(TFT) a new hymenopteran

["Cas Liber" <casliber@ozemail.com.au>]

Dear all
its summer here in Sydney, and there's cinema in the park (i.e. outdoors).
Anyway last week they had Starship Troopers on screen, a film which I
missed the first time round. I thought it was great!! What a movie.Anyway,
I got the inspiration for the hymenopteran creatures below from it.
Grenadier
ST:50                        MA:4
DX:11                       Armour:1 pt skin
IQ:8
These giant bugs resemble spider-like creatures with huge abdomens and
essentially round (treat as a megahex figure). A grenadier's function is to
fire large missiles of fiery, burning plasma from its rear. They function
as a hymenopteran bazooka or grenade-launcher. Grenadiers require large
amounts of food and will only be found in very large hives
In combat, a grenadier can fire every 3 rounds. Naturalists can tell as the
abdomen changes colour from dark brown (at rest) to red to glowing orange
in the preceding rounds. They fire globs of plasma (as a missile weapon for
range) which explode on impact in a megahex diameter zone. The unlucky
creature in the centre suffers 4 dice damage, while the surrounding hexes
take 2 dice. A grenadier needs 2 basics at its front end to aim and fire
it. These basics are taking the option 'control grenadier' as their combat
option. If there is only one basic, the adjDX drops by 2. Also, if a
grenadier takes 15 ST damage, then its adjDX drops by 2 for the next round.

A plasma grenade has to land somewhere, thus they will land a number of
hexes away from the target equal to the number the roll was missed by, and
rolling a d6 for random direction around the original target hex.

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