Estimated enemy BV: 31450

Battle loss compensation: 80%

Salvage: 20%

Mission Terrain: Wooded

The Marik team selects three adjacent outer board edges of the 5×5 battlefield, and the actual battlefield in play is the 3×3 section including those three board edges. The Marik force deploys on their selected board edges, and the Steiner force deploys on the Forward Base map and the half-boards adjacent to it, in initiative order.

Hexes 0703–0705 and 0712–0713 on the Headwaters map are Rapids (Tactical Operations, p.50), with the water flowing south.

Buildings on the Forward Base and City Street Grid/Park #1 maps are military, and legitimate targets of war. The building in 1312 on the Wooded N/S Stream / E/W Road Bridge map is a civilian structure, and should not be molested. Basements are pre-determined, and are known to the Steiner force, but not the Marik force.

The bridges on the N/S River / E/W Road Bridge map are Heavy bridges, with 90 CF. The bridge on the Wooded N/S Stream / E/W Road Bridge map is a Medium bridge, with 40 CF.

The structures in 0809–0811, 1006, 1009, and 1012 on City Street Grid/Park #1 are Heavy Industrial Zones (Tactical Operations, p.31). The ones in column 08?? are 2 Levels tall; the ones in column 10?? are only 1 Level tall.

Some buildings in the base are designed to be entered by 'Mechs or tanks. As usual, they cannot be entered using Jump MP, though a 'Mech can jump to the roof. Moving inside the building costs only 1 MP per hex and does not damage either building or moving unit. Crossing the walls at designated entry points requires a Piloting or Driving check, modified for distance moved (as per Total Warfare p.167), but not for the building classification. If the Piloting/Driving check is successful, neither building nor unit are damaged. If it fails, both take damage as per the usual rules for entering a building. Entering or leaving the building at any other point is handled as normal.

Building entry locations are:

• The two-hex Heavy buildings on City Street Grid/Park #1 ⇄ any adjacent hex
• Forward Base 0205 ⇄ 0306
• Forward Base 0504 ⇄ 0505 or 0604
• Forward Base 1304 ⇄ 1204
• Forward Base 1408 ⇄ 1308
• Forward Base 1313 ⇄ 1312 or 1213
• Forward Base 0914 ⇄ 0913
• Forward Base 0613 ⇄ 0612
• Forward Base 0211 ⇄ 0311
• Forward Base 0311 ⇄ 0211
• Forward Base 0509–0511 ⇄ 0609–0610

Because the new maps refuse to actually follow the rules: Hexes labeled WALL on the Forward Base map are solid wall, and do not have interior spaces. Units can enter the hex on top of the wall, movement capabilities allowing, but cannot enter the actual structure.

Hexes labeled TURRET are embrasures. These act as ordinary Hardened buildings (as per Total Warfare, pp.166–179), except that they have a fighting platform at Level 2 that's designed for a 'Mech or tank to enter and use as a firing position. A unit can enter from a hexside on the interior of the base by spending the MP to climb one Level and making a Piloting/Driving Skill roll as per above.

Some of the buildings on the Forward Base are mission objectives. These are:

• 1013: Communications tower
• 1113–1114: Command center
• 1305–1306: Power plant
• Heavy building on the east side: Supply depot
• Heavy building on the west side: 'Mech repair bays

The Medium building on the north side of the base includes hospital facilities, and shouldn't be fired upon.

A 'Mech with hands inside the supply depot can collect supplies as per the rules for Picking Up Inanimate Objects (Tactical Operations, p.92) and carry them away. Any supplies transported off the Marik force's home edge are worth victory points if the Marik force doesn't hold the field, and will be surprise loot after the fight.

Some of the Steiner machines may still be under repair. A machine under repair cannot move or turn. If a 'Mech's torso, arms, or head are being worked on, it cannot torso twist. If a vehicle's turret is being worked on, it cannot turret twist. A unit cannot fire any weapons in locations being worked on. If a location being worked on takes damage, roll 1d6 for each tech team working on the location. On a result of 1–4, the tech team is not hit, and the location takes damage normally. On a result of 5–6, the tech team takes damage as per damage against infantry rules (they are not considered to be in the open), and any damage remaining is applied to the location normally.

A unit under repair can declare in the End Phase that it's leaving the repair bay. Tech teams spend the next turn closing up whatever they're working on and getting out, and in the turn after, the unit can move and fire normally.

The Marik force receives:

• +50 points for holding the field
• If the Marik force doesn't hold the field:
  • +5 points for destroying the communications building
  • +5 points for destroying the headquarters building
  • +3 points for destroying the power plant
  • +3 points for destroying the 'Mech repair bays
  • +1 point for each ton of supplies transported off the Marik home edge
• +3 points for each Steiner 'Mech captured or destroyed
• +1 point for each Steiner vehicle captured or destroyed
• -3 points for each Marik 'Mech captured or destroyed
• -1 point for each Marik vehicle captured or destroyed

≥50

total Marik victory

20–49

Marik victory

10–19

pyrrhic Marik victory

≤10

Steiner victory