Hey all. Was throwing this out on the LOS Facebook page and wanted to see if anyone else had similar thoughts:
Quick question. Will there be a release of human soldiers not wearing Powered Armour? I’m thinking about troops that maybe garrisoned somewhere or in a support role and won’t always be needing to suit up in a PBA? There’s lots of scenarios that might dictate the presence of non-PBA’ed troops and gamers would probably like the flexibility as well (ie: when army-building)
Perhaps consider PBA-equipped Commandos as Heavy Infantry while guys pulling guard duty or starship crews as Light Infantry or something similar. Make sense?
I think it’s good that the humans have the PBA-equipped commando as the “face” of the faction, but I think it would also make sense to throw in less-armoured variants as well for a number of in-game reasons.
When we made fan-made conversions for using other manufacturers figures in LOS (https://stevegibsongames.wordpress.com/legions-of-steel/legions-of-steel-conversion-files/), we found it challenging to model unarmored or lightly armored figures. When the baseline figure (GM+0) is a servo-assisted powered armor trooper, and the light power armor was GM+1, that left you very little room in a game based on D6's. The logical extension would be flak vest and helmet, GM+2, and unarmored civvies at GM+3. It's tough to balance a scenario when you have such soft and easy to kill troops. A whole section of GM+2 figures could be wiped out with a single K-pulse grenade thrown somewhere in the vicinity of them (like around the corner from them). The way the UPVs seemed to work in the past, half the cost of a figure was its blaster. So you spent a lot of points paying for weapons that would never survive to be used in a fight. My preference would be a D10 or D12 based system, but that's not the plan. Ultimately, we just fudged it, making flak vest and helmeted figures GM+1.