Request Speedball

Common Skills

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Alert | BS Attack | Cautious Movement | CC Attack | Climb | Discover | Dodge | Idle | Intuitive Attack | Jump | Move | Look Out | Place Deployable | Reload | Request Speedball | Reset | Speculative Attack | Suppressive Fire

This Common Skill allows players to call for tactical support on the ground and send airborne supplies to the Troopers on the battlefield by means of the so-called Speedballs.

REQUEST A SPEEDBALL

AUTOMATIC SKILL

Optional

REQUIREMENTS

• Have two Speedball Tokens (see Command Tokens: Strategic Use).

EFFECTS

• When Requesting a Speedball during their Active Turn, players must place two 55 mm Speedball Tokens on the game table applying the Combat Jump Skill rules, and then make a PH Roll for each of them with a PH value of 14. This cannot be done partway through the Order Expenditure Sequence.
• Before making each of the Combat Jump Rolls, the player needs to choose what support equipment this suborbital drop contains. The player choosing an item from the Speedball Chart for the first Token and making a roll on the Chart for the second Token.
• Speedball Tokens cannot be placed in Silhouette contact with Models, Markers, Tokens, or scenario objectives.
• Any allied Trooper in a non-Null state who enters Silhouette contact with a Speedball Token automatically picks up the item it contains. The Speedball Item Token is placed in Silhouette contact with the Trooper and the Speedball Token is removed. This action automatically cancels any Marker State the Trooper is in.
• The items found inside a Speedball are single-use and non-transferable, and the Speedball Item Token must be removed from the table after use. Speedball items may be used in both Active and Reactive Turns at will, unless specified otherwise.
• Restriction: A Trooper cannot have more than one Speedball Item Token at any given time.
• Speedball Tokens are State Tokens. They do not block enemy movement and cannot be targeted by Deactivators.
• The Speedball items available are the following:
  • VitaPack: Allows cancellation of the Unconscious State of an Allied Trooper with the Vitality Attribute, by removing one single Wound from those they have received.
    VitaPack is applied by spending a Short Skill of an Order while in Silhouette contact with the Unconscious Allied Trooper.
  • AutoRepairS(uite): Allows cancellation of the Unconscious State of an Allied Trooper with the STR Attribute, by removing one or two (if applicable) Wounds from those they have received.
    AutoRepairS(uite) is applied by spending a Short Skill of an Order while in Silhouette contact with the Unconscious Allied Trooper.
  • Switch On: Allows cancellation of the Immobilized A and B, Isolated, and Stunned States of an Allied Trooper.
    Switch On is applied by spending a Short Skill of an Order while in Silhouette contact with the Allied Trooper.
  • Jetpack: The bearer can use the Super-Jump (Jet Propulsion) Special Skill during one Order only. This use of the item is restricted to Troopers with Silhouette 2.
  • Overkill: The bearer of this Speedball item may choose between two use modes. The first mode allows its user to cancel their Unloaded State and regain all expended uses of their Disposable weapons or pieces of Equipment, in the Conclusion Step 5.2 of the Order. Alternatively, the second mode grants the user the BS Attack (SR-1) Skill during one Order only.
  • NanoShield: If a Trooper has to make any Saving Rolls, they must automatically apply a +2 MOD to all their Saving Rolls in the Resolution Step 5 of that Order.

Speedball Chart
ROLL	ITEM	ROLL	ITEM
1-3	VitaPack	11-13	Jetpack (S:2)
4-6	AutoRepairS	14-16	Overkill
7-10	Switch On	17-20	NanoShield

Example Of Speedball (AutoRepairS)

A player has a TAG with Remote Presence that has received four Wounds, and is therefore in Unconscious State.

In the player's Active Turn, another Trooper declares Move as their first Basic Short Skill, entering Silhouette contact with an allied Speedball Token and then with the TAG. The player removes the Speedball Token and places an AutoRepairS Token, the item inside the Speedball, next to the Trooper.

That Trooper uses the second Short Skill of their Order to apply AutoRepairS to the TAG. Two Wounds are removed from the TAG, cancelling its Unconscious State and leaving it with two Wound Tokens. The AutoRepairS Token is removed from the table.

Common Skills

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Alert | BS Attack | Cautious Movement | CC Attack | Climb | Discover | Dodge | Idle | Intuitive Attack | Jump | Move | Look Out | Place Deployable | Reload | Request Speedball | Reset | Speculative Attack | Suppressive Fire