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yeah thats the trouble with killing the wraith it realy screws the bad guys over as its their army center, in effect the wraith is the army and the troops act as support, while the for the the steel troopers the men are the army and the toad is support..
what i realy like is the unit leader is nothing special hes a referance point for the unit, and as members get killed the referance point changes.
the wraith is what makes the troopers powerful, and the little game mat you play your first few games on doese not do any of the game justice, play it on a 6x4 table and both start in oposit corners with a table full of terrain and suddenly it shines, i do wish that troopers staying motionless get a reroll to hit for aiming or somthing but that may apear in the fulll rules, and thats the big problem with the game we can see a few holes in it, and we know there is a full rule book for it in a few months time, and thats agonising knowing we may be either exsperincing the rims of a great game or possable limits of a unfleshed game !!!!!!
i like AT-43 and i can see me adding my own mods to it, but im holding back in hope that the main rule book will adress any of the bits that seem to be missing.
as it stands its a demo version of a game, and not a full game yet, when sst was first released all we had was warriors and plastic troopers and evan then i remember complaints about lack of variety, and i think this suffers from the same problem at the moment, you realy need 3 box sets to make a good game !!!! with one of the wraiths dropped to make points equalish.
also anybody playing this with no web access is at a disadvantage as they wont be able to access the new mission dowloads, but then thats also a problem SST evo and BF evo may have, as now harbinger has gone electronic as well, i realy miss a games mag from the shops thats relivent to my hobby
as for the mini comming of its base, thats pretty good going as it means your playing the game and trying it, wich to be honest is more than what ive ever done with a single heroclix mini, bar convert them for other game systems. i evan gave up on the starwars game befor rolling a single dice !!!! but AT-43 doese have tactics, and is very reliant on staying at range and in cover and attempting lightning attacks and withdraws, and can feel like chess some times trying to eliminate the unit you think your oponent plans on using next so you get another go uninterupted, when you get it right its great (although not for your oponent) also my kids can pick up the minis and i dont have to leap and save them befor they get trashed with a spoon or someother objct the kid has in tuther hand lol.
the minis are constructed so they can be pulled part with minimal damage, with the thought you should still look after your minis evan if there plastic and prepainted !!! although to be honest im looking at mine now from a game last week and there all bunched up in a ball !!!! hehehehehe.... so not good one to talk about lookin after your minis.
i can see me doing both evo and at-43 at the moment, but bf evo on a smaller scale. i think the rules are still a bit awkward for bf-evo and i can see game scale creep causing a few problems that could have been rectified, i think some of the finer points of sst rules have been lost for evo, and some of the best bits overcomplicated or underplayed. but then no game system is perfect as trying to ballance something simplisticly unbalances other things all the time.
variety is the spice of life, so il pobably play them all to an extent.
