Hey mates,
I think It is about to start using the forum to it main purpose now that we finally have the pre-rules.
So yesterday I was so excited that I took 2 of my friends to play.
We used Space hulk tiles and alternative miniatures to play the first mision with the basic forces.
We didn't used any kind of card or token we just wanted to learn.
So Forces:
-5 marines with medic and smart gun
-10 infant warriors+5 stalkers
-3 preds 1 with smart disk(warrior), 1 with spear(warrior) and 1 with plasma canion(hunter)
First of all both the preds and the marines were completely terrified mainly because of the amount of aliens going out so the first turns were mostly everybody aboiding the aliens.
Then as the alien player I decided to get in contact to see what happened. The result was most of the aliens were wipe out by the combination of preds and humans, and finally the preds killed all the humans and won.
The game took like 2 hours and looked like 2 minutes, really really funny.
Funny anecdote
One marine reached the elevator and sealled the door before his mates reached the computer room and we supposed he died of innanition as the marines didn't acomplish to activate it
Impresions.
Predators
Predators look to be really easy to play, specially without any experience, this probably will change after some games or with cards.
The smart disk is awesome, specially the fact that ignore armour, really deadly.
The combi stick with 4 attacks It is really cool, but the smart disk is more tactical.
The plasma caster is more or less like the movies, don't let the predator shoot

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Aliens
As alien is really important to stay together and manage to attack in CC before you get shoot. As well aliens look terrifing to the others players so the there should be a way to take that in advantage.
Flame throwers and smart disks are designed to prevent you to mass tiles so be carefull, don't make direct attacks.
Marines
M41 is not bad, smart gun is fun, flame thrower is like a nuclear boom

see how half of the xenos in fron of you just disapear on one shoot.
Marines are cool and funny to play but they still must stay together and work in group to aboid being killed by preds and aliens.
And that is alls for the moment. I am not sure if the boardgame is balance or not, but I can clearly say that is it extremely funny, some rules are still to very clear like CC between the 3 factions or sentry but you really get into the game witch in my opinion is the most important part.
So what are your impresions, lets post our battle reports
