in learning how to play the game, my wife figured the Mark 1, stationary behind a door, guarding the computer, might be a good defensive tactic.

As it turns out, in opening the door, thanks to some bad dice rolls, she took out two commandos and shut the door on me again.

I found it hilarious that the Mark 1 is much bigger than the door. in case you wondered what the commandos saw:

1: using rulers sucks. The gameboard should be a hex grid
2: The BAP artillery was absurdly overpowered

We played a lot of pstorm, but it never felt as smooth or well put together as LOS to me.

On page 13 of the Beta rules, there is the classic "indirect grenade" diagram. The same basic diagram and rules as in the original ruleset.

I have two questions:

1: the nightmare is not in the commando's front arc. He can't throw the grenade without turning.

2: The rules really should allow sideways tossing of grenades, at a penalty of course. If you aren't picky about placement, a running commando shouldn't have too much trouble tossing a grenade into a room as he runs past.

3: Can the Nightmare target the commando with his Nachtmacher? (Does indirect grenade throwing work both ways?). I can imagine the nightmare would have enough visibility around the corner to give it a good try.

For the record, I did this conversion years before the Will Smith movie. :-)

Starshina Brondski leads a convict platoon into hopeless, suicidal mission after another.

In repairing his equipment, he took the arm from a destroyed Angel-Eater, and mounted it on his own shock armor.

In game terms, this was a single shock-armor trooper, with the command/leadership points of a starshina, and a single fire action to use either cannon. I don't remember the point totals (I wasn't the math nerd), but he didn't break the game as I recall.

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I've downloaded and printed LoS v2.03 and I'm looking forward to playing this Sunday!