BATTLEBLOG - A Time of War: The Tactical Combat Addendum

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Очередной пеарЪ:
So while I hope the entire A Time of War: The BattleTech RPG is well received and enjoyed, I believe the single most anticipated part of this book for many players is the Tactical Combat Addendum. The strongest and I hope best attempt yet to wed the personnel-scale of combat into the tactical scale of combat of Total Warfare (i.e. the boardgame rules).

While I could go on and on talking about it, I thought it might be better to simply provide the TOC of the section so you can see what we've tried to accomplish. [Note that an asterisk below represents a #2 header...my html-fu isn't up to the task this morning of making it work any other way...apologies...]

*TACTICAL COMBAT ADDENDUM
OVERVIEW
Conflicts Between Total Warfare And Tactical Combat
Tactical Scale
Maps and Terrain
Personal Hit Locations
VEHICULAR VS. INFANTRY UNITS
Warriors
Converting Skills
Converting Skill Modifiers
*THE COMBAT TURN
Choose Your Complexity
*INITIATIVE PHASE
ROLLING TACTICAL INITIATIVE
Out of Contact (Optional Rule)
TACTICAL ACTION SEQUENCE
TACTICAL ACTION RESOLUTION
*ACTION PHASE
ACTION SEQUENCE
Combat Paralysis and Actions
MOVEMENT ACTIONS
Unit Movement Sequence
Movement Costs
Vehicle Turn Modes (Optional rule)
Jumping
Stacking and Size
VEHICULAR COMBAT
Rate of Fire
Weapon Range Conversion
Weapon Attack Modifiers
Vehicular Units Targeting Infantry
WEAPON DAMAGE CONVERSION
MARGIN OF SUCCESS/FAILURE IN TACTICAL COMBAT
VEHICULAR WEAPON TRAITS
AI (Anti-Infantry)
AE (Area Effect)
C (Cluster)
DB/DE (Direct Fire Ballistic/Direct Fire Energy)
H (Heat-Causing Weapon)
M (Missile Weapon)
P (Pulse Weapons)
R (Rapid-Fire Weapons)
BATTLE AMOR WEAPONS
Conventional Infantry Weapons on Battle Armor
Battle Armor Melee Attacks
DAMAGE TO VEHICLE PILOTS/MECHWARRIORS
PHYSICAL ATTACKS
Charge/Ram Attack Damage
*END PHASE
HEAT ('MECHS AND FIGHTERS)
*SPECIAL PILOT ABILITIES
Acquiring Special Piloting Abilities
GUNNERY ABILITIES
Blood Stalker
Fist Fire
Marksman
Multi-Tasker
Oblique Attacker
Range Master
Sharpshooter
Sniper
Weapon Specialist
PILOTING ABILITIES
Dodge
Hot Dog
Heavy Lifter
Jumping Jack
Maneuvering Ace
Melee Specialist
Natural Grace
Speed Demon
MISCELLANEOUS ABILITIES
Combat Intuition
Demoralizer
Tactical Genius

Well, there ya go...I"m sure lot's in there to chew on and speculate about. Enjoy!

See ya next time.

Randall