Reply To: It’s back – Hellfire

[Jim Webster]

Reviewing the combat section I find the following;

Troops in power armour cannot be hurt by any other infantry weapons. Even other troops in power armour are not powerful enough. Only crew served or vehicle weapons can damage them.

 

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Tony S has  noticed this one. If the infantry are close enough and roll 10+ on their d12 they roll d10 as a crew served weapon. So at short range things can get messy
Especially as the infantry firing as crew served weapon only fire on one base because that’s what crew served weapons do when firing at heavy armour.

You might like to fight 40K using Hellfire, suddenly space marines actually fight like they do in the background and novels, not like they do on the wargames table under the rules 🙂
Endless hordes of cultists with no armour and light weapons very slowly wearing down a small party of space marines

 

Cover is something you define by scenario. But you can be in cover just moving through a wood.
Dug in is the next level and and be added to in cover. Dug in is agreed by the players. As in, ‘my guys have been there for four moves, and nobody has shot at them, they’ve not just gone to ground, they’ve dug in. It could be shallow scrapes, or they’ve got behind a fallen tree, or whatever

 

Casualty table
Add Target to Groups Reaction Points

Yes, I should. It’s explained in the examples but should be more explicit

 

Covering Fire
what are the effects? Other than usual attacks? More than one target group?

It’s fire that is worked out normally as normal attacks, but it is a mechanism to allow the ‘non phasing player’ to interrupt the other player. It starts making IGOUGO more simultaneous

 

Infantry weapons and anti vehicle fire.

Most vehicle armour is designed to keep out infantry small arms. It’s almost the standard basic. So you cannot expect to take out an armoured vehicle with a rifle
But then infantry gets anti tank weapons. These are normally shorter range. So at half range infantry can penetrate on a 10+, which isn’t wonderful but better.
But infantry comes into their own when you get into hand to hand combat when all the close range stuff comes into place and then decent infantry can give even the heaviest tanks a kicking

Sorry for the delay in replying
My lady wife and I have been up to see our daughter for a few days, first time in 18 months 🙂

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