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Combat
Understand Action Points, cover, squad roles, injuries, difficulty, and permadeath.
The standard roster has eight specializations: Assault, Gunslinger, Heavy, Medic, Scoundrel, Scout, Sharpshooter, and Soldier. Choose by squad function rather than treating the list as a universal ranking.
Open field note →Each Operator receives three Action Points. The tactical core is deciding how to divide them among movement, attacks, and abilities while using cover, reactions, and shared Advantage to control the enemy turn.
Open field note →Permadeath is enabled by default but can be turned off. Under the standard rule, an Operator dies after three injuries. Hawks is different: if the company leader dies, the mission fails.
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