Doubts about Ends of Days rules

[nocturn]

Hello! I am new to the ATZ End of Days game, I have not played the previous games, and I have some doubts after reading the rules, I see that it is quite focused to play with Battle Board and I am a bit confused about what I am interested in, the Tabletop rules.

I use a translator as my English is not very good.



1. During the turn you can only do ONE action per character in the group:

- Shoot - Charge into Melee - Recover out of the fights - Recover from duck back and leave the fight.

I understand that moving is not an Action, right? Do you move before or after the Action during your Activation or is it indifferent?



2. Return Fire: when returning fire it says that "cannot exceed the number of shots for the Weapon", if I have a weapon with 3 shots and I return fire only once, do I fire one shot or 3 to the shooter who shot me?



3. "Out of the Fight: to capture the character either remove both off the Battle board when next active ..." ... This playing on the Battle board is the same? suddenly they disappear? it doesn't make much sense.



4. Nighttime Visibility is also used for the Tabletop?



5. How do you do a in-Sight Test? I don't see it in the rules.



6. What are the Reactions? Just Return Fire and Shoot when charged in Melee? Do NPCs always return fire in these cases?



7. The Combat Will when is it resolved? is the first group activated and after the actions and reactions both groups do the Combat Will Test? or is it done after both groups are activated?



8. I don't understand on page 4 the Free Will example "Billy decides to cut his losses; Billy had grabbed the Out of the Fight Char when he was Active, and the trio leave the table instead of rolling on the Will to Fight Table".... Billy is supposed to be a Protagonist? out of the fight char? I don't understand



9. Any difference in being one class or another? if I'm a loner and someone joins my gang I stop being a loner?







Possible errors?



- Ragers are Rep 4 but in all the "Who or what are they?" it says Rep 3.

- On page 79, there is a character that has Slow Attribute, this Attribute is not in the rules and does not explain how it is.

- On page 12, "Example - Billy Pink is in a Town and needs to resolve a PEF. There's something out there. He rolls on the Town column and scores a 3. Zeds.".... Zeds? A 3 in Town were Humans according to the Table.

- In scenario #11 Find (page 68), in Searching, when rolling the die 4 or 5 is the same result as if you roll a 6, I don't know if there is a mistake, if it was all the same it wouldn't have been put (4, 5 or 6)??



Thanks! I hope no more doubts arise xD

[Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy]

 I use a translator as my English is not very good.

No worries replies are in bold.



1. During the turn you can only do ONE action per character in the group:

No, when on the Action Table you can only do one Action.



- Shoot - Charge into Melee - Recover out of the fights - Recover from duck back and leave the fight.



I understand that moving is not an Action, right? Do you move before or after the Action during your Activation or is it indifferent? On the tabletop you roll for activation. You move (page 25 Turn Sequence). If you trigger an In Sight, then you go to the Action Table, you resolve it then if still alive move the rest of your move.







2. Return Fire: when returning fire it says that "cannot exceed the number of shots for the Weapon", if I have a weapon with 3 shots and I return fire only once, do I fire one shot or 3 to the shooter who shot me? You return fire with the number of shots your weapon has. You can return fire at more than one target but cannot exceed the total shots- in this case 3. So if you are shot at by 3 guys and you only have a P-1 1 shot pistol, you can only fire 1 shot at one target.







3. "Out of the Fight: to capture the character either remove both off the Battle board when next active ..." ... This playing on the Battle board is the same? suddenly they disappear? it doesn't make much sense. Page 22. Recover Wounded. OOF roles on the Recovery Table if pass 0d6 it dies. If you lost the fight, you left the OOF guys behind and they are killed.







4. Nighttime Visibility is also used for the Tabletop? Page 24 says The Battle Board rules are used except where they have been replaced: So yes.







5. How do you do a in-Sight Test? I don't see it in the rules. Page 27 Triggering an In Sight test says go to Action Table.







6. What are the Reactions? Just Return Fire and Shoot when charged in Melee? Do NPCs always return fire in these cases? Correct, they do.

After the first group has completed all its actions and any reactions it may have caused have been resolved, the Active side can proceed to its next group. Anything that forces a side to roll dice to see what they will do – how they will react.







7. The Combat Will when is it resolved? is the first group activated and after the actions and reactions both groups do the Combat Will Test? or is it done after both groups are activated? Page 22 After the Active side has finished all its actions and reactions have taken place, both Human sides take the Will to Fight Test (page 23) whether casualties were suffered or not.







8. I don't understand on page 4 the Free Will example "Billy decides to cut his losses; Billy had grabbed the Out of the Fight Char when he was Active, and the trio leave the table instead of rolling on the Will to Fight Table".... Billy is supposed to be a Protagonist? out of the fight char? I don't understand Billy and his Band are in a fight. He decides to Leave the Fight as they are losing. He uses Free Will to have the Band leave instead of keep fighting. They leave. Char a Band Member was OOF so she takes the Recovery Test after the fight is over.





9. Any difference in being one class or another? if I'm a loner and someone joins my gang I stop being a loner? No, you are just working with others. But you can choose to change your Class as on page 4.








Possible errors?

- Ragers are Rep 4 but in all the "Who or what are they?" it says Rep 3. Rep 4 is correct. Nice catch.



- On page 79, there is a character that has Slow Attribute, this Attribute is not in the rules and does not explain how it is. Carry over. -1 to Rep on Action Table if taking the Action test.



- On page 12, "Example - Billy Pink is in a Town and needs to resolve a PEF. There's something out there. He rolls on the Town column and scores a 3. Zeds.".... Zeds? A 3 in Town were Humans according to the Table. You are correct. That is for the City column.



- In scenario #11 Find (page 68), in Searching, when rolling the die 4 or 5 is the same result as if you roll a 6, I don't know if there is a mistake, if it was all the same it wouldn't have been put (4, 5 or 6) ?? No, for consistency I always use (1, 2 or 3), (4 or 5) and (6).







Thanks! I hope no more doubts arise xD You do very well as English is a second language. You are to be congratulated! 

[nocturn]

Thanks for clarifying my doubts, I think I have it more or less solved, it took me some time, sometimes you use some expressions that are difficult to translate for people who don't speak fluent English and I had to research a lot to understand it xD for example, sheeple (animal) to find out it was like a citizen or survivor uffff xD, and then the mix of Battle Board / Tabletop in the rules confused me a lot at first.
Thank you very much for everything, I hope to play more often

[Ed the Two Hour Wargames Guy]

Yes, the Battle Board has been added so people can play more with less set up. Thanks again,
Ed