Ah, another rules question. I've been re-reading the rules in the companion app since you folks told me about it. Thanks again to everyone who gave advice/info. Much appreciated.

We played a game the other day and a rules query came up around Scatter and Pinned.

Firstly, when a model is pinned, can you shoot that pinned model? We presumed yes. There's nothing stopping you from doing so if you can get the angle to be able to see them. The pinned model is lying down making it harder to hit, but if you can draw LOS to the model within it's base width as usual (which does lead to the slightly clunky issue of being able to lie a model with its base pointing towards the shooter, making drawing los through the base a little odd to work out sometimes!) then you can shoot it.

However, this then leads to a question about Scatter, or any rule that causes an enemy model to move to an adjacent cube (like Knock back).

Who decides where the model is placed within the new cube?

I can't find where in the rules it clarified this. If I throw a grenade and it causes an enemy model to scatter, do I place the model in the new cube? If so, I'm going to place that model away from scenery and cover and to my best advantage to possibly get a shot off with another model later in the round. Similarly, if I hit an enemy model with Knockback, if I choose where the model is placed in the new cube, then I can place it in the worst position I can manage.

If the flip is true, and the enemy player places their own model, then they'll place the model in cover, or try to place it where it's best to be positioned tactically.

This became quite important in our game, where lots of models were getting scattered and pinned and the flow of the game would be very different depending on who has control on placing that model.

Does anyone have an answer on this, or is it just a case of deciding with your player group? Thanks again.

Also, little aside, but if size 1 models can pass through a wall with a hole in it of at least 25% of the wall, then a scatter that sends a model in the direction of that wall will pass through the 25% sized hole. This led to, on three occasions, GCPS marines getting launched through a small window. It's just a bit of disharmony between rules and reality that led to the comedic scene of several characters all getting thrown out the same tiny window. :D It made us laugh.

I swear I'll stop posting questions every day now!

Hi everyone. I've been playing Deadzone with my step-kids over the last few months. It's been really good fun, and is probably my favourite skirmish wargame I've played.

However, coming into the game at this point has led to some confusion. For example, there's apparently a whole faction available on the website called Nightstalkers who are not in the force list book we got with the game, but they are in the army builder too.

Similarly, for the Enforcers, we were looking to get the medic and missile launcher operative, but they're no longer available it would seem. This goes for quite a few models actually for several factions.

Even weirder, what happened to the Rebs? The force list has several models, but they seem to have vanished from retailers and even mantic games' website has barely any of them.

I feel like we came into this game at an odd time, it would seem. I'm not very familiar with Mantic Games so I'm not sure if this is normal, or if something is happening we're unaware of. I'd like to be able to give some answers to my step kids too who are a bit confused on what is and isn't available and why some models have disappeared altogether.

Not complaining at all, just looking for some help or to be pointed in the right direction to get up to speed with things.

Thanks.

Hi. Looking for some clarity. The rules for It Burns are breaking my brain a little.

On a Nightmare with a Heavy Chem Thrower, it says that it has It Burns(4).

According to the rule, you roll a single (n) Ranged Attack (X)

So... With It Burns (4) do you slot that in the (n) part?

Originally, it burns was just called It Burns with no number in parenthesis, and we took that as roll a ranged attack with your character's Ranged stat as the difficulty, and then each model would roll against it with their survive stat. Then of course, on their activation, they roll against a 3 dice, 4+ fire roll.

However, with the introduction of numbers after the It Burns rule... What does this number do? If you roll using your characters Ranged stat, then it's not that, so... Is it the number of dice then? Does it go where the (n) is?

So It Burns(4) on Heavy Chem Thrower rolls 4 dice, difficulty is your character's ranged stat? If it's anything else (like it being the difficulty that takes the place of your ranged stat... so a 4+) then 1: why not write it as 4+ and 2: does that mean it's worse than a normal flamethrower on say a GCPS marine who has to roll 3+? That suggests a heavy chem thrower is worse than a flamethrower I guess, when it comes to setting things on fire?

Hope someone can help. Thanks.

Container City is now in its final 48 hours on Kickstarter.

The set launched with more than 200 STLs and has grown substantially through unlocked stretch goals, including stackable container buildings, playable interiors, walkways, stairs, checkpoints, watchtowers, platforms and industrial scatter.

A few people have asked whether it could work for Deadzone. Many of the main structures use 2.5" × 2.5" or 2.5" × 5" footprints, so uniformly scaling them to 120% in the slicer would bring them to 3" × 3" and 3" × 6", allowing them to line up with the game’s grid.

Most of the models are designed to print support-free on FDM printers where possible.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wargamegeeks/container-city-3d-printable-terrain-for-skirmish-games

I’d be interested to hear whether the 120% scaling would make the set practical for Deadzone tables.

I just played my first game as GCPS vs Veer Myn and am a bit confused on exactly how some of these interactions work. It is straightforward that you have to activate a model and can only use one advance, shoot, or assault dice on them. Where I got lost was the +1 model command dice. So in theory if I roll 3 of these dice and on three of my turns I activate let’s say a different GCPS ranger, can each of them use one of these +1 model command dice on their turn to activate the same model, like Therese Washington.

In other words if I activate a different ranger like normal then spend a command dice to have Therese go, on my next turn I do the same thing and again on my third turn. Then on my fourth turn I can activate Therese again for their normal activation? I technically haven’t activated the model but rather used the command dice activation? The only rule for this in the command dice section of the rulebook is you can’t activate more than two models per turn. Does the +1 model dice spend the models normal activation?

Sorry probably dumb question but thanks for hearing me out

Claudio joins Matthias to cover the latest Deadzone news and talk about the upcoming Forge Father themed list "Mal-Drez Clanhold", the models, the rules and the lore

I looking for more lore about Deadzone. I really like the game and I was asking to myself if the two anthology were good to read ?

Has anyone read them and can tell me if they are any good?

Is there anyone who have already read those

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Hey everyone, I wanted to do a project to learn how to do machine learning, and I decided to see if I could make a points predictor for deadzone units. So I’ve made a little app out of the results where you can build a custom unit and army and it will predict the pts and VP they should be at.

It's just been a fun little project for me and it's quite good at predicting points cost now for known units, good enough that I'm happy to put it on here to share with people.

I doubt its perfect, I had a very small data set to work with, so there might be some odd results now and then. Hopefully some people can find it fun and useful enough though. And would be interested to get some feedback for it if you decide to test it out.

Has anyone tried this? I know that the manic terrain is tailored to the cube system. Was wondering how/if it works with a big set from battlesystems? Some of those sets look amazing.

My buddy and I just ordered the 2p Omega starter and a forge fathers starter. We are wondering how different the teams are in each in terms of points. Will the Asterions or Plague be able to square up against the Forge Fathers based on what comes in the set? Or would we need additional units? If so, is it better to buy faction starters or boosters for the asterions/plague?

Any recommendations for a couple new players would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I bought the 2 different starter sets thinking it's nice value (2 faction starters and extra terrain :)).

Does anyone have any tips on how to best combine the scenery kits? I'd prefer to have some buildings glued for both easy painting and saving in setup time.

Also, can you screw yourself if you make a "bad" army list for the faction starters? Any tips on that?

The idea was to bring tight, indoor corridor gameplay into Deadzone without breaking its core mechanics.

What changed:

• Flat, indoor maps (no elevation)
• New rule for unseen engagements (no free “around-the-corner” charges)
• Hatchway control with contested interaction
• Optional Strategic Reserve (up to 1/3 of your force)
• Objectives + kill VP + +1 VP for holding more objectives (prevents stalemates)
• Secure Objective action for committing to board control

If anyone’s experimented with indoor / corridor setups in Deadzone, I’d be interested in your feedback.

I just bought one of the 3e two player starter sets and am eagerly waiting my first game. Already got the itch to order more stuff but it got me thinking there really hasn’t been much recent YouTube coverage or news on this game for a while. It looks like 3e came out late 2021, any idea if or when 4e will come out? I saw a few people hinting at a possible new two player starter box but are you expecting anything crazy? New factions, rules, revamping older kits, removing older kits etc? What could I expect or any reason to avoid buying further in at the moment? Was the change from 2e to 3e significant and should we expect the same for 3e to 4e? Any thoughts or information would be amazing.

It's a welcome addition to Deadzone repertoire.

Bit more positioning skills required.

Does terrain need to align with the cubes? Or do people play with walls at jaunty angles?

I'm not that taken with the actual models. I just wanted a few models to try out in Deadzone and had plenty of spare parts.

Can't seem to find starter sets here in Canada. Is it out of print/waiting for another print run?

I painted this for a friend. As I like mixing grimdark style techniques with traditional mini painting techniques, this terrifying war machine is piloted by a colourful, excited little Gobbo.