RE: [Bulk] Re: (TFT) Sci-Fi Weapons for TFT

["Ty Beard" <tybeard@sbcglobal.net>]

My High Tech TFT rules add overwatch fire capability to the normal TFT
combat system.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041021024246/www.reese.org/tft/HiTek.htm 

However, there is an error in the section called "New Action" and I left out
the OpFire rules. So, replace it with this text:

***

New Action

A figure that is otherwise eligible to make a missile attack may instead
assume an Overwatch position in lieu of firing. This figure may fire at any
time during the current turn, or during the movement portion of the next
turn. This works exactly like Snapshots except that there is no -2DX
penalty. An overwatching figure that fails to fire by the end of the
movement phase of the next turn may instead act normally in the action phase
of the next turn. An overwatching figure that fires in the movement phase of
the next turn cannot execute any other actions.

***

Also, I left out the description of Snapshots:


***

Snapshots

Under certain conditions, a figure may make a "snapshot" during the opposing
player's movement phase. The figure must have a ready missile weapon. If he
hasn't moved yet in the current turn, he must remain still during his
movement phase after making the snapshot. If he has already moved this turn,
he must have only moved one hex. To make a snapshot, he may stop an enemy
figure from moving and fire at that figure. The snapshot is -2DX.

--Ty



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Sgt Hulka
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:27 AM
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Subject: [Bulk] Re: (TFT) Sci-Fi Weapons for TFT

Snapshot is indeed a great game; I still play it. 

The one thing I would point out about snapshot...one of it's most important
mechanics, in my opinion...is the ability to cover-fire (I can't remember
what term they use for it in the rules off hand). If you don't move, you can
fire at anyone who comes out into the open.

If you were doing this for TFT, I'd recommend coming up with a mechanic for
guns something like Pikes...they can attack in the movement phase.

Personally, though, I'd just play Snapshot. It has a lot in common with TFT
-- three characteristics, each characteristic important, optimal weapon
based on ST/DX combo, mechanically simple but tactically complex.

There's also Starleader: Assault, or whatever it was called, that was
supposedly TFT in space. It's gotten a bit panned on the net but there's a
guy at my FLGS who swears that it's awesome. 

And, as David mentions below, Dark City Games has a sci-fi version of their
TFT rules, and they even have a free download of a "repel boarders"
microquest.

Finally, check this out:

http://www.funny-games.biz/alienstheboardgame.html

If that doesn't scratch your Space Hulk itch I don't know what will.

--- On Tue, 4/28/09, David O. Miller <davidomiller@verizon.net> wrote:

> From: David O. Miller <davidomiller@verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: (TFT) Sci-Fi Weapons for TFT
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 5:18 AM
> 
> Snap Shot was a great game. So was Space Hulk.
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