Hi Guys, just registered here.

I want to share my first impressions on the game after reading the rulebook in some length. I've posted my review on a website I'm part of here . It's kind of long so I won't re-post the whole thing here.

Anyway I just wanted to run it by posters here first because you might be interested and second because I want to make sure I'm understanding the mechanics correctly.

Thanks

ah, ive seen TYG casts before. From a quick skim it sounds like you've got it right.

edit - cover does not decrease the number of incomming hits - it adds sucsessful armor rolls.

eg is a tier 2 inf unit rolls 2 dice (a hit and a miss), but was in hard cover, it counts as having scored 3 hits, thus negating 3 damage.

I'll simply add my own first impressions article to this thread: Dust Tactics - First Impressions at Fire Broadside!

Overall I'm quite excited abou the game although there were a couple of things that we didn't quite "get", like how to make effective use of the command phase. Guess we should think about regrouping more…

I think the command phase is mostly for bypassing reactions. and regroup. =]

Snowshadow said:

thats my impression as well. you use it to push up or pull back without massed return fire. possibly to suppress units for action in the unit phase as well.