Introduction
Q13 is a company-sized game covering
science fiction warfare aimed primarily at
using 6-15mm figures. It uses the same basic
mechanics as the other TooFatLardies rules I
Ain’t Been Shot, Mum! (IABSM) and Charlie
Don’t Surf (CDS), but is as different in flavour
from them as they are from each other.
The “company-sized” may be a bit of a
paradigm shift for many sci-fi gamers, but the
marketplace is pretty packed full of platoon-
sized sci-fi skirmish games, and I wanted to
produce something that covered sci-fi warfare
on a larger scale.
Q13 is therefore not a game designed to be
played with a couple of squads on each side.
Much like IABSM, it won’t really work unless
you have a minimum of a couple of platoons
on each side, and really comes into its own
with at least one of the sides fielding a full
supported company.
The rules are divided into two sections. The
first section covers building your army. Q13
doesn’t come with any fluff: the rules
themselves are completely generic. What the
first section does is provide a framework into
which you, the player, must fit the armies you
wish to field. This framework will translate the
vast variety of concepts possible in an
effectively infinite science fiction universe into
a common idiom, allowing the game’s systems
to operate. You can effectively field anything
that you can represent with a figure.
The second section covers gameplay, and
players of IABSM and CDS will recognise the
basic mechanics.
Note that Q13 is hard sci-fi. You have to
forget the idea of a handful of super-
armoured men romping their way up the
battlefield spewing death to alien hordes
whilst remaining untouched themselves. In Q13,
the alien hordes have read the rules and army
generation options as well!
This concept of increased lethality took the
playtesters a little time to get to grips with,
especially if they had a background in
historical gaming.
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They tended to stick to tried and tested 20th
Century tactics such as a bit of suppressing fire
then advancing forward by rushes, but this
didn’t work very well for them. They had to
start thinking about advanced technologies
such as what you can do with what we would
call electronic warfare.
Why risk your precious troops in advancing
towards the unknown? Deploy scanners from
the baseline, or send forward scouting drones.
Now you know where the enemy’s troops are,
interfere with their communications. The rules
allow you to field electronic warfare
specialists who can reduce the command pips
available to enemy Big Men by jamming their
comms…unless, of course, they have the same
idea!
Another real point of difference is the third
dimension. Airpower in IABSM or CDS can be
very significant, especially in CDS, but is still
an occasional factor. In Q13, however, there
tend to be a multitude of flying units on either
side, be they infantry with wings or jetpacks,
or some kind of flight-capable vehicle.
The second thing most people familiar with the
game think about when constructing their
armies is anti-aircraft protection of some kind!
To sum up, Q13 is an attempt to translate the
core Lardy principle of playing the period not
the rules to a period that is defined really by
your own imagination.
The rules provide a hard ‘realistic’ framework
for you to construct your own ‘historical’
background for your games, and contain the
same sort of generic scenario-generation tools
that Platoon Forward and the IABSM v3
rulebook do to allow you to easily play pick-
up games with an opponent using a different
‘historical reality’.
I hope you have as much fun constructing your
army lists and backgrounds, and playing
games, as I have had in designing Q13.
Robert Avery, November 2012
 Index
1. Concepts 2.6. Specialists
1.1. The Game 2.7. Vehicles
1.2. A Note on Language 2.7.1. Roles
2.7.2. Order of Battle
1.3. Playing the Game
2.7.3. Crew, Weaponry & Armour
1.4. Ground Scale 2.7.3.1. Close Combat Vehicles
1.5. Basing your Figures 2.7.3.2. Crew
1.6. Terrain, Atmosphere & Gravity 2.7.4. Expertise, Morale & Big Men
1.7. Time Scale 2.7.5. Vehicle Movement
2.7.5.1. Ground Vehicle Movement
1.8. The Game Deck: Cards 2.7.5.2. Liquid Vehicle Movement
1.9. Definitions 2.7.5.3. Fast & Slow Vehicles
1.10. Army Lists 2.7.5.4. Flying Vehicles
1.10.1. Representation 2.7.5.5. Battlefield Insertion
1.10.2. Coherence & Consistency 2.7.6. Vehicles & Specialists
1.10.3. On Play Balance 2.8. Characteristic Cards
1.11. Glossary of Terms 2.9. Force Composition
2.10. Off-Table Support Units
2.11. An Example of an Army List
2. Your Troops 2.11.1. Tech Level
2.1. Elements of your Army List 2.11.2. Troops
2.2. Technology Levels 2.11.3. Vehicles
2.2.1. Artificial Intelligence 2.12. Chrome
2.3. Big Men 2.12.1. Simple Chrome
2.4. Infantry 2.12.2. More Complicated Chrome
2.4.1. Roles 2.12.3. Applying Chrome
2.4.2. Order of Battle 2.13. Standard Formats/Quick Checklists
2.4.3. Weight
2.4.4. Expertise & Number of Actions
2.4.5. Number of Big Men Available 3. The Game Turn
2.4.6. Equipment 3.1. The Game Deck
2.4.6.1. Armour & Shields 3.1.1. Compulsory Cards
2.4.6.2. Devices That Aid Movement 3.1.1.1. The Commercial Break Card
2.5. Support Weapons 3.1.1.2. Blinds Cards
2.5.1. Roles 3.1.1.3. Platoon Cards
2.5.2. Order of Battle 3.1.1.4. Big Man Cards
2.5.3. Size, Targeting, Load & RoF 3.1.1.5. Specialist Cards
2.5.3.1. Targeting 3.1.1.6. Off-Table Support Cards
2.5.3.2. Load 3.1.2. Optional Cards
2.5.3.3. Example Strike Values 3.1.2.1. Cards re Firing Troops
2.5.3.4. Examples by Role 3.1.2.2. Cards re Movement
2.5.4. Expertise & Available Big Men 3.1.2.3. Cards re Spotting
3.1.2.4. Cards re Morale

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4. Command & Control
4.1. Command Initiative
4.1.1. Using Command Initiative
4.1.2. Chain of Command
4.1.3. Isolated Big Men
4.1.4. Attaching Big Men to Units
4.1.5. Can a Big Man Activate a Unit
that has Already Been Activated?
4.1.6. Big Men & Units on Blinds?
4.1.7. Vehicle Platoon Orders
4.2. Actions
4.2.1. Using Actions: Infantry &
Specialists
4.2.2. Using Actions: Support Weapons
& Vehicles
4.2.3. Overwatch: Reserving Dice
5.5. Non-Stopper Flying Vehicles
5.6. Stopper Flying Vehicles
5.7. A Note on Flying Vehicles
5.8. Boats and SUBS
5.9. Water Movement
5.10. Battlefield Insertion
5.11. Effects of Gravity & Atmosphere
6. Spotting
6.1. Who Can Spot
6.2. How to Spot
6.3. Automatic Spotting
6.4. Artificial Illumination

7. Direct Fire At Foot

5. Movement 7.1. Infantry Firing at Foot
5.1. Hidden Movement Under Blinds 7.1.1. Multiple Targets
5.1.1. Hidden Blinds 7.1.2. Big Men Directing Fire
5.1.2. False Blinds 7.2. Support Weapons Firing At Foot
5.1.3. Number of Blinds Available 7.2.1. Bolt Weapons
5.1.4. Blinds Moving Into Close Combat 7.2.2. Autoguns
5.1.5. Partial Move On A Blind 7.2.2.1. What to Roll
5.1.6. Blinds & Aircraft 7.2.2.2. Autoguns: Pinning
5.2. Tabletop Movement for Foot Troops 7.2.3. Boom Weapons
5.2.1. Rules for Support Weapons 7.2.3.1. What to Roll
5.2.2. Effects of Shock on Movement 7.2.3.2. Missing their Target
5.2.3. Movement in Varying Terrain 7.2.3.3. What Happens if they Hit
5.2.4. Changing Facing 7.2.4. Flame Weapons
5.2.5. Interpenetration 7.2.4.1. What to Roll
5.2.6. Unit Integrity 7.3. Vehicles Firing At Foot
5.2.7. Effects of Casualties 7.3.1. Boom Weapons
5.2.8. Digging In & Hunkering Down 7.3.2. Autoguns
5.3. Movement for Foot Troops Using PMS 7.4. Using the Fire Table
5.3.1. Benefits of Grounded PMS 7.5. The Fire Table
5.3.1.1. Muscle-Powered 7.6. Effect of Hits
5.3.1.2. Engine-Powered 7.6.1. Effect of Casualties
5.3.1.3. Terrain-Skimming 7.6.1.1. Benefits of Armour/Shields
5.3.1.4. Horse-Sized Animals
7.6.2. Casualties & Big Men/Specialists
5.3.1.5. Elephant Sized Animals
7.6.3. Ambush
5.3.2. Benefits of Non-Contact PMS
5.4. Tabletop Movement for Vehicles
5.4.1. Crossing Obstacles
5.4.2. Bogging Down
5.4.3. Vehicles in Convoy

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8. Indirect & Off-Table Fire at Foot 14. Shock & Awe
8.1. Minimum Ranges 14.1. Effect on Movement
8.2. Types of Barrage 14.2. Effect on Firing
8.3. Indirect Fire from on the Tabletop 14.3. Effect on Vehicles
8.4. Adjusting Tabletop Indirect Fire 14.4. Awe
8.5. Indirect Fire from Off-Table 14.5. Rallying Shock
14.5.1. A Big Man Rallies a Unit
14.5.2. Medics
9. Preliminary Bombardments 14.5.3. The Rally Card

15. Specialists
10. Direct Fire at Ground Vehicles 15.1. Drones & Drone Operators
10.1. Acquiring the Target 15.2. Snipers
10.2. Hitting the Target 15.3. Electronic Warfare Systems
10.3. Effects of a Hit 15.4. Forward Observers
10.3.1. Effects of a Hit on AFVs
15.5. Medics
10.3.2. Effects of a Hit on APCs
10.3.3. Effects of a Hit on Softskins
10.3.4. Flame Weapons vs Vehicles 16. Close Combat
10.3.5. Collateral Damage
16.1. Results of Close Combat
16.2. Close Combat Capable Vehicles in
11. Indirect Fire at Ground Close Combat
Vehicles 16.2.1. Versus Infantry
16.2.2. Versus Vehicles
12. Infantry Squads Firing at 16.3. Infantry Over-Runs
16.3.1. Tracks vs Foot in the Open
Vehicles 16.3.2. Tracks vs Dug-In Foot
12.1. Infantry Squads vs AFVs 16.4. Ramming Vehicles
12.2. Infantry Squads vs Softskins

17. Engineers/Battlefield Features

13. AA Fire and Air-to-Air Combat 17.1. Combat Demolition
13.1. Anti-Aircraft Fire 17.2. Smoke
13.2. Air-to-Air Combat 17.3. Minefields
13.2.1. Non-Stoppers 17.3.1. Clearing Minefields
13.2.2. Stoppers 17.4. Defensive Wire
17.5. Buildings & Works
17.5.1. Support Weapons Firing at
Buildings & Bunkers
17.5.2. Burning Buildings

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18. Other Technology Manufacturers of 15mm Sci-Fi Figures et al.
18.1. Ablative Armour (current at time of publication!)
18.2. Invisibility & Chameleon Gear 15mm.co.uk
18.3. EMP Antenociti's Workshop
18.4. Shield Generators Armies Army
18.5. Regeneration & Self-Repair ArtCrime Productions
18.6. Slave Devices & Mind Control Astro Miniatures
Battlestations
18.7. Teleport
Black Cat Bases
18.8. Time Travel Black Hat Miniatures
18.8.1. Going Forward in Time Blue Moon Manufacturing
18.8.2. Going Back in Time Brigade Models
18.9. Nuclear, Biological & Chemical Clockwork Goblin Minis
Weapons Combat Wombat
18.10. Suicide Drones CP Models
Critical Mass Games
Darkest Star Games
19. Mission Generator Eureka Miniatures
19.1. Mission Cards GZG (Ground Zero Games)
19.2. Defining the Tabletop Highlander Studios
Hydra Miniatures
19.2.1. Defining the Terrain
Irregular Miniatures
19.2.2. Defining the Forces
Khurasan Miniatures
Mission Card 1: The Prepared Attack Kremlin Miniatures
LKM Direct (QRF)
Mission Card 2: The Hasty Attack Mad Robot Miniatures
Mega Miniatures
Mission Card 3: The Flank Attack Micropanzer Wargames Studio
MJ Figures
Mission Card 4: Exploitation Moonfleet Miniatures
Old Crow Models
Mission Card 5: Counter Attack
Oddziel Osmy
Mission Card 6: The Encounter Mission Peter Pig
Pole Bitwy
Mission Card 7: The Rearguard Mission Proxie Models
RAFM
Mission Card 8: The Screening Attack Rebel Miniatures
Spartan Games
Splintered Light Miniatures
Spriggan Miniatures
Quick Reference Sheets Stan Johansen Miniatures
Team Frog
The Scene
Top Gun Marketing
Trench 2114
Zombiesmith

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 Section One: Concepts
1.1 The Game
Quadrant 13, or Q13 for short, is designed
for playing company-sized science fiction
battles. Each side will therefore consist of
between one and five platoons of infantry
(say 30 to 150 figures) supported by a
number of heavier, support weapons and/or
vehicles.
It is not designed as a skirmish game based
around forces of around a platoon’s strength,
or to replicate the sort of asymmetrical
warfare that typify conflicts in 1960’s Vietnam
and modern day Afghanistan. It is about two
company-sized sci-fi forces fighting a stand-up
battle with each other.
As such, players should embrace the command
level that they are being asked to replicate.
As ‘company commanders’ they must make
company command-sized decisions, and thus
accept a small degree of abstraction in order
for that size of game to actually play. It is for
those further down the command ladder to
worry about what each member of each
individual squad is actually up to i.e. although
players will find there is plenty of game play
with individual figures, Q13’s systems handle
the fine detail of squad command, leaving the
player free to focus on the overall company-
sized picture.
1.2 A Note On Language
I had originally thought to write these rules
using as many ‘science fiction’ terms as
possible: units, for example, would be
described as being an “8-being squad” rather
than an “8-man squad”. Although mildly
engaging at first, I have found that this swiftly
becomes annoying for all except those
prepared to immerse themselves in Q13 to an
extent that could be described as unhealthy.
All language will therefore be rationalised to
modern usage as much as possible, with “Man”
or “Men” used to represent a being of any
sex from any species.
Note that Q13 derives from an article written
in the TFL Xmas Special 2009 that gave a
much briefer suggestion as to how to adapt I
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Ain’t Been Shot, Mum! (TFL’s popular rules for
WW2 gaming) to the science fiction milieu.
That article was called Get Your Frickin’
Tentacle Out Of My Face and, as a result, the
nick-name of Tentacle stuck to these, fully
complete rules throughout play-testing and
beyond.
So please do not be confused if you encounter
discussion of Tentacle anywhere: the term is
synonymous with Q13!
1.3 Playing The Game
In order to play you will need figures, a
playing surface ideally 6’ by 4’ or larger,
suitable terrain, dice, Blinds, and a set of
cards that form the Q13 Game Deck.
Within Q13, the main dice referred to are six-
sided D6. Being English, and notorious for
abusing our own mother tongue, we use the
term “dice” to refer to one or more of these.
Various dice types are used within the rules,
and these are described as follows:
D6 A six-sided cube with faces marked
from 1 to 6.
D10 A ten-sided dice marked from 0 to 9.
DAv An “average dice”; a cube with faces
marked 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5.
Deviation Dice A six-sided dice with two
faces marked “Hit”, and four with
arrows pointing in one direction
A number shown before the dice type
indicates how many dice should be rolled. For
example, 2D6 means that you should throw
two six-sided dice.
If a D3 is referred to, roll a D6 and halve the
result, rounding up any fractions. If you don’t
already have one, a D20 can be simulated by
rolling a D6 and a D10, with a score of 1-3
on the D6 meaning the D10 shows 1-10, and
a score of 4-6 on the D6 meaning the D10
shows 11-20.
Q13 is a card driven game system, and to
play you will need a Game Deck. You’ll also
require Blinds, which are used to represent
unspotted troops. All of these are available to
download free from the TooFatLardies Yahoo
Group.
1.4 Ground Scale
The ground scale used in Q13 is 12” = 80
yards, which looks good with figures between
10mm and 20mm in size and at 1:300 is a
perfect fit with anyone using 6mm figures.
1.5 Basing Your Figures
Q13 is flexible and can use any consistent
basing standard.
All that is important to consider is that you will
need to be able to identify your different units
and Big Men, and keep track of casualties.
1.6 Terrain, Atmosphere & Gravity
The alien landscapes that form the table-top
battlefields in Q13 are divided into the
following types of terrain: Open/Hard
Ground; Light/Broken Terrain; Heavy Terrain;
and Impossible Terrain. More detail is given in
the table below.
It is very likely that the state of the terrain will
influence how easily a unit can be seen.
However it is worth noting that sometimes a
unit can be moving in Broken Terrain, such as
crossing a very muddy field, but be clearly
visible as if on hard ground. Alternatively the
unit may be moving freely on Hard Ground,
but be difficult to see by an enemy unit
because of intervening linear terrain such as a
hedge or the tree canopy above.
The battlefield (or perhaps even areas of the
battlefield) can also be defined as being low
gravity or high gravity, otherwise gravity is
assumed to be close enough to normal so as to
have no effect on the game.
The battlefield (or perhaps even areas of the
battlefield) can be defined as being low
atmosphere i.e. the air is very thin. This will
affect some types of flying troops.
Likewise, the battlefield (or perhaps even
areas of the battlefield) can be defined as
being poisonous to one or more species
present. This will mean that that species will
require breathing apparatus of some kind,
and could have an effect on such things as
spotting (it’s hard to see in a gas mask) or
damage taken (suit punctures are not pleasant
in a vacuum).
As the universe is infinitely variable, the
players should be certain at the start of the
game that they are all aware just what the
model scenery on the tabletop represents,
what gravity exists, and what the atmosphere
is like.

Types of Terrain, Gravity & Atmosphere

Open/Hard Ground
Light/Broken Terrain
Heavy Terrain
Impossible Terrain
This covers terrain where a man can walk unimpeded.
This is where movement is impeded slightly. On a planet similar to the
Earth, muddy ground, shale, packed snow, loose sand or light
vegetation would be typical.
This is where the going is getting tough: the sci-fi equivalent of deep
and cloying mud, deep sand or snow, vegetation that needs to be
pushed through etc.
This is terrain where in times of peace you probably would not go.
Examples include cliffs, dangerous ice, swamp, vegetation so thick that
in places it must be cut through.

Gravity Low gravity, high gravity

Atmosphere Low, poisonous.

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1.7 Time Scale
In broad terms the use of the card based turn
sequence is designed to represent bursts of
action and initiative on the battlefield rather
than any specific or defined period of time.
Consequently, the duration of a turn can be
considered to be variable length, where the
Commercial Break card represents intermittent
natural breaks and lulls in the battle.
Although a turn can therefore cover a period
of time from a few seconds up to several
minutes, if a more precise definition is needed
for any reason (“the tanks arrive after six
minutes”) assume each turn represents roughly
one minute of real time.
1.8 The Game Deck: Cards
We use cards to represent the ebb and flow
of battle, to make the structure of each turn
entirely variable so that the gamer has to be
constantly aware of the changing face of the
battle that is unfolding before him.
There is no certainty in war, and that element
of uncertainty and even chaos does need to
be represented if our games are to be
credible representations of combat.
Hovertanks from Blue Moon Manufacturing
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The commanders of your forces, Big Men in the
parlance of the rules, are the ones who restore
order and get the job done. Use these men
wisely and you can work to plans; put the best
men in charge of the toughest jobs and you
will be half way to victory.
1.9 Definitions
The main difference between Q13 and those
Lardy products based on historical conflict is
the lack of historical background for the
troops to be deployed on the table.
For example, in TFL’s company-sized WW2
game I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum! each vehicle
model represents an historical vehicle, and you
know such things as what gun was fitted onto
that vehicle and how fast it could move.
Likewise for force and scenario generation
one can research exactly which troops fought
where and with what. I’d love to arm my early
war British troops in the Far East with loads of
Vickers machine guns, but I know that (a) they
weren’t integral to infantry battalions and (b)
were noticeably in short supply.
With sci-fi games, however, there is no fact to
fall back on: that’s why it’s called science
fiction!
Many rule systems get round this problem by
providing incredibly elaborate backgrounds
to make up for this deficit, often being
published hand in hand with ranges of
specifically designed figures. Sometimes the
temptation to alter or add to the background
in order to sell more figures, or highly-priced
specialist figures, is just too much, and the
resulting “cheese” is why many wargamers
eschew these games. Other ranges of figures
come without any background beyond one or
two sentences in the sales catalogue. How then
can I give a background for every sci-fi
miniature currently in production?
The answer is, of course, that this is impossible.
The next section of the rules, Your Troops, will
therefore provide a framework into which
players must fit the armies they wish to field.
This framework will translate the vast variety
of concepts possible in an effectively infinite
science fiction universe into a common idiom,
allowing the game’s systems to operate.
These definitions are designed around the
usual Lardy concept of ‘ordered flexibility’: in
that they are a rigid framework with built-in
give or, if you like, a flexible framework with
built-in rigidity. To use another oft-mentioned
Lardy concept: the definitions are a toolbox
from which you can take what you want to
create your army, discarding everything else.
1.10 Army Lists
The first step that you will need to take in
order to play Q13 is therefore to use the
Your Troops section of the rules to create a
background army list for your collection of
figures.
Some of you might use a range of figures with
a background already provided by their
manufacturer, poring over codex after codex
of information to make sure that you are
fielding made-up-historically-correct forces on
the table.
Some of you might use your imagination to
write your own backgrounds for your figures,
mixing ranges where necessary, pondering for
hours on whether the guns your troops carry
fire bullets or bolts of energy.
Whatever you decide to do, there are three
fundamental rules that must be followed when
fielding a force for Q13:
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1.10.1 Representation
You can field anything in the rules provided
you have the figure or vehicle model to
represent it. Thus if you want your squads to
have light support weapons, then you have to
have the figures to do so.
Note that this can be a real problem with
some of the more limited ranges of sci-fi minis
that produce collections with trooper figures
all armed in exactly the same way i.e. without
light support weapons. And try finding mortars
anywhere as well!
1.10.2 Coherence & Consistency
Your background must be coherent and
consistent. Throughout history, armies have
been ordered into squads and fireteams
backed up by smaller numbers of support
weapons attached at platoon, company level
etc. Most of an army has been grunts, with
smaller numbers of elite and/or specialist
troops. Your army must have its structure
clearly defined and have at least some
rationale behind its composition.
1.10.3 A Note On Play Balance
Although the open nature of the Q13 army list
system allows you to create the ultimate super
army, you should embrace the three concepts
of representation, coherence and consistency
in order to maintain play balance. As some
wargamers would put it: avoid cheese!
An example of how to create an army list is
given at the end of the Your Troops section.
1.11 Glossary Of Terms
The following terms are key to Q13:
Action: when a unit is activated it has a
number of Actions that is may use for moving,
firing, spotting or undertaking other tasks such
as searching or taking cover.
Activation: a unit is activated when its own
card is dealt or when a Big Man uses his
Command Initiative to activate all or part of it.
When activated, a unit may perform Actions.
Awe: Infantry squads or support weapons will
suffer the effect of Awe when their Shock level
exceeds the number of men remaining in the Pinned: units fired on may become Pinned.
unit. As soon as this happens, the unit will fall Being pinned affects their firing and stops
back if in the open, light cover or in buildings; them moving. This is a temporary state which
lasts only until the next Commercial Break card
or if in entrenchments or bunkers, troops will
is dealt.
be silenced, unable to move or fire. Shock: Shock is key to the automatic morale
system within the rules. Shock accumulates on a
Big Men: there are the key leaders in your
unit, affecting its performance. Shock is not
force. Not all Officers and NCOs are Big
permanent, it may be removed by a Big Man
Men: these are those special handful who
rallying the unit. A unit’s shock level should be
determine the course of war through their
indicated using wither a suitable marker, such
leadership. When activated, Big Men may use
as wounded figures, or by an unobtrusive
their Command Initiative to influence the units
micro-dice.
around them.
Strike Value: support weapons are graded
Blinds: Blinds are markers which allow simple
by Strike Value (SV) usually determined by
hidden movement to be used. Blinds markers
the weight of fire that they can put out.
are oval or rectangular shapes 6½” wide and
4” deep, with suitable artwork to allow
Suppressed: units fired on may become
identification of which army they represent.
Suppressed, stopping them from moving or
firing. This is a temporary state which lasts
Close Combat: close combat occurs when
only until the next Commercial Break card id
infantry of support weapons come within 4” of
dealt. At that point the suppressed unit
each other. This is the point where firepower
becomes Pinned until the following Commercial
dictates that a decisive combat must occur with
Break.
one or both sides giving up ground.
Tech Level: the overall level of technology
Command Initiative: every Big Man has a
for an army. Tech levels in Q13 range from 0
number of Command Initiatives that he may
to 4.
use to influence the men around him: activating
squads, support weapons or vehicles; rallying
Turn Sequence: there is no set turn sequence
his men; or issuing orders.
in Q13. The run of the cards dictates the order
in which units are activated. Once activated,
Commercial Break: The Commercial Break
units may use their Actions for different tasks
card signifies the end of each turn.
in any order they wish.
Fire Table: the fire table is used to find out the
results of firing. It shows the number of hits on
the target unit and the morale effect of the
fire.

Game Deck: the cards that are used to dictate

the run of play are in included in the Game
Deck. When the Commercial Break card ends
the turn, all the cards are returned to the deck
and shuffled before the next turn commences.

Morale Level: Q13 uses a system of automatic

morale. An infantry squad or support
weapon’s morale is represented by the
number of figures they have available.
Vehicles have a morale level set between two
and five depending on their expertise and
therefore confidence. New Vistula Legion from Oddzial Osmy

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 Section Two: Your Troops
2.1 Elements Of Your Army List
Your army list should contain the following
elements:
Tech Level: the overall level of technology for
your army. Tech levels in Q13 range from 0 to
4.
Big Men: although all commanders are
represented in Q13, not all have that special
something that makes them the ultimate
battlefield leaders. Your Big Men are those
leaders who actually make things happen:
activating troops, removing shock, calling in air
support and other command functions.
Infantry: a description of the infantry
contingent of your army. Infantry are defined
in terms of role, order of battle, weight,
expertise and other equipment. Note that
what historical and fantasy gamers call
cavalry (both the mounted on horses and
mounted on APCs variety) are dealt with
under the infantry rules.
Support Weapons: support weapons represent
any weapon that is not an integral part of an
infantry squad e.g. artillery. Support weapons
are defined in terms of role, order of battle,
strike value, how they target their target, what
type of projectile or beam that they fire, and
whether they have the capacity for full
automatic fire or not.
Specialists: specialists represent specifically
trained individuals such as snipers and
forward observers who are not part of an
infantry squad but are usually attached at
company or platoon level.
Vehicles: a description of any vehicles that
are part of your army. Vehicles are defined in
terms of role, order of battle, weaponry,
armour, function (e.g. troop carrying capacity),
and how they move (wheels, tracks, anti-grav
devices etc.)
Characteristic Cards: certain armies, or
individual units within those armies, will have a
particular characteristic that it is worth noting.
For example, a force that is particularly fleet
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of foot may get a bonus movement card in the
deck to represent their speed.
Infantry, support weapons not mounted on
vehicles, and specialists are collectively known
as Foot.
2.2. Technology Levels
There are four technology levels available in
Q13:
Tech 0: anything prior to late 20th century
earth i.e. before the invention of practical
computing, radio, television, nuclear power,
the jet engine, antibiotics, space travel…any
of the things that really make life worth living!
Tech 1: approximately equivalent to late 20th
century Earth. Distance weapons fire
projectiles thrown by chemical explosion;
missiles and drones generally require an
operator rather than having their own AI;
vehicles are powered by the internal
combustion engine. No ability to control
gravitational force, no ability to generate
forcefields, limited robotics, and extremely
limited space travel capacity.
Tech 2: Beam weapons are now possible.
Smart missiles and drones are now the norm.
Alternative power sources are available.
Limited ability to control gravitational force
and generate forcefields. Effective space
travel and robotics are now possible. The
world of Red Dwarf or the Terminator.
Tech 3: As above, but space travel, control of
gravitational force and generation of
forcefields are now easy. Computers are
routinely as intelligent as their masters. The
world of Star Wars.
Tech 4: As above but bigger, better and
shinier! Teleportation and cloaking devices are
now possible. The world of Star Trek and the
Polity.
Note that not all technologies should
necessarily be available to an army list at a
particular tech level (your Tech 3 troops might
not have forcefield technology for example,
but are able to operate anti-grav vehicles).
All technology fielded by an army receives a
factor of the Tech Level as the bonus given on
any roll where that technology could have an
effect.
Your army might include figures with a Tech 2
scanner: when spotting, that unit would get a
+2 bonus to its spotting rolls.
2.2.1. Artificial Intelligence
Note that at Tech 2 and higher, all Big Men,
infantry, support weapons, specialists and
vehicles may be controlled by artificial
intelligence rather than by a being.
So a force of 23rd Century humans might use
automated robot guns run by computers rather
than artillery crewed by men. The rules do not
differentiate between units operated by
beings or by AI.
2.3. Big Men
Even though all of a unit's leaders might be
represented on the table, not all will count as
Big Men. Big Men are the men of the
battlefield who do more than order: they
inspire. Whether officers, NCOs or even
occasionally humble soldiers, they are the men
who will actually make things happen.
In Q13, Big Men can activate units, remove
shock, call in off-table artillery and a host of
other useful things. The number of Big Men
available to a force is defined under the
infantry, support weapons and vehicle sections
of the rules, below.
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2.4. Infantry
The infantry contingent of your army list is
defined in terms of role, order of battle,
weight, expertise and equipment.
2.4.1. Roles
Each infantry unit represented on the table
should have its fundamental role defined. This
is the basic function of the unit. There are six
infantry roles in Q13:
Leg Infantry: your standard footslogger, the
core of any army.
Assault Infantry: better quality, and often
armoured, infantry designed to lead the way
in any attacks. Also used for infantry
considerable larger or stronger than a
standard human; or who are renowned for
being especially ferocious in close combat.
Mobile Infantry: infantry trained to fight from
armoured personnel carriers or using their own
personal movement systems e.g. jet packs.
Mobile Assault: a combination of Assault
infantry and Mobile infantry
Recon: specialist scouts: infantry trained in
reconnaissance. They can receive bonuses to
spotting and movement.
Engineers: infantry trained in the arts of
military engineering e.g. military construction
and assaults on military constructions, mine
laying/detecting etc. They can receive a
bonus when dealing with such things as
minefields and barbed wire.
Note that the name of your infantry unit might
be different from its rules-defined role. The XI
Assault Regiment could, for example, be leg
infantry, assault infantry, mobile infantry or
specialist engineers.
2.4.2. Order Of Battle: Infantry Squads
The infantry contingent of your force must be
organised into squads, platoons and
companies.
The basic unit of infantry is the squad: an
element with a strength of usually around
eight to ten men (but more or less is fine)
consisting of a leader and a number of sub-
leaders and fireteams based either around
individual weapons or light support weapons.
Infantry squads must be organised into
platoons of two to five squads, with the usual
number being three or four.
Infantry platoons must be organised into
companies of two to five platoons, with the
usual number being three or four.
Company HQs can also be the equivalent of a
small platoon e.g. a particular infantry
company might consist of an HQ element of
two squads and then three platoons of four
squads each.
If higher level organisation is required,
companies can be gathered into battalions of
three or four companies, or regiments of five
or more companies.
Note that although in theory squads could be
broken down into their individual fireteams,
this is too granular a level of detail for a
company-sized rule set and, anyway, players
will find that such small units can easily be
overwhelmed and that it is better to keep
Troops/Actions 0 1
Rabble 1, 2, 3, 4 5, 6
Militia 1, 2, 3, 4 5 6, 7
Regular 1, 2, 3 4 5
Veteran 1, 2 3 4
Elite 1 2
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each squad together. Individual fireteams are
therefore not represented in Q13.
2.4.3. Weight
As mentioned above, infantry squads can
consist of leaders, riflemen and light support
weapons. Next the weight of fire that they can
generate must be defined.
Light Squads: light squads have no infantry
support weapons, consisting only of men
armed with their individual weapons.
Alternatively, they could represent standard-
armed squads with poor quality weapons or
who are low on ammunition. They receive a
minus when firing.
Standard Squads: Standard squads have one
light support weapon, or are armed with
enough big guns to replicate a light support
weapon’s effect.
Heavy Squads: heavy squads have two or
more light support weapons, or are armed
with a selection of truly huge personal
weapons. They receive a bonus when firing.
Squads may also be defined as having access
to flame weapons. These are not crewed-
weapon flamethrowers, but smaller, hand
flamers.
The firepower of the hand flamer is included
in the firepower of the squad, but their targets
suffer the penalties of being targeted by
flame weapons; and the squad receives the
flame weapons advantage in close combat.
2 3 4
7+ ~ ~
8+ ~
6, 7, 8, 9 10+
5, 6, 7 8+
3 4, 5 6+
2.4.4. Expertise & Number Of Actions
How your troops perform will depend on their
levels of training and motivation: some troops
will be no more than untrained rabble, some
will be the ultimate in elites.
There are five levels of expertise in Q13:
Rabble: an untrained mob. Cannot march in
step, have little or no experience, and no
familiarity with weapons or tactics.
Militia: part-time soldiers or low quality
regular troops. Militia have had some training
and have a semblance of military discipline.
Regulars: Full-time, good quality soldiers.
They are well-trained and reasonably keen.
Veterans: As Regulars, above, but with the
invaluable addition of actual combat
experience.
Elites: The very best of the best! Take the best
soldiers you have, train them more, give them
more experience and the best equipment:
those are your elites.
These levels of training and motivation are
reflected partly in the number of Actions that
each troop-type has available to use on a
range of activities, and partly through the
quality and quantity of the men who lead
them.
Additionally, the Game Deck will contain
cards that reflect a unit’s particular abilities
and special skills.
Core to Q13’s system are a unit’s Actions.
These represent the ability of a unit to do
things during their turn: the more Actions that
they have the more they can do. Once a
platoon is activated, its individual squads may
act.
Each squad has a number of Actions allocated
to them, as defined in the table at the bottom
of the previous page by its quality and the
number of operational men.
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Thus a regular squad with ten or more men in
it has four Actions available to it. Treat squads
with a paper strength smaller than ten men as
the appropriate number on the table e.g. a
full strength 7-man, veteran squad would start
the game with three Actions.
Manpower losses to a squad will reduce its
effectiveness by cutting down on the number
of Actions it may use, thereby restricting its
ability to function efficiently. Better quality
units will be able to maintain their
effectiveness for longer.
2.4.5. Number Of Big Men Available
The number of Big Men available should
generally depend on the expertise of the
troops they command.
Veteran and Elite troops usually have one Big
Man per platoon, and may have one, two or
three additional Big Men commanding a
company.
Regulars and Militia usually have one Big Man
commanding a company, and may have up to
one Big Man commanding each platoon.
Rabble may only have up to one Big Man
commanding a company. A particular scenario
can override these guidelines.
2.4.6. Equipment
Infantry squads may also be equipped with
items that make them harder to kill (armour
and shields) and devices that aid movement.
2.4.6.1. Armour & Shields
Infantry may wear armour or carry shield
generators that protect them from potential
damage.
Some alien races, droids, robots, cyborgs and
androids could be counted as being within
armour to represent their toughness.
Infantry armour is defined as follows:
No Armour: infantry wear no armour apart
from maybe a helmet.
Armour: infantry wear some form of body
armour. Lower tech levels would represent the
equivalent of Kevlar and other bullet-proof
vests. Higher tech levels would represent the
sort of armour worn by Imperial Stormtroopers
in Star Wars.
Powered Armour: the armour worn by the
infantry is powered i.e. has an active element
that gives additional bonuses in terms of such
things as protection, movement and weaponry.
Mega-Armour: a catch-all term for the most
sophisticated armoured battle suits that are
almost but not quite vehicles.
Infantry can also be defined as having shields
i.e. are carrying or wearing a device that
generates a protective forcefield around
them.
The protective effects of armour and shields
are described in the section on firing at
infantry.
2.4.6.2. Devices That Aid Movement
Infantry may also ride, carry or wear
Personal Movement Systems (PMS) that
allow them to move at more than the standard
rate and/or ignore the effect of terrain.
Details are given under the rules on movement,
but this includes such things as horses, beasts,
dragons, bicycles, motorbikes, jet packs, jump
packs, grav belts, powered armour, wings,
roller skates, powered skate or surf boards,
pogo sticks…the lot!
Note that infantry with devices that allow a
one-way trip onto the battlefield, e.g.
parachutes, do not count as having personal
movement systems. Rules for them are covered
under the Battlefield Insertion rules in the
movement section.
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2.5. Support Weapons
Support weapons represent any weapon that
is not an integral part of an infantry squad or
mounted on a vehicle.
The smallest weapons would be two-man
teams who might man the sci-fi equivalent of
an RPG or a light machine gun. The largest
would represent artillery pieces with multiple
crew. Each support weapon team is counted as
an individual unit.
To absolutely clarify the difference between a
support weapon and a vehicle (e.g. between
an anti-tank gun and a tank destroyer), a
support weapon is defined as an object that
cannot move under its own power: it must be
lifted or limbered (i.e. towed by a vehicle of
some kind) in order to move.
The support weapon contingent of your army
list is defined in terms of role, order of battle,
weight, expertise and other equipment.
2.5.1. Roles
The primary role of the support weapon
should now be defined from the list below.
Infantry Support: heavier infantry support
weapons designed to be attached to infantry
units at squad, platoon or company level. The
sci-fi equivalent of light, medium and heavy
machine guns, light and medium mortars, and
lighter infantry guns.
Artillery: designed to provide support from a
distance. The sci-fi equivalent of heavy
mortars, most big guns, and rocket batteries.
Anti-Tank: specialist anti-tank weapons from
small, hand-held weapons the equivalent of
anti-tank rifles or RPGs to carriage-mounted
anti-tank guns to anti-tank missile or rocket
launchers.
Anti-Aircraft: specially mounted weapons, or
weapons with specialist targeting systems, that
are designed to knock down aircraft.
GP: General purpose weapons that, in Q13,
can encompass up to two of the above roles,
each of which should be defined.
2.5.2. Order Of Battle
Support weapons should be grouped into
squads of two to five weapons each, and can
be grouped into platoons of two to five
squads.
Support weapons or support weapon squads
can be attached to infantry platoons e.g. an
infantry platoon could consist of three squads
of infantry plus a squad of three support
weapons.
Support weapon squads or platoons can also
be attached at company level e.g. an infantry
company could consist of three platoons of
infantry plus a platoon or squad of support
weapons.
Alternatively, support weapon squads and
platoons can appear on the table
independently as part of a temporary
attachment from larger, but mostly absent,
support weapon platoons/companies
respectively.
Given the game-scale of Q13, it is unlikely
that more than one platoon of any particular
support weapon would appear on the table at
the same time.
2.5.3. Size, Targeting, Load & Rate of
Fire
Support weapons are defined by their weight
of fire or Strike Value; how they target their
target; what type of projectile or beam that
they fire; and whether they have the capacity
for full automatic fire or not.
Under the definitions, listed below, you will
find examples that will help you define
individual support weapons in your army lists.
Strike Value: a support weapon’s strike value
(SV) is defined by its purpose and how
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powerful it is. One way of looking at this is to
see how big a crew is needed to man the
weapon, so it is usual for a support weapon to
have one figure per Strike Value on its base.
2.5.3.1. Targeting
Support weapons are either:
Direct fire (DF): fires directly at its target on a
relatively flat trajectory. The support weapon
must have line of sight to its target.
Indirect fire (IF): fires at its target on a
ballistic trajectory, or is a guided or unguided
missile. No line of sight is necessarily
necessary.
Variable fire (VF): a support weapon able to
do both DF and IF.
A weapon equivalent to a machine gun would
be DF; a mortar would be IF; and a howitzer,
VF.
2.5.3.2 Load
Support weapons fire one of four types of
ammunition:
Bolt: whether a solid, bullet-like mass or a bolt
of energy, a bolt weapon fires a shot that is
designed to concentrate its fire on one
particular point. Anything from a cannonball
to an armour-piercing round.
Additionally, DF bolt weapons may also be
defined as Autoguns: similar to a machine
gun or rapid fire energy weapon.
Boom: a shot that is designed to explode on
impact and do damage to a large area as
opposed to a single point. A simple shell or
airburst munitions might be examples.
Both: the support weapon is able to fire both
bolt and boom ammunition e.g. a tank gun
able to fire both high explosive and armour
piercing rounds. The player may choose which
type of ammunition is used each time the
support weapon fires.
All Boom and Both weapons may also fire
smoke. See Section 17.2.
Flame: Alternatively, rather than fire a
projectile, a bomb or bolt of energy, the
support weapon can be defined as firing a
cloud or spray of noxious material (fire,
napalm, acid, heat ray etc.) which, for the
sake of simplicity of description, we will call
Flame.
2.5.3.1 Example Strike Values
Infantry support weapons such as the
equivalent of medium and heavy machine guns
are DF Auto weapons with a SV of between 2
and 4.
Mortars, or their equivalent, are IF Boom
weapons. Light mortars would have SV2,
medium mortars SV3, and heavy mortars a SV
of between 4 and 6.
Light artillery, whether guns or missile
launchers, and whatever their role, would
generally have a SV of either 3 or 4. Medium
artillery would have a SV of either 4 or 5.
Heavier guns would have a SV of 5 or 6, with
the very heaviest of superheavy weapons
going as large as a SV of between 6 and 8.
Use common sense here: if the support weapon
model looks about the size of 75mm artillery
piece, then make it SV4; if it looks like a
150mm artillery piece, then give it SV5 or
SV6. If it fires something horrible (plasma,
nuclear, void or whatever) then you could add
a one or two.
2.5.3.2 Examples By Role
How a gun or missile launcher operates (i.e.
what it can do in game terms) should be
defined by its role:
 Artillery will generally be VF Boom
weapons.
 Anti-Tank weapons will generally be DF
Bolt weapons, although you could have
one designed to fire lots of little bombs up
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into the air which then drop onto the target
from above as an IF Bolt weapon. Note
that something like an anti-tank missile
looks like a boom weapon but acts as a
bolt weapon, so should be counted as that.
 Guns that were designed to function as
both artillery and anti-tank weapons
would be General Purpose: Artillery/AT.
 Note that there are no specific rules for
missiles as opposed to shells: in the future
there may be no practical difference
between them. Guided missiles and anti-
guided missile measures (e.g. chaff) are
abstracted through the game mechanics
associated with firing support weapons.
 Thus a three-man rocket launcher would be
a SV3 DF Boom weapon unless it was
specifically designed as an anti-tank
weapon, in which case it would be a SV3
DF Bolt weapon. The highest tech versions
could be Both. It would not be defined as
an autogun because its three man crew
can’t carry enough missiles to allow it to
act as such.
 Anti-Aircraft weapons will nearly always
be DF, and usually Bolt, especially if able
to be used on ground targets.
 Autoguns will generally be SV2 or SV3
weapons due to the need to carry around
enough ammunition to keep them firing.
Guns that fire multiple energy blasts could
be the exception to this, but would need
an awful lot of power/coolant to keep
going.
 Thus an energy gun designed to act like a
medium machine gun would be a SV3 DF
Bolt autogun. A huge mini-gun forming the
arm of a walker (see the section on
vehicles) would be a SV4 or SV5 DF Bolt
autogun.
 Vehicle-mounted guns should be defined
by the vehicle’s task and then by the
specific gun’s task on the vehicle. See the
section on vehicles.
2.5.4. Expertise & Available Big Men
Support weapons have the same number of
Actions as a full-strength infantry squad of
their troop type but their effectiveness does
not reduce in the same way.
Autoguns function at full effect until reduced to
one man, when they are reduced to one
Action. All other support weapons continue to
operate at full efficiency until they are
completely wiped out.
It would be rare for a support weapon
platoon to have its own Big Man. Usually a Big
Man from the main infantry contingent would
have to be used.
2.6. Specialists
If representative, individual figures can also
be identified as the following types of
specialist.
Drone Operators: operate unmanned
vehicles. In Q13, drones can be operated by
specialist operators, by Big Men, or by off-
table drone operators.
Forward Observers: used to call in and
correct the fall of on- or off-table artillery.
Medics: medics may treat wounded troops,
allowing a force to recover from the effects of
fire.
EWSO: electronic warfare systems operators
use technology to help detect the enemy and
to disrupt their communications.
Snipers: an individual or two-man team
specialising in sniping.
Specialists must either be attached to a
specific platoon or company; or work on their
own. For example, a particular company
might have a sniper as part of its HQ roster,
but the Forward Observer for an off-table
artillery unit might operate independently.
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2.7. Vehicles
Vehicles are defined by role, weaponry,
armour, and how they move. A particular
vehicle’s role will often help define its other
characteristics.
Note that these rules cover vehicles that will
actively appear on the tabletop. Vehicles that
do not appear on the tabletop, such as
aircraft that drop bombs or similar without
making themselves potentially vulnerable to
AA fire, will be dealt with as off-table support
units. Players will find that vehicles actively
appearing on the tabletop will have a more
targeted effect than those used in an off-table
role.
2.7.1. Roles
Players should first define the role of their
force’s vehicles in order to build up the rest of
the vehicles’ characteristics.
Fighting Vehicle: usually armoured, these
vehicles are designed primarily to fight. Guns
and armour are the priority. The tank!
Specific Mission: vehicles designed for one
type of opponent or purpose: tank-hunters,
self-propelled artillery, anti-aircraft vehicles
etc.
Personnel Carrier: ‘battle taxis’ are designed
to transport infantry onto and around the
battlefield. Troop capacity needs to be
defined e.g. “can carry one squad of up to 10
men”. Armoured variants will have light
armour and light weapons.
Reconnaissance: vehicles used for scouting.
The ability to scan and speed of movement
are generally the priority here. Recon vehicles
can receive a bonus to spotting and
movement.
Engineering: vehicles designed for
engineering type functions: bulldozers, tank
recovery vehicles etc.
Runaround: a general purpose military
automobile such as the Jeep that is used as a
runaround, a small personnel carrier, a recon
vehicle, can have an AA autogun added on to
it etc.
2.7.2. Order Of Battle
Each vehicle, whether it operates on land, sea
and/or air, is treated as an individual unit.
Vehicles should be gathered into squads of
two to five vehicles each, and can be grouped
into platoons of two to five squads. Vehicle
squads and platoons can be attached to
infantry companies (e.g. an infantry company
could consist of three platoons of infantry plus
a squad of walkers), or appearing
independently on the table as part of a
temporary attachment from larger formations.
2.7.3. Crew, Weaponry & Armour
A vehicle’s weaponry and armour is usually
defined by its role. One or more appropriate
support weapons are added, and an armour
value (AV) chosen. Note that armour covers
any factor that adds to the protection of the
vehicle including, for example, any in-built
shields fitted.
Scout cars or other light vehicles intended for
reconnaissance or as runarounds would
generally have an AV of 2 or 3. They would
usually carry DF weapons, either Bolt or
Autoguns, with an SV of 2 or 3.
Tanks and tank hunters generally carry one
main gun: a DF weapon, either Bolt or Both.
They might also carry an anti-infantry weapon
such as a SV2 Autogun.
Light tanks would have a gun with an SV of
between 2 and 4, and an AV of between 2
and 5.
Medium tanks would have a gun with an SV
of between 3 and 5, and an AV of between 4
and 8.
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Heavier tanks would have a gun with an SV
of between 5 and 7, and an AV of between 8
and 16.
Tank hunters would also have a gun with an
SV of between 5 and 7, but an AV of
between 2 and 5.
Mobile artillery vehicles generally have a
main gun or missile launcher which counts as a
VF Boom weapon with an SV of between 5
and 6. They have light armour of AV between
2 and 4.
Anti-Aircraft vehicles generally have a main
gun or missile launcher that counts as a DF Bolt
weapon. SV’s range between 2 and 6, but
armour is generally light: AV 2 to 4.
2.7.3.1. Close Combat Capable Vehicles
Some vehicles, especially some walkers, carry
what are effectively close combat weapons:
claws, large swords etc. These vehicles may be
designated as close-combat-capable: see
section 17 for details.
2.7.3.2. Crew
At this point, the crew of the vehicle must be
defined.
All vehicles are assumed to have a minimum
crew of one: a commander (C). If this is the
case, the commander is responsible for all
actions: making decisions, moving, spotting,
firing etc.
Each additional crew member is assumed to
take one responsibility from the commander.
So a driver (D) would move the vehicle; a
Gunner (G) would fire the primary weapon
(the biggest one or the one most in keeping
with the vehicle’s role), with other gunners
being assigned to secondary weapons; and an
Other (O) or Specialist (S) would do other
things such as manning the electronic warfare
systems or help another crew member with
their task.
Note that computer systems can be the
equivalent of crew, so a “two-man” vehicle
could have a human commander and a
computer-system gunner.
2.7.4. Expertise, Morale & Available
Big Men
Vehicles operate with an expertise the same
as a full-strength infantry squad of their troop
type. They will also have a base number of
Actions the same as a full-strength infantry
squad of their troop type.
In addition, in any vehicle of Tech 2 or higher,
each specified gunner has half as many
Actions again (rounded up) to shoot with his
specific weapon. Players may add a vehicle’s
Actions to the Gunner’s Actions provided that
the Gunner does not use more than the
vehicle’s base number of Actions for his fire.
Vehicles also have a morale level based on
their expertise, defined as per the table
below:
Expertise Morale Level
Rabble/Militia 2
Regular 3
Veteran 4 Vehicles that are designed to float just above
Elite 5 the ground, such as low level anti-grav
Vehicle platoons and companies have the
same allocation of Big Men as infantry.
A Tech 3 grav tank with three Actions has a
commander, a driver and a gunner. If no
Actions are given to the gunner, the vehicle
has three Actions with which to move, spot, fire
etc., and the gunner has two Actions with which
to fire his specified weapon.
The vehicle can, however, give the gunner one
of its Actions, giving the gunner a total of
three Actions, his maximum. The vehicle’s
remaining two Actions can still be used for
moving, spotting and firing other weapons etc.
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If the same grav tank had two turrets, with a
gunner in each, then each gunner has two
Actions with which to fire, and the vehicle has
a pool of three Actions with which to move,
spot, fire other weapons etc. or to give to one
or both gunners.
2.7.5. Vehicle Movement
The way the vehicle moves needs to be
defined.
2.7.5.1. Ground Vehicle Movement
Vehicles that move along in contact with the
ground are defined as one of the following:
wheels (WHL), tracks (TRK), or walkers
(WLK).
Wheels can be defined as anything that gives
a bonus to movement on a tarmac-ed road
and a penalty to movement on a bad surface.
Tracks are the opposite. Thus a vehicle with
giant blow-up wheels designed to travel over
rough terrain might actually be defined as
and move as if it were tracked rather than on
wheels. Walkers are any vehicle that walks on
legs.
vehicles and hovercraft, are defined as
vehicles that hover (HOV).
2.7.5.2. Liquid Vehicle Movement
Vehicles that move along in contact with the
surface of liquids are defined as boats (BTS).
Those that can travel under the surface as well
are known as subs (SUB).
2.7.5.3. Fast & Slow Vehicles
Players may designate any of their ground or
liquid vehicles as Fast or Slow provided their
background and/or the look of the vehicle
allows.
2.7.5.4. Flying Vehicles
Vehicles that are capable of sustained flight
are divided into the following categories:
stoppers (STP) and non-stoppers (N-STP).
Stoppers are aircraft that can effectively stop
and hover in mid-air, and do not normally
require a runway for take-off and landing.
Examples include airships, dirigibles and
zeppelins; ornithopters and helicopters; some
jet aircraft (those with VTOL capacity); most
anti-gravity craft; and an assortment of other,
more exotic, forms of flight.
Non-stoppers are those aircraft that fall out of
the sky if they stop, and require some form of
runway for take-off and landing. They include
most aeroplanes, however powered, and some
more advanced craft.
Note that some STP vehicles may also act like
ground vehicles e.g. a grav tank might be
capable of STP flight, but also of acting like a
HOV as well. If this is the case, the unit should
have its movement defined as STP/HOV.
STP/HOV craft transition between the two
movement types by ‘landing’ or ‘taking off’
(see the rules on movement).
2.7.5.5. Battlefield Insertion
Note that vehicles that allow a one-way trip
onto the battlefield, e.g. drop pods and some
drop ships, do not count as being able to fly.
Rules for them are covered under the
battlefield insertion rules in the movement
section, but effectively they are placed
straight on to the table when they land and
cannot take off again after that, although
some might have movement capacity on the
ground.
2.7.6. Vehicles & Specialists
Appropriate vehicles may be listed as the
equivalent of a specialist. This is in effect a
bonus ability for the vehicle, which can carry
out the relevant specialist actions in addition
to the normal things they can do.
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For example, a small scout vessel might be
designated as being an EWSO specialist
craft. Its Actions could be used to carry out
EWSO actions as well as moving, spotting,
firing its weapons etc.
2.8. Characteristic Cards
Characteristic cards allow you to add a bit of
flavour to your army list. They allow you to
decide, for example, that your force is
particularly fleet of foot (Rapid Deployment)
or that your tanks are especially fast (Armour
Bonus Move). It might also allow you to state
that your force’s vehicles are notoriously poor
quality (Vehicle Breakdown) and that your
grunts, although brave, are led by cowardly
officers (Hesitant Commander).
Detailed rules for the effects of characteristic
cards are given in the Game Turn section, and
players should select those they feel
appropriate for their army’s background and
equipment. These will then form the standard
characteristic cards used for the army,
although these can be modified by a
particular scenario or by prior agreement with
your opponent.
A campaign might dictate that your army must
use the Ammunition Shortage card, or that
your usually rapid firing mortars (Mortar
Bonus Fire) are working more slowly than
normal because dust in the air is affecting
their fire control systems.
2.9. Force Composition
Note that what we are constructing here is the
paper strength of your army list: squads or
platoons from more than one company could
appear on the table at any one time.
For example, a force deployed on the table
might consist of a company of “leg” infantry
with the following attachments from Regiment
or Army level assets: a squad of specialist
scouts, a platoon of support weapons, and two
platoons of armoured fighting vehicles.
2.10. Off-Table Support Units
The army lists so far have covered those
troops that will be represented on table and
for which you will actually require figures.
Your army list can also define the sort of
support that your force could expect to
receive by assets shooting on to the table from
a long way away. Off-table artillery is an
obvious example, but this also includes
airstrikes, fire from satellites, near orbit
spacecraft…even rocks hurled down the
gravity well.
Off-table support includes forces that the
troops on the table will never actually see:
they will just feel their effects.
As with characteristic cards, typical off-table
support should be selected appropriate to the
army’s background and equipment, or defined
by a particular scenario or campaign.
2.11. An Example Army List
Khurasan Miniatures produce two linked
ranges of aliens: the Garn and the Felid. The
Garn are fierce, man-sized tyrannosaurs; the
Felids are warrior cat-people who have been
subjugated by the Garn. At time of writing,
the range consists of the following figure
packs:
15mm Felid Light Battle Circle
Ten models: nine warriors with heavy blasters
and one alpha warrior with comm set and
micro-missile launcher.
15mm Felid Heavy Battle Circle
Ten models: five warriors with heavy blasters,
two warriors with grenade launchers, two
warriors with heavy plasma guns, and one
alpha warrior with comm set and micro-missile
launcher.
15mm Felid Prideguard
Elite Warriors in Helmets. Ten models: seven
warriors with heavy blasters, one warrior with
grenade launcher, one warrior with heavy
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plasma gun, and one alpha warrior with comm
set and micro-missile launcher.
15mm Felid Lion Class Heavy Attack
Transport
A large, wheeled troop carrier.
15mm Felid Baron
Modelled in Command/Battle Dress
15mm Felid Hostage Barons' Sons Jetbike
Squadron
Three gravbikes with Felid drivers
15mm Garn Alien Warriors
Three models, three assault cannon inserts, one
flamethrower insert, and one plasma gun
insert.
15mm Garn Alien Warrior Commander and
Heavy Weapon Warrior
Two models, one sprue with laser cannon,
missile launcher, and plasma cannon inserts for
the Heavy Weapon Warrior.
15mm Garn Alien Hegemon
One High Commander
15mm Garn Alien "Alligator" Class
Superheavy Assault Transport
With three crew and many weapons options
15mm Garn Alien "Crocodile" Class Three
Turreted Superheavy Assault Tank
With five crew and many weapons options for
each turret
15mm Garn Flesh Eater Giants
Two models with Superheavy Infantry
weapons
Khurasan give a lot of background to both
ranges, including the fact that Garn infantry
and vehicles are protected by shields.
2.11.1. Tech Level
As the Garn routinely use shields, they are
immediately defined as being Tech Level 3.
They could be Tech 4, but that smacks a little
of cheese! As they have successfully
subjugated the Felids, the Felids will be
defined as Tech 2.
2.11.2. Big Men, Infantry & Support
Weapons
Most of the work has already been done for
us here, either through the way the packs are
put together or the background/descriptions
provided by Khurasan.
The Garn will operate in 8-man squads made
up of two packs of standard infantry (i.e. 6
figures) and a command pack (i.e. 2 figures,
one with LSW).
Platoons, headed by a Hegemon, will consist
of three squads plus a support weapon squad
of three Flesheater Giants armed with
“superheavy infantry weapons” that count as
SV3 DF Bolt Autoguns (I would probably
create a base with one Flesheater and one or
two normal Garn to represent each of these).
Garn squads count as Heavy as they carry lots
of weapons. They also have flame weapons
and are protected by Tech 3 shields. Due to
the Garns’ innate aggression, Garn squads
are Elite and Assault, but can be made Mobile
Assault by assigning one Alligator superheavy
transport per squad.
Felids will operate in 10-man battle circles
(i.e. squads) with a platoon commanded by a
Baron Big Man being a “Household” of up to
five squads.
Their regular troops are either Light, Medium
or Heavy squads, and defined as being either
Leg or, if mounted in Lion Class Heavy Attack
Transports, Mobile. Prideguard will be
upgraded to Veteran status and operate as
Standard squads. Although you have to see
the figures to know this, all Felids count as
having Tech 2 armour.
Rather than count the Felid gravbikes as
individual vehicles, we will say that each
Regular company has two squads of six
specialist scouts each attached to it, with the
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scouts counting as having personal movement
systems that count as HOV. They will count as
Heavy Veteran squads, the heavy-ness coming
from the guns and missile launchers mounted
on the gravbikes.
2.11.3. Vehicles
The Felid Lion-class heavy attack transport
vehicle, a personnel carrier, can easily be
defined as being a wheeled vehicle with
armour class 6 and armed with a SV4 DF Bolt
weapon. It can carry up to a squad of 10
Felid.
The Garn vehicles are covered in turrets, with
a variety of improbably huge guns and missile
launchers available to mount on them.
Movement for both is HOV, with shield
generators providing armour class 7 for the
Alligator and 8 for the Crocodile. The
Alligator, a personnel carrier, has one turret
with both a SV6 DF Bolt gun and a SV4 IF
Boom missile launcher. The turret has one crew
member, so vehicle crew is commander, driver
and gunner. It can carry one squad of eight
Garn.
The Crocodile, a truly superheavy tank, has
three turrets, each with a crew member, so we
will say that one turret is anti-tank and thus
armed with a SV6 DF Bolt gun, with the other
being more general purpose and thus armed
with SV6 DF Boom weapons. Crew is defined
as commander, driver and three gunners.
The Lion and Alligator will operate in platoons
based on the infantry structure, with the
Crocodile’s grouped into companies of one
command vehicle and two platoons of two
Crocs each.
Finally, some odds and ends from other
manufacturers as drones, some appropriate
characteristic cards, and off-table support that
apply to Garn and Felid forces (unless the
scenario/campaign dictates otherwise) have
been added.
2.12. Chrome
The rules above give you the basic building
blocks used to define your army list. Once that
is complete, you may choose to add what we
shall call chrome i.e. those things that turn a
force of aliens from being ‘humans in rubber
suits’ to being truly, well, alien.
What this means in practice is that you should
add specific rules and modifications to your
army in order to simulate the effect you want
to achieve.
2.12.1 Simple Chrome
The simplest way to do this is to modify any of
the rules found in this booklet specifically for
your army list. For example, under the rules on
movement, you will find that troops suffer a
penalty for moving in areas of high gravity. If
your troops are from a planet with a high
gravity, you could state that your troops
ignore that penalty.
You might also choose to counter this
advantage with a penalty e.g. due to their
consequent density, your troops cannot swim
i.e. may not cross water that they cannot wade
through whereas normal troops may move at
half speed.
All sorts of alien technologies can also be
simulated in this manner: for example,
weapons, armour, shields or vehicles might be
more or less effective under certain
circumstances.
Your troops could carry energy weapons that
change modulation each shot, so could negate
the defensive value of shields.
2.12.2 More Complicated Chrome
A more complicated way to do this is to define
a set of behaviour rules for your troops that
only activate under certain circumstances.
To use our Garn example, above, one could
state that Garn who win a Close Combat will
remain stationary for perhaps a set number,
or perhaps 1D6, turns whilst they consume the
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remains of the unit they have defeated in
Close Combat.
Another great example is to consider hive
minds. You could state that your army has a
hive mind and that the battle effectively ends
when all your Big Men are killed: as your
troops, now under no control, aimlessly mill
around until slaughtered.
Alternatively, loss of hive mind control could
mean that your troops lose their intelligence:
dropping their weapons and immediately
trying to move into Close Combat with the
enemy force.
Note that this type of chrome does not need to
be rational to us humans. You could, for
example, state that each time a Big Man is
killed your troops all immediately move
backwards 1”, or move 1” to the left, or use
their next activation to fire their weapons at
the nearest tree, or suffer a point of Shock or
lose a man per unit, or rally a point of Shock
per unit.
The possibilities are infinite!
2.12.3 Applying Chrome
Care must be taken when applying chrome.
Both the conditions that lead to a rule
modification being applied, and the rule
modification itself, must not only be justified
by your army list’s background, but must be
clearly and concisely defined.
The rules already give you a huge amount of
flexibility in defining your army list: the
chrome concept is there to augment this system
not replace it. You want your infantry to have
an icy breath that can freeze their opponents?
No chrome needed: that’s the equivalent of
Flamers in Close Combat.
As a final rule on chrome: any chrome
elements of an army list only apply if all
players involved in the game agree with it.
2.13. Standard Formats & Quick
Checklist
Army lists should be presented in the following
standard format, and I have included an
example written up for the Garn/Felid list,
above.
This format is a guideline to how this
information should be presented: players are
encouraged to use it as the base of their
description of their army list, expanding on it
to produce as comprehensive a “codex” on
their armies as possible.
Note that these Army Lists are not necessarily
the forces that actually appear on the
tabletop, they are the basis for deciding which
troops can be chosen for a particular game.
Which troops can actually appear on the
tabletop is dealt with in the Mission Generator
section of the rules.
The standard format is available as an Excel
download on both the TFL Yahoo Group and
www.vislardica.com.
On the next page, you will find a quick
checklist for defining your army.

INFANTRY DEFINITION
ROLE OB WEIGHT EXPERTISE BIG MEN EQUIPMENT
Leg Squad Size Light Rabble Per Squad ARMOUR
Assault Platoon Size Standard Militia Per Platoon None
Mobile Company Size Heavy Regular Per Company Armour
Mobile Assault [Higher] [Flamers) Veteran [Higher] Powered
Recon Elite Mega-Armour
Engineer SHIELDS
PMS

SUPPORT WEAPON DEFINITION

ROLE OB SV TARGETING LOAD EXPERTISE
Infantry Support Squad Size Crew Direct Bolt Rabble
Artillery Platoon Size Indirect [Autogun] Militia
Anti-Tank Attached/Platoon Variable Boom Regular
Anti-Aircraft Attached/Company Both Veteran
GP Flame Elite

VEHICLE DEFINITION
ROLE OB WEAPONS/ARMOUR EXPERTISE MOVE
AFV Squad Size Define Main Gun Rabble Wheels (WHL)
APC Platoon Size Define 2ndary Weapons Militia Tracks (TRK)
Specific Attached/Platoon Armour Value Regular Walkers (WLK)
Recon Attached/Company [Close Combat Capable] Veteran Hover (HOV)
Engineering Independent Elite Boats (BTS)
Runaround Subs (SUB)
Stoppers (STP)
Non-Stoppers (N-STP)
Dropship
[Fast/Slow]

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Standard Army List Format:

Name By: Tech Level:

Infantry
Infantry Squad Role No. Weight Expertise 0 1 2 3 4 Equipment

Support Weapons
Support Weapon Role SV TGT Load Expertise Notes

Vehicles
Vehicle Role Crew Move Expertise Armour Weapons Notes

Specialists

Off-Table Support

Characteristic Cards

Chrome

Order of Battle

Figures from:

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 Garn/Felid Example:

Name The Garn Confederation (with Felids) By: Robert Avery Tech Level: G:3/F:2

Infantry
Infantry Squad Role No. Weight Expertise 0 1 2 3 4 Equipment
Garn Infantry Assault 8 Heavy Elite 1 2 3 4, 5 6, 7, 8
Tech 3 Shields
Hand Flammers
Felid Light B'Circle Leg 10 Light Regular 1, 2, 3 4 5 6, 7, 8, 9 10 Tech 2 Armour
Felid Medium B'Circle Leg 10 Standard Regular 1, 2, 3 4 5 6, 7, 8, 9 10 Tech 2 Armour
Felid Heavy B'Circle Leg 10 Heavy Regular 1, 2, 3 4 5 6, 7, 8, 9 10 Tech 2 Armour
Felid Prideguard Leg 10 Standard Veteran 1, 2 3 4 5, 6, 7 8, 9, 10 Tech 2 Armour
Felid Scouts Mobile 6 Heavy Veteran 1, 2 3 4 5, 6 ~ Tech 2 Armour
Jetbikes (HOV)

Support Weapons
Support Weapon Role SV TGT Load Expertise Notes
Garn Flesheaters Inf. Supp. 3 DF Auto Elite

Vehicles
Vehicle Role Crew Move Expertise Armour Weapons Notes
Crocodile (G) AFV C/D/3G HOV Elite (5) 8 Centre turret: 6-man DF Bolt
Side turrets: 6-man DF Boom
Alligator (G) APC C/D/G HOV Elite (5) 7 Turret: 6-man DF Bolt Can carry one squad of 8 Garn
& 4-man IF Boom
Lion (F) APC C WHL Regular (3) 6 Top Gun: 4-man DF Bolt Can carry one squad of 10 Felids
Whiskers Drone (F) Scout C (AI) WHL Regular (3) 1 None Scanner
Snaggletooth Drone (F) AFV C (AI) STP Regular (3) 1 2-man DF Both

Specialists
Drone Operator

Off-Table Support
Garn Distant Tooth Combat Satellites (10-man IF Boom)

Characteristic Cards
Garn Rally; Flesheater Bonus Fire; Charge!
Felid Rally; Recon (Scouts & Whiskers only); Dynamic Commander; Rapid Deployment

Chrome
Any Garn unit that wins a Close Combat cannot On the Commercial Break card, Felid units that are
move on its next activation. It may spot, fire etc, within 2" of a Garn unit gain a point of Shock.
but may not move.

Order of Battle
Garn Platoon
Hegemon Big Man
3 x Infantry Squad (each 8 Garn)
1 x Flesheater Squad (3 Flesheater Teams)
Make mobile by adding 1 Alligator/Squad
Felid squads can be Light, Heavy or Prideguard,
Garn Superheavy Tank Platoon
Hegemon Big Man
2 x Crocodile-class Superheavy Tanks
Felid Platoon (aka Household) Garn "Ripper" Assault Company
Baron Big Man Hegemon Big Man
2-5 x Infantry Squad (each 10 Felids) 1 x Flesheater Squad
Make mobile by adding 1 Lion/Squad 3 x Garn Infantry Platoon
Felid "Claw" Company
but there is no set ratio within a Household: Baron Big Man
it depends on the wealth of the Baron. 1 x Scout Platoon
2-4 x Felid Household
Felid Scout Platoon
Possibly a Baron Big Man Garn "Jaw & Claw" Company
2-3 Scout Squads (each 6 Felids on Jetbikes) Hegemon Big Man
1 x Garn Infantry Platoon
Other Assets 2 x Felid Household
Felid Scanning Squad: 3 x Whiskers drone
Felid Drone Squad: 3 x Snaggletooth drone Garn Superheavy Tank Platoon
(each might have a Drone Operator) HQ: 1 x Crocodile with Hegemon Big Man
Added to Households or Companies ad hoc 2 x Garn Superheavy Tank Platoon

Figures from: All figures from Khurasan Miniatures; Whiskers drone from GZG; Snaggletooth drone from Spartan Games

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 Section Three: The Game Turn
War is full of uncertainty and never more so
than on the sci-fi battlefield. To represent this,
the actual sequence of events during each turn
is determined by the dealing of cards from
the Game Deck. Each card represents either a
unit, a particularly important character – a Big
Man - or a characteristic of the forces involved
in that particular battle. For example, a force
that is particularly fleet of foot may get a
bonus movement card in the deck to represent
their speed.
The Game Deck is shuffled by the player
acting as Umpire at the start of the game, and
then again before the start of each turn. The
cards are turned over in sequence, with one
being acted upon before the next is turned.
In the early phases of the game all of the
cards will be dealt in each turn. Every unit will
be activated, getting a chance to move, spot
or fire as it wishes. However, once the bullets
start to fly - as soon as the first firing of the
game begins - we add the Commercial Break
card to the Game Deck. From that point
onwards once this card is dealt the turn ends,
all cards will be placed back in the deck and
re-shuffled, and a new turn can then begin.
Once this happens it may well be that not all
units will be activated in each turn. It is up to
your Big Men to keep their troops moving.
dependent on the type of troops being
fielded, and cards appropriate to the scenario
being played. All of the cards for both sides
are shuffled into one deck.
3.1.1. Compulsory Cards
Dependent on the scenario being played, the
following compulsory cards will be required
for all games, although only some will be
included in the initial Game Deck used at the
start of the game, with others being added as
they become available.
 One Commercial Break card
 One Blinds Move card should be included
in the deck for each side.
 One card for each platoon fielded by
each side.
 One card for each Big Man fielded by
each side.
 One card for each Specialist fielded by
each side
 One card for each off-table support asset
fielded by each side
For example, if your force was made up of two
infantry platoons, a Company HQ and an AFV
platoon along with three Big Men, then you
would place eight cards into the deck.

3.1. The Game Deck One for your Blinds, one each for the platoons
(two infantry, one AFV), one for the Company
For each game, a unique Game Deck is HQ and one for each Big Man.
created which allows us to represent forces in
If any off-table support was available, for
the fashion envisaged by the creator of their
example a battery of artillery, you’d add a
army list and/or the scenario being played.
card for them and perhaps another for a
This is not just about how many men are in a
Specialist/Forward Observer.
unit or what weapons they have, but also
about how that force is trained, what its state
of morale and motivation is and how well it is
led. This Game Deck will include compulsory
cards dependent on the troops and support
available to each side, force-specific cards
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3.1.1.1. The Commercial Break Card
The Commercial Break card is used to reflect
the fact that once bullets and laser beams
start to fly the battlefield becomes a confused
and generally more chaotic place. As a result,
troops become harder to control as the natural
instinct for survival can overcome military
discipline.
To reflect this, the Commercial Break card is
added to the deck at the end of the turn in
which the first shots of the game are fired. In
all subsequent turns when the Commercial
Break card is dealt this will mark the end of
that turn. All cards will then be returned to the
deck and shuffled ready for the start of the
next. The end of turn sequence is now
followed:
 Any units that are automatically spotted
are deployed (see the Spotting rules for
details)
 Any deployed unit not activated in that
turn may now fire at any close range
target. It cannot move or spot
 Any reserved dice may now be used. If not
used they are lost. Reserved dice cannot
be used to move.
 All Pins are now removed, Suppressions
are exchanged for Pins.
 Any relevant cards are added or removed
from the deck.
Note that it might also be useful to include a
blank card in the Game Deck, known as the
Turn Card, to allow the timing of certain
events, such as the arrival of reinforcements,
without alerting all the players to what is
happening.
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3.1.1.2. Blinds Cards
The deck contains one Blinds card for each
side. On this card all Blinds of that force may
take their turn, moving or spotting. The troops
represented by the Blind may fire, but if they
do they will be placed on the table. Troops
operate on the Blinds card while they are
unspotted or during the turn that they are
spotted, after which they will be activated by
Big Men or on their unit card.
3.1.1.3. Platoon Cards
Each Platoon, or certain other sub units such as
a Company Headquarters or a support
weapon squad that is not part of a platoon,
will have its own specific card included in the
Game Deck. When the card is dealt that unit
is activated and may take their turn.
Examples: Company HQ, 1st Platoon, Anti-
Tank Gun Platoon
3.1.1.4. Big Man Cards
One card is included in the Game Deck for
each Big Man. When it is dealt he may take
his turn, using his initiative to influence troops
within his influence distance or to simply take
his own go.
Examples: Captain Scarlet, 1st Clangor Veet
Munop
3.1.1.5. Specialist Cards
One card is included in the Game Deck for
each Specialist.
Examples: Forward Observer, Medic, Sniper
3.1.1.6. Off-Table Support Cards
One card is added to the Game Deck for
each distinct off-table support asset. These
assets have to be called in by the troops on
the tabletop, but their cards are included in
the Game Deck from the start.
Examples: 15th Tactical Drone Wing, 3rd
Battery/Heiman’s Artillery
3.1.2. Optional Cards
These are cards added to the Game Deck
either to represent the unique characteristics of
one or other of the sides fighting on the
tabletop, or as part of the particular scenario
or campaign being played.
3.1.2.1. Cards Applying to Troops Firing
The following cards influence an army’s ability
to shoot things.
Ammunition Shortage This card may be used
for any force that is running short of
ammunition. This can be added to the pack at
any time during a game. If the next card
turned is a unit of that force, it will be
assumed to be running short of ammunition.
From this point hence, or until resupply if that
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is an option within the scenario, it may only
fire at short range.
Bonus Fire This card represents weapons that
have a notably high rate of fire, either due to
the weapon’s inherent properties or as a result
of the crew being especially skilled.
Any specific type of weapon or squad may be
given a Bonus Fire card. Standard examples
are (Specific Weapon) Bonus Fire or (Specific
Squad) Bonus Fire.
When this card is dealt, one specified unit
may immediately fire even if it has already
fired this turn. No actions other than firing are
allowed on this card, and the shot may be
reserved for use later in the turn.
Poor Fire Discipline In the heat of battle some
troops find themselves unable to maintain the
fire discipline that their commanders expect of
them, and open fire on any visible enemy.
Once this card is dealt a force with less than
perfect fire discipline will roll a D6: Rabble
with poor fire discipline fail on a 2-6, Militia
3-6, Regulars 4-6, Veterans 5-6, and Elites
only on a 6.
If the dice roll indicates that the force has
failed, then one unit of the controlling player’s
choice that is thus far unspotted, has line of
sight to an enemy unit, and is NOT
accompanied by a Big Man, will be placed on
the table and will open fire on any enemy unit
visible to it. Any reserved dice that the unit has
will be lost, and should its own card be dealt
later in the turn then it is ignored.
3.1.2.2. Cards Applying To Movement
The following cards influence an army’s ability
to move around the battlefield.
Bonus Move One specified unit, or one
specified type of unit receives an extra move
as long as they form a group where none are
further than 6" from any other functioning units
in the group. This may result in a double move
for these units, or in a unit that otherwise may
not move and fire to do so. Units may not
undertake any actions other than movement.
This card must be specified as applying to a
particular unit or type of unit, so might appear
as Armoured Bonus Move (i.e. applies to all
tanks in a player’s force) or Mobile Infantry
Bonus Move (i.e. applies to all mobile infantry
troops still mounted in their transport).
example, a unit with three Actions must start
within 18" of the enemy or less if the terrain
does not impede movement.
Dynamic Commander The Overall
commander may personally make an
additional move this turn, whether he has
already moved or not.
Hesitant Commander If his card has not been
dealt already this turn, the overall force
commander may not physically move this turn.
However he may spot, coordinate artillery or
control the fire of any unit he is with.

Hesitant Troops If the next card turned is a

unit of that army it will not be able to move,
but may use all of its dice for other purposes,
such as firing or spotting.

Fade This card allows one unit (up to platoon

size) that has already been spotted but is not
now in line of sight of enemy forces to return
to Blinds, being replaced with one real Blind
and one False Blind.

This card could be used as a characteristic Rapid Deployment One group, of the
card (e.g. for armies with chameleon gear) or player's choice, that is still on a Blinds card
be scenario specific (an army of plant-men in may move immediately, even if they have
the jungle). already moved.

Cha-a-a-a-a-a-rge! The player may launch an Vehicle Breakdown Roll a D6. If a ‘6’ is
attack with any number of infantry units that rolled, one of the vehicles belonging to the
he chooses, as long as no unit is further than 6" appropriate army has broken down or run out
from any other in the group. This will of fuel and cannot move for the duration of
automatically unpin or unsuppress any unit the game. Roll randomly to find out which one.
taking part. He must use all of his dice for
This card could apply to the whole of any
movement.
army, or only to certain vehicles.
To do this the unit must be accompanied by a
Big Man, and the enemy must be within viable
charge range, i.e. within the number of inches
it is physically possible to roll with a dice. For
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3.1.2.3. Cards Applying To Spotting
The following cards influence an army’s ability
to carry out reconnaissance.
Recon Any one unit that has been specified as
being a specialist reconnaissance unit may
make take an additional turn over and above
the usual fall of its card, moving or spotting,
but not firing.
Scout Any one unit that has been specified as
being a specialist scouting unit may make one
extra spotting attempt from a point 6” away
from any one of his units.
Scan Any one unit that has a scanner may
make one extra spotting attempt.
3.1.2.4. Cards Applying To Morale
The following cards influence an army’s
morale.
Command Bonus The next Big Man of that
force out of the pack will receive an extra
Pangalactic Legion from Rebel Minis
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Command Initiative. Keep this card out of the
Game Deck until the extra Command Initiative
is used up, then return it to the deck.
Command Penalty The next Big Man of that
force out of the pack will lose one Command
Initiative. Keep this card out of the Game
Deck until the penalty is taken, then return it to
the deck.
Heroic Commander One Big Man may
attempt to perform an absurdly heroic action
as selected by the player. The umpire should
assess the chances of success before the
player rolls against this. Once used this card is
then removed from the pack.
Rally The player may remove one point of
Shock from a single unit that is not
accompanied by a Big Man. Alternatively, if a
Big Man is attached to a unit, he can remove
multiple Shock points up to the Big Man’s
Command Initiative level without affecting his
normal activation.
 Section Four: Command and Control
Command and Control is central to Q13, with
the game emphasising the importance of
leadership through the system of Command
Initiative, and the effectiveness of combat
forces through the use of Actions.
Units are activated when their unit card is
dealt from the Game Deck but this is not their
only opportunity to take their move. To reflect
command and control on the battlefield we
have Big Men, a force’s command assets,
allocated to both sides. The number and
quality of these will reflect the quality and
capabilities of a specific force, but what do
Big Men do?
4.1. Command Initiative
The quality of an officer or NCO is
represented by his Command Initiative level.
This dictates how many units he can influence
and over what distance. There are four levels
as shown below, with a level IV Big Man being
the ultimate battlefield commander and a
level I Big Man being someone above the
herd:
Level Command Command
Initiative Distance
IV 4 12”
III 3 9”
II 2 6”
I 1 3”
Although usually specified by army list
background, a campaign or the scenario, Big
Men commanding platoons, companies or
higher can be assumed to be level III, all other
Big Men to be level I.
Note that the force deployed for a battle
should indicate which Big Men are
commanding which companies, platoons and
squads
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4.1.1. Using Command Initiative
When a Big Man’s card is dealt they may use
their Command Initiative in a variety of ways
to influence the battle and the men around
them. These options are as follows:
A Big Man may do the following using one
Command Initiative:
 He may personally move with up to 3D6.
He may only do this once in each turn.
 He may spot.
 He may attempt a task such as a search.
 He may activate one infantry squad,
support weapon, vehicle or specialist
under his command and within his
command distance that he can see. That
unit takes its turn immediately.
 A Big Man commanding a vehicle platoon
may issue or countermand a platoon order
to vehicles under his command that are
within his command range.
 He may remove one point of Shock from
any one infantry squad, support weapon
or vehicle he is in contact with.
 He may un-pin an infantry squad or
support weapon he is in contact with, or
reduce a Suppressed unit to Pinned.
 He may direct the fire of any one infantry
squad, support weapon or vehicle he is in
contact with.
 He may initiate a charge into Close
Combat
 He may order an infantry squad, support
weapon or vehicle to prepare to fire later
in the turn as the opportunity presents i.e.
reserving their Actions.
Big Men may do the following using multiple
Command Initiatives:
 He may act as a Forward Observer for an
off-table support unit using two Command
Initiatives.
 Provided they are in communication with
each other (i.e. within his command
distance if without communicators,
anywhere on the battlefield if they have
communicators) a Big Man commanding a
company may use ALL of his Command
Initiative to activate any one Blind OR a
subordinate Big Man OR a Specialist. The
subordinate Big Man may then use his
Command Initiative as though his card had
been dealt. Should his card be dealt later
in the turn it is ignored.
For example, a Level 3 Big Man is activated
when his card is dealt. He now has three
Command Initiatives to use.
With his first Initiative, he activates a squad,
allowing it to fire with its Actions. With his
second Initiative, he moves 3d6 to join an
infantry squad that is suffering from two points
of Shock. With his third Initiative, he removes
one point of Shock.
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It is assumed that Big Men of Tech Level 1 and
above have the potential to have
communicators allowing them to activate their
subordinates in this way. Whether the figures
or backgrounds used actually specifically
represent or mention these ‘radios’ (or
whatever they are) working or not is, of
course, another matter!
4.1.2. Chain Of Command
Big Men influencing troops around them must
be aware of the chain of command. In normal
circumstances Big Men are allocated to
specific units and may only influence troops
from that unit. For example, a company
commander can issue orders to any units within
his company, a platoon leader to those within
his platoon, a squad leader to his own squad
or weapons team.
In some situations the chain of command rules
may be ignored. Troops with no Big Men left
in their own platoon may be influenced by Big
Men from any unit.
4.1.3. Isolated Big Men
A Big Man who is not accompanying a group
may not fire or initiate close combat. He may,
however, choose to fight in close combat if
attacked by an enemy unit, counting 1D6 for
each two levels of Command Initiative. He
may move with up to 3D6 at the cost of one
Command Initiative.
4.1.4. Attaching Big Men To Units
A Big Man may attach himself to one squad or
support weapon at any time. To do so the Big
Man simply has to be physically with them.
Once attached, he may move with that squad
either when he activates it or on the platoon
card, however he may only positively
influence their firing by adding his Command
Level to any dice rolls when they are
activated on his own card. To unattach himself
the Big Man only has to move away from the
squad.
4.1.5. Can A Big Man Activate A Unit
That Has Already Been Activated?
No. Other than a few Bonus cards that allow
additional movement or firing, units will only
be activated once in a turn. If the Big Man’s
own card is dealt after the force that he is
with has been activated he may use his
Command Initiative to remove Shock, Spot,
undertake a task or move on his own.
The single exception to this would be a
Company Commander using all of his
Command Initiative to activate a Blind.
4.1.7. Vehicle Platoon Orders
A Big Man commanding a vehicle platoon may
issue individual orders to his vehicles for one
Command Initiative each. Alternatively, he
may issue a platoon order for one command
initiative which all vehicles within the platoon
will then act upon.
Once a platoon order has been issued, the
platoon will continue to operate on that order
on all subsequent activations. They will only
cease if they are ordered otherwise, the
platoon commander is killed, or if Shock
dictates that individual vehicles cease to obey
the order.
Platoon commanders may issue a platoon
order for the platoon as a whole whilst
activating individual vehicles separately for
other tasks.
These platoon orders are as follows:
Transit: The platoon will advance using all its
Actions for movement. The entire platoon rolls
once to give distance moved rather than each
individual vehicle rolling, and all vehicles must
retain their existing formation. The lowest dice
rolled may be re-rolled if the player wishes.

Units that have their card dealt prior to the

Big Man’s card being dealt may choose to
ignore that and wait for the Big Man’s card.

4.1.6. Can A Big Man Influence Units

On Blinds?
Big Men cannot influence troops on Blinds and
any Big Men on Blinds do not have their cards
put into the Game Deck until they are
deployed on the table. Troops on Blinds
automatically get benefits that represent their
officers and NCOs doing their jobs.

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Hunt: The platoon will advance with one
Action in each turn, using their remaining
Actions to spot or shoot.
Vehicles operating on a Hunt order will add a
+1 to their “to hit” dice.
Engage: The platoon will deploy on its current
position, engaging a spotted enemy, or ready
to engage any target that comes in to view.
Vehicles operating on an Engage order may
not advance any further forward than the
lead vehicle. If stationary, they will add a +1
to any dice rolled for spotting or “to hit”.
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Urmaster Vig is advancing across the frozen
wastes of Blorden with his platoon of AFVs. Up
ahead is a ridge where his Recon troops have
told him the enemy have tanks. Vig issues a Hunt
order and his platoon moves forward cautiously.
On his next activation, Vig’s platoon advances
with one Action per AFV and then spots,
identifying a force of enemy tanks. Vig now
issues an engage order which halts his AFVs and
on their next activation will allow them to fire
and spot more effectively.
Later on Blorden, Vig’s platoon of AFVs is
advancing through Heavy terrain.
Vig moves his AFVs up to a deep drift of snow
to his front on a Hunt order. On his next
activation he issues an Engage order to the
platoon. They will now remain stationary,
seeking out any targets to their front, until
ordered to do something else.
Vig now uses one of his Command Initiatives to
activate one AFV which he intends to use as bait
to draw enemy fire. The lone AFV advances
forward round the drift whilst his comrades
cover his movement.
The next card out is the enemy Blinds card. An
anti-tank support weapon, previously hidden
under cover opposite decides to engage the
AFV. Its first round bounces off the vehicle’s
armour.
Now Vig’s other AFVs are able to interrupt the
enemy’s fire and pour shots into its position.
4.2. Actions Mobile troops mounting or 1 Action
dismounting from their
Units are activated when their platoon or attached vehicles
individual card is dealt or a Big Man uses a Attempt to spot 1 Action
Command Initiative. At that point each squad, Attempt a task or specialisation 1 Action
support weapon, vehicle or specialist within Fire at Foot with 1d6 1 Action
Fire a distance shot at, or close All
that platoon or represented by the individual
assault, a vehicle Actions
card may use their Actions to undertake a Make an anti-aircraft attack 2 Actions
range of activities such as Spot, Move, Fire, Reserve an Action for later use 1 Action
Hunker Down, stand on Overwatch, carry out (overwatch)
their specialisation, undertake a task or any
combination of these. The movement actions above also apply to
support weapons that are SV3 or smaller.
The actions below are those actions that can
be attempted. Other rules often apply, and 4.2.2. Using Actions: Support
may restrict what actions can be taken. The Weapons & Vehicles
tables below should be read in association
with the specific rules covering the desired The actions available to support weapons and
action. vehicles are as follows:
Units may choose to duplicate actions, for Action Cost
example firing or moving with all of their dice. Move 1D6 inches (vehicles & 1 Action
They may also, for example, Spot more than limbered support weapons)
once or they may Spot once with an enhanced Cross a minor obstacle 1 Action
chance, adding +1 to their dice throw for the Cross a major obstacle 2 Actions
use of any additional Actions. Details on Limber or Unlimber (up to SV6 1 Action
exactly how units deal with movement, firing, only)
spotting and searching may be found in the Change target when firing at a 1 Action
specific target
relevant section of the rules.
Aiming when firing at a specific 1 Action
target (e.g. in an AA or AT
4.2.1. Using Actions: Infantry & role)
Specialists Fire a bolt weapon once at a 1 Action
vehicle
The actions available to infantry and Fire a bolt weapon once at 2 Actions
specialists are as follows: infantry
Fire an autogun weapon at 1 Action
Action Cost infantry with 1d6
Move 1D6 inches 1 Action Fire an autogun weapon at a All
Hunker Down 1 Action vehicle Actions
Get up from prone (i.e. if 1 Action Make an anti-aircraft attack 2 Actions
hunkered down in “open” Area Fire (gunners must also All
terrain) take one Action from their Actions
Cross a low obstacle without 1 Action vehicle)
appropriate Personal Attempt to spot 1 Action
Movement System (PMS) Attempt a task 1 Action
Cross a high obstacle without 2 Actions Reserve a dice for later use 1 Action
appropriate PMS (overwatch)
Enter an unbarred building 1 Action
Mount or dismount from a 2 Actions
vehicle (unless Mobile role)
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4.2.3. Overwatch: Reserving Dice
When a unit is activated, instead of
immediately using their Actions a squad may
reserve any or all of them for use later in that
turn and so gain some reactive capacity. These
reserved dice are available only for Spotting
and Firing (at any range) and may be used at
A tank destroyer gunner with three Actions attempts
to fire at a tank. His first shot is always considered
to be aimed, so he fires with one Action. He misses.
With two Actions left he must now decide whether to
aim with his second dice and then fire an aimed shot
with his third action, or to blast away and fire two
snap shots, one with each remaining Action. In the
end he fires one snap shot and then spots with his
third and final Action.
A three-squad platoon of infantry is activated when
its card is dealt. Two squads have eight men each,
whilst the third has lost two men dead, and is
reduced to six men. From their Army List, the two
squads with eight men have four Actions to use in
this turn. The first squad stands on overwatch,
reserving all of its dice to use later in the turn. The
second squad advances, moving forward with three
dice allocated to movement before hunkering down
with the fourth Action. The third squad has only three
Actions as it is operating at reduced strength. It uses
one dice to spot the tree line ahead and, seeing
nothing, advances with two Actions.
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any subsequent point in the turn as the player
desires. This may even be part of the way
through another player’s turn or on the
Commercial Break card.
The only exception to this is for N-STP aircraft
wanting to engage in air-to-air combat. See
Section 13 for details.
A good quality eight-man mobile infantry platoon is
activated when its card is dealt. The men are
mounted on their grav APCs, so each APC has four
Actions, the relevant number for a full squad of that
unit type.
One APC moves forward with two Actions, with two
more spent on spotting the road ahead for any sign
of an ambush: it makes a “to spot” roll at +1.
In the next turn the same squad wishes to dismount
and then advance supported by the APC which has a
manned SV2 DF Bolt Autogun. Six men dismount at
the cost of one Action. They now have two Actions to
spend on whatever they wish, reflecting the fact that
they are operating with less than a full squad as two
of their men are manning the Autogun. The APC has
three Actions left from its original four (also losing
one while the squad dismounted) which can be used
by its remaining crew (the pilot and the two men
manning the Autogun) to move, spot, fire etc.
On subsequent activations the six man squad will
have three Actions, whilst the APC will have four
Actions.
 Section Five: Movement
There are two types of movement in Q13.
Movement under Blinds occurs when a force is
not spotted; tabletop movement happens once
the force has been spotted and the figures are
deployed on the table.
Movement of units deployed on the tabletop is
done by squad, weapon team or individual
vehicle.
5.1. Hidden Movement Under
Blinds
Q13 uses a system of Blinds to allow some fog
of war to be added to the game. These Blinds
are blank cards, 6½” wide and 4” deep,
which usually represent about a platoon sized
unit or smaller.
Troops under a Blind benefit significantly in
that the entire force under that Blind can
operate in concert until it is spotted by the
enemy. It may not be fired on. Troops under
Blinds are not as badly affected by terrain as
those with figures deployed on the table,
merely losing one dice of movement if crossing
obstructing terrain. This represents the fact
that when not under fire troops can be relied
upon to generally do what they are ordered
and work together.
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Blinds operate with four Actions which they
may use to Move, Spot and/or deploy their
figures on the table in order to fire. These
may be done in any order desired. Deploying
from a Blind uses no Actions or Command
Initiative and any fire is done with the added
initiative of the most senior Big Man present
with that unit.
Blinds are removed from the table and
replaced with figures as soon as they are
spotted by the enemy or when the troops they
represent open fire. Troops that started a turn
on a Blind will always be activated by the
Blinds card in that same turn, even if they have
been spotted and their figures are on the
table. At the end of that turn, their card will
be added to the Game Deck and they will
then be activated by their own unit card or
when activated by a Big Man using his
Command Initiative.
Blinds that move into contact with an enemy
intentionally or otherwise will immediately be
placed on the table and fight a Close Combat
as normal.
5.1.1. Hidden Blinds
Any terrain object that can conceal a unit is
also considered a Blind. So a sniper concealed
in rocks or an infantry squad in a bunker need
not be represented by a Blind so long as they
remain stationary, the terrain being
considered a Blind in its own right. The player
must consider, therefore, that the enemy can
be hiding in every clump of jungle or behind
every rock.
5.1.2. False Blinds
Blinds may be used to create uncertainty in the
minds of the players as to where their
opponent’s forces actually are. In that way, a
Blind could be a real unit ready for action or
dummy unit that might represent a small
reconnaissance patrol of a few men but with
no combat value. In addition to Blinds for his
troops, a player may be issued False Blinds.
These may move and spot as normal, but will
be removed from the table if they are
spotted.
A player has two False Blinds as part of his
force. He is tempted to leave them back on his
left, threatening his enemy’s flank with an
unknown force. However, his need for
intelligence is his biggest concern.
He sends both False Blinds down the two roads
ahead of him. The first one advances with three
Actions and Spots with its fourth in the direction
of a ramshackle building. It sees nothing. The
player knows that road is clear for at least the
first 12”.
The other Blind does the same on the other
road, however it Spots an enemy anti-tank gun
team waiting in a small copse. It’s a good job
he sent his False Blinds forward to scout the
way!
5.1.3. Number Of Blinds Available
Although the number of Blinds available can
be determined by the scenario or campaign
being played, the following table gives a
useful guide to how many Blinds a force could
typically deploy. Players may add up to 50%
extra Blinds for one side if they are the
defender, and likewise remove 50% for an
attacker.
Majority
Blinds
of Troops
Rabble One Blind per two platoons, no
False Blinds
Militia One Blind per platoon, up to one
False Blind
Regulars One Blind per platoon, 1D3 False
Blinds
Veterans One Blind per platoon plus 1D3
Blinds, 1D3 False Blinds
Elites One Blind per platoon plus 1D6
Blinds, 1D6 False Blinds
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5.1.4. Can I Move Into Close Combat
On A Blind?
Yes. This represents the fact that you have
caught your opponent unawares.
5.1.5. Partial Move On A Blind
In some instances only part of the unit’s turn is
taken under Blinds. In many cases the number
of Actions that a Blind gets will differ from the
number of Actions that the units it represents
get.
For example, when a Blind is representing a
platoon where the squads would normally
operate with three Actions, the Blind will still
get four Actions. In this situation the number of
Actions used during that turn will be the higher
of the two. So a squad that would normally
get three Actions will use the four Actions
available to a Blind.
5.1.6. Blinds & Aircraft
Because of the way that the movement system
for aircraft works, aircraft are not normally
used under Blinds. Their platoon cards should
therefore be placed straight into the Game
Deck at the beginning of the game or, if their
arrival is delayed, as soon as they can
potentially arrive.
5.2. Tabletop Movement For
Foot Troops
Movement of foot troops deployed on the
tabletop is done by individual infantry squad
and individual support weapon team.
The player selects a unit and allocates how
many of its Actions he is using for movement
up to a maximum of three dice. He may not
then alter that and must move the full distance
indicated by the roll of the dice unless he is
moving to a specific named point such as “up
to that building” or “in line with 6th Platoon”.
He then rolls the D6 and moves the unit the when personally commanded by a Big Man or
distance indicated on the table below, taking taking fire from close range. They may move
into account the terrain. OR fire in a turn, never both.

Terrain Effect Support weapons of SV4 or more subtract

Open/Hard Ground 1” per pip rolled their SV from each dice rolled for movement
Light/Broken Terrain -1 pip per dice rolled when moving on foot (i.e. prolonging). Towed
Heavy Terrain -2 pips per dice rolled support weapons (i.e. support weapons towed
Impossible Terrain -4 pips per dice rolled by some kind of prime mover) use the vehicle
rules for movement.
Other factors that affect movement are as
follows: Towed support weapons of up to SV6 take
one Action to limber or unlimber. Larger
Action Cost support weapons cannot be limbered or
Move 1D6 inches 1 Action unlimbered in the time scale represented by
Hunker Down 1 Action Q13.
Get up from prone 1 Action
Cross a low or minor obstacle 1 Action 5.2.2. Effects Of Shock On Movement
without appropriate PMS
Cross a high obstacle without 2 Actions In addition, each Shock point that a unit has
appropriate PMS suffered will reduce its movement by one inch
Enter an unbarred building 1 Action from the adjusted total distance.
Mount or dismount from a vehicle 2 Actions
(unless Mobile role) 5.2.3. Movement In Varying Terrain
Mobile troops mounting or 1 Action
dismounting from their attached Troops that are moving in more than one type
vehicles of terrain during a turn will declare where
they are moving to and will roll each dice
5.2.1. Specific Rules For Support individually, applying the movement penalty
Weapons depending on what terrain they are in for
each dice of movement.
Support weapons will only move if attached to
an infantry unit or, if operating independently, See the example, below:

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5.2.4. Changing Facing
Infantry may change their facing at no cost in
Actions but only when activated. They are
considered to have a 180° arc of fire to their
front.
Support Weapons and Vehicles may change
their facing at a cost of one Action. They are
considered to have a 90° arc of fire to their
front.
A platoon of infantry are moving through
marshland. The first squad has found an area of
solid ground to move across, the second squad
is in shallow water whilst the third is wading
through thick marsh and struggling with the
reed beds that make this Impossible terrain.
The first squad rolls 1, 4 and 6 on 3D6 so
moves 11”. By coincidence the second squad
rolls the same but reduces the total by one pip
per dice so moves 8”. Remarkably the third
squad rolls precisely the same but removes three
pips per dice, reducing the 6 to 3, the 4 to 1
and removing the 1 altogether. As a result, it
moves just 4”.
They may begin their movement facing any
direction and upon completing it may elect in
which direction they choose to face at no cost in
Actions.
distance from their parent platoon are likely
to suffer from insufficient support from their
comrades or an inability to be influenced by
Big Men.
5.2.7. Effects Of Casualties On
Movement
As men are killed, a squad’s Actions will
reduce, restricting their actions
5.2.8. Digging In & Hunkering Down
With a turn representing around a minute and
a typical game being a frantic twenty minutes
or so of action, lack of time prevents units from
digging in effectively during the game.
Consequently units may not do so unless
specifically allowed to by the scenario.
Troops may choose to use one Action to
“Hunker Down”. This represents them making
the most of whatever cover is available and
reduces the effect of any fire on them. A unit
doing so is considered to be Hunkered Down
until it next fires or moves.
Some types of hunkering down, particularly
going prone if there is no obvious cover
around, may mean that troops must spend a
dice getting back up again in order to move.

5.2.5. Interpenetration
Blinds, infantry squads and support weapons
deployed on the table may normally pass
through other troops at no cost to their
movement. Units interpenetrated by friendly
troops who are obliged to withdraw due to
excess Shock may be adversely affected.

5.2.6. Unit Integrity

There is no set distance for how close squads
Slishians from Hydra and Mushroom Men from Khurasan
need to be for a platoon to retain its cohesion.
It is assumed communication devices allow
some degree of independent action. Artificial
penalties are unnecessary as units a significant

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5.3. Tabletop Movement For 5.3.1.4 Horse-sized riding animals
Foot Using Personal Movement Cavalry moving at the walk will move as
Systems (PMS) normal infantry, but will add one dice.

There are two types of infantry personal
movement system: those that basically stay in
contact with the ground (e.g. motorbikes,
horses, exo-skeletons) and those that don’t
(e.g. gravbelts, jetpacks).
5.3.1. Benefits Of Grounded PMS
The following gives a guideline as to the sort
of benefits that Foot can receive if using
ground-based personal movement systems:
Cavalry charging will only do so in the turn in
which they hope to contact their enemy. For
movement in that turn they will double their
dice rolled.
Cavalry mounting or dismounting will use one
or two Actions to do so, dependent on whether
their role is Mobile (i.e. specialist cavalry) or
not.
5.3.1.5. Elephant-sized riding animals

5.3.1.1. Muscle-powered Will move at normal speed, but ignore the

e.g. pushbikes, leg springs
Usually allows 1½ times movement on roads
and paths only. Some types may allow no
penalties on light/broken terrain.
5.3.1.2. Engine-powered
e.g. motorbikes, powered armour
Allows double movement on open/hard
ground; ignore movement penalties on
light/broken terrain
effects of all but impossible terrain. Two
double moves (roll the dice and double the
result) may be taken in any one game, they
may be in consecutive turns.
5.3.2. Benefits Of Non-Contact PMS
Foot using non-contact personal movement
systems such as their own wings, gravbelts,
gravbikes, jetpacks or jetbikes will use the
same rules for movement as flying vehicles i.e.
must be defined as being N-STP or STP.

5.3.1.3. Terrain-skimming 5.4. Tabletop Movement For

e.g. skis on snow
The particular type of terrain must be
specified. Troops will ignore movement
penalties for that type of terrain when moving
uphill. Moving on the flat they will add one
dice, downhill their basic movement will be
doubled.
Ground Vehicles
Ground vehicles are those using wheels (WHL),
tracks (TRK), some kind of walking (WLK) and
those hovering just above the ground (HOV).
All ground vehicles may use up to three
Actions for movement whatever their quality.

Vehicle Type Open/Hard Light/Broken Heavy Impossible

WHL Double pips -2” per dice No move No move
TRK +1” per dice No effect -2” per dice No move
WLK +1” per dice -1” per dice -2” per dice -4” per dice
-1 per dice, but -2 per dice but -4 per dice but
HOV Double pips double pips double pips double pips
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Any excess Actions possessed by a better
quality unit may be used for spotting,
debussing or firing.
Roll 1D6 for any Actions allocated to
movement, total up the pips to give the basic
movement distance in inches and then adjust
that total according to the table at the bottom
of the previous page.
Vehicles designated as Fast add another +1”
per dice rolled for movement; vehicles
designated as Slow deduct another -1” per
dice rolled for movement.
Note: Vehicles in Q13 are presumed to be
operating in support of an infantry company
and the movement rates reflect that. If you
want to represent something like an
independent AFV command then adding an
Armoured Bonus Move card will allow that unit
to move more speedily.
5.4.1. Crossing Obstacles
Obstacles are such things as hedges, woods,
banks, walls, ditches, and buildings.
Wheeled vehicles may only negotiate the
easiest of obstacles e.g. push through the
lightest of hedges, cross the shallowest of
ditches.
Tracked vehicles may drive through most
obstacles, losing one Action to do so, perhaps
two Actions for really solid obstructions.
Walkers and HOV vehicles may ignore all
terrain obstacles up to man-shoulder height.
The very largest walkers could ignore higher
terrain effects e.g. houses. Basically, place the
model next to the terrain feature in question: if
its “knee” is higher than the terrain feature,
then it can ignore it.
5.4.2. Bogging Down
Any vehicle moving in especially unfriendly
terrain that rolls two 1’s for movement,
however many dice they roll, will become
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bogged down. It may test to get free each
turn by using all of the vehicle’s Actions. If
more 6’s are rolled than 1’s the attempt
succeeds. However, more 1’s than 6’s are
rolled the vehicle is considered stuck for the
rest of the game unless it is winched out.
To winch out a bogged down vehicle, a second
vehicle of similar or greater size must be
immediately adjacent to the front or rear of
the stranded vehicle. The recovery crew is
dedicated to this task and cannot undertake
any other actions. Once a turn roll 2D6
needing a double to free the bogged down
vehicle. A winching vehicle greater than 50%
heavier than the one stuck may adjust one dice
by one pip, so a roll of 3 and 4 may be
adjusted to be double 3 or double 4, thereby
freeing the stuck vehicle.
5.4.3. Vehicles Moving In Convoy
Vehicles in column or convoy that have not
been fired on will maintain a standard gap
between vehicles of double the vehicle’s length
if run by a being or a vehicle’s length if run by
AI. They will only roll for movement of the
lead vehicle, with the others conforming to
that. Once fired on this rule no longer applies
and the individual vehicles will dice for their
own movement in all subsequent turns.
5.5. Non-stopper (N-STP) Flying
Vehicles
When their card appears, each N-STP aircraft
covered by the card is immediately placed on
its flight stand at any one point on any edge
of the table. The aircraft do not all have to
start at the same point.
For each vehicle, the player then nominates
another point on any other edge of the table
as the vehicle’s exit point. The N-STP aircraft
then travels down a straight line between the
two points, only ‘stopping’ to use its Actions as
it does so. No Actions are used up in moving,
so all are available to spot, fire etc.
Whenever the aircraft ‘stops’ to use its Actions,
it is potentially subject to AA and Air-to-Air
fire at that point. See the rules on AA and Air-
to-Air fire in Section 13. If it is not driven off
or destroyed by the AA or Air-to-Air fire, then
it may use any or all of its Actions before
moving off again to either exit the table or
‘stop’ again further down the line.
5.6. Stopper (STP) Flying
Vehicles
When their card appears, each STP aircraft
covered by the card is immediately placed on
its flight stand at any one point anywhere on
table. The aircraft do not all have to start at
the same point.
The player then decides what each aircraft is
doing. The options for movement are:
Action Cost
Leave the table 1 Action
Prepare to land 3 Actions
Move to any other point on the 1 Action
table
Land 1 Action
Take Off 2 Actions
Only three Actions may be used in any one
turn for any movement actions. Any unused
Actions can be used for spotting, firing or
ground movement etc. An STP may not land
unless it has first prepared to land. Landing
without preparation is called a crash!
Those vehicles without enough Actions to
prepare to land in a single turn hover in place
and can carry their “preparing to land”
Actions over into their next activation.
Note that once landed, the aircraft uses the
movement rules for ground vehicles until it
takes off again…provided, of course, that it
has ground movement capacity.
The aircraft is potentially vulnerable to AA
fire at any point during the turn that it is on
the table and not landed. See the rules for AA
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fire. So, for example, the enemy player could
try and shoot at the aircraft before it acts
when it is first placed on the table; or wait
until it had landed; or moved somewhere else
etc.
STP/HOV craft transition between the two
movement types by ‘landing’ or ‘taking off’ i.e.
an STP/HOV craft that is currently flying using
its STP movement must spend three dice
preparing to land then one dice to land
before it can switch to HOV movement.
Likewise, an STP/HOV craft currently using
HOV movement would have to spend two dice
taking off before it could switch to STP
movement.
5.7. A Note On Flying Vehicles
Q13 is a ground-based wargame that
includes rules for aircraft (and other troops
capable of flight) only when they directly
interact with units on the tabletop. It therefore
abstracts rules for flight movement rather than
providing a detailed simulation, including the
question of altitude.
Flying aircraft are considered to be at one of
three different altitudes. These are landed,
when the aircraft is on the ground; on-table,
when the aircraft is on a flight stand actually
on the tabletop; and off-table, when the
aircraft is flying around “up there”
somewhere.
Aircraft that are off-table do not interact with
the tabletop until they go on-table. On-table
aircraft are assumed to be at an appropriate
height, as determined by the player whose
aircraft it is, for their current purpose. That
means that on-table aircraft can hide behind
hills, woods and buildings for the purpose of
avoiding enemy spotting or fire. The player
must, however, clearly state what the aircraft
is doing if he wishes to take advantage of this.
Line of sight between on-table aircraft and
other on-table aircraft or ground troops is
determined using common sense and Lardy
fair play.
5.8. Boats & Submarines
All vehicles classified as BTS or SUB roll up to
two dice for movement whatever the quality
of the troops within them. They add or subtract
1-3” per dice rolled for movement if moving
with or against the current respectively, with
the modifier determined by the strength of the
current.
Squads or support weapons in BTS may Fire,
Spot or Hunker Down, but lose one Action for
each dice of movement used by the craft.
SUBs take one full turn to surface or dive.
When under the surface, SUBs may only use
their DF weapons at targets in the same piece
of water as they are (“torpedoes away”).
Other targets must be fired at, or may fire at
them, only with IF support weapons. SUBs
under the surface may spot with no penalty
(“up periscope”), but are very hard to spot
themselves.
5.9. Water Movement
Foot soldiers attempting to cross a waterway
that is too deep to wade without the aid of
BTS vehicles must use small boats or rafts.
Squads carrying a small boat or raft lose one
Action of movement in addition to any other
terrain effects. It costs nothing to put the vessel
into the water, but takes two Actions to get on
board and one Action to get out.
In water, normal infantry movement rates are
used, but with the number rolled being halved.
Moving in water-based vegetation will
provide some cover from spotting, but the roll
will be divided by three to reflect a slower
movement rate. Any fractions are rounded up.
Note that firing on rafts or small boats on
open water is generally considered a Great
shot. Any Pins or Suppressions are ignored
whilst in the water. Troops on board rafts or
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small boats are considered to be unable to
fire with any great effect and may only use a
maximum of one Action when firing.
Infantry floating themselves across water with
the aid of inflatable bladders or similar will
use the same basic rules as above, but
movement is quartered rather than halved,
and no firing at all is possible.
5.10. Battlefield Insertion
Battlefield insertion covers all one way
movement onto the battlefield e.g. parachutes,
drop packs, some drop ships etc. It is a one off
ability to land somewhere on the tabletop
without already being there at the start of the
game or having to make your way there on
foot from an edge. There are two types of
battlefield insertion: powered (e.g. drop pods
and drop ships) and unpowered (e.g.
parachutes, gliders).
Resolving battlefield insertion is simple. When
the appropriate card is drawn, the player
decides where the troops are to land. This
may be by squad, by platoon, or even by
company. A deviation dice is then used (two
faces being marked “Hit”, the other four faces
having a direction arrow).
A roll of “Hit” will result in the unit landing
where the player wishes with just (1d6 – Tech
Level) inches deviation determined by a
second roll of the deviation dice, with a
second roll of ”Hit” meaning a landing exactly
where desired.
On any other result, the arrow will show the
direction of deviation from the target. You
then roll the relevant number of dice to see
how far from the target the fire falls.
Type of Insertion Dice
Unpowered 12 – Tech Level
Powered 6 – Tech Level
Inserted units are placed on the tabletop
under Blinds.
Example: two units of Tech 3 Drop Troopers
supported by a unit of Tech 2 parachutists
aims to land in the same spot. The first unit of
Drop Troopers rolls a “Hit” so lands where
indicated. The second unit of Drop Troopers is
not so lucky. They deviate in the direction
shown by the deviation dice’s arrow, and roll
6-3=3D6 for how far they go. Even unluckier
are the poor parachutists. They deviate too,
but have no powered devices to help correct
their deviation. They roll 12-2=10D6 for how
far they deviate. Let’s hope Recon were right
when they said that volcano over there was
dormant!
Units that deviate off the board arrive on the
edge of the table under Blinds one turn for
each three inches or part of three inches of
deviation off the board later. For example,
our parachutists, above, actually dropped off
table by 4”. Their Blinds marker arrives on the
edge of the table in two turn’s time.
5.11. Effects Of Gravity &
Atmosphere
Foot troops add one pip per dice rolled if
moving in a Low Gravity environment, and
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subtract one pip per dice rolled if moving in a
High Gravity environment.
Vehicles ignore the effects of Low Gravity
environments, but if they roll more 1’s than 6’s
when moving in a High Gravity environment,
then they bog down remaining stationary for
that turn. On subsequent turns, they must roll to
free themselves, rolling one D6 per Action
used and needing a 6 to do so.
Aircraft can operate in a Low or High Gravity
environment, but must roll a D6 over a number
determined by their expertise in order to do
so. Failure means that the aircraft spends the
entire turn wrestling to keep control: those off-
table at the start of their turn will effectively
miss their turn; those on-table will remain
stationary and be unable to act.
Expertise Roll Over
Rabble 5
Militia 4
Regulars 3
Veterans 2
Elites 1
Aircraft that depend on lift (i.e. that have
wings and/or rotors) must also roll on that
table if attempting to operate in a Low
Atmosphere environment.
Felid and Felid APCs from Khurasan
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Spotting is only used against Blinds or areas
of terrain that may hide unspotted units. Units
that have been spotted are deployed on the
table and are assumed to be seen, or at least
known about, by all other units.
6.1. Who Can Spot?
Spotting may be undertaken by a squad,
weapons team, AFV crew or aircraft using one
Actions or by a Big Man using one Command
Initiative. In order to Spot the unit must have a
clear line of sight to its target accounting for
the intervening terrain and that occupied by
the spotting target.
 If both the spotting unit and the target are
in Hard/Open or Light/Broken terrain that
does not obstruct line of sight, then the
attempt may succeed at any distance,
depending on the dice roll.
 If the spotting unit is in the open, but the
target is in Heavy or Impossible terrain
then an attempt may only be made if the
target is within 4” of the edge of the
terrain.
 If both the spotting unit and the target are
within the same Heavy or Impossible
terrain feature then an attempt may only
be made if they are within 9” of each
other.
 If the spotting unit is in Heavy or
Impossible terrain but the target is in open
or light terrain then an attempt may only
be made if the spotting unit is within 4” of
the edge of the terrain.
Note that Tech 2, 3 or 4 scanners ignore the
effects of terrain when spotting.
Target Location/Distance 0-4”
In the Open Automatic
In Light/Broken Terrain Automatic
In Heavy Terrain 9 10
In Impossible Terrain 12
6.2. How To Spot
To Spot the player first states which enemy
Blind he is attempting to spot, or, if he suspects
the enemy is concealed in some terrain, in
which direction his Big Man squad or weapons
team is looking. He may look at an area with
a 9” frontage for any one action. He then rolls
2D6 and adjusts the total number of pips as
below:
Subtract one:
if the spotter is under fire
if the spotter is pinned
if the spotter is a buttoned down AFV
if the target is stationary and not firing
if the target is local to this area
if the target is a specialist Scout/Recon unit
if the target is entrenched
per target’s Tech Level if the target has
chameleon gear/invisibility or similar
Subtract two:
if the target is in a bunker
Subtract three:
if the spotting is at night
Add one:
per dice the target moved this turn
for each additional Action used to spot
if the spotter is a Big Man
if the target is firing
if the spotter is a specialist scout/Recon unit
if the spotter is higher than the target or +2 if
the spotter is an aircraft in flight
if the target is a walker (or more if a large
walker: I use +1 per 1” height)
per spotter’s Tech Level if using a scanner
Note that spotting units with night vision gear
and/or scanners ignore the -3 penalty for
spotting at night.
4-9” 9-24” 24” and over
Automatic 4 7
5 9 11
12 14
14 18 24
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Now check the adjusted total against the table
below to see if the spotting attempt was
successful:
Distances are halved at night, even for units
with night vision gear. Scanners ignore this
penalty.
Result: If the total equals or exceeds the
number shown the spotting attempt is
successful and the enemy figures are put on
the table. If the total is one less than the
number required but an enemy unit is hidden
in the terrain being spotted, a Blind should be
placed to confirm that something is there but
has not been clearly identified.
Spotting cannot be a precise science. If an
umpire is available they should have complete
freedom to adjust the target scores to suit the
circumstances. For example, the presence of
smoke on the battlefield or weather such as
fog or rain may have a huge effect on
visibility.
A support weapon team is looking across a
canal towards a small homestead which is
surrounded by trees. An enemy Blind has just
emerged from the homestead and is moving
towards the canal.
The distance to the Blind is 42”, a long way, but
the target is in the open. Checking the table, the
player will need 7 or more to spot the Blind:
pretty much even chances.
However, the player wants to make sure he sees
it, so he uses all three of the support weapon’s
Actions to spot. This allows him to add +2 to his
dice roll i.e. +1 for each extra Action used. He
now needs just 5 or more on 2D6.
Target Location/Distance 0-4”
In the Open Automatic
In Light/Broken Terrain Automatic
In Heavy Terrain Automatic
In Impossible Terrain Blind
6.3. Automatic Spotting
In some circumstances troops will be seen by
their opponents without the need for spotting.
To represent this, the following table at the
bottom of this page is consulted on the
Commercial Break card, and any forces within
the following distance of their opponents will
be placed on the table.
In Impossible terrain no troops will be
deployed on the table but any hidden units
will be represented by a Blind. Such units
remain unspotted though their approximate
location has been identified.
The distances above are halved at night
except for units with scanners.
A player is using a false Blind to scout ahead of
his main force. At the end of a turn, the Blind is
on a track within 9” of an enemy infantry squad
that was concealed in a patch of vegetation.
The enemy player places his unit on the table as
the view to the patch of vegetation is only
slightly obstructed. The False Blind is removed:
the patrol it represented dispersed on contact
with the enemy.
The Vornid from Khurasan
4-9” 9-24” 24” and over
Automatic Automatic Not Spotted
Automatic Not Spotted Not Spotted
Not Spotted Not Spotted Not Spotted
Not Spotted Not Spotted Not Spotted
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6.4. Artificial Illumination
Artificial illumination sources such as flares
may only be used by the most senior Big Men
present on the battlefield, using one Command
Initiative to do so. It represents either his own
flare (or equivalent) projector, or him calling
for flares (or equivalent) from other on- or
off-table assets.

A flare (or equivalent) may be fired in any

direction, and will be positioned up to 36”
from the Big Man. Once fired, the flare will
illuminate an area with a 12” radius for the
remainder of the current turn and the next two
turns. It is removed on the third appearance of
the Commercial Break card. Everything within
the radius is assumed to be in the equivalent Harook from Mad Robot Miniatures
of daylight; anything outside the area of
illumination is considered to be in total
darkness.

Examples of how line of sight can affect spotting

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 Section Seven: Direct Fire at Foot
Firing in Q13 is a quick and simple process
that produces fast and coherent results which
combine the effect of fire with the impact on
the morale of the target.

Direct fire is used when the unit you wish to

fire can see the unit they wish to target. In
order to fire at a unit it must therefore be
spotted, in other words the figures must be
deployed on the table and not under a Blind,
and the potential target must be visible to
some, or all, of the firing unit. For example, if
only some members of an infantry squad can
trace an unbroken line of sight to the target
unit then only those men may fire at the
7.1. Infantry Firing At Foot
target.
Firing represents the full destructive capacity
Infantry squads and turreted AFVs have an
of an infantry squad, and incorporates the use
arc of fire of 180 degrees from the front of
of grenades, the squad’s light support
the unit. Support weapons and AFVs with
weapons, pistols and all infantry weapons in
fixed mount guns have a 90 degree arc of
one dice roll.
fire.
Each squad fires individually, rolling 1D6 for
each Action that it allocates to firing, modified
as follows:

Factor Modifier
Light squad firing -1 dice
Heavy squad firing +1 dice
Big Man has +1 to the total pips
activated squad rolled per Big Man’s
level (see 7.1.2)
Firing unit has -1 to the total pips
Shock rolled per point of
Shock
Tech Level of firing Add double the Tech
unit Level of the firing unit to
the total pips rolled
Firing unit is short Fire only possible at
Any firing unit may fire at any target that it
on ammunition Close Range; maximum
can see and that is within range. However, if two Actions may be
an enemy unit is within 9” of the firer then that used for firing
becomes the priority target and must be
selected. If more than one enemy unit is within The modified number of pips rolled gives the
9”, then the firer must direct their fire at the effectiveness of the fire, and this is cross-
unit that presents the best target possible. referenced against the range and how easy
the target is to hit on the Fire Table (see 7.5).
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This yields a result consisting of a number or a
number accompanied by a letter.
The number shown on the table is the number
of hits that the target has taken. The effect of
hits will be diced for to discover exactly how
many men have been killed and what Shock
the target has suffered.
The letter represents a temporary morale
result of either ‘P’ for Pinned or ‘S’ for
Suppressed. This morale status is immediate
but temporary, remaining in place until the
next Commercial Break card is turned.
7.1.1 Firing At Multiple Targets
There will be times when your units will find
themselves firing at more than one target at a
time. This will happen when the target unit is
within 2” of another unit. In such circumstances,
it is not considered possible to concentrate all
your fire onto one unit alone. The firer chooses
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the main target unit and then any fire is
spread across that unit and any other units
within 2” of it.
When this happens, the firer gets a +2 bonus
to the dice rolled on the Fire Table for each
unit over and above the main target to reflect
firing at a dense target.
Any Pinned or Suppressed results will be
applied to all of the target units.
7.1.2 Big Men Directing Fire
Big Men have no fire capacity themselves.
However a Big Man attached to a squad or
support weapon activated by one of his
Command Initiatives may direct their fire. The
squad to which he is attached (not those simply
activated by him) may add +1 to the dice
rolled on the Fire Table for each of his
initiative levels.
7.2. Support Weapons Firing At
Foot
Resolution of the effects of support weapons
fire on Foot depends on the type of support
weapon being fired. Note that only those
support weapons mounted on vehicles may
move and fire: see the section on Vehicles
Firing At Foot, below.
7.2.1. Bolt Weapons
Normal, non-autogun bolt weapons fire
individually. They use two Actions to fire each
shot, with each shot being able to target one
infantry squad or support weapon.
Roll 2D6: if a double is rolled, then one man
in the targeted squad or support weapon
crew has been hit. Whether a double is rolled
or not, the targeted infantry squad or support
weapon is automatically pinned.
Two Bolt guns usually used in an AT role, one
with 4 Actions and one with 3 Actions, are in
danger of being overrun by a platoon of 3
infantry squads. Both decide to buy themselves a
bit of time by firing at the approaching infantry
platoon. The Bolt gun with 4 Actions may target
and therefore pin two of the advancing squads,
the other is able to pin the other and has 1
Action left over. Each gun then rolls to see if
they have achieved any kills: 2D6 are rolled a
total of three times, with any double indicating
that one of the target squad has been killed.
7.2.2. Autoguns
Autoguns have an arc of fire that translates to
approximately 6” on the Q13 tabletop.
Casualties are shared in a sensible fashion
between any target units within that arc.
Autoguns of SV3 or more benefit from a
longer range than standard infantry squads
and smaller support weapons. They treat
Close range as 0-18” and Effective range as
anything over 18”.
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7.2.2.1 Autoguns: What To Roll On The Fire
table
Autoguns fire individually at infantry, rolling
1D6 for each Action that they allocate to
firing up to a maximum of their SV.
Roll their dice and adjust by the same
modifiers as for an infantry squad, but also
take into account whether the Autogun is multi-
barrelled:
Factor Modifier
Multi-barrelled gun Add +3 per barrel to
the total pips rolled
For example, a Tech 2 SV3 DF Bolt autogun
rolls 3D6+4 on the Fire Table. If it was a twin
barrelled gun, then it would roll 3D6+7.
7.2.2.1 Autoguns: Pinning
In addition to any other effects, Autoguns
automatically pin their targets.
7.2.3. Boom Weapons
Stationary Boom weapons fire at their targets
using area fire i.e. they use their turn to shell
or blast a target area. They roll 1D6 for
effect on the Fire Table for each SV, added
together. They may miss: see below.
An SV3 mortar would roll 3D6, add up the
total pips rolled, and use that number on the
Fire Table.
7.2.3.1 Boom Weapons: What To Roll On
The Fire table
To fire, each Boom weapon selects an enemy
infantry squad or support weapon as their
target. If additional infantry squads or
support weapons are within 2” of the main
target unit, then they are considered to be in
the target area as well. For each additional
infantry squad or support weapon in the
target area, the player adds +2 to the total
rolled as this is a dense target.
Support weapons that undertake other Actions
in the turn will reduce the total rolled by -2
per dice rolled for each Action used for
anything other than firing.
Add double the Tech Level of the firing
support weapon to the total rolled.
Each point of Shock on the firing support
weapon’s crew reduces the total rolled by
one.
7.2.3.2 Boom Weapons: Possibility Of
Missing Their Target
Now check the number of 1’s rolled for firing
to see if the support weapon has missed its
target. If it rolls a number of 1’s equal or
more than its SV divided by two rounded up,
then the area fire has missed and there is no
effect on the target units
If our SV3 mortar, above, rolled two or more
1’s, then its area fire has missed.
7.2.3.3 Boom Weapons: What Happens If
They Hit
If the target has been hit, then it is
automatically Pinned. Casualties are
calculated as normal, using Close range as 0-
18”, and Effective range as anything over
18”.
If more than one enemy unit is in the target
area, the players will alternatively choose
where the effect of the hits is applied, with the
player whose force is suffering casualties
making the first choice. Any Pinned or
Suppressed results will be applied to all of the
target units.
A roll of two or more 6’s will destroy any
support weapons in the target area. If multiple
support weapons are present, then the owning
player chooses which has been affected. The
support weapon and all its crew are removed
from play.
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Two Tech 2 SV4 Boom weapons are firing at
the enemy. The first is targeting two infantry
squads in line next to each other. The other is
targeting an enemy anti-tank gun with five
crew.
The Boom weapon targeting the two infantry
squads rolls 4D6+6 on the Fire Table: one D6
for each SV plus 2 for a dense target and 4
for double its Tech Level. If two or more 1’s
are rolled, then it has missed its target.
If it hits its target, then the total is cross
referenced on the Fire Table with the range
and how easy the target is to hit to get the
number of hits and any effects on morale. The
infantry squads are automatically Pinned.
The other Boom weapon needed to use one
Action to spot its target before firing. It
therefore rolls 4D6+6, as above, but then
subtracts 8 for the time it took to spot.
Providing it did not miss its target, the results
of this roll would be applied to the crew of
the enemy anti-tank gun. Additionally, if it
rolled two or more 6’s, then the anti-tank gun
itself has been KO’d, and is removed from the
table.
7.2.4. Flame Weapons
Flame weapons have a maximum range of 9”
if fired by men on foot or 12” if fired from
gun carriages or vehicles. Flame weapons
have an arc of fire that translates to
approximately 3” on the Q13 tabletop.
Casualties are shared in a sensible fashion
between any target units within that arc.
7.2.3.2 Flame Weapons: What To Roll On
The Fire Table
It requires two Actions to fire a flame weapon.
Flame weapons roll SV x 2D6 on the Fire
Table, ignore cover, and deliver double the
usual amount of Shock to their targets.
7.3. Vehicles Firing At Foot
Firing support weapons mounted on vehicles at
Foot works in the same way as for support
weapons except for the fact that a vehicle can
move and fire and that vehicle Gunners have
an extra allocation of dice.
As a reminder, vehicles operate with a base
number of Actions the same as a full-strength
infantry squad of their troop type and, in
addition, each specified gunner has half as
many dice again (rounded up) to shoot with his
specific weapon. Players may add a vehicle’s
Actions to the Gunner’s Actions provided that
the Gunner does not use more than the base
number of Actions in the vehicle’s turn for his
fire. To clarify, Gunner’s Actions may only be
used to shoot: not to spot or move the vehicle.
The following additional rules apply to
vehicles that move and fire:
7.3.1. Boom Weapons
Vehicles without a specified Gunner that
undertake other Actions in the turn will reduce
the total rolled by -2 per dice rolled by their
firing support weapon for each Action used
for anything other than firing.
This penalty is ignored if a specified Gunner is
given enough of the vehicles Actions to bring
his total Actions up to the base number of
Actions of the vehicle.
An AFV with four Actions and an SV4 DF Boom
weapon wishes to move forward with two
Actions and area fire with the rest. It rolls 2D6
for movement as usual, but subtracts 4 from
each dice rolled for area fire effect. If the
AFV had a specified Gunner, then it could
ignore this penalty: the Gunner has two
Actions already; the AFV gives the Gunner
two of its actions, giving the Gunner four
Actions to fire i.e. equal to the vehicle’s base
number of Actions; and leaving it with two
Actions for movement.
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7.3.2. Autoguns
Bolt autogun weapons mounted on vehicles
may move and fire, but subtract an additional
1D6 from their fire.
An APC with four Actions and an SV3 DF Bolt
autogun mounted on its roof can use up to
three of its Actions to fire the autogun, using
the remaining Actions to do something else. If
that one remaining Action is used to move,
then the APC would fire with 3-1=2 Actions
for effect. If the APC used two Actions to
move, using its remaining two Actions to fire,
then its fire would be less effective: 2-1=1
Actions for effect. If, however, the APC used
three Actions to move, then its fire would be
ineffective: 1-1=0. Autoguns rendered
ineffective due to movement still pin their
targets unless the targets are regulars,
veteran or elite troops.
If, however, the APC had a specified Gunner
for the autogun, then it could move and fire
more effectively. Assuming the Gunner uses
one of the vehicle’s Actions to help him shoot,
he would fire with 3-1=2D6 whether the
vehicle used one, two or all three of its
remaining Actions to move.
7.4. Using The Fire Table
The Fire Table is quick and easy to use. There
are three main columns for the three range
bands that infantry squads and SV1 or SV2
support weapons use: 0-9”, 9-18” and 18”+.
SV3 or larger support weapons count Close
range as 0-18”, and Effective range as
anything over 18”.
Each range band is then sub-divided into three
types of shot: Great, Okay or Poor. To select
which column to use for fire results the gamer
simply checks the range and then decides on
how good the shot is.
More often than not, how good the shot is will
be a subjective matter. For a gamer new to
the rules we recommend you simply consider a
Good shot to be at a target in the open, an
Okay shot is at a unit in Light cover or Broken
terrain and a Poor shot is at a target in solid
cover, Heavy terrain or worse. If the target is
Hunkering Down then the shot counts as one
level worse than it would otherwise be.
More experienced gamers may wish to
develop that idea further, taking into account
other issues that will influence the result and
allow fine-tuning of decisions. Is the target
moving in the open? Is the firer on higher
ground or firing against an opponent on the
sky line? All of these will make the target a
better one. Is the firer’s visibility affected by
smoke, or is the firer himself under particularly
heavy fire? These issues will make the effect
of firing poorer than normal.
Fine-tuning can be added by utilising “plus” or
“minus” factors by adding or subtracting 2
from the pip total of the firer. Alternately, if
the impact is more significant, players may
choose to represent this by shifting a column to
the right for a poorer shot, or to the left for a
better one.
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A Tech 2 infantry squad is firing on an enemy
infantry squad across the equivalent of an
orchard i.e. an area of cultivated trees in
orderly rows. The range is 12”, so we use the
9” to 18” column on the Fire Table. The enemy
unit is in light cover, so that is an Okay shot.
The firing infantry squad is using all three of
its Actions to fire, so that’s 3D6.
The roll is 2, 2, 5 and adds 4 for its Tech Level
for a total of 13. We cross-reference 13 with
the Okay effect in the 9” to 18” column which
results in 5P. This means that the enemy squad
take five hits and is Pinned for the rest of this
turn.
The enemy squad, also Tech 2 but Heavy and
now with four points of Shock, fires back on
their next activation.
It uses all three of its Actions and rolls 2, 4, 3
and 4 plus four for its Tech Level, less four for
its Shock: also 13. However, because they are
Pinned, we use the next range band: the over
18” column. They get two hits in return.
7.5. The Fire Table
Infantry Squads & SV1-2 Close Range: Effective Range: Long Range:
Support Weapons Up to 9” 9 - 18” Over 18”
Support Weapons Close Range: Effective Range:
SV3+ Up to 18” Over 18”
Total Rolled Great Okay Poor Great Okay Poor Great Okay Poor
1 5P 3 2 1P ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
2 6P 4 2 2P ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
3 7P 4 3 3P 1 ~ P ~ ~
4 8P 5 3 4P 2 1 1 P ~
5 9S 5 3 5P 3 2 2 P ~
6 10S 6 3 6P 4 2 2 1 ~
7 11S 6P 4 6P 4 2 3 1 ~
8 12S 7P 4 7P 4 3 3 1 P
9 13S 7P 4 7P 4 3 4 2 P
10 14S 8P 4P 8S 4P 3 4P 2 P
11 15S 8P 5P 8S 5P 3 5P 2 P
12 16S 9P 5P 9S 5P 3 5P 2 1
13 17S 9S 5P 9S 5P 3 5P 2 1
14 18S 10S 6P 10S 6P 3P 6P 2 1
15 19S 10S 6P 10S 6P 3P 6P 2 1
16 20S 11S 6S 11S 6S 4P 6S 2 1
17 21S 11S 6S 11S 6S 4P 6S 3 1
18 22S 12S 7S 12S 7S 4P 6S 3 2
19 23S 12S 7S 12S 7S 4P 7S 3 2
20 23S 13S 7S 13S 7S 4P 7S 3 2
21 24S 13S 7S 13S 7S 4S 7S 4 2
22 25S 13S 7S 13S 7S 4S 8S 4 2
23 26S 13S 7S 13S 7S 4S 8S 4 2
24 27S 14S 7S 14S 8S 4S 8S 4P 3
25 27S 14S 8S 14S 8S 4S 8S 4P 3
26 28S 14S 8S 14S 8S 4S 8S 4P 3
27 28S 14S 8S 14S 8S 4S 8S 4P 3P
28 29S 15S 8S 15S 8S 5S 8S 4P 3P
29 29S 15S 8S 15S 8S 5S 9S 5P 3P
30 30S 15S 8S 15S 8S 5S 9S 5P 3P
31 30S 15S 8S 15S 9S 5S 9S 5S 3P
32 31S 16S 8S 16S 9S 5S 9S 5S 3P
33 31S 16S 9S 16S 9S 5S 9S 5S 3P
34 32S 16S 9S 16S 9S 6S 9S 5S 4P
35 32S 16S 9S 16S 9S 6S 9S 5S 4P
36 33S 17S 10S 17S 10S 6S 10S 6S 4P

The number shown represents the number of An ‘S’ result shows that the target unit is
hits that that target has suffered. Any letter Suppressed. During the rest of this turn it is
shows the immediate effect on that unit’s unable to fire or move.
morale.
Remember: Any P or S result only lasts until the
‘P’ is Pinned, meaning that the target unit may Commercial Break card is dealt.
not move during the remainder of this turn.
Any subsequent firing by the target unit in this
turn is done with a penalty of one range band
shift to the right.

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7.6. Effect Of Hits 7.6.1.1. Benefits Of Armour & Shields

On the Fire Table, the number indicated when
cross referencing the total rolled on the firing
dice with the range and effect gives the
number of hits on the target unit, and any
Pinned or Suppressed result. Roll 1D6 per hit
on the table at the bottom of the page to see
what effect each hit has.
7.6.1. Effects Of Casualties
Now that we have rolled on the Hit Effect
table we know how many men have been
killed, how much Shock a unit has suffered,
and how many near misses we have had. But
what do these mean?
Near Miss: This has no effect. Breathe a sigh
of relief and keep firing!
Shock: A point of Shock has been inflicted on
the squad or weapons team. Shock is the
morale system in Q13 and represents the
breakdown of cohesion within the unit under
fire. For each point of shock on a squad or
weapons team any firing or movement will be
done with one pip deducted from the total
roll. The amount of Shock a squad has
suffered can be represented by suitable
markers, such as wounded figures, or by using
a small dice.
Dead: One man is dead. Killed men reduce a
squad’s effectiveness by reducing the number
of Actions available to that squad. Support
weapons lose one crew member for each
death.
Shields and powered armour allow a save
against a kill. For each result of Dead, roll
2d6: a score equal or under double the Tech
Level of the shield or powered armour
converts the kill to a point of Shock. Mega-
Armour also gives one “life” per Tech Level.
If the action is taking place on a tabletop with
a Poisonous atmosphere, add one to each dice
rolled for the effects of a hit.
A Tech 2 infantry unit in armour with Shields
takes four hits. 4D6 are rolled, with the results
being 2, 4, 6 and 6.
The 2 is a Near Miss: no effect. The 4 results in
a point of Shock. The 6’s would normally mean
that two members of the unit had been killed
but the unit has Shields, so 2D6 are rolled
twice: once for each potential kill.
The first roll is an 11, so the Shields fail to
save the infantryman: he is killed and removed
from the table. The second roll is a 3, which is
under double the unit’s Tech Level, so the
Shields “bounce” the kill and the man survives.
An infantryman wearing Tech 2 Mega-Armour
would get the benefits above and also need
to be “killed” twice before he finally goes
down.
A normal squad takes a hit and a ‘4’ is rolled.
This would usually be a point of Shock, but as
the atmosphere is Poisonous, one is added and
the hit results in a Death.

Roll 1D6 for each hit Tech Near Miss Shock Dead Extra
Normal Foot All 1, 2 3, 4 5, 6
0 to 2 1, 2, 3 4, 5 6
Foot with Armour
3 or 4 1, 2, 3, 4 5 6
Foot with Shields or 0 to 2 1, 2, 3 4, 5 6 Save
Powered Armour 3 or 4 1, 2, 3, 4 5 6 Save
Foot encased in Mega- 2 1, 2, 3 4, 5 6 Save plus Lives
Armour 3 or 4 1, 2, 3, 4 5 6 Save plus Lives

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7.6.2. Effects Of Casualties On Big firing had no effect at all i.e. ignore the
Men & Specialists hypothetical kills.

If a Big Man or Specialist is attached to a 7.6.3. Ambush

squad or support weapons team that has men
An ambush occurs any time an unspotted unit
killed, he must roll a D10 to see if he is
that is activated by the Blinds card (i.e. not on
affected. He needs to roll above the number
the Commercial Break card) opens fire from
of men killed that turn to be safe. If he rolls
under Blinds or a hidden position at Close
equal or below the number of men killed, he is
range. Fire occurs as normal, but to represent
dead and removed from the table. This roll is
the impact of surprise any Shock inflicted on
made once for each Big Man and Specialist
the target unit in the first round of fire is
attached to the unit that has taken casualties.
doubled.
Fire at unattached Big Men & Specialists is
A unit that is hoping to ambush an enemy
carried out as normal as if firing at a typical
force may not get its Blinds card dealt before
infantry squad of that Big Man or Specialist’s
the Commercial Break card ends the turn. In
type. Once the hypothetical number of men
this case the player controlling the ambushing
killed is calculated, roll a D10 as above to see
force may choose to fire on the Commercial
if the Big Man or Specialist is affected. If the
Break card, but does so normally i.e. with no
Big Man or Specialist is killed, then he is dead
doubling of Shock.
and removed from the table. If not, then the

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 Section Eight: Indirect & Off-Table Fire At Foot
Indirect firing in Q13 is used when the firing
unit cannot directly see its target: either it
does not have direct line of sight, or distances
are too great to allow visibility.
This can either be from a unit on the table,
such as a mortar or mobile artillery vehicle
firing over a hill, or from off-table support
units: any unit that will not be represented by
figures on the tabletop such as a satellite
mounted gun, high altitude aircraft or a
battery of artillery or missile launchers.
Given the nature of such fire, only stationary
Boom weapons may indirect fire.
8.1. Minimum Ranges
IF support weapons have a minimum range of
four times their SV. So a Tech 3 mortar
battery of two SV3 IF Boom weapons would
have a minimum range of 12”.
8.2. Types Of Barrage
IF support weapons may fire either circular or
box shaped bombardment.
The blast radius of a circular barrage is
calculated as the total number of SV firing at
that spot divided by two, rounded up.
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So a Tech 3 mortar battery of two SV3 IF
Boom weapons would have a blast radius of
(2x3)/2 = 3”.
The effect of a box barrage is calculated in
terms of 6” square fire boxes. Add up the
number of SVs firing at that spot and then
divide by 6, rounding up, to calculate the
number of 6” square fire boxes available to
the firing unit.
In our example, above, the blast area would
be (3+3)/6 or the equivalent of one 6”
square fire box. Adding another mortar team
would give a blast area equivalent to two 6”
square fire boxes i.e. (3+3+3)/6 rounded up.
One Fire Box must be placed with its centre on
top of the target, with the other boxes then
arranged as the player wishes to maximise
the effectiveness in one of the following
patterns or variations thereof. Each Fire Box
must be immediately adjacent to another, with
each complete edge meeting another. Boxes
may not be staggered, but may be orientated
in any direction that the player wishes.
All target units caught within the blast radius
or any fire box suffer the same effects of fire
as would have been caused by direct fire.
8.3. Indirect Firing From On The
Tabletop
When the appropriate card is drawn for the
firing unit, the player decides where the centre
of the barrage is to land and what the shape
the barrage will be: circular or box. A
deviation dice is then used (two faces being
marked “Hit”, the other four faces having a
direction arrow). A roll of “Hit” will result in
the centre of the barrage landing where the
player wishes with no deviation. On any other
result, the arrow will show the direction of
deviation from the target point. You then roll
2D6 and subtract the firer’s Tech Level to see
how far from the target point the fire actually
falls: the fire point.
A Tech 3 mortar battery of two SV3 IF Boom
weapons targets a platoon of infantry. It
chooses the centre of the platoon as its aiming
point, and to fire a circular barrage. The
deviation dice is rolled, with an arrow pointing
to the left of the target point coming up. 2D6
are then rolled, with 11 being the score. The
central fire point of the barrage is therefore
11-3=8” to the left of the centre of the target
platoon.
With a blast radius of only 3”, the barrage
might just catch a squad on the edge of the
platoon if it is strung out, but is more likely to
have missed.
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Once a fire point is established, a stationary
support weapon or battery can, when their
card next comes up, choose to fire at that
point again rather than having to roll for
deviation again.
All units (friend or foe) within that blast radius
at the revised fire point are considered hit.
They are automatically pinned and roll 1d6
and add the Tech Level of firer plus double
the SV of the weapon on the Effective range
column of the Fire Table.
8.4. Adjusting Tabletop Indirect
Fire
As can be seen from the above, it is quite
likely that a barrage fired indirectly will miss
its target. If this is the case, the barrage may,
in some circumstances, be ‘walked’ around the
battlefield.
Any Big Man or Forward Observer who can
see both the fall of the shot and another
target point, and is in communication with the
firing unit, may, when their card comes up,
spend Actions moving the fire point of a firing
support weapon or battery their Tech Level +
1D6”. To do this costs a Forward Observer
their entire turn to do this, and a Big Man two
Command Initiatives. This is not the support
weapon or battery firing again, just the fire
point being moved. The support weapon or
battery cannot fire again until its card comes
up again, but will not have to roll for
deviation. The barrage will automatically fall
on the revised fire point. Obviously if this
revised fire point is not now appropriate, the
firing unit may choose a new potential fire
point and go through the deviation process
again.
8.5. Indirect Firing From Off The
Tabletop
The process is exactly the same as the above,
except for the fact that the fire must be called
in by an on-table Big Man or Forward
Observer.
When the Big Man or Forward Observer’s
card comes up, they may choose to use two
Command Initiatives (a Big Man) or their
whole turn (a Forward Observer) to contact
the off-table support unit and call in their fire.
It is assumed that the off-table support is
ready, willing and able i.e. the battery is on
stand-by or the aircraft are flying in a ‘cab
rank’ above the table.
The target fire point, which must be a point
that the Big Man or Forward Observer can
see, is immediately marked and the off-table
support unit’s card placed into the Game
Deck. The type and shape of barrage, circular
or box, should also be defined now. When the
off-table support unit’s card next comes up, it
fires a ranging shot or paints its target, with
deviation calculated as normal, and the
revised fire point is now marked.
The off-table support unit is now waiting for
confirmation that its ranging shot has landed in
the right place, or that its targeting system has
painted the right place, and that it should now
“fire for effect”. This confirmation is given in
the same way that the fire was originally
called in: when the Big Man or Forward
Observer’s card next comes up, they may
choose to use their whole turn (Forward
Observer) or two Command Initiatives (Big
Man) to contact the off-table support unit and
confirm that they may fire. The next time the
off-table support unit’s card comes up, they
fire, with their barrage landing at the revised
fire point. Alternatively, the Big Man or
Forward Observer can adjust the revised fire
point as with on-table indirect fire.
The off-table support unit will keep firing at
that point each time its card appears until told
to halt or it expends its available fire missions.
Alternatively, Big Man or Forward Observers
can define how many turns of fire the off-
table support unit will fire before stopping
when they confirm that its ranging shot was on
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target and the off-table support unit may fire
for effect.
A Big Man’s card comes up. He uses two of his
Command Initiatives to call in fire from an off-
table missile unit. He immediately marks the
fire point as being the centre of an enemy
trench that he can see in front of him. After the
next Commercial Break card appears, the Off
Table Artillery card is added to the deck.
Nothing happens until the Off Table Artillery
card appears. When it does, the missile unit
fires a ranging shot at the target point.
Deviation is calculated as normal, and the
revised target point marked if necessary.
In this instance, there is no deviation: the
ranging shot has hit the Big Man’s mark.
Nothing happens, however, until the Big Man’s
card is next drawn. At that point, he confirms
that the ranging shot has hit its target and
orders the missile unit to ‘fire for effect’.
Nothing happens until the Off Table Artillery
card is drawn again. At that point, the missile
unit fires a full barrage, with the fire centred
on the marked target point.
If, however, the ranging shot had deviated by
enough that the revised target point missed
the enemy trench entirely, the Big Man could
have used two Command Initiatives to walk
the revised target point Tech Level + 1D6”
towards where he wanted the mark to be.
The Big Man then needs to use another two
Command Initiatives to order the missile unit to
fire for effect. He may have enough to do so
that turn, or he may have to wait until his card
comes up again. Again, the missile unit would
not fire until its card had come up again.
Alternatively, rather than try and walk the
barrage in, the Big Man could have ordered
the missile unit to fire another ranging shot,
with the process begun again as above.
 Section Nine: Preliminary Bombardments
Many attacks are preceded by an artillery
barrage designed to soften up the enemy
before the troops on the ground advanced to
make contact with them. In Q13 these are
considered to have occurred just before the
game starts. The damage they cause may be
calculated as follows.
one square foot of table i.e. they are twice
the size of a standard support weapon fire
box. In applying them the attacker may
decide that he wishes to apply multiple stonks
to one area if he feels that it is likely to pay
dividends, in which case the calculations for
effect will be carried out twice.

The attacker will be allocated a number of
preliminary bombardment fire boxes which he
may apply to the table as he sees fit. It may
well be that his pre-game briefing has
identified certain enemy positions, or
alternatively he may be firing blind. Either
way he will decide where on the table he will
apply his fire boxes. Each of these will take up
The defender should have deployed his forces
on a map prior to the effects of the
bombardment being calculated.
The effects of a preliminary bombardment are
calculated by rolling 1D6 for each infantry
squad, support weapon and vehicle caught in
the fire box:

Dice Roll Infantry Squad Support Weapon Softskin Vehicle Armoured Vehicle
1 2 dead, 1 Shock Weapon destroyed Destroyed 2 Shock
2 2 dead 2 crew dead Destroyed 1 Shock
3 1 dead 1 dead, 1 Shock Destroyed No effect
4 1 Shock 1 dead No effect No effect
5 No effect No effect No effect No effect
6 No effect No effect No effect No effect

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 Section Ten: Direct Fire At Ground Vehicles
This section of the rules covers the direct fire of
support weapons at vehicles. This includes
man-portable weapons such as the equivalent
of a bazooka, guns such as the equivalent of
an anti-tank gun, and support weapons
mounted on vehicles such as an MBT’s main
gun. Infantry close assaulting vehicles is
covered in Section 12.
10.1. Acquiring The Target
As with direct fire at Foot, the firing support
weapon or vehicle must have a direct line of
sight to the target vehicle.
10.2. Hitting The Target
All support weapons except for Autoguns must
roll to hit their targets effectively.
One shot may be fired for each available
Action, but remember that actions such as
aiming or changing targets also cost one
Action each. Roll 2D6 for each shot, and
modify as follows:
Subtract one:
if the firer is under fire
if the firer is pinned
if the firer is Rabble
per point of firer’s Shock
per Action the firer has used to move this turn
per weapon damage on the firer
if the target is moving
per target’s Tech Level
for any other significant negative factor
Add one:
if a Big Man is directing the fire
if the firer is Veteran or Elite
per Tech Level of the firer
for any other significant positive factor
Add two:
for an aimed shot
Then consult the following table to determine
whether the target has been hit after
accounting for visibility and range:
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Range Range
Target
0-18” 18”+
In the Open 5 9
View Obscured
7 11
(some cover)
View Badly Obscured
9 12
(target hull down)
Autoguns must use all their Actions to fire at a
vehicle, but hit automatically.
10.3. Effects Of A Hit
If the firer is successful in hitting the target he
will need to compare the adjusted Strike
Value of the support weapon firing with the
Armour value of the target vehicle to find out
how many hits have been achieved.
Autoguns hit with an adjusted strike value of
half their Strike Value, rounded up. Other Bolt
weapons hit with an adjusted strike value of
double their Strike Value. Boom weapons fire
at armoured vehicles with an adjusted strike
value equal to their Strike Value.
The firer rolls 1D6 for each adjusted strike
value counting each 5 or 6 if firing onto a
vehicle’s frontal armour; 4, 5 or 6 if firing onto
side armour; or each 3, 4, 5 or 6 if firing onto
rear or top armour. Flying vehicles always
target top armour.
The target vehicle rolls 1D6 for each armour
class factor, counting each 5 or 6 rolled as a
save. Soft-skin vehicles have no armour, roll no
dice in their defence and all hits count.
Both players compare the number of hits
achieved by the firer with the number of saves
of the target vehicle. If the number of saves
exceeds the number of hits then the shot has
had no effect, glancing harmlessly off the
armour. If the numbers are equal, or the hits
exceed the saves then consult the tables
below.
10.3.1. Effects Of Hits On Armoured Vehicles
If the scores are equal (including no hits and no saves), roll 1D6:
1-2 The vehicle takes one point of shock and may not advance towards the enemy on the next
activation
3-4 The vehicle must halt and engage the firer in a fire-fight on its next activation
5-6 No effect: the vehicle may act as desired.
If one net hit, vehicle takes a point of shock, and loses one Action next activation, and roll 1D6:
1-2 Temporarily immobilised: no movement on the next activation only
3-4 Propulsion system damage: -1 pip on each dice rolled for movement from now on
5-6 Weapon damage: -1 on all to hit rolls from now on
If two net hits, vehicle takes two points of shock, and loses two Actions next activation, and
roll 1D6:
1-2 Vehicle permanently immobilised for the remainder of the game
3-4 Propulsion system heavily damaged: -2 pips on each dice rolled for movement from now
on
5-6 Main gun (or largest remaining gun) out of action for the rest of the game
If three net hits, then vehicle is destroyed. One hit on each crewman with a 5 or 6 resulting in a
kill
If four net hits, then vehicle explodes and all crew are dead.

10.3.2 Effects Of Hits On Armoured Personnel Carriers

If the scores are equal (including no hits and no saves) passengers may immediately
disembark if desired. Roll 1D6:
1-2 The vehicle must retire away from the enemy on its next activation or the Commercial Break
card, using all of its Actions to do so.
3-4 The vehicle will engage the firer if it is an infantry squad or armed with an SV3 weapon
or smaller. If anything else, the vehicle will withdraw as above.
5-6 No effect: the vehicle may act as desired.
If one net hit, vehicle takes a point of shock, and loses one Action next activation. Passengers
may immediately disembark if desired. Roll 1D6:
1-2 Temporarily immobilised: no movement on the next activation only
3-4 Propulsion system damaged: -1 pip on each dice rolled for movement from now on
5-6 Main gun (or largest remaining gun) out of action for the rest of the game
If two net hits, vehicle takes two points of shock, and loses two Actions next activation.
Passengers must immediately disembark. Roll 1D6:
1-2 Vehicle permanently immobilised for the remainder of the game
3-4 Vehicle permanently immobilised for the remainder of the game. 1D6 hits on passengers
5-6 Vehicle permanently immobilised for the remainder of the game and passengers take one
hit per figure
If three net hits, then vehicle is destroyed, the driver is killed, and passengers take two hits per
figure.
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10.3.3 Effects Of Hits On Softskin Vehicles
If the scores are equal (including no hits and no saves), roll 1D6:
1-4 The vehicle must retire away from the enemy on its next activation or the Commercial Break
card, using all of its Actions to do so.
5-6 No effect: the vehicle may act as desired.
If one net hit, vehicle takes a point of shock, and loses one Action next activation, and roll 1D6:
1-2 Temporarily immobilised: no movement on the next activation only
3-4 Propulsion system damaged: -1 pip on each dice rolled for movement from now on
5-6 1D6 hits on passengers
If two net hits, vehicle takes two points of shock, and loses two Actions next activation, and
roll 1D6:
1-2 Vehicle permanently immobilised for the remainder of the game
3-4 Passengers take one hit per figure
5-6 Vehicle permanently immobilised for the remainder of the game and passengers take one
hit per figure
If three net hits, then vehicle is destroyed, and roll 1d6
1-3 Passengers take one hit per figure
4-6 Passengers take two hits per figure

Fighting in a Poisonous atmosphere doubles 10.3.5. Collateral Damage

the amount of Shock taken in any results
above.
All damage is cumulative, so an AFV that has
had its main weapon damaged twice is now at
-2 on all subsequent “to hit” rolls.
Any vehicle that has suffered engine damage
and subsequently attempts to move but fails to
do so due to rolling zero or less due to pip
reduction has now broken down and is
immobile for the rest of the game.
10.3.4. Flame Weapons Against
Vehicles
Hits on soft skin vehicles and open armour will
always destroy the vehicle, and hits will occur
on any passengers without any allowance for
cover. Roll using the fire against infantry
methods as normal.
Hits on closed armour will roll a D6 for each
SV as indicated in Section 10.3.
Flamethrowers do not penetrate armour but, if
more 6's are rolled than 1's then the armoured
vehicle is destroyed.
Any vehicle that is destroyed will affect any
other vehicles that are too close.
Any armoured vehicle within 2” will be take
one point of Shock and will roll a D6. On a
roll of 1 or 2 they will take no action on their
next activation.
Any armoured vehicle within 1” will take 2
points of Shock and will roll a D6. On a roll of
1 the armoured vehicle will catch fire and the
crew will need to extinguish this or abandon
the vehicle. To attempt to put the fire out they
will have three attempts, one each on their
next three Actions, requiring a 5 or 6 to be
successful. If the fire is extinguished then the
crew may then continue as normal on their
following activation.
Any soft-skins that are within 2” of any vehicle
that is destroyed will be destroyed themselves
on a roll of 1-4 on a D6 and suffer one hit per
passenger.

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 Section Eleven: Indirect Fire At Ground Vehicles
Any vehicles caught in an indirect fire barrage
will potentially suffer damage. Roll 1D6, add
the SV and Tech Level of the firing weapon,
and consult the table, below.
In addition to the above vehicles will suffer a
-2 penalty when spotting or firing while under
bombardment. Any crew riding on top of an
armoured vehicle or carrier will also check for
casualties as though operating in the open.

Fully Armoured Vehicles

1-10 No effect
11-12 Lose one Action next activation
13-14 Take one hit on the Armoured Vehicles damage table
15-16 Take two hits on the Armoured Vehicles damage table
17+ Destroyed.
Fully Armoured Personnel Carriers
1-9 No effect
10-11 Lose one Actions next activation
12-13 Out of action. Passengers must disembark.
14+ Destroyed. One hit per passenger.
Softskin & Open-Topped Vehicles
1-7 No Effect
8-9 Out of action. 1D6 hits on passengers.
10+ Destroyed. One hit per passenger.

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Section Twelve: Infantry Squads Firing At Vehicles
All infantry squads, even without attached
support weapons, have an inherent DF anti-
vehicle capacity. For low-tech forces this can
include everything from throwing grenades to
jumping on board and firing guns into turret
tops! For higher-tech forces, this includes
personal anti-tank weapons such as one-shot,
throwaway rockets.
12.1. Infantry Squads Firing At
Armoured Vehicles
Infantry squads direct fire only at vehicles
using all their Actions to do so. Calculate the
‘shot’ as you would for a support weapon, but
use the SVs given in the table below if they
manage a hit:
12.2. Infantry Squads Firing At
Softskins
Infantry squads firing at softskins can target
the vehicle as above, but will more normally
just open up on their targets hoping to kill their
occupants and damage the vehicles.
The firing infantry squad targets the
passengers of the softskin as normal, perhaps
counting them in light cover if the configuration
of the softskin suggests it, but if more 6’s than
1’s are rolled on the Fire Table, then the
softskin is permanently disabled as well.
Players may opt to use this method of fire for
Autoguns as well: firing player’s choice.

Tech Level 0-4” 4-8” 8-12” 12-16”

0 1 ~ ~ ~
1 2 ~ ~ ~
2 4 2 ~ ~
3 4 4 2 ~
4 4 4 4 2

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 Section Thirteen: Anti-Aircraft Fire
& Air-to-Air Combat
13.1. Anti-Aircraft Fire
Anti-aircraft fire can only take place when the
target aircraft is operating in a tactical role
i.e. where it is flying low over the table. It will
normally occur against an aircraft that is using
its Actions to effect the tabletop i.e. when an
N-STP aircraft ‘stops’ to use its Actions, or
when an STP aircraft stops to use its Actions.
Only direct fire may be used against aircraft.
Fast N-STP aircraft can only be attacked with
specific AA weapons; but all other aircraft can
be attacked with all types of weapons
provided the attacking troops are within 18”
of the aircraft.
To make an anti-aircraft attack, the unit uses
two Actions and rolls 1D6 adjusting as follows:
Subtract one:
if the firer is under fire
if the firer is pinned
if the firer is Rabble
per point of firer’s Shock
per Action the firer has used to move this turn
per weapon damage on the firer
per target’s Tech Level
per target’s Armour Class
for any other significant negative factor
Subtract two:
if the firer is not a specific AA weapon
if the target is Fast
Add one:
if a Big Man is directing the fire
if the firer is Veteran or Elite
per Tech Level of the firer
per SV of the firing weapon
for any other significant positive factor
Add two:
for an aimed shot
if the firing weapon is an Autogun
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Then consult the appropriate table:
Score Result N-STP Aircraft
1-5 No effect
6-9 The aircraft takes one point of Shock
and is driven off and is immediately
removed from the table. It may return
on its next card.
10-11 The aircraft takes a hit. It takes one
point of Shock and is immediately
removed from the table. It may not
return for 1D3 appearances of its
card.
12 Aircraft is damaged and is
immediately removed from the table.
It may not return.
13+ Aircraft destroyed.
Score Result STP Aircraft
1-5 No effect
6-9 The aircraft takes one point of Shock
and is driven off and is immediately
removed from the table. It may return
on its next card.
10-11 Aircraft takes a hit. It takes one point
of Shock and moves 1D6” away from
firer, using any remaining Actions to
regain control i.e. its turn ends now
but it is still on-table.
12 Aircraft takes a hit, as above, and is
damaged. It takes two points of
Shock. As soon as it is able, it must
either leave the table and not return,
or land and not take off again. If the
aircraft lands, any passengers must
immediately de-bus.
13+ Aircraft destroyed. Any passengers
are dead or certainly KO’d for the
rest of the game.
13.2. Air-to-Air Combat can fire at the enemy aircraft that was its
declared target with either direct or indirect
Q13 is a ground-based wargame that fire weapons (e.g. guided missiles), and then
includes rules for aircraft (and other troops exit the table as normal.
capable of flight) only when they directly
interact with units on the tabletop. It is not an Firing at enemy aircraft is done using the same
air-to-air combat game, so the rules in this method as for AA fire, above, but using only
section therefore cover only what happens the following factors on the first table:
when aircraft on opposing sides wish to shoot
Subtract one:
each other whilst “on” the tabletop.
if the firer is Rabble
per point of firer’s Shock
13.2.1. Non-Stoppers per weapon damage on the firer
As we have seen in Section 5.5, N-STP aircraft per target’s Tech Level
per target’s Armour Class
are able to act in a ground attack role:
for any other significant negative factor
travelling in a straight line over the table
Subtract two:
‘stopping’ to spot or deliver their munitions. N-
if the target is Fast
STP aircraft may, however, also act in an
Add one:
interdiction role: attempting to engage and
if a Big Man is on board & directing the fire
drive off/destroy enemy aircraft rather than
if the firer is Veteran or Elite
attacking a ground target. per Tech Level of the firer
When their platoon card appears, N-STP per SV of the firing weapon
for any other significant positive factor
aircraft wishing to act in an interdiction role
Add two:
do not act immediately: instead they reserve
their dice. for an aimed shot
if the firing weapon is an Autogun
When an enemy aircraft's card comes up
(including flying infantry), at some stage that If the enemy aircraft survives the attack
enemy aircraft will appear on the table: an unscathed (i.e. a “No Effect” result), then it
enemy STP aircraft will hover or an enemy N- takes the rest of its turn as normal.
STP aircraft will begin its run over the
tabletop. At any point up until after the enemy 13.2.2. Stoppers
aircraft has left the tabletop, the N-STP
STP aircraft engage other aircraft in much the
aircraft which has reserved its dice can
same way as N-STP aircraft. When their card
declare that it is using its dice to attack the
is drawn, they carry out their turn as normal,
enemy aircraft. If the enemy aircraft lands,
but may fire at other aircraft that are on the
then the N-STP can carry out a ground attack
table (i.e. other STP aircraft) using the method
run as normal, but only on the landed enemy
above. Direct fire weapons may only be used
aircraft.
against targets in direct line of sight.
Its move (move, not movement) is carried out
STP aircraft with reserved dice may use them
as normal i.e. its flight path is calculated,
to shoot at N-STP aircraft passing over the
presumably to intersect with the enemy
board. As usual, they may not use their
aircraft, and it is placed on the table in an
reserved dice to move, only to spot and/or
appropriate position along its flight path
fire.
ready to shoot at the enemy aircraft. At that
point, any enemy AA with reserved dice may
fire at it. If it survives any AA attack, then it
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 Section Fourteen: Shock & Awe
The battlefield is a dangerous place and our
soldiers are only human. Military discipline
does much to keep them functioning under the
most stressful conditions, but ultimately the
rigours of action can sometimes prove too
much for even the toughest of men. As units
come under fire it is likely that they will
accumulate a number of Shock points; this is
the method by which Q13 represents unit
morale.
The amount of Shock on a squad or weapons
team should be marked by the use of
unobtrusive markers such as casualty figures or
micro-dice. It is important to remember levels
of Shock as units are affected by it in several
ways.
14.1. Effect On Movement
Foot subtract their current level of Shock from
the number of pips rolled for movement. So,
an infantry squad with four points of Shock
that rolls a total of 12 for movement will only
actually move 8”.
14.2. Effect On Firing
Infantry squads and support weapons subtract
their current level of Shock from the total
number of pips rolled when firing on the Fire
Table for both direct and indirect fire. The
squad with four points of Shock that rolls a
total of 18 for firing will reduce that to 14
when consulting the Fire Table.
When dicing to hit a target, such as a vehicle,
infantry squads and support weapons will
subtract one from the dice roll for every point
of Shock.
14.3. Effect On Vehicles
Multiple hits on vehicles, be they tanks or
armoured personnel carriers, may not be
sufficient to completely destroy the vehicle, but
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they may well be enough to persuade the
crew or passengers that the damage is bad
enough to see them withdraw from the action
or bail out and abandon it altogether.
If Shock is accumulated equal to a vehicle’s
morale level less one, the vehicle may not
advance towards the enemy and any
passengers must dismount.
If Shock is accumulated equal to a vehicle’s
morale level, then the vehicle must withdraw to
cover with all Actions this turn or be
abandoned if immobile.
If Shock is accumulated equal to a vehicle’s
morale level +1, then the crew will abandon
the vehicle immediately.
Here is a reminder of the morale levels of
vehicles:
Expertise Morale Level
Rabble/Militia 2
Regular 3
Veteran 4
Elite 5
14.4. Awe
Infantry squads or support weapons will suffer
the effect of Awe when their Shock level
exceeds the number of men remaining in the
unit. As soon as this happens, the unit will fall
back if in the open, light cover or in buildings;
or if in entrenchments or bunkers, troops will
be silenced, unable to move or fire.
The distance that a unit withdraws depends on
its expertise. Rabble or Militia units will
withdraw at a rate of 4” per point of excess
Shock over and above the number of men.
Regulars will withdraw 2” per point of excess
Shock over and above the number of men.
They will withdraw directly away from the
enemy.
Veteran or Elite troops must retire, but may do
so between 1” or 2” per point for Veterans
and 1” to 3” per point if Elite. They must
withdraw away from the firer, but may
deviate by up to 45° from a straight line if it
allows them to reach cover.
An infantry squad or support weapon that is
interpenetrated by a friendly unit retreating
due to the effects of Awe will suffer one Shock
points for each 2” the friendly unit was
obliged to withdraw this turn.
14.5. Rallying Shock
The effects of Shock are not permanent, and a
unit may be rallied by Shock being removed.
This happens in the following ways:
14.5.1. A Big Man Rallies A Unit
When his card is dealt a Big Man may use his
Command Initiative points to rally a squad,
weapons team or vehicle that he is in contact
with. At that point he may remove one point of
Shock for each Command Initiative used. A Big
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Man may also opt to use one Command
Initiative to un-pin a squad, or two Command
Initiatives to un-suppress it.
14.5.2. Medics
In addition to Big Men, specialist Medics may
rally a squad, weapons team or vehicle.
Medics may only rally Shock from a unit that
they are physically with at the rate of one
point of Shock per Tech Level of the Medic per
turn of the Medic’s card.
14.5.3. The Rally Card
The final option for rallying a unit is the Rally
card which is included in the Game Deck for
high quality forces. When a Rally card is dealt
the player may remove 1 point of Shock from
any squad, support weapon or vehicle of his
choice. Alternatively, if a Big Man is attached
to a unit he may remove multiple Shock points
up to his Command Initiative level without
affecting his normal activation.
 Section Fifteen: Specialists
Specialists operate with the same number of
Actions as a full-strength infantry squad of
their troop type. Each type of specialist has
their own rules:
15.1. Drone Operators & Drones
Drones are unmanned military hardware,
usually vehicles or support weapons that are
controlled remotely. Any infantry squad,
support weapon or vehicle may be
designated as a drone.
Drones act exactly as normal, except for the
fact that a Drone Operator may use his
Actions to affect them in the same way as a
Big Man affects a unit under his command i.e.
this includes removing shock, platoon
movement etc. Drones may still be affected by
a force’s Big Men as per normal, the Drone
Operator just adds an extra command
opportunity. Big Men can only affect drones
within their command influence distance, Drone
Operators can affect drones anywhere.
If all a force’s Drone Operators are
destroyed, it is assumed that the drones will
still function: operated more remotely from
off-table. Note that a specific scenario might
state that all drones cease operation when all
Drone Operators are destroyed.
15.2. Snipers
Snipers are rated according to their Tech
Level, from zero through to four.
Snipers may deploy anywhere within 12” of
their own sides’ Blinds or units on the table and
may begin firing any time that their Sniper
card is dealt. They may choose to remain
hidden over the course of a number of Sniper
cards; indeed the player does not have to
decide where they are deployed until he
wants the sniper to begin firing. Snipers may
also Spot.
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Once a sniper begins firing, a Sniper figure is
placed on the table top to represent the
general area of his firing position. Each time
the Sniper card is dealt, he may choose to fire
or elect not to shoot in that turn in which case
he can Spot instead.
When firing, the sniper rolls 2D6 on the
following table and discards the lower dice
roll if firing up to 18” or the higher dice roll if
firing at over 18”. Subtract one from the dice
roll if the target is in Heavy terrain or worse.
1D6 Sniper Results
0-2 Miss
3 Pins one enemy infantry squad or
support weapon
4 Pins one enemy infantry squad or
support weapon and inflicts 1D3
points of Shock
5 Causes one hit. Pins enemy infantry
squad or support weapon and inflicts
1D3 Shock
6 Kills one man. Pins enemy infantry
squad or support weapon and inflicts
1D3 Shock
If the target unit that loses a man killed is
accompanied by a Big Man or Specialist, he
will test to see if he has been killed, but use a
D6 instead of the usual D10.
Enemy troops may not spot or fire on a sniper:
his figure represents his area of operation not
him personally. However, if enemy troops
come within 4” of a sniper figure, he is
removed from the game.
If at any point a sniper rolls a double on the
2D6 used for firing, his Tech level is reduced
by one. If at any time his Tech level is reduced
below zero, the sniper is removed from the
table and his card removed from the Game
Deck, representing that he has been killed,
wounded or just decided that his position is too
obvious to be tenable.
If a sniper rolls a double that is equal to or
less than his Tech level, the sniper may re-
appear elsewhere on the table on any
subsequent turn of the Sniper card. For
example, a Tech 2 sniper who rolls a double 1
or double 2 must abandon his current position
but may re-appear in another position later in
the game with his Tech level reduced to 1.
A force has a Tech 1 sniper specialist. Their
Sniper card is dealt. Thus far the sniper has not
been in action so the player may choose to
place him anywhere on the table within 12” of
friendly troops. He chooses an area of rocks
on his left.
The sniper is within 18” of an enemy infantry
squad so the player rolls 2D6. He rolls a 1
and a 5, discarding the lower roll as he is
firing at a target within 18”.
The 5 causes one hit on the enemy infantry
squad. It also Pins them and inflicts 1D3 points
of Shock. A roll of 4 results in two Shock.
On his next activation the sniper rolls double
2. He is a Tech 1 sniper, so that is now
reduced to Tech 0. The next time he rolls a
double he will be removed from the game.
15.3. EWSO
Electronic Warfare Systems Operators have
several functions. You can define your EWSOs
as having any or all of the abilities listed
below.
Firstly, they can use specialist scanning
equipment to detect the enemy: when their
card is turned, they may immediately use an
Action to spot an area 1” square anywhere on
the table.
Secondly, they can use jamming equipment to
disrupt enemy communications: for each Action
used, they can reduce the Command Initiative
available to any enemy Big Man anywhere on
the table by one.
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An EWSO with three Actions is faced with two
Level II enemy Big Men. He uses two of his
Actions to remove all of one enemy Big Man’s
Command Initiative, and the last to bring the
other Big Man down to only one Command
Initiative. The effects last until the targeted Big
Men have had their next turn i.e. until they
have been affected by the EWSO.
Thirdly, where the Tech level of the EWSO is
at least two higher than their targets, they can
attempt to disrupt more general technological
equipment: to “fry the circuits” if you like. The
EWSO uses all their Actions to do this, and can
then reduce the Actions available to the
enemy technology (a vehicle, a squad of
infantry with energy weapons or powered
armour, a shield device etc.) by the difference
between their technology level and their
target’s technology level. This effect could be
permanent (i.e. for the duration of the game)
or just until the targeted technology has been
affected by the EWSO.
The Earth has been invaded by Tech 3 aliens
who have an EWSO in their roster who has
been defined as being able to permanently
‘burn out’ enemy technology.
During an encounter, the Earthlings (defined
here as Tech 1) send forward their primitive
armoured vehicles. The EWSO focuses his
equipment on one tank and fries its circuits to
such an extent that it now only has a maximum
of one Action available to it for the duration
of the game.
Fourthly, they can disrupt the activities of
enemy EWSOs. Using all their Actions, they
can reduce the Actions available to enemy
EWSOs by up to their Tech Level e.g. a Tech 2
EWSO with three Actions could use all three
Actions to reduce the Actions available to
enemy EWSOs by two. The effects last until
the targeted enemy EWSOs have had their
next turn i.e. until they have been affected by
the EWSO. Of course, other enemy EWSOs
could use their turn to reverse these effects.
Fifthly, there are other technologies that might
require an EWSO to operate them. Details in
the Other Technologies section of the rules, or
in your head!

15.4. Forward Observers

Forward Observers are used to call in and
correct the fall of on- or off-table support
weapons. Rules for their use are given under
the various sections on firing support weapons.

15.5. Medics
Medics may treat wounded troops, allowing a
force to recover from the effects of fire. Rules
for their use are given under the section on
Shock.

See also section 18.4 on regeneration and

self-repair if you want to field super-medics
capable of resurrecting the dead!

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 Section Sixteen: Close Combat
Close Combat represents the frantic fight at
close range, where firepower simply dictates
that one side or the other must give ground.
Close Combat is initiated when one infantry
force moves to within 2” of an enemy,
irrespective of whether either party is
deployed on the table or on Blinds.
As a rule, vehicles do not enter into Close
Combat, relying on their weapons or
passengers to damage an enemy, but see
Section 16.2 for how to deal with those that
are Close Combat Capable, and Section 16.3
for how to resolve vehicle overruns.
When Close Combat occurs both sides total up
the number of figures in the fight, ignoring
Medics. If a number of infantry squads are
present on both sides then the fight will be
broken down into several parts, with each
squad taking on an opponent. If numbers are
uneven, then the units should be paired up
against an opponent with the attacking player
deciding where any surplus squads or support
weapon teams are allocated in the fight.
Each side will roll 1D6 for each figure in the
Close Assault. Adjust the number of dice to be
rolled according to the list of factors below, in
the order listed, rounding down where
necessary.
Total up the number of dice to be rolled by
each side. If one side has four or more times
the number of dice as their opponent then the
side with the lesser dice routs immediately,
falling back 3D6 inches with their backs to the
enemy and taking an automatic six Shock
points per infantry squad or support weapon.
If surrounded they will surrender.
Otherwise, the two players roll their total
number of dice. Each 5 or 6 kills one enemy,
with each 6 also inflicting one point of Shock
on the enemy.
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If more than one squad or support weapon is
involved in the Close Combat, then kills are
allocated by each player in turn i.e. the
defender decides which of his units takes the
first kill, the attacker decides which of the
defender’s units takes the second kill etc.
Close Combat
For each Action you used for movement
subtract one dice. This is cumulative for
multiple units. Ignore this for Blinds
If your troops are Assault or Mobile Assault
troops, add one dice for every four you have
so far
Add or subtract the following number of dice
per squad dependent on each squad’s
expertise:
Rabble: -3 dice per squad
Militia: -2 dice per squad
Veteran: +1 dice per squad
Elite: +2 dice per squad
For each Command Initiative level of the most
senior Big Man present, add one dice
For each defender’s Autogun, add +2 per SV
provided the attackers are within their arc of
fire
If your troops have flame weapons, add six
dice
For every two points of Shock on your unit,
remove one dice
If enemy unit has armour and/or shields,
remove their Tech Level in dice per squad
If you are defending Light/Broken terrain,
add one dice for every four dice you have so
far
If you are defending Heavy or Impossible
terrain, add one dice for every three dice you
have so far
If you are defending bunkers or
entrenchments terrain, add one dice for every
two dice you have so far
For pinned units, remove half the dice you
have so far
For suppressed units, remove three-quarters
of the dice you have so far
If attacked in the rear, remove half the dice
you have so far

16.1. Results Of Close Combat
Compare both sides’ losses of dead (not
Shock) and refer to the list below:
Draw: Unless one side is obliged to retire due
to Awe, both sides will fight again
immediately. This occurs for a maximum of
three rounds, after which both sides retire 3”
facing each other.
Defeated by 1: Thrown back 4” facing the
enemy. This unit may not advance in your next
turn but may fire, spot or undertake any other
action. Elite and Assault/Mobile Assault troops
ignore a defeat by 1 and fight again
immediately.
Defeated by 2: Thrown back 9” facing the
enemy. Add a further one Shock points per
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infantry squad or support weapon. Unit counts
as Pinned throughout the next turn.
Defeated by 3: Run away 12” facing your
rear. Add two Shock points per infantry squad
or support weapon. Unit counts as Suppressed
throughout the next turn.
Defeated by 4 or more: Flee 18” in disorder.
Add three Shock points per infantry squad or
support weapon. This unit may not move or
fire on its next activation. If no escape then the
survivors will surrender. The winner allocates
guards at a 1 to 5 ratio.
Two regular Tech 2 assault infantry squads in
body armour attack a veteran Tech 1 enemy
infantry squad and SV3 Autogun support
weapon with four crew. As only one enemy
squad is present, we will fight this as one big
battle: had two enemy squads been present,
we would have split the combat into two parts.
The attacking squads have sixteen men so
start with sixteen dice. They moved with two
Actions each to get into Close Combat, so they
reduce that number by four, two for each
squad. That makes twelve dice. They now add
three dice as they are Assault infantry, so
finish on fifteen dice.
Their opponents start on twelve dice: eight for
the infantry squad plus four for the support
weapon crew. They are Veteran, so add one
dice; and have an SV3 Autogun, so add
another six dice. That makes nineteen. Their
opponents are, however, armoured, so they
deduct six dice. They therefore finish on
thirteen dice.
The attackers roll four 5’s and one 6; the
defenders roll four 5’s and three 6’s. The
attackers are defeated by two, so retire 9”
facing the enemy and lose seven men killed
and take five points of Shock spread between
the two squads. The defenders lose five men
killed, and suffer one point of Shock spread
between the squad and Autogun crew.
16.2. Close Combat Capable
Vehicles In Close Combat
Some vehicles, especially some walkers, carry
what are effectively close combat weapons:
claws, large swords etc. These vehicles may, if
they wish, engage in close combat with either
infantry or other vehicles.
16.2.1. Versus Infantry
The close-combat-capable vehicles use a
variant on the same system as above, with
small to medium vehicles usually counting as
four to six infantry (i.e. using a base of four,
five or six dice) and medium to large vehicles
usually counting as six to eight infantry (i.e.
using a base of six, seven or eight dice). The
very largest of vehicles might count as eight to
twelve infantry. The number of dice available
should be defined in the vehicles’ army list.
First calculate how many close combat
equivalent figures each side has available.
Compare the number of dice available to both
sides. As above, if one side has four or more
times as many dice as their opponent then the
side with the lesser dice routs immediately,
falling back 3D6 inches with their backs to the
enemy and taking an automatic six Shock
points per infantry squad or support weapon.
If surrounded they will surrender.
If the combat actually takes place, then
casualties on the infantry squad are inflicted
as usual. Casualties on the close-combat-
capable vehicles are, however, calculated
differently: they are calculated using the
infantry firing on vehicles rules in Section 12.
Each infantry squad in the close combat gets
one ‘shot’ at the enemy vehicles, comparing
their hit dice and the vehicles’ armour as usual.
If any penetrations occur, then the vehicles
take damage as normal.
Then use the table in 16.1, above, comparing
the number of penetrations on the vehicles with
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the number of kills on the infantry squads to
see the results of the combat.
Two four-dice close-combat-capable vehicles
use a dice each to move into Close Combat
with an eight-man Tech 3 infantry squad. All
other things being equal, the two vehicles roll
six dice looking for fives and sixes. The Tech 3
infantry squad rolls their four anti-tank dice
looking for fives and sixes to penetrate, with
the vehicles using their armour to defend as
usual. If the infantry managed one
penetration, then one of the attacking vehicles
rolls for that damage. If the vehicles killed two
infantry, then those infantry are removed from
the table, and the infantry squad counts as
being “Defeated by 1” in the table, above.
16.2.2. Versus Other Vehicles
Use the same number of strike dice given
under 16.2.1. for versus infantry (e.g. small to
medium vehicles usually have four to six dice).
Then add or subtract a number of dice equal
to the difference in Tech Levels between the
two vehicles.
These dice are used in the same way as if a
hit had been scored when shooting at vehicles
i.e. each side compares their hit dice and the
vehicles’ armour as usual. If any penetrations
occur, then the vehicles take damage as
normal.
If there are more than two vehicles involved in
the combat, then each player can decide how
many of each of their vehicle’s dice to use
against each possible target.
Two four-dice Tech 2 close-combat-capable
vehicles with AV3 are fighting face to face
with one four-dice Tech 3 close-combat-
capable vehicle with AV4. Each of the Tech 2
vehicles rolls three hits against the Tech 3
vehicle’s armour, with 5’s or 6’s counting as a
hit as normal. The Tech 3 vehicle has five hit
dice to split between its two opponents in any
ratio the player chooses.
Let’s say the hit dice for the Tech 2 vehicles
come up 5, 5, 3, 2, 4, 4. The Tech 3 vehicle
rolls 6, 2, 2, 3 for its armour, so suffers one
penetration on the Effects Of Hits tables under
section 10.3. It rolls a 6, and so takes a point
of Shock and its main gun is damaged.
In reply, the Tech 3 vehicle decides to
concentrate its attack on just one of its
opponents. It rolls all five of its hit dice against
one enemy, rolling 6, 6, 6, 2, 2. The Tech 2
vehicle rolls for its AV, rolling 2, 1, 3: no saves,
so three hits and BOOM!
Now the fight is one-to-one.
16.3. Infantry Over-Runs
Non-close combat capable vehicles may not
fight infantry in close combat, but those with
Tracks may attempt to over-run infantry
positions. To do this, they must move into
contact with the enemy unit and calculate the
effect as below.
16.3.1. Tracked Vehicles Against
Foot In The Open
Any infantry squad or support weapon
contacted by vehicles with Tracks will roll a D6
needing to roll above the amount of Shock the
unit currently has. If they succeed, they evade
the vehicle and may move 6” in any direction.
If they exceed the number by required by two
or more, they may make an anti-tank attack
on the vehicle as well.
If the Foot fail their roll, then 1D6 men are
crushed by the vehicle with the rest being
moved 4” away. Any support weapons are
destroyed.
16.3.2. Tracked vehicles against
dug-in Foot
Infantry and support weapons that are driven
over by vehicle with Tracks will be Pinned by
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the attack but will suffer no casualties unless
the vehicle attempts to crush the position. If
they are close assaulted by the enemy in the
current turn, they gain no benefit from cover,
being treated as though they were in the
open.
To crush a position, a tracked vehicle must use
two Actions, rolling a D6 to see if it has been
successful. On a roll of 1-3, the position and
the troops within have been crushed, on a 4-6
they are only Pinned. In hard or frozen
ground, add +1 to the dice roll. In soft ground
subtract 1. On a net result of zero, then the
vehicle will crush the infantry but will be
bogged down.
16.4. Ramming Vehicles
If contact is made, both vehicles roll 1D6 for
each point of Armour. Compare the number of
5’s and 6’s rolled. If the numbers are equal,
then the vehicles have bounced off each other:
both take one point of Shock and lose two
Actions next activation.
If one vehicle has rolled more 5’s or 6’s than
his opponent, then his opponent’s vehicle is
considered out of action for the rest of the
game. If he has less than double the armour of
his opponent’s vehicle, then his vehicle is out of
action as well.
A tank with armour 6 attempts to ram two
lorries, armour 0, and then a light tank with
armour 4. For the first lorry, he rolls 6D6 and
achieves two 5’s or 6’s. The lorry rolls no dice,
and is now crushed. For the second lorry, he
rolls 6D6 again, but this time achieves no 5’s
or 6’s: the lorry is merely shunted out of the
way and may continue to act. If he crushes the
light tank when he hits it next, he will also
have put his own vehicle out of action, as
armour six is less than double armour 4.
 Section Seventeen: Engineers & Battlefield Features
The following rules cover some of the areas
that may affect your games but are possibly
inanimate or non-military.
17.1. Combat Demolition
Engineers that make contact with an enemy
bunker or strongpoint will roll 1D6: destroying
it and killing the occupants on a roll of 2 to 6.
On a roll of 1, the charges have failed to go
off.
Note that large fortifications should be
treated as a series of smaller bunkers that
need to be individually attacked.
17.2. Smoke
Smoke is another catch-all term I shall use for
the generation of substances that obscure
visibility on the battlefield on a temporary
basis.
All Boom and Both weapons may fire smoke
shells. Some vehicles are fitted with smoke
generators. Infantry squads that are
designated as Engineers may throw smoke
grenades up to the range at which they can
direct fire at vehicles (see section 12).
For Boom weapons calculate the fire point and
blast radius as per normal: that area is now
filled with smoke. Vehicles must use an Actions
to activate their smoke generators, and
generate an area 12” square for each turn
used, with one ‘edge’ of the area touching the
vehicle. An infantry squad’s smoke grenades
also generate an area 12” square, centred on
where the squad ‘fired’.
Boom weapon and smoke generator smoke
lasts six turns, dissipating on the sixth
appearance of the Commercial Break card.
Infantry smoke grenades last only three turns.
Specific scenarios may adjust these timings
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due to atmospheric conditions (e.g. wind!) or
the absence thereof.
17.3. Minefields
Minefields are treated as areas 6” square or
6” by 2” strips. They can be anti-personnel,
anti-vehicle or both. Any Foot troops
attempting to cross an un-cleared minefield
that isn’t only anti-vehicle will dice for a base
four hits when crossing this area, adding one
hit for their enemy’s Tech Level and
subtracting one hit for their own Tech Level.
Armoured vehicles and softskins crossing a
mined area that isn’t only anti-personnel will
roll 1D6 on the following table for each dice
of movement they take to cross the mined
area, adding one for their enemy’s Tech Level
and subtracting one for their own Tech Level.
An uncleared minefield will affect any vehicles
that travel through it until it is cleared.
1D6 Softskins
0-3 No effect
4 Mine detonated, vehicle immobile,
passengers must disembark
5-6 Mine detonated, vehicle destroyed,
1D6 hits on the passengers
1D6 Armoured Personnel Carrier
0-3 No effect
4-5 Mine detonated, vehicle immobile,
6 Mine detonated, vehicle destroyed,
passengers dice for one hit each
1D6 Armoured Fighting Vehicle
0-3 No effect
4 Mine detonated, permanently
immobilised but in action, two Shock
on the crew
5-6 Mine detonated, destroyed and
burning
17.3.1. Clearing Minefields
Minefields may be cleared using appropriate
equipment by infantry designated as
Engineers. These will roll 1D6 each turn that
they entirely devote to clearing a 6” by 6”
area of minefield (assuming an engineering
squad of eight to ten men).
On a roll of 6 they can declare the minefield
cleared. A 6” by 2” strip of mines will be
cleared on a roll of 5 or 6. A false minefield
will be identified as such by the end of one
full turn spent working on it. Single file paths
may be cleared through a 6” minefield on a
roll of 4-6.
17.4. Defensive Wire
The term defensive wire is used to describe
the sci-fi equivalent of barbed wire. It includes
all forms of quick and cheap barriers to
movement: barbed wire itself, fences made
from energy beams etc.
Foot troops may cross barbed wire, but must
spend time entirely stationary negotiating it.
During that time the unit must not be Pinned or
Suppressed or it will fail to clear a path.
Subsequent units following on behind must
complete the same procedure unless a
permanent path is made. The time taken is one
turn plus the Tech Level of the defending
troops minus the Tech Level of the advancing
troops, with a minimum of one turn. For
example, if a Tech 2 unit wants to cross Tech 2
defensive wire, it takes one turn to do so; but
if the wire was laid by a Tech 3 force, then it
takes two turns to do so.
Only infantry squads designated as Engineers
may clear permanent paths through barbed
wire. They spend the same time as above
entirely stationary during which they must not
be Pinned or Suppressed. Once that is
completed the area is cleared.
The effect of defensive wire on vehicles and
infantry with PMS is as follows:
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Move Effect
WHL Roll 1D6. On anything but a 6 the
vehicle is permanently bogged down
TRK Tracked vehicles clear a permanent
path by driving over defensive wire,
although they leave it as an obstacle
that deducts one dice from any
subsequent unit’s movement.
WLK No effect
HOV No effect
17.5. Buildings & Works
Buildings come in all shapes and sizes, but for
the purposes of the game are categorised as
small, medium or large.
Small buildings are usually 4-5” a side and
have one or two storeys. Typically one
infantry squad or support weapon can fire
from each storey. They may fire from only one
face of the building per turn, but may Spot to
all sides. Small buildings may provide hard or
soft cover: those made of stone, brick or metal
generally providing hard cover; those made
of wood or plant fibre providing soft cover.
Medium buildings also tend to have one or
two storeys, but have a larger footprint: being
typically up to about 8-10” per side. Two
infantry squads or support weapons can fire
from each storey, with each squad or weapon
choosing which face it fires from. Spotting and
cover rules as for small buildings.
Large buildings are very substantial structures
such as factories, apartment blocks etc. They
may have multiple storeys, and will typically
offer hard cover no matter what they are
made of. One infantry squad or support
weapon may fire for each 4-5” of facing.
Buildings block line of sight, and only IF or VF
weapons may fire over them. To do so, they
must be located at least as far from the
building as it is high i.e. an IF support weapon
must be at least 3” from a 3” high building in
order to be able to fire over it.
17.5.1. Larger Support Weapons Firing
At Buildings & Bunkers
Any Boom or Autogun support weapon of SV5
or more firing at troops in a building has a
chance of recording a critical hit that renders
the building unstable or even collapses it
entirely. When rolling the dice on the Fire
Table, if more 6’s than 1’s are rolled then the
building is assumed to have received a critical
hit and, if combustible, set on fire. Any
defenders must leave the unstable building on
their next activation. If three or more 6’s are
rolled against a brick or solid structure, or two
or more 6’s against a wooden or light
building, it collapses instantaneously, killing all
occupants.
Bunkers cannot be rendered unstable, but if
four or more 6’s are rolled as above, then it is
assumed that the shot has penetrated the
bunker and knocked it, and all crew, out of
action.
17.5.2. Burning Buildings
Providing the presence of an appropriate
atmosphere allows (i.e. these rules may
perhaps be ignored for a Low Atmosphere or
Posionous Atmosphere environment, dependant
on the atmosphere and what is causing the
fire) buildings may be set on fire by the
effects of incendiary weapons such as
flamethrowers. In dry conditions only, infantry
squads may also set wooden or plant-fibre
buildings on fire if they spend their entire turn
doing so. One squad may light one building
per turn. Flamethrowers firing on a building
made of flammable materials will set alight to
the building if they roll more 1's than 6's on
their firing dice.
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Buildings will continue to burn throughout the
entire game. If a burning structure is physically
attached to another or within 2” of it, then a
D6 should be rolled each turn to see if the fire
spreads. This should be done on the
Commercial Break card. On a roll of 1 or 2 on
1D6 the adjacent building is assumed to have
caught fire as well.
Troops may operate from inside a burning
building of brick or better construction, but will
act with reduced effect. Any spotting or firing
is done at one range band further than the
actual distance.
Each turn a unit is inside a burning building it
must test to see whether it abandons it. Roll
1D6: on a roll of 1, the unit must move out of
the building on its next turn. Once a building
has been abandoned it may never be re-
occupied.
Troops inside a burning building may allocate
one or more Actions to fighting the fire. If they
do this then a roll of 6 when testing to see if
they abandon the building will result in the fire
being put out. For each extra dice used above
one to fight the fire, add one to the dice roll,
so that with two Actions being used to fight the
fire, the fire would be put out on a 5 or 6. A
natural roll of 1 always results in the building
being abandoned.
Burning wooden or plant fibre buildings, on
the other hand, must always be abandoned
immediately if they are set on fire. If the unit
fails to move of its own accord before the
Commercial Break card appears, then on the
appearance of the Commercial Break card the
unit is automatically placed just outside the
burning building.
 Section Eighteen: Other Technology
This section of the rules will suggest how other
technologies can be represented in Q13.
18.1. Ablative Armour
Some vehicles may be protected by ablative
armour: armour that absorbs damage by
being destroyed itself. If fitted with ablative
armour, a vehicle has a number of extra
“lives” equal to its Tech Level e.g. a Tech Level
3 vehicle fitted with ablative armour would
have three extra lives.
When a vehicle fitted with ablative armour
takes net hits, the number of net hits is reduced
by the extra lives given by the armour, but the
armour is destroyed in the process. For
example, the vehicle above with three “lives”
is hit by a missile and takes two net hits. These
hits are ignored, but the vehicle’s “lives” are
reduced to one. Next turn, the unlucky vehicle
takes another two net hits: one is absorbed by
the last “life”, but one penetrates, meaning the
vehicle must roll for one net hit.
Note that the “lives” given by the ablative
armour apply to the vehicle as a whole, not to
specific areas such as the front or sides. To
give an example, if our vehicle above had
taken the two shots one to the front and one to
the side, the result would have been the same.
The vehicle might have been hit from two
different directions, but the ablative armour
only counts once overall.
18.2. Invisibility & Chameleon
Gear
Although included under the Spotting rules
(Section 6) it is worth mentioning again. Troops
who are equipped with some form of
technology that makes it harder to spot them,
such as chameleon gear or invisibility, deduct
their Tech Level from any roll made to spot
them.
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18.3. EMP
Some support weapons can be designated as
firing electro-magnetic pulses (EMPs). These
only affect vehicles, count as DF Bolt weapons
in the normal way, but reduce their target’s
armour by double their tech-level when
calculating how many hits are made. So a
Tech 2, 4-man DF Bolt EMP weapon fires at a
tank with armour 8 and hits. The gun rolls 8
dice for penetration, the tank now only rolls 4
dice for armour.
18.4. Shield Generators
Shield generators can emit a shield that
protects out to a radius of four times their tech
level in inches. The shield adds to the armour
value of vehicles sheltering behind it, and
makes infantry more difficult to kill: use the
Shields option for casualties.
The shield only applies, however, to fire that
passes through its perimeter. This must
therefore be defined. You could have a
portable shield generator that emitted a
circular or triangular field, or a wall of a
certain width.
The concept of the shield generator can also
be used to simulate on- or off-table defensive
artillery screens e.g. anti-artillery missiles that
‘shoot down’ artillery shells. Once defined in
your army list, either the anti-artillery missile
firer appears on table as a shield generator
that works only against enemy artillery, or
lurks off-table but protects an area of the
tabletop defined as above.
18.5. Regeneration & Self-Repair
Some troops may be capable of regeneration
or self-repair, although this process would
usually be outside the time scale of the sort of
actions fought using these rules.
When their card comes up, troops capable of
regeneration or self-repair automatically
recover one point of Shock provided that they
roll equal or under their Tech Level on a D6.
Troops of Tech 0 need to roll a 1.
As mentioned above, actually repairing
damage to vehicles, or the ability to resurrect
foot from death, takes too long to have an
effect within the time represented in a typical
game. If, however, this ability is absolutely
required, then insert a Turn Card into the pack
and use the rules below.
Vehicles regenerate damage from hits at a
rate of ten appearances of the Turn Card per
level of damage. So a strike that caused three
levels of damage, destroying the vehicle,
would be regenerated in 30 appearances of
the Turn Card; and a strike that destroyed an
AFV’s main gun, a level two strike, would take
20 appearances of the Turn Card to repair.
Infantry, Support Weapons, Big Men and
Specialists regenerate one killed individual
per 10 appearances of the Turn Card.
18.6. Slave Devices & Mind
Control
Slave devices are those that allow an enemy
vehicle to be ‘captured’ then slaved to the user
i.e. come under their control.
If an EWSO Specialist equipped with a slave
device moves into base-to-base contact with
an enemy vehicle that is largely controlled by
computers (certainly anything Tech 3 and
above, maybe Tech 1 and 2 as well) then until
that Specialist is killed, he may attempt to
assume control of that vehicle.
Each time the Specialist’s card appears, he
may attempt to assume control: each player
rolls a D6 and adds their Tech Level. If the
Specialist scores higher then control has been
assumed.
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If control is assumed, then any other Actions
left to the Specialist may be used to activate
the vehicle, even if the vehicle has already
had its go that turn. Control lapses on the
appearance of the Commercial Break card
and must be reassumed each turn.
An AFV has come into contact with a Specialist
who has planted a controller. The Specialist's
card comes up, they have four Actions. They
decide to try and assume control, failing on
their first attempt, but succeeding on their
second. The Specialist may now "give" their
remaining two Actions to the tank: ramming
into another AFV or perhaps even firing its
gun on its colleagues!
Players may choose to allow their Specialist to
use Slave Devices at range i.e. not in contact
with the vehicle. I would suggest that a
maximum range would be defined, and that
one pip would be subtracted from the dice
rolled by the Specialist as part of the process
of trying to take control for set proportions of
the maximum range.
A player wants to define an army that he has
read about in a sci-fi novel. In that novel,
machines can be enslaved up to a distance of
about 100 yards, but the further from the
target the more difficult it is for the
enslavement to take.
The player therefore defines his Specialist as
being able to use a slave device up to 15”
away from its target, but that he will subtract
1 from his dice for every 3” range i.e. at a
range of 9”, the Specialist subtracts 3 from the
1D6 plus Tech Level he rolls to enslave.
Mind control of enemy infantry squads and
support weapons works in exactly the same
way: the Specialist targets one squad or
support weapon instead of a vehicle.
Note that should you be able to justify the
fact, your army might be immune to the effects
of either slave devices or mind control.
18.7. Teleport
Troops equipped with teleporters act as STP
aircraft, except only at ground level. Troops
teleported onto the table use the Battlefield
Insertion rule.
18.8 Time Travel
Time travel is perhaps something that would
normally be outside the time scale of the sort
of action fought using these rules, but I include
my thoughts on the concept, below.
There are two types of time travel: going
forwards in time and going backwards in time.
18.8.1 Going Forward In Time
It takes all of a unit’s Actions to initiate the
time travel process. The player states how
many turns into the future he wishes to move
the unit. This can be anything up to their Tech
Level x 2 e.g. a Tech 2 time machine could
transport a unit up to four turns into the future.
The unit is then removed from the table, but a
marker left on table indicating its position, and
a Turn Card placed into the deck.
After the Turn Card has appeared the
requisite number of times, the unit is placed
back onto the tabletop in exactly the same
position that it was. If another unit now
occupies that position, then either both units
are removed from play or the re-appearing
unit is placed in base to base contact with the
units now occupying its space. Which applies
depends on how you have defined your time
travel ability.
Note that this allows a unit holding over its
Actions to effectively dodge fire aimed at
them: the enemy unit fires at them, the unit
declares it is using its held over Actions to
travel forward in time to avoid the shot, it is
removed from the table and placed back on
the table later on in the game, with the fire
aimed at them having long since hit the
horizon!
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18.8.2 Going Back In Time
The ability to go back in time presents all sorts
of conceptual difficulties. Below you will find
some suggestions as to how you might define
the ability in game terms.
Units sent back in time from a point in the
future after the battle has concluded are
treated like reinforcements and use the rules
for Battlefield Insertion. Just like
reinforcements, this usage of time travel
therefore needs to be defined by the scenario
or agreed by the players before the game.
“We’ll agree that on turn 3, you get
reinforcements appearing at the edge of the
table where the road is. We’ll also agree that
on turn 5 I get reinforcements sent from the
future that appear using the Battlefield
Insertion rules.”
Units with the ability to travel backwards in
time which are already on the battlefield may
effectively play a particular situation again.
What this means in practice is that if they
have held over their Actions and are subject to
a dice roll of some sort, then they can have
those dice rolled again.
A unit that can travel back in time has held
over its Actions and is shot at. The shooting
player rolls an amazing shot: all 6’s or
something. The player being shot at declares
that his unit will use their held over Actions to
travel back in time, and therefore that the
amazing dice roll must be rolled again. Amidst
much gnashing of teeth, the shooting player
rolls again, but this time only rolls averagely.
Just as the shot was about to happen, a voice
from the future shouted “duck”!
Any other sort of backwards time travelling is
not allowed or the game ends
immediately…along with the universe.
18.9 Nuclear, Biological and Suicide drones should be treated like any
other vehicle i.e. be given an Armour Value,
Chemical weapons load, movement system, number of Actions etc.
On the tabletop, these are best dealt with They should also be programmed with a list of
under the rules for Flamers (infantry) and targets to hit.
artillery (increase the strike value of the
“The drone is programmed to hit enemy main
artillery support weapon, whether on or off
battle tanks only, and will ignore any other
table, to take into account its increased
targets”
lethality).
When its card is drawn, a drone must head
As an additional idea, however, shells using
straight for the nearest enemy unit it has been
chemical or biological loads could render
programmed to attack and attempt to get into
areas of the battlefield as dangerous for the
base to base contact with them. If no
duration of the game. Simply mark the blast
appropriate enemy unit has been spotted yet,
radius in some way, and that area of the
then the drone should use its turn to seek a
battlefield is counted as Poisonous
target by moving and/or spotting.
atmosphere.
Once in base-to-base contact with the enemy
18.10 Suicide Drones unit, each side rolls 1D6 and adds their Tech
Level. If the drone scores equal or more than
Suicide drones is the term I will use for AI-
its target, then it has successfully made contact
controlled, low level munitions that move
and explodes. A suicide drone has a strike
around the battlefield under their own power
value equal to double its Tech Level. If the
seeking targets to engage. When a target is
drone is unsuccessful, then it is destroyed
located, the device heads straight for it, just
anyway, and the target takes no damage.
like a missile.

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 Section Nineteen: Mission Generator
It is possible to generate games for Q13 in a
number of different ways. Firstly, science
fiction books and films can be used to construct
scenarios in the same way that you would use
the accounts of historical battles to create
encounters for I Ain’t Been Shot, Mum! or
Charlie Don’t Surf. Secondly, existing historical
battles can be adapted into a science fiction
environment. Thirdly, the Mission Generator
described below can be used to define who
and what is on the table top.
The Mission Generator follows much the same
format as Joe Legan’s excellent Platoon
Forward supplement for tactical level games,
also a TooFatLardies publication, and much
credit must be given to Joe for inspiring the
content, look and feel of this section of the
rules.
19.1. Mission Cards
Each mission is described by a mission card,
the format of which is standard:
 The type of mission to be played
 A short introduction
 Deployment
 A briefing for Force A
o Force A’s objectives and victory
conditions
o A list of the forces available to Force A
 A briefing for Force B
o Force B’s objectives and victory
conditions
o A list of the forces available to Force B
 Any Special Rules that apply
19.2. Defining the Tabletop
The Mission Cards use the standard Platoon
Forward table to describe the tabletop:

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
19.2.1. Defining The Terrain
Players must first decide what sort of terrain is
to be fought over. This can be by mutual
agreement, how much scenery is available in
the cupboard, or randomly chosen via a roll of
the dice. The options are:

 Light Terrain
 Medium Terrain
 Heavy Terrain
 Urban

Roll once for each square on the appropriate

table below, and place the indicated terrain
within that ‘square’ on the tabletop.

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 D20 Light Terrain Terrain Type D20 Urban Terrain Terrain Type
1-8 Empty Open/Hard 1-2 Key building
9-11 Light woods or crops Light/Broken 3-6 Trees Light/Broken
12-13 One to three 7-8 Hill Light/Broken
buildings, road 9 Stream Light/Broken
14 A key building or Heavy
15 A stream or river Heavy or 10-11 Open park Open/Hard
Impossible 12-13 Road, boulevard or
16 Rough terrain Light/Broken street
17-18 Hill Light/Broken 14-16 Two buildings
19 Wooded hill Heavy 17-18 Three buildings
20 Road 19 Plaza
20 Industrial area

Key Buildings are single, large, important

D20 Medium Terrain Terrain Type buildings: the sort of building that would merit
1-4 Empty Open/Hard their own signpost! Other buildings are
5-6 Road smaller, less remarkable dwellings or
7-9 Light woods Light/Broken commercial establishments.
10-11 Marsh, stream or Heavy or
river impossible Woods and trees are used to define any tree-
12-13 A key building like form of vegetation whether alien or
14 Two to four buildings, Terran. Orchards are cultivated trees usually
road
arranged in neat rows or patterns. Crops are
15-16 Orchard or crops Light/Broken
knee, waist or shoulder high vegetation
17 Heavy woods Heavy
18-19 Hill Light/Broken likewise usually arranged in neat rows.
or Heavy Streams, rivers and marshes may have any
20 Wooded hill Heavy liquid in them, even corrosive liquid that might
cause damage to foot or vehicles that pass
through it.

19.2.2. Defining The Forces

D20 Heavy Terrain Terrain Type
1-3 Empty Open/Hard It is assumed that players have constructed
4 Road army lists for their figures that define both
5-8 Light woods Light/Broken what troops they can field and their order of
9-10 Marsh, stream or Heavy or battle. The following definitions are used on
river impossible the Mission Cards:
11-12 Two to four buildings,
road Full Infantry Company: A full company of
13 A key building infantry, usually comprising an HQ of a Big
14 Orchard or crops Light/Broken Man possibly accompanied by an infantry or
15-16 Heavy woods Heavy support weapon squad and perhaps a
17-18 Hill Light/Broken
Specialist; then two to five (usually three to
or Heavy
four) infantry platoons each comprising a Big
19-20 Wooded hill Heavy
Man and two to five (usually three to four)
squads of infantry.

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Infantry Platoon: An infantry platoon
comprising a Big Man and two to five (usually
three to four) squads of infantry.
Objective: A distinct terrain feature (a key
building or group of normal buildings, a wood,
or a bridge etc.); or a specific objective
marker placed upon the table.
desired, but only one ‘fire for effect’ per
available fire mission.
Support Platoon: A platoon of infantry
comprising a Big Man and two to five (usually
three to four) squads of infantry with a role or
expertise different to that of the main infantry
force.

Off Table Fire Mission: Players should have
defined what off-table artillery support is
available to their army list. A fire mission is
one full barrage from that off-table support
i.e. as many targeting shots may be fired as
Support Squad: A squad of two to five
support weapons or vehicles; or up to two
infantry squads with a role or expertise
different to that of the main infantry force.

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 Mission Card One: The Prepared Attack
Introduction:

Force A will make a prepared attack on Force B. Force B must defend.

Deployment:

Force A and Force B must each identify one objective to be placed in squares 1-6. The two
objectives may not be placed in the same square. The objective chosen by Force A is the primary
objective, that chosen by Force B is the secondary objective.

Force A will enter the table under Blinds anywhere in squares 7-9. Each time the Blinds card
appears, Force A may enter 1+Tech Level of his remaining Blinds onto the table.

Force B begins the game deployed on the table anywhere in squares 1-6. If the terrain is
Open/Hard, then they begin the game dug-in but on table. If the terrain is anything else, then they
begin the game dug in under Blinds.

Force A Briefing Force B Briefing

High Command have identified where the
enemy positions are. You must attack these
positions and capture both the primary and
secondary objectives. You win a victory if you
capture both objectives; achieve a draw if you
capture one; and lose if you capture neither.
High Command tell you that an attack is
imminent. You must hold your positions and
defend both the primary and secondary
objectives. You win a victory if, at the end of
the game, you still hold both objectives; draw
if you only hold one; and lose if you lose both.

You may carry out a preliminary Your forces

bombardment that comprises 1+Tech Level
fire boxes.
Your forces
A full infantry company and up to three
support squads. You may call in up to three
off-table fire missions.
Up to two infantry platoons plus up to two
support squads. You may keep up to one
support squad off table at the start of the
game, bringing it on when your Blinds card
appears any time after the third appearance
of the Turn card. You may call in up to three
off-table fire missions.

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 Mission Card Two: The Hasty Attack
Introduction:

Force A will make a hasty attack on Force B. Force B must defend.

Deployment:

Force A and Force B must each identify one objective to be placed in squares 1-6. The two
objectives may not be placed in the same square. The objective chosen by Force A is the primary
objective, that chosen by Force B is the secondary objective.

Force A will enter the table under Blinds anywhere in squares 7-9. Each time the Blinds card
appears, Force A may enter Tech Level of his remaining Blinds onto the table (if Tech Level 0, then
one Blind).

Force B begins the game deployed on the table anywhere in squares 1-6. If the terrain is
Open/Hard, then they begin the game dug-in and under Blinds. If the terrain is anything else, then
they begin the game dug in under hidden Blinds.

Force A Briefing Force B Briefing

You were in reserve, but the attack has
stalled. You must attack immediately and
capture both the primary and secondary
objectives. You win a victory if you capture
both objectives; achieve a draw if you capture
one; and lose if you capture neither.
High Command tell you that an attack is
imminent. You must hold your positions and
defend both the primary and secondary
objectives. You win a victory if, at the end of
the game, you still hold both objectives; draw
if you only hold one; and lose if you lose both.

Your forces Your forces

A full infantry company and up to three
support squads. You may call in up to three
off-table fire missions but these are only
available if the requesting Big Man rolls under
his Initiative on a D6 when first asking for
them. If he fails to do so, then that fire mission
is lost for ever.
Up to two infantry platoons plus up to two
support squads. You may keep up to one
support squad off table at the start of the
game, bringing it on when your Blinds card
appears any time after the third appearance
of the Turn card. You may call in up to three
off-table fire missions.

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 Mission Card Three: The Flank Attack
Introduction:

Force A will make an attack on the flank of Force B. Force B must defend.

Deployment:

The primary objective is placed by Force B in square 5. Force A enters the table in one of squares 1,
3, 4, 6, 7 or 9: roll randomly on a D6 to determine which. A secondary objective is placed on the far
side of the primary objective in the square opposite the square where Force A enters the table.

Force A will enter the table under Blinds from the table edge in the square defined above. Each time
the Blinds card appears, Force A may enter 1+Tech Level of his remaining Blinds onto the table.

Force B begins the game deployed on the table anywhere in squares 4-9, set up as if expecting an
attack from the 7-9 table’s edge. If the terrain is Open/Hard, then they begin the game dug-in and
under Blinds. If the terrain is anything else, then they begin the game dug in under hidden Blinds.

Force A Briefing Force B Briefing

High Command have manoeuvred your force
into a position from which it can attack the
flank of the enemy position. You must attack
immediately and capture both the primary
and secondary objectives. You win a victory if
you capture both objectives; achieve a draw if
you capture one; and lose if you capture
neither.
Your forces
A full infantry company and up to three
support squads. You may call in up to two off-
table fire missions.
You are expecting an attack from the 7-9
table’s edge and have set up appropriately.
Now you are about to be attacked from the
flank, even perhaps the rear. You must hold
your position and defend both the primary
and secondary objectives. You win a victory if,
at the end of the game, you still hold both
objectives; draw if you only hold one; and
lose if you lose both.
Your forces
Up to two infantry platoons plus up to two
support squads. You may call for
reinforcements as soon as you spot the enemy.
After three appearances of the Turn card, you
may bring on another support squad, arriving
square 2. After another three appearances of
the Turn card, you may bring on an infantry
platoon, also arriving square 2.

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 Mission Card Four: Exploitation
Introduction:

Force A’s side has broken through the enemy front line. Force A represents a fast moving force that
has been sent forward to exploit the breakthrough by capturing a key position. Force B represents
the other side’s force sent to contain the breakthrough.

Deployment:

A primary objective is placed by Force B in square 5. This should ideally be a key terrain feature
such as a bridge, a crossroads, a hill, a village or a key building. Force A enters the table in one of
squares 7-9: roll randomly on a D6 to determine which.

Force A will enter the table under Blinds from the table edge in the square defined above. Each time
the Blinds card appears, Force A may enter 1+Tech Level of his remaining Blinds onto the table.

Force B enters the table under Blinds after 1D3 appearances of the Turn card. It enters the table
under Blinds in one of squares 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 roll randomly for which one. Each time the Blinds card
appears, Force B may enter Tech Level of his remaining Blinds onto the table (if Tech Level 0, then
one Blind).

Force A Briefing Force B Briefing

Our attack has broken through. Your force has
been held in reserve for one purpose: to
exploit this breakthrough. You must reach your
primary objective and hold it against an
expected enemy counter attack. Speed is
essential. You win a victory if you capture and
hold the primary objective; a draw is
declared if neither side holds the objective at
the end of the game; you lose if the primary
objective is not in your possession at the end
of the game.
Your forces
A full infantry company less one platoon and
up to three support squads. All your troops
must have transport of some kind, and would
ideally be Mobile. You may call in up to two
off-table fire missions.
The enemy has broken through the front line!
They have thrust towards a key objective.
Your force, previously held in reserve, has
been ordered to intercept them and prevent
them taking and/or holding the objective. You
win a victory if you hold the primary objective
at the end of the game; a draw is declared if
neither side holds the objective at the end of
the game; you lose if it is not in your
possession at the end of the game.
Your forces
A full infantry company plus up to two support
squads.

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 Mission Card Five: Counter-Attack
Introduction:

Force A’s side has captured their objective. Force B counter attacks to reclaim the objective.

Deployment:

A primary objective is placed by Force B in square 5. Force A places one infantry platoon at half
strength and one support weapon or vehicle under Blinds in hastily prepared scrapes around the
objective.

Force B will enter the table under Blinds from squares 1-3. Each time the Blinds card appears, Force
B may enter Tech Level of his remaining Blinds onto the table (if Tech Level 0, then one Blind).

The rest of Force A’s troops enter the table under Blinds after 1D3 appearances of the Turn card.
They enter the table under Blinds in one of squares 7-9, player’s choice. Each time the Blinds card
appears, Force A may enter Tech Level of his remaining Blinds onto the table (if Tech Level 0, then
one Blind).

Force A Briefing Force B Briefing

The lead elements of your force have The enemy has captured the objective. Your
captured the objective and are now holding it force, previously held in reserve, has been
in the face of an expected enemy counter- ordered to recapture the objective. You win a
attack. Reinforce them and hold the objective. victory if you hold the primary objective at the
You win a victory if you hold the primary end of the game; a draw is declared if
objective at the end of the game; a draw is neither side holds the objective at the end of
declared if neither side holds the objective at the game; you lose if it is not in your
the end of the game; you lose if it is not in possession at the end of the game.
your possession at the end of the game.
Your forces
Your forces
A full infantry company plus up to three
You begin the game with one half strength support squads.
infantry platoon and one support weapon or
vehicle on table under Blinds in hastily
prepared scrapes around the objective. The
rest of your force comprises a full infantry
company less one platoon and up to two
support squads, all of which must have
transport of some kind, and would ideally be
Mobile.

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 Mission Card Six: The Encounter Mission
Introduction:

Both sides are moving across the tabletop. They encounter each other and fight!

Deployment:

Lay out the table. Both Force A and Force B roll randomly to see which square they will use to enter
the table, with Force A entering on one of squares 7-9, and Force B one of squares 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6.

Each player then lays out a route for his force that will pass through each of the nine squares on the
tabletop. The route must be congruent.

Force A enters the table under Blinds. Force B enters the table under Blinds 1d6 turns after Force A,
or 1d3 turns if Force A is Mobile.

Force A Briefing Force B Briefing

You have been ordered to sweep through the
area represented by the tabletop. If you
encounter the enemy, you should engage and
defeat them. You win a victory if you drive the
enemy from the tabletop.
You have been ordered to sweep through the
area represented by the tabletop. If you
encounter the enemy, you should engage and
defeat them. You win a victory if you drive the
enemy from the tabletop.

Your forces Your forces

Create an OB involving a full infantry Create an OB involving a full infantry

company and up to four support squads. You
can have transport available. Roll a D6 for
each infantry squad, support weapon, vehicle
or specialist. On a ‘1’ that unit has been left
behind and will not be available to you for
the forthcoming encounter.
company and up to four support squads. You
can have transport available. Roll a D6 for
each infantry squad, support weapon, vehicle
or specialist. On a ‘1’ that unit has been left
behind and will not be available to you for
the forthcoming encounter.

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 Mission Card Seven: The Rearguard Mission
Introduction:

Force A’s side must hold a key point on the table for a certain time in the face of an attack from
Force B, then successfully retreat off the table.

Deployment:

Force A places a primary objective in square 5. His troops begin the game on table under Blinds
anywhere in squares 4-9. On an even roll on a D6, his forces may be dug in.

Force B’s troops enter the table under Blinds anywhere in squares 1-3. Each time the Blinds card
appears, Force B may enter 1+Tech Level of his remaining Blinds onto the table.

Force A Briefing Force B Briefing

Things are not going well and your side is
retreating. You are holding a vital terrain
point in order to let troops elsewhere fall
back. Roll 1D6 on each appearance of the
Turn card. When the cumulative total reaches
25, your colleagues have escaped and you
may withdraw. You win the game if you
successfully hang on to your primary objective
for the time it takes to accumulate the total of
25 and can withdraw at least 50% of your
starting force off the table. You achieve a
draw if you hold the objective for the 25, but
withdraw less than 50% of your starting force
off table. You lose if you cannot hold the
primary objective for the 25.
Victory is in our grasp: the enemy is retreating.
We have an opportunity to cut off a large
part of their force, but only if we take the
primary objective as soon as possible. Enter
the table, take the primary objective as soon
as possible, destroying the enemy protecting
it. Force A’s performance against their victory
conditions will define whether you win or lose
the game.
Your forces
A full infantry company and up to three
support squads. You may call in up to two off-
table fire missions.

Your forces

A full infantry company less one platoon and

up to two support squads. You may call in up
to two off-table fire missions.

Mission Seven “B”: The Evasion Variation

All as above, but Force A does not have a primary objective to hold. To win the game, however,
Force A must successfully retreat 80% of his starting force from the table.

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 Mission Card Eight: The Screening Mission
Introduction:

Force A’s side has engineers carrying out a task on table. Force B is sent to disrupt their work. Force
A must defend the engineers until they have finished their task.

Deployment:

Force A places a group of non-combatant engineers on table in any of squares 7-9. They should be
clustered around something that defines their task e.g. a bridge to be checked for strength, a
building with secret equipment to be removed, a minefield to be laid.

Force A’s troops enter the table under Blinds in one of squares 7-9, player’s choice. Each time the
Blinds card appears, Force A may enter Tech Level of his remaining Blinds onto the table (if Tech
Level 0, then one Blind).

Force B’s troops enter the table under Blinds after 1D3 appearances of the Turn card. They enter the
table under Blinds in one of squares 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6, roll randomly. Each time the Blinds card
appears, Force B may enter 1+Tech Level of his remaining Blinds onto the table.

Force A Briefing Force B Briefing

Your side has engineers working on table.
High Command reports that the enemy has
sent a raiding party to disrupt their work. You
must defend the engineers until their work is
done, then withdraw them and your own force.
The engineers must achieve 20 engineering
points to complete their task. They achieve
1D6 engineering points each time the Turn
card appears, or 1D3 engineering points if
under fire or having taken significant
casualties. You win a victory if the engineers
complete their task, and a great victory if they
and you also manage to withdraw successfully.
Any other result is a loss.
The enemy has engineers working on table.
You have been sent to disrupt their work.
Destroy the engineers. You win a victory if the
engineers fail to complete their task, any other
result is a loss.
Your forces
A full infantry company and up to three
support squads. You must have transport of
some kind and would ideally be Mobile. You
may call in up to one off-table fire mission.

Your forces

A full infantry company and up to two support

squads. Ideally you should have transport
available. You may call in up to two off-table
fire missions.

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 ACTIONS SPOTTING
Big Men Infantry Squad Support Weapons Subtract one:
One Initiative One Action One Action if the spotter is under fire
Move 3D6, Spot, Message, Task Spot or Task Spot or Task if the spotter is pinned
Activate one unit Fire 1D6 Move 1D6 if the spotter is a buttoned down AFV
Issue vehicle platoon order Move 1D6 Cross minor obstacle if the target is stationary and not firing
Remove one Shock Hunker Down Limber or unlimber (<SV6) if the target is local to this area
Unpin or Supressed to Pinned Get up from prone Change target if the target is a Recon unit
Direct fire Cross a low obstacle (no PMS) Aim if the target is entrenched
Initiate charge Enter building Fire a bolt weapon at vehicle per target’s Tech Level if the target is invisible
Two Initiatives (Mobile) mount or dismount Fire an Autogun with 1D6 Subtract two:
Act as Forward Observer Reserve an Action Reserve an Action if the target is in a bunker
Activate one Blind or Specialist Two Actions Two Actions Subtract three:
Activate one Big Man Cross a high obstacle (no PMS) Cross major obstacle if the spotting is at night
Mount or dismount Fire a bolt weapon at Infantry Add one:
Make an AA attack Make an AA attack per dice the target moved this turn
All Actions All Actions for each additional Action used to spot
Attack a vehicle Fire a boom weapon at infantry if the spotter is a Big Man
if the target is firing
if the spotter is a Recon unit
if the spotter is higher than the target or +2 if
CLOSE COMBAT the spotter is an aircraft in flight
One dice per figure per 1" height if target is a walker
per spotter’s Tech Level if using a scanner
-1 dice per Action used to move
If Assault or Mobile Assault: +1 dice per 4 so far ROLLING TO SPOT
Rabble: -3 dice per squad Target Location/Distance 0-4” 4-9” 9-24” 24” +
Militia: -2 dice per squad In the Open Automatic Automatic 4 7
In Light/Broken Terrain Automatic 5 9 11
Veteran: +1 dice per squad
In Heavy Terrain 9 10 12 14
Elite: +2 dice per squad In Impossible Terrain 12 14 18 24
Most senior Big Man: +1 per level AUTOMATIC SPOTTING ON COMMERCIAL BREAK
Autogun: +2 per SV In the Open Spotted Spotted Spotted ~
In Light/Broken Terrain Spotted Spotted ~ ~
Flamers: +6
In Heavy Terrain Spotted ~ ~ ~
-1 per two points of Shock In Impossible Terrain Blind ~ ~ ~
Armour/Shields: - Tech Level
Defending Light/Broken: +1 per 4 so far AA FIRE: ROLL 1d6
Defending Heavy/Impossible: +1 per 3 so far Subtract one:
Defending fortifications: +1 per 2 so far if the firer is under fire
Pinned units: remove half so far if the firer is pinned
Suppressed: remove ¾ so far if the firer is Rabble
Attacked in the rear: remove half so far. per point of firer’s Shock
RESULTS per Action the firer has used to move this turn
Draw: fight again if no Awe per weapon damage on the firer
Lose by 1: back 4", no advance next turn per target’s Tech Level
Lose by 2: back 9", +1 Shock per unit, Pinned next turn per target’s Armour Class
Lose by 3: back 12", +2 Shock per unit, Suppressed next turn for any other significant negative factor
Lose by 4+: back 18", +3 Shock per unit, can do nowt next turn Subtract two:
if the firer is not a specific AA weapon
if the target is Fast
AA FIRE RESULTS Add one:
BIG MEN Score N-STP STP if a Big Man is directing the fire
Level Initiative Distance 1-5 No effect if the firer is Veteran or Elite
IV 4 12" 6-9 Shock & Off per Tech Level of the firer
III 3 9" per SV of the firing weapon
III 2 6"
10-11 Shock & Off D3 turns Shock & Away 1D6"
I 1 3" 12 Off Forever 2 Shock: Off or Land for any other significant positive factor
13+ Destroyed Add two:
for an aimed shot
if the firing weapon is an Autogun
[Slow = -1"/dice] MOVEMENT [Fast = +1"/dice] STP MOVE
Terrain Move Muscle Engine Cavalry Beast WHL TRK WLK HOV Leave Table 1 Action
Open/Hard 1"/pip x1½ x2 x2 +1"/dice +1"/dice x2 & Prepare to Land 3 Actions
Light/Broken -1"/dice Ignore Ignore -2"/dice Ignore ignore up Move to Any Point 1 Action
+1 dice
Heavy -2"/dice Ignore NO to head Land 1 Action
Impossible -4"/dice NO NO height Take Off 2 Actions
Infantry +1"/dice in Low gravity but -1"/dice in High gravity. Vehicles may bog down in High gravity (1's>6's)
 SHOOTING EFFECTS OF HITS
Infantry Squad at Foot: 1D6 per Action Roll 1D6 for each hit Tech Near Miss Shock Dead Extra
Light Squad -1 dice/Heavy squad +1 dice Normal Foot All 1, 2 3, 4 5, 6
Big Man has activated: +1 to total pips per level 0 to 2 1, 2, 3 4, 5 6
Foot with Armour
-1 per point of Shock 3 or 4 1, 2, 3, 4 5 6
Add double Tech Level to total pips rolled 0 to 2 1, 2, 3 4, 5 6 Save
Foot with Shields or Powered Armour
+2 per dense target 3 or 4 1, 2, 3, 4 5 6 Save
Bolt Guns Shooting At Foot: 1 Actions to shoot 2 1, 2, 3 4, 5 6 Save plus Lives
Foot encased in Mega-Armour
Automatically pin; double = 1 hit 3 or 4 1, 2, 3, 4 5 6 Save plus Lives
Autoguns Shooting At Foot: 1D6 per Action up to SV +1 to roll if atmosphere is Poisonous
-1 per point of Shock
Add double Tech Level to total pips rolled EFFECTS OF HITS ON VEHICLES
Big Man has activated: +1 to total pips per level ARMOURED VEHICLES
+3 to total pips per extra barrel Equal
+2 per dense target 1-2 1 Shock, no advance next turn
Automatically pin targets 3-4 Halt & firefight
Boom Weapons firing directly at Foot (fire individually) 5-6 No effect
Use all dice: miss if more 1's than half SV rounded up One Hit: +1 Shock, -1 Action next turn
+2 per dense target 1-2 Temporarily immobilised: no movement next turn
-2 per other Action 3-4 -1" per dice rolled for movement from now on
Add double Tech Level to total pips rolled 5-6 -1 on all to hit rolls from now on
-1 per point of Shock Two Hits: +2 Shock, -2 Actions next turn
Automatically pin targets 1-2 Permanently immobilised
Boom Weapons firing indirectly at Foot (fire as battery) 3-4 -2" per dice rolled for movement from now on
Deviate 2D6 - Tech Level 5-6 Main gun destroyed
Circular: total SV/2 radius Three hits: destroyed. Roll D6 per crew: dead on a 5 or 6
Box: total SV/6 rounded up= no. of 6" square fire boxes If four net hits, then vehicle explodes and all crew are dead.
Roll 1D6, add Tech Level, add 2 x SV on Effective ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS
Automatically pin targets Equal (passengers may disembark if desired)
Flame Weapons At Foot 1-2 Retire away on next activation or Commercial Break card
SV x 2D6, ignore cover, double shock 3-4 Engage if infantry or <3SV otherwise retire as above
5-6 No effect
One Hit: +1 Shock, -1 Action next turn (passengers may disembark if desired)
1-2 Temporarily immobilised: no movement next turn
FIRING AT VEHICLES (2D6) 3-4 -1" per dice rolled for movement from now on
Target 0-18" 18"+ 5-6 -1 on all to hit rolls from now on
In the Open 5 9 Two Hits: +2 Shock, -2 Actions next turn (passengers must immediately disembark)
View Obscurred 7 11 1-2 Permanently immobilised
View Badly Obscurred 9 12 3-4 Permanently immobilised; 1D6 hits on passengers
Subtract one: 5-6 Permanently immobilised; passengers take one hit each
if the firer is under fire Three hits: destroyed, driver is killed, passengers take two hits each
if the firer is pinned Four hits: explodes, vehicle destroyed, passengers all killed
if the firer is Rabble SOFTSKINS
per point of firer’s Shock Equal
per Action the firer has used to move this turn 1-4 Retire away on next activation or Commercial Break card
per weapon damage on the firer 5-6 No effect
if the target is moving One Hit: +1 Shock, -1 Action next turn
per target’s Tech Level 1-2 Temporarily immobilised: no movement next turn
for any other significant negative factor 3-4 -1" per dice rolled for movement from now on
Add one: 5-6 1D6 hits on passengers
if a Big Man is directing the fire Two Hits: +2 Shock, -2 Actions next turn
if the firer is Veteran or Elite 1-2 Permanently immobilised
per Tech Level of the firer 3-4 Passengers take one hit each
for any other significant positive factor 5-6 Permanently immobilised; passengers take one hit each
Add two: Three Hits: vehicle destroyed
for an aimed shot 1-3 Passengers take one hit each
NUMBER OF STRIKES 4-6 Passengers take two hits each
Autoguns SV/2 rounded up INDIRECT FIRE: 1D6 + SV + Tech Level
Boom SV ARMOURED VEHICLES
Bolt 2 x SV 1-10 No effect
Open/Soft: destroyed 11-12 Lose one Action next activation
Flame Armour: roll SV D6s 13-14 Take one hit on the Armoured Vehicles damage table
6's>1's = destroyed 15-16 Take two hits on the Armoured Vehicles damage table
17+ Destroyed.
ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS
1-9 No effect
INFANTRY AT VEHICLES 10-11 Lose one Actions next activation
Tech 0-4” 4-8” 8-12” 12-16” 12-13 Out of action. Passengers must disembark.
0 1 ~ ~ ~ 14+ Destroyed. One hit per passenger.
1 2 ~ ~ ~ SOFTSKINS & OPEN TOPPED VEHICLES
2 4 2 ~ ~ 1-7 No Effect
3 4 4 2 ~ 8-9 Out of action. 1D6 hits on passengers.
4 4 4 4 2 10+ Destroyed. One hit per passenger.