John Company: Second Edition
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Does a roll of 3 or 4 on a Deploy count as a failure for loss checks, and what does a 5 or 6 do?
The Success Checks and Deploy rules lay out the three outcomes and the loss check step.
- John Company: Second Edition rulebook · Rulebook · Success Checks
- John Company: Second Edition rulebook · Rulebook · Commanders
- mar_hepto · Community · 2021-04-02
- mar_hepto · Community · 2021-04-02
Yes — a 3 or 4 is an ordinary failure, and a 5 or 6 is a catastrophic failure that ends the Commander's turn. Exhausted officers still roll their loss checks after the attempt, whatever the result, and you may try again with leftover pieces after an ordinary failure. After a catastrophic failure you lose the Commander and half your trophies, and cannot try again. An early playtest post claimed the Commander becomes an exhausted officer instead; the final rulebook sends the Commander back to supply.