The numbered movements are a logic tree. If 1 is true, you follow that step. If it is false, you go to 2 and see if it's true. If it is true, you follow that movement. If it's false, you go to 3 and so on. Each mech gets a card and each round you draw new cards for each mech after shuffling each deck. I've played a couple games so far and I think it works pretty well. I hope you enjoy it!
Yup, I’ve got it down now my comprehension was just off in the beginning of the video lol! I’ll have two battle reports up this week, I’m excited to share them! :)
My friends and I have played Aces a few times now; There have been close games, and there have been lopsided games (in the players favor). We've learned that you can "bully" some of the AI-types as their orders can be predictable. Also the AI will only OH when told to; One dying AI unit could've gotten a kill if it had OH'd before dying. AI units that sprinted were cut-down as it didn't affect their TMM, same with units that stood still. Was it fun? Oh, hell yeah. Know what else? We played 10vs12 game in under two hours. Absolutely bonkers.
I think that’s one of those “golden rule” situations where if you think it should have done a thing (overheat in this case) just make it do the thing lol. In one of my videos (I think tomorrow) you’ll see me make a decision that wasn’t specific to the cards but was the best option for the Ai. I’ve come to treat them as guidelines and o make adjustments on the fly if something seems out of whack. I’m 1:1 in solo play atm and barely one the coop one I filmed this past Sunday! Lots of content to come with aces.
I just ran the Aces intro scenario yesterday and it was a blast. My inner sphere recon lance killed the 2 Aces Clan light & medium mechs, at the cost of 50% casualties. It could've gone either way, just that the Clans kept rolling badly lol. Maybe next time I will try using the variable damage rolls
I find the variable damage rolls to be the way to play for pretty much all instances but with ACES even more so, the second scenarios with the clan star facing off against the 2 lances and all of them skill 2 means if they hit they almost delete stuff if you aren't using variable damage. You also almost never get critical effects with all or nothing because typically stuff is either dead or it isn't, not much in between,
@@Thearmedpainter just curious, are you rolling 2d6 per damage, using the pilot + damage dices roll like the DFA wargaming folks do, or use D12 like GMG Ash? :D
Great video. I will be downloading this. When you were discussing the OV damage, I think it is rules as written. If you are using an optional dice rolling rule you may have to mod it.
The cards work in Priority order For each mech. Draw a card for 1 mech and that mech will follow those listed conditions till it meets a step it can do. The single mech will act on that action following the golden rules. Each mech gets 1 card drawn for it. You don't follow the actions down for each mech. The card info is vague and that was one of my suggestions when filling out the survey.
Agreed, I saw Ash run down the mechanics as well and it helped clarify things a bit for me. I mostly got things right in the battle reports I filmed and if I didn’t I tried to lean on the “best choice possible for the Ai” as to make sure I wasn’t being inherently biased lol.
@Thearmedpainter I think overall it is a very good system once you play it a few times. I watched Ash's video after I played the intro missions in the rules and then myself and 2 friends played it over the entire weekend and had a blast. Good for getting some games in when you want to play but can't have friends over too. That sold me on it.
@@Thearmedpainter I remember that in one of the streams, Lynnvannder folks say they are still working on additional role cards, as well as the objective cards for scenarios
The numbered movements are a logic tree. If 1 is true, you follow that step. If it is false, you go to 2 and see if it's true. If it is true, you follow that movement. If it's false, you go to 3 and so on. Each mech gets a card and each round you draw new cards for each mech after shuffling each deck. I've played a couple games so far and I think it works pretty well. I hope you enjoy it!
Yup, I’ve got it down now my comprehension was just off in the beginning of the video lol! I’ll have two battle reports up this week, I’m excited to share them! :)
My friends and I have played Aces a few times now; There have been close games, and there have been lopsided games (in the players favor). We've learned that you can "bully" some of the AI-types as their orders can be predictable. Also the AI will only OH when told to; One dying AI unit could've gotten a kill if it had OH'd before dying. AI units that sprinted were cut-down as it didn't affect their TMM, same with units that stood still.
Was it fun? Oh, hell yeah. Know what else? We played 10vs12 game in under two hours. Absolutely bonkers.
I think that’s one of those “golden rule” situations where if you think it should have done a thing (overheat in this case) just make it do the thing lol. In one of my videos (I think tomorrow) you’ll see me make a decision that wasn’t specific to the cards but was the best option for the Ai. I’ve come to treat them as guidelines and o make adjustments on the fly if something seems out of whack. I’m 1:1 in solo play atm and barely one the coop one I filmed this past Sunday! Lots of content to come with aces.
I just ran the Aces intro scenario yesterday and it was a blast. My inner sphere recon lance killed the 2 Aces Clan light & medium mechs, at the cost of 50% casualties. It could've gone either way, just that the Clans kept rolling badly lol. Maybe next time I will try using the variable damage rolls
I find the variable damage rolls to be the way to play for pretty much all instances but with ACES even more so, the second scenarios with the clan star facing off against the 2 lances and all of them skill 2 means if they hit they almost delete stuff if you aren't using variable damage. You also almost never get critical effects with all or nothing because typically stuff is either dead or it isn't, not much in between,
@@Thearmedpainter just curious, are you rolling 2d6 per damage, using the pilot + damage dices roll like the DFA wargaming folks do, or use D12 like GMG Ash? :D
Smashing that like button like a Gauss rifle round through the cockpit.
Great video. I will be downloading this. When you were discussing the OV damage, I think it is rules as written. If you are using an optional dice rolling rule you may have to mod it.
The cards work in Priority order For each mech. Draw a card for 1 mech and that mech will follow those listed conditions till it meets a step it can do. The single mech will act on that action following the golden rules. Each mech gets 1 card drawn for it. You don't follow the actions down for each mech. The card info is vague and that was one of my suggestions when filling out the survey.
Agreed, I saw Ash run down the mechanics as well and it helped clarify things a bit for me. I mostly got things right in the battle reports I filmed and if I didn’t I tried to lean on the “best choice possible for the Ai” as to make sure I wasn’t being inherently biased lol.
@Thearmedpainter I think overall it is a very good system once you play it a few times. I watched Ash's video after I played the intro missions in the rules and then myself and 2 friends played it over the entire weekend and had a blast. Good for getting some games in when you want to play but can't have friends over too. That sold me on it.
@@Drayco0220 if it makes it to market I’ll buy any aces products they release at this point :)
I'm pretty interested the aces rule but I do hope the card AI will account for more objective bases scenarios then straight up battles.
I think that’s going to be tough and even more so because running larger forces is going to get exponentially slower :/
@@Thearmedpainter I remember that in one of the streams, Lynnvannder folks say they are still working on additional role cards, as well as the objective cards for scenarios
Its made for a straight up fight. For scenarios with objectives you may need to use the AI Golden Rule more often...
how about S for sprint and X for stand still?
Would make sense to me too :)
What is this is the new card system for alpha, strike or just solo AI?
It’s an AI mechanic for Alpha Strike that lets you play solo or coop vs the ai :)
where do i go to get this? a kick starter.
They sent an email to backers with a drop box link to the information :)
@@Thearmedpainter where do i go to be a backer? so i can get it.
Facing relative to a single alley? After 6 games with them thats never come up at all... is it even on the cards?
It’s possible I read the card wrong by mistake lol, I was going through these very fast.
Also probably worth mentioning...I probably paint better than I can read O.o lol so it's definitely possible that I misread that card lol
interesting
Thanks for the Vid, excellent as always!