Warhammer 40,000/Tactics(2E)
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This is a placeholder for 2nd edition tactics.
- Movement
The movement phase was a little different back in 2nd edition. You started with giving an order to every unit (that was not fleeing) by putting the correct token next to them. You could chose between "Charge" (self-explanatory), "Run" (move up to twice the movement score but could not end too close to the enemy or shoot), "Move" (move up to movement score but can shoot some weapons), "Stand Ground" (cannot move but can shoot at full efficiency) and "Overwatch" (special order that allowed to fire at the first enemy unit crossing the mini's LoS during the opponent's turn)
- Shooting
Shooting was mostly the same: check range; if in range roll to hit; if hit roll to would; if wounded opponent attempts save.
What complicated the game a lot was every weapon and armor having its own profile (one of the core rulebooks, Arsenal was basically just weapon profiles and each individual Codex pretty much piled it on), with possibly different hit and armor save modifiers depending on firing mode and Strength of incoming blow; and that's before bringing things like cover, marks of Chaos, wargear and other niceties in the mix. It was as you can imagine one hell of a clusterfuck at times, especially in bigger battles.
- Assault
Assault was very different in 2nd edition. First, the player whose turn it was had to separate the melee and declare who was fighting who, with the only caveat that every engaged model had to have at least one opponent. Then, each player would roll an amount of dice equal to the mini's "Attack" value individually in an opposed roll. Skills like Frenzy or ganging up would give more dice to roll, and combat resolution was (result of highest die + Weapon Skill of the mini). Each "6" beyond the first added one point, each "1" substracted one point. Parry would force the opponent to re-roll one "6" if any. When all that had been added, you made the difference between rolls, the mini with the highest roll inflicting an amount of hits equal to the difference to (or distributed amongst) its opponent(s).
- Armies
2nd edition had the following armies: - Space Marines (duh); with "Codex: Ultramarines" serving as the template for codex-reliant chapter, "Codex: Angel of Death" giving rules for Blood Angels and Dark Angels and "Codex: Space Wolves" for everyone's favorite vikings. - Imperial Guard - Sisters of Battle - Assassins - Orks - Eldar - Chaos (mostly CSM but with options to play renegade Guard, cultists, full demon armies and even beastmen) - Tyranids
Squats never got their Codex, Necrons made a guest appearance near the very end but only really became "Oldcrons" in 3rd edition. Tau, AdMech, Knights (both Imperial and Grey), Deathwatch and Chaos Daemons as a separate army from CSM were not yet playable in 40k.