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https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2017220/unofficial-2nd-edition-errata-and-clarifications @CentredDisplay @Heading { @I{GMT} - Field Of Fire Vol II 2019 - I Nerd Rules - @Date } @BeginSections @Section @Title {Chain of Command @Reff 4.0} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{Regimental HQ @Sym ampersand Staff @Sym arrowright Battalion HQ @Sym ampersand Staff @Sym arrowright Co HQ @Sym ampersand Staff @Sym arrowright Plt HQ} @ListItem{Limited Action Teams may receive orders from any HQ or Staff unit.} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Commands @Reff 4.1} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{When an HQ or Staff draws for Commands it must use, save and{@Sym slash}or lose them before another HQ or staff draws. @Reff 4.1} @ListItem{The max @Sym numbersign of expendable Commands per HQ or Staff is 6 on daytime, 4 otherwise. @Reff 4.1.3 } @ListItem{On the map BN HQ gets the max @Sym numbersign of Commands otherwise it activates the CO HQ if in communication. @Reff 4.1.1} @ListItem{Command draw for Activation and Initiative Segment are subject to modificators, see card @Sym numbersign 55. @Reff 4.1.2} # +1 activity @ListItem{An HQ activated by a higher HQ gets a minimum of 1 Command regardless of the modifiers @Reff 4.1.2.} @ListItem{On Initiative Segment, CO Staff Impulse comes after the PLT HQs Impulse and they get 1 Command. @Reff 3.3.2.C} @ListItem{Do not modify General Initiative draw, halve it rounding down for Combat Patrol Mission. @Reff 4.1.2} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {HQ and Staff Fire Teams @Reff 4.1.4} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{An HQ or Staff on its @FireTeam side can only issue commands to himself and cannot be activated.} @ListItem{An HQ converted to an @I Assault, @I Litter or @I Paralyzed Team cannot issue commands until it is reconstituted.} @ListItem{An HQ Staff can not be reconstituted durig a mission.} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Actions @Reff 4.2} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{Except for @I{Move to or from @Cover}, a unit can perform a named action only once per Impulse. @Reff 4.2} @ListItem{Base draw is 2 cards, +1 for veteran level, -1 for green level. @Reff 4.2} @ListItem{Limited Action Teams have their own limited set of available actions. @Reff 4.2.5} #@ListItem{Actions like @I Exhort, @I Reconstituting, @I Runners Management always require an HQ or Staff to be the originator, even on General Impulse.} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Visual-Verbal Communication @Reff 4.3.1} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{@Unpinned units, on the same card, both under the same @Cover or neither one under a @Cover can communicate.} @ListItem{@Pinned unit can always receive a @I Rally order.} #, all occcupants of a card can receive a @I{Cease Fire} or @I{Shift Fire} order.} @ListItem{@I{Cease Fire} and @I{Shift Fire} can be issued to all occupants of a card whatever their situation is.} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Runners @Reff 4.3.2} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{The CO HQ spends a Command to @I Dispatch a runner, place it next to the HQ or Staff it wishes to activate.} @ListItem{On the next turn, if the Runner is not @Hit or @Pinned, activate the HQ or Staff and return the runner to the CO HQ.} @ListItem{You start with 0 but can have up to 2 runners in play, they can be @I Dispatched the same Impulse they return.} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Networks @Reff 4.3.3} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{BN TAC is privately used by BN HQ to order it's Staff and the CO HQs.} @ListItem{CO TAC establish communication between CO HQ, it's Staff and PLT HQs.} @ListItem{To be activated, the CO HQ must be connected to the BN HQ through the Staging Area.} @ListItem{ARTY FD, MTR FD and AIR CTL are used by FOs and FACs only and must be connected to the Staging Area.} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Filed Phones @Reff 4.3.4} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{Field Phones on the CO TAC automatically connect to the CO HQ's phone if on the same card or an adjacent one.} @ListItem{Field Phones on other networks, automatically connect to the Staging Area from an adjacent card.} @ListItem{Field Phones must connect via an unbroken string of @I{Phone Lines} when they are more than 1 card apart.} @ListItem{A unit carrying @I{Phone Lines} may, as it moves and as a free action, lay a @I{Phone Line} in the card it leaves.} @ListItem{A @I{Phone Line} supports any number of phones and phone networks.} @ListItem{During the Combat Effects Phase a @I{Phone Line} has the following chances of being cut: @BulletList @ListItem{1-in-2 if on the same card as a @Incoming @VOF.} @ListItem{2-in-3 if on the same card as a Good Order Enemy unit but no Good Order Friendly unit.} @RawEndList} @ListItem{If the last @Step of a unit with a Field Phone becomes a @Casualty, there is a 1-in-2 chance that it will be destroyed.} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Radios @Reff 4.3.5} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{SCR536 allows communication within Line of Sight, ignoring visibility, but not from under a @Cover marker.} @ListItem{SCR300, PRC25, PRC77, PRC119 and Vehicle Radios can communicate anywhere on the map.} @ListItem{ICOM, PRR, PRC148, PRC152 even allow communication between PLT HQs and Squads on adjacent cards.} @ListItem{If the last @Step of a unit with a Radio becomes a @Casualty, there is a 1-in-2 chance that it will be destroyed.} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Pyrotechnics @Reff 4.3.6} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{Non-aerial devices can only be placed on the same card as the deploying unit.} @ListItem{Aerial rocket devices (colored flares, illuminations) may also be placed on any adjacent card to the deploying unit.} @ListItem{Units with @LOS to the signal (Aerial devices are always visible) will attempt to perform the associated Action.} # https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1841055/article/26823081 @ListItem{Smoke and WP can also be used to provide concealment or combat effects (@B G! -4): @Reff 4.3.6.C @BulletList @ListItem{Units must be able to trace a normal @LOS to the Smoke in order for it to be used as a signal.} @ListItem{Smoke blocks @LOS at all levels as it does billow up in significant quantity.} # @ListItem{Unit in a card with Smoke cannot fire out of the card, but can fire within the card.} @LOS @ListItem{WP smoke can also be deployed in addition to any @Grenade Attack, Fire Mission, @AirStrike, Tanks... results.} @RawEndList} @ListItem{CS (Tear) gas screening effect is identical to Smoke, its combat effect is as below : @Reff 4.3.6.D @BulletList @ListItem{In the Enemy Activity Segment, all Good Order Enemy units in a card with CS are converted to {@FireTeam}s.} @ListItem{They have a 2-in-3 chance of falling back, if they don't they are @Pinned in the same card.} @ListItem{If they do, move them and mark them as @Exposed in a card out of @LOS or with the highest @Cover value.} @ListItem{CS gas can be deployed as hand Grenades, with 40mm or Rifle Grenades, or used by @B G! capable Squads.} @RawEndList} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Movements @Reff 5.1.1-4} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{@Pinned and @LAT units may have limited Movement Actions. @Reff 4.2.5} # the above is to prevent easy flanking https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1817784/article/26460081#26460081 @ListItem{A friendly or ennemy unit cannot move through a @PDF when moving diagonaly.} @ListItem{You may not @I{Attempt to Seek Cover} from under a @Cover marker.} @ListItem{A unit can directly move into another card @Cover marker if it's unoccupied or friendly occupied.} @ListItem{A unit can move directly to and from no @Cover and the @UpperStory marker. @Reff 5.2.2.B} @ListItem{Mark as @Exposed any unit that perform a move action unless it successfully infiltrates, or moves into Staging Area.} @ListItem{A unit can move between @Cover markers within the same or adjacent card without being marked as @Exposed.} #@ListItem{Once marked as @Exposed, a unit cannot move to another card.} #@ListItem{Once marked as @Exposed, a unit can still perform an unlimited amount of move actions within the same card.} @ListItem{Once @Exposed, a unit can still perform any @Sym numbersign of actions within the same card, but cannot move to another card.} @ListItem{To infiltrate, either the origin or the destination card must have a @VOF and the unit must not have a A @Over @Sym arrowright or H @VOF.} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Stacking @Reff 5.1.5} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{Stacking limit on a card is 16 @Steps + 4 vehicles per side, do not count casualties or @Steps mounted on vehicles.} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Transportation @Reff{5.1.6, 7.4.1-2, capacity table 5.1.6 A}} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{When a unit becomes a @Casualty it drops any it currently carries.} @ListItem{When a unit is Pinned or Paralyzed it does not drop what it carries but can't move any farther until rallied.} @ListItem{The @I{Pick up, Load, Unload, Embark or Disembark} action : @BulletList # https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/919079/article/11157425 # @ListItem{will mark as Exposed the unit and{@Sym slash}or vehicle that performs it.} @ListItem{Will mark as @Exposed the unit that performs it.} @ListItem{Cannot be issued to an unoccupied Jeep, a @Pinned or @I Paralized Team and orders: @BulletList @ListItem{a unit or vehicle's crew to load items onto or unload items from a vehicle.} @ListItem{a unit to pick up items. Dropping items neither requires an order nor does mark the unit as @Exposed.} @ListItem{a unit to embark onto a vehicle. Disembarking before or after the vehicle moves does not require an order.} @RawEndList} @ListItem{In the above, items can be Friendly @Casualty, Ammunition, Assets.} @RawEndList} @ListItem{You cannot transport @Prisoners.} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Line Of Sight @Reff 5.2.1} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{You may automatically trace a @LOS into all adjacent cards.} @ListItem{A @LOS is blocked past another card if either border being traced through on that card is dark.} @ListItem{During normal visibility, the maximum @LOS is 3 cards, otherwise it is reduced to adjacent.} @ListItem{@Smoke, @Incoming or @AirStrike markers block @LOS through and out of the card, thus units cannot fire out of it.} @ListItem{Higher elevation allows units to track a @LOS over blocking terrain at lower level.} @ListItem{The dark @LOS borders on the Hill card supersede any light borders on the non-Hill Terrain card. @Reff 5.2.2.A} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Cover @Reff 5.2.3} @Tag {cover} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{Use the card's lower @Cover value for @Grenade, @Incoming, @AirStrike, same card @VOF or @PDF across a light border.} @ListItem{@I Foxhole, @I Trench, @I Bunker, @I Pillbox, @I{Upper Story} and @I Church markers do not count against a card's @I{Cover Potential}.} @ListItem{@I Bunkers, @I Pillboxes and @I Caves have a (x) limit to the number of @Steps that you can place under them.} @ListItem{@Grenade or @Incoming @VOF receives a -1 modifier for every @Step above 3 under a targeted @Cover marker.} @ListItem{Units under a @I Bunker, @I Pillbox or @I Cave marker may not fire but may be attacked at Point Blank Range.} # https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/919231/article/11176192#11176192 @ListItem{The OP binocular symbol on the @I{Church Tower Cover} means that only 1 @Step can be inside it.} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {Opening Fire and @PDF @Reff{6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.2.3}} @Tag {pdf} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{Non-engaged units open fire on a card within @LOS and range when it has a spotted enemy and no friendly units.} @ListItem{In case of multiple spotted enemy-occupied cards : Closest @Sym arrowright Projecting the highest @VOF @Sym arrowright Randomly.} @ListItem{Units moving into a card that already has a @PDF marker immediately open fire along the @PDF.} @ListItem{A firing unit loses its @PDF if an enemy unit enters its card. It automatically shifts its fire to the enemy unit.} @ListItem{When a @B{lone enemy unit} with a friendly @VOF moves to another card within @LOS and range : @BulletList @ListItem{if it moves along the @PDF, the friendly @VOF will follow it to the new card.} @ListItem{if it was on the same card with a friendly unit, any @VOF will follow it to the new card and a @PDF is placed.} @RawEndList} @ListItem{A firing unit stops if ordered to @I{Cease Fire}, @I{Shift Fire}, or @I Move, has an @Incoming or @Smoke marker on its card.} @ListItem{A unit ordered to @I{Cease Fire}, automatically reopens fire on the closest spotted enemy unit within @LOS and range.} @ListItem{A @Smoke marker on a card along the @PDF will block fire through it, move the @VOF to that card.} #@ListItem{Attempts to @I{Concentrate Fire} and @I {Ranged Grenade} attack may only be attempted along the @PDF.} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {@VOF @Reff{6.2.1, 6.2.2}} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{Basic @VOF markers are automatically projected and apply to all units on a card. @Reff{see Section @NumberOf{pdf} PDF}} @ListItem{These are : All @B{P}inned (+2), @B{S}mall Arms (@B S +0), @B{A}utomatic Weapons (@B A -1), @B{H}eavy Weapons (@B H -3).} # FIXME explain All Pinned # 6.2.1 : A/S G! anti-tank white circle @ListItem{Special @VOF always require Commands and special prodecure, they do not need to follow a @PDF to be used.} @ListItem{@I{Cross Fire} (-1) @B{1 per card} : applies on any card when there is 2+ {@PDF}s directed at it.} @ListItem{@I{Concentrated Fire} (-1) @B cumulative : applies to a unit or a group of units under a single @Cover marker. @Reff{see Section @NumberOf{cover} Cover}} @ListItem{@Grenade attack (@B G! -4 for US and DE) (-3 for others) @B cumulative : @BulletList #@ListItem{Are cumulative.} @ListItem{Applies either to a single unit or to a group of units under a single @Cover marker. @Reff{see Section @NumberOf{cover} Cover}} @ListItem{Do not apply the @Rain, @Smoke or @I{Current Visibility} modifiers to it.} @ListItem{If the target moves out of the card, remove all its @Grenade {@VOF}s and replace them with a single @Grenade miss.} @RawEndList} @ListItem{@Grenade miss (-1), @B{1 per card}, add its value to the @VOF of the card, apply all the modificators to it.} # S! impacts Commands draw, see card 55 @ListItem{@I Sniper (@B S! -3 on 1 unit) (@B S +0 on the card), randomly select a target from @Exposed units first if some exists.} @ListItem{@Incoming{@Sym slash}@AirStrike (@B I! -3..-8 depends of the firing unit) @BulletList @ListItem{Use the card lower @Cover value, and if there is one apply the @I Burst icon modifier to @Incoming only.} @ListItem{Do not apply the @Rain, @Smoke or @I{Current Visibility} modifiers to it.} @RawEndList} @ListItem{@I Mines (@B M! -4), do not apply the @Rain, @Smoke or @I{Current Visibility} modifiers to it. FIXME} @ListItem{@I{Demoliton Charge} (@B D! -4), attacks a specific @Cover marker or building. FIXME} @ListItem{@I{Demoliton Charge Miss} (-2), @B{1 per card}, add its value to the @VOF of the card, apply all the modificators to it.} @ListItem{@I Flamethrower (@B F! -4), attacks a specific @Cover marker or building. FIXME PointBLank or Close} @EndList @End @Section @Section @Title {A @Reff x} @Begin @BulletList @ListItem{i} @EndList @End @Section @EndSections @End @Text