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[Sean Mirrsen]

Yes, except it's not a head, it's the force pack (which is hard to show when it's on the back of the robot), and the legs are separate, but damage is dealt to both at the same time. I might change that later, so the schematic has them separated.

Also, the stats are Move, Range (power in yellow), Melee, Shield. These will be blacked out if a part gets shot. As you can probably tell, I'm running this entirely from Photoshop.

Also also, which method of damage display is better? Redding out or blacking out pixels?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Meh, went with "really dark grey"-ing out.

Spoiler: Updated map (click to show/hide)

[Pandarsenic]

You moved my Warmonger, but I'm okay with that.

Before I post moves, that Marksman straight to my south, he's protected by the "bright hill" right?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Yes, anything of 1-level high in the firing line obscures the target. It's generally using common sense instead of any real system. If you want a real systematic view, take the height difference between the shooter and the target, and divide by the shot distance, then extrapolate along the line of the shot. If in any tile the landscape is at least 1 level higher than it would be by that calculation, the shot is impossible. Shooting through a tile with another unit on it is impossible as well.

[Pandarsenic]

Shit, I would've taken colonists if I'd realized how brokenly weak the Raider position is. XD

I can't do anything, so all I can do is run from your "sniper's nest" guy over there.

D-01: W W
N-03: N W W W S
W-04: W
N-02: W W

Hey, Mercenaries, want to team up against the Colonists for now?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Accepted, but don't forget you can move diagonally. And you've got a great shooting position behind that hill as well.

Spoiler: Turn 2, Mercenaries move (click to show/hide)

p.s.: You can shoot midair, just make sure to end move on the ground.

[Pandarsenic]

Waitwait, I can move DIAGONALLY!?

I want to redo my move if that means I can snipe something from the 2-height hill area I have without leaving my sniper vulnerable. D:

e: What do you mean, shoot midair? Like, use jumpjets to move directly up?

[Sean Mirrsen]

You actually do use the jumpjets to go directly up, and do that before you move onto a high area - see my action. You can, if you want, jump up to clear an obstacle, fire, then descend behind cover again.

And I can't really see a way to snipe from somewhere without being vulnerable, you can only do that if you "Peekaboo" from cover, as you put it yourself. You're in as good a position as any to do that from where you are. Note that the 1-high hill won't offer protection if you're standing on a .5 slope behind it.

Afterthought: this game could've been a lot faster if the two players weren't 12 hours apart...

[Pandarsenic]

I've got a .5 and a 2, though.

Meh, I'll let the game move on. It won't kill me. Hopefully.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Bump from second page. Kashyyk, we need you!

[Kashyyk]

First, do you do the rolls, or do we?

[Sean Mirrsen]

That's a good question. I suspect that I should do the rolls, to minimize the possibility of cheating. Forum games should have only one dice-user. The battle outcome will be resolved the same way it's done in Battletech - units can only be destroyed at the end of phase.

You should also look at the first post again. I made the rules into a clearer form. There's also a range table for your convenience.

[Kashyyk]

Grunt 1: S  S S S
Grunt 2: S  S S S
Grunt 3: SE S E
Grunt 4: SE S   S  attack I12
Grunt 5: S S JU attack H14 JD
Grunt 6: S  S S S
Grunt 7: SE S JU attack H14 JD
Behemoth 8: S S S S
Pitbull 9: S S S SE E attack I12

I suppose, I could team up with you Pandar.
Gah!!

[Sean Mirrsen]

Two things - you cannot remain in midair when the turn ends, and the wall won't affect you much if you shoot from the floor. Extrapolate the height difference - for a range of 6 it goes 0.33-0.66-1-1.33-1.66-2. So if you shoot from the ground at a distance of 6, the one tile of wall will not prevent the shot, since it only blocks 0.33 of your sight.

At the very worst, you could do, say, for Grunt 5: S, S, JU, Attack, JD.

Three things, actually - Grunts have four move, moving diagonally costs 1.4 move, so you can't do SE, S, E, E

[Kashyyk]

I forgot they had four actions, sorry.
Better?