Re: Optional Rules

From: "Scott Clinton" <grumbling_grognard@hotmail.com>
>http://home.swbell.net/grog1/sg_mod.htm
>Feedback welcome,

Hello Scott,

I’ve been looking over your page and I like a lot of the content. The
cavalry 
rules look very interesting and your take on some alien races appears
well 
thought out. I’m currently trying to hash out some rules for space
marines 
and orks for a friend I’m trying to convert from GW, so we'll try 
incorporating some of your ideas. 

I totally agree with you that the armor vs. impact roll should be 
open-ended, and according to the errata at 
http://home.att.net/~agoodall/sg2/sg2-errata.html, St. Jon’s official
ruling 
is that the roll is open-ended.

I especially like the tunable DASER. I’m going to work that into an
upcoming 
game for some alien or the other.

Now, there are a few things I disagree with.

1. Combat movement for vehicles. I believe getting rid of combat
movement 
for vehicles is a bad idea. I’ve been a automotive journalist for more
than 
five years, and I’ve driven every commercially available off-road
vehicle you 
can imagine, from Hummers and Land Rovers to Suzuki Samurais and Toyota 
RAV4s. There’s a big difference between carefully making your way
across a 
field or a slope (12” movement) and going balls to the wall to see how
far 
you can get in the least amount of time (combat movement). Sometimes 
you get lucky and you miss all the hidden tree stumps and holes … 
sometimes you don’t. :-)

2. Combat movement/close assault for infantry. I like the book rule for
close 
assaults and combat movement. If you take away the element of 
uncertainty, close assault loses some of its mystique. In one of the
last 
games we played, a unit of close assault specialists came piling out of
the 
back of a pickup truck to close assault a unit of infantry. The only way

they would fail to get in contact was if they rolled a 1, which they
promptly 
did. To me, that accurately models the frenzied activity that leads up
to an 
assault. It’s risky, and sometimes a guy’s axe gets caught on the
truck’s roll 
bars.

Regards,
Kevin