You can get them at http://www.headlesshollow.com/freebies_games.html#at43

Enjoy!

Should Rackham hire him like he says? Can a social media campaign really push AT-43 into the next level? Who knows. I sure got a kick out of reading this though.

I want some new scenarios for at-43! How about some that take advantage of the newly released army boxes? That would go a long way to getting new players that pick up an army box into the true feel of the game and would have been a far better use of time than the CHO in its current form.

I know, Rackham is busy, Rackham doesn’t have time blah blah blah. The reality is they missed a great opportunity to set the hook for new players with this release and they missed it.

To say that it has been a hectic few days is a bit of an understatement.

The situation in regards to the site this evening is a radically different one than existed when I got up this morning and its been a quite positive evening.

There has been a lot of response to the site being offered for sale and there has been a lot of offers of help and hosting that I have been very grateful for. I’m also quite thankful for all the kinds words people have been sending via email or through TGN Talk.

There have been several offers from members of the hobby industry to host TGN as part of own web hosting and I suspect that by the end of the week I will have that finalized and that TGN will be up and running with a more secure hosting situation. You should expect to see TGN running within a week.

My own participation in the site will be contingent on the development of a few job offers I have had in the last few days. I have been quite surprised by the industry response to the site and the rather unexpected generosity on the part of some people in the hobby. I don’t have any full details but suffice it to say that I should have enough work coming soon to help keep TGN running and the news posted for some time.

I don’t have the words to really adequately describe what an insane roller-coaster this has been but it looks as if there is actually a happy ending to this entire mess.

More news as details come in.

You can read his long winded complaint / gripe / excuse letter on the front page where he blames his ISP and then refuses to accept offers of hosting / help from the community to keep it going. Looks like the only way we’ll get to keep TGN is if someone signs Zac a big check.

The letter is copied below.

It appears that the server that TGN currently resides on is suffering from a rather heavy load. This load isn’t due to the traffic on TGN which is normal for the month and my ISP appears to be uninterested in helping to solve the problem. Sadly I don’t have the tools or access to the tools that would allow me to solve the issue and despite my efforts over the last day or so I have been unable to rectify the issue.

The only solutions to this are to upgrade to a more expensive hosting package (which I am not willing to do) or move to a new ISP. Sadly I’m not really interested in doing that either.

Over the last year I have had less and less time to devote to the site and it has begun to require more of my time not only to keep it running and up-to-date but also in terms of the news gathering and posting.

It has long been a dream of mine to make the site profitable enough to support me and over the last four years despite the strides the site has made in terms of reach and traffic this hasn’t really been the case. I am of the opinion that given enough time and resources this site could in fact generate a fairly good income but sadly I just don’t have the time to pursue any additional revenue streams for the site.

On most evenings I usually have to choose between painting and posting news and it has been about a year since I was able to dedicate anything more than a few hours a day to the site.

Sadly I have decided to put the site up for sale. Anyone interested in purchasing the site should email me zac at tabletopgamingnews.com. Information regarding the site, traffic and revenue levels can be provided to any serious bidders.

I will be winding down the site and removing pages right away. The TGN Talk message board will stay open for the time being.

Update: Thanks to everyone that have offered hosting but that is not the problem and not a solution that I am looking for.

Update 2: If you have a subscription to the site for ads or for site support please take a moment to go into your Paypal account and cancel it. If there is a way for me to do it via Paypal I have been unable to find it yet.

Update 3: If anyone is looking for, or knows someone who is looking for, a web developer or marketing/PR person with experience in the gaming industry please drop me a line.

Feedback is always appreciated.

The bulk of the work is done now so you can expect more frequent AT-43 related posts in the coming days.

Red Blok

• 1 unit of 12 Krasnye Soldaty: regular infantry containing three grenade launchers, two medics and an officer
• 1 unit of 8 Krasnye Soldaty: regular infantry containing one grenade launcher, two mechanics and an officer
• 6 Dragonov Kommandos: elite infantry with one sniper rifle, an electronic warfare specialist, a medic and an officer
• Odin O-1 and Manon O-2: the Red Blok’s two greatest heroes
• 1 Urod: Odin O-1’s and Manon O-2’s combat strider
• 1 Dotch Yaga: the most heavily armored combat strider to ever grace the battlefield
• 6 low walls
• 1 container
• Introductory Rules
• 1 Red Blok revolutionary forces tactical manual
• 1 game poster
• 12 dice
• 1“Red Blok” ruler
• 1 explosion template
• 26 game cards

Cogs

• 1 unit of 4 Warmongers: basic super-soldiers
• 1 unit of 4 Sharpshooters: elite super-soldiers
• 1 Prowler: basic combat strider
• 1 Vandal: the most powerful Cog combat strider
• 3 heroes from the C-Naps line: C-Naps G09, C-Naps G36 and C-Naps G45
• 3 high walls
• 1 container
• Introductory Rules
• 1 Cog tactical manual
• 1 game poster
• 12 dice
• 1 “Cog” ruler
• 1 explosion template
• 8 game cards

This is going to draw an enormous number of players into the game I think. Rackham Entertainment has just made the best move ever.

Unfortunately the tiles are a bit hard to come by right now so if you don’t have them and you find them somewhere, scoop them up.

Grant said.

The following would help rejuvenate the game for me:

• Updated website that is actually kept up to date
• A steady flow of new releases (the Cog previews have been around how long?)
• Consistent paint schemes, i.e., no new camo schemes on reprints
• Regular CHO in PDF format
• More sensible packaging of the unit and attachment boxes (this is happening, albeit slowly)
• Frostbite rules available separately from the campaign box
• Some sort of organised play

neorage said

• Keep the products available. Every time a customer can not buy his intended product should be considered as permanently lost revenue
• Keep the paint schemes. In a prepainted game the models coloring must keep the same look and feel over time.
• Quickly add some “bombs” to the product line. If some of the very cool looking tanks were introduced, this might turn the flood.

PanzerKraken

I think part of the problem is that they seem to be taking approach that they can do all the communication of the game to the public through the CHO, when it’s just newsletter those subscribe to will get. It doesn’t really get out the information to the public unless someone specifically takes the info out to show to the public as TGN sometimes does. Basically they are too bottled up. Like I mentioned above, will Rackham even be showing up to Gencon? Tournaments? Organized play?

veritas

Rackham needs to change their packaging. I refuse to order anything else until the packaging becomes sensibly sized. I live in Japan so a LOT of my minis come from overseas orders. Even a SMALL order of AT-43 or C:AoR minis comes in a box that looks like I’m buying an office chair.

a_thousand_hats

I think, as others have mentioned, Rackham need to be more proactive on the Press Release and public relations side of the business.

gavroche

I would buy more AT-43 miniatures if:

they were a bit cheaper
there were more releases
it was available at my local shop

doc_savage

I think they need to do a few things.
1 – regular releases on time.
2 – Support smaller army games – Tactics is not enough; I want to be able to play with about 20-30 figures per side and not have to jump through hoops to field an army. If I buy a unit box I should be able to field those guys.
3 – Vehicles.

Lots of good feedback and the takeaway is really that rackham needs to better communicate with their player base. Even if it is a blog update every couple of days so that people see that there is someone home. CHO is good, but it cannot be the only line of communication. People have to sign up to get it and new people aren’t really going to be able to do that, especially if the signup link looks like it could just be a page that was put up accidentally.

Is there anything you think Rackham can do better that isn’t covered? If so what is it?

I would be lying if I said these problems aren’t still real, but they are temporary. We have seen great improvement with the latest CHO release. The monthly format had most everything that a gamer could want. Fluff, previews, new rules and a release plan. We also now have release dates for the new Cog army. Given that Rackham changed to Rackham Entertainment and they ended their distribution deal with Fantasy Flight Games, their release plan is very aggressive. I haven’t seen any reason yet why I should worry about the future releases as  I was able to get my Hussar and Fire Crawler without a problem from the most recent wave.

Many people worry about the speed of releases but remember that much of the waves being currently released were planned out before Rackham became Rackham Entertainment. Who knows what problems rackham was facing before this change, and the changes we’ve seen since have been nothing but positive. We’re seeing models coming out to address some of the oversights of the previous releases, granted they’re in Resin but getting Grim Golem overseers and Yeti / Wendigo Medics shows that Rackham Entertainment IS listening and is addressing the known issues.

If I were writing this piece 4 months ago it would have taken a more worried tone, but today all of the current indicators are pointing in the right direction. The only thing I wish Rackham was doing better right now is communicating with the player base. The great community that surrounds at-43 will fill in until they get that sorted out as well (the new CHO showed promise of this happening), we’ve got your back Rackham.

He also makes reference sheets for every game ever made so they’re worth checking out too.

platoon 1 – 16 LP total

• 1 Sierp 200 AP
• Urod 570 AP
• 8 Krasnye Soldaty 1 grenade Launcher 2 Mechanics 150 AP
• 9 Dragonov Kommandos 3 AT-Gauss Sergeant 310 AP
• 3 Dragonov Groupa S 125 AP

Platoon 2

• 1 Sierp 200 AP
• 1 Hussar (sargeant) 445 AP

This list is very easy to split and given Frontline’s ability to take RP points very quickly, you can leave UROD off the board in reinforcements and grab enough RP points to bring him on in  turn 2 (Scenario depending). This really leads to a stunned look on your opponents face when he realizes you’re putting 6 units on the board turn 1 with 3 AT-Gauss guns, 2 sierps, a hussar, a repair unit, and if that wasn’t enough, sniper support.

I’ll see how this list stacks up against Karmans and UNA later but so far I’m really enjoying it.

Update: Fantasy Flight Games has entered the mix with their own sale.

Your Local Gaming Store (LGS) is the first place you should always check out for any gaming need.

My original thinking was that these guys are the ones that are running tournaments, offering prizes, building awesome gaming tables, great scenery and providing that great atmosphere for your local gaming community. If you take part in the events thrown by a store, you should at least throw some business their way.

The flip side of the argument, especially in the current age of social media, is that people are self organizing, gaming tournaments are becoming player driven with sponsors that may be globally based. The LGS is becoming less relevant to players and you only have to look at the number of  player groups to validate this.

All people need is a space, some game boards (which in AT-43 are supplied by Rackham for the campaigns) and someone to do a little bit or organizing. Things like Google Groups, Twitter, Facebook, and blogs have made this sort of thing extremely easy to do.

My Question is this. While the LGS was the cornerstone of table top gaming 10 years ago, where do you  do you think it stands today?  Is the LGS relevant to you as a gamer anymore or has it faded from view, a relic of a less connected world.

New Scenarios

There is a new scenario Class of Snow which looks like it will be a lot of fun. You can get it here. In addition Awakening of the Machines is another interesting looking scenario involving 5000 RP for the therians vs 2500 assault, the catch is ALL of the therian forces are Reinforcements!. Both scenarios have been added to the scenario section of at-43 addict.

Upcoming Releases

First off there are grim golem overseers coming to the resin kit line. The decision of creating resin kits for the missing models is likely due to the cost of producing injection plastic molds. You’re going to have to paint these guys up yourself. An interesting find was made on rackhams servers. The release plan for the next few waves was discovered and what is especially eye catching is that Wendigo and Yeti Medics are being released in resin. This likely means that Karmans are going to receive a balancing by being able to get an additional medic in their type 2 units.

More on Errata after the break.

Errata

The errata section has a number of clarifications that are much needed for AT-43.

Shooting

The player chooses the type of weapon used to resolve the
shot. A type of weapon is the whole of the weapons sharing
the same name and same characteristics. All the fighters in
the unit equipped with the chosen weapon resolve their shots
simultaneously according to the following steps

This means that heroes in a unit that have the same weapons as another model in the unit must fire at the same target as that weapon profile. If the hero has different weapons they are free to engage a different target. This means that having a hero with a weapon that is different from the special weapon / regular soldiers becomes more of an asset as it lets you engage another target separately (Guru Lucius im looking at you).

Karmans

K-Units are getting the Stability ability which makes them immune to grounding, this is a welcome change as very often the K’s found themselves lying on the ground for an entire battle.

Other Changes

The rest of the changes are worth reading but those are the major ones. star/steel trooper bunkers have their costs changed, Bunkers have 17 armour, 4 structure points 2 roof points and Zviezdas only gain +1 accuracy to their direct fire weapons.

In Closing

I really like the new format, sure we have to wait a month between releases but the ammount of material in the release more than makes up for it. I’ve only gone into the at-43 stuff as CHO Issue 1 contains just as much Confrontation information.

Setup

The setup featured a lot of terrain, the way AT-43 is supposed to be played. We used a collection of home made terrain, Necromunda scenery and crates. The density of terrain represents a decent board for at-43. it opens up a lot of tactical avenues and will make for a really fun game.

Armies

We used a Therian Cypher list with Tiamat, Atis, Grim Golems, Incubus Golgoth and some storm golems.

RedBlok was vanilla with Urod, 2 Sierps, Dragomirov Kolossus with Lt Dragomoria, min sized krasnye repair squad, and a full size RPG soldaty squad.

The Karmans were also vanilla with 4 kaptars, 8 wendigos with grenade launchers + cornelius, an easy trike, k-shooters and a king buggy.

We didn’t want to complicate things using support squads and what not so we played the core lists of each army pretty much. See the Full report after the jump

Turn 1

Troops deployed as normal with Urod taking a full on assault from bane goliaths. Fortunately the krasnye came in on Red Blok’s next activation and fixed up some damage. This was lucky as the Therian Incubus came on next and re damaged Urod. The Krasnye repair unit got lucky with their one grenade launcher and managed to ground the banes with some lucky dice. Meanwhile the Karmans were happy to sit back and take up defensive positions. Unfortunately for the wendigos they were pinned by overwatched sierps and didn’t dare make an appearance. This gave the kolossus enough cover to advance towards the wendigos, bad news!

The Karman K shooters did some decent damage to Tiamat followed up with the easy trike which destroyed her out right. Unfortunately she simply body hacked into the storm golem unit, putting her closer to the vulnerable king buggy. The kaptars took up a defensive position from which it was easy to move in to repair the king buggy.

Turn 2

Turn 2 saw Urod first repair, then take out a bane goliath with his AT-cannon and do some damage to the Incubus. The therian player then pulled a nasty move by teleporting into the karman K-shooters. The Nearby k-fighters knew that they were going to face the brunt of the flamer in that unit so decided to unload its overwatch into the melee. What are the chances they would kill the heavily armoured K-shooters? Somehow with some unlucky dice out of the 3 impacts the k-shooters took, they rolled 2 sixes, killing them instantly. To make matters worse the grim golems armour deflected enough impacts that there was no way the flamer at the far side of the melee could be allocated a hit. This resulted in the unit getting flamed, killing 3 of the 4 kaptars on the next turn.

Realizing that unless they did something quick, the karmans would be wiped out, they ran full force into the overwatched sierups line of fire in order to take out as much redblok infantry as they could. The sierps hit 6 wendigos killing 1 grenade launcher. Luckily the wendigos manged to get close enough to the Kolossus to cancel their overwatch. If this didn’t happen it would have been game over for the karmans. Instead, at range 0, they fired on the full unit of RPG soldaty with their maser strike scoring 11 hits  for double damage and a 10cm radius. with with concentrate fire from cornelius, this scored enough wounds on the  unit to kill it outright. The wendigo grenade launchers then killed 5 of 8 of the krasnye soldaty.

The Therian player meanwhile realized attacking urod first is not the best way to go, given his 2 repairs and switched focus to the poor karman player. Tiamat manged to spawn a Hekat, then reach the king buggy in melee. With some lucky dice the king buggy became immobilized, with the flamers facing Tiamat. With the kaptar repair unit wiped out it was all but over for the poor buggy.

The Easy Trike then took a few more damage off of the Incubus golgoth. It we obvious that the karman player was pretty much out of the battle at this point so the Red Blok player destroyed the rest of the wendigos, with his sierps and moved the kolossus to engage the spawned hekats and the Incubus.

Turn 3

This was pretty much a mop up turn for the therian player. With hekats and tiamat screaming towards the kolossus and the banes and incubus bearing down on Urod the end was pretty much sealed for the Red Blok. It was a really fun game and a great way to introduce at-43 to a couple of friends.

Conclusions

Here are the main takeaways from the battle. Don’t engage Urod first turn, you’re better off focusing on the sierps / infantry. The same goes for Tiamat. If you are light on heavy weapons make sure that you’ve taken out the other overseers on the table first, the last thing you need is an infantry unit turning into an AFV. Snipers are great way to do this.

Fly on top of terrain with Buggies. it creates distance between you and other AFVs and doesn’t cost you any extra movement. Melee AFVs will be stuck on the ground.

ZZ rifles are fully able to take out battlesuits (even your own!), sure you need 6’s but with 16 dice you’re sure to get a few hits.

3 way is very fun and a great way to introduce players to the game. Sure you’re not getting RP or VP, but those are things to add in slowly as you get used to the core rules. The next battle we have will be fought over objectives with reenforcements .

For  Red Blok you will find that Fire at Will is a tremendous benefit as you can engage units sooner and you’ll have more of those 2 damage rockets hitting home. For UNA it means you can add a reroll to your missiles. Therians can engage with their sonic guns from father out and karmans don’t have to worry about their rocket launchers or drum pistols missing as much.

This will help to remove some of the disadvantages some of your units have, while still being balanced. A hero is easily sniped for instance. They have the same armour profiles as regular troops so there is nothing godly about them. This also creates incentive to bring lower ranking heroes as they easily become well worth the additional cost.

Heroes are a tactical choice, not a necessity, they can be point sinks if your opponent has snipers, but can give a unit the edge it needs to perform above and beyond its standard level.

Imagine a game of rock paper scissors, that’s how AT-43 plays out. Have too much rock, your opponents paper will kill you every time. Infantry are only vulnerable to rapid fire  and blast AFV weapons. In order to counter the rapid fire AFV weapons you can use your own AFV’s and even infantry against them, from full cover. remember an opponent can only kill the models that he can see which gives you the ability to medic those models that are killed. Activation order also plays heavily in taking this type of threat out as well. “Take cover!” reduces the number of impacts you take by 2/3, that should minimize a lot of the damage too.

Blast weapons are the biggest threat, you must deal with these quickly, perhaps double activating to ensure that they will be eliminated before they can do too much damage. If you are to hold onto a point you will want to remove your opponents indirect weapons asap. Likewise if you want to take a position from an enemy you need to make sure your own indirect/flame weapons survive.

Once these threats are off the table, infantry can move more freely around the battlefield, but they must keep their heads down until this time. They can soak up a far greater number of  shots than an afv before its specialists are endangered, they can get 3+ cover as well. Ensuring some of your infantry survive the onslaught of indirect AFV fire is essential in AT-43. Its hard to ignore that Juicy Urod for the unit of sierps, but those sierps are in fact the greatest threat to you.

If your opponent has too many blast weapon AFV’s he will not be able to deal damage to the biggest threat to them, AT AFV’s. In this situation just keep your infantry in cover and hidden until the big guns have left craters where the enemy afv’s used to be. Most scenarios have VP and RP points that will let you do just this, stay hidden from the enemy and gain points. Remember you will have to at some point make a charge for your enemy in order to tip point generation in your favour so dont hunker down too  long.

The dynamics of the game are a bit different than many other games, but once figured out AT-43 provides great strategic depth. Infantry are the backbone of any army, and in AT-43 this is no exception.

If you have 3 control points and 2000 points to attack or defend each point you are not really forced to make any large tactical decisions. You will have more than enough infantry to capture all of the RP/VP points easily so that removes any strategy from your Assault/Reinforcement split decisions. Similarly you wont be forced to decide where to attack since you can just send an entire battalion to any place that needs attention.

If you do play large point value games you can make sure that the games are more balanced by increasing the number of control points and the VP required to win by the same proportion , playing on a wider board, and ensuring that the number of RP / AP points ensure that you are forced to play tactically when it comes to choosing which places you will capture.

There are a few errors in the actual scenario but it is pretty clear that the text for the “clear” weather effect and the “fog” weather effect should be reversed. Fog will give a -1 to your accuracy and clear weather +1.

This one is for all factions so get at it!

I also want to mention that I’ve started a new section dedicated to these scenarios so its easy for players to get at them.

UNA

• 1 Fire toad
• 1 steel trooper unit box
• 1 steel trooper attachment
• 1 unit of Steel TacArms

Karmans

• 1 Kaptar unit box
• 1 Wendigo unit box / k-shooter unit box
• 1 easy trike

Red Blok

• Krasnye unit box + attachment Box / RPG Soldaty unit box + attachment box
• Dragomirov Kolossus box
• Sierp

Therians

• Storm Golem unit box
• Bane Goliath unit box
• Hekat

As you can see each of these lists will come out to around 825 points give or take. you will get a feel for how the army will play and will find that all these units will be useful. Each of these armies are from their basic troop pattern so there are no extra rules to complicate matters. From here it is easy to branch out after you get a feel for how the army will play.

The first thing we need to understand is what “special weapon bearers” means. These are the guys in your unit that have been given special weapons. This includes heroes only if they have the same gun as the regular special weapons bearers in their squad. This is an important distinction to make as split fire only allows your special weapons bearers to shoot at a different time.

A unit without split fire may still fire at different targets as long as they dont need to Shoot, Move, Shoot. A Unit of Kaptars armed with ZZ-Guns lead by Guru Lucius may fire lucius left weapon at one target, right weapon at another, ZZ rifles at a third, and finally the ZZ guns at a fourth without having to use split fire as long as all the shooting happens at the same time.

What split fire would enable this unit to do is shoot the special weapon bearers ZZ Guns, move, then shoot the ZZ-rifiles and Lucius’ Drum Guns after the movement. The key here is that the guns shoot at different times, before and after movement, which requires them to be issued split fire.

Split fire is also useful on overwatch as firing at two different units means that they will be moving at different times. Therefore to split up your weapon profiles in terms of shooting during overwatch, split fire is required. Note the same rule applies as before, only the Special weapon bearers get to shoot at a different time. If you have a hero that does not have the same weapons as the special weapon bearers that hero must shoot with the regular troopers.

Hopefully this clears up this rule for some people, I know I was playing incorrectly. If anyone wants to read the thread where I’m taken to school on the issue it is available here.

Without Shield Formation

• Normal line of sight rules apply
• Models that can be seen can be killed
• infantry or afvs behind an AFV do not get any sort of saving throw
• The AFV unit that is blocking will take one impact for each AFV.

With Shield Formation

• Normal line of sight rules apply There is a conflicting ruling from march so the question has been asked again in the rules forum. JBLK on the boards has confirmed Shield formation does not affect Line of sight in any different way.
• Models that can be seen can be killed
• Infantry and other AFVs behind the unit with Shield Formation can use the afv’s base for cover
• Infantry behind an AFV with shield formation may benefit from Take Cover combat drill

Hopefully the answer in the rules forum clears up some of the confusion surrounding Shield Formation, I know I wasted a lot of time on the forums trying to get this clarified but as you can see The rule is I initially wrote. the rules are very straight forward are unclear, again. The main issue people argue about is if AFV’s in shield formation completely block line of sight for their entire base or not. With this most recent ruling it is clear that shield formation does not automatically block all line of sight, you must use the normal line of sight rules to determine what can be seen. We’ll know soon for sure. stay tuned for an update.

The sale is on until December 9th but stock is not guarenteed to last!

according to the ruling a unit only becomes grounded at the beginning of its activation, this means that if a unit is hit with overwatched indirect fire, it may still shoot as normal. It also may use combat drills  as those drills will not be lost until the unit’s next activation.

Hopefully this will clear up some of the ambiguities with how indirect fire works.

Friday: 5-10pm, Saturday 9-8pm

Check it out and represent AT-43.

What I get from this is that Rackham been bought out and their Europe distribution network is ready to roll out right now, where that leaves North America is anyones guess (I wrote about Fantasy Flight Games and Rackham’s split earlier). We’ll just have to wait and see. The English release mentions they will be working hard to ensure retailers get their product and that they will be working on establishing more organized play.

UPDATE: Reps from Rackham Entertainment are supposedly in North America working out the distribution kinks. It looks like it is full steam ahead for Rackham.

Additionally it can provide a new player insight into how the various factions work. Making life as easy as possible for new players is essential to growing the game. Hopefully it continues to grow.

There is going to be an AT43 Tournament at our local game shop, Wargames Workshop. This is planned for November 15th, more info on the Bedford Gladiators website here http://gladiators.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/at-43-tournament

and keep an eye on the wargames workshop website http://www.wargamesworkshop.co.uk/

Sounds like it will be a lot of fun. You can check this event and more on the event schedule.

An email that went out to all of the community evangelists (Sentinel program) seems to have made those people very excited. While they can’t reveal anything about the email until the 28th judging from the reaction some very exciting good news is on the way from Rackham regarding AT-43. I for one can’t wait to see what Rackham has in store!

The release of Operation Frostbite brought some new neutral units that could be called on. One of which being MedTec. They are owned by the ONI corporation and are doctors for hire. I have play tested this unit and found them to be extremely useful in certain situations.

First the basics. MedTec units consist of a container, 2 low walls and 3 MedTec specialists. The units deployment is slightly different from the rest of its army. When MedTec comes onto the battlefield it must set up its container after its first movement (after any possible over-watch as well). The container must be set up within the control range of the MedTec unit so this gives it a deployment range of 30 cm (20 from rush movement + 10 for deploying the container at max control range).  For most missions this is plenty.

The benefits of MedTec are that for any unit that contributes to controlling its container the MedTec may use its three medics to heal those units or themselves. The benefits of having three extra medics should be obvious especially when coupled with long range weapons. If it is possible to get this unit within 10 of a mission objective it would help make that objective extremely difficult to capture.

In addition to the 3 medics available to MedTec, they also get the field hospital ability. This allows an active unit that is contributing to the control of the MedTec container to bring a fighter back to life, regardless of where or when they were killed.

For 75 points this can be an invaluable unit to have for certain missions regardless if you are attacking or defending. It helps keep your troops alive and can bring back that special weapon that got sniped by accident last turn. It also helps create more tactical opportunities since it is deployable cover. I’ve found this unit to be well worth its point cost and have had a ton of fun playing with it.

Veteran players will also find there will be articles on more advanced strategy, upcoming Rackham releases, army lists and some great discussion. The at-43 community is one of the most supportive that I have come across and it is what will propel at-43 to the next level.