Do you guys (and girls) use any ‘house rules’ to make BB more interesting? I mean that you follow some restrictions and limitations for abilities, equipment, etc. that you think are more fair and realistic.
I currently have these (some are from previous BB but still apply):
Roster:
Do not equip in prepared items more than 1 two-handed weapons for each soldier (if you want some additional put it in backpack)
Do not send soldiers to the mission if they have ‘healing’ status
Armadillo:
Do not ram enemies if they are less than 8 squares than vehicle
Do not enter vehicle if you have less than 50% TU
After entering vehicle in the same turn use only such fraction of TU which would be left for the driver (so if he had only 25% after 50% use, move only 25% of Armadillo range, don’t ram and don’t attack)
Abilities:
Do not deploy turret unless you have 50% TU
Heal/repair/electrocute with mech arms maximum of 9 times overall per mission (so any combination of those 3 skills with maximum limit of some kind of battery charges), Remove Mindfragger skill do not count to this limit
Do not abuse overwatch bug where you use lower TU cost of lesser weapon to get shot from better weapon
Use Exertion max 2 times per turn
Loot:
Not steal from havens which has good standing with you
Equipment restrictions:
Try not to abuse explosives in havens (mainly when building is in range)
Do not use explosives in tight places in alien bases
. No FireCats. I had some games where I abused FireCats, and understood they are so OP they take the fun down. So from that moment on FireCats are a no-no, but grenades and missiles are fair game.
. No crate looting in havens. In fact, not even in scavenging. In BB3 I’ve never opened a crate, but of course, I take ful advantage of every reward being offered in the end of each mission (even if once I had a really nasty haven defence mission that rewarded me a huge plus, to which the game replied not adding it to the resource pool)
. No armadillo. The ram is fun, but again, way OP.
