Basics for Little Green Guys With Guns

To Win

Your goal is to get the highest score in the Stats (see "Stats" panel). For two-player games, this means being the last team standing (and not overusing health packs). For multiplayer games, this means doing more damage to other teams.

To score points, do damage to other teams. You do damage by:

• Shooting enemies.
• Chomping them (with puffers)
• Getting them to step on your mines, or
• Catching them in a chain-reaction explosion you caused.

You lose score for hurting your own troops, either through friendly fire or accidentally catching you friends in explosions you caused.

In some games, there are checkered flags. Checkered flags are bonus points that add to your score.

How To Play

First, start a game. Fire up LGGWG, then choose "New Game." Follow the new game instructions. Then:

• Wait for the Servinator to return with your move.
• When you get your move, you can give orders (see below) for each unit.
• You will send your orders off to the Servinator, either automatically through the website, or manually through email.
• After everyone sends in their orders, the Servinator will process the move and send you what happens next in the game.
• Repeat until only one team is left standing!

Orders get executed one at a time, one per team, until all teams have moved. Each order is sequential. Like a chess game, no two pieces move simultaneously.

Team order is determined randomly on each move, with the only caveat that no team moves first twice.

Orders

• Move: Walk from one space to the next. Uses one movement point.
• Targetted Fire: Attack a particular square within range. The pink asterisks you see when giving orders indicate the path of the bullet. Uses 1 action point.
• Opportunity Fire: If someone from an enemy team is visible, pick one at random and take a shot at them. If no one is visible, ignore this order (do the next order instead). Always favor shooting an Executive over shooting anyone else. (Footnote: If there are multiple targets and some are hidden by mines, favor targets that are visible vs. those that are obscured by mines.) Uses 1 action point.

• Opportunity move:Like a combination opp-fire and move. If there is a visible target, shoot at it as many times as you have action points available. Otherwise, move. The first opp-move order uses up 1 movement point and all your remaining action points.

  This is probably the most complicated part of the game, so an example is in order. Joe Executive has 2 action points and 4 movement points. He takes one normal move (costs 1 movement point). Now he has 3 movement points and 2 action points. He takes three opp-fire steps, which use up all his actions and his remaining movement points.

  Now, at run time, Joe Executive moves one space, then checks for a target. He sees one, so he shoots at it (uses up one of his two actions). On his next turn, there is no target, so he moves. Then, he sees another target, so he shoots again (uses up second action), and now he's fired as many times as he can. He makes his remaining two moves without firing even if there are visible targets.

  It's important to realize that after you finish moving, you will NOT TAKE ANY MORE SHOTS, even if you haven't taken any while moving up to that point.

  This sounds tricky, but it's actually very simple in practice. Try it out in the tutorials!

• Hold: Wait while a team with more troops moves. Holds are discussed in the main rulebook and aren't necessary except in advanced play.
• Forfeit: Give up. The actual effect of forfeiting is that all of your troops are killed through suicide, which can have a detrimental effect on your score.

Units

See the table of all units for a complete list of units.

Units have and hit points (HP), movement points, action points, armor. HP determines how long an enemy can take damage; movement points determine how far it can move, action points determine how many shots it can take.

Only armor is not well-explained in the tutorial. Armor removes damage from incoming fire. So, Max has 1 armor, so if he is hit for 4 damage, he will take 3 and the armor will remove 1 (and it will be so displayed---the red number indicates damage taken, the blue number indicates how much the armor removed). Firebots have two armor, so a 4-damage attack from a Puffer will only do 2 to them.

Here, the blue Snipey did 5 points of damage to the red snipey, but the red Snipey's armor blocked one point.

However, all attacks do at least one point of damage. So, if a Firebot gets hit with a 2-damage attack, he takes one. Likewise, a Max hit with a one-damage attack takes one point of damage and his armor does nothing.

Some units explode when they die (Firebots, Executives, crates, nuclear crates, etc.). For scoring purposes, if you shoot a neutral object (a crate, say) and it explodes, any damage the explosion does is credited to you. When a unit on a team (like an Executive) dies, any damage that exploding unit does is credited to the exploding unit. Thus, sending your Firebot on a suicide mission into enemy lines isn't always a bad idea.

Lines from the tutorial

There is a complete list of the messages you get in the tutorials here.

Other Resources

Please return to the Table of Contents for links to more LGGWG documentation.