Force Builder v2.1

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Contents 1 Selecting Your Force 1.1 Points of Renown 1.2 Points of Force 2 Unit Tweaks

[edit] Selecting Your Force

Playing a wargame is more than just building single figures. These figures get grouped together into units. In a particular game, you have two groups of points available with which to build your force: Points of Renown and Points of Force. You and your opponent decide how many points you are going to use in the game.

[edit] Points of Renown

Points of Renown are used to buy characters for your force. You may use up to the full total on figures of these types. Unused points may be used as Points of Force instead. Usually, this is because you have fifty or sixty leftover points after buying several characters and it’s better to spend those extra points on more troops than to take an underpowered character.

[edit] Points of Force

Points of Force are used to buy troopers, elites, monsters, and vehicles. There are some simple guidelines for how your forces are grouped together into units:

• Up to half your Points of Force may be used on monsters and vehicles and the rest must be used on troopers and elites.
• For every elite in your force, you must include at least three troopers. So if you have four elites, you must have at least twelve troopers as well. They need not be in the same unit.
• Troopers are grouped together in units of at least three figures.
• Elites are grouped together in units of at least two figures.
• Up to two elites may be added to units of troopers to act as leaders for the unit.
• Light monsters and vehicles are grouped in units of one to three figures.
• Medium monsters and vehicles are grouped in units of one or two figures.
• Heavy monsters and vehicles always act alone as single figures like specials and characters.
• You may add a total of one Hero Point for every full 150 points in your force. So in a game with 1000 Points of Renown and 2000 points of force, you can take up to 20 Hero Points, spread amongst your figures.
• Rules in the force lists take precedence over these rules.

Example: Aaron and Bobby are going to play a game. They decide they will each have 1000 Points of Renown and 2500 Points of Force to spend on their forces. Bobby spends 900 Points of Renown on his characters, but doesn’t have another character worth 100 points or less that he wants to add to his force, so he elects to use those 100 points as Points of Force instead. That means he has 2600 Points of Force to work with, 1300 of which he may use on monsters and vehicles. If he uses 950 Points of Force on monsters and vehicles, the other 1650 Points of Force will go into troopers and elites.

[edit] Unit Tweaks

Unit tweaks are purchased for an entire unit, not the individual figures in the unit. Units may take any number of unit tweaks and the total costs are added or deducted from the cost of the entire unit once. The number of figures in the unit does not matter. The cost of the unit may not fall below the basic cost of all the figures in the unit. These tweaks do not count toward the total number of tweaks allowed per figure.

For a complete list of Unit Tweaks that apply to all settings and factions, reference the WarEngine Unit Tweaks section. In addition, settings, factions, or even individual units can have unit tweaks specific or unique to them. Where that's the case, these unit tweaks will be noted in the article itself.