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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{5.181 cm} x{12.089 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Full Actions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Barrage & Attack with two weapons, or one Superheavy weapon. You may also attack with an Auxiliary weapon on any mount that has fired. Superheavies can only be fired as part of a Barrage. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 7) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Disengage & Until the end of your turn, you ignore engagement and cannot provoke reactions via movement. \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Full Tech & Choose two Quick Tech options, or a single Full Tech option. You can choose the same Quick Tech option twice. \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Improvised Attack & Attack without a weapon; describe what you are attacking with, and then roll a Melee Attack against an adjacent target. They take 1d6 unless stated otherwise. \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 6) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Stabilize & Choose between (1) clear all heat and the Exposed condition, or (2) mark 1 Repair to restore all HP. Additionally, choose one of (1) reload all Loading weapons, (2) clear any Burn affecting your mech, (3) clear one condition not caused by one of your systems, or (4) clear an adjacent character's condition that was not caused by one of their systems. \tn % Row Count 34 (+ 13) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{5.181 cm} x{12.089 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Full Actions (cont)}} \tn % Row 5 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Mount/Dismount} & Mount or dismount your mech, or an adjacent allied mech. This is NOT jockeying. \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{white} Boot Up & Clear the Shut Down condition and restore your mech to functionality. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Activate & Activate a system with a Full Action activation time. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{4.3175 cm} x{12.9525 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Quick Actions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Boost & Move up to your speed (at least one space). \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Grapple & Make a melee attack. On hit, target is Grappled. Grapple ends if (1) adjacency is broken, (2) the attacker uses a free action to end the grapple, or (3) the defender breaks free with a contested Hull check (quick action). \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 8) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Hide & You ignore engagement and cannot be directly targeted by any hostile action. To hide, you must (1) not be Engaged, or (2) be outside of any enemies' line of sight, or be behind sufficient cover. Hard cover is often enough to Hide, but soft cover only qualifies if you fit entirely within it. \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 10) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Quick Tech & Select a Quick Tech option from the Quick Tech list. \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Ram & Make a melee attack against a target that is the same size or smaller than you. On hit, they are knocked Prone and you may choose to knock them back one space directly away from you. \tn % Row Count 29 (+ 7) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Search & Choose a character within your sensors that you suspect is Hidden; make a Systems check against their Agility (or a contested skill check as a Pilot). On success, the target immediately loses Hidden and can be found by any character. \tn % Row Count 37 (+ 8) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{4.3175 cm} x{12.9525 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Quick Actions (cont)}} \tn % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Skirmish & Choose a target within your Range (or Threat) and make an attack with a mounted weapon. You may only choose one mount, but may fire an additional Auxiliary weapon on this mount. Superheavy weapons cannot be Skirmished with. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 8) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} Prepare & Ready any other Quick Action and specify a trigger. Until the start of your next turn, you may activate this as a reaction to the trigger. For the purposes of actions you cannot take twice, Preparing counts as taking the action. \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 8) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Eject & You are ejected from your mech and fly six spaces in a direction of your choice. Your mech is Impaired until you return to it. This is a single-use system, and you cannot Eject again until your next Full Repair. \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 8) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} Shut Down & Upon shutting down, (1) your heat is entirely cleared, (2) any cascading NHPs return to a normal state, (3) any statuses affecting the mech caused by tech actions immediately end, (4) your mech gains immunity to all tech actions and attacks, including from allied characters, (5) the mech is stunned indefinitely. The only way to remove this condition is to Boot Up the mech. \tn % Row Count 37 (+ 13) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{4.3175 cm} x{12.9525 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Quick Actions (cont)}} \tn % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Self-Destruct} & After a self-destruct has been initiated, at the end of your next turn, your mech explodes; this explosion is Burst 2, and deals 4d6 blast damage to anyone in the range. Characters caught in it may make an Agility save for half damage. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 8) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{3.454 cm} x{13.816 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Free Actions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Overcharge} & Once per turn, you may make any action as a Free Action. The first time you do this, you take one heat. The second time, you take 1d3 heat. The third time, you take 1d6 heat. Each time after, you take 1d6+4 heat. A Full Repair resets this counter. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 8) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{1.687 cm} x{7.5915 cm} x{7.5915 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Reactions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Brace & 1/round, when you are hit by an attack and damage has been rolled. & You gain resistance against all damage, burn and heat from the triggering attack, and until the end of your next turn, all attacks against you have +1 Difficulty. You cannot take reactions until the end of your next turn, and on your next turn, you may only take one QuicK Action. \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 16) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{Overwatch} & 1/round, when a hostile character starts any movement inside the threat range of one of your weapons. & Immediately use the relevant weapon to Skirmish against that character, before they move. \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 6) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}---} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{3.9721 cm} x{13.2979 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Conditions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Danger Zone & When a mech has filled in more than half of its heat, it is visibly in the Danger Zone. \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Down and Out & When a pilot is unconscious and Stunned, they are Down and Out. If they take any more damage, they will die. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Engaged & Any character adjacent to a hostile character is Engaged. Ranged attacks gain +1 Difficulty. Characters who become Engaged with targets of equal or greater size while moving immediately stop moving and lose unused movement. \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 8) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Exposed & All kinetic, explosive or energy damage taken is doubled. Clearable via Stabilizing. \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Hidden & Cannot be targeted by hostile attacks or actions, and enemies only know your approximate location. Lost when attacking, forcing saves, taking reactions, Boosting or losing cover. \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 6) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{Invisible} & All attacks have a flat 50\% chance to miss entirely. Additionally, they can always Hide. \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Prone & Attacks against gain +1 Accuracy. Additionally, you are Slowed and count as moving in difficult terrain at all times. Can be removed by using their movement to stand up, which does not count as movement. \tn % Row Count 34 (+ 7) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{3.9721 cm} x{13.2979 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Conditions (cont)}} \tn % Row 7 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Shut Down & All heat is cleared, the Exposed status is removed, any cascading NHPs are restored to normal states, any statuses or conditions caused by tech actions are ended. Mech gains immunity to tech actions and attacks. Stunned indefinitely. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 8) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{Immobilized} & Cannot make voluntary movements. \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Impaired & Gain +1 Difficulty on all attacks, saves and skill checks. \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{white} Jammed & You cannot communicate with other characters via comms. Cannot make attacks, other than improvised attacks, grappling or ramming. Cannot take reactions, or benefit from tech actions. \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 7) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Lock On & Hostile characters may remove this condition. If they do, they gain +1 accuracy on their next attack against that character. \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 5) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{white} Shredded & Remove benefit from Armor and Resistance. \tn % Row Count 26 (+ 2) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Slowed & May only make their standard move on their turn. No boosting or special movement. \tn % Row Count 29 (+ 3) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{white} Stunned & Cannot take any actions, move or Overcharge. This includes free actions and reactions. Pilots can still Mount, Dismount or Eject from Stunned mechs. Stunned mechs have an Evasion cap of 5, and automatically fail Hull and Agility checks and saves. \tn % Row Count 38 (+ 9) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \end{document}