N3 Helper Sheet for (teaching) beginners

That's true, I was just a little startled by the "there's no situation where you'd ever want to Idle" phrasing. And Idling is indeed a cleaner way to do this.

 

The number of times I've watched my opponent declare "idle" as their first skill with their fire team, and spend 2-3 orders shooting in a tough ARO situation, then realise that, actually, it would have been waaaaay better to move the rest of the team up while the team leader shot...

I'm more than happy to let them continue to make the mistake, but you really shouldn't be actively teaching bad play to new players.

And no, I disagree, move does everything you require idle to do for baiting AROs.

 

Maybe, but then you wouldn't be able to tell your opponent "This troop activates, and as their first Short Skill they wave their hand at your guys and smile", because that's clearly not a Move [emoji14]

 

A trooper doesn't need to be able to gain LOF to make use of Warning. Even strictest RAW there is no requirement to gain LOF only to "to modify the arc of his LoF so the attacker is within it." The subject of that sentence is the "arc of his LoF", so "it" refers to "the arc of his LoF" not to "his LoF". So it is ALWAYS possible to achieve this (even when Engaged, in a Zero Vis Zone, or while IMM).

There's also an extant FAQ for Change Facing that means you don't need to gain LOF as the result of a Change Facing declaration. I think it's a reasonable argument that it could also applied to Warning! because of the similarity of the language. But personally, I'm happy with the RAW answer so have never pursued that argument.

Aside for PSA: it's also possible to declare Warning! on your active turn.

 

Several more things worth mentioning:
1. You can actually crawl (move while Prone) up to 2" during Guts Roll, as Guts has a fixed MOV of 2" that cannot be modified. If I find the reference thread, I will later link it to this post.
2. Doctor allows you to heal troops in NWI.
3. Kinematika can increase the range of Dodge and Engage.
4. In some places you use numerals like 1st or 2nd, in other places it's 1. and 2.
5. Jump saves you from Fall Damage if your first MOV is enough to reach a level surface.
6. CC Attack: what are you trying to say by "Dodge to move 1mm away"? I'm an experienced player and I couldn't understand this right away (though later it came to me), imagine a newbie in my place :)
7. I would remove damage stats from Mines as there are different kinds of those. You don't list damage stats for BS Attack, why do it here? Also, Mines are usually deployed Concealed and thus they benefit from Camouflaged, as well as Mimetism.
8. Intuitive Attack can also be used to deploy a Mine that would have a CH token in its Trigger Area.
9. Discover has no requirement for the target to be a Marker.
10. Dodge has a -3 MOD against Deployable Weapons that use Templates.

 

I've only just looked at this in detail. So the formatting 'issue' I have: you're obscuring the Order Expenditure Sequence. I'd bring that to the fore, because one of the best things you can do early (but not usually immediately) is explicitly teach it. So much of Infinity's weirdness is explained by that one thing.

I'd do this by making 2 sheets:
* 1 explains the match structure (including explaining the order of deployment and any other pre-game stuff ie. telling your opponent what faction you're playing as per this thread) and the turn structure (this allows you to explain command token usage) (ie. covering Initiative and Deployment and then the Game Sequence)
* 1 explains the order structure and common skills

The sheet you have at the moment is the second. So I'd remove things like "Active Player: Collect Orders". That section belongs in something that explains the structure of a turn not the structure of an order. This also allows you to deal with Impetuous orders better; they need to be spend in an Impetuous Phase which is distinct from the main 'Orders Phase'.

What you want that middle column to read is:

1. Activation.
Declare which trooper(s) will activate. Co-ord orders get declared at this time.

2. Order expenditure. Spending a Command Token to flip Irregular orders Regular happens here.

3/4/5/6. You can do like the 'Short Move'/'Entire'/'Short Skill' with brackets showing where that step is.

You need to add Coherency checks to step 3. After the short skill is declared prior to moving any models. People forget coherency checks all the time, it's important to teach them well.

7. Resolution. Visually group all the bits from "Resolve order" to "Roll dice" together, so it shows that they're all linked structurally.

8. Effects. Apply effects and Warning!

9. Conclusion. A couple of things happen at the Conclusion of the order, not just Guts
* Deployables are considered deployed
* If all of an Engaged trooper’s adversaries are in Null or Immobilized state, the trooper’s player must decide whether to keep the * Engaged state, or cancel it by separating the trooper by 1mm from the adversaries
* Guts

10. End of the Order
Final Coherency Check (this was created in HSN3 "the player must check Coherency at the end of the Order, once the Conclusion has finished, after having performed any movement due to a failed Guts Roll or any other rule)"

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Couple of corrections.

* Impact Template weapons suffer the -3 to hit from cover. It's more correct to say: Cover (-3), Direct Template Weapons ignore Cover.

* In BS Attack make the note "Place templates during declaration"

* Intuitive Attack "WIP roll is [normally] unmodified". Suppression Fire and Full Auto modify the WIP roll, as can some other things (Hacking for instance).

* No LOF is a 'problem' in Infinity. Do you mean 'No LOF' as in "ignores total cover" or 'No LOF' as in "regardless of facing" or 'No LOF' as in "can be used through a Zero Vis Zone'? Intuitive Attack means "can be used through a Zero Vis Zone" whereas Speculative Fire means "ignores total cover, regardless of facing and can be used through a Zero Vis Zone". I'd use a the cross-out eye to only mean "No visibility" (ie through a Zero Vis Zone) and a crossed-out wall to mean "ignoring total cover".

* Reset. So there's an awful/cool interaction between Reset and SSL1. A SSL1 Hacker can delay their ARO inside ZOC and prevent Reset being declared as Reset is only valid "After a Hacking or Comms Attack / whilst IMM / as an ARO when enemy model in ZOC".

* Engage. It's not "Move up to 2" " it's "Against enemy model that moves within 2" ", you can move an infinite distance (its basically a teleport). It's also important to note that the active player places the Engaging model.

 

@n21lv Dodge has a -3 against deployable template weapons. Other deployables such as MadTraps don't impose this MOD. Otherwise good observations :)

 

hey,

cool work! if its ok i will use it also to introduce some new players!

is "lean out" part of the concept to mention some skills while "lean out" is a general order option?

greetz

 

Yes, I meant exactly those, don't know why I chose to use the shorthand :) Usually I'm very specific.

 

True. My point was Dogged also counts as an Unconscious state, but it is not compatible with healing, unlike NWI. Maybe it's better to list that as an exception instead.

You're not entirely wrong, but also not completely correct :) Troopers with Holoprojector are one of the exceptions here (as well as the recent addition of Decoy skill). One example where you can declare Discover against Troopers that are not hidden in the form of a Marker are models in Holoecho state. While technically in a Marker state (I hate this term as it's not described anywhere in the rules), Holoechoes can be represented by miniatures, and you're not required to place a Holoecho marker next to one of them before you start your first Active turn, so your opponent can actually Discover one of them despite them not having any kind of marker nearby. You can also try to discover a Trooper that is using Holoprojector L1 -- it also doesn't use any kind of Marker.

You still have to use the -3 MOD when rolling Dodge against a deployable template weapon, even if you have LoF to it. Maybe it's not worth a full-text mention, but I would probably have it as a footnote or something.