Today’s article snuck it in

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2018/2/26/swl-rally-the-troops/

GRAND ARMY

12 minutes ago, Audio Weasel said:

GRAND ARMY

Was just about to post about this. So everybody who is like "800 points is not enough", you can play Grand Army with 1,600 points and a 4'x 6' table.

Shall we start a pool on how fast @Crabbok has a video up on this?

Por fin!!

Nooooo! I just spent all my money on 6x3 boards. I should have gotten 6x4. Still super stoked!

Edit: this deserves a

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com

Click the button

6x4 is where its at.

Come on larger battles!

Bottom 2 links don't work in mobile version. Nooooooooooo!

Gotta get home, gotta get home, gotta get home, gotta get home!

Grand Army! Yes!!!

Gungans confirmed!

While the Grand Army allows for bigger games the deployment zone leaves me less than thrilled. Big army and 4' wide play area...

26 minutes ago, Amanal said:

While the Grand Army allows for bigger games the deployment zone leaves me less than thrilled. Big army and 4' wide play area...

So play casually and do both the original deployment rules within a 6x4 zone?

Can't see 4' wide play area being any issue at all. 40k is on a 4' board and has a lot faster units, and a lot longer ranged guns

And looks like I'll be buying another atst and air speeder after all..

For example, Darth Vader performs a move action, triggering his relentless ability and allowing him to perform a free attack action. After this free attack action, Darth Vader still has one of his two actions remaining, but he cannot use this remaining action to perform another attack action.

..... so no making multiple attacks with Vader.... but yes with Luke

During a unit’s activation, it is possible for it to perform multiple attacks through the use of command cards or other abilities. If a game e ect provides a unit with an attack during its activation, and that attack is not an action or
free action, performing that attack does not count toward a unit’s limit of a single attack action per activation. It is not an action and therefore does not count against that unit’s two actions per activation and does not trigger abilities that occur a er actions are performed.
For example, the “Son of Skywalker” command card is active when Luke Skywalker performs an attack action. A er completing the attack, the command card allows him to perform an additional attack. is additional attack is not an attack action, and therefore can be performed, even though Luke Skywalker has already performed an attack action.

28 minutes ago, azavander said:

For example, Darth Vader performs a move action, triggering his relentless ability and allowing him to perform a free attack action. After this free attack action, Darth Vader still has one of his two actions remaining, but he cannot use this remaining action to perform another attack action.

..... so no making multiple attacks with Vader.... but yes with Luke

During a unit’s activation, it is possible for it to perform multiple attacks through the use of command cards or other abilities. If a game e ect provides a unit with an attack during its activation, and that attack is not an action or
free action, performing that attack does not count toward a unit’s limit of a single attack action per activation. It is not an action and therefore does not count against that unit’s two actions per activation and does not trigger abilities that occur a er actions are performed.
For example, the “Son of Skywalker” command card is active when Luke Skywalker performs an attack action. A er completing the attack, the command card allows him to perform an additional attack. is additional attack is not an attack action, and therefore can be performed, even though Luke Skywalker has already performed an attack action.

Vader can get two attacks a turn through Implacable, which allows him to activate a 2nd time in the round. So basically the same thing, only Vader's is a bit more flexible.

8 minutes ago, Caldias said:

Vader can get two attacks a turn through Implacable, which allows him to activate a 2nd time in the round. So basically the same thing, only Vader's is a bit more flexible.

Good point, at first gonna be tough to keep all this straight

1 hour ago, DarkTrooperZero said:

Can't see 4' wide play area being any issue at all. 40k is on a 4' board and has a lot faster units, and a lot longer ranged guns

That seems quite narrow, and yet you are putting (almost) twice the points values of things down there. Seems like a rugby scrum will be the end result of many games.

7 minutes ago, Amanal said:

That seems quite narrow, and yet you are putting (almost) twice the points values of things down there. Seems like a rugby scrum will be the end result of many games.

If I’m reading correctly. It’s a 4x6 board with deployments at range 2 of the 4’ sections. So every grand army battle is like playing Long March on a slightly wider board.

"Finally, during step 8, each player should deploy their units within range 2 of a 4’ edge of the battlefield, opposite their opponent."

That is as I have drawn it, otherwise it would say to deploy within range 2 of a 6' edge.

Now you have me thinking I done goofed!!

2 hours ago, Amanal said:

That seems quite narrow, and yet you are putting (almost) twice the points values of things down there. Seems like a rugby scrum will be the end result of many games.

Maybe. Range 4 weapons become a lot more useful, and the loss of control over your contditions and objectives mean specialised forces may be less than optimal

10 hours ago, Amanal said:

While the Grand Army allows for bigger games the deployment zone leaves me less than thrilled. Big army and 4' wide play area...

I think your “huge bases” (RRG 16) are going to appreciate that deployment though.

19 minutes ago, WAC47 said:

I think your “huge bases” (RRG 16) are going to appreciate that deployment though.

Medium bases - Speeder bikes

Large bases - ATRT

Huge bases - ATST/T47

7 hours ago, Amanal said:

"Finally, during step 8, each player should deploy their units within range 2 of a 4’ edge of the battlefield, opposite their opponent."

That is as I have drawn it, otherwise it would say to deploy within range 2 of a 6' edge.

Now you have me thinking I done goofed!!

Didn’t mean to make you think you goofed! Was just pointing out that Grand Army is more points but also a wider deployment area in terms of a Long March setup - which it seems like Grand Army always is.

22 minutes ago, OMGBRICK said:

Medium bases - Speeder bikes

Large bases - ATRT

Huge bases - ATST/T47

Huh, didn’t realize speederbikes and AT-RT has different base sizes. My bad!