Heavy Metal

A quadrant is considered Dominated by a player if he has more Army Points than the adversary inside the area. Only troops considered as miniatures or Markers (Camouflage, Spawn-Embryo, Seed-Embryo…) count, as well as AI Beacons, Proxies and G: Servant Remotes. Those troops in Null state will not be counted. Those Markers representing weapons or pieces of equipment (Like Mines or Deployable Repeaters), fake Holoechoes and any Marker that does not represent a trooper will not be counted either.

Players will consider a trooper to be inside a quadrant when more than half the trooper’s base is inside the quadrant.

Each TAG Pilot begins the game synchronized to a different friendly model of the player's choice. Any friendly model may synchronize to a friendly TAG Pilot (cancelling its previous synchronization) by spending a short skill while the TAG Pilot is within its ZoC.

TAG Pilots are free, but must be incorporated into their owner's army list and assigned to a combat group; though as Synchronized models, they do not generate an order and do not count toward the combat group's 10-order maximum.

While piloting a TAG, TAG Pilots cease to be Synchronized to any other model and become independantly-activated models; however, even in this state, they still do not contribute an order to their combat group and do not occupy a slot within it when counting toward the combat group's 10-order maximum.

Each Mercenary TAG begins the game unoccupied and Neutral to all players. Any TAG Pilot, or any Specialist model with Silhouette 2 or smaller, may attempt to activate an unoccupied Mercenary TAG by attempting a WIP roll as a short skill while in base contact with it (Specialist models other than Engineers suffer a -3 penalty on this roll). On a failure, the roll may be reattempted as many times as required, spending the corresponding short skill each time. On a success, the Specialist or TAG Pilot mounts the TAG.

If a pilot dismounts the TAG or is forced to eject, the TAG once again becomes unoccupied and neutral to all players.

For the purposes of controlling quadrants, a Mercenary TAG adds 30pts to the cost of the model mounted within it.

At the end of the game, if one player controls more Mercenary TAGs than his opponent, he will secure the Heavy Gear Battle Prep for his faction.

Though Maj. Rios operates her TAG remotely, it would take some time to replace if rendered inoperable. Thus, her TAG is considered to be a character model and is therefore subject to rules for Character Death. When rolling on the Character Death table, consider the presence of an Engineer in place of a Doctor or Paramedic.