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This is where the idea of simultaneous or sequential actions as a game mechanic paradigm comes in. As I always lean to some flavor of the former, I am leery of game situations that penalize higher initiative scores by allowing lower ones to effectively react to their actions. This is such a case. Si...

For instance, can you see the target's feet, or their torso?

Sure. And apply damage to the cover if you can't see a body part but the location die says that's where they are hit.

Height is vitally important. Just because you can't see the ground doesn't mean you can't see the hex. Without knowing how the observer's height interacts with the definition of a level, you can't know where their sight line begins. Without knowing how the interesting thing's(TM) height interacts wi...

Your formula needs to be H*X. As written, only 2.4 hexes are masked.

More importantly, without context as to the definition of "height," the formula becomes less valuable. How does the GM translate their conception of the battlefield to the players? How tall is an obstacle? Or a building?

You check for specialties once per lifepath pass, to include childhood. A starting PC is not limited to one.

On this, standard issue for me in this period was always 2x 1Qt canteens on my webbing and 1x 2Qt on my ruck, regardless of what CIF gave me stuff. I generally also carried a 5-Qt bladder in the top of my ruck before I bought a CamelBak (I was one of those recon guys.) My HMMWV also routinely carrie...

I would definitely put them on the map before they make choices about responding to the encounter. That's where you, the GM, have determined that they have spotted it. If they don't like the odds or where they are, they can choose their extraction, move to set an ambush, etc., and make Recon rolls a...

Water bottles, aka canteens, come standard at 1/PC. It's unspecified how or where a PC's other 1d6-1 rations of fresh water are stored. Given that bottles/canteens (outside of the unpriced "weapon") and jerrycans aren't listed as separate equipment, I must assume that the starting water ra...

Vamp?!?!?! Did we suddenly breakout the Twilight Nightmares supplement?

Even in the '90s, is Sweden a place English speakers would have to learn the language? That was the greatest stumbling block I experienced stationed in various parts of Europe. Everywhere I went, folks just spoke to me in English. "Ein bier, bitte," or "Dobre den," was about as f...