one particular thing it’s often better to take a spread of different cards that do similar things (like if you’re advancing with your forces, some units may Move while others Redline, while still others may Assault as they move). Some of these cards will not need such numbers, but a single copy of the card may still see high rotation (like Rapid Fire or Precision Fire).
Overall, your Basics should come to around 12 cards (or 40% of your total!).

The Response.
This set is another lot of essentials, but generally the card count isn’t all that high… often a single copy of each card will suffice. These are the cards that you will want to use infrequently, but they are very important when you do need them!
The cards in this set include defined response orders like Hard Reboot, general emergency orders like Emergency Repairs and orders that allow you to respond to poor rolls like Buffer and Tactical Analysis. Also try to include at least one Capture card- you’ll need it if the enemy succeeds in using a Core Wipe but doesn’t have a Capture of their own ready to go!

The Focus.
This set will be where you support your basics set and aim for a particular playstyle. You’re probably looking at around 6-8 cards at most here, which is a sizeable chunk of your remainder after the Basics and Response sets.
This is where you ask yourself what general factors will be at play here, and a lot of them relate to your playstyle and planned tactics. Are you going to be an aggressive player? You might look at movement cards like Evasive Manoeuvres and Forced Crossing. Are you going to be spread out and need some more control? Pack a Signal Boost or two. Going to be defensive this game? Hull Down should be there. Will you be focused on Electronic Warfare? Reach for those Core Wipe cards. Whatever it is that you will be doing a lot of if you have your way, support that with cards you can use in your strategy.

The Specialists
Some of your units will need a special orders card to realise their full potential. Here we’re talking about cards like Jamming and Area Defence. You don’t have an absolute need to take these cards, but if you don’t bring them to the battle, maybe it’s time to reconsider whether you should really take that unit or perhaps just pick something else to fill that role.
After these ‘must have’ orders for your unit roles, consider some of the other units that might perform better with their specialised orders. Packing Elephants? Indirect Fire and Blindfire should be in your deck (if they aren’t already as a part of the Focus set). Driving a Vampire or leading some Vipers? Stealth Mode might come in handy. Bears are great places to place Divert Power, and your Centaur with an active sensor pod would love to use their Guided Missiles.
This set should be no more than about 4 cards. 

The Opportunities
If you’ve followed the guidelines above about how many cards from each type you should be taking, at this point you’re probably only able to take another four cards. This is your chance to add in the oddball cards (or at least, oddball compared to your usual strategy). If there’s a card that you’ve always wanted to try out, or one that you think might line up once in a blue moon, this is your chance to go a little wild. Maybe you’re an aggressive player but think you can pull off a spectacular Barrage with a Cheetah after you win the Surprise roll? What if you want to pull off a sneaky Spoiling Attack with your barely-armed Jackal?

Now, I did mention that you might have to make some hard decisions. This is a good thing, and it’s something that’s worth having a play around with. Pick more than 30 cards during your deck-building process, and then start paring back the ones you think are less likely to be used. Justify each card’s presence as you go through, and compare the likely usefulness of cards to make your decisions.
In some cases, you might even have to revisit your force selection to change your units. Having too many specialist units (especially where you have only one of them) might require more cards than you can fit into your deck, and it might be easier to choose a different unit instead of trying to serve those specialists properly with orders cards.

What cards do you like to keep in each of these sets? Do you have a different approach to deck building?

“The line between disorder and order lies in logistics…” –Sun Tzu

Among wargames, it’s rare to see logistics represented in battle-level games. It’s assumed in most cases that the supply, transport, medical, workshop, rations and quartering work is all done either before or the battle. It’s assumed that players just want to battle and not care about the challenge of logistics in a contested environment.
AD cares, though. We think that there’s no reason to keep that challenge from you. And so, with the technological advances from the AD universe in place, you find that the basics logistic elements (repair, resupply and production) are all present at the pointy end of the battle.

Let’s start by having a look at what logistics resources you have available. The primary unit that you will want to pay attention to is the Wombat. Currently the only production unit in the game, the Wombat is your source of replacement vehicles and repair of damaged drones. It’s large, it’s slow and it’s quite vulnerable to the right type of attacker. It’s also easy to hide behind and can roll over the top of and crush enemy drones.

The next unit you will want to look at is your transport (or transports). Here you might go with the Squirrel, the Raccoon or the Armadillo. These guys are all about getting resources and getting out, but as they have more freedom of movement than your combat units (typically), you will find they’re useful as comms repeaters, artillery spotters or even as battering rams.

The Squirrel is the ‘standard’ transport, packing a great capacity of 8, and hardened armour to defend against artillery and ramming damage. This is a great all-rounder to run with, and that additional capacity to take resources is fantastic for any high-resourcefulness commander or a Nomad who’s looking to score the faction victory condition.
 
The Armadillo is a great way to deny raiders. With both Reflective armour and the Resilient trait, it will shrug off damage from energy weapons, at the low cost of only a single point of transport value. If the enemy is guarding that Extractor with Wolves, Crocodiles or Vipers, send these guys in as a hard tactical counter. Just keep an eye out for those Cheetahs, Cougars and Elephants! Also, if you’re the type who loves ramming, stick to Squirrels. Reflective armour is a poor choice to do that with!

The Raccoon is a very different vehicle from the other two. With a 12” standard move, you get a much longer single-bound range than you do with the other vehicles. The reactive armour will save you from projectile attacks at long range, but at only Prot 2 even those will get through from time to time. Carrying only 6 resources isn’t as great as the others, but with your faster moves you might be able to make up the efficiency by getting more loads back to base.


Good logistics starts with a good deployment. At the start of the game, there will be a combat phase before any of your logistic units can move, so there’s no -1 mods for being mobile. You’ll have to decide between an aggressive deployment to get your transports into the Extractor early, and deploying your logistics assets in cover to keep them safe.

Pay additional attention to your Wombat here. It’s a massive unit compared to others, so think hard about where it can or can’t fit through gaps. It’s also one of the few units where you need to think about which way it faces: the transports need access to the rear and the repair and construction work all happens at the front.

Your Wombat comes loaded with enough resources to give you a single new unit, or a couple of the lighter units (like a Jackal or Cheetah). This means that you can probably replace your first loss with a new unit from your existing stocks, but after that you’ll need a resupply. Ideally, you’ll want to keep on hand enough resources to produce a new command unit, in case you lose your existing one. If your commander isn’t logistically inclined, you might not even start of the game with enough to do this, so acquiring more is your top priority.

The most efficient a transport can be is if it is touching the back of the Wombat and one of the docking ports on the extractor at the same time. Then, it can simply spend two logistics actions to move resources to the Wombat, and the Wombat is still free to use all three orders to build rather than loading up by itself. Stepping down from that peak efficiency (which doesn’t happen all that often in real games), you want to look for single-bound distance. Single-bound distance is where a transport only has to make one move action to get between the Wombat and the Extractor. This still gives you a bit of tactical flexibility as to where to place your Wombat, but makes a transport highly effective at its job. It can load, move and unload in a single turn. If you can’t achieve this, don’t worry about bringing your Wombat too close. Use the distance afforded to you by a second bound to put it somewhere out of the fight.

Where possible, keep your transports moving, even where they won’t make it to the Extractor, to keep up that -1 to hit mod. Also try to maximise the cover available to you when moving in, and remember that when docked to the Extractor you will almost always count as being in cover.
A quick note on using your transports for things other than, well, transporting. This is usually the case where you have two transports, and can afford to use one for its primary purpose while the second one hangs out and waits to step in if the first one is too damaged or is destroyed. While all the transports only have an 8” comms bubble, if you put them in range of something that your comms net can’t cover (or provide a second channel if the enemy is using Jamming), you can get some use out of your transport while it’s waiting to step up.

Using them for artillery is also good. If the enemy is putting Reflective-armoured vehicles within range of your artillery but out of LOS, the enemy may not be expecting to be sprung by a sneaky transport at the end of the turn. You can get your lock now and be ready for the enemy next turn, as your transports still count as having moved until the following logistics phase. Make sure that you’re prepared to lose a transport that you use for this purpose, or use an Armadillo if you’re up against energy-armed raiders.

If you’re packing Squirrels, you’ll probably have figured out how great they are as guided torpedoes on wheels. Seek out those enemy units vulnerable to explosive attacks and hit them as hard and as often as you can, as your Squirrels will save against the damage back on a 3+. Also remember that when ramming something with a lower protection stat, you’re going to add +1 ADE and +1 firepower to the attack. Seek out those Prot 2 support units with your Squirrel, or even use your Wombat to roll over Prot 3 raiders!

Tactics Tuesday: Electronic Warfare

One of the most unique things about AD as a wargame is its wholehearted embrace of the programming side of drone warfare. At times, it may be more effective to crash an enemy CPU rather than shoot them. It may be simpler to invasively reprogram a drone than destroy it. It may be more straightforward to attack your opponent’s mind and systems than their combat drones.

In this article, we’re going to depart a little from talking mostly about units. This time, we’re going to talk more about the orders cards that you can use to effect electronic warfare upon your enemies. However, we do need to mention a couple of things about units and commanders first.

In order to send electronic warfare orders, you will need to have comms range on your target. In most cases this will have to come from your command unit, but the Meerkat Electronic Warfare vehicle (funnily enough) is a near-indispensable asset for this. With comms 5 and the Jamming trait, it’s useful to have one of these in your force even if your command unit is more than capable. And what does a capable command unit look like? A Centaur or a Vampire with comms hardpoint is your minimum requirement. A Centaur with comms is your best bet, giving you a massive 24” of comms coverage across the battlefield.

Your choice of commander is important as well. Some Electronic Warfare orders require a Surprise stat for contest rolls, while many other ones will rely upon your Research stat. When you want to hit some strong EW, consider what sort of cards you’re thinking of including in your deck when choosing that commander. The Skald Berzerker is the best pick from the core box, with 4 in both Surprise and Research. A Bastion Fellow will give you 4 in Research but leave you out in the cold if you need a Surprise roll done well. The Bushi Samurai is a quick thinker with Surprise 4, but as most contest EW rolls happen on research this is of limited usefulness. The exclusive commanders are also useful to look at, with Lenna Marsin not only packing Research 4, but also adding +1 to the comms stat of her command unit. You could reach 28” with comms, or 36” if you drop a Signal Boost on it! The Thief is also a contender with Surprise 4 and their Infiltration trait.

So, on to the cards. In the core deck you have a selection of EW cards to choose from:
•   Signal Boost
•   System Crash
•   Hard Reboot
•   Core Wipe
•   Capture
•   Buffer

Then you have some more in the exclusive cards and in the cards that come with units:
•   Flexible Programming
•   Tactical Analysis
•   Jamming
•   Disrupt

There are other cards that are planned for the future, but you’ll see those when they arrive!

I’ll talk about these cards in their natural groups. Let’s start with System Crash and Hard Reboot. System Crash is a great way to frustrate your opponent no end by making their prize units suddenly useless. It’s also dead simple to use: just send it straight to any enemy unit within comms range of one of yours. But what’s the best way to play this one? Here are a few suggestions.

Firstly, if your enemy drives out into your formation ready to throw Rapid Fire at your backfield units, shut them down right after they drive in. You’ll have them Sensor Locked six ways from Sunday, and you can pour fire into their raiding unit before it can reboot and hit you. An even better spot is if the enemy has used an order like Assault. Then, you’ll have them shut down after having fired and not yet moved 8” or more, so it’ll be easy to shoot them down. You can also hit a unit that’s yet to make its move, meaning that you opponent will have to re-think everything they were planning to do this turn, but this is a rare case.

A couple of ways that you might not have thought to use System Crash:
•   Use it to cancel a persistent order. Orders like Jamming and Evasive Manoeuvres are great examples of things that last until the unit receives another order. System Crash counts as having received an order, after all!
•   Use it to draw out a Hard Reboot order by playing one, waiting for the reboot, and then dropping another one (It’s highly unlikely they will have a second Hard Reboot ready to go!)
•   If you have a Jamming order in play, use them on more remote units so that if there’s a Hard Reboot played, there’s less likelihood that it will remove that System Crash.

And then there’s the absolute bastard’s way to play it: play them heavily (at least two a turn) for the first couple of turns, then don’t take any for the next couple before adding one or two for the last couple of turns. Your opponent will waste an order by taking Hard Reboot as they expect you to play more System Crash!

As for Hard Reboot itself, this is a card you want to think about and take deliberately. Take it when you know there is a particular unit that you will need to operate for your plan to work. Take it if you’re on a low model count, too, as it only takes a couple of System Crash to make your whole force inoperative. Also, with fewer units to play cards on, you will have more cards available per unit, so you can afford to take more ‘contingency’ cards.

That’s all the space we have for this one this week. Tune in next week for more on Electronic Warfare!

So we’ve talked about how to hammer your enemies and how to go forth to attack. How, then, should you defend your area? How should you play your forces in such a way that your enemy will come to you? This week, we will be talking about how to defend in Armoured Digital.

To defend, the first and most important thing you will need is to pick your ground to defend. The best ground has some LOS-blocking terrain that you can hide some of your forces behind, a bit of high ground that you can put your long-rangers on, and some scattered cover that you can hide behind but still see and shoot over.
The next most important thing you will need is the right mix of defenders. Aim for the longer-ranged units like the Centaur and Rhino, backed up with Elephants for when the enemy gets closer. Support units are essential, and the Porcupine, Jackal and Meerkat each have an important role to play. If you have room, grab one raiding tank like the Wolf or the Cheetah to use as a rapid-response unit.

Your long-range weapons should hold the high ground and command as much of the battlefield as possible. As these guys can out-range the enemy, use them to get as many hits in as possible as the enemy approaches. Try to deploy them with some form of cover, as when the enemy starts firing back you’ll be easier to hit when you’re standing still and shooting. Consider even reaching for the Precision Fire order if you need a few extra inches to reach the target you’re after. If you’re up against targets with reactive armour, HV Shot is your friend.

As the enemy comes closer, this is when your support units and artillery comes into play. Use your Jackal to hide behind terrain and sensor lock the enemy to guide your artillery and direct-fire drones onto target. If the attacker is smart, they will be using as much terrain as possible to get in close, so picking them out with that Jackal will make any advance towards you a dangerous prospect.

Also use your Meerkat to lay down a Jamming field, as this will help to disrupt your opponent’s approach. Remember that while each order happens in isolation, there are some effects that you can stack to make more of an impact. For example, you can drop a Signal Boost on your Meerkat to make it comms 7 (28”), then follow up with Jamming to make for a massive disruptive effect. Just be careful as that +1 to be hit from Signal Boost makes you a big target as well. Don’t forget, too, that having a mighty comms range is a great tool to drop some System Crash cards on your enemy.

One other sneaky combination you can make use of is your Centaur and the Jackal’s Guided Missiles order. With a sensor pod on top of your Centaur, you’ll be able to lock targets at 20” away and then launch missiles from behind LOS-blocking cover. Even if you’re sitting on top of a hill with your Centaur to add weight of fire, Guided Missiles will enhance your shots with rerolls to hit.

Having a Porcupine that sits behind the lines and within 12” and LOS of your forward units is another winner. Adding 2 save dice to your frontline units will make them hard as nails, and encourage the enemy to try to approach with an energy weapon to take them down. However, this will bring them in range of your Jackal and other forces. Just remember that you’ll want to drop the Defensive Fire card early in the turn to get maximum effect out of it.

Your raiding vehicle, typically a Wolf or Cheetah, should stay to the rear and well-hidden. Make it as non-threatening as possible, but leave some clear avenues to come forward into the fight. Its whole job is to remain in cover and then pop out to destroy enemy units that make it past the main defences. It will typically be Vipers or Wolves that make it that far, so a Cheetah is a great choice with its Explosive weapons to carve up Reflective-armoured attackers.

Finally, don’t forget your humble logistics units. You’ll probably have used your second logistics slot for one of your Support units, so your one transport has to run the gauntlet of fire to get to the Extractor. A Raccoon will give you more speed and better reach to do this, but the other transports can still work for you. Your Wombat should be sitting somewhere in the middle of your formation, as you will want to go for the cheaper option to repair your units rather than replacing them.

Overall, your strategy when on the defensive should be to try to kill as many of the enemy as possible. You’ll probably be ceding them the sectors victory condition, and the commander one is hard to achieve if they keep theirs out of the fight. So go for kills, and choose a faction that supports your defensive position (Templar is the obvious, but others like Bastion, Bushi and Skald could work as well) for your other VC.

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Played a game of Armoured Digital last night at Jolt against Ben Jordan. It was my Skald Berzerker against The Warlord. These are freshly arrived minis, so paintwork was minimal (my white undercoated tanks vs my opponent’s straight out of the box greys).

I’d brought a Centaur with shield module, a Wombat, a pair of Squirrel transports, a Wolf, a Rhino and two Elephants.
Ben came with a Vampire with sensors, a pair of Armadillos for his transports, a Viper, a Bear and a couple of Elephants.

Initial deployment had both of us in neighbouring sectors, facing off over some open ground between a bunker and a rock formation. I put both Elephants where they could fire using their Artillery trait over the bunker, or swing their guns on to closer targets if need be. The Rhino was covering my left flank and the Wolf ready to race off around the long rock formation to try to flank Ben’s forces and hit his Wombat. My command vehicle was in the centre, slightly hidden between rubble piles around the wall.


Due to a woefully mismatched set of surprise dice, I got the jump on my opponent and got to play four orders cards before he could react. I drove my Rhino forward to the crater and laid into the nearest Elephant, piling on the railgun hits but having less effect than I’d like. However, he got close enough to gain a sensor lock on the opposing Viper and feed the target data back to my artillery. Despite the stealth tank’s slippery nature, I managed to land two hits and nearly destroy it. Ben advanced his rearmost Elephant, and then opened up with answering fire at my Rhino and Command vehicle, leaving a single point of main damage and one of mobility damage on my combat tank. I used Systems Crash to shut down the fire, and then sent the Wolf racing off around the back of the rocks and took some artillery hits on one Squirrel, which somehow failed saves and took both sensors and main damage. Our logistics phase saw Ben build a new Bear and me gain the first resources from the mine in the centre.
 
Turn 2 went in with more of the same. With another six orders rolled up for me, I went in hard for shooting. My Rhino continued to carve up the Elephant, scoring a kill, and my Elephants began to emerge from cover to engage with some direct fire. The Rhino and Bear traded shots until I managed to destroy that as well, taking some damage in the process. After a cheeky attempt at using Core Wipe on Ben’s new Bear, my Wolf raced around to a position that it might be able to strike from next turn. My misdirection from turn 1 was successful, and Ben had come packing a Hard Reboot that became useless as I didn’t play any System Crash cards. Logistics saw me rebuild the Rhino and Ben produce a new Bear, as well as my spare Squirrel being used as a battering ram to destroy the heavily damaged Viper.
 
Turn 3 is when things started to go sideways for me. The final Elephant managed to finish off my Rhino, but then a few missiles from my command vehicle put him out of commission as well. I tried delving into more electronic warfare but failed to Core Wipe the Bear again. I started manoeuvring the combat tanks in the centre of the table, but my Elephant failed to mark the enemy command vehicle. His Elephant took an unsuccessful crack at my Wombat, but caused no damage. His Bear and Vampire, meanwhile, made a string of assault moves towards my flanking Wolf, failing to score main damage but breaching its defence systems and sensors. Bears are rather underwhelming on the move!


Turn 4, and Ben chose to use The Warlord’s special skill: to once per game automatically win the surprise roll by three dice. Until now, my surprise of 4 was running rings around his of 2. Unfortunately for me, this was also the turn that Ben rolled up 7 orders cards. I was in real trouble. It opened with the Bear firing on the Wolf to the flank and causing some main damage, but he quickly switched targets and took a firing position within sensor lock of my command vehicle. Using a Rapid Fire order resulted in a lot of shots coming my way, of which four hit. Unfortunately for me, I forgot entirely that I was carrying shields and rolled up what I thought was a single save (too much time spent playing demo games and I forget some of the special rules!). Boom, command vehicle dead. I ejected to a position near my production vehicle, but I still had communications coverage to everything except my Wolf, thanks to the decent comms systems on the Elephants. The loss of the command vehicle also invalidated most of my orders, as half of my hand were only useful on the command vehicle. Damn! His Viper moved into the space and splashed my Rhino before I could respond effectively, cutting off my comms with the two drones on my left flank. At this point I looked at my useless orders cards and took a big risk. If I could run across the battlefield on foot, I could potentially get close enough to hack his command vehicle’s ejection harness and steal the vehicle. I started running across the table by discarding my useless orders, before playing the Redline card on my Elephant to ram his command vehicle (and hopefully, distract it long enough to not notice me on foot). I scored a point of damage on Ben’s Vampire, but in return received two Protection Compromised results and then took two points of damage. Considering that Ramming deals explosive-type damage, it was a result that I hadn’t seen coming at all. To add insult to injury, I also failed the engines test at the end of the Redline, taking a point of mobility damage as well.


In the logistics phase, I started building a new Centaur command vehicle, but with a low resourcefulness of 2 I wouldn’t complete it until the following turn. Ben, meanwhile, sent his nearest Armadillo in to defend his command vehicle and ram my Elephant. He rolled up another
Protection Compromised result but only scored one hit. I had one save dice left, which normally succeeds on a 3+, but against three protection compromised damage tokens I was reduced to a single roll, needing a 6. I failed, and the Elephant was destroyed. However, in return I managed to land enough damage that the reflective armour of the transport shattered, and the Armadillo went down with me.

 
Turn 5 was not looking good. With no combat drones within range and only three orders up my sleeve, I moved into position to attempt the ejector hack. Unfortunately, Ben managed to get an incredible surprise roll and started to turn by trying to (unsuccessfully) run me over. His Vampire opened up at short range on my Wombat, and the Bear started in from the other side of the mine. I chased after him again, attempted the hack and failed spectacularly. The Vampire reversed over my commander, who was not able to get out of the way in time. Game over!

In the post-mortem, I realised that I’d probably brought the wrong deck to exploit my commander’s faction victory condition, but the main thing that really got me was putting my command vehicle in the wrong place at the wrong time. My first few turns put me in a strong position, but Ben’s new assault units took control of the table centre and then I lost my control over my drones. I should have pulled the Centaur back and accepted the loss of my flanking Wolf in trade, as I had the advantage of range and firepower. All in all, though, it was a fun game that swung both ways over its course, and was on track to be a close one if I hadn’t come so severely undone.

This post will be the central repository for all Errata, FAQ and similar points that need to be raised. The first post will be kept updated with new Errata and FAQ as needed.

Errata: Rulebook

• Page 21: At Step 4, insert the following words at the end of the paragraph: "Production units start the game with a resource token value equal to the sum of their commander's Logistics and Resourcefulness stats."
• Page 23: At the Produce: bullet point, insert the following words at the end of the paragraph: "Production units start the game with a resource token value equal to the sum of their commander's Logistics and Resourcefulness stats."
• Page 24: At the end of the first Paragraph, replace the words "place a Commander On Foot (COF) miniature" with "place a Commander On Foot (COF) miniature or a reference token". The miniature part refers to future plans for 15mm miniatures for Commanders on Foot, rather than what comes with the core set. Players should feel free to use any relevant 15mm infantry miniature in lieu of these planned additions for now.
• Page 39: the Faction traits table has the "Boosted" and "Reduced" titles the wrong way around.

Errata: Cards

• Centaur Unit stat card: the Firepower should read "Projectile/Missile"
• Activate Redundants Orders card: the Restrictions text should read "Hardened Armour Only"
• HV Shot Orders card: the set listing at the bottom of the card should read "Rhino"

FAQ: Orders cards

• Activate Redundants Orders card: If there is no shooting attack that generates the ADE  (e.g. rolling a 6 while crossing terrain, or after movement when playing cards like Redline), save on a 4+.
• Angled Reflectors: the defender who makes successful saving throws can choose to use those saves as a new shooting attack, and choose the target. The firepower type will be the same as the attack was, and the Firepower value is the same as the number of hits removed from the hit pool by successful saves.
• Capture Orders card: Both conditions require both comms range and LOS (whether unit is abandoned or still owned by a player).
• Hard Reboot: this card can be used if the only thing preventing it from being played is a Systems Crash on the command unit.
• Jamming: If Jamming is in effect, you can choose to play cards that can only be used on units outside comms. Request a comms check through Jamming, and if your opponent fails, you may play the orders card then.

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