looked better for scenarios/RPG's than skirmish.


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there are also the special doors. I am guessing these were looked at before hand? is there a reason why Chris doesn't make small changes so they can be RPG and Minis maps. I am not trying to be rude but it doesn't make sense not to play both sides. To be honest I didnt buy the maps because in my mind they are only RPG maps. I don't really play star wars RPG in person anymore.

@TJ its jonny

I spoke to Chris about it. The special doors (red squares) were designed to be doors that could not be opened normally. They could only be opened with a special ability (e.g. Satchel Charge/Override). That's not a rule that is likely to be adopted, though, so they are just normal doors for our purposes. (He also has 'double doors' on some maps. Two doors along the same edge that can be affected separately. Those are treated as a single door for normal skirmishes.)

The beveled corner ruling is one of the most confusing rules in the game, and it predates my entry into the game. The only thing a beveled corner does is allow diagonal movement across it. Other than that, it's treated as if the lines go all the way to the corner, which means you can't get a line of sight past the beveled corner. And if you have two beveled corners coming together at a point from opposite directions, you can move past them but you don't even have adjacency between those two squares. On Mining Colony Sublevel, there are a couple of squares near the center (but not in gambit) that you only get to through opposing beveled corners like that. Consequently, a character on one of those 2 squares cannot be attacked at all. I guess you would count distance to the square, though, so Force Repulse or something like that would get him.

I'd be all for changing the rules on beveled corners to make more sense, but I think I heard they were already changed before. Maybe ruling it another way makes it even weirder for some reason I'm not seeing. (?) In any case, those two squares make it really hard to consider Sublevel for the Restricted list while beveled corners work like this. (The Teth Monastery wouldn't really be considered for Restricted anyway, but there are a couple squares like this on that map, too.)

On SHNN, Jim mentioned that he liked a couple maps for the Restricted lists. Which ones?

I got a 2nd play on Ground Floor and I still like it a lot. But it still has those 3 squares at each corner.

I didn't hear about the Mining Facility, but I did hear about another level of the Orbital Docking Station. I don't know if I read that somewhere or if Chris mentioned it when I visited his booth, but it's in the works. Can't say for sure that it will see the light of day any time soon, though. He posted the sketches for the Orbital Docking Station probably 3 years ago.

I picked mine up at GenCon, but according to his facebook page he was mailing the others out as soon as he got home. If you kickstarted it, you should have it by now.

(Facebook is also where Chris mentioned another level of the orbital docking facility. To be coming out eventually...

Any other thoughts about Distant Outpost maps?

Without errata that rules the corners are invalid squares, I don't think any of the mining colony maps are viable. With that errata, I like Mining Colony - Ground Level for the Restricted List. Some of the others might be viable, but that one is my favorite.

From the Orbital Docking Station, I'm not sure that I'd vote for any of them for the Restricted List, but of all of them the Administration Quadrant looks like the best bet.