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Grenades and Isolation Protocol
🕑 Added 2025-08-14 10:45:11 +0000 UTCHi everyone,
some confusion has arisen in the latest rules regarding grenades. Here's a unified and simplified set of rules regarding grenades, based on entries from pages 30 and 81 of the Augmented Edition rulebook, with redundant sections removed and the wording standardized:
Grenades – Unified Rules
Action Cost:
Throwing a grenade is a Special Attack Action and costs 1 AP.
Throwing a Grenade
Declare Target Point
The target can be a visible spot or a model within Line of Sight and range up to 8".Accuracy Test
Make a Standard Test against Physical Skill.Success: The grenade lands at the target point.
Failure: The grenade deviates (see Deviation).
Blast Effect
All models (friend or foe) within the Blast Radius on the grenade’s card are affected.
Reactions to a Grenade
All affected models may React:
Dodge or Instinctive Reaction: Opposed Test vs. the grenade’s Attack Value (ignore TAC modifiers).
Success: No effect.
Failure: Take damage/effect listed on grenade card.
Fast Attack Reaction: If successful, you catch and throw the grenade back (resolve a new grenade attack). If failed, suffer the full effect.
Deviation on a Miss
Distance: 1″ per point the Accuracy Test failed by.
Direction: Roll a D10 — 1–2 (in front of the target) or 9–10 (behind the target); 3–5 = left; 6–8 = right.
Grenades stop if they hit walls or closed doors and detonate at that point.
Obstacle Interaction
A grenade that hits a vertical obstacle during deviation stops there and detonates.
Grenade Types (examples)
Fragmentation Grenade: Damage 5, Attack Value 4, Blast Radius 2″.
Flashbang: No damage; Attack Value 6; Blast Radius 2″; targets hit are Stunned.
Gas Grenade: Creates a 2″ radius toxic cloud, causing ongoing damage per scenario rules.
EMP Grenade: Disables all cybergear within 2″ radius for 1 turn; no physical damage.
Isolation Protocol
The term "Autistic Mode", used to describe a state in hacker combat, has raised some concerns. We propose changing the name to "Isolation Protocol". This alternative not only accurately reflects the rule's purpose but also fits the cyberpunk aesthetic.
What do you think?
Happy printing and playing
UNIT9
Comments
John Basile
I'm a social worker who represents people with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism. Good decision to make that change. If you figure out who originally wrote that into your ruleset, make sure to fire them.
BT
New term is much better. Sounds cooler without the ableism aspects that using the term autistic entails. Take my non-existent Reddit upvote ;)
Dave Harrison
Big thumbs up for the new term.
Timothy Berry
I would think "Autistic Mode" is exactly the kind on term hackers would use for the condition. I don't have a problem with you changing the name if you want (it will stay the same in MY games) but think long and hard on why you're changing the name.
