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===== E mail game going on!
    From: peletier@grolen.com

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From: peletier@grolen.com
To:  hcobb@slip.net
Subject: E mail game going on!

I have started an e mail game with grendel@cdsnet.net (Paneuropean) and
droberts@cs.uiuc.edu (Combine) with a simple Breakthrough GEV game.

I will let you know how it turns out.

One question.  Can a GEV cross a stream on its secondary movement phase?
 Some have played the game where you must wait by the stream until the
next full movement phase.

mike p
peletier@busstop.com

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    [5.083 Streams: does not use the term "full movement phase", and as
far as I know, that phrase is not used anywhere in the rulebook.  4.02
does note that GEVs do get two movement phases per turn.  Ogre Minis
does not cast any further light on this topic.

    I've been looking at Reserve Engineers (RE), they move and defend as
Militia but have an attack of only one point, only in overruns (not
doubled), and they can almost anything CEs can do, but they take a turn
to prepare before each action.

    Examples: A RE squad moves forwards one inch on turn one and is
informed that it has entered a minefield (they are never effected by
mines, while on foot), on turn two it "prepares to clear mines", on turn
three it clears a square inch around it, on turn four it moves forwards
another inch and renters the minefield, on turn five it prepares to
clear mines, on turn six it clears another square inch, etc. (REs can't
detect mines at range, they use the mine detecting Hovertrucks for that)

    The REs don't come with the big nuclear charges, but they can buy
one per squad (at the same cost as the CE reloads) and they do have the
same structure mining charges (remember that they take an extra turn to
prepare before counting off the SPs).

    RE's have specialised tools and knowledge, but not the battlesuits,
and so only count as one "point" per squad for moving hulks (after
taking a turn to prepare).

    The one thing I haven't decided is how much each squad should cost,
any ideas?  -HJC]

	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@io.com          http://www.io.com/~hcobb
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