• White spike (dart tip): Marker beacon
• Yellow spike (dart tip): Spotter beacon
• Red spike (dart tip): Vehicle fired
• White cube: Vehicle Half-speed
• Yellow cube: Vehicle immobilized
• Red cube: Vehicle paralyzed
• Black cube: Vehicle brain dead

• Kinetic: Linear damage to hull and core cells. Uses a cross reference table, which depends on the result of a 1D6 die roll (most predictable). Pros: Relatively effective against average vehicles, dangerous at close range. Cons: May lack ability to score those big strikes against larger or better protected MGVs.
• Missile: Infects hull and core cells. Dice competition requires player to predict how the opposing player might react (unpredictable), successful strikes infect target and attack brain (AI). Pros: Effective way to put hits on many vehicle types. Cons: Slow acting, can take several turns to have a noticeable effect.
• Photon: Scattered damage to hull and core cells. Range estimation, requires some skill on the part of the firing player (potentially unpredictable). Pros: players with good spatial skills can score hits regardless of enemy armor, sometimes offers only chance to score serious damage on more powerful MGVs by smaller units. Cons: missing by too much can degrade results, it is the least efficient cost/result ratio against lighter targets.
• Thermal: Destroys hull cells. Uses a cross reference table, which depends on the result of a 1D6 die roll (marginally unpredictable). Pros: Can be a quick way to score heavy damage on a target. Cons: More unpredictable hit rate than other systems, can result in no damage inflicted.

1. X Roll: Each side rolls 1D6. The side with the highest roll (ties roll over) may either move or fire all of their bases. Actions taken must be all of one type, the player may not fire some units and move others, nor may they cede actions to the opposing side. Action is not mandatory, and the winner of the die roll may choose to take no actions for the step, at which point the game automatically proceeds to the next phase (die roll winners who take no action on a particular phase are still considered to have used one of their two allowed phases for the turn - they cannot "save" it for another part of the turn).

2. Y Roll: Each side rolls 1D6. The side with the highest roll (ties roll over) may either move or fire all of their bases, with the exception that the player who moved or fired in Phase 1 (X Roll) may not conduct that same action again on this phase. For example, a player who wins the X Roll and moves all of his MGVs, must then conduct direct fire if he also wins the Y Roll, he may not move a second time.

3. Z Roll: Each side rolls 1D6. The side with the highest roll (ties roll over) may either move or fire all of their bases, with the exception that a player who moved or fired in phases one or two may not conduct those same actions again on this phase. If the same side won both the X and Y rolls, there is no need to conduct a Z roll because the only remaining candidate for moving or firing is the other side. That side must then decide which of those two actions they will carry out first.

4. F Action: There will now be only one side that has not conducted one basic action type (move or fire). That side now conducts that action or passes the game turn over to the fifth phase.

5. Reset: This is the last phase of the game. Start by rolling for recurring damage effects due to infestation and power hits, then conduct all repair attempts. After all repair attempts are completed roll for sudden death on any vehicles which have B hits. Finally, remove all markers except black cubes, which indicate brain dead units.

Figure 1. The Whiptail in the example below has moved two inches forward and then turned right equal to or less than 45º at an extra cost of one-half inch. It then moved four inches forward and turned right equal or less than 90º (but more than 45º) at an extra cost of one inch. At the end of this move sequence, it has one-half inch of movement remaining.

• Facing change of 1° to 45° costs ½" of movement.
• Facing change of 46° to 90° costs 1" of movement
• Facing change of 91° to 135° cost 1 ½" of movement
• Facing change of 136° to 180° costs 2" of movement

Example: An MGV with an attack value of 11 is firing at a target with a defense value of 6. The target moved more than 2" on the last phase, so the attacker's value rises to 12. As a result, the attacker uses the 200 percent column on the Kinetic fire table and rolls 2D6. A die roll of "2" and "5" will cause three cells to be marked off as damaged, starting from the outside surface of the MGV diagram. If the defender had not moved more than 2", the attacker would have used the 150 column for damage resolution, resulting in two cells marked as damaged.

Example: An MGV with an attack value of 8 is firing at a target with a defense value of 5. The attacking MGV receives four attack dice per the combat chart's Missile table outline. The target vehicle fired on the previous phase, which ads one attack die for a total of five dice (5D6). The target MGV already has several core infestations, so the worried defender applies everything to core defense with five black dice. The attacking player is going for a mixed attack, and chooses three black dice for core attack and two white dice for hull attack. All dice are rolled with the following total results:

	Black Dice Results (core)	White Dice Results (hull)
Attacker	5, 5, 2	4, 1
Defender	6, 4, 3, 3, 1	None

As a result of the die roll, the target unit suffers one core infestation hit because the "5" which was second in line for the competitive black dice line-up beat the "4" which opposed it. The rest of the defender's results were either victorious or were deployed in areas which had no attackers. The target unit also suffers two hull infestation hits, because the defender made no attempt to defend the hull. Total defender hits for this attack: one core infestation and two hull infestation.

Example: An MGV with a photon attack value of 8 estimates the range to the target as 25". This is recorded under the "Ranging" line on that MGV's log. Once it comes time to resolve that attack, the distance to the target is measured and found to be 21¾", which reduces the attacker to a 7. The player rolls seven six-sided dice with results of 6, 5, 5, 3, 2, 1 and 1; the resulting damage is one core cell and two hull cells. Note that all damage happened regardless of the target defense rating, which makes photon attacks particularly valuable against heavily defended targets.

Attack Modifier Definitions
For missile weapons, the indicated values modify the number of attack dice used. For all other weapons the indicated values modify the basic attack value.

Each enemy activity – Add the indicated bonus if the targeted base conducted one of the following actions on the preceding turn phase:

· Target moved 2" or more while within firing base line-of-sight. Changing facing while remaining in position does not count as moving.

· Fired any weapons (main or secondary).

· Conduct MGV jamming (photon only).

· Fire any beacons.

Note that this means "target fired" and "target moved" can never be applied together (opposing player will have either moved or fired on the preceding step, but never both).

Beacon marked (missile, kinetic) – Add indicated bonus if the targeted base's position is tagged with one or more marker beacons (multiple beacons have no cumulative effect).

Each Hx hit (missile, thermal)– Add one attack die for each hull cell on the target unit that has been destroyed.

Enemy support (missile/thermal) – Add or subtract one attack die or attack value point if an enemy MGV has a friendly MGV within two inches (2") of the target base (thermal adds, missile subtracts).

Rear shot (kinetic) – Add one attack point if firing from a target unit's rear "D" arc (60 degree arc on centerline).

Target jammer active (photon) – Add one attack point if the target MGV is actively jamming.

Each target cover class – Subtract indicated modifier for each cover class point currently applying to the targeted base.

Each Se hit – Subtract indicated modifier for each active (unrepaired) sensor hit on the firing unit.

Each 1" of ranging error (photon)– Subtract indicated modifier from attack value for each full inch of error in the guessed range to the targeted base. Partial increments of a half-inch do not count (E.G. - Missing by 1¾" results in a -1, not a -2). This means that any range correctly estimated within ½" receives no penalty.

Target under full camouflage – Apply indicated modifier if the target base is actively under full camouflage; defined as being immobile, not firing and conducting no payload actions during the entirety of its last turn (the entire turn). MGVs may also begin the game declared as being under full camouflage. The base must be against a prominent terrain feature such as a rock wall, fungus tower, ice/rock pile or other substantial feature and be declared as being under full camouflage. A second MGV base may "stack" against the primary camouflaged base and benefit from being under full camouflage (contact must be base-to-base, all other requirements must apply to the second base).

• Damage: A small "X" is drawn within the cell. These are most often temporary features which can be scribbled out at the end of the particular turn phase in which they were marked, this is because once the associated critical hit has been rolled for and marked down, there is no further need to track status of the X.
• Destruction: An entire cell is blacked out by scribbling its interior. If the destruction happens to a cell which is infested, all present infestations are destroyed with it. A destroyed cell leaves cells to its interior exposed, which creates new surfaces to be damaged. If a destroyed cell results in an explosion that destroys more cells, those newly destroyed cells should adjoin the previously destroyed cell.
• Infestation: A small "O" is drawn within the cell. infestations can spread due to recurring critical hit die rolls. If that happens, roll one six-sided die to randomly locate the new location; this is done by assigning adjoining cells across the flats (not across vertex points) as one through five, and the home cell as a six.

The figure at right shows how the six surface cells adjoining the A vertex are numbered and used for randomly locating incoming damage hits. For example; an attacker firing from a bearing of 20 degrees off the bow of an MGV (either from left forward or right forward) would use the A vertex as a guide. If the damage needed to be randomly assigned, one six sided die would be rolled and the hit point assigned according to numbered cells, which correspond to the numbers rolled on the die.

The figure at left shows how the six surface cells adjoining the B vertex are numbered and used for randomly locating incoming damage hits. For example; an attacker firing from a bearing of 60 degrees off the bow of an MGV (either from left forward or right forward) would use the B vertex as a guide. If the damage needed to be randomly assigned, one six sided die would be rolled and the hit point assigned according to the numbered cells shown at left. Note that this overlaps with the A (and also C) vertexes; so for example the A5 cell is the same as the B2 cell - this does not matter for game play, since the system is only used to randomly locate hits. The C vertex works in the same way, except the numbers are shifted three surface cells to the right.

The figure at right shows how the six surface cells adjoining the D vertex are numbered and used for randomly locating incoming damage hits. For example; an attacker firing from a bearing directly to the rear of an MGV (170 degrees off the bow for example) would use the D vertex as a guide. If the damage needed to be randomly assigned, one six sided die would be rolled and the hit point assigned according to the key. Note that some damage types are less likely than others to need random location assignment. Photon hits are least likely to need die rolls to decide hit location, because the hits are already established as hull or core hits during the strike roll and the resulting critical hits are resolved by end of that phase (at which point the damage "X" marks will likely be scribbled out). Their marking on the MGV graph is only to make sure they are not forgotten by end of phase. Kinetic and thermal hits are more likely to need location die rolls, because the location they strike can affect whether or not they damage hull versus core cells, or in the case of thermal attacks whether existing infected cells are destroyed. Missile attack infestations do not really need random locations decided for them, although players may wish to use this system for deciding infestation locations anyway, especially for core locations. Note that the shaded core cells can also be randomly assigned using a six-sided die roll by counting them off in two cells blocks (hence the dotted lines in four of the core cell divisions). For purposes of standard cell damage assignment, the dotted division lines should be treated as solid. Only if a player wishes to roll 1D6 to locate core damage are the dotted lines used to be temporarily ignored for purposes of deciding a six point location roll, which counts off left to right in a manner similar to surface hits (note the numbered key at right which shows these optional reference zones).

Below is shown a sample MGV log, filled out and depicting how various hits would be written. Highlights include: Attack and Payload are both entered before game play. The payload type resulted in a "+2" entered in the Defense box, also note that the MGV has suffered a D hit which affected the base defense value, not the defense payload module bonus (which would only be affected by a Py hit). The MGV suffered an S hit which was repaired, and it then suffered two more S hits (see reference dots adjoining the speed circles). Because of having repaired an S hit, the MGV has lost one repair point. Two hull cells have been destroyed by thermal attack. The MGV is suffering from three core infestations and one hull infestation caused by missile attacks. On an earlier phase, the MGV was struck by a kinetic hit from the bow, which impacted at the A2 location and penetrated four cells in-line toward the focus triangle (the solid triangle icon at bottom center of the graph). Note that the linear pattern of the damage travels only across the "flats" of the pentagons, not across the vertex points. On the current phase, the MGV suffered another kinetic hit which impacted at the B2 location (or possibly also the A5 location) and penetrated four cells in-line, again toward the focus triangle. There are also two other damaged cells; one hull and one core, probably from photon hits, as those require no particular location tracking. The MGV has suffered Se (sensor) and Mj (jammed main weapon) hits. The Mj hit has been repaired at some point.