Game Play

Oskara: 0 Success / 1 Advantage
Lowhhrick: 2 Success / 2 Advantage
Pash: 1 Success / 0 Advatnage
Vex: 0 Success / 1 Advantage
Thugs: 1 Success / 0 Advantage

Initiative does not determine individual PC order, but rather PC and NPC slots. With the above rolls the initiative order would be:

PC
PC
NPC (Minion Group)
PC
PC

During a Round every PC will get one turn. When that turn occurs within the round is entirely up to the players. When a PC slot comes active ANY player that has yet to have a turn during the round can go. This order can change every round as well, so it's possible that say Pash acts last during round 1, but first during round 2 - this can be pretty useful from time to time.

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During your turn you can take one Action and make one Maneuver.

An Action is anything that requires a die roll (Attacking, trying to slice a door lock, etc.).
A Maneuver is anything that requires a non-insignificant amount of time to do. This includes drawing/readying a weapon, moving, aiming, etc.

You CAN gain a second Maneuver in one of three ways (but can NEVER have more than two per turn)
1) Give up your Action for a Maneuver.
2) Suffer 2 Strain.
3) Spend two Advantages from your Action die roll.

For example, in the current situation a character could:
1) Maneuver: Draw a Pistol.
2) Suffer 2 strain to get a second Maneuver.
3) Maneuver: Aim (adds a boost die to your attack roll).
4) Action: Attack.

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To conduct an attack you first choose one of the weapons on your sheet. Each weapon will have a corresponding skill to use when you make an attack, a damage value, range, and a critical value. The skills work just like before, find the skill and the corresponding characteristic and build your dice pool.

Difficulties of attacks are ALWAYS based on range:
ENGAGED - MELEE/BRAWL: 2 Purple
ENGAGED - RANGED LIGHT: 2 Purple
ENGAGED - RANGED HEAVY: 3 Purple
SHORT - RANGED: 1 Purple
MEDIUM - RANGED: 2 Purple
LONG - RANGED: 3 Purple
EXTREME - RANGED: 4 Purple

So for VEX to hit a target at Medium range with a Light Blaster the die pool would be:
2 Green (Ranged-Light Skill[0] - Agility Characteristic[2]) and 2 Purple (Medium Ranage)

If VEX takes a maneuver to aim, an extra Blue die would be added to the pool.

Any hit (at least one success) would cause the base damage of the gun (5) plus the number of successes.

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Range Bands:
Engaged: Close enough to touch.
Short: Several meters. Moving to anywhere within short range requires one maneuver (to close to Engaged for example).
Medium: Several dozen meters. Moving from short to medium range requires one maneuver.
Long: Further than a few dozen meters. Moving from medium to long requires two maneuvers.
Extreme: Furthest range at which two targets can interact. Moving from long to extreme requires two maneuvers.

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Yep, lots of text, sorry about that. Read as much/little as you like - we can cover specific as the come up. Actual play post coming right up!

There are four thugs, all of which are at Short distance from the PCs. Two PC turns then the thugs will have a go.

Round 1:
PC, PC,
Thugs,
PC, PC

So looking at Oskara's weapon it has a base Damage of 9, so with the 2 successes, that's 11 total damage. Since the enemies you're fighting are a Minion Group, they have a shared Wound Threshold pool, so any carry over won't be wasted.

The Gamorreans have a Soak value of 3, which means the 11 damage is reduced to 8 and then applied to the group's shared Wound Threshold. As each Gamorrean has a Wound Threshold of 6, this will kill one outright and apply 2 damage to the rest of the group. (Group's Wound Threshold goes from 24 to 16.)

Now, with the 6 Advantage you have several options:
1) Activate a weapon quality.
2) Reduce Stress (1 Stress per Advantage used in this fashion).
3) Give a Boost (Blue) die for ANY Allied player to use (2 Advantage)
4) Give a Boost (Blue) die to the NEXT Allied player to use (1 Advantage)
5) Any other thing we might come up with that makes sense!

In this case, if you spend 3 Advantage (which is your weapon's Critical Rating), you'll score a Critical Hit on the group, which will automatically kill another minion, reducing their Group Wound Threshold by 6. You could then spend 2 more Advantage to reduce your Stress to 4, and spend the last Advantage to allow whoever goes next to add a Boost die to whatever check they make.

The choice is yours.

Any Advantage that you don't spend is wasted. And everyone will have a chance to recover some Stress at the end of the encounter automatically.

Next PC to act gets to add a Boost (Blue) die to their Action.

Round 1:
PC, PC,
Thugs,
PC, PC

Pash has 1 in the Ranged-Light Skill and 3 in the Agility Characteristic, which means the roll should have been 2 Green and 1 Yellow. But he also gained a Boost (Blue) die from Oskara. Let's remove the second Yellow an replace with a Blue.

**ROLLS**

Ha! Same result. So with three success, we get 9 total damage. Subtract 3 from the bad guys' soak and that's six damage, which wipes another bad guy.

You now have one Advantage to spend!

Play post upcoming!