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Bonus -1 because it's long and unwieldy and requires effort to use. Give the handler the Animal Husbandry talent from BBW or Weapon Specialist - Catchpole to counteract. Damage 1 is ok. Weight 2 also good. Special - A successful attack with this weapon means your opponent is "Grappled". An...

It has 14 dropships. 9 to ferry the troops to the surface, 1 to command and co-ordinate to drop, two gunships to fly support and the 2 Skycranes for heavy lifting (and while each could probably transport an additional APC full of troops in a rush I doubt that it's recommended).You are assuming that ...

So some lucky folks have got notification that their dead tree versions are out for delivery. I've even seen a few pictures of the book and it looks as good as the rest of the stuff we've had. What I'm curious about is the quick turnaround for the print and release considering the corrections requir...

Page 22 Border Bombers Pathogen: "Shambala system" should possibly be "Shanmen system". Authority (general talent page 49) - Name conflicts with Colonial Marshal career talent from the core rulebook. Needs renaming - will need to be updated with NPC's who have it through out the ...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. Think Trojan Horse might be a reimagined Assault on Lamont Station Prime.

More news from today's FL update over on YouTube... Colonist Sourcebook , tentatively entitled Building Better World's - a big campaign book like the CMOM - being finalised. Looking at pre-order and pdfs by May /June (half year end). A 4th cinematic scenario with 'new ideas' and a new writer (not An...

The first scenario, Fallout, is included in Alien: Colony War. The second is EVAC with Inferno's Fall The third is Trojan Horse with Enemy of My Enemy. Free League and Titan Books Announce RPG Tie-Ins With New Novels! Alien: Colony War by David Barnett (April 2022) Alien: Inferno's Fall by Phillipa ...

The ghost fleet mission reminded me of the Bug Hunt book short story "Distressed".
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Distressed
The sort of adventure that might take its inspiration from the comic / movie "Virus" and have the big bad as one of the newer xeno-types from Heart Of Darkness.

"They weren’t raised to get along—they were raised to follow orders and kill the enemy. In childhood, they are taught to take advantage of a rival’s weaknesses. In many cases, this has produced psychopaths." Low empathy. Sgt. Seax also has Empathy 1, as do the W-Y Dogcatcher teams in CMOM.

No it's not a mistake. Hammer is a special kind of marine - an Artificial Womb Soldier or AWS, grown in a vat and bred for combat. See Kurt Russell's Sgt. Todd in "Soldier" or the character of Cooper Hawkes in "Space - Above & Beyond"for examples of this concept. All fully de...