Coordinated Orders

Command Module

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Command Tokens | Coordinated Orders

A Coordinated Order is an organized combat action or maneuver carried out by several Troopers at once. By acting in unison, they can minimize the enemy's capacity for hostile reaction and use their superior numbers to safely neutralize a target.

COORDINATED ORDER

ATTACK / MOVEMENT

REQUIREMENTS

• To declare a Coordinated Order, players must spend 1 Command Token, and 1 Regular Order from the Order Pool of the participating Troopers' Combat Group.
• Up to 4 Troopers can participate in a Coordinated Order.
• When players declare a Coordinated Order, they must name one of the participating Troopers as that Order's Spearhead and place a Spearhead Token (SPEARHEAD) beside them.
• All participating Troopers must declare and execute the exact same sequence of Skills.
• If one of the Skills of the Coordinated Order demands a Trooper, a Marker, or a mission objective as a target, all Troopers must act against the same single target.
• Only Troopers with the same Training (Regular/Irregular) and in the same Combat Group can participate in a Coordinated Order.
• You can only declare a Coordinated Order during the Orders Phase of your Active Turn.

EFFECTS

• In a Coordinated Order, the Spearhead Trooper uses half the indicated Burst (B) of their weapon, Equipment or Special Skill, including any bonuses, rounded up.
• All other Troopers participating in the Coordinated Order have their B reduced to 1, regardless of their weapon, Equipment or Special Skill.
• Each reactive Trooper must choose only one of the Troopers activated by the Coordinated Order as their target, but they are not obliged to choose the same target.
• If any of the Troopers does not meet the Requirements of a Skill declared during the Coordinated Order, they perform an Idle instead, while the others may act normally.
• When declaring a CC Attack, only the Spearhead Trooper will perform the CC Attack. They apply a MOD of +1 to their B for each allied Trooper that is in Silhouette contact with the target.
• When the Coordinated Order is finished, the player must remove the Spearhead Token (SPEARHEAD) from the table.

REMEMBER

Peripherals and their Controllers cannot be part of Coordinated Orders.

Coordinating Skills

In a Coordinated Order, all participants must declare the same sequence of Skills, but can perform the same Skills differently. Consequently, in a coordinated BS Attack each participant would be able to choose his own weapon and apply its effects. For example, one of the Troopers could use his Combi Rifle, another throw a Grenade, a third one shoot with her Flash Pulse, and the fourth employ his Chain Rifle, since all these use the BS Attack Common Skill.

However, in a BS Attack part of a Coordinated Order, none of the participants could declare Speculative Attack or Intuitive Attack, since these Skills are different than a BS Attack.

Coordinated Order: Dodge and Reset

If the target of a Coordinated Order chooses to Dodge or Reset as his ARO, then his Roll is Face to Face against attacking Rolls as appropriate.

Coordinated Order: States

If the player declares a Coordinated Order to activate Game States, each participating Trooper must activate the same Game State. For example, if activating the Camouflaged Game State, all participating Troopers will activate the Camouflaged State, and no other State.

Coordinated Order and Hacking Programs

If the player declares a Coordinated Order to use Hacking Programs, the usual restrictions apply - each participating Trooper must use the same Hacking Program and choose the same single target, if a target is required.

Coordinated Order: Success + Failure

If the participants of a Coordinated Order declare the use of a Skill or Equipment such as Doctor, MediKit or Engineer on a common target, any successful Roll means that the Skill was successful.

SEE ALSO

GizmoKit

Coordinated Order: Targetless or Deployable Traits

Weapons or pieces of Equipment with the Targetless or Deployable Traits do not have to target the same point on the gaming table.

Coordinated Order: Hidden Deployment, and Airborne Deployment

REMEMBER

Troopers in Hidden Deployment State can be selected to be part of a Coordinated Order. However, in this situation they will lose their own Order for this Turn.

While off-table, Troopers with Airborne Deployment-labelled Skills can be selected to deploy as part of a Coordinated Order. However, in this situation they will lose their own Order for this Turn.

Examples

Coordinated Order Example: Movement + BS Attack

In their Active Turn, a PanOceanian player coordinates a group of 3 Fennec Fusiliers and 1 Griffin Trooper to mount an attack against a Mechazoid, a TAG of the JSA. The PanOceanian player spends a Command Token and a Regular Order and assigns the Spearhead role to the Griffin by placing a Spearhead Token beside him. Then, they declare the first Basic Short Skill of their Coordinated Order: Move.

The JSA TAG can only declare an ARO against one of the four PanOceanian Troopers in its LoF, so it declares a BS Attack against the Spearheading Griffin. The Griffin’s BS is higher and his B, even halved, is better than that of the coordinated Fennecs, so he is more likely to inflict serious damage.

The PanOceanian player declares the second Short Skill of their Coordinated Order: BS Attack against the JSA TAG. The exchange is resolved with a Face to Face BS Roll between the Griffin, whose HMG has its Burst reduced to 2, and the Mechazoid. The three Fennecs, meanwhile, make one Normal BS Roll each, as their B is 1.

Coordinated Order Example: Movement + CC Attack

During his Active Turn, a PanOceanian player decides to coordinate a group of 4 Fennecs and sic them into Close Combat against a Mechazoid. They spend a Command Token and a Regular Order, place a Spearhead Token beside one of the PanOceanians, and declare the first Basic Short Skill of their Coordinated Order: Move.

The Mechazoid can only react against one of the oncoming Fennecs, so it declares BS Attack against the Spearhead Fennec.

The PanOceanian player declares the second Short Skill of their Coordinated Order: CC Attack against the JSA TAG.

There is a Face to Face Roll between the Spearhead Fennec’s CC and the Mechazoid’s BS. The Fennec has the +1 MOD to their Burst provided by each one of their comrades engaged in that CC, so the Fennec has a Burst value of 4 (1+3).

Coordinated Order Example: Failed Activation

To see what happens when one of the coordinated Troopers is unable to fulfill the Requirements of one of the declared Skills, we will go back to the previous example of 3 Fennecs and 1 Griffin Trooper against a Mechazoid.

After selecting the Griffin as Spearhead and declaring the first Basic Short Skill of the Order, Move, the player measures and moves her four Troopers. The Mechazoid declares its ARO, and it becomes apparent that there is no LoF between the TAG and one of the Fennecs. Despite this, the PanOceanian player declares a BS Attack against the Mechazoid with the second Short Skill of the Coordinated Order. The Fusilier without LoF will simply be unable to open fire. Specifically, the Fennec will not perform the BS Attack, and performs an Idle instead.

Coordinated Order Example: Coordinating Troopers in Marker States

In her Active Turn, the PanOceanian player wants to coordinate 2 Camouflage Markers and 1 Griffin against the fearsome Mechazoid. The PanOceanian player spends a Command Token and a Regular Order, selects the Griffin as Spearhead, and declares the first Basic Short Skill of their Coordinated Order: Move.

The JSA TAG can only declare its ARO against one of the three looming PanOceanian Troopers and chooses to react to one of the Camouflage Markers. Since he is reacting to a Camouflage Marker, the Mechazoid may delay its ARO, so it waits until the PanOceanian player declares the second Short Skill of their Order to see if the chosen Camouflage Marker reveals itself before declaring an ARO.

If the PanOceanian player declares a second Short Skill that will reveal the Camouflage Markers (BS Attack, for example), the Mechazoid will be able to declare an ARO against the revealed Trooper.

If the PanOceanian player declares a second Short Skill that doesn’t reveal the Camouflage Markers (another Move, for example), the Mechazoid will lose their right to declare an ARO.

SEE ALSO

Super-Jump

Super-Jump and Multiple Troopers Example

In the Active Turn, several Troopers have been activated with the same Order ( Fireteams, Peripherals, Coordinated Orders) and need to clear an obstacle. They declare Jump as the first Skill of the Order. Any of the Troopers who have the Super-Jump Special Skill can declare Jump as a Basic Short Skill, while the other Troopers each have a choice of declaring Jump as a Long Skill, or declaring an Idle.

For the second Skill of the Order, any of the Troopers who declared an Idle, or Jump as a Basic Short Skill, can declare a second Basic Short Skill or Short Skill as normal. While the Troopers who declared Jump as a Long Skill have already declared their entire Order and cannot declare a second Skill.

Command Module

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Command Tokens | Coordinated Orders