Mantic Games: Weitere Epic Warpath Previews

Mantic Games zeigen weitere Figuren  zur Preview von Epic Warpath.

Zudem beschreiben Mantic die Regeln für Beschuss:

Shooting First

Units that were given and Overwatch Action Token will have been able to fire at an enemy unit that Assaulted them in the Movement Phase – but in doing so will already have (automatically!) spent their Overwatch Action Token.

In the Overwatch Phase, players can Activate Units that still have an Overwatch Action Token.

The player with the Initiative this Round chooses whether they will be the first player to act or not.

When a player choose to Activate a Unit, they “spend” its Overwatch Action Token to do so. Firing in this Phase means that Units will get to fire before any Units that moved get to do so.

Having an Overwatch Action Token is also mandatory for any Unit that wishes to fire Indirect weapons at a target the Unit cannot see.

Range and Line of Sight (LOS)

The weapons a Unit has are listed on the Unit’s profile, and will show how far each weapon can shoot (in inches). A Unit can normally only select one enemy Unit as the target for a shooting attack, and the target must be range of the shooting weapons. Only enemy Bases that are in LOS are eligible targets.

Shooting

The player shooting rolls a number of D8s equal to the number of firing bases multiplied by the Attack Dice (ADice) value of the weapon. So if six bases are firing and their weapons have an ADice value of 2, the player would roll 12 dice. The Unit’s SH (Shoot) value tells the player what result they need to count as a hit. For example, if the SH value is 5+, all dice that roll 5 or more will be a hit. Some modifiers to the results may apply – for example the target Unit may be in cover.

The player then takes all the dice that hit successfully, and rolls to equal or better the AR (Armour) value of the enemy Unit. For each successful roll, one eligible enemy Base in the target unit is removed!

Of course, there are things like keywords that offer re-rolls, saves, armour penetration etc., and different units will have different mixes of abilities. But put simply, you roll to hit, roll to damage and that’s it!

Vehicles with Primary weapons, can split their fire between two enemy units (Primary and Secondary weapons).

Barrage and Blast

Some weapons fire highly explosive ammunition that covers a large area. To represent this, uses Blast Templates.

Blast Templates determine how many Bases in a Unit are hit. Units firing multiple Blast weapons will lay down multiple Blast Templates!

Blasts like this are great for representing artillery strikes, but the sometimes Indirect nature of these can mean the attack doesn’t always land where a player wants. To simulate this, Warpath uses a D8 scatter die. The results will either indicate the shot is on target, or a direction (and distance) the shot travels in and lands instead. Blasts can be fired directly (with good accuracy but in a smaller area) and indirectly (inaccurate, but potentially affecting a larger area).

So Blasts are a great way of covering multiple enemy Bases (or even units), but there’s a risk a player could hit their own Units too!

Assault Reactions

A unit with an Overwatch Token that has been Assaulted by an enemy Unit in the Movement Phase, must spend its token immediately to shoot at that Unit once it has completed its move, removing casualties before the Assault can happen. Putting a Unit on Overwatch is a great defence if you suspect you are going to be charged, but don’t want to give up the ground you hold. Of course, it means you can’t then fire in the Overwatch Phase too, so a canny enemy can throw cheap or expendable Units your way to prevent you getting your shots away!

Quelle: Mantic Games