Thanks. I did suddenly think that was the case.
I honestly think these dice are loaded. I'm rolling 6s for Alien movement and high - like really high on the 10 sided die.
Welcome to the club!
Event cards - can be played anytime even if it's another soldiers turn - presumably it's not one of the actions for that hero? As there's no way to track actions used/left?
My understanding is, whatever Hero you're using at that moment uses the Actions. I don't think a card that affects another Hero or Grunt affects their Actions.
As for tracking, I usually keep the Aim dial off of their card if they haven't acted, and once they do, I place it over their portrait. Not ideal but it works for me.
Second, on event cards - when I play and event card, I have to pay that cost?
That's my understanding, yes. You always have to pay the cost of a card if you want to use it.
Third, on event cards - when you are paying for attacks and say your run out of your endurance deck - do you immediately reshuffle the exhausted deck in with the recycled deck to create a new endurance deck? Or are you not allowed to perform any other actions that require a cost?
If you run out of cards in your Endurance deck, you're in for some trouble. If you're paying the cost to do something and don't have any to draw from, you have to discard them from the Exhaust deck. Discarding is very bad. You'll need Newt pretty fast, because she has an ability that lets you recycle cards, which is very useful.
Check this thread out:
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2531553/reshuffle-endurance-deckOn Full Auto, I assume you have to pay the cost of firing again and again (until you fail to hit) and also move your aim down again and again?
You should double check the rules, but I think it says to continue using the Full Auto function, you have to exhaust a card each time you fire. I can't recall offhand for sure, sorry.
I have the expansions...heroes. But none of the missions say how many soldiers you get on a mission. Straight out the original box, you get 6 - but if I add the "badasses" from the add on box, then it's going to be a lot easier for me...mission wise. Any ideas on whether the missions are meant to have just 6 characters and I can have the badasses instead of some other characters?
I think if you're playing a campaign, you have to stick with a total of six heroes.
In Bug Hunt missions, I think you can go up to eight. I don't have the expansion, but found this on BGG:
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2585703/question-player-countLastly - these exhaust and discarded piles - I don't seem to have many in the discard pile? Am I playing right? When exactly do you discard? Only when a card says so?
I'm not sure, to be honest. I think it's when you're told to do so, but the rules should state what cases where you have to discard a card. I think this impacts campaign games as I believe discarded cards do not carry over to the next mission in a campaign - but double-check.
It's REALLY easy to confuse the rules as they're not well laid-out. Maybe someone else can chime in on some of these answers - it's been a few weeks since I played.