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Maximilian Jenius

If there is no RRT at the open house this will truly be seen as a dead game. So yes, there should be RRT played at the open house

Maximilian Jenius

I personally would not want single piece figures. There is a happy medium between overly complex and overly simplistic that needs to be reached if these minis are going to find a market.

Maximilian Jenius

That was tried. And the inordinate amount of time it took for the volunteer tasked with it for less than 20 questions, a "formal" RRT Megaversal Ambassador to boot, was ludicrous as it had to be vetted by actual staff at PB. Palladium has never really supported anything they sell on their...

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I didn't see anyone else mention it, something very small that can be done to increase the health of the game immediately is to assign an official rules representative who can keep a constantly updated and available errata to players as well as go through and answer all of the rules questions in the...

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That information is still missing available upgrades and point costs for upgrades that are available to the squad. The only place to get that information is on the card itself, which no one has.

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I am confused. I thought we were not getting all the cards in wave one?

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Mike where are these rules coming from?

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Keep in mind that although the kickstarter has point costs it does not have upgrade stats or point costs.

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The malcontent cards you get in the box only cover some squadrons, there are a ton missing. Wayne said something about changes to their upgrades as well. It would be really nice to see a PDF released, even if it was just text based detailing the cost of ALL the units and their upgrades. I too am wan...

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There was an incident?

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Please move the rules question threads to the new subforum mods!

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I honestly feel that characters should be limited to (1) per army. I do love that you can consider certain characters "templates" for the malcontents, and I hope that stays, but limiting things to (1) per army avoids much munchkinism. I am also seriously curious about the second question. ...

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If it is just regults in the squad the squad still has VPs. I forgot the glaug needing to be there to trigger the life is cheap exception earlier in the post. Sorry for the confusion.

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I am thinking they could probably deputize a certain interested MA with that kind of authority. At least to make official calls until a proper errata or FAQ was released.

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Phaze I would suggest taking a look at how Privateer Press handles rules questions and answers on their forums as a system to suggest emulating. There you have open discussion of the rules but until an infernal (official rules authority) answers the matter is considered open. It is a really solid wa...

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Oh gotcha! I forgot that line. So yeah, VPs as normal for the attrition squad. That makes it a terrible choice if you end up in a VP match!

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Phaze how are you coming to the conclusion that the attrition squadron calculates vp as normal when it only has life is cheap mecha in it (which do not count for vp)?

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But they do change. There are malcontent cards that do not have access to said upgrades and have entirely different options.

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Not entirely true, there are upgrades that are not listed there. Additionally some of the point values have changed.

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This is totally personal preference. I am i the same boat. I cannot decide as I do not know what options are available to me as we didn't get all the cards in the box.

Maximilian Jenius

I believe in your revised scenario that the opponent would receive 0 vp. Think of it this way, the glaug is the boss and the regults are adds. Until you kill the boss and burn at least half of the remaining squad down you get nothing for your efforts. The reinforcements do not add any vp. You could ...

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In the presented scenario they would recieve half VPs. The glaug is the only mecha that matters as life is cheap, but you still have to destroy half the squad after the glaug to gain any VPs. This actually makes sense when you take into account the infinite spawning pods in my opinion. It is treated...

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The attrition squadron has a glaug in it after purchasing the special card. It is then part of that squadron for all other rules, why would this one be an unstated exception? The rule applies and nothing says it doesn't. Also I agree that ND or PB should be ruling on all these rules questions, not f...

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It is also worth nothing that there is no limit to the amount of special characters that can be taken in a single squad. I do think this needs to be addressed, there are some pretty powerful 5 point characters that could easily lead to players making super units for marginal costs.

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Yes, it applies to the Glaugs purchased from special cards (or any source for that matter). There is nothing in the rules stating otherwise.

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Sadly there is no "don't be a dick special rule" in the book. So until this gets errata to say otherwise I believe that it would be legitimately within the rules for someone to do this.

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This has boggled me since I opened the box and I have yet to hear an official answer. The answer that sounded most plausible is that the colored boxes replaced the ammo boxes that were supposed to be on the cards according to the rulebook.

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According to rules as written can you have duplicates of the same special character in the same army (or even the same squad for that matter)?

I see nothing that prevents this.

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Nope, you got it.

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Are you looking for MAs to support the official launch or are MAs the only participants?

Can you be an MA just for Robotech RPG tactics? And what is expected of a RRT MA?

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In the character description it states that Kain has two spartan shock batons for kicking butt and smashing heads. His special rule however makes no mention of it and just gives him a second melee attack. Does this character recieve two shock batons at no cost in a spartan or does he have to pay for...

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After rereading the rules I now believe that killing the glaug alone does not satisfy the requirements of the victory point rule. I now believe you must kill the glaug and enough regults to destroy half the squad to get half the vp, or the glaug and all of the regults for full vp, but you recieve no...

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Maybe I should have stated it is clear to me. The lack of VPs from life is cheap mecha makes sense when you take into account that there could be an endless amount on the table as long as a glaug keeps resupplying them. This can only happen with a Zentraedi player, so the two rules are very intertwi...

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The reason I asked is that it is pretty clear that the VP rule for regults is directly due to the zentraedi reinforcement ability. If you didn't do something like this you would have a VP farm everytime someone put a regult squad on the table.

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Because it states if you have a mecha with leadership on the board you roll 3d6 instead of 1d6.

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Would it be possible to get a separate subforum for rules questions so they do not clutter this one, nor get lost in said clutter?

Maximilian Jenius

Greetings! Under stealing the activation on page 14 of the rulebook it discusses spending a command point to roll a d6 (or 3d6) to prevent the theft of an activation. However it does not state when you need to spend the command point or make the roll to do so. Do you have to spend the point when you...

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It is actually not in the book anywhere. The only place it is listed is on the Zentraedi Armada faction card. Don't lose that card!

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Falconheart that has yet to be determined.

Also, how does this rule interact with the Malcontents? They can take Glaugs and Regults. Yet they do not have the reinforcements ability that the Zentraedi have.

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All you need to negate the Glaugs squad advantage is a well placed body block to land and push it out of close formation. And positioning him behind the squadron isn't going to help that much considering how fast units can move across the board in this game. Considering a VF-1J has a higher piloting...

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If killing the glaug awards full victory points for the entire squad it is instantly exploitable by players in a competition environment. People will just kill glaugs and never go for the surrounding pods. I would not want to play zentradi in a tournament if this was the case as the UEDF player does...

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Phaze I would put it on a smaller base personally but I wanted to say I really appreciate this as a prospective tournament player.

What is the smallest base in the box? 40mm?

Idealy PB could make a model for this guy with a supplied base. It makes them money and solves the whole issue.

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I am more than annoyed that I backed this project and this guy got his before me, and is talking smack about critics.

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Buying it directly from Palladium will not make you a kickstarter backer. Also even the backers do not know when they will get their product at this time.

Maximilian Jenius

I would love to see the following: SDF-1 and Zentradi themed F.A.T. Mats Officially licensed terrain Conventional vehicles for all eras Laminated cards Scenario/Campaign books Rules clarifications Army construction app and minigame (think mini sdf-1 like tiny death star) for android and ios. Malcont...

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It depends on how the board is layed out as well. On an open map yeah they would probably get shot up on their way in. But then again, that is why you bring Ben Dixon along!

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That is where veritechs are going to really shine. Their ability to move across the board super fast and then transform and engage artillery is going to be amazing. In the Monster example above they could havebone squad memeber engage it while the rest of the squad could use him for cover. Lol

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Well, it does more than just clear things up. A base also determines the total area that a mecha (vehicle) can use to both engage and be engaged in hand to hand, and it can block other models from passing by in close quarters.

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Denying the enemy the ability to fire is a pretty powerful incentive to have a squad of specialized hth fighters IMO.

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The combat step states that a mecha can either attack with a ranged weapon or in hand to hand. A mecha can pay command points to attack with other weapon systems but that has to be done at the same time you pick the first one that you are attacking with. And if you are base to base with an enemy to ...

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