WizKids 35100a - CBT - Quick Start Rules v1 OEF.pdf - [2002-2008] - WizKids - trzeci

35100A

It is the 31st century, a time of endless wars that rage across

human-occupied space. As star empires clash, these epic wars

are won and lost by BattleMechs®, 30-foot-tall humanoid metal

titans bristling with lasers, autocannons and dozens of other

lethal weapons; enough repower to level entire city blocks.

Your elite force of MechWarriors® drives these juggernauts

into battle, proudly holding your faction’s ag high, intent on

expanding the power and glory of your realm. At their beck and

call are the support units of armored vehicles and power armored

infantry, wielded by a MechWarrior’s skillful command to aid

him in ultimate victory. Will they become legends, or forgotten

casualties? Only your skill and luck will determine their fate!

QUICK-START RULES

We have specially designed these quick-start rules to hurtle

you onto the battle elds of the 31st century in minutes, with

everything you need to play—including a map and unit

counters—provided. All you need is your imagination and two

six-sided dice!

of each unit on the mapsheet and keep track of its movement

during the game.

RECORD SHEETS

The ’Mech, vehicle and infantry record sheets are used to keep track

of the damage done to each unit during combat as well as display a

units weapon and movement stats (see Record Sheets , p. 14).

GREEN, VETERAN AND ELITE

These quick-start rules appear in three easily absorbed sections:

Green (blue, the section you’re reading right now), Veteran (yellow)

and Elite (red). These sections provide an easy-to-understand

progression from the basics to adding more units and rules to

increase a player’s enjoyment of the game. At the end of each section

is a Training scenario that will have players immediately jumping

into the fun of the Bat tleTech game system, implementing what the

players have learned to that point in the quick-start rules.

Note: The Green section is an introduction to the ’Mech rules

as presented in the Classic BattleTech Introductory Rulebook , while

the Veteran and Elite sections are an introduction to the rules for

additional units and concepts as presented in Classic Bat tleTech

Total Warfare .

Green: For newcomers to Classic BattleTech , read through this

section once (it won’t take long), then play the Green Training

scenario. Your rst Training scenario will be a quick ’Mech vs.

’Mech game, but the basics described in the Green section of

how to move, re weapons and take damage apply across the

board, with speci c exceptions for vehicles and infantry noted in

the Veteran and Elite sections, respectively.

Remember, you don’t need to read any other section of these

quick-start rules before you jump right into a game!

Veteran: Once you’ve gotten the basics of movement and

combat down, and a ’Mech training scenario under your belt, the

Veteran section introduces vehicles, as well as some advanced

weapon rules. Once you’ve read this section—which builds on

your existing knowledge from the Green section—you can jump

into the Veteran Training scenario.

Elite: Now that you’re familiar with the rst two sections,

the Elite section introduces infantry. The Elite Training Scenario

unleashes the full combined-arms aspect of Classic Bat tleTech !

MAPSHEETS

In Classic Bat tleTech , games are played on 22-by-17 inch

mapsheets divided into six-sided areas called hexes, which

regulate movement and combat between various units.

Mapsheets can be lled with woods, rivers, lakes, mountains and

more. For ease of play, the mapsheet included in the quick-start

rules only contains light and heavy woods terrain.

DICE

In Classic BattleTech you will use two six-sided dice. If the situation

requires you to roll one die, the rules indicate this in shorthand as

1D6. Unless otherwise noted, the abbreviation 2D6 means that you

should roll both dice and add the results together.

TRAINING SCENARIOS

Classic Bat tleTech is a game for two or more players. For

simplicity’s sake, the Green Training scenario is just for two

players, with each player controlling a single ’Mech. Each ’Mech,

vehicle or infantry trooper is considered a unit . In the Veteran

and Elite Training scenarios, if additional players are available,

they should divide evenly between two teams, with each player

taking charge of one unit. If additional players are not available,

the Veteran and Elite Training scenarios are designed to help

players go from controlling a single unit to the fun of controlling

multiple units in a game.

In the various Training scenarios provided in these rules, your

only goal is to destroy the other team. The last team with at least

one surviving unit left on the board wins. As you become more

familiar with these rules, you can begin to operate more than one

unit at a time, come up with your own game objectives, or you

can move on to the challenge and excitement of the complete

’Mech rules of the Classic BattleTech Introductory Box Set , or on to

the complete rules (including vehicles, infantry and more) in the

Classic BattleTech Total Warfare rulebook!

PLAYING PIECES

Classic BattleTech Quick-Start Rules contains several playing

pieces you can cut out, representing your infantry, vehicles and

BattleMechs. These playing pieces are used to show the position

SEQUENCE OF PLAY

END PHASE

Players repeat all the steps given above until one team meets its

victory conditions for the scenario. Under normal circumstances,

the team with the last surviving unit(s) left on the map wins. If

the last units from each team are destroyed simultaneously in the

same turn, the game is a draw.

A Classic BattleTech game consists of a series of turns. During

each turn, all units on the map have an opportunity to move and

re their weapons. Each turn consists of several smaller segments

of time, called phases. During each phase, players may take one

type of action, such as movement or combat. Remember that the

word unit is used to denote any type of unit: ’Mech, vehicle or

infantry.

Each turn includes the following phases, performed in the

following order:

MOVEMENT

Classic BattleTech units change position and location on

the mapsheet by performing any one of several movements.

During the Movement Phase of each turn, players must choose a

movement mode for each unit they intend to move in that turn.

For ‘Mechs, the choices are walking or running.

When it is a player’s turn to move a unit, the player must

announce its movement mode or that the unit is staying still. The

player always chooses how a unit moves, within the limits set by

the rules.

Initiative Phase

Movement Phase

Weapon Attack Phase

End Phase

INITIATIVE PHASE

One player from each side rolls 2D6 and adds the results

together to determine his team’s Initiative. The team with the

higher result has Initiative throughout the turn. Re-roll all ties.

MOVEMENT BASICS

As shown on the Movement Cost Tables on p. 22, a unit must

spend 1 movement point (MP) to enter a hex. The type of terrain

within a hex adds more MP costs, as shown under the MP Cost Per

Hex/Terrain Type column of the table. ’Mechs can also take one

other movement action, a facing change, at the MP cost shown

on the table.

The controlling player always starts with a base cost of 1 MP for

a unit to enter a new hex. The player then consults the Movement

Cost Table and adds any MP required, based on the type of hex

being entered and/or the action being taken. Such additional

modi ers are cumulative. For example, a unit entering a Clear hex

only spends the base 1 MP for entering a new hex. However, a unit

entering a heavy woods hex and making a one-hexside facing

change spends 4 MP (the base 1 MP for entering a new hex, +2

MP for heavy woods and +1 MP for the facing change).

The forest and terrain areas on a Classic BattleTech mapsheet

represent a mixture of terrain found on habitable worlds of the

Inner Sphere. The symbols below designate each type of terrain

as found on the mapsheet in these quick-start rules.

MOVEMENT PHASE

The team that lost Initiative chooses one unit and moves it

rst.

The team that won Initiative then moves one unit.

Movement alternates between sides until all units have been

moved. Each time a player must move a unit, he may designate

movement for any unit that has not been destroyed, even if the

move is to simply stand still.

WEAPON ATTACK PHASE

The team that lost Initiative chooses a unit to declare re rst.

The controlling player must declare any attacks he plans to make

using his unit’s weapons, specifying which weapons he will re

and at what target(s).

The team that won Initiative then chooses a unit to declare re.

The player controlling the ring unit declares any attacks he plans

to make using that unit’s weapons, as described above.

The act of declaring attacks alternates between players until all

re has been declared. Each time a player must declare an attack,

he may do so for any unit that has not been destroyed, even if the

declaration is to make no attack.

Clear

Clear terrain represents

elds, meadows and other

grasslands. The ground is rm

and may be gently rolling,

but its level does not change

signi cantly from one side of

the hex to the other.

If a hex is not clearly marked

as containing another terrain type, assume it is clear.

Resolving Weapons Fire

Players resolve weapons re one unit at a time. The order in

which each unit’s attacks are resolved is up to that unit’s controlling

player. All weapon attacks by one unit should be resolved before

those of the next unit in order for the players to more easily track

which weapons have red.

Determining Damage

Damage from weapon attacks takes e ect next. Players record

damage as attacks are resolved, but this damage does not a ect

the unit’s ability to attack during this phase. This means a unit may

make its declared attacks in the same phase even if that unit or its

weapons are destroyed. At the end of the phase, all damage takes

e ect immediately.

Light Woods

Light woods terrain is covered with sparse trees up to twelve

meters tall. Most units cannot cross this terrain as easily as clear

terrain. Unless the wood is relatively large (i.e., covers numerous

hexes), units may have line of sight through light woods. (See

Intervening Terrain p. 6, in Combat .)

Heavy Woods

Heavily wooded terrain is thickly covered with twelve-meter tall

trees, making movement through these areas very di cult. Light

woods often border heavy woods. It is di cult to see through

heavy woods. (See Intervening Terrain p. 6, in Combat .)

In the Facing Change diagram at bottom left, a player wants

to move his BattleMech from Hex A to Hex B. However, the

BattleMech is currently facing Hex C, and so cannot legally move

to Hex B. If the BattleMech changes its facing, as shown in Figure

2, it can legally move into Hex B. This facing change costs 1 MP.

If the player wanted to move the BattleMech into Hex D

(without going backward), the BattleMech would have to

make a two-hexside facing change, at a cost of 2 MP.

MOVEMENT DIRECTION

A unit can move forward

into the hex it is facing or

backward into the hex

directly to its rear. It cannot

move into any other hex

unless it rst changes its

facing (see Facing , below).

The diagram above shows

the two hexes that a unit

may enter without changing

its facing.

MOVEMENT MODES

At the beginning of each unit’s movement, a player must select

one of the following movement modes. A unit may not combine

movement modes during a turn.

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MOVEMENT DIRECTION DIAGRAM

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STANDING STILL

If the player declares that a unit will stand still, the unit stays in

the hex in which it started the turn. It may expend no MP during

that turn. It does not move, not even to change facing. Standing

still gives no penalty to weapons re and allows attackers to re

on the unit without target movement modi ers.

Backward Movement

During the course of its movement, a unit can move forward

and backward (that is, it can make both moves within the same

Movement Phase) and can change direction in any manner the

player chooses, as long as the unit possesses the required number

of MP. However, if a ’Mech declares at the beginning of its turn

that it will use running movement (see Running , at right), it cannot

move backward at any time during that turn.

WALKING

If the player declares that a ’Mech will walk, the ’Mech may

expend a number of MP up to its Walking MP rating. A walking

’Mech su ers a +1 modi er to its to-hit number when making

attacks. As a moving target, a walking ’Mech may also be harder

to hit. These combat e ects appear on the Attack Modi er Table

found on p. 21 and are further explained under Firing Weapons ,

p. 7.

FACING

Every hex on the map has six edges, called hexsides. In Classic

BattleTech , every unit must face one of those six hexsides. A

BattleMech is considered to be facing the way its feet are pointing;

for ease of use, the counters provided with these quick-start rules

have their front facing clearly marked with an arrow.

A unit’s facing a ects movement (see below) and combat (see

Combat , at right), and can only be voluntarily changed during the

Movement Phase.

RUNNING

A ’Mech can move further in a turn when running than it can

walking. The player may spend up to the ’Mech’s Running MP

rating each turn. A running ’Mech su ers a +2 to-hit modi er

when making attacks, but its speed may make it a more di cult

target to hit. These combat e ects appear on the Attack Modi er

Table found on p. 21 and are further explained under Firing

Weapons , p. 7.

No ’Mech can move backward while running.

FACING CHANGE

Changing a unit’s facing costs 1 MP per hexside changed,

regardless of the terrain type in the hex. For example, a 180-

degree turn costs a unit 3 MP.

STACKING

During the Movement Phase, a unit may move through hexes

occupied by other friendly units. A unit may not, however, move

through a hex occupied by an enemy unit, nor may it end its

movement in a hex occupied by another unit.

COMBAT

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FIGURE 1

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FIGURE 2

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After all players complete the Movement Phase of a turn, units

engage in combat. Units make weapon attacks using armaments

such as missiles, lasers, autocannons and so on.

FACING CHANGE DIAGRAMS

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