Hi all, I finally decided to buy the game after months of uncertainty.

I love it! It's fast, it's hard and it's fun! What could you ask more?

But after my first play, and win (which i'm not sure I won legally hahah), I have a few questions for you:

1- When an action card enables you to use one token for one attack, like the Green Squad "Run and Gun", can you spend 2 or 3 tokens for 2 or 3 attacks or are you limited to only 1 token/1 attack? And I guess that the Psionic Attack from Lexicanium Calistarius can't be used?

2- The Attack action card "Dead Aim" for the Green Squad says "Each time 1 of your attacking Space Marines rolls a 4, slay up to 3 Genestealers from the defending swarm". If in a swarm I have 1 Genestealer and 1 Brood Lord and I roll a 4, do I kill both?

3- I don't completely understand the Brood Lord movement. In the rulebook it says "Broor Lords have two movement icons, and their swarm will move when either icon is activated". So I have 2 swarms, Swarm A with a Brood Lord and Swarm B without one. I play an Event card and I have X symbol for the movement. Swarm B have 1/3 GS with that symbol so I move it, ok for that part. Swarm A, the Brood Lord have that symbol and 1/3 GS have it too. Do I move to entire Swarm A because it has a Brood Lord or do I move the Brood Lord and the GS separately? *I just read in the rules that a swarm is composed of 1 or more GS...

4- In a coop game with 2 or more players...whats the point of doing some things secretly like the Event card abilities (Choose one SM and do this to him...)...I don't really get that part. If it's coop, why would things happen in the back of fellow Brothers?!??!

That's it for now. I really enjoyed my first game and look forwars to play lots more, and with friends too, just to see the dynamic of the "multiplayer" part of it.

Thanks all!

Hi,

1- when you make a regular attack (using an attack action card), you can use multiple support tokens to re-roll failed dice rolls. The 'run and gun' card however, gives you the option of spending a single token to make an attack. In that specific case, only one token may be spent, as per instructions.

You may want to take a look at the previous tread 'awesome game - two questions', there was a debate concerning the possibility to make a special attack (example : a flamer attack) when a card other than an attack action card is taking effect.

2- yes you kill both. the brood lord must be the last genestealer killed in a swarm. So making 3 casualties in a swarm containing a regular genestealer and a broodlord eliminates both.

3- swarms are not separated when you move them. All the genestealers in a swarm move along if one of the genestealers has the movement icon revealed by the event card. Brood lords have two movement icons : it simply implicates that the swarm containing them are more likely to move since there are more movement icons in the swarm.

4- I guess the purpose is to avoid the possibility of a single player making all the decisions in everybody's place!

I hope it helps!!

Berf said:

Thanks a lot Berf!

About point #3...so if a Swarm has 3 standard GS and one Brood Lord...is the swarm has the movement symbol, I move the 4 GS?

Ok, I didn't played like that on my first game, I separeted the GS...

Thanks again!

SolennelBern said:

Yep, unless you kill off GS, swarms will only keep getting bigger, not splitting up. Once you get to those 5GS swarms...

Rulebook p.22 says : (...)every swarm that contains this type of genestealer will move(...)

The terminology list on the back of the rulebook describes a swarm as : a group of one or more genestealers on the same side and position of the formation.

So yes, swarms move without breaking up!