RE: [OT] Alien Figures

G'day Brian,

>[Bri] Probably a good idea. With 6" they 
>could keep up with power armor and
>slow tracked, but not much else. 
>But my primary ideas was to have them
>hide and wait until the food, er 
>opponents, are within close assault range.
>Remember close assaults get double movement. 
>After the assault (assuming they won), 
>they can hide in the debris.

Cool, though I still have one reservation. Are they going to be in
addiiton
to other objectives on the board or are they going to be peppered about?
Otherwise you may find it takes ages for them to get an opportunity to
do
anything.

>What I meant was that if the xenomorphs 
>attacked/defended within 1" (no range to
>charge) the APFC would be useless

OK that makes sense I guess, they don't have the time to react
effectively.

>Since the xenomorphs have some stealth 
>(no heat signature, do not show up on 
>movement sensors until they attack, etc.), 

I suspect they'd have some heat signature, otherwise it'd be doubtful
they
could move so quickly (even as an alien species). However it may not
flair
up until they actually moved.

>What does APFC use as sensors anyway? 
>Sonor? IR detection? How big a signature 
>would it need to keep from going off 
>due to birds, bushes moving, etc.? 

I honestly don't know, guess in my naivete I just assumed that something
the
size of a xenomorph would set the sensor off if it moved (I assumed the
sensors were movement based, but I actually have no clue).

>[Bri] No. Xenomorphs are immune to the 
>acid splash OF THIER OWN HIVE.
>They may not be immune to it by 
>xenomorphs from other hives. 

OK call me weird, but unless its one genera or even family per hive I
would've said that no xenomorph would've been effected regardless of
their
hive. It would take an awful lot of genetic difference (read
evolutionary
space between taxa... if you believe in evolution) for that kind of
distinction in body chemistry to be evident.

Cheers