Welcome Fhealltoirs.
The Operations Area for this Contract is the surface facilities of Aonair Nua located on Uasal Amháin.
Actions of the Current leadership have placed it in violation of UAT policies.
Your Contingent is tasked with crippling orbital gun coverage in preparation for an assault by UAT forces.
Your Payout will be awarded upon successful extraction.
Do you Accept?
[CaveCricket48]
[TorrentHKU]
[TheKebbit]
[maart3n]
[DSMK2]
[CrazyMLC]
Primary Objectives:
1: Disable all encountered anti-orbital weaponry
2: Destroy Northern Orbital gun Control-Hub
Additional details:
Your employers wish to take the Geofront in as intact a state as possible, so orbital bombardment to disable the defense grid is unfortunately not an option.
Insertion will be through a trainyard located near to your target, you are to proceed towards your main objective while disabling anti-orbital weapons as you proceed.
A virus has been inserted into the local systems that gives us limited control over District Gates, as such you are stuck on the pre-planned route we have determined for you.
We have gained access to Orbital Haulers located at a spaceport near the main objective, these are your only viable option for extraction.
You will be provided with a custom vehicle for the purposes of this operation, see attached form below for further details.
Vehicle Creation
[Vehicles use a "point" system to determine what you can mount on them, this is a rough abstraction of weight/volume.]
[You also get to pick two "Quirks" to be added to your vehicle, these add unique features to your vehicle.]
[Different vehicle types have different amounts of points available to them representing their differing strengths.]
[If you think up a weapon/module/ammo type/quirk/etc that you want to use, feel free to suggest it for consideration.]
[Also pick a color for the sake of distinguishing players on the map]
Vehicle Types:
Tank [70 points]
Has the worst mobility, and is obstructed by terrain the most.
Has a ramming attack, which has a potential for very high damage against lightly armoured targets.
Has a 1.2* multiplier to armour values.
Frontal Armour has a 1.5* multiplier to effective thickness.
Side Armour has a 1.2* multiplier to effective thickness.
Has a 0.8* multiplier to shield values.
Walker [60 points]
Has moderate mobility.
Features a powerful stomp attack, and the ability to ram Agravs.
Entire "chassis" is effectively a large turret which you can put points towards stabilising, with full stabilisation at 5 points.
Has a 1.2* multiplier to armour thickness for all sides.
Agrav [50 points]
Has high mobility, and can ignore terrain that would slow/stop other vehicles.
No ramming/melee ability, but in exchange can not be rammed by tanks.
Has a 0.8* multiplier to armour values.
Has a 1.2* multiplier to shield values.
Frontal Armour has a 1.2* multiplier to effective thickness.
You get a Light anti-personnel weapon for free on your vehicle, can be mounted however you want [turreted/co-axial/etc]
- examples: 8mm Machinegun, AP Laser, 30mm canister-shot
Will tear through infantry and unarmoured vehicles with ease, but can do little to armour/structures.
Uses the same base accuracy as any other weapon.
- When used against vehicles: 1 Penetration, 20 Damage.
- When used against infantry: 10 shots, 4 Damage.
You may purchase additional anti-personnel weapons, you get 4 for the cost of one point.
Combustion Turbine - Grants Mobility Points. [Grants 1 per point spent]
Generator - Energy for energy using weapons. [Grants 4 per point spent] [Energy may be drawn straight from a Generator, or stocked up in a Capacitor]
Capacitor - Stores Energy for energy using weapons. [Grants 24 per point spent]
Smartplate - Armour. [Per point: Thickness 10 Durability 100]
Hardshield Generator - Energy Shielding. [Per point: Thickness 10 Durability 40]
Sensors - Increases accuracy [maximum of 5 can be purchased, +10%/point]
APS
Active protection systems, protect against some inbound munitions. [can target Missiles, Howitzers, Mortars, Rockets, and some other special munition types.]
Turreted versions will automatically target the highest caliber munitions first, dischargers pick their first target at random.
APS operate in the following order: First Laser APS fires, then Kinetic, then Dischargers. So a round if stopped by Laser APS, will not be fired upon by other APS types.
Turreted APS can fire on munitions aimed at an ally within the same tile as you, in this instance your own APS fires before allied APS, but still in type order.
- eg: Your Laser, Ally Laser, Your Kinetic, Ally Kinetic, Your Discharger, Ally Discharger.
Kinetic Turret APS
Can shoot down 1 missile/turn per point.
Has 10 turns worth of ammo if firing at maximum capacity.
- 1 point - 1 missile/turn - 10 shots
- 2 point - 2 missile/turn - 20 shots
Laser Turret APS
One shot/turn per point.
60% chance to intercept a missile.
No ammo or energy required, has infinite uses.
Discharger APS
Only targets "low angle" missiles/rockets.
Automatically hits one missile coming from in a 90 degree arc, 80% for second, 60% for third, 40% for fourth, 20% for all after.
Has 6 uses/point.
Smoke discharger [fixed cost at 2 points]
Fills a single tile that is up to 2 tiles away from you with smoke for three turns.
You must also purchase ammo for smoke dischargers, they don't come with any, but each point spent on ammo grants 10 uses.
Tiles filled with smoke can not be seen into, out of or through.
If you start the turn in the same tile as an enemy then you can ram them, otherwise you can't ram vehicles inside smoke.
If you want to fire on someone within the same smoke tile as you, then your accuracy is cut in half of whatever it would normally be for that shot.
Weapons
Each point spent on a weapon is worth 10mm of caliber.
Penetration/Damage stats when listed represent a 10mm weapon of that ammo type, a 20mm weapon would have double those values, etc.
Guns
Cannon - Conventional single shot/turn ballistic weapon [ammo options: SKEP, HEAT, APHE, HE]
Autocannon - Standard ballistic weapon that fires a four round burst/turn [ammo options: SKEP, HEAT, APHE, HE] [4*0.5 caliber shots]
Chaingun - Rapid fire ballistic weapon that fires ten shots/turn [ammo options: SKEP, HEAT, APHE, HE] [10*0.25 caliber shots]
Lorentz force weapons [Require 1 EN/point in order to fire]
Railgun - High power kinetic penetrator weapon [ammo options: Penetrator, Frangible, Cluster]
Rail Repeater - Rapid fire rail weapon, that fires three rounds/turn [ammo options: Penetrator, Frangible, Cluster] [3*0.6 caliber shots]
Artillery
Howitzer - Low angle indirect fire cannon [ammo options: HEAT, APHE, HE] [1.2* caliber multiplier]
Mortar - High angle high power munition launcher [ammo options: HE, GLIT] [2* caliber multiplier]
Rocketry
Rocket Pod - Cheap high volume disposable ordanance [ammo options: HEAT, HE, GLIT] [4 points/per pod, see below for details]
Missile - Long range accurate guided munition system, vulnerable to APS systems [ammo options: HEAT, HE, GLIT] [2/6/10 points per launcher, see below for details]
Energy Weapons [Require 1 EN/point in order to fire]
Laser - General purpose energy weapon [per point: Penetration 8 / Damage 6 / Thermal 4]
Particle Lance - High penetration low Thermal effect energy weapon [per point: Penetration 12 / Damage 4 / Thermal 2]
Plasgun - High damage and thermal effect energy weapon [per point: Penetration 6 / Damage 10 / Thermal 6]
Turreted weaponry
In order to have a weapon mounted on a turret you must allocate at least 1/10 of weight of everything mounted on the turret into the turret mechanisms.
Any excess weight over the initial 1/10, going up to 1/5 of the carried weight, goes into stabilisation of the turret, improving accuracy when moving.
You May alternately *just* stabilise the weapon, for 1/10 of it's cost.
Missile Launchers
Special weapon type that only comes in three pre-set sizes.
Small [50mm] 2 points
Medium [100mm] 6 points
Large [150mm] 10 points
Rocket Pods:
It costs 4 points for a Rocket Pod, they are self-contained systems, so you Can not buy extra ammo for them.
Has 50mm rockets, 20 tubes and comes with 100 ammo.
The loaders used are relatively simplistic, and as such they can only load one specific ammo type per tube [so you effectively have 20 seperate guns with 5 ammo each]
Special Accuracy penalty: -1% to hit for each rocket shot past the first one each round [eg: fire 10 rockets and recieve a 9% penalty] [penalty is only per launcher, not vehicle wide]
Ammo
All weapons require ammo to function, as such you must allocate points towards it [other than energy weapons and rocket pods]
The amount of ammo you get per point depends on the caliber of the weapon, If you half the caliber you get four times the ammo, and the inverse also applies.
If you have multiple ammo types available for a weapon and wish to swap between them, it will take that weapon one turn to do so.
Some examples of how much ammo you get for each weapon type:
- 50/point for a 100mm Gun [Cannon/Autocannon/Chaingun/Howitzer]
- 100/point for a 100mm Mortar
- 30/point for a 100mm Lorentz-force weapon
- 160/point for Small Missiles
- 40/point for Medium Missiles
- 18/point for Large Missiles
Ammo types:
Conventional Ammo:
APHE are the standard ammo for main cannons, a good mix of damage and penetration. [10 Penetration, 10 Damage]
SKEP [Saboted Kinetic Energy Penetrator] rounds have high penetration, but deal less durability damage. [15 Penetration, 5 Damage]
HE rounds have poor penetration, but High damage. [5 Penetration, 16 Damage]
HEAT deal fixed damage value to durability regardless of penetration depth, and also a good penetration value, but can only be used in weapons with a caliber of 50mm or greater [12 Penetration, 4 Damage]
GLIT ["Glitterbomb"]
Magnetically charged lengths of wire and scraps of foil
Clings to and disrupts shields, Reducing and even Reversing their regen until they are shut down and restarted.
Impacts on a shielded target accumulate "Disruption" which slows regeneration, once it exceeds the shields current thickness, then the shield will start decaying (no cap to maximum decay rate)
[1 Penetration, 5 Damage] [vs shields: Infinite Penetration, 15 Damage, 10 Disruption]
10 disruption/20 thickness - 50% regen rate
30 disruption/10 thickness - decay at 200% of regen rate
Lorentz-force ammo:
Penetrator rounds have high penetration, but deal less durability damage [19 Penetration, 7 Damage]
Frangible rounds have lower penetration, but deal Higher damage if they do penetrate [13 Penetration, 10 Damage]
Cluster rounds are a spread of light shots, low penetration against armour, but high damage potential if they can penetrate. the science behind it isn't entirely understood, but for some reason they are very effective against shields. [Five, 6 Penetration, 3 Damage shots, Penetration and damage are combined into one powerful shot when hitting a shield]
Restricted Weapons
You may also purchase Restricted Weapons, these cost 10 points, and only one of each is available.
Restricted Weapon "Scian Taibhse"
Questionable Legality, energy weapon, comes with some power generation/capcacitors, but more may be preferred.
Takes 12 power per shot, one shot per turn - comes with 1 generator, 1 capacitor.
Counts as an 8 point cost weapon in terms of mounting on a turret/stabilising.
Restricted Weapon "Ag Caoineadh Iarainn"
Questionable Legality, indirect fire weapon, comes with 2 points worth of ammo, more can be purchased if desired.
Has 160 ammo/point, fires in bursts of 10.
Can fire either low or high angle, and targets a map tile, affecting eveything inside of it.
Cannot reaction fire, and has perfect accuracy innately, so doesn't need stabilisation.
Counts as an 8 point cost weapon in terms of mounting on a turret.
Quirks
Low Profile [enemies suffer -20% to hit you]
Slat Armour [50% chance to destroy inbound HEAT rounds]
Sensor Scrambler [enemies can only fire on you if they have direct line of sight]
Ultra Heavy Chassis [+10 points to spend, all mobility actions cost 1 point extra]
(req: weapon) Linked Autoloader [the weapon fires at double the standard rate, but after firing for 3 turns must spend 2 turns to reload] [this quirk will apply to any one of your ammo using weapons, excluding lorentz force weaponry]
(req: any tank/agrav turret) High Act Turret [reaction fire from this turret is not limited to a cone, and can operate all directions if desired, also accuracy penalty for reaction fire is reduced to -10%]
(req: tank with no turreted weapon) Wedge Hull [thickness modifier of frontal armour is increased to 2*]
(req: tank) Reinforced Dozer Blade [-50% damage to self from ramming, negate self ramming damage from barricades]
(req: walker) Advanced Stability Actuators [increases stun damage threshold by 50%, negates forced stun on taking a ram/stomp, halved stun effects]
(req: walker) Assault Pistons [+50% stomp damage]
(req: agrav) Jump Jets [move forwards 2 tiles, can travel over low terrain, costs 6 mobility to do so, but can take you into negative, and if it does so you are stunned]
(req: agrav) Grav Inverters [Grants a "Slam" Ramming action, deals (20*max mobility) damage to the target, (20*max mobility) damage to yourself, if you take any armour/internal damage then you are also stunned]
(req: laser) Leech Beam [if the modified laser hits a shielded enemy, you gain #thermal damage# in shield durability]
(req: shield) Shield Transfer Systems [allows you to transfer up to 20% of your current maximum shield durability per turn to an ally within 1 tile range, at 80% efficiency]
[You also get to pick two "Quirks" to be added to your vehicle, these add unique features to your vehicle.]
[Different vehicle types have different amounts of points available to them representing their differing strengths.]
[If you think up a weapon/module/ammo type/quirk/etc that you want to use, feel free to suggest it for consideration.]
[Also pick a color for the sake of distinguishing players on the map]
Vehicle Types:
Tank [70 points]
Has the worst mobility, and is obstructed by terrain the most.
Has a ramming attack, which has a potential for very high damage against lightly armoured targets.
Has a 1.2* multiplier to armour values.
Frontal Armour has a 1.5* multiplier to effective thickness.
Side Armour has a 1.2* multiplier to effective thickness.
Has a 0.8* multiplier to shield values.
Walker [60 points]
Has moderate mobility.
Features a powerful stomp attack, and the ability to ram Agravs.
Entire "chassis" is effectively a large turret which you can put points towards stabilising, with full stabilisation at 5 points.
Has a 1.2* multiplier to armour thickness for all sides.
Agrav [50 points]
Has high mobility, and can ignore terrain that would slow/stop other vehicles.
No ramming/melee ability, but in exchange can not be rammed by tanks.
Has a 0.8* multiplier to armour values.
Has a 1.2* multiplier to shield values.
Frontal Armour has a 1.2* multiplier to effective thickness.
You get a Light anti-personnel weapon for free on your vehicle, can be mounted however you want [turreted/co-axial/etc]
- examples: 8mm Machinegun, AP Laser, 30mm canister-shot
Will tear through infantry and unarmoured vehicles with ease, but can do little to armour/structures.
Uses the same base accuracy as any other weapon.
- When used against vehicles: 1 Penetration, 20 Damage.
- When used against infantry: 10 shots, 4 Damage.
You may purchase additional anti-personnel weapons, you get 4 for the cost of one point.
Combustion Turbine - Grants Mobility Points. [Grants 1 per point spent]
Generator - Energy for energy using weapons. [Grants 4 per point spent] [Energy may be drawn straight from a Generator, or stocked up in a Capacitor]
Capacitor - Stores Energy for energy using weapons. [Grants 24 per point spent]
Smartplate - Armour. [Per point: Thickness 10 Durability 100]
Hardshield Generator - Energy Shielding. [Per point: Thickness 10 Durability 40]
Sensors - Increases accuracy [maximum of 5 can be purchased, +10%/point]
APS
Active protection systems, protect against some inbound munitions. [can target Missiles, Howitzers, Mortars, Rockets, and some other special munition types.]
Turreted versions will automatically target the highest caliber munitions first, dischargers pick their first target at random.
APS operate in the following order: First Laser APS fires, then Kinetic, then Dischargers. So a round if stopped by Laser APS, will not be fired upon by other APS types.
Turreted APS can fire on munitions aimed at an ally within the same tile as you, in this instance your own APS fires before allied APS, but still in type order.
- eg: Your Laser, Ally Laser, Your Kinetic, Ally Kinetic, Your Discharger, Ally Discharger.
Kinetic Turret APS
Can shoot down 1 missile/turn per point.
Has 10 turns worth of ammo if firing at maximum capacity.
- 1 point - 1 missile/turn - 10 shots
- 2 point - 2 missile/turn - 20 shots
Laser Turret APS
One shot/turn per point.
60% chance to intercept a missile.
No ammo or energy required, has infinite uses.
Discharger APS
Only targets "low angle" missiles/rockets.
Automatically hits one missile coming from in a 90 degree arc, 80% for second, 60% for third, 40% for fourth, 20% for all after.
Has 6 uses/point.
Smoke discharger [fixed cost at 2 points]
Fills a single tile that is up to 2 tiles away from you with smoke for three turns.
You must also purchase ammo for smoke dischargers, they don't come with any, but each point spent on ammo grants 10 uses.
Tiles filled with smoke can not be seen into, out of or through.
If you start the turn in the same tile as an enemy then you can ram them, otherwise you can't ram vehicles inside smoke.
If you want to fire on someone within the same smoke tile as you, then your accuracy is cut in half of whatever it would normally be for that shot.
Weapons
Each point spent on a weapon is worth 10mm of caliber.
Penetration/Damage stats when listed represent a 10mm weapon of that ammo type, a 20mm weapon would have double those values, etc.
Guns
Cannon - Conventional single shot/turn ballistic weapon [ammo options: SKEP, HEAT, APHE, HE]
Autocannon - Standard ballistic weapon that fires a four round burst/turn [ammo options: SKEP, HEAT, APHE, HE] [4*0.5 caliber shots]
Chaingun - Rapid fire ballistic weapon that fires ten shots/turn [ammo options: SKEP, HEAT, APHE, HE] [10*0.25 caliber shots]
Lorentz force weapons [Require 1 EN/point in order to fire]
Railgun - High power kinetic penetrator weapon [ammo options: Penetrator, Frangible, Cluster]
Rail Repeater - Rapid fire rail weapon, that fires three rounds/turn [ammo options: Penetrator, Frangible, Cluster] [3*0.6 caliber shots]
Artillery
Howitzer - Low angle indirect fire cannon [ammo options: HEAT, APHE, HE] [1.2* caliber multiplier]
Mortar - High angle high power munition launcher [ammo options: HE, GLIT] [2* caliber multiplier]
Rocketry
Rocket Pod - Cheap high volume disposable ordanance [ammo options: HEAT, HE, GLIT] [4 points/per pod, see below for details]
Missile - Long range accurate guided munition system, vulnerable to APS systems [ammo options: HEAT, HE, GLIT] [2/6/10 points per launcher, see below for details]
Energy Weapons [Require 1 EN/point in order to fire]
Laser - General purpose energy weapon [per point: Penetration 8 / Damage 6 / Thermal 4]
Particle Lance - High penetration low Thermal effect energy weapon [per point: Penetration 12 / Damage 4 / Thermal 2]
Plasgun - High damage and thermal effect energy weapon [per point: Penetration 6 / Damage 10 / Thermal 6]
Turreted weaponry
In order to have a weapon mounted on a turret you must allocate at least 1/10 of weight of everything mounted on the turret into the turret mechanisms.
Any excess weight over the initial 1/10, going up to 1/5 of the carried weight, goes into stabilisation of the turret, improving accuracy when moving.
You May alternately *just* stabilise the weapon, for 1/10 of it's cost.
Missile Launchers
Special weapon type that only comes in three pre-set sizes.
Small [50mm] 2 points
Medium [100mm] 6 points
Large [150mm] 10 points
Rocket Pods:
It costs 4 points for a Rocket Pod, they are self-contained systems, so you Can not buy extra ammo for them.
Has 50mm rockets, 20 tubes and comes with 100 ammo.
The loaders used are relatively simplistic, and as such they can only load one specific ammo type per tube [so you effectively have 20 seperate guns with 5 ammo each]
Special Accuracy penalty: -1% to hit for each rocket shot past the first one each round [eg: fire 10 rockets and recieve a 9% penalty] [penalty is only per launcher, not vehicle wide]
Ammo
All weapons require ammo to function, as such you must allocate points towards it [other than energy weapons and rocket pods]
The amount of ammo you get per point depends on the caliber of the weapon, If you half the caliber you get four times the ammo, and the inverse also applies.
If you have multiple ammo types available for a weapon and wish to swap between them, it will take that weapon one turn to do so.
Some examples of how much ammo you get for each weapon type:
- 50/point for a 100mm Gun [Cannon/Autocannon/Chaingun/Howitzer]
- 100/point for a 100mm Mortar
- 30/point for a 100mm Lorentz-force weapon
- 160/point for Small Missiles
- 40/point for Medium Missiles
- 18/point for Large Missiles
Ammo types:
Conventional Ammo:
APHE are the standard ammo for main cannons, a good mix of damage and penetration. [10 Penetration, 10 Damage]
SKEP [Saboted Kinetic Energy Penetrator] rounds have high penetration, but deal less durability damage. [15 Penetration, 5 Damage]
HE rounds have poor penetration, but High damage. [5 Penetration, 16 Damage]
HEAT deal fixed damage value to durability regardless of penetration depth, and also a good penetration value, but can only be used in weapons with a caliber of 50mm or greater [12 Penetration, 4 Damage]
GLIT ["Glitterbomb"]
Magnetically charged lengths of wire and scraps of foil
Clings to and disrupts shields, Reducing and even Reversing their regen until they are shut down and restarted.
Impacts on a shielded target accumulate "Disruption" which slows regeneration, once it exceeds the shields current thickness, then the shield will start decaying (no cap to maximum decay rate)
[1 Penetration, 5 Damage] [vs shields: Infinite Penetration, 15 Damage, 10 Disruption]
10 disruption/20 thickness - 50% regen rate
30 disruption/10 thickness - decay at 200% of regen rate
Lorentz-force ammo:
Penetrator rounds have high penetration, but deal less durability damage [19 Penetration, 7 Damage]
Frangible rounds have lower penetration, but deal Higher damage if they do penetrate [13 Penetration, 10 Damage]
Cluster rounds are a spread of light shots, low penetration against armour, but high damage potential if they can penetrate. the science behind it isn't entirely understood, but for some reason they are very effective against shields. [Five, 6 Penetration, 3 Damage shots, Penetration and damage are combined into one powerful shot when hitting a shield]
Restricted Weapons
You may also purchase Restricted Weapons, these cost 10 points, and only one of each is available.
Restricted Weapon "Scian Taibhse"
Questionable Legality, energy weapon, comes with some power generation/capcacitors, but more may be preferred.
Takes 12 power per shot, one shot per turn - comes with 1 generator, 1 capacitor.
Counts as an 8 point cost weapon in terms of mounting on a turret/stabilising.
Restricted Weapon "Ag Caoineadh Iarainn"
Questionable Legality, indirect fire weapon, comes with 2 points worth of ammo, more can be purchased if desired.
Has 160 ammo/point, fires in bursts of 10.
Can fire either low or high angle, and targets a map tile, affecting eveything inside of it.
Cannot reaction fire, and has perfect accuracy innately, so doesn't need stabilisation.
Counts as an 8 point cost weapon in terms of mounting on a turret.
Quirks
Low Profile [enemies suffer -20% to hit you]
Slat Armour [50% chance to destroy inbound HEAT rounds]
Sensor Scrambler [enemies can only fire on you if they have direct line of sight]
Ultra Heavy Chassis [+10 points to spend, all mobility actions cost 1 point extra]
(req: weapon) Linked Autoloader [the weapon fires at double the standard rate, but after firing for 3 turns must spend 2 turns to reload] [this quirk will apply to any one of your ammo using weapons, excluding lorentz force weaponry]
(req: any tank/agrav turret) High Act Turret [reaction fire from this turret is not limited to a cone, and can operate all directions if desired, also accuracy penalty for reaction fire is reduced to -10%]
(req: tank with no turreted weapon) Wedge Hull [thickness modifier of frontal armour is increased to 2*]
(req: tank) Reinforced Dozer Blade [-50% damage to self from ramming, negate self ramming damage from barricades]
(req: walker) Advanced Stability Actuators [increases stun damage threshold by 50%, negates forced stun on taking a ram/stomp, halved stun effects]
(req: walker) Assault Pistons [+50% stomp damage]
(req: agrav) Jump Jets [move forwards 2 tiles, can travel over low terrain, costs 6 mobility to do so, but can take you into negative, and if it does so you are stunned]
(req: agrav) Grav Inverters [Grants a "Slam" Ramming action, deals (20*max mobility) damage to the target, (20*max mobility) damage to yourself, if you take any armour/internal damage then you are also stunned]
(req: laser) Leech Beam [if the modified laser hits a shielded enemy, you gain #thermal damage# in shield durability]
(req: shield) Shield Transfer Systems [allows you to transfer up to 20% of your current maximum shield durability per turn to an ally within 1 tile range, at 80% efficiency]
Rules/Mechanics and further Information:
Mobility:
Tanks
- Can move forwards or backwards at 1 mobility/tile
- Costs 1 mobility to turn 90 degrees
Walkers
- Can move forwards or backwards at 1 mobility/tile
- Can strafe sideways at 2 mobility/tile
- Costs 1 mobility to turn 90 degrees
AGravs
- Can move in any direction at 1 mobility/tile
- Can turn once per round for free, costs 1 mobility for each 90 degree turn after that
- Repositioning within the same tile costs no mobility, as long as you do not change orientation.
Shooting
Your normal accuracy when stationary is 80%.
If moving you face a basic 20% accuracy penalty, and an additional 5% penalty for each tile you moved, but you cannot drop below 5% to hit.
A fully stabilised weapon doesn't face the basic 20% penalty for moving, and the penalty for distance only triggers every 2 tiles.
If your target moved 8 or more tiles in their last turn, then you take a 5% penalty to hit and an additional -5% for each 2 tiles moved past that.
- 8 tiles movement -5%
- 10 tiles movement -10%
Movement and Shooting
You can shoot and move in any order you like in a turn, so you can shoot then move, or move some of your movement capacity shoot then move again, or move then shoot.
You only take the movement accuracy penalty for the distance you have moved before you shoot in the current turn, If you set reaction fire and it goes off after your actions and in the enemy turn, you take the full movement penalty for those shots.
Internal Damage
Weapons deal damage to internals based on how well penetrate the targets armour
- eg: 100 penentration, 50 damage against 80 armour thickness would equal 10 damage [20% of penetration went through armour, so 20% of damage is dealt to internals]
Inernal health is based on cost of all parts*10 (only *5 for guns+ammo)
On losing 20%/40%/60%/80% health total, roll for a crit on a D#[vehicle point budget]#
When checking to see if it hit something, Start with cockpit(8+sensor cost) then going on to: Mobility(cost), Shielding(cost), Ammo/Generator/Capacitor(cost), Weapons(cost/2), Other(cost/2)
- The part that takes the crit will suffer a penalty to operation, and if it gets crit a second time then it is destroyed
Spalling
Non-Energy weapons cause spalling if they succesfully penetrate, this is represented by dealing additional damage equivalent to the amount of penetration that was in excess of the armour thickness.
- This bonus damage caps at the thickness of the armour plate that was penetrated, or at double the thickness for HE weapons.
HE ammo weapons are different and instead deal double the damage to internals rather than gaining the raw penetration depth damage bonus.
Smartplate
A highly advanced armour material, capable of drawing nearby material in to "heal" holes
Thickness is lowered on taking durability damage. [effective value is: Thickness*(current durability/max durability)]
- Damage to durability is: damage*(penetration/effective thickness)
- The damage taken by the armours durability from a shot is capped at two times your weapons base damage value.
Hardshields
Have a single Level of durability/thickness across all facings.
Current durability has no effect on effective thickness.
Shots deal 50% damage if it fails to penetrate, but deal a full 100% if they do.
If you penetrate Twice the shields thickness, you "crack" it, dealing 150% damage and regeneration is halted for 2 turns.
While "cracked", shield thickness is tied to durability as armour is.
Shields will stop all damage from getting through them until they suffer a complete loss of durability.
A shot that depletes a shields durability will be "shieldgated" and will not deal any excess damage to armour/internals.
Take increased damage from EN weapons. [Add on thermal damage as extra damage]
Shields Regnerate 1% durability/turn when active, but 2%/turn when inactive.
If disabled takes 5 turns to reset, Then start recharging in the inactive mode.
When inactive a shield can be activated at a cost of 5% of your total charge.
Your charge level before the 5% penalty is your new maximum charge capacity until your shield enters the inactive state again.
Regeneration is disabled on any turn that you enable/disable the shield.
Any damage taken on the turn that you are activating your shield is doubled.
Shield Transfer Systems (Quirk)
Can only be used to transfer to one target per turn.
Can only be used on allies with a currently active shield.
Must be within 1 tile range of the target ally.
If the target has a current maximum charge capacity below their default maximum, then any excess charge transferred will increase their maximum capacity, but 50% is lost. eg:
- Target has 80/100 charge, with 200 being their default maximum
- You transfer 100 charge to them, 20% is lost by default, leaving 80 going to them.
- This brings them to 100/100 charge, with 60 "left over".
- The "left over" charge will then bring them up to 130/160 charge, with thickness scaling up to be appropriate for the new maximum capacity.
When firing against infantry, certain weapons [HE ammo, Plasguns] can hit mutiple infantry with a single shot [number hit is equal to damage/25 rounded up]
Reaction fire:
If you have a weapon that didn't fire on a turn, you may set it to reaction fire within a 90 degree cone, and if enemies move into view in that cone on their turn then it will fire at them but with a 25% to hit penalty.
Weapons not mounted in a turret or on a walker can only use reaction fire in a fixed 90 degree arc based on hull facing.
All weapons mounted in the same turret must all reaction fire in the same arc.
Can also be used for when you round a corner in case there are enemies you don't yet know about there, this only incurs a 15% penalty. (5% penalty on a High Act Turret)
Missiles and Rockets can only use their Low angle fire type for reaction fire, and Mortars can't use reaction fire at all.
Stun:
If you take a total damage of at least 25% of your internal health in one turn, then you are stunned [damage dealt to shielding counts as half]
When stunned you have a -50% to all rolls for one turn, and -20% on the next turn.
Stun also reduces your movement speed to 50% for one turn.
Ramming:
The target of a ram is stunned regardless of how much damage they take.
Damage is treated as having 50% of the penetration value of its damage value.
- Ramming Ignores "shieldgating" and excess damage will penetrate shields and impact armour, Penetration will be re determined with this "second instance" of damage.
Tanks
+20 damage to target per tile moved towards the target this turn.
You take damage equal to the targets armour thickness, and your target takes damage equal to your armour thickness.
Walkers
Walkers "Ram" with a stomp/kick.
100 base damage, no self damage.
+100 base damage when used against tanks.
+40 damage per unit mobility "spent" on the stomp.
Can Ram an Agrav, has no base damage but gains +40 damage per unit mobility "spent" on it.
Agravs
No ramming attack, but can't be rammed by tanks.
Structures
Have a durability value for the entire structure section, sections being determined by the solid outlines on the map.
The standard durability of a high structure is 1000 and low structures are 500, rubble will have 1.5* the durability of the building type it was before.
When shooting at a structure, you can re-roll any misses once, to represent their size and the ease of hitting one compared to a vehicle.
When destroyed a high structure will leave a low height ruin, while a low height structure will spread a field of Debris.
Destruction of a structure happens at the end of the turn, so you can only drop down one stage of destruction each turn.
Structures have their durability instantly dropped to 0 if they take over 20% of their current durability in one single hit.
Reinforced structures are resistant to lighter weaponry, and as such reduce all incoming damage taken by 100.
Orbital Guns and some other structures are specially Hardened, and as such have a 50% damage reduction on all High angle attacks as well as the damage resistance of Reinforced structures.
Volatile structures are vulnerable to thermal damage from energy weapons, and add that to any damage taken, they also explode dealing massive damage to nearby tiles.
District Walls and Gates are obscenely thick and heavily reinforced, while theoretically possible, it is completely impractical to destroy them.
The height of each structure section is denoted by the L or H in the bottom corner, a durability value will also be noted at the top if it is damaged.
If the height letter is in grey rather than black, then the structure is Weak, and has half the durability of comparable structures.
Special features such as if the structure is Reinforced/Volatile/etc will be noted next to the height indication of the structure as well as with additional detailing.
Terrain Types:
Debris is represented by the tile having brown markers in it.
Barricades are represented as a yellow and grey dotted line, Each tile width section has 200 Durability.
Clear - No special rules, just flat ground.
Debris - Only affects Tanks, and they have to spend 1 mobility to enter the tile.
Barricade - No affect on Agravs, Walkers can pass these at a cost of 1 mobility, Tanks are stopped [Tanks take 100 self damage when ramming into/through barricades] [Anything from jersey barriers to tank traps, general category for something that can obstruct a Tank, but not so much a Walker]
Image Example showing examples of map features:
At the top left, there is a tank, Walker, AGrav, Powersuit, and a Trooper.
Below there is a Barricade with some Debris tiles below it.
The Left and Top edges are marked with District walls, and there is a District Gate on the top edge.
There is a selection of buildings showing a High Weak structure, a standard High structure, a Low Reinforced Structure, a Low Volatile Structure, a High Hardened Volatile Structure, and a Ruin structure.
The High Hardened Volatile Structure has a bright green marker on it, this denotes that it is a mission objective.
There are also three tiles at the bottom representing tiles filled with smoke, with 3, 2 and 1 turns duration remaining.
Special weapon firing behaviours:
Howitzers, Rockets and Mortars
Do not roll to hit as normal weapons, instead have special to-hit mechanics.
There are two firing modes, Low-Angle, and High-Angle
Each mode can also fire Indirectly at a target, that you don't have line of sight on, but an ally does, this is at a 40% to hit penalty, which is lowered by 5% for each point into sensors that the ally spotting the target has.
Rockets can use either mode, but Howitzers can only use low-angle, and Mortars can only use high-angle.
Low-Angle:
Can only fire over "low" terrain in indirect mode.
Takes an additional 5% to hit penalty for each tile the target moved last turn [is reduced in the same manner as the movement penalty is by stabilisation]
High-Angle:
Can be fired over anything with no restrictions in indirect mode.
A shot starts with a normal roll as any other weapon, if it "hits" then the round is treated as heading for that target, but doesn't hit this turn.
Next turn the round rolls again, with a base accuracy of 100%, but with a 5% penalty for each tile the target moved that turn.
High-angle attacks also ignore any facing multipliers for armour thickness.
Missiles
These have two firing modes
Direct fire: As any normal weapon.
Top Attack: Is similar to High-angle shots from a Mortar/Rocket.
If you maintain line of sight to the target then both rolls have 100% accuracy
If you are relying on an allies sensors then the first roll has a base accuracy of 100%, but the second has to roll as per a standard high-angle shot.
Thermal damage
Thermal damage reduces effective thickness of armour. [takes place After the durability modifier]
The Thermal limit of a vehicles armour is its current effective thickness ignoring any facing multipliers.
- 100% heat = 50% effective thickness
- 50% heat = 75% effective thickness
If exceeding your Thermal limit, durability damage is multiplied by the amount that heat exceeds it.
- 120 heat, 100 "limit" = 1.2x durability damage
If heat exceeds twice your thermal limit, then the excess heat is converted to direct damage to durability at a ratio of 10 heat to 1 damage, this conversion happens only once per turn.
Thermal damage dissapates at a rate of 1/10 of your Thermal limit each turn.
Tanks
- Can move forwards or backwards at 1 mobility/tile
- Costs 1 mobility to turn 90 degrees
Walkers
- Can move forwards or backwards at 1 mobility/tile
- Can strafe sideways at 2 mobility/tile
- Costs 1 mobility to turn 90 degrees
AGravs
- Can move in any direction at 1 mobility/tile
- Can turn once per round for free, costs 1 mobility for each 90 degree turn after that
- Repositioning within the same tile costs no mobility, as long as you do not change orientation.
Shooting
Your normal accuracy when stationary is 80%.
If moving you face a basic 20% accuracy penalty, and an additional 5% penalty for each tile you moved, but you cannot drop below 5% to hit.
A fully stabilised weapon doesn't face the basic 20% penalty for moving, and the penalty for distance only triggers every 2 tiles.
If your target moved 8 or more tiles in their last turn, then you take a 5% penalty to hit and an additional -5% for each 2 tiles moved past that.
- 8 tiles movement -5%
- 10 tiles movement -10%
Movement and Shooting
You can shoot and move in any order you like in a turn, so you can shoot then move, or move some of your movement capacity shoot then move again, or move then shoot.
You only take the movement accuracy penalty for the distance you have moved before you shoot in the current turn, If you set reaction fire and it goes off after your actions and in the enemy turn, you take the full movement penalty for those shots.
Internal Damage
Weapons deal damage to internals based on how well penetrate the targets armour
- eg: 100 penentration, 50 damage against 80 armour thickness would equal 10 damage [20% of penetration went through armour, so 20% of damage is dealt to internals]
Inernal health is based on cost of all parts*10 (only *5 for guns+ammo)
On losing 20%/40%/60%/80% health total, roll for a crit on a D#[vehicle point budget]#
When checking to see if it hit something, Start with cockpit(8+sensor cost) then going on to: Mobility(cost), Shielding(cost), Ammo/Generator/Capacitor(cost), Weapons(cost/2), Other(cost/2)
- The part that takes the crit will suffer a penalty to operation, and if it gets crit a second time then it is destroyed
Spalling
Non-Energy weapons cause spalling if they succesfully penetrate, this is represented by dealing additional damage equivalent to the amount of penetration that was in excess of the armour thickness.
- This bonus damage caps at the thickness of the armour plate that was penetrated, or at double the thickness for HE weapons.
HE ammo weapons are different and instead deal double the damage to internals rather than gaining the raw penetration depth damage bonus.
Smartplate
A highly advanced armour material, capable of drawing nearby material in to "heal" holes
Thickness is lowered on taking durability damage. [effective value is: Thickness*(current durability/max durability)]
- Damage to durability is: damage*(penetration/effective thickness)
- The damage taken by the armours durability from a shot is capped at two times your weapons base damage value.
Hardshields
Have a single Level of durability/thickness across all facings.
Current durability has no effect on effective thickness.
Shots deal 50% damage if it fails to penetrate, but deal a full 100% if they do.
If you penetrate Twice the shields thickness, you "crack" it, dealing 150% damage and regeneration is halted for 2 turns.
While "cracked", shield thickness is tied to durability as armour is.
Shields will stop all damage from getting through them until they suffer a complete loss of durability.
A shot that depletes a shields durability will be "shieldgated" and will not deal any excess damage to armour/internals.
Take increased damage from EN weapons. [Add on thermal damage as extra damage]
Shields Regnerate 1% durability/turn when active, but 2%/turn when inactive.
If disabled takes 5 turns to reset, Then start recharging in the inactive mode.
When inactive a shield can be activated at a cost of 5% of your total charge.
Your charge level before the 5% penalty is your new maximum charge capacity until your shield enters the inactive state again.
Regeneration is disabled on any turn that you enable/disable the shield.
Any damage taken on the turn that you are activating your shield is doubled.
Shield Transfer Systems (Quirk)
Can only be used to transfer to one target per turn.
Can only be used on allies with a currently active shield.
Must be within 1 tile range of the target ally.
If the target has a current maximum charge capacity below their default maximum, then any excess charge transferred will increase their maximum capacity, but 50% is lost. eg:
- Target has 80/100 charge, with 200 being their default maximum
- You transfer 100 charge to them, 20% is lost by default, leaving 80 going to them.
- This brings them to 100/100 charge, with 60 "left over".
- The "left over" charge will then bring them up to 130/160 charge, with thickness scaling up to be appropriate for the new maximum capacity.
When firing against infantry, certain weapons [HE ammo, Plasguns] can hit mutiple infantry with a single shot [number hit is equal to damage/25 rounded up]
Reaction fire:
If you have a weapon that didn't fire on a turn, you may set it to reaction fire within a 90 degree cone, and if enemies move into view in that cone on their turn then it will fire at them but with a 25% to hit penalty.
Weapons not mounted in a turret or on a walker can only use reaction fire in a fixed 90 degree arc based on hull facing.
All weapons mounted in the same turret must all reaction fire in the same arc.
Can also be used for when you round a corner in case there are enemies you don't yet know about there, this only incurs a 15% penalty. (5% penalty on a High Act Turret)
Missiles and Rockets can only use their Low angle fire type for reaction fire, and Mortars can't use reaction fire at all.
Stun:
If you take a total damage of at least 25% of your internal health in one turn, then you are stunned [damage dealt to shielding counts as half]
When stunned you have a -50% to all rolls for one turn, and -20% on the next turn.
Stun also reduces your movement speed to 50% for one turn.
Ramming:
The target of a ram is stunned regardless of how much damage they take.
Damage is treated as having 50% of the penetration value of its damage value.
- Ramming Ignores "shieldgating" and excess damage will penetrate shields and impact armour, Penetration will be re determined with this "second instance" of damage.
Tanks
+20 damage to target per tile moved towards the target this turn.
You take damage equal to the targets armour thickness, and your target takes damage equal to your armour thickness.
Walkers
Walkers "Ram" with a stomp/kick.
100 base damage, no self damage.
+100 base damage when used against tanks.
+40 damage per unit mobility "spent" on the stomp.
Can Ram an Agrav, has no base damage but gains +40 damage per unit mobility "spent" on it.
Agravs
No ramming attack, but can't be rammed by tanks.
Structures
Have a durability value for the entire structure section, sections being determined by the solid outlines on the map.
The standard durability of a high structure is 1000 and low structures are 500, rubble will have 1.5* the durability of the building type it was before.
When shooting at a structure, you can re-roll any misses once, to represent their size and the ease of hitting one compared to a vehicle.
When destroyed a high structure will leave a low height ruin, while a low height structure will spread a field of Debris.
Destruction of a structure happens at the end of the turn, so you can only drop down one stage of destruction each turn.
Structures have their durability instantly dropped to 0 if they take over 20% of their current durability in one single hit.
Reinforced structures are resistant to lighter weaponry, and as such reduce all incoming damage taken by 100.
Orbital Guns and some other structures are specially Hardened, and as such have a 50% damage reduction on all High angle attacks as well as the damage resistance of Reinforced structures.
Volatile structures are vulnerable to thermal damage from energy weapons, and add that to any damage taken, they also explode dealing massive damage to nearby tiles.
District Walls and Gates are obscenely thick and heavily reinforced, while theoretically possible, it is completely impractical to destroy them.
The height of each structure section is denoted by the L or H in the bottom corner, a durability value will also be noted at the top if it is damaged.
If the height letter is in grey rather than black, then the structure is Weak, and has half the durability of comparable structures.
Special features such as if the structure is Reinforced/Volatile/etc will be noted next to the height indication of the structure as well as with additional detailing.
Terrain Types:
Debris is represented by the tile having brown markers in it.
Barricades are represented as a yellow and grey dotted line, Each tile width section has 200 Durability.
Clear - No special rules, just flat ground.
Debris - Only affects Tanks, and they have to spend 1 mobility to enter the tile.
Barricade - No affect on Agravs, Walkers can pass these at a cost of 1 mobility, Tanks are stopped [Tanks take 100 self damage when ramming into/through barricades] [Anything from jersey barriers to tank traps, general category for something that can obstruct a Tank, but not so much a Walker]
Image Example showing examples of map features:
At the top left, there is a tank, Walker, AGrav, Powersuit, and a Trooper.
Below there is a Barricade with some Debris tiles below it.
The Left and Top edges are marked with District walls, and there is a District Gate on the top edge.
There is a selection of buildings showing a High Weak structure, a standard High structure, a Low Reinforced Structure, a Low Volatile Structure, a High Hardened Volatile Structure, and a Ruin structure.
The High Hardened Volatile Structure has a bright green marker on it, this denotes that it is a mission objective.
There are also three tiles at the bottom representing tiles filled with smoke, with 3, 2 and 1 turns duration remaining.
Special weapon firing behaviours:
Howitzers, Rockets and Mortars
Do not roll to hit as normal weapons, instead have special to-hit mechanics.
There are two firing modes, Low-Angle, and High-Angle
Each mode can also fire Indirectly at a target, that you don't have line of sight on, but an ally does, this is at a 40% to hit penalty, which is lowered by 5% for each point into sensors that the ally spotting the target has.
Rockets can use either mode, but Howitzers can only use low-angle, and Mortars can only use high-angle.
Low-Angle:
Can only fire over "low" terrain in indirect mode.
Takes an additional 5% to hit penalty for each tile the target moved last turn [is reduced in the same manner as the movement penalty is by stabilisation]
High-Angle:
Can be fired over anything with no restrictions in indirect mode.
A shot starts with a normal roll as any other weapon, if it "hits" then the round is treated as heading for that target, but doesn't hit this turn.
Next turn the round rolls again, with a base accuracy of 100%, but with a 5% penalty for each tile the target moved that turn.
High-angle attacks also ignore any facing multipliers for armour thickness.
Missiles
These have two firing modes
Direct fire: As any normal weapon.
Top Attack: Is similar to High-angle shots from a Mortar/Rocket.
If you maintain line of sight to the target then both rolls have 100% accuracy
If you are relying on an allies sensors then the first roll has a base accuracy of 100%, but the second has to roll as per a standard high-angle shot.
Thermal damage
Thermal damage reduces effective thickness of armour. [takes place After the durability modifier]
The Thermal limit of a vehicles armour is its current effective thickness ignoring any facing multipliers.
- 100% heat = 50% effective thickness
- 50% heat = 75% effective thickness
If exceeding your Thermal limit, durability damage is multiplied by the amount that heat exceeds it.
- 120 heat, 100 "limit" = 1.2x durability damage
If heat exceeds twice your thermal limit, then the excess heat is converted to direct damage to durability at a ratio of 10 heat to 1 damage, this conversion happens only once per turn.
Thermal damage dissapates at a rate of 1/10 of your Thermal limit each turn.
