Is it valid to declare a Short Skill at step 3 of the Order Expenditure Sequence and then declare a Short Movement Skill at step 5? http://infinitythewiki.com/en/Order_Expenditure_Sequence Edit: nevermind. This FAQ makes it clear it's legal. "Q: That means that if I declare my first Short Skill while in Cover, my opponents may declare their Attacks when this trooper is in Cover even if my second Short Skill is a movement that takes it out of that Cover? A: No. The opponents will declare the Skills that they are going to use, with all the corresponding details. But the Attacks are made at the best point of the movement for the one who declares the Attack."
The Order Expenditure Sequence chart has been garbage since the book came out. Because it doesn't actually explain import things like "What happens if a trooper just wants to declare Move and then not declare a second skill?" But, more importantly, the Structure of an Order section says: In other words, the expenditure of an Order allows the activated trooper to declare one of the following combinations of Skills: Any one Entire Order Skill. Any one Short Movement Skill plus any one Short Movement Skill. Any one Short Movement Skill plus any one Short Skill (and vice versa).
Because you started it, I read the Coordinated Orders page, and now I'm sad. In her Active Turn, a PanOceanian player coordinates a group of 3 Fusiliers and 1 Orc Troop to mount an attack against a Raicho, a Morat TAG of the Combined Army. The PanOceanian player spends a Command Tokenand a Regular Order, and assigns the Spearhead role to the Orc Troop by placing a Spearhead Marker beside it. Then, she declares the first Short Skill of her Coordinated Order: Move. The Morat TAG can only declare ARO against one of the four PanOceanian troopers in its LoF, so it declares a BS Attack against the Spearheading Orc Troop. The Orc's BS is higher and his B, even halved, is better than that of the coordinated Fusiliers, so he is more likely to inflict serious damage. The PanOceanian player declares the second Short Skill of her Coordinated Order: BS Attack against the Morat TAG. The exchange is resolved with a Face to Face BS Roll between the Orc Troop, whose MULTI Rifle has its Burst reduced to 2, and the Raicho. The three Fusiliers, meanwhile, make one Normal BS Roll each, as their B is 1. Both of the examples do that.
